Gretchen Wyler to retire

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2006:

Gretchen Wyler, 73, on December 20, 2005 announced that
she will retire after hosting the 20th annual Genesis Awards ceremony
in June 2006. The awards honor film and TV recognition of animal
issues. Involved in animal causes since 1966, Wyler founded the
Genesis Awards in 1986 as a program of the Fund for Animals,
continued the program through her own organization, the Ark Trust,
1990-2002, and then merged the Ark Trust into the Humane Society of
the U.S.