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Could you talk about some of those initiatives, like the tissue bank?… Read More

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The tissue bank was something that actually had been started way back with Joel Wallach, and Barry Commoner, I guess. I mean that was part of the initial grant, which of course by this time had run out. But I felt it was a valuable thing to do, and we… Read More

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Were you still just treating the animals and, or you had help now. Well, we’re still treating the animals, still doing a lot of the clinical work, but also publishing and trying to do various research, and training I guess always, I was always training people. And you talked about… Read More

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Did the people at the zoo, the curatorial staff, the veterinary group, did they think, “Hmm, what’s gonna happen here, we don’t have a zoo person?” Or was there any pushback?… Read More

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Now that you’re the senior veterinarian, what was a typical day?… Read More

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I think there might have been a little bit, but since they knew that Charlie was the person in charge of really running the animal portion of the zoo, Charlie didn’t have the title, but he was essentially assistant director. I mean, he was the one who called the shots. Read More

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He had no animal experience whatsoever, but he was great at PR and a good manager. And he relied on Charlie Hoessle, who at that point had become general curator, was no longer just curator of reptiles, was general curator, and really has Charlie to run the animal portion of… Read More

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We had one that was connected to the Democratic Party. They worked together with the legislature, ’cause it had to be, this was something now that went to the state legislature to approve it, to create this, and then it had to go on the ballot in the city and… Read More

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And so property taxes in the city and county were pretty much on an equal level. We had a board member who, actually we had a number of board members that got involved with this, to create what’s called the Zoo Museum District. And the zoo and the art museum,… Read More

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Bill Hoff was the director that I worked under first, and then Bob Briggs was director after Bill Hoff. Read More

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Now was Bob Briggs a zoo man?… Read More

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No, Bob Briggs was, he was a PR guy. At that time, well step back a little bit as far as zoo history, the zoo was part of the city of St. Louis. The St. Louis Zoo has always been completely independent of politics. It’s run by the zoo board,… Read More

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Who was the first veterinarian that you hired?… Read More

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And you mentioned there was a new director at the time, William, Bill Bridges?… Read More

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That was Eric Miller. Eric Miller had done a residency, and then was the junior veterinarian, I guess you would’ve call him then. Read More

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And who became the junior to your senior?… Read More

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Yeah sure, yeah. Read More

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So was that again another sell, to say, “We need a full-time vet here”?… Read More

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First zoo residency for the veterinary school, and also of course, the first one that was zoo-based in the country. Read More

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So now you have a resident and yourself, so that made you the senior veterinarian?… Read More