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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE A Message from the Dean 3 Breaking News: Rosettes & Ribbons 12 Animal Crackers 14 Kresge Foundation Awards V.M.D.Notes 19 $1.5 Million Challenge Grant Take a Seat Donors 26 for New Building Special Gifts 28 By Zeus! 5 Groundbreaking 15 The Vet Who Treated Smarty Jones 19 Campaign News The groundbreaking ceremony for the who wish to pursue careers in aquatic Teaching and Research Building (see center medicine. pages) coincided with the public Serving as honorary co-chairs are announcement of a $100-million fund- Charles Raker, V.M.D., and Josephine raising effort by the School of Veterinary Deubler, V.M.D., Ph.D. Raker is a 1942 Medicine. Entitled Building New Levels of graduate of Penn Veterinary Medicine and Excellence, the campaign seeks to secure a pioneering equine surgeon. Deubler is the funding for the School’s strategic priorities. first female graduate of the veterinary The centerpiece of this campaign is the new school (Class of 1938) and the first female building, with a goal of $54 million.“This is veterinarian to earn a Ph.D. at Penn.“With our most ambitious fundraising campaign Jo and Charlie endorsing this effort, our ever,”says Alan M. Kelly, the Gilbert S. campaign is now standing on the shoulders Kahn Dean of Veterinary Medicine.“More of living legends in veterinary medicine. TEACHING than 14,000 gifts and pledges have pro- Their combined length of service to the pelled us forward, and I am confident that School is unrivaled, and may, in fact, add RESEARCH many new donors will help us reach our up to more years than Penn has had a HEALING ultimate goal.” school of veterinary medicine,”reports BUILDING To date, the School has raised $80 mil- Dean Kelly. lion toward its goal. The campaign began in NEW LEVELS OF July 2000 and seeks to raise approximately Recent major gifts include: EXCELLENCE $61 million for new physical spaces, $25 million for endowment, and $14 million in • $500,000 from Gretchen and Roy Jackson to support the Teaching and current operating support and planned $ gifts for future use. Research Building as well as an Equine 100 million goal “Beyond the Teaching and Research Equipment Fund at New Bolton Center. Building, key priorities include new Gretchen serves on the School’s Board endowed professorships and scholarships, of Overseers. • $125,000 from Anne (Mimi) French faculty research support, imaging facilities $ for both campuses, and a new radiation Thorington to establish the School’s first 80 million raised therapy suite for the Ryan Hospital,” endowed Opportunity Scholarship reports Mark Stuart, assistant dean for which provides mentoring from alumni development. and faculty in addition to the financial Almost $10 million has been given by support. The fund is named in honor of members of the School’s Board of Charles Raker, one of the School’s most Overseers, its top volunteer advisory group. revered faculty and founder of this “For a small number of individuals to con- scholarship program. tribute or play a pivotal role in securing this • $100,000 from Muriel Freeman of New sum is staggering,”says Stuart.“The School York City, a longtime friend of the of Veterinary Medicine is very fortunate to School and significant figure in the dog have dedicated volunteer leaders who give show world, to support the Josephine generously of their time, talent, and finan- Deubler Bridge for Women in cial resources.” Veterinary Medicine that connects the Building New Levels of Excellence is led new building to the School’s existing by chairwoman Laurie J. Landeau, a 1984 campus. graduate and first woman to complete the • $100,000 from Margaret Gerhard, the joint V.M.D./M.B.A. program with the founder of General Econopak, a maker Wharton School. Landeau is also an of veterinary medical equipment in adjunct professor at the Veterinary School Philadelphia. This gift endows a merit serving as associate director of AquaVet®, a scholarship for students entering their summer educational program for students fourth year of study.
2 BELLWETHER 59 A Message from the Dean The veterinary profession has responsibility trade, world population growth, air travel, In humans, S. Newport causes diarrhea, for the health and productivity of the livestock poverty, and squalor. It is unlikely that these pain, fever, and malaise; although not common, and poultry populations of the United States. ingredients will change in the foreseeable it is of special concern in young children and Today, many in the profession are worried future, and foreign animal diseases will almost may become severe in individuals who are about this obliga- certainly continue to invade United States. The immunosupressed. We are not aware of any tion. First is the worry is that we are ill prepared to defend infection among faculty, staff, or students at menace of against either of these threats. New Bolton Center. agroterrorism Government support to meet the needs for Without effective antibiotics, the only way to and recognition agricultural biosecurity, if it is to be forthcom- contain the spread of S. Newport is by rigorous of the ease with ing, will come out of fear of the unknown, from biosecurity measures, routine disinfection, foot which an organ- perceived threats to the food supply from dis- baths, personal hygiene, changes of shoes and ism such as the eases such as mad cow disease or avian influen- clothing as workers and veterinarians move foot-and-mouth za. Yet the needs for biosecurity on the farm, in between facilities, and limited access to animal disease virus the profession, and in our teaching hospitals are housing. could be mali- already here, and the threats are serious. In the We shall institute these measures at New ciously introduced into our livestock and past four years, multidrug-resistant Salmonella Bolton Center once we have completed the wildlife populations with devastating conse- Newport has swept through the U.S. dairy arduous task of decontaminating our facilities. quences to our economy and our way of life. industry, likely developing from the profligate We shall also routinely culture all animals A second concern comes from the threat of use of antibiotics. All mammals can be affected, entering the hospital and isolate any that test new and reemerging infectious diseases that are but it is most severe in cattle and horses, for positive for Salmonella. Our goal is to offer invading our shores with increasing fre- whom it can be lethal. Many seemingly normal better, safer care than ever before at New Bolton quency—monkeypox, SARS, mad cow disease, animals carry and shed the organism, compli- Center and to sustain our reputation as one of avian influenza, West Nile fever. They are most- cating its control. We have had to close the the world’s premier equine hospitals. ly zoonotic diseases, diseases transmissible to George D. Widener Hospital for Large Animals Alan M. Kelly humans. Their trespass into our animal popula- at New Bolton Center because of an outbreak of The Gilbert S. Kahn Dean of Veterinary Medicine tions is the inevitable consequence of global S. Newport.
2004 Penn Annual Conference As the country’s oldest continuing educa- Shippen Huidekoper Society Breakfast; tion conference for veterinarians and veterinary and a Pacesetter and Class Agent technicians, the 104th Penn Annual Confer- Luncheon. ence, held on March 11–12, 2004, at the Adams The Conference gratefully Mark Hotel in Philadelphia, attracted more acknowledges the financial support of than 600 veterinarians and 200 veterinary tech- sponsors, patrons, and exhibitors who nicians. In addition, 280 faculty and veterinary sold out our exhibit hall. staff and technicians, and 50 fourth-year stu- Please save the dates of Thursday dents attended from the School of Veterinary and Friday, March 10 and 11, for the Medicine. 2005 Conference at the Adam's Mark Internationally recognized speakers Hotel. Pennsylvania has raised its con- addressed a wide range of topics to veterinari- tinuing education requirement for vet- ans in the Small Animal, Equine, and Food Ani- erinarians to 30 hours over two years, mal sessions. Topics discussed this year includ- Mammals, Reptiles, and Birds. Many sessions and we plan to increase the number of continu- ed: Minimally Invasive Procedures, Clinical were standing room only. ing education hours available annually at the Therapeutics, Respiratory, Ophthalmology, The first day ended with a well-attended Penn Annual Conference to 15 hours, begin- Equine Laminitis, Making Dairy Facilities Dean’s Reception hosted by Dean Alan M. ning with the 2005 Penn Annual Conference. Work, Safeguarding American Agriculture, Kelly. The Office of Development and Alumni Although the schedule has not been finalized Crisis Cases in Critical Care, Dentistry, Laser Relations hosted several popular alumni and yet, the Conference will remain two days in Surgery, and Behavior. Small-animal techni- donor appreciation events: Successful Financial length. Please bookmark the website, cians had a specialized two-day seminar that Planning for Veterinary Professionals Luncheon
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Penn Researchers Describe Newly Found Dinosaur by Gregory Lester at Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine and pro- the Morrison Formation was near the shoreline Through the cycads and gingkoes of the fessor in the Department of Earth and of a long but shallow arm of ocean water called floodplains, not far from the Sundance Sea, Environmental Sciences. While its Diplodocus rel- the Sundance Sea. The coastal ecosystem has not strode the 50-foot-long Suuwassea, a plant-eating atives have a single hole on the top of the skull been the typical environment for Morrison dinosaur with a whip-like tail and an anomalous related to the nasal cavity, paleontologists Formation dinosaurs, which have mostly been second hole in its skull destined to puzzle paleon- have yet to come up with a plausible found in a more arid region farther south. tologists 150 million years later. According to use for this The discovery of this new species could researchers at Penn, Suuwassea emilieae (pro- second hole. suggest that the fauna of this area dif- nounced SOO-oo-WAH-see-uh eh-MEE-LEE- The name Suuwassea fered from the rest aye) is a smaller relative of Diplodocus and comes from the Native American of the Morrison Apatosaurus and is the first named sauropod Crow word meaning “ancient Formation or that dinosaur from the Jurassic of southern Montana. thunder” is and also a nod to thunder lizard, the this region was something of a lush Jurassic Their findings appeared in the journal Acta Pale- original nickname of the dinosaur now known as “vacation spot.” ontologica Polonica. Apatosaurus. Emilieae is a reference to the late Nowadays, the region is much more arid, and Suuwassea is the first unequivocal new sauro- Emilie deHellebranth, whose financial support much of Suuwassea’s partial skeleton was found pod from the Morrison Formation, a 150-mil- funded the dinosaur’s excavation. exposed on the surface, from years of wind and lion-year-old geological formation extending The dinosaur’s skeleton was initially found by rain erosion. The partial skeleton, which was from New Mexico to Montana, in more than a William Donawick, an emeritus professor of sur- deposited randomly by river flooding before fos- century. It has a number of distinguishing fea- gery at Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine, silization, held enough distinguishing characteris- tures, but the most striking is a second hole in its while horseback riding with his son-in-law Will tics that Dodson and his colleagues could easily skull, a feature we have never seen before in a Tillett near the family ranch in Wyoming, close to classify it as a new species. North American dinosaur, according to Peter the southern border of Montana. Suuwassea’s tail vertebrae are shorter and flat- Dodson, senior author and professor of anatomy At the time Suuwassea was alive, this part of ter at the ends than those of its relatives, and the proportions of some of the other vertebrae and leg bones are also different, says Jerry Harris, Widener Hospital Closed for a Number of Weeks; coauthor and graduate student researcher in Reproduction Service Reopens Penn’s Department of Earth and Environmental Science. The extra hole in the skull is still a mys- On May 10, 2004, the George D. Widener tion, allowing us to safely open our doors to tery; it has only been seen before in two Hospital for Large Animals at New Bolton accept patients again. As an added precaution, dinosaurs from Africa and one from South Center, Penn’s large animal facility, was closed clients will observe that we have implemented America. It is interesting that the two African to new patients for six to eight weeks, for additional bio-security measures to continue dinosaurs are exactly the same age as Suuwassea, decontamination of barn and clinic buildings. to ensure the health of our patients.” and all three are also related to the much larger Earlier this year, multidrug-resistant Salmonella The Section of Reproduction provides Diplodocus and Apatosaurus. infections occurred in the patient population. comprehensive reproductive care for horses, Since the skulls of sauropod dinosaurs are The administration opted for hospital closure cattle, sheep, swine, goats, and llamas. Services largely made of thin, fragile bones, the researchers to not expose patients to the organism and to include: breeding soundness evaluations, were fortunate to recover any of the skull at all. allow for faster, more efficient decontamination transported semen program, embryo transfer For sauropods, only the bigger, heavier, and of the buildings. The hospital will re-open after program, an equine embryo recipient mare denser bones, like the limbs, are usually pre- appropriate bio-security measures have been herd, reproductive behavior consultations served, Harris notes. instituted to protect patients and staff. Appointments can be made by calling Luck seems to be with the Penn researchers. On May 27 it was announced that the 610.925.6220. Clients should drive directly to Near the excavation site of the Suuwassea Section of Reproduction at New Bolton the Hofmann Center without stopping at the remains, members of the expedition chanced Center accepts patients again. The service is Widener Hospital. upon the partial skeleton of a new dinosaur pred- located in the Georgia and Phillip Hofmann The Center’s Field Service has relocated to ator, currently under study by Penn researchers. Research Center for Animal Reproduction, on a different part of the campus and continues Funding for this research was supported by Bartram Road, about two miles away from to make farm calls. The diagnostic laborato- Emilie deHellebranth; Penn’s Research the Widener Hospital. ries are open and accept samples from Foundation, School of Veterinary Medicine, and “The Hofmann Center was closed as a practitioners. Department of Animal Biology; and the Penn precaution until the facility could be screened Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine Paleobiology Fund. for contamination,”says Dr. Patricia Sertich. anticipates that its Widener Hospital for Large Suuwassea emilieae is currently in the collec- “Repeated screenings of the environment and Animals will re-open the end of July after tion of the Academy of Natural Sciences in resident animals showed that the Hofmann appropriate bio-security measures have been Philadelphia, where Dodson is a research Center was free of any Salmonella contamina- instituted to protect patients and staff. associate.
4 BELLWETHER 59 By Zeus! Miracle Dog Beats All Odds By Susan I.Finkelstein (a process that removes toxins from the blood), urine output by hydrating him intravenously Ten percent. That was the chance of survival the first of six 5-hour dialysis treatments over until his kidneys could function normally. For that Dr. Reid Groman, director of the the course of the next week.“We set a time limit testing purposes and to prevent contamination, Companion Animal Hemodialysis Center at the for Zeus,”explains Dr. Kim Slensky, a third-year that “output” had to be collected by scrambling Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital, gave the resident in Emergency and Critical Care who nurses and doctors holding out whatever con- dog. On the advice of a local veterinarian (a served as Zeus’s attending clinician.“I talked to tainer happened to be closest. When Zeus was Penn alumnus), Gene and Mary Ellen Cole his owners the second day he was here. Since he especially prolific, there were the mops. brought their 5-year-old Australian shepherd had to be on both the ventilator and hemo- Zeus’s extraordinary will to live endeared from Scranton to Ryan’s Emergency Service on dialysis, we were going to give him 24 hours. If him to the Ryan staff, but it was his intelligence Sunday, January 11 with severe acute kidney he got better, fantastic. If he got worse at any and irrepressible personality that earned him disease. time, we decided we would put him to sleep.” the reputation of being quite a character. The Several days before, during an evening walk, To everyone’s astonishment, Zeus started to dog absolutely, positively would not stay in a Zeus had nosed around briefly in a neighbor’s get better—progress initially was slow, but it cage—in the I.C.U. or anywhere else. An off- trash, which had already been gnawed open by was sure.“There is no precedent—ever, any- white couch in the Hemodialysis Center suited rummaging animals. Shortly afterward, the dog where—for a dog requiring simultaneous renal him best—and if anyone foolishly attempted to mysteriously began to exhibit symptoms of ill- replacement therapy [hemodialysis] and venti- move him, he would tear down the hall, ness, particularly fever and loss of appetite. latory support to leave the hospital,”says Dr. hooked-up equipment rolling behind, and “After he wouldn’t eat his dinner, I bought Zeus promptly plunk him- vanilla ice cream, his very favorite food, and self back onto the when he turned his head away, I knew some- sofa after a clumsy thing was wrong,”recalls Mrs. Cole. He also was leap. making very little urine and was getting pro- At one point, gressively sicker and puffier. There was no Zeus refused to eat doubt that Zeus was in trouble. for several days. Ryan Zeus failed to respond to aggressive fluid staff tried tempting therapy and medical management of his renal him first with turkey, failure. He was uncomfortable, nauseated, and then with chicken, his urine production had all but ceased. At 77 but to no avail. Upon pounds, Zeus was almost nine pounds over- hearing the news, the weight, all attributable to excess fluid that his owners asked matter- failing kidneys could no longer eliminate. Zeus of-factly,“Have you developed progressive swelling and edema in tried marshmal- his limbs, abdomen, and face. More worrisome, lows?” The doctors however, was Zeus’s labored breathing. Follow- were skeptical; why ing a series of tests, it was determined that Zeus Groman.“This was no easy save. Something would a dog who refused the most delicious had uremic pneumonitis, a form of the acute was in the stars for this dog. I suppose we can- meaty tidbits accept a spongy blob of sugar? respiratory distress syndrome infrequently not rule out—don’t laugh—some divine inter- Sure enough, though, when the owners tossed a encountered in veterinary medicine. The very vention in Zeus’s case.”Only fitting, of course, marshmallow in the dog’s direction, he imme- sick dog was transferred on Monday to the for a dog who shares a name with the king of diately caught and devoured it—all of this Intensive Care Unit, where he was ultimately Greek gods. while in a harness, on a table, undergoing dialy- diagnosed with a bacterial infection known as Compassionate, round-the-clock care sis. After that, marshmallows, which had been a leptospirosis. Caused by germs spread primarily undoubtedly played a part in the shepherd’s special treat at home, were added to the food du through rodents’ urine, the disease can severely seemingly miraculous recovery. For Dr. Slensky, jour until more traditional doggy fare appealed damage the liver and kidneys of dogs, humans, 14-hour days—spent primarily on the many once again. and other animals. Sometimes there are no procedures Zeus required—were not uncom- Finally, on February 8, after nearly a month, symptoms, although some dogs can pass the mon during this time.“Dr. Slensky was Zeus was discharged from the Ryan Hospital, to bacteria in their urine for up to one year. This absolutely superb,”says Mrs. Cole.“She gave us resume his normal life on the Coles’ horse time, however, the once-indefatigable Zeus was the strength to put Zeus on dialysis and the res- farm. Arriving early that morning, the owners fighting for his life. pirator. She didn’t make any promises, but she were ecstatic to be reunited with a healthy, spir- Immediately following the placement of a did give us hope.” ited Zeus.“He was so thrilled to get in the car dialysis catheter, Zeus was transported to the As Zeus steadily improved, he went from and come home. Not that he wasn’t treated Hemodialysis Center for his first treatment. Still producing almost no urine to making too wonderfully at Penn! But he missed running in anesthetized, Zeus was connected to a ventilator much, typical of recovery from this kind of kid- the yard. He missed his home. And now he’s while simultaneously undergoing hemodialysis ney disease. Doctors kept up with the excess just like the old Zeus again!”
