I found that a great collection, especially birds. I found an excellent beginning of a collection of antelopes that just didn’t exist anywhere else in the country or the world really all because Fred Stark had gotten the idea that he could get antelopes and put them in San Antonio… Read More
He had sitatunga but who didn’t?… Read More
I think wasn’t a the, Brookfield had the big group of sitatunga one time nobody else had them. Well, that was one of them, but sitatunga didn’t do too well in the climate we had. But everything else that Fred had chosen were desert type animals and a pretty dry… Read More
So, I had years of work yet just facing me that it just sounded great and that’s where I began. I started to build these things. I built the commissary or what we call the nutrition center. And I was able then to blast freeze meat products, and had plenty… Read More
Would your family like to come?” And I said, “Who wouldn’t?” Because I finally, we got to take a look around town when I was down there visiting and we found San Antonio to be just an exciting city, big city but not like a big city and the river… Read More
And what type of zoo did you find?… Read More
Very unusual and difficult site in a rock quarry with a river running through the center. And I thought, my gosh, there’s not much land here, but what’s here has great potential. It also was almost barren. They under story, they have beautiful cypress trees and oak trees, rock walls… Read More
So they offer you the position of director, not superintendent, but director of the San Antonio’s Zoo, did you say yes?… Read More
They offered me the position of director of the San Antonio Zoo after meeting with the board, a very tough board, all ranchers and businessmen from San Antonio. Read More
And I thought, well, I don’t know how well I did, but they did offer it to me and they said, “Would you like to come to San Antonio?… Read More
You oughta have to give me a better hint than that. Read More
Well, I mean, how did you, why did you decide to leave Rochester and how did that new opportunity materialize for you?… Read More
I decided to leave Rochester, not too willingly, but I was at a conference in Pittsburgh at a zoo conference and a fellow came up to me or I’d never met before and he said, “I’m from San Antonio, Texas and our zoo director has passed away and we were… Read More
I was the only director there five years. Read More
What materialized that would take you from that place to your next mission?… Read More
How did that come about?… Read More
That is?… Read More
My answer is, if you spend 20 years on a master plan, it’s time to do something with it. Begin again. Begin again and maybe not even with you, but with someone new and younger and let them take it and run with it. Leave the idea in place because… Read More
How long were you director at Seneca Park?… Read More
I didn’t know though that, I knew what I wanted in the way of a plan for the zoo, I just didn’t know how far ahead the plan ought to be. Read More