Oh yes. Many times a day. (laughs) I have one time someone said to me, “You don’t spend more than an hour at any given time in your office.” And I didn’t, because my business was out there on the zoo grounds, not in my office so much. I had… Read More
They might wanna have that break and I wanted them to, but not excessive breaks and the people don’t know that it’s three o’clock and it’s time for their break, they’re just wondering, why aren’t they out there feeding the animals and us watching them instead of sitting doing nothing?… Read More
Well, tell me the question again so I can make sure I don’t let it go by too quickly. That every zoo is a reflection of the zoo director. Okay. Read More
What did you mean?… Read More
What I mean by that is, and it should be this way, the zoo director has to put forth the idea and from that idea then comes the finished product based on whatever else the zoo board, the city government, or county government whatever the governing body is and the… Read More
What did you mean?… Read More
What did the San Antonio Zoo say about you as director?… Read More
Well, I hope they said some good things because I tried to do good things for San Antonio. And I expect that every zoo director hopes the same thing when they are in that position. Read More
What else can I say about that?… Read More
Still to this day?… Read More
No, not today. You once said that every zoo is a reflection of the zoo director. Read More
Well, I don’t know how it came about, how they picked me, but I’m glad they did because I learned a lot. I spent five and a half years going to Washington and visiting museums all over the country. As a part of that organization, my job was to keep… Read More
Did the president personally call you for this appointment or?… Read More
No, no, he didn’t personally call me, but I have a very nice appointment, framed appointment certificate on my wall that I’ve always been very fond of. And I got a Christmas card every year from the White House. Read More
So, has it stayed true to the goals that you as a founding member wanted it to be for the members of the organization?… Read More
I think it’s followed the goals that I had in mind and probably beyond because things have changed so much. We’re living in a very fast moving time of our lives and so as the organization just gone wild with numbers, for example, their membership must be way up compared… Read More
How did that come about and what did it involve?… Read More
Now you had some ideas of what you wanted this new organization to do and be?… Read More
We’ve come a long way since the breakaway first started, has the AAZPA or now AAZA evolved into something you had envisioned in those days?… Read More
Well, it’s evolved into something that I had envisioned, and I think all of us envisioned, but beyond. It’s now an enormous organization. I looked at the number of conferences, for example, in the last Connect Magazine and there is a slew of them for all the staff members to… Read More