BELLWETHER 59 5 Helping Animals and People since 1977 The Center for the Interaction of Animals and Society By Susan I.Finkelstein treatment of animals. junction with the School of Social Work, which Americans, it seems, are a pet-happy lot. So, again, the question is, why do so many of teaches children about the responsibilities of According to a recent survey by the American us keep pets? The answer is at once simple and adopting and caring for pets. The program Pet Products Manufacturers Association, 77 obvious: companion animals add important began visiting schools in November 2002, and million cats, 65 million dogs, 17 million birds, dimensions to our lives. Researchers have hundreds of children have already participated. 16 million “pocket pets” (rodents, ferrets, rab- shown that, among other benefits, pets can help The CIAS also periodically hosts confer- bits, and more exotic species), 9 million reptiles, us feel less lonely, more effectively handle stress, ences geared toward people who work in a wide and approximately 200 million aquarium fish and survive heart attacks. Given all this extraor- range of human services and animal care fields. are kept as pets in the United This year’s conference, Can Animals Help States—triple the country’s pet pop- Humans Heal? Animal-Assisted Interventions in ulation in the mid-1960s. Even con- Adolescent Mental Health, took place on March sidering that the human population 28. Experts in the fields of healthcare, social has grown during that same period, services, psychology, and education presented there still are twice as many dogs on topics such as “Animals in the lives of ado- and cats per American today than in lescents: A biocentric perspective on develop- 1967. And all of us millions of pet ment,”“The effectiveness of equine-facilitated owners share an almost-universal therapy with at-risk adolescents,”and “Animal- trait: we anthropomorphize our assisted therapy for at-risk youth and families.” pets—we attribute human thoughts, feelings, and motivations to them. Research We give them human names, regard Of the thousands of dogs bred each year by dinarily rich information, the CIAS has actively them as family, provide them with the best guide and service dog agencies, more than half committed itself to three types of programs— nutrition and medical care, and often experi- fail to graduate as working dogs, mostly due to community outreach, education, and research. ence devastating grief when they die. But why behavior and temperament problems. In col- do we do this? What purpose does it serve? laboration with several national guide and serv- These are among the questions that Dr. Community Outreach ice dog agencies, the CIAS is involved in proj- James Serpell, Marie A. Moore Professor of One of the Center’s most visible community ects that seek to clarify developmental and Humane Ethics and Animal Welfare, and his outreach programs involves a partnership with genetic causes of these problems in potential colleagues study every day at the multidiscipli- Penn’s School of Social Work. Together, the two working dogs. nary Center for the Interaction of Animals and provide grief and pet loss counseling, referral Behavioral problems in companion dogs are Society (CIAS). The Center was founded in services, and a support group to clients and the largest single cause of canine abandonment, 1979 (and re-established in 1997) on the belief nonclients of the Ryan Hospital. Another ongo- relinquishment to shelters, and premature that there is something both special and thera- ing public service project involves bringing in an euthanasia in the United States. The CIAS peutic about the relationships people have with evaluator from Therapy Dogs International to investigates behavior problems in pet dogs, animals, and that animal welfare issues are a the School to certify handler–dog teams so that focusing on the role that early experience may significant concern. Because this is a still-devel- they may visit schools and various healthcare play in their development. To evaluate dogs’ oping field that straddles traditional academic facilities. Pets are particularly therapeutic for the temperament and behavior in a standardized disciplines, the CIAS strives for an interdiscipli- elderly or infirm, who have become socially iso- way, the CIAS has developed a unique ques- nary approach, drawing in scholars and lated. According to Therapy Dogs International, tionnaire (C-BARQ©) for dog owners and researchers from a wide variety of different “The dogs bring sparkle to a sterile day, provide handlers. Already, several national guide and backgrounds and interests. a lively subject for conversation, and rekindle service dog organizations have adopted the C- The CIAS seeks to further our understand- old memories of previously owned pets.” BARQ© as a routine behavioral screen. ing of human–animal interactions and rela- Through these programs—and others—the tionships, including those occurring with ani- Education CIAS continues to make tremendous progress mals in homes, farms, laboratories, zoos, and in helping us understand more about our The CIAS has developed a seven-week the wild. More specifically, the CIAS studies unique relationships with animals and the Careers Working with Animals educational pro- how relationships with animals influence our mutual benefits of human–animal interactions. gram that teaches students about animal-relat- health and well-being, investigates the impact If you would like more information on the ed careers, including veterinary medicine and of these relationships on the animals, and CIAS or its programs, contact Dr. Serpell, direc- nursing, humane education/shelter work, labo- encourages discussion on the ethics of animal tor, at [email protected], or go to the ratory animal science, dog training, and careers use—and applies knowledge gained from this Center’s website at
6 BELLWETHER 59 Penn’s Next President Laboratory Animal Amy Gutmann Is Elected to Succeed Judith Rodin Veterinarians to Host Amy Gutmann, the Provost and Laurance S. of our nation’s oldest and most distinguished International Session on Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and research universities.” the University Center for Human Values at “Penn has enormous energy and a dynamic Animal Welfare at the 2004 Princeton University, was elected the University spirit,”she said.“It has extraordinary academic AVMA Annual Convention of Pennsylvania’s next president by Penn’s programs that span 12 schools, all of which are The American College of Laboratory Board of located together on one beautiful urban cam- Animal Medicine/American Society of Lab- Trustees at its pus. Under Judy Rodin’s leadership, Penn has oratory Animal Practitioners program com- February 20, established itself in the top rank of institutions, mittee is planning “United States/United 2004 stated well positioned to face the opportunities and Kingdom Perspectives on Animal Welfare meeting. the challenges that lie ahead. I look forward Issues,”a three-hour session on the morning Gutmann, with great enthusiasm to working with faculty, of Monday, July 26. Distinguished speakers 54, will succeed students, staff, alumni and other members of will give their perspectives on how animal Judith Rodin, the Penn family to help the University build welfare initiatives and public, legislative, and CW’66, on July upon its tradition of excellence in teaching, lawyer-driven pressures may affect many aspects of the veterinary profession in the 1. Rodin research and public service. United States and United Kingdom. announced last June that she planned to step “I am also looking forward to moving to the Chaired by Margaret Landi,V’79, Global down after serving as Penn’s president since great city of Philadelphia,“ said Gutmann, Vice President of Laboratory Animal 1994. Gutmann’s inauguration as Penn’s ninth “with its wealth of cultural and historic institu- Science for Research and Development at president will be held on October 15, 2004. tions, and to becoming an active citizen of GlaxoSmithKline, the speakers include a leg- “Amy is a brilliant scholar with a demon- Penn’s vibrant West Philadelphia community.“ islator from the United Kingdom, advisers strated commitment to undergraduate and Riepe noted that the Board of Trustees to the governments of the United States and graduate education, a proven and skilled strongly believes it has found in Gutmann United Kingdom, senior academics, and for- administrator who understands the challenges “someone to expand upon the phenomenal mer presidents of the AVMA and British of running a major research university and an momentum the University has experienced Veterinary Association. The sessions and articulate spokesperson about the essential role during the last decade … a dynamic leader who speakers are: of higher education in our lives and in the is both a renowned scholar and skilled admin- • How Legislators and Lawyers Are future of our society,”said James S. Riepe, chair istrator … a champion of innovative academic Having an Impact on the Role and of Penn’s Trustees. ventures with a proven ability to recruit faculty Responsibilities of Veterinarians: Dr. John A. Shadduck, dean emeritus of Texas A&M “She has established an extraordinary of the highest stature … someone who will University College of Veterinary Medicine record of achievement during her more than 25 grow Penn’s financial resources, enhance our (U.S.), and Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior years at Princeton, most recently as Provost. entrepreneurial opportunities, and capitalize (U.K.). She is widely regarded as a world-class scholar on our many strengths.” • How Lobbyists and Activists Are whose research addresses many of the key Gutmann has been Provost of Princeton Having an Impact on Society’s Relationship issues facing our society today—from religious since September 2001, serving as the Universi- with Animals: Jacqueline Calnan, M.P.A., freedom, to race and affirmative action, to ty’s chief academic and chief budgetary officer, president of Americans for Medical Progress ethics and public affairs. As Dean of the Facul- reporting to the President. She is responsible Educational Foundation (U.S.), and Dr. Tim ty, she was hugely effective in attracting excel- for long-range planning and for the coordina- Morris, president of the European College lent faculty to Princeton. Colleagues speak of tion of the administrative and support func- of Laboratory Animal Medicine (U.K.). her with the highest regard: ‘fair and evenhand- tions of the University with its academic pur- • Commercial Pressures on Veterinary ed, courageous and willing to take on tough poses. Practice Arising from Legislation, problems,’‘renowned for doing her homework, A faculty member at Princeton since 1976, Education, Costs, Lobbying, and Activism: ’‘there are no limits to what this person can she has taught political philosophy, democratic Dr. Joe M. Howell, AVMA Immediate Past- achieve.’We are confident that Amy is the ideal theory, the history of political thought and President (U.S.), and Dr. Brian Hoskin, British Veterinary Association Past President person to lead Penn forward into the next stage practical ethics. (U.K.). of its evolution.” Gutmann received her B.A. from Radcliffe For more information, please contact Dr. Gutmann said she was “tremendously College, her M.Sc. from the London School of Landi at (610) 270-6466 or via email at excited to be given the opportunity to lead one Economics and her Ph.D. from Harvard
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Improving Diagnosis of Pulmonary Fibrosis in W.Highland White Terriers by Helma N.Weeks Canine Health Foundation and the West High- work-up, including radiography, echo- Your middle-aged, small terrier, a Westie, land White Terrier Foundation of America are cardiography, bronchoscopy, bronchial lavage, Norwich, Cairn, or other short-legged breed, funding a multicenter study at the veterinary computed tomography, and a minimally inva- seems to not have as much stamina as it used to schools of the Universities of Pennsylvania and sive endoscopic lung biopsy. Genetic sample have. It pants and lags on longer walks, the California, Davis in the U.S., and the Universi- material will be collected for further analysis. tongue sometimes looks not as pink as it ties of Edinburgh and Glasgow in the U.K. At Veterinarians who wish to refer West should, and the dog coughs intermittently. Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine, this Highland white terriers with suspected pul- Otherwise, the dog seems fine. It eats, doesn’t project is guided by Dr. Lesley King, professor monary fibrosis should call Dr. King or Dr. drink excessively, but you have a nagging feeling of critical care, and Dr. Tobias Schwarz, assis- Schwarz directly at (215) 898-4680. The proce- that all is not well. tant professor of radiology. dure is free of charge to the owner, and the When the vet checks the dog out, crackled “Although pulmonary fibrosis in dogs, often completeness of the work-up offers an optimal sounds are heard in the lungs. The dog could referred to as ‘Westie lung disease,’has been basis for best treatment options and prognosis. have a chronic lung disease known as idiopathic recognized by breeders and veterinarians in the pulmonary fibrosis. This disease has been iden- U.S. and U.K. for many years, it remains a huge tified in West Highland white terriers and to a challenge for the patient, owner, veterinarian, lesser degree in other terrier breeds. It affects and breeder of West Highland white terriers,” middle-aged and older dogs and is character- says Dr. Schwarz.“Currently, accurate diagnosis ized by exercise intolerance, shortness of breath, requires a lung biopsy. Treatment options are difficulty in breathing, coughing, and crackled limited to alleviation of clinical signs and con- sounds on lung auscultation. The disease pro- trol of concurrent pneumonia. gresses slowly and is ultimately fatal. In the dis- “The study hopes to establish pulmonary ease process, fibrous scar tissue gradually computed tomography as a specific diagnostic replaces functional lung tissue. Very little is modality in dogs, which would allow the detec- known about the causes of the disease, but a tion of disease in the early stage, when thera- genetic component is suspected, given the high- peutic approaches are most promising, decreas- er occurrence in certain breeds. There is a simi- ing the need of lung biopsies. High-resolution larly devastating form of pulmonary fibrosis in computed tomography of the lungs is the diag- people that has become a focus of intense nostic modalities of choice for pulmonary Computed tomographic image of a dog with pulmo- research. fibrosis in people and showed already promis- nary fibrosis at the level of the tracheal bifurcation Recently, veterinary specialists in respiratory ing first results in dogs.” (TB). There is fibrosed lung tissue in the ventral parts of the lungs (straight arrow) and fibrin scars originat- diseases and imaging from the U.K. and the During the duration of the study, West ing from the pleural surface (curved arrow). A main U.S. have joined their efforts to improve the Highland white terriers with suspected pul- goal of the clinical study is to determine characteristic diagnosis of pulmonary fibrosis. The AKC monary fibrosis will receive an extensive clinical computed tomographic findings of pulmonary fibrosis. Rabies in Pennsylvania Last summer, alarmed by a surge in rabies results break down as follows: 232 raccoons, 80 through saliva, bites or scratches, and abrasions. cases reported in Pennsylvania in 2002 (especial- skunks, 42 cats, 36 bats, 29 foxes, 3 cattle, 3 Humans can contract the virus through either ly among raccoons), officials at the Common- horses, 1 bobcat, 1 deer, and 1 groundhog.) In domestic or wild animals. wealth’s agriculture department decided they an effort to bring the numbers down even fur- Given these statistics, routine vaccinations needed to take action. In mid-2003, the Oral ther, agriculture officials plan to extend the for all dogs and cats are more important than Raccoon Rabies Vaccination (ORV) program ORV program in 2004 to include the West- ever. Of the 42 cats reported infected in Penn- was initiated in all or parts of 16 western Penn- moreland–Somerset county border. sylvania, the majority were most likely barn sylvania counties where rabid raccoons were Rabies, a viral disease affecting the central cats, who had regular daily exposure to wildlife most prevalent. Fixed-winged airplanes or heli- nervous system of mammals, causes a progres- in rural areas. Not a single case of rabies in a copters dropped vaccine-laden fishmeal bait into sive inflammation of the brain—and is always dog was reported, only proving how effective sparsely populated areas, and trained employees fatal to both animals and humans once symp- widespread canine vaccinations against the targeted densely populated areas by hand. toms of the disease develop (unusual behavior, virus have been. Penn’s School of Veterinary Results reported in February 2004 were aggression, drooling, depression, partial paraly- Medicine recommends vaccinating kittens encouraging: the number of infected raccoons sis). In the United States, wildlife is primarily against the virus at 12 to 13 weeks, again at 15 dropped from 288 in 2002 to 232 in 2003, a 20 affected; domestic animals usually are exposed months, and every three years thereafter. For percent decrease. A total of 428 animals tested by contact with infected wild animals. In recent dogs, the School recommends rabies vaccina- positive for rabies in 2003, down from 492 ani- years, raccoons in the eastern United States have tions at 13 to 16 weeks, at 15 months, and then, mals in 2002—a 13 percent decline. (The 2003 been severely affected. Rabies can be spread again, every three years.
8 BELLWETHER 59 The Power of Yeast Genetics By Susan I.Finkelstein tinct membrane-bound nuclei). Working with centrating on diagnostics first,”responds Dr. It’s the stuff of beer and bread. For thou- yeast, Dr. Luca discovered the “Mob” gene fami- Luca.“Like a malfunctioning automobile, you sands of years, this fungus has been instrumen- ly, which encodes essential proteins that regu- can’t effectively fix it unless you know some- tal in producing and conserving food because late critical aspects of cell division and cell thing about how it works. At this point, we’re of its ability to ferment glucose to ethanol and development. just trying to understand how normal cell divi- carbon dioxide. But most people do not know Yeast cells offer several advantages over sion works. It is our hope that our work will that this simple, single-celled organism also is a human cells for cell-cycle research. Yeast divide identify novel targets for the development of powerful model system for biological research. much more rapidly and are less complex than new anti-cancer drugs.” Cheap and easy cultivation, short generation mammalian cells. Yeast, for example, divide time, detailed genetic and biochemical knowl- every 90 minutes and contain only two Mob edge gained through many years of research, proteins, while the most rapidly dividing and ready application of molecular techniques human cells divide every 24 hours and express Hot Weather Tips for its genetic manipulation—all make this ver- up to seven Mobs. Moreover, the yeast genome Here are some tips to keep pets healthy satile organism highly suitable for the study of is much easier to manipulate in vivo. Yeast during the hot weather: basic biological processes relevant to many genes can be mutated to alter the function of Dogs and cats need a cool, shady place other higher organisms, including humans. any protein. The observed cellular conse- to sleep in during hot weather and access Although yeast cells are obviously much quences of gene mutations help reveal the func- to plenty of clean, fresh water. Feeding simpler than humans, they follow the same tion of the encoded proteins.“With yeast, we time should be moved to the cooler hours basic principles of reproduction: first, cells can perform a lot of molecular and genetic of the day. Older animals have a harder must accurately duplicate their chromosomes ‘tricks’ to identify important regulatory path- time in hot weather, be sure they have a and segregate them to opposite poles of the cell, ways. And nearly everything we learn is trans- comfortable, cool place during the hottest and then the cells physically split into two, ferable from yeast to humans,”explains Dr. hours of the day. yielding a new generation of genetically identi- Luca. Do not take the dog jogging during the cal cells. Errors in cell division can result in Thus, researchers are able to conduct experi- day in hot weather as the animal will cellular death, lead to developmental defects, or ments in yeast that elucidate biochemical sig- overheat quickly. If you want to go run- cause cancer. Indeed, a major hallmark of can- nals that control growth and division in human ning with your pet, do it very early in the cer cells is unrestrained cell division, which is cells. Use of model organisms, such as yeast, is morning or at night when it is cooler. Even why cancer is often considered a disease of the critical for cancer research. Thus far, Dr. Luca’s then, if it is hot and humid, don’t do it. cell-division cycle. Thus, to understand the work reveals that yeast Mob proteins are com- Heatstroke is life threatening for dogs. molecular mechanisms of cancer, it is critical to ponents of conserved regulatory circuits that Signs to watch for are: heavy, loud breath- resolve the processes that regulate cell division. ensure the proper timing and fidelity of cell ing, staggering gait, bright red gum tissue The laboratory of Frank Luca, assistant pro- division. His work has led to several models and tongue. If heatstroke is suspected, fessor of animal biology, uses multidisciplinary regarding the function of human Mob proteins seek veterinary care quickly as this is a approaches, including yeast genetics and cellu- that his lab is currently testing. medical emergency. lar and molecular biology, to study cell-cycle So, can lowly yeast hold the key in eventually regulation of eukaryotic cells (those with dis- discovering a cure for cancer? “Well, we’re con-
Dermatology Clinic Offered at New Bolton Center Horses, like people and other animals, ogists and assistant professors of dermatol- may suffer from skin disorders. Similar to ogy at the School, and dermatology residents cats and dogs, they may manifest allergic dis- Drs. Jeanne Budgin and Karen Farver, hold eases (most commonly to insects) with the clinics at New Bolton Center two Thursdays development of skin lesions, including each month. All are based at the Matthew J. intense itch, hives, and bumps. To assist the Ryan Veterinary Hospital, where they treat clinicians at New Bolton Center in the treat- companion animals and special species. The ment of equine skin diseases, faculty veteri- clinicians have an interest in equine skin dis- nary dermatologists offer appointments for orders and look forward to consulting on horses and large-animal patients twice cases with the NBC staff. monthly at New Bolton Center. Appointments for consultation with the Drs. Rosario Cerundolo and Daniel Dermatology Service at New Bolton Center Morris, board-certified veterinary dermatol- may be made by calling 610-444-5800. Itchy horse.
