Interview 22891 – Caption Index: 477
Did you have to deal with this type of issue in any of the national committees that you were involved in?… Read More
Did you have to deal with this type of issue in any of the national committees that you were involved in?… Read More
Could we have your thoughts on how best to deal with these types of groups?… Read More
I think it would behoove them to do it. I don’t think all of them do, but I think it would be wise in their master planning phase to figure out what they’re good at and what they want to concentrate on. Zoos in many cases today are afraid to… Read More
Again, I think it’s gonna have to be on a one-to-one basis almost, or small groups. It’s hard to just go in and say now here’s the other side and this is what we think. It’s gonna have to be a person talking to a person. So they’re not looking… Read More
On larger scales it’s nice to geographically be in an area where you can go to a larger zoo that has a wide variety, you know, and maybe do them by continents or by, you know, big cats, primates, birds. You want the variety there, but you can’t just say… Read More
Should smaller zoos then have a specialty?… 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
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
Endangered? Non-endangered?… 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
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 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
I didn’t pay attention to that- But what drove you to do it?… 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
What drove you, being a director of a smaller zoo, to say I want to be involved at a national level?… Read More