Well you wouldn’t want them all to be the same. I think it’s the personality of. Of your individual city or town or area and what they need or want from you that you can provide them. Within a certain budget. Read More
North American?… Read More
I mean I think it’d be great to have an all small zoo run by a small zoo director, you know?… Read More
Considering, and you kind of touched on this, considering the financial resources available to many small or medium-sized zoos, what do you think should be the focus of the collection?… Read More
And nominating, that’s just a small committee. And that one’s just picked by… I think they were looking for somebody from a small zoo. To represent our whole organization. Instead of just getting somebody from the big zoos to nominate some other people from big zoos. So bless their hearts,… Read More
Endangered? Non-endangered?… Read More
At the time you were doing it, again, were you one of the few women doing this?… Read More
Because you were on many committees. You were very active. It depended which committee. I would guess the education committee had more women on it. You know, and maybe that’s part of that whole… That we talked about earlier, the difference of looking at women or men, but whatever it… Read More
I’m trying to think. Board of Regents was fairly well diversified. I was one of the few women on the AZA board at the beginning. That changed over. It was kind of a split. I think. On most of the other ones. The membership and the conservation education. Read More
Oh I am unique, but. Not. I don’t think there were a bunch of them, but there were some other smaller zoos that had people on different committees. And stuff. So I think it was out there. Read More
I didn’t pay attention to that- But what drove you to do it?… Read More
I just wanted to be part of the big boy group. You know, to be involved in something bigger than just… Since you – and maybe it was because since you said I spent my whole career in one zoo. And my way of getting out a little bit more… Read More
A lot of people just don’t want to even be involved in things. I think it takes somebody that’s willing to diversify and learn new things. Read More
Now when you said that you were on, you yourself personally were on a national stage. Because of the work you did with the American Zoo Association. Read More
What drove you, being a director of a smaller zoo, to say I want to be involved at a national level?… Read More
Were there many people like you at smaller markets that were doing this or were you unique?… Read More
I think, you know, even 20 years ago when I was there. I did quite a bit, or I was involved in the AZA. So they’re connected nationally and internationally. You can be in organizations that help with that even if you don’t have the funds to specifically do programs… Read More
Do you think that small or medium-sized zoos realize that, or do they feel that they’re dwarfed by the bigger zoos with the money?… Read More
Depends on the individuals. I mean I know a lot of smaller zoos probably think well I can’t do that. But you can do what you put your mind to. I mean there are ways to get involved. If you make an effort at it. But sometimes you have to… Read More
I would say more versed in animals because then you’re invested in it. You can learn the management skills. You can’t always learn the passion. Of what you’re trying to do for the animals. Or the, you know, the conservation part or… To me it’s where the heart is. You… Read More