Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 399
Clayton?… Read More
Clayton?… Read More
So, you know, the answer to your question is I think, you know, when did I know that I was accepted?… Read More
When the employee started working with me, when the trustees said, “Jack, what do you think we should do up here?” Well, we gotta do a lot of stuff up here. You know, we’re gonna get people, that get in the place first to believe in their zoo. I’d go… Read More
But Ringling is a circus that has progressed. It gotten better, just like I told you, zoos had gotten better. If anybody knows anything about Ringling, by the way, I’ll just throw these in, throw it away if you don’t wanna use it. Look at their Asian elephant research, just… Read More
Nothing, I don’t care the president, I don’t care if anybody gave me the Nobel peace prize, forget it, you know?… Read More
The point is that Marlin Perkins Award. That’s my life, that’s all. Not because I went out and, I did terrible things, no doubt about that. I think Lee and I were the only ones that got kicked out of the place. I mind because of they were paying us,… Read More
And you know, guys you talked about with me today. And that’s how they started here. Read More
Yeah, he was here. So this zoo was pouring out, Warren Thomas. He was here head of LA. All these guys started in Columbus at vet school. And some of them worked, even went around the country, to be the directors of the biggest zoos in the country. They didn’t… Read More
Those guys helped keep it alive. Just Lee kept it alive. They had no money. I don’t know how they even did it. But then they all took off as they progressed in life and met other zoo people and left here. But I just happened to just stay here. Read More
Look at, look at Lee Simmons, look what he did. Look what he did. I think he got kicked out. He and I were the ones got kicked out of AZA, and I must say the biggest honor I’ve ever had in my life, was winning my Marlin Perkins award. Read More
Golly, they had. Read More
Sparks?… Read More
Did you have some vision that now I can start to do some things I’ve been thinking about?… Read More
What was it to get people to come there?… Read More
At least the trustees knew that I was doing something different than the previous ones were doing. However, golly, they helped me. The veterinarian that went to Phoenix that passed away. Jim, Jim Savoy, Jim Savoy was here. Lee Simmons was here, went to Ohio State. He was a veterinarian,… Read More
Why is he going nuts right now?… Read More
Because he has to take the sign out and redo a whole plan he had, because he thought that’s where the whole road couldn’t have gone there. So it cost him about, I don’t know, a hundred thousand bucks to redo their road. What I didn’t, again, we did things… Read More
I’ll always believe that. I, we’re all the same at the Columbus Zoo today, as we were 35 years ago. Now, when you were director and starting director at Columbus Zoo, you were in this first six months, you’re trying to prove yourself. You know, you were the guy for… Read More
Three years ago, Graham?… Read More
Three years ago, they redid the road out there?… Read More