And so we ended up sending her to Hawthorn-Mellody Farms, which created just a big fear. We had an animal rights activist who played French horn for the Milwaukee Symphony, took a leave of absence to work on this to save Lota. And, I mean, I could see her just… Read More
Oh yeah. Regarding- Whatever. of the collection. Well, with management issues, whether it, you know, on whatever grievance was at at the time, it usually wasn’t managing the collection. It was always scheduling, you know, or not getting what they wanted, or whatever. You just have to explain this is… Read More
So you had to deal with union issues?… Read More
You know, it’s all about this, this is a problem we’re having. It was never anything that I worried about, so. Read More
I don’t know. I did have the union steward, after he retired, came back once and apologized to me for being so hard on me, ’cause he thought that I was pretty good after all at what I did. So that probably was the best, ’cause, yeah, Germany and I… Read More
What would your staff say about your management style?… Read More
Any tricks of the trade for managing people that you developed?… Read More
Like, oh my God, what did I do?… Read More
When someone wants to talk to you, never guess what they wanna talk to you about, ’cause you’re always wrong. Just wait until they talk to you (chuckles) ’cause you get worried. Read More
Five or six years, maybe more than that, since I started, since I retired, so. And Pat’s long gone. You had all these people who were working for you as curator of large mammals, or when you were general curator. Read More
I don’t think I’ve ever really thought of it as a management style. You know, you just listen, you listen to people and see what their problems are and try to fix their problems. And if you can’t, you can’t. You tell ’em why. Can’t say it’s always successful, but. Read More
What was your management style?… Read More
They have, the conservation department is in the Society, yeah. They provide funds for keepers, for Milwaukee County employees to do conservation projects. Pat the Cat is a project that’s been going on for a number of years, ’cause this is when, but with Boese’s work with Runaway Creek, he… Read More
So that’s been going on for, what, five years now?… Read More
Every school in Belize had copies of “Pat the Cat.” And so that’s taken on a life of its own. And the profits from the book helped the keepers go down and work with the keepers at the Belize Zoo every January. The registrar has been down and work with,… Read More
I mean, the county, the Milwaukee Public Museum became a private entity separated from the county. And when they did that, the employees could choose either to stay county employees or go work with the Society, but they still worked at the museum. So that whole thing was tough too. Read More
I don’t think the Society has the base, financial base to do it alone. So they just need to keep working on getting the governing bodies, so they’re connected. As a society, the Society still runs the education department and the Society does all the graphics for the zoo and…… Read More
Are they still in charge of conservation?… Read More
It’s usually they’re in city parks and they’re, a lot of kids there only exposure to animals. And they don’t necessarily need to have, you know, lions and tigers and most of the smaller zoos don’t. They have a bobcat or bears or something like that. And they have sensory… Read More
In your opinion, does that kind of relationship work or was there built-in issues that would naturally occur that if they could do it a different way?… Read More