I don’t know, no, I can’t say I was a champion. I had no problems with it. I think later on in life I became more to be honest of a curmudgeon about it. And once again, this is later on in life where, suddenly you have more women keepers… Read More
You have to pick up a box, you don’t have enough people to pick up the box, you know?… Read More
Did you have any feelings about it?… Read More
Were you a champion of that?… Read More
I think a little of everything. I know also for sure there was some political pressure from downtown, a daughter of somebody who had connections, wanted to be an animal keeper and they were hired. I also remember there’s a big fight that we had a secretary of the zoo… Read More
Did the director say you wanted more?… Read More
Was it forced upon the zoo?… Read More
Did you originate it?… Read More
I mean, how did that kind of evolve?… Read More
And the women, what was this evolution of the women?… Read More
When I first came there, I believe it was 100% white male with the exception of the dietician, which was just a person who they paid less than a keeper who was a woman that cut the plates, who did the diets. She would cut the same diets every day,… Read More
Were there women keepers, were there African American keepers?… Read More
What was the makeup?… Read More
You indicated that when you started at Lincoln Park, there were just men, couple of women at the children’s zoo, when you were at Evansville, how diverse were your employees?… Read More
Seeing the great stuff and learning and being able to take that. And whether you take it and implement or take it and just file it back in your mind or in a file or in a slide, that’s going, someday I wanna do that, someday maybe we can do… Read More
What’s the positive?… Read More
And it’s so out of our, it’s so out of your league, you can’t work at a zoo at the time of the size of Evansville and go to a mega facility, whether it be Bronx or Bush Gardens or Brookfield or Lincoln Park, and see some of the great… Read More
That’s the curse, right?… Read More
Well, you you’d have jealousy, you’d see stuff at zoos going, wow, why can’t we do this?… Read More
It impacted the animals because we got much better visibility of the animals under red or pink lights. We used to play with lights all the time. We tried green lights a little, but we certainly, it allowed the public a more realistic view of the animal, so to speak,… Read More