BELLWETHER 59 9 The Irwin Foundation:Opportunity Scholarship Sponsor by Susan I.Finkelstein emergency medicine after graduation. I love “Although we focus on a single area of educa- the feeling of helping and consoling animals Class of 2005 tion, the funding we provide has a much more during their greatest times of distress. profound effect. The veterinary students of today “The Irwin Foundation’s scholarship has White Coat Ceremony will become the doctors, technicians, and research meant so much to me—not only in helping The White Coat Ceremony, a tradition scientists of tomorrow, and their work will lead to reduce some of my debt, but in allowing me the from medical schools and first introduced many advancements that ultimately extend rare opportunity to have a mentor here. That in 2001 at Penn Veterinary Medicine, was beyond animals to benefit humanity.” kind of support has just made all the difference held for the Class of 2005 in Houston Hall —from the Irwin Foundation website in my educational experience at Penn Veteri- on December 9, 2003. Many relatives and nary Medicine.” guests of the students attended the cere- As the very first foundation to sponsor an The Foundation, located in Southfield, mony and the reception that followed. Opportunity Scholarship, the Irwin Mich., initially concentrated its efforts in veteri- The ceremony marks the end of the Foundation has a single, focused purpose— nary medicine. In 1997, however, it began to students’ training in the classroom, and the helping veterinary schools and the students direct some attention to veterinary technology beginning of their clinical rotations, where who attend them. The Foundation provides and the lack of scholarships available to stu- they will apply the knowledge they have funding only to accredited schools within dents seeking careers in this critical field. Since learned during the first two-and-a-half major universities, but scholarship recipients then, the Foundation has made several signifi- years of their four-year veterinary educa- are chosen by the universities themselves. cant contributions designed to assist future vet- tion. The evening also marked the final time Regina Pellegrin,V’04, the Foundation’s erinary technicians. the entire class would be together formally recipient of Penn Veterinary Medicine’s The Irwin Foundation also supports a vari- before Commencement on May 16, 2005. Opportunity Scholarship, graduated this year. ety of programs administered by veterinary Speakers included Dean Alan M. Kelly; During all of Regina’s time here, the Irwin schools as part of their educational mission, faculty members; Michelle Rosero,V’04, Foundation Opportunity Scholarship did much and it continually seeks new and innovative class president; Michael R. Moyer,V’90, to ease her financial burden and gave her the ways to enhance the learning experience. The president of the Pennsylvania Veterinary priceless gift of faculty mentorship, a unique types of support include cash donations for Medical Association; and Christine Bohn, relationship often continuing for many years. established programs, purchases of equipment V’02, who spoke on behalf of the School’s Like many veterinary students, Regina and other items, and service contributions. Veterinary Medical Alumni Society. W. recalls a lifelong veterinary ambition.“I have The Irwin Foundation is a legacy to two Southard Jones, Jr.,V’71, and Courtney wanted to be a veterinarian for as long as I can well-known educators in the Detroit area. Dr. Jones,V’98, spoke on “The Family: Sharing remember. This is what I feel I am meant to do. James Irwin was an administrator at Detroit Commitment.”Their son and brother, My first job was as a room assistant at a general Public Schools and Dr. Claire Irwin was a pro- respectively, Luke, is a member of the Class practice, from the time I was 16 years old until I fessor at Wayne State University. Husband and of 2005. was 20. For the past five years, I worked as an wife, they both passed away in 1994. Sponsors of the ceremony included the emergency nurse at a veterinary emergency and Note: The Irwin Foundation has renewed Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Associa- referral center in Valley Forge, Pa. I fell in love their Opportunity Scholarship, which will be tion and its local constituent veterinary with emergency work. I am hoping to work in awarded to a member of the Class of 2008. medical assocations: Brandywine, Capital City, Lehigh Valley, Northwestern, Subur- ban, and Western. The Veterinary Medical New Scholarship Established Alumni Society gave the students Penn Margaret Gerhard, a long-time friend of brass pins to wear on their white coats. the School and owner of three Labrador retrievers, made a gift of $100,000 to estab- om .c lish the Margaret Gerhard Endowed Merit y ear
Scholarship Fund.“This gift is made in ong honor of your highly esteemed and dedicat- y/addis
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and only New Bolton Center,”said Ms. Ger- y aph b hard to Dean Alan Kelly when she presented done!’ and as such, encourage and inspire r og t
the check.“It is my wish and desire that the ho optimism, dedication, and hard work in P income from the Margaret Gerhard Merit other fellow students—to heal and help a Scholarship Fund will continuously reward wounded world with compassion and love Luke Jones, V’05, W. Southard Jones, Jr., V’71, and recognize the recipients for a job ‘well for all animals.” and Courtney Jones,V’98.
10 BELLWETHER 59 Laminitis Caused by Equine Cushing’s Disease,Penn Study Finds Equine Cushing’s disease has been identified tions. ACTH is one of many hormones secreted laminitis occurred during September. Excess con- as the most common cause of laminitis among in excess by the dysfunctional pituitary gland. sumption of lush grass was commonly blamed horses in a primary care veterinary practice. Twenty-eight of the 40 horses with laminitis for laminitis in many horses that also had ECD. The recent study by Mark T.Donaldson,V’93, were diagnosed with ECD. Although ECD is Dietary modification of horses with ECD may be assistant professor of medicine, was published considered a disease of older horses with an helpful in preventing this serious complication. in the April 1, 2004 issue of the Journal of the average age of 20 years, the study showed that Several studies have shown that the most American Veterinary Medical Association. ECD is common in horses in their teens. The effective treatment for ECD is pergolide, a med- The study showed the most common cause horses in the study ranged in age from three to ication that suppresses secretions of hormones of laminitis among horses seen at New Bolton 28 years with a median age of 15.5 years. from the abnormal pituitary gland. In addition Center was pituitary pars intermedia dysfunc- One of the most common clinical signs was to dietary modifications and corrective shoeing, tion, also known as equine Cushing’s disease an abnormal fat distribution including accu- treatment with pergolide results in an improve- (ECD). In ECD the pituitary and adrenal glands mulation of fat in the neck (“cresty neck”), top ment in laminitis. A large dose range exists and produce abnormal amounts of hormones that of the back, and over the tail head, in a horse the dose must be titrated based on endocrine play a vital role in the regulation of metabolism with visible outlines of the ribs. Only a third of function tests such as plasma ACTH concentra- and inflammatory and immune responses. the group had a long hair coat, another con- tion. The drug must be administered under vet- All horses that developed laminitis during a spicuous sign of ECD, and a fifth of the group erinary supervision. six-year period (1996–2002) were tested for with ECD did not have any other clinical signs. ECD by evaluation of plasma ACTH concentra- In 21 percent of the horses with ECD, onset of Bellwether University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
Seahorse Surgery Editor A very unusual patient visited the Ryan Helma Weeks Hospital on April 23. A six-inch, two-year- Photographer old female seahorse was brought to the Hos- Addison Geary pital by veterinarians from the National Writers Josephine Deubler, V.M.D. Aquarium in Baltimore. The seahorse had a Susan I. Finkelstein pea-size growth on its pectoral fin, near the Joan Capuzzi Giresi, V.M.D. gills.“Last October we removed a mass by Gregory Lester Helma Weeks conventional surgery,”said Dr. Caryn Poll of the National Aquarium.“But the mass grew Alumni Relations Liaison Joshua E. Liss back and we are here to have it removed by We’d like to hear your praise, criticisms, or comments. laser surgery.” Please address your correspondence to: Chick Weisse,V’98, lecturer in surgery, Helma Weeks enjoys working with marine animals and University of Pennsylvania has performed numerous surgeries on fish. School of Veterinary Medicine The little seahorse was his first patient of the 3800 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6010 Hippocampus variety. (215) 898-1475 The animal was anesthetized in water; it [email protected] took about five minutes for it to become None of these articles is to be reproduced in any form without the permission of the editor of Bellwether. unconscious. Then it was removed from the The pea-sized tumor was removed by using a water and placed on the table, and Dr. Poll laser probe. © Copyright 2004 by the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. carefully syringed water over the gills while Dr. Weisse used the tiny laser probe to The University of Pennsylvania values diversity and seeks talented students, faculty and staff from diverse back- remove the tumor. He then used the laser to blood vessels, nerves, and lymphatics.” grounds. The University of Pennsylvania does not discrimi- The surgery lasted only minutes, and nate on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, ablate the tumor bed in the hope of remov- color, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, or status as a ing any remaining cancer cells that could that same day, the Hippocampus reidi was Vietnam Era Veteran or disabled veteran in the administra- tion of educational policies, programs or activities; ad- regrow.“Seahorses have a bony layer within safely back in her tank at the National missions policies; scholarship and loan awards; athletic, or Aquarium, swimming around. In lay lan- other University administered programs or employment. the skin, called osteoderm, so one can’t just Questions or complaints regarding this policy should be cut away the tumor without leaving a large guage she is called a longsnout seahorse, directed to: Executive Director, Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Programs, 3600 Chestnut Street, defect,”said Dr. Weisse.“The laser removed and her natural home is the Western Sansom Place East, Suite 228, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6106 the layer of cancer cells while sealing the Atlantic. or (215) 898-6993 (Voice) or (215) 898-7803 (TDD).
BELLWETHER 59 11 Dr.Rosario Cerundolo, assistant professor of Drs.Gabi Seiler, lecturer in radiology, and Division (PSP) of the Association of American dermatology, was elected vice president of the Darryl N.Biery,GV’67, emeritus professor of radi- Publishers announced that Dr.Mike Ross,pro- European College of Veterinary Dermatology in ology, presented studies about CT of the canine fessor of surgery, with coauthor Sue J. Dyson, January. trachea (Seiler) and effects of restricted feeding will receive the PSP Award, in the Nursing and Sheldon Steinberg,V’59, is now a professor on radiographic and histopathologic hip phe- Allied Health subdivision, for their book, emeritus of neurology. He will be at the Ryan notype (Biery) at the 13th Triennial Meeting of Diagnosis and Management of Lameness in the Veterinary Hospital two weeks per month. the International Veterinary Radiology Associa- Horse, published by Elsevier in 2003. The Anson J.Tsugawa,V’98, lecturer in dentistry, tion in Midrand, South Africa in August. awards are given annually to acknowledge passed his board exam to become a new diplo- In the Section of Radiology, Department of excellence in book, journal, and electronic pub- mate of the American Veterinary Dental College. Clinical Studies–Philadelphia, Drs.Ana Caceres, lishing in all disciplines represented by profes- John R.Lewis,V’97, resident in dentistry, resident; Yael Porat-Mosenco, resident; Allison sional, scholarly, and reference publishing. passed his exam to become a fellow of the Zwingenberger, resident; Lisa Ziemer,V’98, Michael Pierdon,V’05, received a $5,000 Academy of Veterinary Dentistry. senior research investigator; Gabi Seiler, lectur- scholarship for the best student presentation at Dr.Charles Vite was appointed assistant pro- er; Van M.Knox,V’94, staff veterinarian; Rob the American Association of Swine Veterinari- fessor of neurology. He spoke at the NIH work- McLear,V’96, consultant, adjunct assistant pro- ans Foundation’s annual meeting in Des shop of the 1st International Conference on fessor; Darryl Biery; Jeffrey Wortman,V’69,sec- Moines, Iowa. His presentation was titled Glycoprotein and Related Storage Diseases in tion chief, associate professor; and Tobias “Growth dynamics of two common bacterial April in Rockville, Md. He shared data on effec- Schwarz participated in the 2003 Annual Con- contaminants found in extended porcine tive gene therapy of the central nervous system ference of the American College of Veterinary semen.”Alpharma Animal Health provided the in cats with the naturally occuring lysosomal Radiology, in Chicago, and presented their financial support for the award. storage disease alpha-mannosidosis. studies about dual-phase CT angiography of The Washington State University College of Dr.Cynthia Otto, associate professor of criti- the normal canine pancreas (Caceres), reduc- Veterinary Medicine named Dr.Urs Giger, cal care, gave invited talks,“Hypercoagulability tion of skull-base related CT artifacts (Porat- Charlotte Newton Sheppard Professor of Medi- as a cause of thrombosis cine, and Dr. Rod Paige and thromboembolism” from Cornell University and “Hypertonic saline joint recipients of the resuscitation: From vet- John E. McCoy Award as erinary to human appli- outstanding individuals in cation,”at the 42nd Rosettes & Ribbons the field of clinical veteri- Annual Symposium on nary medicine. The award Critical Care, Trauma, some recent accomplishments of note at the School was established in 1958 by and Emergency Medi- Dr. McCoy’s former stu- cine, in Las Vegas, in Feb- dents and colleagues to ruary. She also gave an invited talk,“Medical Mosenco), computed radiographic artifacts honor his teaching career of 23 years at WSU. surveillance of dogs deployed to the World (McLear), and aneurysmal right auricles in the Dr. Giger visited the College in April to receive Trade Center and the Pentagon,”at the National canine heart (Schwarz). the award and make a presentation entitled, Medical Disaster Systems 2004 Disaster Dr.Loren H.Evans, emeritus professor of sur- “Hereditary diseases in companion animals: Response Conference, in Dallas in April. gery, received the Distinguished Educator From clinical signs to the molecular defect.” Drs.Alexia McKnight, recently promoted to Award from the American Association of Dr. Giger also was presented the 2002 assistant professor of radiology at New Bolton Equine Practitioners during its annual conven- Scientific Achievement Award by the World Center; Lisa Ziemer,V’98, senior research inves- tion in November 2003. He was recognized for Small Animal Veterinary Association at the orga- tigator, radiology; and Tobias Schwarz, assistant his efforts as a mentor and professor at Penn. nization’s meeting in Granada, Spain in October. professor of radiology, passed the radiology Dr. Evans retired from the school in 1993. He is The award is given annually to an outstanding board exams and are now diplomates of the seen as a pioneer in the field of abdominal sur- veterinary researcher for his/her lifetime scientif- American College of Veterinary Radiology. Dr. gery and as one of the creators of the diagnostic ic contributions to the health of small animals. Schwarz was invited to the University of lameness examination. Gail K.Smith,V’74, professor of orthopedic Glasgow Veterinary School for a research proj- A paper published in 1989 by Dr.Adrian R. surgery, was selected to receive the 2004 World ect and gave a talk on “Applications of helical Morrison, professor of behavioral neuroscience, Small Animal Veterinary Association Iams Saki computed tomography in small animals” dur- with colleagues at UCLA, was selected for a Paatsama Award for excellence in the field of ing his stay. poster in an exhibit on Milestones in Sleep and Orthopaedic Medicine and Surgery. It is the Mark Donaldson,V’93, assistant professor of Epilepsy Research by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals at second time the award has been given. The medicine, spoke at the North American Veteri- the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy award will be presented during the opening nary Conference, in Orlando in January. Society in Boston in December. ceremony of the 2004 WSAVA Congress on Dr.Virginia Reef, chief, Section of Sports Dr. Morrison was the speaker at the annual October 6 in Rhodes, Greece. Medicine and Imaging, was a Keynote State of banquet of Partners in Progress, the Canadian Dr.Ina Dobrinski, associate professor of the Art speaker at the 13th Triennial Meeting of Biomedical Research Support Organization, in reproduction, gave invited talks at the Com- the International Veterinary Radiology Associa- April in London, Ontario. monwealth Scientific and Industrial Research tion in Midrand, South Africa in August. The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Organization in Brisbane, Australia; the
12 BELLWETHER 59 Monash Institute of Reproduction and Devel- nars on ocular gene therapy at the Department of in vivo sperm capacitation” and to prepare opment, Monash University, Clayton, Australia; of Ophthalmology, Semmelweis University and for certification by the American College of and the annual meeting of the International the Hungarian Retinitis Pigmentosa Society— Theriogenologists. Embryo Transfer Society in Portland, Oregon. both of which took place in March in Budapest. Dr.Galantino-Homer presented a poster,“A Dr. Dobrinski also received a grant from the Patricia Sertich,V’83, associate professor of method to quantify the protein tyrosine Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. reproduction, gave the following talks at the Asso- phosphorylation assay of sperm capacitation,” Mark Haskins,V’69, professor of pathology ciation Veterinaraire Equine Francaise, in Mont- at the annual meeting of the American Society and medical genetics, gave a talk,“Retroviral pellier, France, in October: “Affections et gestation of Andrology, in April, in Baltimore. gene therapy in mucopolysaccharidoses,”at the de la fin de gestation,”“Gestation de la non deliv- Jenny O’Connor, behaviorial technician, pre- Experimental Transplantation and Immunolo- rance,”and “Comment faire une echoguide tran- sented a lecture on behavior modification and gy Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, srectale du placenta en fin de gestation?” This led a master class with Dr. Diane Frank of the Md. He also gave a talk,“Large animal models group is the French equivalent to the American University of Montreal on behavioral triage at of alpha- and beta-mannosidosis,”in April at Association of Equine Practitioners. the North American Veterinary Conference, in Glycoproteinoses: An International Workshop Dr. Sertich also gave the following talks at January in Orlando. Both events were geared to on Advances in Pathogenesis and Therapy, at the Delaware Veterinary Medical Association veterinary technicians. Bethesda, Md. Annual Meeting, in Dover, Delaware, in April: Dr.Gerhard A.Schad, professor of parasitology, Dr.Jorge Guerrero, adjunct professor of “The pregnant mare—Understand the normal was selected by two federal agencies to join site- parasitology, was appointed visiting professor of events to improve diagnosis and management visit teams to evaluate ongoing scientific programs. parasitology at the College of Veterinary of these 11 months,”“Parturition—An explo- One of these involved the Southwest National Pri- Medicine of the Universidad Peruana Cayetano sive event,”“Placental evaluation—The mirror mate Research Center in San Antonio, a National Heredia, in Lima, Peru. He also became a diplo- of life,”and “High risk pregnancies—Detecting Center for Research Resources of the National mate of the European Veterinary Parasitology these problems early so effective interventions Institutes of Health. The other involved the Armed College. From March 14 to April 10, Dr. can be made.” Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences in Guerrero served as visiting professor of para- Ralph Brinster,V’60, Richard King Mellon Bangkok, Thailand, a laboratory of the Walter sitic diseases at the College of Veterinary Medi- Professor of Reproductive Physiology, was Reed Army Institute of Research specializing in cine of the Universidad de Santiago de Com- selected by the Institute for Scientific enteric diseases, retrovirology, and arthropod- postela in Lugo, Spain. Information as a “Highly Cited Researcher” in borne diseases such as malaria, dengue, and scrub Dr.Andrew Wood, professor emeritus of radi- molecular biology and genetics for the period typhus. The panel reviewed an ongoing program ology, with Drs. Chandra Sehgal and William from 1980 to 2000. About 1 in 1,000 authors of of the National Academy of Sciences that matches Lee from the School of Medicine, was awarded scientific articles are in this category. Dr. postdoctoral associates with federal laboratories for a four-year NIH grant entitled “Blood flow in Brinster’s biography and publications have now specialized research training and experience. In small animals by ultrasound.” been added to the ISI website for Highly Cited Thailand the associates are working in research Dr.Ronald N.Harty, assistant professor of Research Scientists at
