Interview 22891 – Caption Index: 228
And kind of give us a different look. And then go out and raise funds. Ultimately you retired as zoo director. And someone else took over as zoo director. Right. Read More
And kind of give us a different look. And then go out and raise funds. Ultimately you retired as zoo director. And someone else took over as zoo director. Right. Read More
Correct – well, right. They were not running the zoo. It was still under the park district. Their job when they started was to raise funds to build a new… To give the zoo a kind of a new facelift. Both publicly, so they hired a marketing department, you know,… Read More
Did you give them any advice as you left or did they ask?… Read More
That one, well when we knew that we were gonna go on a campaign to do big funding. And this was gonna be our whole kinda shift to try to change the Glen Oak Zoo into the Peoria Zoo. We took… We asked some people in the community to sit… Read More
And they were friends at the zoo, not running the zoo?… Read More
And the volunteers and all that came through under our education coordinator. And they handled that and the Zoo Society was in charge of this “new zoo” then. Or the to be new zoo. Read More
But there was an older society became a newer society or was the same one?… Read More
Different. Read More
How’d that evolve?… Read More
As zoo director we helped form that zoo group first before they hired anybody to come in and be their manager or, you know. Read More
So we would set up the meetings, you know?… Read More
I made the board agendas. We set up the committees. I sat not on the board, but I came to every board meeting and gave the reports. Met with… The society president and others as they needed me. To kind of either educate them on certain things or help them… Read More
And can you explain the evolution then of the Zoo Society?… Read More
How did that transition take place and what was then your role as zoo director with this new organization?… Read More
You seemed to indicate it was a newer organization. Read More
That… Let’s see, I’m trying to figure out exact years, so it was probably by… He left in 2005 and at that point the society and the park district said you know, Jan, you’re the one that’s out there in front and already knows all this stuff and is doing… Read More
A long time. I think I was appointed in ’82. 1982. And then when we developed that Zoological Society and we’re doing fundraising, the Zoo Society had hired a development person that came in. And basically the two of us, he would take me as the one who knew the… Read More
So that was- So you were zoo director when you were fundraising?… Read More
Yeah. Well that’s part of – any director should be “selling” the zoo. Read More
You know, you just gotta manipulate it a little bit. Read More