Interview 15695 – Caption Index: 51
And then you decided, what prompted you to seek employment at the Philadelphia Zoo and how’d you hear about that they even had a job?… Read More
And then you decided, what prompted you to seek employment at the Philadelphia Zoo and how’d you hear about that they even had a job?… Read More
So, you were at Kansas City from ’67 to 1970?… Read More
I was there at Kansas City from ’67 to 1970. Read More
When I was at Kansas City, I think the first zoo professional that I ever met at the time was Gary Clark ’cause Gary was an alumni of the Kansas City Zoo. And then there was a curator of birds at the National Zoo named Carrie Muller and Carrie really… Read More
And I found that as you became familiar with these people and they became familiar with you, all you had to do was ask and you got an answer. Read More
And when you were at Kansas City, did you have the occasion to deal with other zoos and other zoo people?… Read More
I guess I really didn’t think a lot about change. I didn’t have a lot of knowledge to base change on. I had, as I’ve always been a very strong believer in you’ve gotta become a student of your trade and you never stop learning. It just doesn’t happen. Some… Read More
So, I had to do that. So, as I learned and as I became more aware, particularly what was being done in other institutions, then I could start formulating some thought but I just mainly took in what was and it wasn’t probably until the second or third, maybe fourth… Read More
Yeah, it was Bill Cully, William Theodore Aloysius Cully and Bill had been the head keeper at the Bronx Zoo for many, many years. And he came there as director, I’m gonna guess in the 50’s and yeah, we saw him every day. He would get out and walk around… Read More
As you were working at the zoo, were there things then in your formative years that you were thinking boy, if I could I change this kind of thing and why are they doing this way?… Read More
Who was the zoo director at the time and did you have interaction with that person?… Read More
As part of that, were you doing any municipal management training?… Read More
No, we did no municipal management training at all. The zoo had two head keepers, one director. And so, we basically managed ourselves, there wasn’t anybody and didn’t look like there was ever gonna be anybody else. At that time, that staff wasn’t going to grow much. Read More
Kansas City Zoo at that time was under the Park and Recreation Department. And it was a nice zoo. It was a small zoo. It was in the inner city, so to speak and it was in a very pretty park, Swope Park. And it had been that way, I… Read More
Just didn’t have the money. Read More
As you look back now, what was the zoo like?… Read More
And they were?… Read More
I’m was a keeper for what bird collection they had there. I took care of the flamingos. I took care of the parrots. I took care of all these little birds that were around. And then they have a cultural program at that zoo, which had never really been done… Read More
My day-to-day activities did not change. Read More
Actually, my title to Kansas City Zoo was Animal Attendant, I think was the first one. And then I took a test and became a Zoologist 2, I think is what it was. And that was a level that the city had put for the zoo, so that it was… Read More