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Animal Crackers “New”AKC Breeds for manatee identification. Thousands of photo- Petting Zoos graphs are stored in Gainesville, Fla. One docu- The black Russian terrier and the Neapolitan Children are enchanted by face-to-face mented manatee has scars from 49 previous mastiff become eligible for competition in the encounters with animals, but there always is the run-ins with boats—the 50th killed the animal. working group at AKC shows on July 1, 2004. possibility of an animal transmitting disease. The manatee is a tourist attraction. Recent- On October 1, 2004, the Glen of Imaal terrier The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ly, there has been some controversy about their will be eligible to compete in the terrier group. has issued safety guidelines for events and facili- endangered status. New speed zones for Florida This will make 153 breeds with full recognition. ties that offer public contact with farm animals. waterways and areas where boaters would be The black Russian terrier was developed in These guidelines recommend providing hand- restricted or prohibited anger some groups. Russia in the 1960s for the national security washing facilities with soap and disposable There is an active Save the Manatee Club. force. Seventeen breeds were used in its devel- towels, prohibiting human food in the inter- opment, particularly the giant schnauzer. It also Most Popular Breeds action area, and posting information about dis- has Airedale, Newfoundland, and Rottweiler ease that can be contracted from animals. characteristics. According to AKC registration figures for Outbreaks of illness can be caused by nail- The Neapolitan mastiff has existed in Italy 2003, the Labrador retriever, for the 14th con- biting, eating food, or other manners of touch- since Roman times. The mastino has a large, secutive year, is the most popular purebred dog ing the mouth after petting the animals. This unique head with skin hanging in exaggerated in America. The Labrador’s versatile nature can be prevented when proper precautions are folds. The dogs move slowly with a bear-like makes him ideal for work or play. He is shown taken. Washing hands is an important requisite gait. Originally bred as a fighter, they are no in AKC events and used in hunting, service for disease control. longer pugnacious toward other dogs. Stoicism work, and as a family companion. is a characteristic of the breed. Mastinos are At the other end of the list, the least- Pacemakers noble and devoted guardians. Recently, the registered purebred dogs are English fox- Implanting a pacemaker in an animal is not breed has been in the limelight as “Fang” in a hounds, otterhounds, harriers, American fox- unusual in veterinary medicine. A pacemaker is Harry Potter movie. hounds, and komondors. indicated in cases where the conduction system The Glen of Imaal terrier is an old Irish in the heart is diseased and thereby causes an breed used to hunt badger and control the Pet Ownership abnormally low heart rate. Most of the pace- rodent population, and as a turnspit dog. The A recent survey showed that there are 64.2 makers used in animal patients are donated by breed was recognized by the Irish Kennel Club million pet-owning households in the United family members of deceased persons with pace- in 1934, several years before the soft-coated States. These pets include 77.7 million cats, 65 makers. Such pacemakers have plenty of bat- wheaten terrier. The breed gained a foothold in million dogs, 16.8 million small mammals, 17.3 tery-life left and can help a dog, cat, ferret, or the United States about 1980. Glens resemble a million birds, 8.8 million reptiles, 7 million other animal. Pacemakers can be sent to the heavyweight Sealyham. Accepted colors are saltwater fish, and 185 million freshwater fish Cardiology Service, Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary wheaten, blue, and brindle. Another finding was that one-third of Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3900 Further information may be obtained at small-animal owners consider their pets as chil- Delancey Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
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Groundbreaking Ceremony,Honor for Dr.Rodin,and More! April 17 was a very special day for the School of Veterinary Medicine! We broke ground for the new Teaching and Research Building—more accurately, had the ground broken for us by Bailey, a canine member of the Pennsylvania Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue Team.We honored Dr. Judith Rodin, CW’66, with the School’s Silver Bellwether Medal. And we launched a fundraising campaign. It was a busy day!
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Chair Laurie Landeau,V’84,WG’84, P announced that the School just entered the Melissa Sanchez, Russell Redding, Judith Rodin, and public phase of a $100-million fundraising Christine Connelly, with Bailey. campaign. A video highlighting the needs for this campaign was shown. “We started this campaign four years ago with an $18-million grant from the Commonwealth, and that was a wonderful start for us....” Dean Alan M. Kelly
“Many of the resources for this new building have come from “…[I]t has been 40 years since a private contributions, private major building at the Vet School giving. The Veterinary School has has been dedicated exclusively to the most wonderfully generous teaching and research, and the and loyal group of friends that need and the anticipation could any school could wish to have.” not be any greater.” Dean Kelly Christine Connelly, chair, Board of Overseers “Really, the Commonwealth has been “Soon we will have a building a partner, a believer, a supporter from that will allow this school, if day one in this project. It provided the you’ll pardon the metaphor, stimulus to our fundraising and, of to break new ground, not only course, if you think about the in veterinary medicine, but in University of Pennsylvania and all of areas of medicine that have its progress, nowhere is Penn more of many important implications Pennsylvania than it is at the School for human health.” of Veterinary Medicine.” University President Judith Rodin Christine Connelly
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Groundbreaking Ceremony,Honor for Dr.Rodin,and More! “Reaching our goals, obviously, will not be easy even though it sounds like, wow, we have $78 million and we don’t have that many more to go, but many friends and alumni have already stretched to get us this far. So now we are really going to have to invite others to participate and to come and be invested in our vision. We are going to spend the next 26 months engaged in a significant outreach effort.” Laurie Landeau, V’84, WG’84, Campaign Chair
“The $18 million that has been committed to the project we view as sort of yeast; it’s helped to raise the rest of the money, the rest of the critical dollars to make this project work.” Russell Redding, Executive Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
“One of my main motivations to attend the University of Pennsylvania was the opportunity to be at a veterinary school which recognized “Sometimes I still go and sit in Room both the importance in research in A, especially after a tough day in veterinary medicine, and also the clinics, and every time I sit there I can critical role that veterinarians have in feel the presence of those who have research.” gone before me and I remember why I Melissa Sanchez, V.M.D./Ph.D. student am in this profession to begin with.” Karen O’Connor, V’04, Class President “We believe that the investment in the School of Veterinary Medicine has both immediate and long-term benefits for the Commonwealth as one of the largest single contributors to the Teaching and Research Building. We are confident that this new facility will ensure that Pennsylvania has the best possible space to educate men and women who will care for the state’s animals, both large and small, well into the “When the shadow of the new 21st century.” Teaching and Research Building falls Russell Redding upon the Old Quadrangle Building, it will not be a shroud, but an arm uniting the past and the future of veterinary medicine.” Karen O’Connor, V’04
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“As our world evolves, veterinarians See the Video are faced with new challenges which View the Groundbreaking transcend traditional veterinary Ceremony and the campaign medicine. Some of these challenges are in public health, bioterrorism, and video, as well as transcripts of the developing new treatments, not only speeches of our distinguished for animals, but for humans.” guests, on our website at Melissa Sanchez
“We all know that dogs resemble us in “I learned a little bit about how architects and engineers speak. many sorts of ways. So in studying Our building is not a complete box, nor is it an imperfect cube, dogs we’ll be studying ourselves.” rather it’s a platonic solid with a vibrant façade.” Dr. James Watson Richard O. Davies, chair, Building Committee “We quickly came to realize that the School’s needs were great and any extraordinary fundraising effort was going to be one “The School of Veterinary that was comprehensive, Medicine is an integral and because it wasn’t just the unique part of the health building; we have teaching science fabric of the needs, we have research University of Pennsylvania.” needs, we have other Dr. Rodin infrastructure needs, we have programmatic needs, we have an enormous need to ameliorate the enormous debt burden of our students.” Dr. Landeau
“I got started because, basically, if you could finally understand human disease, human beings, you might as well see the instruction book, and, as you all know, the project succeeded.” Dr. Watson
BELLWETHER 59 17 Groundbreaking Ceremony,Honor for Dr.Rodin,and More! “Most likely a few of you realize just how long we have been working toward this night, the kickoff of our capital campaign. We have worked on this through three University presidents and two Veterinary School deans.…Over time, the goals and the focus have changed, but the need for the capital campaign has not.” Dr. Landeau
School Honors Dr.Rodin During the groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Teaching and Research Building, Dean Alan M. Kelly presented the Silver Bellwether Medal to University President Judith Rodin.“…This is actually a bittersweet moment for us because, President Rodin, this is the last time that you will be here at an official event at the Veterinary School while you are President of the University and we wanted to mark that.” The medal citation follows:
RESOLVED, Judith Rodin, as President you have expanded the scope of possibilities for the University of Pennsylvania’s students, staff, and faculty, while simultaneously including the citizens in the surrounding West Philadelphia area. The School of Veterinary Medicine congratulates you on your unique visualization and leadership that has enhanced the University in higher education, research, and client care; Penn is now at the apex of the Ivys. As never before, you have brought passion and verve to Penn. RESOLVED, Judith Rodin, through your insight and support the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania appropriation for the School has more than trebled. This was a direct result of your fair-mindedness. Equally important, was your presence at appropriation hearings in Harrisburg whereupon you reinforced the School’s request for state funds. Your presentations at these hearings were distinctively scintillating and you greatly impressed the Assembly with your intellect and eloquence. You gathered immense respect among the Commonwealth’s General Assembly. In so doing, time after time, you paved the way for approval of the School’s funding appeal. RESOLVED, Judith Rodin, your effective lobbying of the governor for “brick and mortar” funds led to this glorious day of groundbreaking for a new Teaching and Research Building; we are enormously grateful. It is safe to say that we would not be here today without your vigorous support in Harrisburg. RESOLVED, Judith Rodin, for all of your magnanimous contributions to the University of Pennsylvania we are immeasurably thankful. We, however, shall fondly remember the Rodin Years as a time of special friendship to the School of Veterinary Medicine. As a token of our immense appreciation and esteem, I am pleased to award you the School’s highest honor, the Silver Bellwether Medal. University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine April 17, 2004
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V.M.D.V.M.D.Notes NOTES V.M.D. V.M.D.Notes NOTES V.M.D. V.M.D.Notes NOTES V.M.D. NOTES V.M.D.Notes V.M.D. NOTES V.M.D.Notes V.M.D. NOTES In the Shadows of Victory by Joan Capuzzi Giresi,C’86,V’98 left eye, left zygomatic arch, and sinuses. Growing up with six siblings in urban Equine surgeon Patricia M. Hogan,V’92, Because his skull had virtually “exploded” in Edison, N.J., the small harness-racing track a few regularly scans the Daily Racing Form, tracking pieces below his skin, there was no way to surgi- miles from home became her refuge. From the the progress of her recuperated “alumni” to see cally fit the fragments back together. age of ten, she was cleaning stalls and walking if her medical care has made a difference. Fortunately, Hogan says,“Everything was horses. By 15, she was driving them. Then came But there’s one former patient that she’d still sitting in place.”So she firmly padded summers assisting the veterinarian at Hanover need blinders and earplugs—and a cave in Smarty’s skull with three inches of bandages, Shoe Farms, the nation’s foremost Standardbred Nepal—to lose tabs on. dubbed him “Quasimodo,”and crossed her fin- breeding operation, in Hanover, Pa. It’s Smarty Jones. First unbeaten Kentucky gers. After a couple weeks of broad-spectrum At the University of Delaware, Hogan Derby and Preakness (systemic and intra- majored in animal science, but her plans for a Stakes victor since ocular) antibiotics career in veterinary medicine were temporarily Seattle Slew in 1977. and anti-inflamma- derailed when her application to Penn Veteri- And, recalls Hogan, tories, and stall rest, nary Medicine was denied. Undaunted, Hogan who treated the three- she discharged her begged for a job at New Bolton Center, where year-old stallion for a good-natured she cleaned stalls and raised eyebrows as the potentially life-threat- patient. only woman operating the forklift that ening head injury last Throughout the removed carcasses. summer, a “playful and ordeal, Hogan was The powers-that-be soon took notice. Dr. fun-loving” horse. impressed with own- Thomas J. Divers gave her a job working with Hogan and Smarty ers Roy and Pat his bovine leukemia herd. Client and School collided paths last July Chapman, a scrappy benefactor Anne F. Thorington offered her free 28, following a frenzied pair who’d plied accommodations on her farm in exchange for call from a track veterinarian at Philadelphia unexceptional bloodlines to produce their star foaling out her mares. And Charles W.Raker, Park reporting an accident in the starting gate. stallion on their former 100-acre Someday C’41 V’42, promised to help her gain accept- A horse had reared up, smashing his skull Farm in Chester County, Pa. ance into the School. against an iron bar and, reportedly, momentari- Smarty’s trainer, John Servis, who had only She enrolled the following year and spent ly lost consciousness.“I’m sending you a mess,” schooled the horse for three weeks when the most of her free time—and then some— Hogan remembers the veterinarian saying. injury occurred, finally broached the subject of around horses.“Whenever possible, I would cut And a mess he was: “The left side of his face racing with Hogan.“He told my small-animal classes so was blown up like a balloon,”she says. Two me,‘You’ve got to do some- I could spend my after- inches of prolapsed conjunctiva spilled out of thing, because this horse can noons at New Bolton, his left orbit. His nostrils wept blood. run.’” because I just had to see a Monsterlike, Smarty trotted into the barn at “…this horse can run”: horse.” New Jersey Equine Clinic, in Clarksburg, N.J., all-too-familiar words to In her third and fourth “as if nothing ever happened,”Hogan remem- Hogan, whose practice takes years, she worked in large- bers.“He was cool as a cucumber.” in some 3,000 cases annual- animal surgeon Dr. Dean Despite Smarty’s take-it-in-stride demeanor, ly—mostly racehorses (60% W. Richardson’s lab and Hogan worried. Although she’d handled a few Thoroughbreds, 40% Stan- raised her own professional of these rare starting-gate injuries in the past, dardbreds)—drawing from standards.“At New Bolton she had never seen one of this magnitude. Was more than a dozen tracks in Center, they demanded the horse neurologically intact? Was his vision New Jersey, New York, Penn- excellence. And you wanted impaired? Were his sinuses damaged enough to sylvania, Delaware, Maryland, to do well because you compromise air flow and thus athletic and Virginia. respected the people there,” performance? But coming from Servis, Until Smarty Jones, the Kentucky Derby she says. Upon admission, Hogan stopped the hem- who stood out amongst the winner had not been the main subject Following an internship orrhage and performed a neurologic exam, other trainers for his modest of a Sports Illustrated cover for 21 years. at the distinguished Rood which was normal. She ultrasounded the left reserve, these words resonated & Riddle Equine Hospi- eye and found it to be intact, but could not with Hogan. She’d placed herself at the track tal—in Kentucky bluegrass country—and a assess Smarty’s vision until about a week later, from an early age, and had developed an three-year large animal surgery residency at when the extraocular swelling had subsided instinct for all things horse. Texas A&M University College of Veterinary enough to perform a thorough ophthalmic “From the moment I can remember, I loved Medicine, Hogan headed back to New Jersey to exam. And she x-rayed his skull, which con- horses,”she says.“I drew them. I cut their pic- become an associate at New Jersey Equine Clin- tained multiple pulverized fractures around his tures out of magazines….” continued on page 20
