How can we modify diets basically to better meet the nutritional needs with what you’ve got without going to zoo premium or somebody else that has all these diets with all the vitamins and everything already mixed in it.” And so that was the way that we approached it, and… Read More
You know, what do you have here?… Read More
What are your cages?… Read More
I looked at that, the internships when I first put it out, I’d have over 100 applications for the one position, and, you know, getting rid of the top, getting down to the top 20 was pretty easy. Getting down to the top five or eight was just extremely hard. Read More
If somebody wants training we’ll go there and train.” And so we did that in Thailand, which, you know, eventually led to my stay in Thailand, but we did that kind of all over where we, if somebody wanted to come in, well we’d say “Let’s, we’ll send a training… Read More
We brought over some of the basics, and then we said, “Well, what do you have to work with?… Read More
Were you able to have during this time that you were now in charge of the veterinary services for the National Zoo, were you able to implement now programs?… Read More
Yeah, I hired two. Let’s see who the … I have to go back in my memory bank, Don Janssen was my first one. He came out of the internship program at San Diego, and yeah, Don came in and you know, Don is just a prince of a guy… Read More
Were you able to, we talked about interns, were you able to bring in, or did you want to bring in foreign interns?… Read More
Did you have kind of a free hand to implement things, “Ah, now I can do this or that or this?” Yeah, in a sense, I mean I knew one of the first big things was to get Montale on, get me a pathologist on, because Ted was, that was… Read More
So you have these interns coming in, but did you hire a full-time assistant?… Read More
I went to interns first, because I’d really enjoyed my internship at Angel, and I thought, you know, since we had so very few full-time veterinarians in zoos, and there seemed to always be the interest in veterinarians, especially students in zoo medicine, that I thought, “Well maybe we should… Read More
That was a vacancy there. I forget who left, I think Larry Collins was a curator of giant pandas and some of the hoofstock, and he went to Front Royal when Chris Wimmer, that was about the time Front Royal opened up, I believe, and Larry went out there with… Read More
How did that come about?… Read More
Now you’re the Head, you would have the opportunity now to bring in your assistant or more than one assistant?… Read More
That’s probably about right, ’75, ’76. Mm-hmm, okay. Dick took over the clinical path, which made sense to me, you know, ’cause it was, he was a board certified pathologist. He had the pathology, he took over the clinical path. So then that turned into a very productive collaboration that… Read More
Was it essentially the same job?… Read More
It was all administrative title changing. It didn’t make a bit of difference in the way I did except one time I was put as, I don’t remember title for hoofstock or something of mammals. I did that for a while when there was a void in that. A curator. Read More
It’s on there, I don’t remember it — 1975?… Read More
What year did you become Head of the department?… Read More