Part of the problem I think was that I had supervisors. I had three supervisors. One was a top person. He retired the same time Brad House left. And the other two men I had no use for them. They weren’t doing their jobs. They let the other guy do… Read More
As a curator, how did you affect the development of the sections of the zoo now that were under your control?… Read More
It was, Brad left in 1970, he left in October I think of 74. So probably, might have been 1976. That might be on my resume. So now, you’re in charge of the entire mammal department. Now you do have people working for you. Yes. Read More
What year was that, do you remember?… Read More
I didn’t know I just assumed that I was going to get the job of curator. Conway had in mind something else. He was going to hire us to be my own boss. He wanted someone else. Just hard to find anyone else that we wanted. And so I think… Read More
Well I think, see he didn’t know me when Brad House was there. Brad was the spokesman for the mammal department and I only had a bachelors degree. One of the requirements is supposed to be more than a bachelors degree but that was all I had. I guess my… Read More
What did you mean and how did you earn his trust?… Read More
No. You once said, in time Conway trusted me. Read More
I don’t think I ever did. But we spent days, months working with little insect eaters. As a quick aside, did you ever call him Lee or always Mr Crendal. Mr Crendal. Yeah. You once said, called him anything if he had said call me Lee, I don’t think I… Read More
They were showing a bat one time. They’re easy to feed. They were very hard trying to get these bats to eat. (indistinct) Bats were very hard to get going. Because they just wanted to catch insects on the fly. Crickets. Put a bunch of bats in a cave with… Read More
And then he left. Great guy. We used to have lunch in the staff dining room. This one long table down by the windows we would seat probably a dozen people. Then there were little tables scattered around the room and you wanted to be at the table that Mr… Read More
He said, what are you worried about?… Read More
I said yeah. Read More
Then you can read can’t ya?… Read More
Someone told me I was going to narrate a film, two films actually at the annual meeting. I had never narrated a film before. And I felt a bit concerned about it and I mentioned it to Joe Bell and Joe Bell mentioned it to Mr. Crandal and Mr. Crandal… Read More
No. Did not. If there’s ever something Lee hadn’t seen, Mr Crendal. You could show him something he hadn’t seen before a lot and he was (indistinct) they shipwrecked or something happened. I forget the details now but he was (indistinct) out in the west pacific ocean. Maybe a year… Read More
Did any of these people, Lee or any one else become mentors to you or not?… Read More
I said, Elsie is doing fine. Then how’s the baby girl. I said she’s beautiful, we love her. He said, I went through it all 60 years ago. He was such a sweet guy. Read More
He always had a cigarette hanging off his lip and the smoke would stroll up to his eye and his eyes were always kind of squinting because of the smoke from his cigarette and he came into my office one day after our daughter was born and he came in… Read More
He was also very nice. Helped me out wherever he could. Gordon Conner was membership and he was driving membership in the society a very very good man. There were just a lot of, Bill Bridges had a publication. And Mr Crendal, what a wonderful man he was. He was… Read More