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MONTH: November 2006

Obituaries

 

Pegeen McAllister, 85, died on September 24. As longtime Dublin SPCA secretary, McAllister with Edna Ardagh formed the Irish SPCA in 1949. "She served for many years on the Society's executive council, representing the Wicklow SPCA, and holding at different times the offices of chair, president and trustee," recalled World Society for the Protection of Animals director general Peter Davies. Among her projects, Davies listed, was passage of legislation in1986 "which provided for setting up pounds throughout the country and employing dog wardens to collect strays. Perhaps her most significant achievement," Davies said, was "ending of the export of horses for slaughter in 1960. This trade involved terrible suffering for animals, often ill or injured, who were shipped to continental Europe in all weather. Supported by Margo Dean, Nancy Hatte, and Molly Meyers, Pegeen visited docks and ships, and saw at first hand the cruelty involved. She was also closely involved in setting up the Richard Martin Restfields, which provide sanctuary for horses and donkeys."

Anthony Chiles Peart, 17, escaped with two other teenaged boys from a pre-dawn housefire at one of the friends' homes on October 3 in Rangiora, New Zealand, but was killed when he returned inside, against the others' pleas, to try to save a small dog. The dog died with him.

Rosamond Halsey Carr, 94, died on September 29, 2006 at her home near Gisenyi, Rwanda. "Her niece Ann Howard Halsey said the cause of death was possibly pneumonia," reported Washington Post staff writer Joe Holley. Born in New Jersey, Carr worked as a fashion illustrator before marriage in 1942 to British film maker and trophy hunter Kenneth Carr, with whom she emigrated to Rwanda in 1949. After the marriage ended in 1955, Carr remained in Rwanda, raising flowers for export. Meeting gorilla researcher Dian Fossey in 1967, Carr became reputedly Fossey's closest friend for the last 18 years of her life. In March 2005 Carr recounted her memories of Fossey to Georgianne Nienaber, author of Gorilla Dreams: The Legacy of Dian Fossey. The interview appeared in the March 2005 edition of the International Primate Protection League magazine. Actress Julie Harris depicted Carr in the 1988 film based on Fossey's 1983 book Gorillas In The Mist. After confronting a Hutu mob in a futile effort to protect Tutsi neighbors from massacre during the April 1994 genocide, Carr was evacuated by Belgian paratroopers, but returned to Rwanda four months later to convert her estate into an orphanage housing about 120 children at her death. Carr in 1999 produced an autobiography, Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda, co-written by Ann Howard Halsey.

Karadi Bomnan, a forest guard recalled by Nilgiris wildlife warden Rakesh Kumar Dogra for his anti-poaching expertise, was fatally trampled by elephants on October 20 near Narathi, a village within the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary & National Park, of Tamil Nadu, India.

Michael Ogorzaly, 58, author of the 2005 exposé of bullfighting When Bulls Cry, died on October 14 in Chicago. "SHARK was pleased to have been able to provide photos, video, and first-hand accounts of bullfights in Spain for use in his book," recalled SHARK founder Steve Hindi. "Dr. Ogorzaly did a great service toward banning this cruel so-called sport." Left a paraplegic as a teenager, when a car in which he was a passenger was in an accident, Ogorzaly became a history professor at Chicago State University, and was among the first people in Illinois to drive a vehicle entirely operated by hand controls.