Interview 15695 – Caption Index: 190
This isn’t just something you come in from eight to five and clean. Read More
This isn’t just something you come in from eight to five and clean. Read More
What’s the story?… Read More
Build a sensitivity to understanding cleanliness and understanding what’s trying to be portrayed here. Read More
What’s the story we’re trying to tell?… Read More
Yeah, I think when you start looking at a bird keeper today and least what was going on in that period of time. Yeah, it was a cultural issue because you were trying to get them to understand that it’s not just a cleaning, it’s not a custodial issue. As… Read More
Yes, I did. I selected them, obviously the general curator had to approve, they had the final signature on it but the interview process, all the curators did their own interviewing. Read More
So, you were trying to instill or were you, a new culture in your section?… Read More
And I still keep in touch with two or three of that crew. We’ve all gotten old together but nevertheless, I keep in touch with them. Read More
So, you had the responsibility of hiring your own people?… Read More
You just couldn’t just think it’s gonna take care of itself. You had to water it, you had to had to feed it. You had to take care of it. And so, that was something new to me. I never had to really think about that until that new building… Read More
I was looking at the health and welfare of the bird, are you looking good today?… Read More
Because many times with a bird, when this starts looking bad, it can get bad real quick. So, just looking at the health and welfare of the collection, make sure that everybody’s looking good, talking to the keepers, “How’s this doing?” “How’s that doing?” I was a real task master… Read More
Management philosophy. Yes, the first thing I did was obviously, I went around to look at the collection and I was looking at a lot of things. Read More
How were you interacting with your employees in your division?… Read More
What was your management philosophy?… Read More
Did you have to go out in the field to do any of this or not?… Read More
No. No, I didn’t do any expeditions at St. Louis in terms of field collecting. During this time that you’re the curator of birds, you were making daily rounds of your collection all the time. Read More
Birds weren’t hard to get at that time, they’ve become more difficult. Some of these were captive raised. Some of them were imported from dealers under special permits. I think it’s harder to do things today than it certainly was then. You’ve got the quarantine issues that are more stringent. Read More
Were these animals, were these birds difficult to acquire for the exhibit or how did you acquire them?… Read More
How are we going to put trees and all of the artifacts in there that we need to have to tell the story and then we wanna make sure that we have this proper specimens to what we’re trying to do. It was interesting that when you came into the… Read More