Well you had limited, so, but I’m happy to fit that. So Paul Chaffee asked me to be on the membership committee. So that’s where I started was membership committee and that’s probably the one I was on the longest. But it was also good because you learn about the… Read More
In addition, what else?… Read More
I was on the ethics board. At one time. The Conservation Education Committee. And then I chaired that one year. And then eventually I was asked to be on the board. Meanwhile then they also ask you to do, on these accreditation inspections, to go out as a representative from… Read More
Well I was allowed to go to some of the conferences. It started, the lower I was, I would go to the regional conferences they had back then. And then right before I think Chuck knew he was leaving, I was allowed to go to my first national conference. And… Read More
And we want somebody from a small zoo. Read More
You know?… Read More
And rather than just being one of several siblings in this little family, we wanted to stand out a little bit better. So we developed a zoological society. With the hope that someday they would be taking on more and more funding of not only the capital projects, but maybe… Read More
Carlotta Bielfeldt was involved in that. And so we asked them if they would be co-chairs of a fundraising job. And then also put together a zoological board. Made up of some of the big corporations in town. As well as we also brought in people that were on the… Read More
Can you speak to your involvement with AZA on a national level?… Read More
How did that get started?… Read More
Well we had talked earlier, the Friends of Glen Oak Zoo that was formed were doing small projects. A lot of hands-on and provided a lot of volunteers. That type of thing where they would help with the Zoo Day event where we’d have something fun. It was like a… Read More
And you paid to do so much and then you’d get tickets and you could use those tickets for doing the Jello jump, you know?… Read More
‘Cause kids like to get dirty. And different food activities and whatever. And then we would have a Zoo Run run that was started with our running group in town, The Striders. And they would do a 5K run. And we finally grew that one, so they were running through,… Read More
What was your relationship at the time of being a zoo director with the Zoo Society?… Read More
Did it change over the years?… Read More
Did the society evolve and what was all that about?… Read More
Did you have a full-time vet or a part-time vet?… Read More
We had, when I started it was a volunteer veterinarian. Which was a concern for the AZA because they thought if they’re volunteering obviously you’re not getting good medical attention, and they’re only doing it when they have time, but we actually did pretty good with that. And we had… Read More
This was a different vet. The first one had already retired, but we got a whole lot more out of them. Than we ever paid them. Unbelievable. You mentioned the Zoo Society. How it started. Read More
We had a few, a very few. Like five or six people that would come out and protest. I remember one when we had the Wienermobile came to town and they wanted to come to the zoo. So, you know, we’re taking it as a fun event and they were… Read More