Did you interact with Lee or other senior staff and what did you learn from these guys. They could not have been nicer to me. I felt like oh my gosh 20 something years old these people have all been here since the zoo started practically. How will I ever… Read More
So I came from work the next day to work for the deer range keeper and there were barns that had 2 feet of manure in them, manure bedding. They were going to clean it out that day. It hadn’t been done. They did it every spring I guess. And… Read More
Well the working hours that I had worked in another zoo in that I think made it easier for me with the other keepers than they had the fellow or even Don in the bird department. So I had that over them. I had been a keeper and that gave… Read More
Were there issues you had to overcome and if there were, how did you overcome them?… Read More
How did the staff, the older keepers accept you as this new assistant curator?… Read More
No I was not in charge of anybody but I was in a position of authority. But I couldn’t do anything. Read More
As an assistant curator, were you in charge of people?… Read More
We went with what we knew. Read More
It really was the same. All the workers were the same. Same job. So the basement. Maybe I finished that job and a few hours down in the basement and the zoo is sending Conway a buffalo and (indistinct) out to sandiego and the other curator trainee gets to take… Read More
What are you doing differently as an assistant curation in mammals than you were doing as an apprentice?… Read More
I was made assistant curator probably 1979. I’m sorry no, 1970. Or there about. 70, 71 I think. I don’t remember exactly. And you’re working as an assistant curator under Brad House. Yes. Read More
What is your position?… Read More
When do you do it, approximately what year and do you get a position?… Read More
I think it may have been open ended. I think so. So you complete your apprenticeship. Read More
A year, two years, open ended?… Read More
All right and was there a time length for the program?… Read More
No. Conway had nothing to do with me and I only had a bachelors degree and so that didn’t make him very happy. I think he gave me the job because I had experience in another zoo. Which Don Henning had in the bird department or his fellow Dave who… Read More
Was there a promise of a job at the end?… Read More
He would go about a year, year and a half after the program started and I stuck with it. I was very lucky I did stick with it. So, this program did it have a length of time or not and was there a promise, I mean you’re a curatorial… Read More
Oh everything about it yeah. Similarities were few and far between. I saw more of Ron Ruthen than I did Bill Conway. And Conway didn’t know me. I worked for Brad House and everything went through Brad House pretty much. Met another fellow working with another curator trainee just before… Read More