Interview 15695 – Caption Index: 234
Was it difficult to think about moving from the Midwest back or to a whole different type of culture?… Read More
Was it difficult to think about moving from the Midwest back or to a whole different type of culture?… Read More
Correct. You are in the Midwest where you wanted to be. Read More
What does your family think of it?… Read More
The Water Department is under a trust and it’s a method for turning public responsibility over to another management entity to manage. Although, of course the city municipality still keeps ownership, of course. And it’s a good system actually. Read More
So, they call you to come for this second interview with your wife?… Read More
I met with two or three different groups and answered questions. Now, the Oklahoma City Zoo is an interesting situation in that it is governed by what they call the Zoological Trust. And it’s made up of three individuals who are associated with the city. Six individuals who are associated… Read More
Oklahoma City had some history to it. There had been some issues. And I didn’t know whether I really wanted to be subject myself to that. You know how you can hear this stuff about all these institutes. Everybody’s got their issues. And so, I really didn’t give it a… Read More
And the more I looked at it, the more attractive it got and I’d been in St. Louis for 11 years. And I was at a point in my life and I was at an age in my life where you have to say, “Well okay, now what do you… Read More
Well, when the position opened up at Oklahoma City, I had first thought well, do I want to do that?… Read More
How did that all come about and how did you make that decision?… Read More
He’s the one that had the idea. Well, when you do these I-beams and get everything to fit and it worked out very, very well. All right. So, now you were deputy director curator at the St. Louis Zoo, obviously learning more. Read More
In 1985, your career takes a turn, how did you decide to now leave St. Louis and go for this executive director position?… Read More
We put it in there and within two years we started raising bateleurs and we did it every year. It was just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. So, we raised them and that was the first time they had ever been propagated in captivity. And as you know, they’re a… Read More
Bateleur eagles story, it actually was a very interesting one and it goes back to the Kansas City Zoo. When I was at Kansas City, we had white-tailed sea eagles and they had only been bred at one other place and that was the Vienna Zoo. Golly, I think in… Read More
And we put it in that exhibit on top of a utility pole. Within two years, we had white-tailed sea eagles. So, that nest structure worked. And I always remembered that nest structure and in fact, I published in an article on the white-tailed sea eagles ’cause that hadn’t been… Read More
My last exhibit question is, can you tell me the bateleur eagle story and what your involvement was, how it came about?… Read More
Like we gotta get hummingbirds here or not?… Read More
I don’t think, when I went to St. Louis, I was pretty much focused on what the issues were that existed there at that time. Couldn’t really think a lot about we oughta do this or we oughta do that other than just getting what we had in order, getting… Read More
I think any experience like that makes you aware of one thing, it’s you’re very vulnerable if you aren’t careful what you’re doing around wild animals. It’s just brings it all home. After I went to Oklahoma City, we had a very serious accident happen to a young lady and… Read More
When you came to St. Louis, did you bring things with you from Philadelphia?… Read More