Interview 20517 – Caption Index: 23
And so you just applied for this, and they said okay?… Read More
And so you just applied for this, and they said okay?… Read More
Okay, come on up. Because it’s an unpaid position. We’ll furnish a room, probably because I knew the director by correspondence for so many years. Read More
What kind of zoo did you find when you got there?… Read More
How did you get it?… Read More
I wrote to my childhood hero, and said just come on up. So July 1959, I went to Tokyo for the first time. Internship, you can put it in the resume, but basically it’s shadowing a zookeeper everyday, and also in 1960, I thought was such a glorious job, seriously,… Read More
Where did you go?… Read More
It was an intern?… Read More
So what was your first zoo job?… Read More
Internship, yes. Read More
As far as zoo world, no. As far as biology, a professor who happened to be applied entomologist. Spelled N-A-K-A-J-I-M-A. Dr. Nakajima. Was the one who really taught me basics in biology. Read More
In school, did you have any teachers that had an effect on your life within the zoo world?… Read More
Ordinary elementary school, junior high, high school, and agricultural college in town. And that was, graduating in 1961, 15 years later, back in Oklahoma, I went to one of the regional universities, Northeastern Oklahoma State, for my master’s degree. And you mentioned a person at the zoo that you looked… Read More
And what type of schooling did you have?… Read More
Ueno Zoo. U-E-N-O. Ueno Zoo, right. Read More
And did you then ultimately as a child get to Tokyo to see the zoo?… Read More
I was already in my early 20s when I got to see Tokyo, and looked up at my childhood hero, Dr. T-A-D-A-M-I-C-H-I. Tadamichi Koga. Koga is easier to pronounce. K-O-G-A. It was as if a little farm boy looking up at John Wayne. Read More
And he was the director of the?… Read More
What was the impression you got?… Read More
The town I grew up didn’t have a zoo. So it was in my dream, (coughs) excuse me, writing fan mail to the zoo director in Tokyo so forth and so forth. As a little child, I remember on the family vacation going to the next prefect, the next city,… Read More
Were animals part of your life?… Read More