Interview 8364 – Caption Index: 320
Were there people on the board that you could go to to help you fund projects that you were trying to do?… Read More
Were there people on the board that you could go to to help you fund projects that you were trying to do?… Read More
What were some of your management strategies as you worked with your staff or with the board for getting your ideas across and directing people maybe to go in the direction you wanted them to go?… Read More
You used the board or the people– Yeah, for the people who worked for me, I think, you know, I had normally regular meetings with the zoo staff, special meetings with the curators and the assistant director and myself, and I kept them abreast of what was going to happen. Read More
What about your management kind of style or approach to the board?… Read More
What would your staff say if I asked them about your management style?… Read More
Would they use the same word, demanding, or would they use other words?… Read More
Well, some of them would probably give you, they’d invent some new words for you, but I think they knew what I was after. And they knew that if I didn’t get it, they wouldn’t, they’d better be looking elsewhere. Read More
And that was a style. Now from the standpoint of style in management, I don’t know, I might be pretty unique. I was demanding, I demanded certain things of the people who work for me, but I wasn’t so demanding as not to recognize those people who were trying their… 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