Interview 22877 – Caption Index: 391
Were you able to travel to see other zoos?… Read More
Were you able to travel to see other zoos?… Read More
Well, when I went to conferences, yeah. Never when I was in Washington. My first AZA meeting was the year I went to Milwaukee and I got there and they said, “Oh, you’re in charge of enter or food for the conference this year.” I’m going, “What?” (chuckles) Luckily someone… Read More
Were you able to apply things you learned from other zoos to some of the animal management or exhibitry at Milwaukee?… Read More
Did you have any input in it?… Read More
At the Milwaukee Zoo?… Read More
No, it really, most of it was done by the reptile people. And Boese was instrumental with the Birds without Borders. And I think that started when he was director and carried on when he was director of the Society. I was more interested in local conservation, so my conservation… Read More
How diverse were your employees, women keepers?… Read More
Women keepers. Yep, We had the Jimmy Jones rule in Milwaukee. That you had to, there was a suit that there were not enough minorities hired by the county, so we had every second or third hire, we had to hire a minority, which was either an African American, Native… Read More
Asians were not, ’cause we had a lot of Asian doctors at the medical complex. (chuckles) How did conservation on an international level start?… Read More
So, you know, they came to the question, why should you be director?… Read More
I thought about it ’cause I had thought that I wanted to be a zoo director when I was in high school. And I interviewed a couple of times for director jobs and basically, the last time it was interesting. I interviewed at Seneca Park Zoo to be zoo director. Read More
And I just said, “Well, you know, I don’t really think that I’m the right person for this job.” End of interview, didn’t even get me a taxi going home. I had to find my own way out. I mean, that was, turns out somebody later said, “You know, they… Read More
No, I mean, I was curator of the day. We had an incident one Thanksgiving day. I was, the head of finance was the senior staff person, had a temporary keeper who decided she was going to impress a man she met at a bar the night before by, we… Read More
I’d go, “You know, you’re senior (chuckles) staff,” and I think Chuck was out of town. So I ended up handling that just because Grant had no idea what to do with that, so. Read More
Did you ever have visions of wanting to be a zoo director?… Read More
I mean, how are we gonna, to live up to the hype of Disney?… Read More
And the two things that I remember from that was going to Animal Kingdom for a zoo conference and there were some people walking towards me and we were near the tigers and the man turned to his wife and he said, (lips smacks) “Our zoo is so much better… Read More
In the time at Milwaukee, were you ever called upon to be the zoo administrator or the head person at any time to do things?… Read More
Well, I mean, decades ago, I mean, when we started, most of our exhibits were built pre-World War II. It didn’t have, vets didn’t have the capability to take care of animals. I mean, all the medicines that vets use now weren’t available. People medicine has changed so much, so… Read More
So it’s changed because technology has changed, medicine has changed. So I think most people don’t realize that, that if you’re dealing with, I mean, my house was built in 1870. I can tell you that, yeah, I have no light up in the attic because the wiring was done… Read More