OBITUARIES

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1996:

Nancy Sue Clark, 71, of South
Bend, Indiana, a frequent contributor of photographs
to ANIMAL PEOPLE and president
of the Coalition of Hoosiers Encouraging
Ethical Treatment of Animals, died January 5
of an apparent aneurism as she drove to a
medical appointment after mailing us her last
packet of photos. Born in Ohio, raised in
Detroit, Clark (then Nancy Sue Tarbell)
began her career in activism in 1943, as a
member of the Detroit Interracial Committee,
working to peaceably resolve issues that had
sparked race riots earlier in the year. Earning
a degree in sociology from Wayne State
University, Clark worked with welfare children
in Detroit and Pittsburgh, served with
the American Red Cross in Johnstown,
Pennsylvania, and after marriage to Robert
Thomas Clark in 1952, spent nearly 40 years
as a child welfare caseworker in South Bend.
Also active for animals throughout her life,
Sue Clark volunteered at the Orphan Animal
Care Shelter in South Bend until it closed,
and was vice president of the Indiana
Campaign for Animal Welfare, a forerunner
to CHEETA. The South Bend Tribune
recalled that she personally paid for anti-fur
newspaper ads. The day before her death, she
met with Indiana officials at the statehouse to
urge the use of immunocontraception to stabilize
deer populat ions in state parks. “Sue was
in great spirits on our return home,” remembered
longtime friend Kaye Bauer, “talking
about plans for letters she would write and
activities to be organized. The day was cold
and blustery, but we were thrilled by a line of
about a dozen whitetails crossing a snowy
meadow. Sue had a marvelous sense of
humor, was compassionate always, but had a
feisty sparkle in her eye. As a friend stated at
her funeral, ‘Sue was loved and respected by
almost everyone, except by a few people who
wrote nasty replies to her letters about deer.’”

Read more

BOOKS: Beyond The Killing Tree: A Journal of Discovery

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1996:

Beyond The Killing Tree: A Journal of Discovery
by Stephen Reynolds.
Epicenter Press (POB 82368, Kenmore, WA 98028), 1995. 192 pages. $19.95, hc.

“…I have never been in sync with
anti-hunters,” Stephen Reynolds declares
somewhat provocatively in Beyond The
Killing Tree. “I haven’t respected their opinions
because the majority have never hunted.
They don’t understand the need or the craving
for the chase.”
While Reynolds himself has hunted,
and enjoyed it, he has also undergone a
change of heart. Witnessing too many death
struggles of noble and innocent beasts for no
better purpose than the “craving of the chase”
or thrill of the kill has caused him to reconsider
the longterm price of indulging the
craving.

Read more

BOOKS: A Boy, A Chicken, and The Lion of Judah: How Ari Became A Vegetarian

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1996:

A Boy, A Chicken, and The Lion of Judah:
How Ari Became A Vegetarian, by Roberta
Kalechovsky. Micah Publications (255 Humphrey St.,
Marblehead, MA 10945), 1995. 50 pages, paperback,
$8.00.
Robert Kalechovsky’s A Boy, A Chicken, and The
Lion of Judah is the only book on vegetarianism that ever
brought tears to my eyes. This occurred as often during my
second reading as during my first.

Read more

BOOKS: Titles to read aloud

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1996:

The FURRY Alphabet Book
The EXTINCT Alphabet Book
The BUTTERFLY Alphabet Book
All by Jerry Pallotta; butterfly book with
Brian Cassie; illustrated, respectively,
by Mark Astrella, Edgar Stewart,
and Ralph Masiello. Charles Bridge Publishing
(85 Main Street, Watertown, MA 02172), 1991,
1993, 1995. $6.95 each, paperback.

Somewhere along the line someone sat on Jerry
Pallotta’s offbeat sense of humor. The Furry Alphabet Book
is a hit with children because it lightheartedly but factually
introduces 26 of the oddest creatures Pallotta could think of,
including the hyrax, the quokka, and the naked mole rat.

