Interview 15695 – Caption Index: 61
Was this a smart thing to do?… Read More
Was this a smart thing to do?… Read More
Yes, he did. Read More
How’d you interact with him?… Read More
Did he interview you?… Read More
Roger Conant. Read More
And I began there in maybe May of 1970, something like that. It was a wonderful experience, Gus was a great mentor. Read More
Who was the director at the time?… Read More
I became aware of the job at Philadelphia in the spring. I gotta think. No, it was in the fall of 1969. There was a National Zoo Conference, which I think was Oklahoma City if I remember. And at that time, an announcement was made by Gus Griswold, that he… Read More
Those were the deans. Those were the teachers. Those were the mentors. And of course, Carrie Muller, I forget Carrie. And so, someone who attended the meeting came back and told me, “Hey, they’re looking for a bird curator.” And I knew Gus, so I called him and I said,… 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