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
How many years should a plan really be designed to be before you take the next step in master planning?… Read More
And I think now I know what my answer is. Read More
Are you getting a reputation around the country that you kind of have some knowledge about zoo planning?… Read More
Are they coming to you?… Read More
Yes, I guess because I had already started or didn’t really complete, I don’t think you ever complete a master plan. Read More
And certainly with the few years that I spent in Columbus after developing the plan and the few years in Rochester, by the time I got to my next assignment, I began to wonder, am I ever gonna see my planning come to fruition?… Read More
When you were at the zoo, were you thinking, as you were looking at the Rochester, the Seneca Park Zoo, were you thinking about research or any other aspects that you wanted to try and get started at the zoo?… Read More
In Rochester, we didn’t have a lot of research potential. However, we had a university that had some great students, zoologists and biologists, and they enjoyed the zoo. And I found myself enjoying having them come to the zoo. Some of them actually went into the zoo business. And the… Read More
He was always underfoot, but I soon found that I enjoyed talking with him and I discovered that he was genuine and he really meant what he was telling me about wanting to get into the zoo business. So, in Rochester, you’re starting to get a feel for zoo planning… Read More
Yes, I was able to take these trips and believe it or not before the trip was even over, I had people giving me checks as donations while they were on the trip, because I’d sit down in the evening, we’d have a drink in a lodge in East Africa… Read More
And I had a number of people said, how much do you need?… Read More
And before I knew it, I had a check in my pocket. Read More