Interview 22891 – Caption Index: 15
You mentioned college. Read More
You mentioned college. Read More
Where did you go to college and academic?… Read More
None. Mm-mm. Sorry. Zoos didn’t come ’til, I didn’t think about it ’til college. Read More
You didn’t think about zoos or working with animals?… Read More
I guess I always thought I wanted to work with animals, but you know, a lot of us wanted to grow up and be veterinarians until you found out the amount of work that was involved in it. And there weren’t that many jobs. At that. Read More
See zoos when you were growing up?… Read More
As child, do you remember any zoos that made an impression on you?… Read More
Did you have any… Not that much that I remember. We were a frugal family. So if we did, we would’ve gone on free day, but I don’t remember going to a lot of zoos. Read More
Were animals part of your life?… Read More
And then they would have puppies. And I’d go down to the creek and, or crick if you call it that here, and pick things out of there and bring them home and bring the tadpoles and put them in mom’s kitchen. She loved that. And put up with it,… Read More
Usually. Yep. My grandpa was really big into nature. So he would take us on little hikes. You know, when mom and dad got tired of us he’d take us on and we’d go for hikes and he was more into lichens and moss. I was picking up the bugs… Read More
Well they had a full hand raising me, but Dad was a microbiologist by trade. I mean that’s what he did, but he ended up going into the family business which was a canning company that did tomatoes, hominy. And beans. Read More
And mom was a housewife until they closed the canning company and she went back to work as an art teacher. So you grew up in Peoria. Yes, sir. Tell us a little about growing up in Peoria. Read More
How about that?… Read More
Jan Schweitzer. Born March 6th, 1953. Peoria, Illinois. Read More
And what did your parents do?… Read More
Ah, I know that I will be remembered as a person who worked hard at it, a very heavy work ethic. Maybe too much of a workaholic sometimes, but I hope I would also be, you know, known as being a nice guy and a friend to the people at… Read More
How would you like to be remembered in the profession?… Read More
And that’s why I continued to change and do different things while I was, was there, you know?… Read More
Oh my gosh, I mean, it’s just something that I’ve lived all these years and I’ve enjoyed, and gosh, I wanted to get everything, every part of it, you know?… Read More