Well it was a summer job, and I was assisting with the pathology essentially. Under the same grant. The first summer, between second and third year of veterinary school, but then I went back to veterinary school for that, in the fall. And then I had the summer off between… Read More
Who were you talking to?… Read More
And that meant there was no veterinarian there. Dr. Alfred Mohler was probably still on call, but wasn’t going out to the zoo. So I went to the zoo and I said, “Look, I can get off three afternoons a week and come over, and at least continue doing pathology… Read More
Yes. And then you went back again as soon as- Went back to veterinary school. Read More
What, oh you mean, why did I go back to the zoo?… Read More
Why did you go back again?… Read More
Did he have anything to do with- Dr. Barry Commoner was the professor that actually got the huge grant, a comparative medicine grant. He was with Washington University, and Dr. Wallach was hired as part of that grant, and my summer, I got paid by that grant. Read More
Now you, that was a summer job?… Read More
That’s around 1968?… Read More
I was in a veterinary school from ’66 to ’70. I got my doctorate in 1970. Read More
And what did Dr. Barry Commoner have to do?… Read More
Now, at the time, there was a veterinarian at the zoo, aside from Dr. Wallach?… Read More
He interviewed me, but it was a pretty much, “Oh my gosh, we’ve got somebody who’s interested, and let’s get him in here.” And so his position was not treating the animals at the zoo. It was a, he was under a research grant that paid him to do pathology… Read More
The zoo did not have a full-time veterinarian. The zoo had a part-time veterinarian, Dr. Alfred Mohler, who I never saw, because he never came out to the zoo. It was interesting, the zoo had a contract with him, but he was never there the whole summer. They just didn’t… Read More
And he was there during the summer and he said, “Oh, we’ve got this program that we can get you on this grant for the summer.” And so that was my first introduction to zoos, and even thinking of zoos as a potential career. Read More
So Dr. Wallach interviewed you for the summer job?… Read More
And so I got more interested and applied. I didn’t have all the credits that I needed right away. But after I got my degree, and continued studying at the university, I eventually got into veterinary school. But even when I was in, I wasn’t looking at zoo medicine. I… Read More
So you just, you thought being a veterinarian would be, it just appealed to you, it was fun, or you could help?… Read More
I mean- and I liked working with them. I probably, I really got interested in farm animals more so when I was in veterinary school. And so I had previous, in high school and early part of college, I worked at Monsanto Chemical Company as a chemical operator during the… Read More
I always enjoyed the zoo, but it was not something that I thought of as a profession, I guess at that time. I always enjoyed animals. You know, I would collect turtles or various reptiles that we could catch at the park. Had a little squirrel for a while, whatever,… Read More