Interview 22891 – Caption Index: 9
Did you have any… Not that much that I remember. We were a frugal family. So if we did, we would’ve gone on free day, but I don’t remember going to a lot of zoos. Read More
Did you have any… Not that much that I remember. We were a frugal family. So if we did, we would’ve gone on free day, but I don’t remember going to a lot of zoos. Read More
See zoos when you were growing up?… Read More
And then they would have puppies. And I’d go down to the creek and, or crick if you call it that here, and pick things out of there and bring them home and bring the tadpoles and put them in mom’s kitchen. She loved that. And put up with it,… Read More
Usually. Yep. My grandpa was really big into nature. So he would take us on little hikes. You know, when mom and dad got tired of us he’d take us on and we’d go for hikes and he was more into lichens and moss. I was picking up the bugs… Read More
Were animals part of your life?… Read More
And mom was a housewife until they closed the canning company and she went back to work as an art teacher. So you grew up in Peoria. Yes, sir. Tell us a little about growing up in Peoria. Read More
How about that?… Read More
Well they had a full hand raising me, but Dad was a microbiologist by trade. I mean that’s what he did, but he ended up going into the family business which was a canning company that did tomatoes, hominy. And beans. Read More
Jan Schweitzer. Born March 6th, 1953. Peoria, Illinois. Read More
And what did your parents do?… Read More
How would you like to be remembered in the profession?… Read More
Ah, I know that I will be remembered as a person who worked hard at it, a very heavy work ethic. Maybe too much of a workaholic sometimes, but I hope I would also be, you know, known as being a nice guy and a friend to the people at… Read More
And that’s why I continued to change and do different things while I was, was there, you know?… Read More
Oh my gosh, I mean, it’s just something that I’ve lived all these years and I’ve enjoyed, and gosh, I wanted to get everything, every part of it, you know?… Read More
I keep remembering back that I said I’d stay at least two years. Well you know, I stayed a lot longer than that. Read More
What do I know about it?… Read More
Yeah, what do you know about it?… Read More
No, I don’t remember most of them. (laughing) Over the years, if you count the preceptors and so forth, there has to be well over 100 veterinary students and veterinarians that have come through our program. Both just learning, a lot of them never did go into, you know something,… Read More
What do you know about the profession that you have devoted so many years of your life to?… Read More
Well, a lot of them have- Can you remember them all?… Read More