Now going back to the programs or exhibits that you would’ve wanted to implement, but for various reasons just didn’t happen. Well, I wanted to get a coelacanth on exhibit and I got two preserved ones which could have gone on exhibit. I had a man drop into my office… Read More
And I can’t remember what it was. Maybe it was Abbott Labs or somebody. And we would like to get a supply of saline from them. So I said, okay, I’ll work at it. And I think we had a board member at that time from Abbott, and we arranged… Read More
Yeah. Okay. Read More
Are there programs or exhibits that you would have implemented during your tenure that just didn’t happen for any number of reasons?… Read More
And the third is when I was president that I hired a law firm to defend AAZPA against the government who wanted side pass the Lacey Act, which read, you cannot import dangerous, noxious, venomous animals, and so forth. And some people with the government, and I could name the… Read More
What’s your proudest accomplishment?… Read More
I don’t think I have one. I think I have three. First was convincing my board that we ought to build the aquarium, and we’d build it. Second, receiving the Marlin Perkins Award. And I was so thrilled about that. I can’t tell you how… I got a call from… Read More
I’ve got a third one that won’t come to me right now. And the third is…… Read More
We’ll come back to that?… Read More
We’ve got to get better research and education programs in our institutions, and I think aquariums can provide a lot of this information, particularly in breeding programs, and find out, perhaps, excuse me, what’s wrong with this wild stock here and there, what’s wrong?… Read More
Why aren’t we seeing reproduction out there?… Read More
And I think the aquariums can cooperate with state and local, and federal agencies in solving a lot of these problems. Read More
Okay, but what would be the goals for the future aquarium, American aquariums?… Read More
What should be their goals?… Read More
Well, I think the goal is… One of the goals is to figure out how to preserve, and how to exhibit animals with which we have trouble exhibiting and keeping now, how to find out about their breeding potential. And this is all coming along. Read More
I think you start… If you want them to know the whole rainbow of the operation, I would take these people and move them around. And okay, you can pay them the same rate, but get ’em to be a janitor for awhile. See what’s involved there, get them to… Read More
50 years down the road, how do you see the American aquariums in terms of programs for the public, or their animal collections or other activities?… Read More
I’m too old to think, 50 years down the road. I don’t think I’m capable of answering that question. I think that we’ve made so many advances in the last 20 years, let’s say. We’ve been on a real fast track, and whether we can continue on that, I honestly… Read More
No, boy, you asked me a firecracker there. I will never admit to having a business person be the top dog at a zoological institution. I think that is absolutely wrong. It’s got to be a person who knows her animals and you can get a good business person to… Read More
Today, how would you train or think about training a young person to become a curator?… Read More