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V.M.D.V.M.D.Notes NOTES V.M.D. V.M.D.Notes NOTES V.M.D. V.M.D.Notes NOTES V.M.D. NOTES V.M.D.Notes V.M.D. NOTES V.M.D.Notes V.M.D. NOTES President’s Message Only one event can lead my report of School’s booth at the Pennsylvania Farm Show. appropriation was reduced by five percent or happenings since my last message: the April Thank you to everyone who volunteered their nearly $1.9 million from its FY’03 appropria- groundbreaking of the School’s new Teaching time this year, and we hope more will partici- tion and as the FY’05 appropriation is not and Research Building. I wish every graduate pate next year. expected to include an increase for inflation, the could have attended this memorable event, The On Campus Involvement Committee, generosity of our alumni and friends is more which took place on a beautiful spring day in chaired by Jack Bregman,V’66, is focusing its important than ever. These cuts have an adverse the Old Quad- energies on Alumni Weekend 2004, Saturday, effect on the School in the form of higher rangle Court- October 2, at New Bolton Center. The new tuition, a lower cap on faculty raises compared yard—an area autumn date offers many opportunities for to the rest of the University, and more deferred where all of us enjoyment and will reduce the conflicts for maintenance. have walked, alumni with the many weddings and gradua- As a result, opportunities like the Landeau talked, laughed, tions in May. In addition to the VMAS Annual Challenge must not be missed. Laurie J. and perhaps Meeting, alumni picnic, seminars on Penn Landeau,V’84 WG’84, will give $150,000 to the cried. The new undergraduate admissions and veterinary School if alumni contribute $150,000 in new building will be school admissions, we also hope to offer and increased gifts to the Veterinary Student James V.Stewart,V’68, the first for the hayrides with pumpkin picking, children’s Scholarship Fund before June 30, the end of President,Veterinary School in music, and storytelling during the day. In the Penn’s fiscal year. As of April 30, the contribu- Medical Alumni Society Philadelphia in evening, the alumni dinner will be held at the tions of more than 600 alumni have totaled 25 years, the fifth Stone Barn, a large, rustic, and beautiful facility $135,000 toward meeting the Landeau in 120 years—and as such, its place in history is with outstanding food, only 15 minutes from Challenge. If you have already made your gift, assured. New Bolton Center. (An alumni golf outing you have my heartfelt thanks. If not, please be as Excellence in teaching and research—that is may be held on Sunday, October 3.) generous as you can to help us meet the where we came from, that is who we are. With- As the School’s FY’04 Commonwealth Landeau Challenge before June 30. out it, we risk losing our identity as top-notch VMDs. On that historic day in April, University President Judith Rodin, CW’66, recognized In the Shadows of Victory continued from page 19 “[the School’s] wonderful alumni, who do so ic, among the East Coast’s most prominent, and Quasimodo?!’” Hogan, who covers New Jersey much in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” busiest, equine hospitals catering to racehorses. horse races as part of the AAEP’s “On Call” and thanked us “for keeping Penn’s name At the 140-acre, 44-stall hospital, which is program, which provides veterinary informa- bright.”In addition, Russell Redding, the Execu- owned by American Association of Equine tion to the broadcast and print media during all tive Deputy Secretary of the Pennsylvania Practitioners (AAEP) president-elect Scott live-broadcast racing events, started a bulletin Department of Agriculture, reaffirmed the Palmer,V’76, Hogan, 39, performs four or five board at the clinic to post newspaper clippings School’s critical role in Pennsylvania agricul- surgeries daily and sees the occasional noncriti- from Smarty’s races. ture, the state’s largest industry. cal medicine case. Following the Derby win, word got out that The 2004 Alumni Liaison Committee met at And yes, Hogan—who is married to suc- she had treated Smarty’s head injury, and New Bolton Center in March. This year, as part cessful Standardbred trainer Eddie Lohmeyer Hogan’s clinic soon became inundated by of its review, the Committee focused on the and breeds her own Standardbreds—follows media calls and film crews. And Hogan herself Department of Clinical Studies—New Bolton the ponies, particularly the ones who once had became rushed with praise. Smarty’s owners, Center. You will read a report of their findings lain before her in the O.R. Her clients include a the Chapmans,“thanked me a million times.” in the next issue of Bellwether. Serving on the half dozen or so trainers involved in the last Her boss, Scott Palmer, also had kind words: Committee is a great opportunity to interact Kentucky Derby. “This horse had all the natural ability to be a with the School’s administration, faculty, and And then there’s that standout patient who champion, but might not have had the oppor- students, and I encourage every alumnus to comes along once in a career: Smarty Jones, tunity if this injury were not treated and consider serving on the Committee. If you are who graduated from Hogan’s care last August rehabbed so well.” interested in serving in the future, please con- to make his debut as a two-year-old in Novem- Hogan modestly spreads the credit amongst tact Marilyn B.Weber,V’75, Alumni Liaison ber. Although five months late to the starting the team, including Smarty.“I’m just so proud Committee Chairperson, at (732) 449-9224 or gate as a result of both tragedy (his previous of him and my staff, and also of our client John via email at [email protected]. trainer was murdered) and injury, Smarty ran Servis for making all the right choices,”she This past year, the VMAS Executive Board’s undefeated in his first eight races until he fell gushes.“This is the pinnacle for someone who committees accomplished several important one victory short, by one length in the Belmont works with Thoroughbred racehorses.” projects. The Off Campus Involvement Com- Stakes, of being the first Triple Crown winner Editor’s Note: Smarty Jones’s regular veteri- mittee, chaired by Elizabeth M. McMurtrie, since 1978. narian is Roger B. Clymans, V’71, who is based V’88, helped recruit alumni to volunteer at the “I said to the staff,‘Hey you guys, remember at Philadelphia Park.
20 BELLWETHER 59 V.M.D.NotesV.M.D. NOTES V.M.D. V.M.D.Notes NOTES V.M.D. V.M.D.Notes NOTES V.M.D. NOTES V.M.D.Notes V.M.D. NOTES V.M.D.Notes V.M.D. NOTES Vetting on the Environment by Joan Capuzzi Giresi,C’86,V’98 tion for animals and the outdoors. During her and know you’re getting a little bit done at a It was a pivotal moment for Bethany J. junior year at Colby College, where she studied time.” Grohs,V’98, one she remembers well. As a biology and chemistry, Grohs spent a semester Grohs, a member of the American Veteri- career-planning exercise in a third-year course assessing wildlife parks in Africa. There, she nary Medical Association’s Committee for at Penn Veterinary Medicine, she and her class- grasped the impact of park management on the Environmental Issues, notes a striking similari- mates were asked to fast-forward five years hardiness of the animal residents. ty between clinical practice and ecologic risk beyond graduation: Where did they hope to be Her nagging desire to become a veterinarian assessment. She likens the latter to a ten-minute professionally? exam on a pet—“but on a much “I wrote down that I wanted to be part of a bigger scale”—from history-taking team that does multidisciplinary problem-solv- to diagnostics to treatment plan. ing on environmental issues internationally. And just as in clinical medicine, But,”she soberly recalls,“I figured that a job like she notes, her regulatory role this didn’t really exist for a veterinarian.” requires her to be a good commu- Happily, Grohs proved herself wrong. As a nicator.“You need to be able to veterinary medical officer with the U.S. explain scientific concepts well. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environ- But,”she adds,“you also need to be mental Response Team in Edison, N.J., she a good listener and not just a font manages the animal side of the environmental of knowledge.” contamination equation. As an EPA veterinary medical Since joining EPA in 1999, Grohs, 33, has officer, Grohs must communicate collaborated with the National Marine Fisheries in a broad range of situations that Service to collect environmental health samples vary considerably in formality, from bottlenose dolphins, investigated suspect- from spontaneous exchanges with ed cases of bovine fluorosis associated with farmers in barns to planned brief- industrial emissions, and assisted with the foot- ings before the U.S. Senate. and-mouth disease outbreak in the U.K. Whether she is meeting with Grohs, whose job post-9/11 includes collab- members of Congress, producers orating with the U.S. Department of Homeland or industrial workers, Grohs Security on counterterrorism issues, also observes that introducing herself as designed a decontamination system for the a “veterinarian” rather than as an World Trade Center search-and-rescue dogs, “environmental regulator” or even and investigated related toxin exposures. (She a “scientist” opens the door to lectured at Penn Veterinary Medicine on Disas- Dr.Grohs with U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.). more positive interactions in her ters, Disease, and Defense in April.) And she work.“People stand up all the time helped coordinate response efforts to the was tempered by the discouraging advice of her and say,‘I’m a scientist.’But when I say,‘I’m a anthrax crisis at Capitol Hill. college advisers, who reminded her of the diffi- veterinarian,’there is a much different sense— Her field work is balanced in equal parts culty of being accepted into veterinary school. that you’re someone who really cares.” with policymaking, a combination, she says, So following graduation, Grohs headed back Indeed, Grohs cares immensely about the that offers unique advantages: “In the office, into the outdoors, working as a wrangler at an fitness of our fauna and flora. While many gov- you write policy that makes practical sense. Arabian horse ranch in Wyoming. This led to a ernmental resources are directly devoted to And then when you’re in the field, you can job at a local veterinary practice and a rekin- reducing human health risk, she explains,“I understand how those decisions have been dling of her desire to pursue veterinary medicine. focus on the environmental health risk because made.” After graduating from veterinary school, she if you have a healthy ecosystem, the people will To bolster this decision-making process, headed out to Montana to work in mixed-ani- be fine.” Grohs, who takes call one week every other mal practice. She enjoyed her year in clinical month for national environmental emergen- practice, particularly the opportunity to readily Banfield, the Pet Hospital, has cies, has initiated contact with EPA’s 11 other quantify the fruits of her daily efforts.“At the announced the recent hiring of three alumni veterinarians—all researchers—to weave the end of the day, for instance, I could go home at their veterinary hospitals: Gregory L. results of their scientific investigations into knowing I spayed three animals.” Cusanno,V’70, and Carrie A. Hutchinson, policy. In her subsequent government work, the V’01, practicing in Warminster, Pa.; and Growing up on a farm in coastal Maine, pursuit of results requires considerably more Corinne Majeska,V’03, practicing in Cherry Grohs spent her youth hiking, camping, riding patience.“The way you deal with the red tape,” Hill, N.J. horses, and developing an enduring apprecia- she explains,“is to keep a long-term perspective
BELLWETHER 59 21 V.M.D.NotesV.M.D. NOTES V.M.D. V.M.D.Notes NOTES V.M.D. V.M.D.Notes NOTES V.M.D. NOTES V.M.D.Notes V.M.D. NOTES V.M.D.Notes V.M.D. NOTES Class Notes 1936 ny in May 2004. Dr. Eyster was recognized for his president and a staff surgeon at the New Jersey Anthony M.Stefanski of Crowley, La., writes: “I pioneering achievements in veterinary cardiology, for Equine Clinic in Clarksburg, N.J., and is president- read, with interest, the [Fall 2003] Bellwether.… I providing a model of excellence to veterinary stu- elect of the American Association of Equine realize now, how much my education at the Universi- dents, and for his ongoing commitment to the well- Practitioners. ty of Pennsylvania [has] meant to me. … Enjoy news being of the College. 1979 from and about my alma mater.” 1966 During the Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical 1949 H.Michael Maetz has recently retired as professor Association’s 121st Annual Scientific Meeting in Arthur Richards,Jr. has recently published his of epidemiology at the University of Alabama at August 2003, James R.Rummel was honored with autobiography, Tale Waggings: Recollections of a Rural Birmingham School of Public Health. the Veterinarian of the Year Award in recognition of Veterinarian, and donated a copy to be placed in the his outstanding service, enthusiastic leadership, and 1968 tireless dedication to the PVMA and the veterinary School’s library. Dr. Richards tells how he established H.Wesley Towers,Jr. , the state veterinarian of profession. Dr. Rummel is a partner and hospital his practice in rural western Pennsylvania and was Delaware, was appointed by Delaware Governor thrown into unexpected situations, remarking,“They administrator of Camboro Veterinary Hospital, a Ruth Ann Minner in 2003 to a six-year term on the small-animal practice, in Edinboro, Pa. never told me in veterinary school it would be like University of Delaware Board of Trustees. He is a this.”Using humor, he describes many tales from his 1964 graduate of the University. He serves on numer- 1980 50 years of treating large and small animals. To read ous national committees including the U.S. Secretary Diane Ruth Eigner was interviewed in an article an excerpt or to order the book, visit of Agriculture’s Advisory Committee on Foreign Ani- about how to pick a new kitten in the February 18,
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1984 nator for Veterinary Services, a part of the U.S. Foundation, the Luce Scholars Program provides Dennis E.Burkett is President-Elect of the Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant stipends and internships annually for 15 young Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society, Health Inspection Service. Based in Sutton, Mass., Dr. Americans to live and work in Asia for a year. The which works to raise the level of patient care for seri- Murphy is responsible for six New England states. program’s purpose is to increase awareness of Asia ously ill or injured animals through quality educa- Veterinary Services protects and improves the health, among future leaders in American society. tion and communication programs. quality, and marketability of the nation’s animals, animal products, and veterinary biologics. 2003 Jessica A.Chavkin 1985 E.Scott Weber visited Penn Veterinary Medicine , an intern at the Animal Med- Elizabeth S.Sinnigen, a practitioner at VCA and spoke to students in May 2004 as part of the ical Center in New York City, was one of the veteri- Rotherwood Animal Hospital in Newton, Mass., was Dean’s Alumni Career Speaker Series. Dr. Weber is narians featured in “Pet E.R.,”an article about the honored in May 2004 with the Massachusetts Veteri- the head veterinarian at the New England Aquarium AMC, which appeared in the January 19, 2004, issue nary Medical Association’s 2003 Distinguished in Boston. of People magazine. Service Award. The award, the most prestigious Karena Joung, an intern in the Department of award that the MVMA confers, is given for accom- 1998 Small Animal Clinical Sciences at Michigan State plishments in the MVMA and in veterinary medi- Mary Jane McNamee and her husband, Mark A. University College of Veterinary Medicine, was hon- cine, and for outstanding contributions to the service Kapolka,V’97, were profiled in Sunday Patriot-News ored in April 2004 with the SCAVMA Intern Award. of humankind. Dr. Sinnigen, who has been active in of Harrisburg, Pa., on November 9, 2003. They were The award was given in recognition of her outstand- organized veterinary medicine in Massachusetts, has planning to open a new “progressive and proactive” ing performance in the clinical training and teaching advocated for the creation of an appendix to the practice together in Cornwall, Pa., by May 2004. of students. Massachusetts Comprehensive Emergency Manage- According to Dr. McNamee,“Most people think of ment Plan, which articulates a protocol for the treat- their pets as family members. And that affects their Residents ments of domestic and wild animals in a disaster or health care choices. We want to be advocates for our emergency. patients, but not bully our clients into doing things 2003 William H.Yerkes IV became a member of the they don’t want to.”They have three children, twin Vicki Campbell, assistant professor of emergency Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, the regulatory one-year-olds and a three-year-old. and critical care medicine at Colorado State Universi- body for veterinary surgeons in the United Kingdom, 1999 ty College of Veterinary Medicine, is a new diplomate in May 2003. Matthew S.Johnston has become board-certified of the American College of Veterinary Emergency in avian practice by the American Board of and Critical Care. 1990 Justine A.Lee Veterinary Practitioners. , assistant clinical professor of Living in Wauchope, New South Wales, Australia, emergency services at the University of Minnesota Angela E.Frimberger Patrick A.Mahaney visited Penn Veterinary Med- and her husband, Dr. Tony College of Veterinary Medicine, is a new diplomate of Moore, have opened Veterinary Oncology Consul- icine and spoke to students in March 2004 as part of the Dean’s Alumni Career Speaker Series. Dr. the American College of Veterinary Emergency and tants, a fax- and Internet-based consulting business Critical Care. to help veterinarians care for pets with cancer. Visit Mahaney practices at Metropolitan Emergency Ani- their website at
BELLWETHER 59 23 V.M.D.V.M.D.Notes NOTES V.M.D. V.M.D.Notes NOTES V.M.D. V.M.D.Notes NOTES V.M.D. NOTES V.M.D.Notes V.M.D. NOTES V.M.D.Notes V.M.D. NOTES Births 1945 1960 Scott H.Heffner on November 20, 2003. Jordan M.Miller on October 18, 2003. 1998 Marlyn Ernst Prier on May 31, 2003. Derek S.Boen, a son, Sean Christopher, on July 8, 1947 2003. John R.Church on February 28, 2004. 1965 James W.Goris on November 21, 2003. Andrew H.Kraft on April 15, 2004. 1999 Dorian Lugo on February 8, 2004. Jennifer A.Morris, a son, Calvin Robert, on 1967 January 25, 2003. 1948 John W.Knochel on February 4, 2004. William Deeds Donovan on March 8, 2004. 1972 Deaths 1949 Mary A.Leisner on August 26, 2003. 1936 G.Robert Muller on February 5, 2004. 1980 Robert R.Crelin on December 28, 2002. 1950 Steven L.Schwartz on December 5, 2003. 1937 George L.Stolte on May 14, 2003. 2001 Russell S.Edmonds on May 26, 2004. 1959 Robert W.Richardson on January 14, 2004. Leo R.McKinney on March 24, 2003. John C.W.Bauersfeld on September 18, 2001. 1940 Benjamin L.Walbert,Jr. on March 18, 2004. Alumni Connections To find a former classmate and to sign up for a To purchase veterinary,medical,and alllied 1941 permanent email forwarding service: health textbooks from leading publishers: Thomas W.Brown on September 20, 2003. Join the University of Pennsylvania Alumni On- Visit the Penn Vet Bookstore at
24 BELLWETHER 59 V.M.D.NotesV.M.D. NOTES V.M.D. V.M.D.Notes NOTES V.M.D. V.M.D.Notes NOTES V.M.D. NOTES V.M.D.Notes V.M.D. NOTES V.M.D.Notes V.M.D. NOTES Caring for the Nittany Animals by Joan Capuzzi Giresi,C’86,V’98 in Pennsylvania,”Werner explains,“so it’s helps enforce the University’s strict biosecurity Pennsylvania State University is the largest important for students to learn animal hus- measures. in the Commonwealth, and among the top ten bandry and proper animal care.” While he admits to a dislike of “just busy in size nationwide. And that’s not even count- As a head veterinarian at Penn State, Werner paperwork issues,”he enjoys compliance work ing the animals. divides his time between paperwork and field- because it improves the care and well-being of The University’s 40,000 head of students is work. On any given day, he might work up the animals concerned.“If it’s an issue that can amplified by some 1,000 cattle and sheep, near- diarrhea in swine, diagnose foot problems in better animal welfare,”he says,“then we need to ly 100 American Quarter Horses and ponies, deer, do pregnancy checks on cows, or insert deal with it.” and dozens of breeding sows. There are aquaria catheters in lab animals. For the poultry-processing plant on cam- brimming with native Pennsylvania fish and But Werner spends most of his time on reg- pus, Werner helped draw up a new euthanasia African cyclids. Thousands of chickens and ulatory issues, ensuring that procedures and protocol incorporating electrical stunning prior turkeys. Wildlife including raptors, turtles, husbandry protocols comply with regulations to exsanguination. This added step, he says, has snakes, and a herd of white-tailed deer. And like the federal Animal Welfare Act and Public made the procedure more humane and in clos- countless lab animals. Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use er synchrony with AVMA guidelines. He’s also Overseeing them all is Jacob R.Werner, of Laboratory Animals, and with guidelines working with the dairy farm to incorporate the V’00, Penn State’s attending veterinarian for issued by organizations like the American Vet- use of local anesthesia into calf dehorning. agricultural animals and wildlife. Werner is one erinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the No stranger to agriculture—or Penn State— of four veterinarians holding this vast Association for Assessment and Accreditation Werner grew up in a rural town in northwest- menagerie of production and bioscience ani- of Laboratory Animal Care International ern Pennsylvania. There, he spent time helping mals together. (AAALAC). out at his uncle’s dairy farm. And he paid close A land-grant university established in 1855 As a member of Penn State’s Institutional attention to the veterinarians treating his own for agricultural use and engineering, Penn State Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), horses, eventually working for one of them relies heavily on its animals for teaching pur- Werner also reviews experimental protocols while a high school student and later while poses.“Agriculture is the number-one industry that involve the use of laboratory animals and majoring in bioscience at Penn State. Although he veered in the direction of large- animal medicine, Werner tried to maintain an open mind by choosing a mixed-animal con- American Association of Equine Practitioners Annual Convention centration in veterinary school. Following a November 22,2003 in New Orleans large-animal medicine and field service intern- ship at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, he went to work for a mixed-animal practice. When he arrived at Penn State last June, Werner, 28, soon reaped the benefits of his strong clinical background, which, he says, helped him better understand the complex ani- mal-use guidelines as well as the practical pro- duction matters. And it’s helped him face down some of the inherent challenges of compliance work. “The hard part about regulatory issues is Western Veterinary Conference getting people like producers and basic scien- February 16,2004 in Las Vegas tists to understand why they are so important,” he says. Werner, who serves as his veterinary school class agent, says his Penn experience helped him converse on the many different levels that his job demands.“I’m working with investigators, students, regulators…. You need to be a good communicator in my job—understanding dif- ferent processes, putting concepts together, and then explaining them. Penn always challenged me to do these things.”
