Not very much ’cause I had teaching responsibilities. I was probably classroom teaching more than any other member of the faculty because I had all these courses. And at first I was the only person in this area. Today, there are probably 25 people that are participating in one way… Read More
It was in Makerere or Makerere University in Kampala in Uganda, it’s the capital. The country had kind of the famous situation with the Jewish people in Entebbe, and the rescue of those people that was after I left there. But I had some interesting experiences with… I knew how… Read More
I sometimes had hope that we could do somewhat the same thing with some of the student protests at some of our universities here, but that doesn’t go on our culture. But Uganda is at that in time was certainly a vicious dictatorship, but it gave me the opportunity to… Read More
It was interesting too, because the bathroom facilities were co-ed and those cultures. And so you run into different situations. Read More
Can you relate the four wives story to us?… Read More
(laughs) Well, the dean, when I first got there said, “You know, according to Islamic culture, you can have four wives.” And I wrote home to Audrey and said, the dean told me that I could have four wives. And we got a chuckle out of that. And when she… Read More
And when you were there, where was this teaching?… Read More
Where did you teach?… Read More
Just to my wife. Read More
And she would travel with you to these various locations sometimes?… Read More
Yes. Read More
A lot of the things that have happened to me over the years have happened because I was prepared to respond to a request. And certainly that was the case. I was on a sabbatical leave, working at the San Diego zoo with keeper training programs, and the dean of… Read More
And yet he was a very knowledgeable pathologist and he was very cooperative, and he essentially gave me a carte blanche to develop a clinical program. And I did that and I think it was quite successful. The school is doing well now, but perhaps one of the most important… Read More
Some of them had never seen a white person before. And when a black person is burned, the scar tissue frequently comes in white and they thought I had been burned all over. But when I left, after that period of time, when I walked through there, I had a… Read More
Now, you mentioned you brought your wife and family or just your wife?… Read More
How did you get involved in the program and how successful was it?… Read More
Doesn’t matter what religion, I’ve studied all kinds of religions in the world, they’re good in all religions. And I appreciate the fact that I can worship how I choose, but it’s also important that I, by example, followed where my thoughts or where my actions went. Read More
A little different subject, kind of outside your role in the zoo, what should be the veterinarian’s role in conservation?… Read More
Well, they can only have a role in conservation if they are given the opportunity, and if they train themselves in the biology, I hate to see a veterinarian enter into any discussion or activity involving conservation when they don’t know what they’re talking about. And that involves sometimes a… Read More
And I think veterinarian should be involved in that. There was a time when wildlife biologists would say, “A disease is not a factor in the lives of these animals, they simply either live or they die,” And come what may that’s it, but we’ve got to have a different… Read More