Not really, Stanley Field, who was the nephew of the original Marshall Field was the president of the board. He was also president of the Field Museum and also President of Brookfield Zoo. All at the same time. And so what was good for Field Museum was good for Shedd… Read More
So it’s difficult for me to pick out any one particular thing. But as far as I am personally concerned, his strength was bringing me along and training me to do the job. Read More
You talked about research, didn’t he have something to do with working on artificial seawater or trying to develop something?… Read More
Warned people coming in and pour in chemicals in here and doing that. And so going back to when we came on field trips with Dr. Park, he says, “Now, whatever you do, when you get behind the tanks, “don’t ask any questions “about what research is going on here.”… Read More
And this will kill the Oodinium.” Well, he thought about that for a while. And he could see the handwriting on the wall that we’re gonna lose the whole system. He says, “Well, okay, go ahead.” And first of all, I had to buy a Beckman Spectrometer to measure the… Read More
And he said, “Saved the collection there.” What would you say were his strengths and his weaknesses?… Read More
Well, I think his weaknesses were not wanting to, even though he delegated authority to me, he wanted to be boss. And I think that probably was his big enough weakness. And I think as other, this all stems from the fact he did not have a college education, and… Read More
Well, that’s what he said, when he said, “We’re gonna train them to run the aquarium.” So it was a little sticky when I came back because I was the college kid and I knew everything, you know, don’t tell me what to do. And so it got… I’m really… Read More
And to answer your previous question, what did he teach me?… Read More
Taught me a lot about collecting fish, taught me a lot about keeping them proper way, nothing scientific. And he was… Oh, I’ll continue, taught me a lot about the administrative and of running the aquarium, keeping the books. And it sounds very simple, but it was simple in those… Read More
Have you ever thought about rejoining the aquarium staff again?… Read More
And he says, “We’re looking to hire,” I’m repeating his words, “We’re looking to hire a young man “and train him to run the aquarium. “And the salary will be $3,600 a year.” Well, that sounded like big money ’cause I was making 3,500 at NIH. So my wife and… Read More
Was your impression that he was looking for an heir apparent?… Read More
What pearls of wisdom did he throw at you?… Read More
Well, he taught me how to tie my shoes. I was tying my shoe, maybe his shoe, I don’t know. He had a hard time getting down because he’d had a staph infection in his hip early on. And he walked with a very decided limp. And we were somewhere,… Read More
I could never figure out why my shoelaces always became untied. Well, it was ’cause I wasn’t tying a square knot. After I returned to the aquarium, I came back in 1953 as assistant curator. After I got out of the army, I went to work at National Institutes of… Read More
Well, I didn’t see too much of him, being way down at the bottom of the totem pole. He was a little difficult to get along with. If you kept your nose clean and you did your job, you hardly ever saw him or heard from him at all. I… Read More
Chute came, of course, with aquarium credentials. I don’t believe Mr. Brunskill had any, I don’t know he was hired long before I got there. So I don’t know what his background was. But that was sort of the attitude there that if you’re told to do something, do it. Read More
What professional things from the aquarium field did you learn, or personal things did you learn from Mr. Chute?… Read More
So you were hired by Mr. Chute as a tank man?… Read More