From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2002:
 
Buddy, 4, a black Labrador retriever who spent 12 days
waiting beside the remains of his master Bill Hitchcock in February
2002 on Knight Island in Prince William Sound, Alaska, and then led
rescuers to the body, was killed in April 2002 by Anchorage Animal
Control at request of Chignik mayor Jim Brewer. Brewer was chosen to
adopt Buddy by Hitchcock’s employers, Rober and Marilyn Stowell of
Spokane, Washington, from among an estimated 1,000 applicants–but
Brewer had Buddy killed after Buddy bit his hand, inflicting a wound
that required 14 stitches, soon after Buddy was neutered. Buddy was
nominated for the Lewyt Award for Heroic and Compassionate Animals,
though he did not win, and is remembered by the Friends of Buddy
Memorial Fund created by the Gastineau Humane Society to assist other
orphaned pets.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2002:

William George, M.D., in his early eighties, died at the
Hamad General Hospital, Qatar, on June 1. George was a longtime
member of the International Primate Protection League advisory board.
“I first heard of him when I read his devastating critique of the
gruesome cat experiments at the American Museum of Natural History
back in the 1970s,” recalled IPPL founder Shirley McGreal. “I could
not believe that a medical doctor could be so compassionate, and
suspected that the critique was a fake. I checked with the coalition
formed by late Henry Spira to protest against the cat experiments,
and was told that Dr. George practised in Miami. I was in Miami soon
afterward and called him. His pro-animal actions were too many to
list, but two stand out. First, in the 1980s he posed as a Middle
Eastern medical researcher seeking endangered primates for research.
He successfully exposed a Belgian animal dealer for ape smuggling.
Second, as late as September 2001, long after he was diagnosed with
the cancer that took his life, he joined in a campaign to return to
Africa two chimpanzees who were confiscated in Qatar. He got up from
his sickbed to see the animals off as they were flown to new homes at
the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia. Dr. George always
supported generously overseas rescue centers,” McGreal continued,
“including Limbe in Cameroon,” which is a special project of IPPL.
“Dr. George was a dermatologist,” McGreal added. “During one visit
to IPPL, he removed a small growth from the finger of an adult
female gibbon who was not anesthetized–no mean feat. He attended
several biennial IPPL Members’ Meetings, the most recent being in
March 2002. He was very, very ill, but decided that he just had to
be with his primate and human friends here in Summerville one last
time.”

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