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
And throughout your years, have you used safari as a jumping off point for fundraising?… Read More
In Rochester, I don’t think I even mentioned it to the county park director that I was gonna take that group. However, he probably saw it in the newspaper. But it was on my vacation time, so it didn’t really matter. I was gonna do it anyway, and it was… Read More
So were you able through the years to then bring donations to Rochester or to the zoo we’ll talk about later, San Antonio through these things?… Read More
Well, that’d be really great, but, you know, still camera too.” And next thing I knew I had a 16 millimeter turret lens camera, and a case of 16 millimeter film and a brand new Kodak, the best Kodak camera that they were making at that time and off I… Read More
So, ’67 was the first one and 1968 was not in Rochester, but in another city. Now, two questions. Read More
How did that opportunity first arise that you were able to start thinking about, I’m gonna take people on a safari?… Read More
Well, for the first thing I did was I watched how they treated the animal, how the young man who came to pick it up in the trailer and take it to the games, how they handled the situation. And I let it go for quite a while. I didn’t… Read More
Yeah, I did. I just said, we need to stop this. And we did. Read More
When you were at Rochester, did you start on safaris when you were there or was this later?… Read More
The first time I took a group on a safari was a 1967 and it was in Rochester, New York. I wanted to go over the years and never thought that would be possible, but it became something not only possible, but regular for me over the years, because the… Read More
Yes, it was started before. Read More
And how did that whole, what was the experience?… Read More
You came there, saw this, were unhappy or you were, and then how did you make those decisions?… Read More
Was there a tiger a Bengal tiger called Spirit that you dealt with?… Read More