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“Take a Seat” Campaign With plans for the new Teaching and Charles E. Benson, Ph.D. Trish A. diPietrae Research Building in the final stages, we want to Given in honor of Richard A. McFeely, V’61 Given by Trish diPietrae Charles E. Benson, Ph.D. Dr. William J. Donawick update alumni and friends on the progress of Given in Honor of Robert J. Eckroade, D.V.M., Ph.D. Given by Dr. and Mrs. William Donawick, Faculty 1964-2002 the “Take a Seat” campaign, an initiative in Daniel B. Bleicher,V’53 Dr. Zhenyxia Dou naming a seat, to honor or remember a special Given by Carlo Bleicher and Daniel Bleicher, V’53 for Richard J. Inscription to Come person or a beloved pet. As of March 31, 2004, Bleicher, M.D. Robert C. Dreisbach,V’54 more than 185 of the 266 available classroom Dr. Raymond C. Boston Given in Memory of My Mentors, William Boucher, V’40, and Given in Honor of the Boston Sons: Sean, Marc, Paul, and James Arthur Bartenstagher, V’37 – Prospering Through Independence seats have been designated. The list that follows Roselyn J. Eisenberg, Ph.D. represents those who have completed or are in Allan P.Bregman, D.V.M. Given by Roselyn J. Eisenberg in Memory of Robert E. Davies, the process of completing a booked pledge Given by Allan P. Bregman, D.V.M., in Honor of My Parents, Teacher, Scholar, Friend Jack, V’66, and Alicia Bregman (pledge/gift form must have been submitted to Dr.Jay P.Farrell Eric M. Bregman,V’95 Given in Memory of Carl E. Kirkpatrick, V.M.D., Ph.D., the Development Office). Given by Eric M. Bregman, V’95, in Honor of My Parents,, Jack, Pathobiology V’66, and Alicia A classroom seat can be dedicated for a tax- Neil R. Frank deductible contribution of $3,000 that is Jack,V’66, and Alicia Bregman Given in Loving Memory of Janet Remetta, V’85 – Wife, Friend, Given by Jack, V’66 and Alicia Bregman in Memory of Patsy payable over a five-year period. If you have and Humanitarian Florence T. Brennan Paul C. Gambardella,V’72 questions regarding the “Take a Seat” campaign, Given in Honor of Bernard F. Brennan, V’46 Given by Paul, V’72, and Susan Gambardella please contact Dori Myers, Major Gifts Officer, M. Elaine Redding Brinster Sheldon L. Gerstenfeld,V’68 in the School’s Development Office at (215) Given by M. Elaine Redding Brinster, Faculty Wife Given by the Gerstenfeld Family – Tyler, Sheldon V’68, Traudi, 746-7438 or via email at [email protected]. Lauren Brinster,V.M.D., D.A.C.V.P. Sidney, and Isabelle Given by Lauren Brinster Dr. Michael H. Goldschmidt Class of 1990 Given in Memory of Heinz Goldschmidt and Sidney Straus Listings are shown as: Ralph L. Brinster,V.M.D., Ph.D. Anne M. Green Given by Ralph L. Brinster Person Making Pledge Given by Anne M. Green and Andrew H. Green in Honor of Our Class of 1960 Given in Honor of/in Memory of Dogs Dorothy Cimino Brown Elaine P.Hammel,V’60 Given in Loving Memory of Robert and Dorothy Cimino Given in Honor of Monica Reynolds, Ph.D. PATRONS Dr. and Mrs. James W.Buchanan Peter J. Hand,V’61 Donald,V’61, and Sandy Abt In Memory of Dr. David H. Knight Given in Memory of Mark W. Allam, V’32 Given by Dr. and Mrs. Peter Hand in Memory of James and Maron Calderwood Mays,V’68 Edna Hand, Animal Biology Dr. and Mrs. Gary C. Althouse Given in Honor of Wayne H. Riser, D.V.M., by Maron B. Mark E. Haskins,V’69 Given by G & C Althouse and Our Family…Present and Future Calderwood Mays, V’68 Given in Memory of Mitzi G. Haskins by Mark Haskins, V’69, Richard C.,V’48, and Laverne Ainley Mary Beth Callan,V’88 Pathobiology Given in Memory of Robert A. Vanderhoof, V’45 Given in Loving memory of John G. Callan, Jr. by Mary Beth Park W.Haverstick,V’75 Wilbur B. Amand,V’66 Callan, V’88 Inscription to Come Given in Memory of Wilbur F. and Caroline M. Amand Barbara B. Cavanaugh Dr. Paula S. Henthorn Animal Rescue League of Philadelphia Given in Memory of “Susie” Bernoff and “Maggie” Cavanaugh Given in Memory of Willis and Sue Henthorn Given in Honor of the School of Veterinary Medicine’s Faculty by Barbara and David Cavanaugh and Students Lisa A. Cawley,V’92 Peter H. Herman,V’69 Given in Honor of the Marriage of Marie Gombar and Peter Animal Rescue League of Philadelphia Given by Lisa Cawley, V’92 Herman, V’69, on October 18, 2003 Given in Honor of Dr. Josephine Deubler for Her Years of Service Dr. Samuel K. Chacko as Secretary Given by Dr. and Mrs. Samuel K. Chacko Steven Jay Heyman,V’87 Given by Steven J. Heyman, V’87 Anonymous Jean Clair Given Anonymously in Memory of Joan B. O’Brien’s, V’63, Love Given in Honor of Mary Beth Callan, V’88, a Truly Superb and Dr. David Holt of Teaching Caring Medicine Clinician, by Jean Clair, Referral Given in Honor of Laurie Strine, V’90 Lillian R. Aronson,V.M.D., D.A.C.V.S. Coordinator Susan Jacobson,V’77 Given by Lillian R. Aronson, V’92 Kevin P.Coogan,V’80 Given in Memory of John L. Jacobson and Helen V. Plunkett Dr. Michael Atchison In Honor of Arthur P. Coogan, V52 Dr. Janet Johnston Given by Michael and Lakshmi Atchison with Love for Their Henry L. Croft, Jr.,V’78 Given in Honor of Our Loving Pets and to Their Compassionate Sons Alan and Steven In Honor of My Parents Henry, Sr. and Jimmie Croft, given by Care Kathleen and Richard Aucamp Henry Croft, Jr., V’78 Mrs. Kathryn H. Johnston (two seats) Given by Kathleen and Richard Aucamp Dr. Richard O. Davies Given by Kathryn Johnston in Memory of Robert N. Hartzell Dr. Narayan G. Avadhani (two seats) Richard O. Davies, Department of Animal Biology Dr. Amy Kapatkin and Dr. Robert Poppenga Inscription to Come Sherrill Davison Yeakel,V’83 Given by Amy Kapatkin, Department of Clinical Studies, and Joanna M. Bassert,V’89 Inscription to Come Robert Poppenga, Department of Pathobiology Given by Dr. Joanna M. Bassert in Honor of Penn’s Outstanding Patricia Day-Lollini,V’79 Susan L. Keiser Veterinary Nurses Given in Memory of Quint and Meshach, by Patricia Day- Given by Susan Lynne Keiser in Memory of Jessica Jill Beech,V’72 Lollini, V’79 Malcolm J. Keiter Given by Jill Beech, V’72 Dr. Adelaide Delluva Given in Memory of Alvin E. and Daphne L. Keiter by Their Sons Charles N. Bell,V’70 Given in Memory of Dwight McNair Scott, Ph.D. Alan M. Kelly Given in Memory of Our Cat Looch by Jeffrey, V’03, Charles, David K. Detweiler,V’42 Given in Honor of Robert R. Marshak, D.V.M. V’70, Barbara, Marc, and Jaclyn Bell Inscription of Come Alan M. Kelly and Barry Stupine R. Avery Bennett, D.V.M. Josephine Deubler,V’38 Given in Memory of Speaker Matthew J. Ryan by Alan M. Kelly Given in Memory of Robert W. Richardson, V’01 Given in Memory of Ernest C. Deubler, V’11 and Barry Stupine
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Karen Tabak Kessler,V’96 Sandra Z. Perkowski,V’88 Sheldon A. Steinberg,V’59 Given in Loving Memory of Geneva by the KesslerFamily Given in Celebration of the Life and Times of Jasper the Dog by Given in Honor of James M. Sprague, by Sheldon A. Seth A. Koch,V’65 Sandra Perkowski Sutherland Steinberg, V’59 Given in Honor of Lionel F. Rubin, V’58 Pets First Veterinary Center/Curt D. Heyde,V’94 Mark A. Stuart Given in Memory of David H. Knight, D.V.M., by Curt and Leonard Krawitz,V’39 Given by Tim Rupe and Mark Stuart Given by Leonard Krawitz, V’39 Gabrielle Heyde Barry Stupine and Alan M. Kelly Laurie J. Landeau,V’84 Carolyn B. Pope In Memory of Gypsy 1981 – 1997, from Penn Vet to My Heart – Given by Carolyn Baker Pope, Animal Biology Given in Memory of Speaker Matthew J. Ryan by Alan M. Kelly Laurie J. Landeau, V’84 Dominick A. Pulice,V’86 and Barry Stupine Andrea Landsberg,V’88 Given in Honor of Christine, Elizabeth, and Kathleen Pulice Barry and Susan Stupine For Omo T. and Linea Alba by Richard and Andrea, V’88 Charles W.Raker,V’42 Given in Honor of Jeffery Stupine Midge Leitch,V’73 Given in Memory of Joanie Elser, a Special Friend of New Bolton Center by Charles W. Raker,V’42, Surgery Barry and Susan Stupine Given in Memory of Thomas Leitch by Midge Leitch, V’73, Given in Honor of Erika Yablonovitz Londonderry Equine Clinic Bruce Rappoport Given in Honor of Steven T. Rappoport, C’02, by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond W.,V’82, and Corinne P.Sweeney, D.V.M. Joshua E. Liss Bruce A. Rappoport Given by Joshua E. Liss in Honor of All the Veterinarians Who Given by Drs. Raymond W., V’82, and Corrine R. Sweeney Have Cared for His Pets Bruce Rappoport Thomas J.Van Winkle,V’75, and Mattie J. Hendrick,V’78 Given in Memory of Arthur E. Rappoport, M.D., by Mr. and Meryl P.Littman,V’75 Given by Tom Van Winkle, V’75, and Mattie Hendrick, V’78, Mrs. Bruce Rappoport Given in Memory of Albert Podolsky by Drs. Gary and Meryl Laboratory of Pathology Littman, V’75 Kelly D. Reynolds Given in Honor of My Children, Daniel, Melissa, and Gabrielle George D.Vernimb,V’56 Lori S. Mann,V’95 Ardis Reynolds Given by George, V’56, and Ruth Vernimb Given in Loving Memory of Jayne B. Mann and Arden Salk Spencer William E. Riddle,V’66, Ph.D. Patricia J. Mapps,V’96 Charles H.Vite, D.V.M.,and Susan W.Volk,V’95 Given by William E. Riddle, V’66 in Honor of Charles W. Inscription to Come Given in Memory of Erie and Tasha by Charles Vite and Susan Raker, V’42 Volk, V’95 Ashra Markowitz Michael W.Ross, D.V.M. Given by David, Norman, Minnie, and Ashra Markowitz Given in Honor of Stone and Kennedy Ross by Michael W. Ross, Lynn M. Walker,V’87 Dr. Robert R. Marshak Their Dad Two Dear Border Collies, Rob and Nell – Lynn M. Walker, V’87 Given in Memory of John E. Martin, V’42 The Business Office at Ryan Veterinary Hospital Sally Oblas Walshaw,V’75 Dr. Robert R. Marshak Inscription to Come Given by Sally O. Walshaw, V’75 and Richard Walshar, V-Res’76 Given in Honor of Margo Post Marshak Kenneth K. Sadanaga,V’85 Dr. Peiging Jeremy Wang Robert R. McDonald Inscription to Come Given in Memory of Mr. Bingxun Wang by Dr. P. Jeremy Wang Given in Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. McDonald H. Mark Saunders,V’81 Dr. and Mrs. Norbert R. McManus,V47 Given in Honor of My Radiology Mentors, by H. Mark Saunders, Robert J. Washabau,V’82 Given by Norbert R. McManus, V’47 and Mary M. V’81 Given by Robert J. Washabau, V’82 McManus, R.N. Gerhard A. Schad, Ph.D. Suzanne S. Weaver Dr. Kathryn E. Michel Given in Memory of Donna J. Schad by Gerhard A. Schad, Ph.D., In Memory of Wally and Jeff Weaver – Ryan Hospital Given in Honor of John L. Mara, D.V.M., by Kathryn E. Michel, Laboratory of Parasitology Dr. Wilfried T.Weber D.V.M., Department of Clinical Studies Dr. Dieter M. Schifferli Given in Memory of Irmgard Weber by Wilfried Weber, Bonnie Miller Given in Memory of Peter and Maguida Schifferli Department of Pathobiology Given in Memory of Lucas, Our Smiling Golden, by Bonnie H. James Schroll,V’74, and Jane Sparacino,V’74 (two seats) Miller and Harry Schwartz Inscription to Come Helma Weeks Richard R. Miselis,V’73 Dr. Phillip Scott Given in Honor of All the Penn Veterinarians Who Helped My Given by Richard R. Miselis, V’73, Animal Biology Given by the Scott Family for “Sandy” – Pathobiology Bullmastiffs, by Helma Weeks - Nutiket Registered E. Neil Moore, D.V.M.,Ph.D., D.A.C.V.I.M. Patricia L. Sertich,V’83 Dr. Leon P.Weiss Given by E. Neil Moore, D.V.M., Ph.D., D.A.C.V.I.M., Professor, Patricia L. Sertich, M.S., V’83, Diplomate American College Given by Dr. Leon Weiss in Honor of Alice Weiss, V’84 Physiology in Medicine, 1962-2002 Theriogenologists James F.Wilson, D.V.M.,J.D. Dr. Daniel O. Morris Joel B. Server,V’72 Given by Elise Prior Wilson and James F. Wilson, D.V.M., J.D. In Memory of John J. Daniel, Grandfather and Mentor, by Dr. Given by Joel B. Server, V’72 Daniel Morris, Dermatology George P.Wilson III,V’55 Dr. Kevin Shanley Dr. Adrian R. Morrison, Jr. Inscription to Come Given by George P.Wilson III in Memory of John T. McGrath, V’43 Given in Honor of My Wife, Olive R. Morrison, by Adrian R. Marian I. Siegel,V’90 John H. Wolfe,V’82 Morrison, D.V.M. Given in Memory of Henry Siegel, M.D., Forensic Pathologist, Given by John Hall Wolfe, V’82 Dori Whitaker Myers Teacher, Researcher, Father In Memory of J. Charles, M.D., and Elizabeth Whitaker Jeffrey A. Wortman,V’69 P.Jane Simone Given in Memory of My Parents Bertram and Mildred Wortman, Marvin A. Norcross, Jr.,V’59 Given by Jane Simone in Memory of Spencer’s Way – (1981 – by Jeffrey A. Wortman, V’69 Given in Honor of the Faculty, Staff, and Graduates of Penn by 2002) – NBC Development Marvin A. Norcross, V’59 Margaret Sleeper,V’93 David Nunamaker,V’68 Given in Honor of Edward Mathis Sleeper, V’73, by His PARTNERS ($1000 - $2,999) Given by David, V’68, and Ursula Nunamaker Daughter, Meg T. Sleeper, V’93, and Dave Robert L. Ticehurst,V’34 Margaret C. O’Toole H. Richard Smalley,V’61 Given in Memory of Edward and Josephine O’Toole Given by Dr. and Mrs. H. Richard Smalley, V’61 CONTRIBUTORS (UP TO $999 — Dr. Cynthia M. Otto Lawrence R. Soma,V’57 In Honor of the Search and Rescue Dogs of 9/11/01 Given in Memory of My Mother and Father, by Lawrence R. supports technology in the classroom) Donald F.Patterson, D.V.M.,DSC Soma, V’57 Carol Katzman Given by Donald F. Patterson, D.V.M., D.S.C., Section of Medical Chrisann Sorgentoni Wendy Curtis Uhle Genetics, Department of Clinical Studies Inscription to Come George V’76, and Patricia Zimmerman
