And when he came back from lunch, I came in, you know I said, “Okay, here’s the vaccine. What do you want me to use to vaccinate these mustelids?” And he started looking at them and he looked at one, you know, and he started reading the other one, and… Read More
And so Charlie was there about 20 of the years that I worked under Charlie as director. And each person brought something different to the table. Read More
Did you ever, of all of these various directors that you’re talking about during your career, did you ever run afoul of any of them?… Read More
(laughing) I don’t know that I ever ran afoul of any of them, but I remember, oh early on, and Bill Hoff was the director and it was, oh, had to be in the first year that I was there. I mean, maybe even the first month or so. And… Read More
Did Charlie come after him?… Read More
No, Bill Hoff was the first, I mean, Marlin Perkins way back when I was a student, then Bill Hoff, then Bob Briggs was there for several years. After Bob was Dick Schultz. Dick Schultz was a finance person. And it’s interesting, because Bob Briggs was, you know PR, and… Read More
How did that happen, why did it happen?… Read More
Somewhere around then, okay. Now you’re moving from veterinary medicine to more of an administration position. Read More
Well you know, when you work for any organization, you have your role and I was in my role, but you know how the rest of the zoo is operating too. And so you get involved in the other parts when when you have an opportunity, if you have something… Read More
Were you aiming for this, or what was going on?… Read More
No, we had a building there, that was not much of a hospital, but yeah, we had a building that, you know, we had some cages, and we had a room that we did all of the necropsies in. You know, we had labs there, so there was a facility… Read More
You become the Director of Zoological Operations in 1993?… Read More
(chuckling) It’s interesting, ’cause you know, as a side, I guess I have always been interested in construction and architecture and design. And so that’s sort of, I don’t know, one of my hobbies I guess, and I love construction. I love physically doing it myself. And when it came… Read More
But when I presented it to them, they said, “Oh, that’s what you want? Oh, we can do that.” And so I really started with the hospital at the zoo, helping out with the design and the construction and the, on the staff at the zoo we had somebody who… Read More
When you first started, there wasn’t a hospital there, was there?… Read More
How did you get involved?… Read More
When did that happen, how did it come about?… Read More
Were there issues, problems, getting it all finalized?… Read More
And Murray Fowler was the one who really spearheaded that, and was most instrumental in getting that off the ground, and starting way back in about 1980, was gathering who would the professionals be, who would be considered the chart of diplomats?… Read More
And then once that’s done, others could become board certified by meeting certain qualifications and then going through testing to do that. And so I was fortunate to be one of the original board certified people, and it was, I think partly because of my publications that I was able… Read More