Interview 22891 – Caption Index: 335
They can’t keep their own animals in, you know?… Read More
They can’t keep their own animals in, you know?… Read More
So they were very kind to us. I don’t know if he just took pity on me that day, but he was a good guy. Read More
Again, I think it’s one-on-one. You’re always there for if they want to set up an interview, you make it happen. If they want to deal with something that you don’t want to deal with, you figure out how to turn it to your way to say yes, this was… Read More
You know, you made the newspaper photographer especially feel important and available when you could because anytime then that they needed a filler. They thought oh, I’m gonna call Jan at the zoo ’cause I bet she’ll have something. We did the same thing with the TV stations. We had… Read More
Next thing you know somebody comes running in going the zebra’s out. And took off and it had gone down to the cemetery. Luckily it was the cemetery and not in the middle of the traffic out on the Prospect Road. But I just remember everybody was in different places… Read More
So we use those type of things, but we could have used more embracing of the community. And I feel bad that we didn’t get more of that. But you do the best you can with what you got. And with our limited funds and what we were able to… Read More
And how did you nurture that relationship?… Read More
Well you mentioned the press, so did you have good relationship with the press?… Read More
Again, it was using the media. I think the most because, you know, people watch TV, they read the paper. If they didn’t feel it was important, or at least in their purview, they just let it pass by. But again, we tried to take all the pieces of what… Read More
Whether they embraced it or not?… Read More
We had not… When we started our campaign for the new zoo, we had gone for the big bucks first. We hadn’t gotten to the point of okay, all the kids putting your pennies in and all that stuff. I hadn’t gotten to that part yet. So. I think them… Read More
Were there some strategies you had?… Read More
How did you get the community to embrace the zoo?… Read More
Because we developed the society board they were already on board, so to say. They were different. They were looking more to me to come in and say here’s what we’re gonna do. (coughs) Excuse me. Read More
Do your civic duty. Make some money. You’ve got some people that are there because they like the kids and they see the importance of that. You’ve got other ones that are just budget-minded people that are going what are you doing with this or that, so it’s a juggling… Read More
No, but did you have to approach the governmental board differently than you approached the society board?… Read More
Does that answer your question or was that going the wrong way?… Read More
The importance of what we did and how it made a difference in her or in their lives, of the grandkids lives. And in people that she taught. So. Again, it’s education through them. You just have to put things on a different level depending on who it is ’cause… Read More
You try to personalize things, do your job the best you can with what you got. And hopefully be training them. Whether it’s straight out training which they don’t always like versus little subversive stuff of oh, pick up that. Oh, that could be good. Oh, I see the kids… Read More
There was a board, the park district board. That we had to answer to also. Well let’s go with the park district board and then go to the society board. You had two different bosses, so to speak. Yeah. I had, yeah, I had a lot of bosses. Okay, my… Read More