Interview 31514 – Caption Index: 175
Why do I need to donate to the zoo?… Read More
Why do I need to donate to the zoo?… Read More
Well just not do stupid things and get in trouble, but we were all, one of the strategies we had is we never, if something bad happened, an animal died or whatever. We, we were right out in, we got in front of the story, not behind it. We, when… Read More
And your relationship with the Zoo Society, they were big help to the zoo. Oh yeah. And both Sacramento and Cleveland, and they both grew tremendously. When I was there. I wasn’t the main person, but I certainly was pushing it. And the Zeus Society in Cleveland, for example, was… Read More
And we basically invited the press in and tried to include him on everything. And we particularly, again, I mentioned it shortly after, maybe a year or two after I was there, we got this outstanding marketing director, Sue Allen. And she was, she knew by first name, every TV… Read More
I wouldn’t say total surprises, but, you know, we met these people and they said, okay, yeah, that sounds great. And then give us a million dollars type or $2 million maybe. It was a big gift back then. So the, the amount was a surprise. I don’t, didn’t have… Read More
What were some of your strategies to get the community to embrace the zoo?… Read More
’cause we needed a hospital. It just wasn’t one that was the next one in our mind. But when she said that and gave a nice lead donation, we went with it and it turned out to be very successful. Read More
Fundraising. Well, I was involved a lot in both Sacramento and Cleveland. We always had professional development staff, but they used to, I was part of the show and tell and talked to ’em more about the animals and the new exhibits or the new programs. We were trying to… Read More
Did you ever have any surprise donations?… Read More
Not always, sometimes the Ze Society would go take ’em on their own, but I try, I was available to them when they needed me and, and I had no problem with it and learned to be really good. And some of the larger donations from the Spillman who had… Read More
Ask the director, how well did you embrace the role of development?… Read More
What you mean fundraise? Fundraising?… Read More
Animal counters. Yeah, we, you know, giraffe feeding anytime you can, if you can get, a lot of that happens behind the scenes with special donors and stuff. You can’t have, you can’t have the whole zoo go behind the scenes and have an animal encounters. But we can take… Read More
And what was the other part of the question?… Read More
It’s a very positive experience. Read More
They’re never gonna have the same experience, the animal that they would in an exhibit. But you can make it not the same, but you could make it equal, in other words, ’cause they get interactions with people, they get outside, they do other types of activities other than just… Read More
So it was pretty simple, but it was, it was always a message, always a conservation message. But it was done with good humor. Plus we had a guy that was trained in SeaWorld. He was very good. He’s now the animal ambassador person at the Natural History Museum. So… Read More
Oh, I think they’re, they’re great when they work. Warren Thomas was a champion. He put you a lot of baboons in with chimps and you know, a lot of people have put Spectacle Bear or Andy and Bears with arctic foxes, not Arctic Fox with other, with Tates or… Read More
It was, it worked wonderful. It was great. They both, you know, they ignored each other. It was, no rhino wasn’t gonna attack a cheetah. She had no interest in the rhino. It was wonderful. Only reason we got rid of it. It wasn’t a good exhibit for white rhino. Read More
I thought they might wanna play with them a little too much. So we never did it. Well, let’s see. Animal shows as I, well, we had a, when I was there, we had several, we had at least two all every day in the summer, we had a show… Read More