And so that was a big learning curve (chuckles) on how to schedule and make sure that every area was covered. They had keepers who worked different units and then keepers who were known as rovers who went in between all the units. Read More
Hmm, God, I don’t know. A lot of ’em. Let’s see, probably 30, 40 people. Read More
And what were your new responsibilities?… Read More
Different from the National Zoo?… Read More
Yes, because at that point, they had a curator of birds and a curator of reptiles. And then the, so I basically had all the mammals at that point. And I scheduled all the keepers, and this is before computers, so that was, you know, sitting there with pieces of… Read More
I can’t remember who the third one was who interviewed me. It was a very strange process ’cause you went to the interview. All the three, there were three finalists there. We all interviewed the same day. They offered me the job that day and I had to say yes… Read More
Ken Kawata was the general curator at the time. And Dr. Boese, Gil Boese was the director, but he was in China at that time, so I didn’t meet Boese until six months after I started. Read More
Who was the third?… Read More
I was interviewed by Bruce Beehler, who was the assistant director, Ken Kawata was the general curator. I don’t think he was part of the process. Dennis Merritt was there from Lincoln Park at that point, Milwaukee, when they hired curators. They were just developing their first set of curators. Read More
So through the professional organization, you knew there was a job available as a?… Read More
What was the process? Who’d you have to talk to?… Read More
It was a job as assistant general curator. So I had got the job as assistant general curator. Read More
Oh yeah, they- at other places. Milwaukee offered me a job and I said yes. (chuckles) I mean, that basically was it. Read More
But how did you decide that Milwaukee, they had an opening?… Read More
We had a new director who came from STRI. And I knew I was going to have to go to China with him and I’d had some difficulty with him and personnel matters before. And I didn’t wanna go to China with this man. And so that was another reason… Read More
And I got offered the raise after I had accepted the job in Milwaukee and I said, “Well, nope.” So it was that and, who as it, Robinson?… Read More
Was that the director at the time?… Read More
Why did you decide to leave the National Zoo for another zoo and how did Milwaukee, how did that happen?… Read More
What were the years, what was going on?… Read More
There were a couple of things why I left the National Zoo. Well, there were a lot of reasons. My husband was diagnosed with cancer in 1984 and he was successfully treated, but he was finding the hot humid summers in Washington difficult, so we started talking about moving somewhere… Read More