That’s, they only take seven people out of, you know, the entire country.” I said, “Oh, that’s interesting.” So I applied, and I got there, and stayed there for about a year, over a year, I did my internship at 15 months, and then stayed on an extra year as… Read More
Well now let me go back to Angel Memorial. Read More
Well, did you ever get to zoos when you were younger?… Read More
I just didn’t, you know, I had a normal curiosity about, you know, birds and stuff like that, but I didn’t go collecting ’em, or put ’em in jars, or anything like that. Read More
Not that I can remember. I don’t remember a zoo experience, you know, in my younger years, so, no. Well, so it leads me to ask, when did you decide, and why did you decide “I wanna be a veterinarian?” Well, that’s kind of an interesting story is, as I… Read More
Were you bringing home snakes or … No, not really. I don’t have any other people to compare it to. I just never, you know, I had the occasional cat as a pet, but that was about it. Didn’t have many exposures to animals during my childhood. Read More
Did they interest you or wasn’t on your scope?… Read More
What was your childhood like?… Read More
Well, kind of a many, my parents moved all over California, I was brought up with my mother and stepfather, and he had numerous jobs, and during my early years, I never went to the same school for more than a few months until I got in the sixth grade,… Read More
And what were your parents doing?… Read More
They were farming at the time. We had about 3,000 acres down outside of Maricopa in the area they called the Flats, and it was a mixed farm for mainly cotton, alfalfa for seed. We had some soybeans, we grew castor beans, we grew sugar beets and just, and mixed… Read More
But as I told Loretta, “I was born at a very young age in California, in 1941.” And can you give us your name, and where you were born in California?… Read More
Okay, Mitch Bush, I was born in Santa Ana, California. Read More
What’d your parents do?… Read More
That’s gonna age me. Read More
Ed Maruska, you were talking about him. I think the Cincinnati Zoo was an excellent zoo. And in many ways I thought it fulfilled the needs of a zoo, perhaps better than most of them. And I thought Maruska was very well organized. He kept his mind on the goal. Read More
And who would be your third?… Read More
Well, I’m not, I listed… Conway. I would put him number one. I haven’t arranged these others. Belle Benchley, I would have to put there, ’cause she spent years keeping that place together. And every, you know, it is a major zoo, San Diego Zoo. The architect that we were… Read More
So out of all those possibilities, personal opinion, now, which ones I can’t say was the best, but I would say the ones I’m gonna tell you were most noteworthy. Excellent, excellent. Now, at the top of my list really would be Bill Conway. He and I have had a… Read More
That was something completely different. I would call that noteworthy, but I don’t think it was outstanding. Roger Conant, he was a great herpetologist. I don’t think he was that good a zoo person. His mind was always on herpetology, really. And he was not trained. Roger Conant never took… Read More