I better check this all out.” So I talked to some other individuals who, you know, in the community, I said, “Well, why aren’t they offering this to somebody with a lot more experience and everything?” And they said, “Well you know, veterinary medicine in zoos, there just weren’t very… Read More
And that was 1970?… Read More
Did he come out to the base- Oh sure, no, no Marlin was a very, very, a very gentle person. I always enjoyed visiting with him, very humble person. So okay, so now you’re saying, “I can help you couple days a week doing pathology,” and you’re saying this to… Read More
After that summer doing this, and then you graduate, right?… Read More
Were you thinking, “Hey, I wanna work in a zoo,” or were you just trying to get a job somewhere?… Read More
Who was the, were you talking to the director- Bill Hoff was the director at the time. Actually, Marlin Perkins was the director, but Bill Hoff was the assistant director. And Marlin Perkins was the director, but he was also doing a lot of filming for “Wild Kingdom”, so Bill… Read More
So did you have, just ’cause you mentioned Marlin, did you ever have the opportunity to meet Marlin?… Read More
Well it was a summer job, and I was assisting with the pathology essentially. Under the same grant. The first summer, between second and third year of veterinary school, but then I went back to veterinary school for that, in the fall. And then I had the summer off between… Read More
And that meant there was no veterinarian there. Dr. Alfred Mohler was probably still on call, but wasn’t going out to the zoo. So I went to the zoo and I said, “Look, I can get off three afternoons a week and come over, and at least continue doing pathology… Read More
Who were you talking to?… Read More
Yes. And then you went back again as soon as- Went back to veterinary school. Read More
Why did you go back again?… Read More
What, oh you mean, why did I go back to the zoo?… Read More
Did he have anything to do with- Dr. Barry Commoner was the professor that actually got the huge grant, a comparative medicine grant. He was with Washington University, and Dr. Wallach was hired as part of that grant, and my summer, I got paid by that grant. Read More
Now you, that was a summer job?… Read More
That’s around 1968?… Read More
I was in a veterinary school from ’66 to ’70. I got my doctorate in 1970. Read More
And what did Dr. Barry Commoner have to do?… Read More
He interviewed me, but it was a pretty much, “Oh my gosh, we’ve got somebody who’s interested, and let’s get him in here.” And so his position was not treating the animals at the zoo. It was a, he was under a research grant that paid him to do pathology… Read More
Now, at the time, there was a veterinarian at the zoo, aside from Dr. Wallach?… Read More