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Special Gifts to the School THE FOLLOWING MEMORIAL OR HONORARY GIFTS WERE MADE TO Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Leonard in memory of “SHAKESPEARE” Mr. and Mrs. G. David Wargo in memory of “NISSA”and “NOCHE” THE MATTHEW J.RYAN VETERINARY HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY and “ISRAEL” Wanda May Webb in memory of “CLARENCE” OF PENNSYLVANIA Maria Leone in memory of “SNOWEY” Karen M. Weiss in memory of “WHISKEY” Chris LeVan in memory of “RIGGER” Nancy Welch in memory of her Great Dane In memory of a special pet: Karen Lockhart in memory of “SNOWY,”“SUNSHINE,”“KATIE,” Kathleen Wert in memory of “FRITZ,”“NIKKI,”“DINAH,” and “KIRA” Ziva Simon Alon in memory of “ELZA” “SUZIE,”“BILLIE,” and “HUNTER” George Weyhmuller in memory of “BUMMER BOY” Maureen Ellen Altman, V.M.D., in memory of “SKIPPY” Margaret E. MacGregor in memory of “TRISTAN” Drs. David H. Wiener and Lynn M. Klein in memory of “PUZY” Salvatore A. Amato in memory of “BUTCH” Gerald I. Magid in memory of “SAM” Monica Willett in memory of “SPECIAL NEEDS KITTY” Mr. Joseph J. Anderlonis in memory of “NERO” Karen Anna Makara in memory of “CECIL” and “HANDSOME DAD” Ann D. Winkowski in memory of “ACE” Beth Andrews in memory of “MILO,”“LUNA,”“SPIKE,”“BU,”and Bruce Mann and Elizabeth Warren in memory of “TROVER” Mary O. Witherbee in memory of “PEGGOTY” and “COTSWOLD” “MOOKIE” Michael Marino in memory of “COCO” Joan M. Wooden in memory of “LUDWIG” Jerry Arnold and Mary Brightwell Arnold in memory of “JAMES Jane F. Markham in memory of “MCDUFF” Paul S. Woodring in memory of “JAKE,”“TOBY,”and “ZACK” CAGNEY” Beth A. Maurer in memory of “MAX” and “BRANDY” Betty G. Young in memory of “CASSIDY” Rosyln Barefield in memory of “BO” Tomi J. McCann, M.D., in memory of “BUDDY,”“SWEET PEA,” and Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Zitlau in memory of “KATE” Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Behar in memory of “SCHNAPPS” “PEDO” Joanne C. Zmuida in memory of “MURPHIE” Betty Louise McCurdy in memory of “HERKIMER” Eileen Berko in memory of “AMBER” In memory of “WHISKEY”: Stephen F. Bezuk in memory of “MISTY – ME BAD” William R. McKeever in memory of “PAL,”“SCOTTIE,” and “PIPER” Barbara A. Blair in memory of “TAISHO,”“ZIMMER,”and “KUMA” Mr. and Mrs. James A. McMillan in memory of “ROCKY” Janis Beitzer Nadine Blanchard in memory of “SWEET SADIE” Margaret J. McMonagle in memory of “DONEGAL” and “SHADOW” Heidi Schellenger Beth Bradley-Johnson in memory of “YOYO” and “SECORD” David and Barbara Mealmaker in memory of “PUFF” In memory of Matthew J.Ryan: Heidi Ann Melley in memory of “PITA” Arleen Burke in memory of “GEORGE” Marian K. Mills Leonard Buster in memory of “TIFFANY” Jerry A. Michaels in memory of “GOLDY,”“THUNDER,” and JoEtta Campbell in memory of “BEAR” “JUNIOR” In memory of those listed: Barbara F. Miles in memory of “CHIVAS” Mark E. Canavin in memory of “ASHLEY” and “HENDRIX” Mr. and Mrs. James M. Bloser in memory of Ken Cashall Jill Cantermen in memory of “MERLIN” and “CINDY” James L. Miller in memory of “RICK” Karen Miller in memory of “TINKA” Jenevere Carrozza in memory of Mr. Mario Carrozza Donna M. Carlson in memory of “MOLLY” and “BOODLES” Thomas A. Deubler in memory of Dr. James A. Deubler Patricia Violante Cassetta in memory of “PROFESSOR PAWS” Mr. and Mrs. W. Millhollen in memory of “HERSHY” and “NUT- MEG” The Devon Dog Show Association, Inc., in memory of Mrs. Alan R. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Cavallaro in memory of “TROOPER” Robson Allison J. Chapman in memory of “CHOPPERS” Lois W. Morgis in memory of “CH. CAMARADE’S DIAMOND’S SKYBIRD HT” and “ARGUS” Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Gaudiosi in memory of Carol Gaudiosi Kathleen J. Chinnici in memory of “PEPPLES” Charlotte L. Higler in memory of Arno Baurick Mr. and Mrs. Anthony F. Cicalese in memory of “MUPPET” Audrey L. Murphy in memory of “SUSIE” Mary Alice Musser in memory of “LILY” and “CHANCE” Mr. and Mrs. B. Leace in memory of Dr. J. Leace (“Doc”) Michele Morgan Clancy, M.D., in memory of “TROLLEY DOG” Eva C. Leary in memory of Mrs. Christine Donkin Paula Clark in memory of “ALEX” Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Nicholson in memory of “HANNAH” Shirley B. Nielsen in memory of “6 FARRIES” Janice Marini in memory of Jane Carr Resovsky Mr. and Mrs. Corcoran in memory of “BARNEY” Mr. and Mrs. James R. and Glenda J. McDonald in memory of Dr. Elizabeth C. Crawford in memory of “COFFEE” Mr. and Mrs. Don O’Connor in memory of “MISSY” Roberta W. O’Dell in memory of “DANCER” Stephen Butler Clair Cronmiller in memory of “NANKI-POO” Henry E. Orysiek in memory of Willem Van Orange Mary Darden in memory of “ANTHONY” Robert S. Oxley II in memory of “ANGUS” Susan A. Phillippe in memory of “BRICKEY” Denise and Don Pascucci in memory of Maggie and Murphy Beverage Rev. Douglas W. Dempster in memory of “NOELLE” and Molly Pfautz Drs. Ralph and Judy Eagle in memory “MISHA” Barbara J. Pierozak in memory of “EINSTEIN” Mr. and Mrs. Duarte E. Pinto in memory of “SANDY” Edward M. Resovsky in memory of Edith M. Young Diane M. Ellingsworth in memory of “CHOP CHOP” William Schwartz in memory of Mary Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. Mulford E. Emmel, Jr. in memory of “CHAUNCEY” and Carolyn Pope in memory of “PRINCE” Elizabeth Prisendorf in memory of “TEDDY BEAR” and “KC” Spring House Animal Hospital, Inc., in memory of Jennifer Board “ABERRCROMBIE” Richard Woods in memory of Terry Woods Katrinka M. Engel in memory of “SUMMER” Mr. and Mrs. William Pursley and Family in memory of “HANNAH” Sally L. Evans in memory of “INKY” Lynne K. Quinn in memory of “BLAZE” In memory of Barbara Seavey: Marjorie Fein-Deutsch in memory of “JED” and “JESSICA” Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Ralston in memory of “MANDY” Escrow Bank USA at GMAC Residential Associates Philip and Patricia Ferraro in memory of “GWEN” Elaine Rapiejko in memory of “MAX” Michael and Allison Geissler Mr. and Mrs. Creg Friel in memory of “MORGAN” Gwyn Retkowski in memory of “PEACHES” Agnes Howard Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Fritz in memory of “SNAZZEE CHAZEE” Lucy and Warren Richards in memory of “KATRINA” Catherine Seavey Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Gaertner in memory of “MAX” Rosalyn C. Richman in memory of “PERCY” Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Gaudiosi in memory of “JIBBY” Mr. and Mrs. Eugene F. Riley, Jr. in memory of “SIR GOLDEN In honor of a special pet: Susan Gibson in memory of “MAGGIE” ARROW III” Mary Elizabeth Beck in honor of “HOLLY” Loretta Goldberg in memory of her Beloved Deceased Friends Frances M. and Joseph J. Rink in memory of “BONNIE” Robert Bosco in honor of “MOOSHKA” Susan L. Goll in memory of “CHESTER” John and Sarah Robertson in memory of “BURNO” Bristol Fund, Inc., in honor of “SPENCER” Dr. Doris Goodman in memory of “TAPOOZ” Nancy G. Rogers in memory of “JAKE” Patricia Violante Cassetta in honor of “ZEUS AVENTINUS” Edgar H. Griffiths in memory of their St. Bernards and Clumber Edith B. Rubin in memory of “PIPPI” Alene Cohen in honor of “KRISSI” and “KATI” Spaniels Mr. and Mrs. Gregg A. Runyen in memory of “MEGGIE” and “JESSIE” Christine Connelly in honor of “MILES” Wendy L. Grimm in memory of “BUD” and “ROCKY” Dennis W. Rutkowski in memory of “SLAMMIE” Wayne Conner in honor of “LOGE” Erika Gross, Bob O’Neill, and Gunner O’Neill in memory of “DUKE” Mr. and Mrs. Erich H. Rutscheidt in memory of 5 Standard Schnauzers Oliver B. Cospelich in honor of “PHARAOH” Martin C. Gutowski in memory of “THOMAS” Mary Kapros Sarkisian in memory of “ANOUSH” Mr. and Mrs. James P. Davis in honor of “CHATTOOGA” Mr. and Mrs. Stefan Guzy in memory of “K. C.” Carol Scarborough in memory of “MUNCHKIN” Mrs. M. L. Dietrich in honor of “MAX,”“LEDO,” and “JAZZY” Michele Hamilton in memory of “CIRE” and “SCHROEDER” Dick and Gretchen Schwoebel in memory of “TIMMY” Yvonne C. Ehrhart in honor of “DIXIE BELLE” Henry R. Hecht in memory of “BARNEY” Karen L. Seamans, V.M.D., in memory of “MOZART” Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Jantorno in honor of “BAILY” and “JERSEY” Jacob B. Himmelstein in memory of “FRANKIE” Randi S. Semanoff in memory of “SARAH” Patricia A. Klous in honor of “MOLLY” Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Hipley in memory of “GARETH,”“HEIDI,” Mr. and Mrs. Paul Seserko in memory of “AYR’S QUIET MAXWELL” Katherine E. Migrala in honor of “REX” “MAJOR,”“NICCI,”“PAL,” and “PHELAN” CD-COX-UD-UDX Marian K. Mills in honor of “MAGIC,”“SHILOH,”“KEDRYN,” Francis X. Hughes in memory of “BUFFY” Parker M. Seymour in memory of “CLYDE” and “OBIE” “MADISON,”“DANA,” and “DEMELYA” Frances M. Iadevaio in memory of “BUDDY” Mr. and Mrs. Gene W. Sharpless in memory of “SANDY” Jeanette Molczan in honor of “SHANNON” Joseph B. Jablonski in memory of “MAX” Marion Shonert in memory of “MICKEY” Judith D. Moore in honor of “ZAPATA” Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Jacobs in memory of “HERSHEY” Jim and Becky Singerin memory of “SNOWDON” Leo A. Polisano in honor of “PRECIOUS STAR” Dr. and Mrs. Richard M. Jay in memory of “BAILY” Diane C. Smith in memory of “COSMOS” David Sapery and Fern Abrams in honor of “COOKIE” Barry A Kaufman in memory of “PRINCESS” Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Smith in memory of “MIKI OF YORKSHIRE” Mary Ann Snyder in honor of “RALF” Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Kaufman in memory of “RECKLESS” John J. Snyder, Jr. in memory of “GWINY” and “NIXIE” Mr. and Mrs. Herbert O. Sontz in honor of “BREEZY” Al Kerrigan in memory of “SNOOPY” Philip L. Spinelli in memory of “TIGGER” and “NICOLE” Florence M. Sottnick in honor of “ANNIE” and “TESSA” Joan Kistler in memory of “COSMO,”“BROCE LIANDE,” and Mildred M. Stauffer in memory of “BUDDIE” Bert and Suzanne Zbar in honor of “ANGUS” and “ZOE” “HAIKU” L. Ray Stillman in memory of “GRETCHIN” Marcy Kjeldsen in memory of “MUFFY” Mark A. Stuart in memory of “ARKO” In honor of those listed: Alexandra B. Knox in memory of “BOZ” Thomas Swallow in memory of “ROCKY” and “SNOWBALL” Anne, Chris, Donna, Kathy, Krissy, Theresa, and Rose Ann, at Marmero George and Ceil Kostick in memory of “LIBBY” and “MISTY” Judy J. Taylor in memory of “BUFF” & Mammano, in honor of Philip J. Mammano, Jr. and “CAESAR” Patricia A. Krieger in memory of “TIA MARIA”and “SHADOW TeaMac, Inc., in memory of “MUTTLEY” Dr. Denise Carr in honor of Dr. Judy Durkee BEYOND” Michael C. Telenda in memory of “YUKON” Shirley H. Chalick in honor of Mary Sarkisian’s 70th Birthday Mr. and Mrs. Frank Krupp in memory of “OPIE” Elinore E. Thuermer in memory of “RUFFY” Mr. and Mrs. Warren A. Clein in honor of Dr. Rochelle Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. William LaBianca in memory of their Girls and “MAX” Donald E. Travaglini in memory of “FLUFFY” All of Her Staff Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lafferty in memory of “HENRY” Vicki A. Ungar in memory of “CHARLIE” and “HOLLY” Beth E. Liddle Crivilla and Jozie in honor of Dr. Dan Morris JoAnn Lambert in memory of “SUGAR PIE” Jeff and Carolyn VanDenbussche in memory of “SPUNKY” Anne C. Dillon in honor of Dr. St. George Hunt
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Christine K. Faust-Garry in honor of B. J. and Paul’s Wedding The following have made gifts supporting the Penn Animal Blood Hughes, Kalkbrenner, and Adshead Anniversary Bank in memory of a special pet: Warren G. Ibaugh Helen Hiller in honor of Dr. Susan Jacobson Joseph Rogosky in memory of “HERSHEY” James C. Mills Jean M. Janik and Roy Thomas in honor of Mr. and Mrs. J. Bohovic Clairmont Paciello & Co., P.C. James Koch in honor of Dr. Chick Weisse and Dr. Melagerajo The following have made gifts supporting Dr.Beth Callan’s Gary L. Pearson Jean S. Madsen in honor of Elizabeth D. Clark Genetic Disease Research in memory of a special pet: Mr. and Mrs. William A. Roesener Margery Manheim in honor of Dr. Robert Washabau Mr. and Mrs. Adrian R. King in memory of “AMBER” Patricia Rowan-Roberts Carolyn Pope in honor of Drs. Matthew Reeves, Beth Callan, and Mr. and Mrs. Selig Savitz Deborah Mandell, The following have made gifts supporting Dr.Beth Callan’s Zell Savitz Robert Mankowski, and Jennifer Kaae Research in memory of those listed: Allen and Joy Shoener Letitia Orlando Principato in honor of the St. Pierres Josephine G. Major in memory of Anthony Villare Dorothy S. Shoener Mr. and Mrs. Art Reale in honor of Ms. Nona J. Starzyk H. T. Tamaki, M.D. Rosalyn C. Richman in honor of Drs. Jennifer Smelstoys, Karen The following have made gifts supporting Dr.Chick Weisse’s work Termini Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning Oberthaler, and Lili Duda, who cared for “PERCY” in memory of a special pet: George H. Webber David Sapery and Fern Abrams in honor of Dr. Eric Chafetz and Dennis L. and Virginia Coffey in memory of “BAILEY” Linda L. Williams Marilyn Cone Stanley S. and Cindy C. Schwartz in honor of Dr. Metunis The following have made gifts supporting Dr.Lili Duda’s care to The following have made gifts to the Veterinary Student Rebecca and Bruce Singer in honor of Lorrie Holt animal patients and their owners in memory of a special pet: Scholarship Fund in memory of a special pet: Norma E. Stackhouse in honor of Ms. Susan Slater Page S. Morahan, Ph.D., in memory of “PERCY” Jackie Paul Entertainment Group in memory of “GEO” Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Sutton in honor of Samantha Murray Michael Poulshock and Sunanda Ghosh in memory of “DULCE LIT” Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Wade in honor of Dr. William Farrell and Staff The following have made gifts supporting Dr.Joan Hendrick’s Joseph R. Viola, Esq., in memory of “BRIDGET” Johnathan D. Weinstein and Sarah Jordan in honor of Dr. Steven Cole Research on Bulldogs in memory of a special pet: The following have made gifts to the Veterinary Student The following have made gifts supporting the Clinical Studies M. Alison Seward in memory of “TY” D’Alonzo Scholarship Fund in honor of those listed: Research Development Fund in memory of a special pet: The following have made gifts supporting Dr.Steinberg’s Hilton J. Klein, V.M.D., in honor of David Lukof, V.M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Markus Elasavage in memory of “THEO” Neurology Research in memory of a special pet: Regina Kneib in memory of “NOEL” The following have made gifts to the Class of 1957 Endowed Donald Schotland and Estherina Shems Schotland in memory of Scholarship Fund in memory of those listed: Krysia Lose in memory of “ZOE” “GALAHAD” and “MISSIE” Nancy Sullivan in memory of “LEFT,”“SPOOKIE,” and “FOXFACE” Charles W. Koenig, V.M.D., in memory of Howard Lawson, V.M.D. The following have made gifts supporting Dr.Meryl Littman’s The following have made gifts supporting the Clinical Studies Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier Research in honor of a special pet: The following have made gifts to the M.Josephine Deubler Research Development Fund in memory of “JESSIE”: Scholarship Fund in memory of those listed: Patricia Burdette in honor of “CHEWY” Dr. and Mrs. John Enck Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Deubler in memory of Dr. James A. Deubler Vicki Mason The following have made gifts to the Dean’s Discretionary Fund in Obedience Training Class of Harrisburg honor of those listed The following have made gifts to the Dr.David H.Knight Memorial Fund in memory of David H.Knight: Mr. and Mrs. John W. Trimble Gary R. Leff in honor of Donna Oakley Randy Zicht Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. MacIvor in honor of William E. Best, V.M.D. Scott Adkins Juliana C. Anastasio The following have made gifts supporting