Read more

BOOKS: Animologies

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1996:

Animologies: “A fine kettle of fish” & 150
other animal expressions, by Michael
Macrone. Cader Books (151 E. 29th St., New York,
NY 10016), 1995. 160 pp., $14.95 hardback.

Michael Macrone takes a colorful crack at explaining
the origins of animal-related phrases, but misses absurdly
often––failing, for instance, to recognize that “dingbat” is
a typographical term, not animal-related, originally applied
to the ornamental battens that kept a hand-operated letterpress
from “dinging” a sheet of paper by forcing it against an
uneven surface. Macrone is equally bewildered by “bat out
of hell,” having apparently never seen bats boiling from a
cavern at sunset. And he asserts that, “Dylan Thomas
coined ass—- in a 1935 letter.” Many people still alive can
testify otherwise.

Read more

BOOKS: Cat Angels

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1996:

Cat Angels, edited by Jeff Rovin, illustrated
by Ernie Colon. Harper Paperbacks (10 East
53rd St., New York, NY 10022-5299), 1995. 96
pages; $6.99.

Cat Angels ties the revived interest in angels to
the perennial popularity of cats. From the rust-and-white
tabby on the front cover, complete with wings, halo, and
demurely heavenward-looking eyes, to the back cover,
bearing quotations admitting feline slips from grace, this
book is a charmer. You will find quotations from Jules
Verne, pet tombstones, Lowell Thomas, Mark Twain,
Gertrude Jekyll, Henrich Heine, and Charlton Heston,
among others, interlaced with editorial comments about
cats in world religions. There are a few rather cloying
Victorian verses, saved by sharing the page with funny little
sketches by Ernest Colon, whose cats usually appear to
be in free fall rather than angelic flight.

Read more

BOOKS: Rabbis and Vegetarianism

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1996:

Rabbis and Vegetarianism: an evolving tra –
dition, by Roberta Kalechovsky. Micah
Publications (255 Humphrey St., Marblehead, MA
10945), 104 pages, $10.00.

As founder and director of Jews for Animal Rights,
and as director of Micah Publications, Inc., Roberta
Kalechofsky has made major contributions to the animal
rights/vegetarian causes, especially with regard to connections
to Jews and Judaism.

Read more

COURT CALENDAR

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1996:

Crimes against humans
Preliminary hearings began
January 30 in Chicago in the case of Marsha
Norskog, of Palos Hills, vs. Roger and Gayle
Pfiel, of Crete Township. In October 1995 the
Pfiel’s son Steven, 19, drew 100 years for the
July 14, 1993 thrill-killing of Norskog’s daughter
Hillary, 13, and the March 1995 bludgeoning/slashing
murder of his brother Roger, then
19. Norskog contends in a potential landmark
case that Steven Pfiel’s history of sadistic animal
killing gave his parents ample warning that
their son was a threat to commit murder, but
that instead of dealing with his violent tendencies,
they encouraged him to hunt and gave
him the car and hunting knife he used to kill
Hillary. Roger Pfiel is a meatpacking executive.

Read more

Activism

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1996:

The Louisiana-based Coalition to
Abolish the Fur Trade said on January 22 that
it had received an Animal Liberation Front communique
claiming credit for the release four
days earlier of 200 to 400 mink from a fur farm
owned by Robert Zimbal, of Sheboygan,
Wisconsin. The release came three days after
the release on their own recognizance of 17 of
22 anti-fur activists who had refused to pay bail
and had gone on a three-day hunger strike, following
their January 13 arrest for trespassing at
a CAFT-led protest against the International
Mink Show in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. Two
juveniles were released immediately and three
arrestees posted bail. Hitting fur farms in
British Columbia, Washington, Minnesota,
and Tennessee, the ALF claims to have
released 6,800 mink, 30 foxes, and a coyote in
six raids since October 1995, as well as spraypainting
$75,000 worth of furs at the Valley
River Center Mall in Eugene, Oregon, on Fur
Free Friday. Virtually all the released mink
were quickly recovered. The other releases
haven’t been acknowledged in fur trade media.

Read more

1 2 3 4