Do your civic duty. Make some money. You’ve got some people that are there because they like the kids and they see the importance of that. You’ve got other ones that are just budget-minded people that are going what are you doing with this or that, so it’s a juggling… Read More
Does that answer your question or was that going the wrong way?… Read More
No, but did you have to approach the governmental board differently than you approached the society board?… Read More
There was a board, the park district board. That we had to answer to also. Well let’s go with the park district board and then go to the society board. You had two different bosses, so to speak. Yeah. I had, yeah, I had a lot of bosses. Okay, my… Read More
You try to personalize things, do your job the best you can with what you got. And hopefully be training them. Whether it’s straight out training which they don’t always like versus little subversive stuff of oh, pick up that. Oh, that could be good. Oh, I see the kids… Read More
The importance of what we did and how it made a difference in her or in their lives, of the grandkids lives. And in people that she taught. So. Again, it’s education through them. You just have to put things on a different level depending on who it is ’cause… Read More
Because to me, the only thing that’s gonna make a difference is people to people. Computers are great. For knowledge and putting all this stuff together, but it’s people that get things done. You worked in a park district system. Correct. Governmental. You also had to deal with a board… Read More
Which board?… Read More
What was your philosophy in dealing with the board of directors?… Read More
I mean isn’t that what future is all about?… Read More
Not unlike slavery and what it went through. Read More
So same thing applies with… There’s been a lot of good people that know a lot of good stuff of basic information that you have to have respect for. Because as they say. If you come by and see that turtle sitting on top of a post, he didn’t get… Read More
You know, if we don’t learn lessons from the past of what we did right or wrong, how are we gonna make the right decisions in the future?… Read More
That’s the hard part. It has been said that many newer younger zoo and aquarium professionals are computer curators. With probably little knowledge of the precepts of Heini Hediger. Or Lee Crandell or William Conway. Or knowledge of publications such as the International Zoo Yearbook. Read More
I might be old fashioned, but I think you have to. I mean if we don’t learn lessons from our past. Read More
How important for the future of zoos is it to keep a link with the past?… Read More
And shouldn’t have an elephant. So I think the more we can put into “nature” and NC2 conservation the better. But again, it’s a balance because you’re gonna have to show people and have something there that they can relate to. But do it right. You know, you don’t want… Read More
Some, not everybody has to have an elephant, you know?… Read More
And how do we get from here to here and get people to buy into it?… Read More
Would this be better spent and sent to conservation of elephants, or what do you see are the issues and problems?… Read More