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Now that you’re the senior veterinarian, what was a typical day?… Read More

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And so property taxes in the city and county were pretty much on an equal level. We had a board member who, actually we had a number of board members that got involved with this, to create what’s called the Zoo Museum District. And the zoo and the art museum,… Read More

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We had one that was connected to the Democratic Party. They worked together with the legislature, ’cause it had to be, this was something now that went to the state legislature to approve it, to create this, and then it had to go on the ballot in the city and… Read More

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He had no animal experience whatsoever, but he was great at PR and a good manager. And he relied on Charlie Hoessle, who at that point had become general curator, was no longer just curator of reptiles, was general curator, and really has Charlie to run the animal portion of… Read More

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Bill Hoff was the director that I worked under first, and then Bob Briggs was director after Bill Hoff. Read More

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Now was Bob Briggs a zoo man?… Read More

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No, Bob Briggs was, he was a PR guy. At that time, well step back a little bit as far as zoo history, the zoo was part of the city of St. Louis. The St. Louis Zoo has always been completely independent of politics. It’s run by the zoo board,… Read More

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Who was the first veterinarian that you hired?… Read More

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That was Eric Miller. Eric Miller had done a residency, and then was the junior veterinarian, I guess you would’ve call him then. Read More

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And you mentioned there was a new director at the time, William, Bill Bridges?… Read More

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So was that again another sell, to say, “We need a full-time vet here”?… Read More

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Yeah sure, yeah. Read More

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And who became the junior to your senior?… Read More

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First zoo residency for the veterinary school, and also of course, the first one that was zoo-based in the country. Read More

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So now you have a resident and yourself, so that made you the senior veterinarian?… Read More

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Well, (laughing) I guess that would’ve, but essentially the other was a residency, and we went through two or three residents, and they came for two years and then they moved on. The first one went on to Minnesota Zoo, and then the next one went on to another, and… Read More

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I just evolved into that, because as we took veterinary students for two-month blocks along, then that evolved into setting up a residency program, which is for a veterinarian who has graduated from veterinary school already, and wants to devote his career to zoo medicine. So that’s something that we… Read More

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There was a veterinary residency prior to that at University of California, but that was university-based. This had the zoo there, and I wanted it to be part, really the university to be part of it, just like any other resident. If somebody’s doing a residency in ophthalmology or surgery… Read More

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And that was the first type of thing for the medical school?… Read More

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What dose do you use on, you know, a lemur or whatever?… Read More