From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2003:

Emily the cow, 10, who escaped from a Massachusetts
slaughterhouse in 1995 and was eventually purchased by Sherborn Peace
Abbey founders Meg and Lewis Randa, died on March 31 from cancer.
Boston Globe correspondent Benjamin Gedan remembered her as “an
inarticulate but persuasive spokeswoman for vegetarianism.” Added
Meg Randa, “It’s easy to go to the grocery, but Emily put a face on
that packet of beef.”

Randy the dolphin, 11, “so-called because of his attraction
to women wearing rubber wetsuits,” according to Martin Lea of the
Dorset Echo, was reportedly hit and killed by a boat in Weymouth
Harbor, England, on April 3, 11 months after dolphin rescuer Ric
O’Barry warned that such an accident would happen and tried
unsuccessfully to steer him back to his former home near Cherbourg,
France, where he was known as Georges.

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2003:

Franklin M. Loew, 63, died on April 22 after a three-year
battle with a rare form of neuroendocrinal liver cancer. “I come to
work but go home early because I tire out,” Loew e-mailed to ANIMAL
PEOPLE on February 2. “I’m in a clinical trial of thalidomide, of
all things, which has been shown to have anti-cancer properties,”
Loew added, seeming to enjoy the idea that he was himself now a lab
animal, participating in one of the voluntary trials of drugs in
terminal human patients that he had often mentioned as an accessible
option for “reducing, refining, and replacing” the numbers of
animals used in biomedical research. “The tumor has never caused me
any discomfort, but the chemo certainly has,” he concluded. Loew
communicated only briefly thereafter, to celebrate victories by the
Boston Red Sox. President of Becker College in Massachusetts since
1998, Loew “was hugely popular on campus,” recalled Becker provost
Bruce Stronach. “He knew many of our 1,000 students and every
employee by name, and never failed to greet all with a warm smile
and a hearty welcome. Dr. Loew was formerly president of Medical
Foods Inc. He held doctorates in veterinary medicine and nutrition,
and was a member of the National Academy of Science’s Institute of
Medicine. He was dean of veterinary medicine at both Tufts and
Cornell universities, was a division director at the Johns Hopkins

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