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Why did you go back again?… Read More

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What, oh you mean, why did I go back to the zoo?… Read More

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Did he have anything to do with- Dr. Barry Commoner was the professor that actually got the huge grant, a comparative medicine grant. He was with Washington University, and Dr. Wallach was hired as part of that grant, and my summer, I got paid by that grant. Read More

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Now you, that was a summer job?… Read More

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That’s around 1968?… Read More

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I was in a veterinary school from ’66 to ’70. I got my doctorate in 1970. Read More

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And what did Dr. Barry Commoner have to do?… Read More

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He interviewed me, but it was a pretty much, “Oh my gosh, we’ve got somebody who’s interested, and let’s get him in here.” And so his position was not treating the animals at the zoo. It was a, he was under a research grant that paid him to do pathology… Read More

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Now, at the time, there was a veterinarian at the zoo, aside from Dr. Wallach?… Read More

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The zoo did not have a full-time veterinarian. The zoo had a part-time veterinarian, Dr. Alfred Mohler, who I never saw, because he never came out to the zoo. It was interesting, the zoo had a contract with him, but he was never there the whole summer. They just didn’t… Read More

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And he was there during the summer and he said, “Oh, we’ve got this program that we can get you on this grant for the summer.” And so that was my first introduction to zoos, and even thinking of zoos as a potential career. Read More

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So Dr. Wallach interviewed you for the summer job?… Read More

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And so I got more interested and applied. I didn’t have all the credits that I needed right away. But after I got my degree, and continued studying at the university, I eventually got into veterinary school. But even when I was in, I wasn’t looking at zoo medicine. I… Read More

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So you just, you thought being a veterinarian would be, it just appealed to you, it was fun, or you could help?… Read More

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I mean- and I liked working with them. I probably, I really got interested in farm animals more so when I was in veterinary school. And so I had previous, in high school and early part of college, I worked at Monsanto Chemical Company as a chemical operator during the… Read More

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I always enjoyed the zoo, but it was not something that I thought of as a profession, I guess at that time. I always enjoyed animals. You know, I would collect turtles or various reptiles that we could catch at the park. Had a little squirrel for a while, whatever,… Read More

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So when did you first start to think about working as a, not necessarily at the zoo, but working as a veterinarian and going to school to do that as opposed to becoming a priest or going to the seminary?… Read More

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Well, once I left the seminary, when I decided I didn’t want to do that, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I went to the University of Missouri, and I moved around a little bit. I was interested in forestry, I was interested in conservation, I was… Read More

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Well, we tried to see everything there was to see. There was not necessarily one that was more attractive to me than the others. At that time, the zoo had a three animal shows. We had a chimpanzee show, an elephant show, and a lion or big cat show. And… Read More

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Do you think going to the zoo as you did, drew you to what you have spent your life doing?… Read More