Interview 8364 – Caption Index: 309
So as you had a mentor, you have mentored others?… Read More
So as you had a mentor, you have mentored others?… Read More
I guess you could say that I mentored them. I hope I did. They might not have thought too much of me while they worked at the San Antonio Zoo, but maybe now they think differently. Read More
(laughs) What was my style?… Read More
Lemme think now, that’s hard to say. I always knew what I wanted and I took it from nature. Read More
Whenever I’d go to Africa or South America or wherever, I’d look at it in terms of what can I do to make the zoo look like this?… Read More
And when we talked about the role of the children’s zoo in education, did it have a conservation aspect to it, or were you trying to develop that in other places in the zoo?… Read More
It did have a conservation aspect in that the children’s zoo was designed to explain wildlife conservation to children and other groups that would come there for various reasons. The lecture space was designed to handle a speaker and a pretty good number of chairs and tables, depending on what… Read More
When you got to San Antonio, did that style stay the same or did it evolve?… Read More
What was your style?… Read More
Who was the first veterinarian?… Read More
The first one, let me think, he didn’t last long because he really wasn’t a zoo person. He wanted to be, but he didn’t, it wasn’t a good match. So we tried a few different ones and we had some good and some that were, they were thinking about something… Read More
No. I had a board member who was a large construction company. He did the project, we designed it, but he did the project and we paid him for doing the project. And at the end of the project, I just happened to get a donation, which was about the… Read More
Were you able to hire then your first full-time veterinarian then or was there already one on board?… Read More
No, we finally did hire a full-time veterinarian and vet techs to work with him after we got the veterinary hospital built. Read More
And from that, we had Galapagos Island, we had a reptile, small reptile building for amphibians and lizards where you could walk through. I had fennec fox exhibit and they were diorama’s. Read More
So this was funded by Rotary ultimately?… Read More
Yes. It was funded by Rotary to the tune of 2 million of the $3 million that took to build the project. Now that’s pretty small amount of money today, but then it was still pretty small. Marvin Jones tells me, Marvin told me one time, “You do things here,… Read More
Now, did you use your own crews to build the veterinary hospital?… Read More
How was that combination something that you wanted to see develop and how would it develop?… Read More
Usually we think of a children’s zoo as a– Yeah, I didn’t think of a children’s zoo as, again, I wanted to get, I wanted to take those kids, I wanted to transport them somewhere else. So the children’s zoo wasn’t petting zoo. I had a petting zoo, but that… Read More