the Canine Health The following have made gifts to the Dean’s Discretionary Fund in Mr. and Mrs. Bernard A. Benesby Research Fund in honor of those listed: honor of a special pet: Rita Bhagat Andrew Green in honor of Dr. Meryl Littman Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius O’Brien III in honor of “CASEY” H. Bockris Anne M. Green in honor of Dr. Meryl Littman Marian V. Marchese in honor of “CHARLIE CHAN” Dr. Nancy Simons Brucker James W. Buchanan, D.V.M. The following have made gifts to the Special Species Clinic in The following have made gifts to the Humanitarian Fund in Jeanne B. Bugdin memory of a special pet: memory of a special pet: Mary Beth Callan, V.M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Denis J. Roark in memory of “DJ,”“SNEEZIE,”“SARAH,” Mr. and Mrs. Richard Del Bono in memory of “WRINKLES” Samuel K. Chacko and “ADAIR” Catherine E. Clark Teoco Corporation in memory of “DJ,”“SNEEZIE,”“SARAH,” and The following have made gifts to the Humanitarian Fund in Chris Clark “ADAIR” honor of a special pet: Deidre Clark Marc Weiner and Patrick Simon in honor of “HAMLET” Dr. Adelaide M. Delluva The following have made gifts to the Dermatology Department Patricia A. diPietrae in honor of those listed: The following have made gifts to the Humanitarian Fund in George J. Feldman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Crivilla and Jozie in honor of Dr. Dan Morris honor of those listed: Marsha Finkleman Christopher and Melinda McMahon in honor of Dr. Jennifer Jennifer L. Fiori The following have made gifts supporting Mega-Esophagus Katherine M. Foster Research in memory of a special pet: Messinger Mr. and Mrs. Stuart A. Scherr in honor of Dr. Meryl Littman Joan M. Gilmore Mr. and Mrs. Arthur K. Cook in memory of “TUFFY” Marc Weiner and Patrick Simon in honor of Drs. Kersten Johnson, Cherie Glanzmann Carolyn Gurnee, Mary Sarah Burgh, and Ms. Allison Billings Dr. Paula S Henthorn The following have made gifts supporting Lung Respiratory Rune Hilt Research in memory of a special pet: The following have made gifts to the Veterinary Student Wade Johannessen Adrienne Capella in memory of “POOO” Scholarship Fund in memory of those listed: Frederick S. Kaplan, M.D. Dr. and Mrs. Gustavo D. Aguirre in memory of T. Richard Houpt, Barbara Kiker The following have made gifts supporting the Emergency Room Christopher Knight Renovation Fund in honor of those listed: V.M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Frederick R. Aliesky in memory of T. Richard Houpt, V.M.D., Ph.D. Krystyna A. Knight The Gerald B. Shreiber Foundation in honor of Lindsay S. Shreiber, Animal Eye Clinics, Inc., in memory of T. Richard Houpt, V.M.D., Katherine Anne Kruger V.M.D. Ph.D. Dr. Suzanne Bryer Levy Joseph H. Groveman, V.M.D., in memory of Mervin D. Groveman, Tony Lin The following have made gifts supporting the Radiation Therapy Susan Lippo Facility Fund in honor of those listed: V.M.D. Dr. Holly Kelsey in memory of Dr. Sharon Murray Meryl Podolsky Littman, V.M.D. Jerold Wichtel in honor of Drs. Avery Bennett and Lili Duda Alan M. Klide, V.M.D., in memory of Paul Berg, V.M.D. James Lok Michael S. Miller, V.M.D., in memory of Kenneth Rubin, V.M.D., and Kimberly H. Martin The following have made gifts supporting the Cardiology Lynn Mertz Department in memory of a special pet: Steven Butler, V.M.D. Dr. John F. Munnell in memory of Dr. Warren R. Piersol Mr. and Mrs. David A. Miller Marian Daly in memory of “SABLE” Eugene P. Steffey, V.M.D. in memory of R. S. Detwiler Richard Miselis, V.M.D. Dawn Mondelli The following have made gifts supporting Oncology Research in The following have made gifts to the Veterinary Student David M. Nunamaker, V.M.D. memory of a special pet: Scholarship Fund in memory of Jacob Finkelstein,V.M.D.: Lauren O’Donnell Catherine Ciric in memory of “BU” Mr. and Mrs. Harry D. Antrim, Jr. Dr. Robert John Pignolo Peter D. Ivanick and Marcia L. Winward in memory of “MIMI” and Steven J. Berkowitz, V.M.D. Giulietta L. Racciatti “MO” Robert Chalphin Associates, Inc. Kay Rai The Clemson and Antrim Family Deborah Rhone The following have made gifts supporting Lymphoma Research Susan Scheerbaum in Cats in memory of a special pet: Mr. and Mrs. Gary F. Driscoll Finkelstein Partners, LTD Deborah Silverstein Selma P. Ryave in memory of “PERCY” Brian R. Hipwell Sleepy Hollow Farm, LLC
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Special Gifts to the School Louis J. Soslowsky Lisa C. Mangino Mr. and Mrs. Jerrald K. Simmers in memory of Joseph B. Stevens Leslie Stewart Ashra P. Markowitz William C. Steinkraus in memory of Kelly Steinkraus Leota Granger Terry Col. Charles L. Martin, Jr. ( RET.) Susan Turlish Paul B. Mason, Jr. In honor of a special animal: Mr. and Mrs. Michael Wilkens Ben Frank Massey, Jr. Janice Lolly Clarke in honor of her horse, SECRET PAST “LADD” Jeffrey A. Wortman, V.M.D. Philipp Mayhew Andrea B. Highland in honor of her goats “BARTLEBY” and “SINE” Prof. Jerzy Wrobel Donna B. McClure Sarah E. Reese in honor of “BART,”who received such wonderful care Zoe D. Zampana Edward and Brenda McCrady III at our facility this past summer from Dr. Jenn Smith Catherine M. McManus, V.M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Schultz in honor of “HE’S ALL THAT” The following have made gifts to the Dr.David H.Knight Mr. and Mrs. David J. Meadows Lori Weitz in honor of her horse “SOX” Memorial Fund in honor of those listed: Metropolitan Ear, Nose & Throat Associates In memory of a special animal: Judith E. Jordan in honor of Eric Knight Sandra D. Miller Caroline J. Montgomery Barbara M. Bauer in memory of “WOODSTOCK” The following have made gifts to the Jay Jasan Memorial Mr. and Mrs. Cameron S. Mumper Mr. and Mrs. David M. Crasson in memory of “BUSTER” Scholarship Fund in memory of Jay Jasan,V.M.D.: Kenneth R. and Nancy S. Myers Mary Beth Hamorski, V.M.D., in memory of “BUBBLES” and Mr. and Mrs. Albert O. Botto New York Physical Therapy Association “MURPHY” Doris M. Bradley Roger and Faith Nicholson Beth Holstein in memory of “AGAR” Nancy Noonan The Nordman Family Christine C. McCarty in memory of “ADOLPH” Michael T. Nordmann Edward Mersky, V.M.D., in memory of “BUDDY” The following have made gifts to the Dr.Robert W.Richardson Dr. Carol A. Oatis Eva Russo in memory of FATALIST “THE PIE” Memorial Scholarship Fund in memory of Robert W.Richardson, Corrie J. Odom Kathleen H. Schwartzman in memory of “RIPLEY”” V.M.D.: Bruce S. Pelynio Jeanne M. Zakrewski in memory of her Golden Retriever, “SHAWNA” Elizabeth B. Agnew, V.M.D. Pennsylvania Physical Therapy Assoc. Theresa Ann Zappone in memory of “SUNSHINE” and “DOUBLE American College of Rheumatology Janet Peterson, PT SCOTCH American Physical Therapy Association Jennifer J. Peterson To the Tamworth Fund: Richard and Kathleen Aucamp Mr. and Mrs. Richard Peterson Connie M. Auld Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Pohl, Jr. George Elser in honor of Henry Elser and Andrew Elser, V.M.D. Helen S. Bartlett Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Pohl III George Elser in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Moran Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Bartlett Mr. and Mrs. E. Kears Pollock To the Stubbs Endowment Fund and the Veterinary Student David and Rita H. Beck-Rylander Bonnie B. Polvinale Scholarship Fund: Adrienne M. Bentley Nicholas Polyak William C. Biddle Cynthia N. Potter Sara G. Sperling in memory of F. George Sperling, V.M.D., and William David A. Billings, M.D. Ann Puntureri B. Boucher, V.M.D. Elisa H. Birnbaum, M.D. J. M. Rothstein, Inc. To the M.Lynn Sammons Award in Bovine Medicine: John Napier Blackmon Anthony N. and Shirley D. Quinn Dairy Management Consultants Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Blackstone, Jr. Matthew and Deirdre Quinn Lenora S. Sammons, V.M.D. Christine Bohn, V.M.D. Charles F. and Louise S. Randolph Douglas Brown Wallace A. and Janet J. Rapp, Jr. To the Dr.Ginnie Lieblein Memorial Scholarship Fund: Mary Beth Callan, V.M.D. Mark S. and Ruth G. Riethmuller Walter C. Wells Michael T. Cibulka Paul A. Rockar, Jr. Class of 2004 Marilyn Moffet Salant To the Dr.Jonathan Palmer Research Fund in memory of Mrs. Class of 2005 Mr. and Mrs. W. Ronald Salisbury Dolly Pouska: Rebecca L. Craik Margaret J. Scanlon Acorn Hill Farm, Inc., in memory of Mrs. Dolly Pouska Michael J. and Jan M. Crowley Malia E. Schreck Unionville Equine Associates in memory of Mrs. Betty Haas’s horse Ruth and Garrett Davis Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Schreck “MAXIMILLION” Marienne A. De Yo Jane G. Schwartz Unionville Equine Associates in memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Moran’s Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Dietz Jerry D. Shamblin, M.D. horse “CRÈME FRAICHE” and Mrs. Anne Thorington’s horse Sarah N. Doench Charles Shoemaker “ROBAIR” Josh and Katie Dopirak Dolores Staley Unionville Equine Associates in memory of Mrs. Susan Ajamian’s horse Daniel V. Dore III Richard L. Stoneking “RICHWOOD” Pamela Ann Duffy Student American Veterinary Medical Assoc. Elizabeth E. Dunstan Elia E. Villanueva To the Dr.Jonathan Palmer Research Fund in memory of Mr.Mark Sally C. Edelsberg David L. Voneida Stevenson: Carl L. Eisenbeis Lynn Mirbach Walker, V.M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Cuddhy Debra S. Eisenstein, V.M.D. Cynthia Ruth Ward, V.M.D. Mr. and Mrs. William D. English Richard P. Felegy Washington University in St. Louis Griffiths Construction, Inc. M. Lenora Foley Dr. Wilfried T. Weber Orion General Contractors, Inc. Margaret D. Freeman Chick W. C. Weisse, V.M.D. Peter Lumber Company William H. and Kimberly Freeman Pamela S. White R&D Construction Co. Heating & A/C, Inc. Peter C. Friedland Susan L. Whitney Ron Smith Excavation, Inc. Christinia L. Fuoco, V.M.D. Jennifer Williams Rosanne L. Gallagher Jason P. Zamkoff To the Equine Research Fund in memory of Mr.Arthur K.Heins by Nellie I. Getchel Mr. and Mrs. Eugene J. Zappa the following: Karl and Alice Gibson Edna Mae Zattiero Anna Brown Dr. Urs Giger THE FOLLOWING MEMORIAL OR HONORARY GIFTS WERE MADE TO Christine Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. Brian C. Gilger NEW BOLTON CENTER Mr. and Mrs. Albert V. Hanley, Jr. Janet L. Gwyer Kelly Kowalski Aspen A. Hammond, V.M.D. In honor of a special person: Vivian Rubin Nathan D. Harvey, V.M.D. Roseann Smith Kristen Haviland, V.M.D. Dr. Richard O. Davies in honor of Dr. Jonathan Palmer Rhetta Zink Janet B. Hepler Vickie Eppolite in appreciation of Dr. Jill Beech’s help with her horse Elaine Holt Annie Prickett, V’04, in honor of R. Buchanan, V.M.D. To the “LORD ASHLEIGH”Fund in his memory: Jeffrey J. Horst, V.M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schultz in honor of Dr. Eric Parente Colts Neck Trail Riders Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Iversen Max L. Sponseller, V.M.D., in honor of Charles W. Raker, V.M.D. Margrit McCrane David L. Johnson Dr. and Mrs. William H. Wright in honor of Dr. James Orsini Amy Kapatkin and Robert H. Poppenga In memory of a special person: Kennedy Krieger Institute Barbara A. Kodner Dorothy S. Armstrong in memory of her husband, Mr. James Gary Kroggel Armstrong Genevieve Kroggel Mr. and Mrs. John I. Mengel in memory of John “Jack” Turner Nicholas A. Laraia Doris A. Boucher Ritter in memory of Dr. William B. Boucher Drs. Federica Maggio and Stefano Pizzirani Lois Ann Ryan in memory of her husband Warren K. Ryan Francis J. Mallon Mr. and Mrs. John C. Sargent in memory of Stephen Patrick Butler, V.M.D.
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2003 Rush Shippen Huidekoper Society Dinner The 2003 Rush Shippen Huidekoper Society om .c Dinner, which recognized Penn Veterinary y ear
Medicine’s most generous donors and friends ong
during the 2002–03 fiscal year, was held on y/addis
November 15 at The Inn at Penn. Named after ear the School’s first dean, the Rush Shippen on G ddis A Huidekoper Society recognizes those donors y y b aph who contribute $1,000 or more to the School in r og t a fiscal year. Their generosity advances Penn’s ho P mission to better the health and welfare of ani- Class of 2004 Opportunity Scholarship Recipients mals and humans. and Donors/Mentors: James V. Stewart, V’68, Vivian Class of 2005 Opportunity Scholarship Recipients and Donors/Mentors: Diana Chang, V’05, Mary Ellen It was a wonderful evening as alumni, grate- M. Orita, V’04, Andrew H. Elser, V’87, Gary Egrie, V’04, Dean W. Richardson, Marie Haddock, V’04, Hennessey, V’05, David P. Martin, V’66, Ulrike ful clients, and other friends came together to Patrick T.Dubbs,V’04,and Kara A.Ballek,V’04. Martin, Brooke Moore, V’05, Suzanne J. Smith, V’82, celebrate the School’s teaching, research, and and Peter H.Craig,V’55 G’58. healing missions. The dinner also brought together Opportunity Scholarship recipients and their donors/mentors.
Class of 2006 Opportunity Scholarship Recipients and Donors/Mentors: Standing: James V. Stewart, Class of 2007 Opportunity Scholarship Recipients V’68, Leslie C. McLaughlin, V’06, D. Ray Hostetter, and Donors/Mentors: Standing: Jonathan Garber, V’69, Kristina N. Willoughby, V’06, Dean W. Richard- V’07, Craig Meredith, V’07, Heidi Reesink, V’07, son, Patrick J. Ford, V’06, Norbert R. McManus, V’47, Maryssa Chiarello, V’07, Ann Wayne Lucas, V’75, Alexander M. Chan, V’06, Marilyn B. Weber, V’75, Isaac Maxmen, V’07, Mead F. Shaffer, Jr., V’58, Scott Lorraine and Joseph M.O’Neal,V’44. Midge Leitch, V’73, Jill Beech, V’72, Michelle H. E. Palmer, V’76, Taryn Gassert, V’07, Ryan Gorman, Patrick, V’06, and Timothy Mann, V’06. Seated: V’07, Mary McMahon Stewart, PT’66, Heather Wall, Christie L. Schroth, V’06, Lauren M. Greene, V’06, V’07, Robert W. Stewart, Sr., V’68, Kelly Rebbecchi, Charles W. Raker, C’41, V’42, Nadine A. Salomon, and Joshua Roesener, V’07. Seated: Lawrence A. V’06,Amanda L.Lang,V’06,and Kari Lyon,V’06. Rebbecchi, Jr., V’90, Jill Beech, V’72, Tara O'Brien, V’07, Charles W. Raker, C’41, V’42, Rachel Ticktin, V’07,and Laura Gibeon,V’07.
Carol Bleicher,Mattie J.Hendrick,V’78,and Laurie J. Landeau,V’84 WG’84.
Edgar R. Marookian, V’54, Leon P. Weiss, C’53, and David A.Meirs II,V’54. Marie and Peter H.Herman,V’69.
Mark your calendar now! The 2004 Rush Shippen Huidekoper Society Dinner will be held November 20 at the National Constitution Center. For information, contact Joshua E. Liss at (215) 898-1481 or at [email protected]. Kathleen,V’75,and Tom Tracy.
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