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SEPTEMBER 2005
Hired & Promoted
Joyce D’Silva, heading Compassion In World Farming since 1991, retired on August 8, 2004, succeeded by former World Society for the Protection of Animals communications director Philip Lymbery. D’Silva continues with CIWF in the newly created position of ambassador, representing CIWF in foreign affairs.
WSPA has promoted two-year staffer Leah Garcés to director of campaigns, hired former advertising executive Emma Hall as public relations director, and added ex-British Army Air-borne Forces officer Nigel Wilson as disaster relief director.
The Escondido Humane Society has hired Sally Costello, 46, to succeed former executive director Phil Morgan, who now heads the Northern Arizona Second Chance Center for Animals in Flagstaff. Costello, reported San Diego Union-Tribune staff writer Craig Gustafson, “is a former health and safety manager for Air Products & Chemicals Inc.,” who cofounded a local nonprofit organization called San Diego Community Awareness & Emergency Response.
Anna Gonce, formerly public information manager for American Humane in Englewood, Colorado, is new executive director of the Denver-based Gabriel Foundation, “founded in 1996 by Julie Weiss Murad to promote education, conservation, rescue, rehabilitation, adoption and sanctuary for parrots. We have cared for nearly 1,000 parrots and adopted over 600 into new homes,” Gonce said. Murad on August 19 broke ground for a $1 million aviary at Eliza-beth, Colorado, to house up to 350 parrots in semi-natural surroundings.
John Berry, 46, was on July 28, 2005 introduced as next National Zoo director, to start fulltime on Oc-tober 1. Berry has no prior zoo experience and will be the first non-scientist to head the zoo, operated by the Smith-sonian Institution. He has headed the National Fish & Wildlife Found-ation since 2001, was an assistant Secretary of the Interior under former U.S. President Bill Clinton, and is a senior policy adviser to the Smithsonian. His predecessor, former National Zoo chief veterinarian Lucy Spelman, resigned in mid-2004 after a National Academy of Sciences investigative panel criticized her management style and veterinary deficiencies at the zoo.