Interview 38268 – Caption Index: 27
Did staff stay at the zoo, the whole beyond?… Read More
Did staff stay at the zoo, the whole beyond?… Read More
Well, we began watching Andrew as it came over a Lutheran and, and some of the outer islands. And there was a guy named Hard Cross who was a weatherman, became famous because of Andrew Norcross was his name. Not Hard Cross Norcross. And at one point, about 72 hours… Read More
What happened as the hurricane get?… Read More
What precautions were taken ahead of time, if any?… Read More
Can you talk about your role as the general curator?… Read More
So it was like, we need to move the zoo, protect the collection, get it away from hurricanes. And that was a big selling point to get it down to homestead. Can you talk about the 1992 Hurricane Andrew hit, the Miami Metro Zoo. Read More
I mean, the highest point in CBI game was like three feet, right?… Read More
And it swamped CBI game. And that was one of the things that they really pushed about getting that collection off is it was so exposed to hurricanes. Read More
And by 79 I’d become the general curator at Cran. And then Gordon Hubble and I orchestrated the move of the entire collection down to the New Zoo site over a period of about three years. And we opened a part of Miami Metro Zoo in 1981. And we began… Read More
And Terry Strouser, who was a artist at the time and worked at the zoo, became one of the architect designers for the build out. He later went to Disney and helped them build Wild Kingdom and Gordon Hubble, and then a number of people in Dade County who were… Read More
And actually at that time as curator of half the zoo. It wasn’t a curator of mammals or a curator of birds or I had to manage all of it, which was an incredible learning experience. And so did that. And then in 78, they really started taking off building… Read More
I knew I wanted to work in zoos at the time because I’d learned a lot from Phil and what he was doing. And Phil at that time was working with, with a gentleman called Vernon Kiley, if you know Vernon. And they were really beginning to get the zoo… Read More
I worked large hoof stock for a while. And on every time I moved to a different area, I just, I learned more and more about zoos zoo operations and what we couldn’t do. And by my second year down there, they had a test, an opening for a curatorial… Read More
Was this what you wanted to do and you thought of it as your career path?… Read More
So I left that fall in January. At the end of the semester, I had my degree a year in advance. And I went down and started at Theran Park Zoo as a reptile keeper. I think I got paid $6,700 a year. What year was that? That was in… Read More
And I started working for him as an undergrad. I actually took care of the institution’s live animal collection while I was there. And during this time, I, I just was able to spend a lot of time at school with a number of the different professors because of my… Read More
And I went back to the university. And on my junior year, I, I talked to Dr. Hopp and I said, listen, they’re opening up positions, this thing’s going, I really want to go down there. I said, but I, I wanna finish. And so Dr. Hopp sat down with… Read More
And he created these courses and I was able to get in to the first set of classes. But two years after I left and was at the university, Columbus made them stop teaching those classes because the school group, the Indiana School Board said it was unfair that kids… Read More
Well, Indiana High School, the Columbus High School Bulldogs was actually a very progressive school, and I have always been an outside kid. Got into biology, I loved all the science studies. And I met a young man who had graduated from Indiana State University. His name is Phil Allen. Read More
What type of schooling did you have?… Read More