Interview 22891 – Caption Index: 498
Your boards. The politicians in your city. The people with – the movers and shakers that had the money. And how to make that all work. Right. Yeah. Read More
Your boards. The politicians in your city. The people with – the movers and shakers that had the money. And how to make that all work. Right. Yeah. Read More
Do you think there there is undue pressure on directors to raise money to be part of the major force in raising money?… Read More
I think we kind of went like this and now we’re on the training, or were in the training, to get them back. I think it’s at a higher level now where the general public appreciates zoos more. Read More
What issues caused you the most concern during your career?… Read More
And how do you see the future regarding these same concerns?… Read More
I hate to get back to- What kept you up at night?… Read More
And then when some of the public started to go huh, are they treating the animals right?… Read More
Are we doing this? Are we doing that?… Read More
Are they spending the money in the right places?… Read More
How to interact with people on different levels. A basic management type course that gives you a broad view of how to work with other people in the most appropriate way. A communications kind of review. Read More
In your years in the profession, what changes have you seen regarding visitor attitudes?… Read More
And administration at the national level. In any of the professional groups. Especially visitor attitudes about zoos. I think it’s gotten better. I think we were good and then as knowledge was out there more about what zoos were doing and there was more reporting on it, I think we… Read More
Now there’s a good thought. I don’t think you can make anything mandatory like that, but I think it’s a good idea to offer it. So that people who want to have that kind of training can get it. You know, if you’re at a keeper level and want to… Read More
So since you’ve been invested in education for much of your career, what would you include in a training program for curators?… Read More
Well, depending which… I think they’d need a broad base knowledge, but I think whatever their specialty is there ought to be, if it was the animal department, there ought to be some training in records. Always communications in everything. Of how to deal with other zoos. How to deal… Read More
Or even within your sphere. Read More
How would you like to see curators trained?… Read More
Does management school play the role of AZA or some of those to make it mandatory that people at a certain mid-level get the same training as maybe potential directors?… Read More
We dealt with how to approach some of it. Like if… Probably most through either marketing or conservation. Or the conservation education committees, but. I never felt the difference there because we were more isolated. We were more zoo people talking among zoo people. I think we should have diversified… Read More
Dealing with humane organizations, PETA, any of the outside groups. And working to see what kind of common thoughts you have, or common threads that you can work on. Although you’ve been out of the profession a number of years. Read More