GIBBON
CONSERVATION CENTER
A nonprofit center for the study, preservation, and propagation of highly endangered species
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Colleges and Universities California State University, Bakersfield: Brian Hemphill
California State University, Fullerton:
Teryl Schessler College of the Canyons: Jeanie Paris, Sally Smith Cypress College: Christine Sepulveda El Camino College: Angela Mannen; Blair Gibson, Rick Chacon, Marianne Waters Fullerton College:
Annik Ramsey Long Beach City College: John Olmsted
Los Angeles Harbor College: Wendy Hoole Cundiff Los Angeles Pierce College: Phil Stein, David Schutzer, Bruce Rowe, Diane Levine, "Noble" Eisenlauer, Karen Polakoff-Lipman
Los Angeles Southwest College: Selma Morley Loyola Marymount University: Wendy Binder Moorpark
College: John Baker, Cindy Wilson Santa Ana College: Wendy Hoole Cundiff Santiago Canyon College: Wendy Hoole Cundiff Ventura Community College: Cari Lange
West Los Angeles College: Selma Morley, Barbara Mathieu |
Elementary, Middle and High Schools La Petite Academy: Crystal, Virginia Mark Oakwood
School:
Dean Sexton Skyblue Mesa Elementary
School:
Mr. Weiss, Mrs. Hartley, Ms. Chen
Harman Multimedia:
Colleen Clayton
LA Works:
Jay Ross, Mary Ann James Main Street
Tours:
Shawn Placerita Canyon Park and Nature
Center:
Jim Southwell
LA Zoo Docents:
Steve Braddock
Legacy Tours |
GCC is honored to be working with Howard Martin, DVM. He is a very brilliant, caring veterinarian who has been interested in gibbons since he was 12 years old, when he first read Carpenter's monograph on the lar gibbons. We look forward to a long and successful working relationship with him.
Good-bye, Linda, our Number One Member
We are so sad to learn of the passing of one of the Gibbon
Conservation Center's staunchest and longest supporters. Linda Countryman proudly
carried GCC membership card #1, which meant as much to her as it did to us.
Linda was a mentor and good friend to Alan Mootnick, and her loss is very
meaningful to him. We wish Linda the very best in her journey. We will
dedicate our next newsletter to her, and we send our sincere condolences to her
family.
I would like to thank Max McElroy, DVM for all of the help that
he gave to GCC in the past 20 years. Max graduated from the University of
Oklahoma, where his uncle was the first Dean of the Veterinary Department. Max
practiced veterinary medicine for over 40 years. During that time, he worked as
one of the first veterinarians at the Los Angeles Zoo, at the Los Angeles County
Veterinarian Services, and later had his own veterinarian practice in Sherman
Oaks.
When I met Max he was in his late 40's, and he was such a vital man that I
never thought of him as growing older. It was hard for me to conceive of him
being 69 years old when he died. Max was my dear friend who treated me as one of
his relatives, and I am very honored to have been his friend. I enjoyed all the
time we spent working together and am so grateful for his generosity, humor and
for all that he taught me about the veterinary care of our gibbons. He was never
too busy to help with the gibbons and rarely charged GCC for his assistance.
Max was a very kind man to all animals and to all the people who knew him. If
anyone I know is going to heaven, it is definitely Max. Good-bye Max, I really
miss you.
A sunset at GCC
Nippy, World's Oldest Known Gibbon Dies
Director Alan Mootnick was
honored to write a letter a few years ago to the Guinness Book of Records on
Nippy’s behalf as being the oldest living gibbon. From his records he died at
about 60 yrs of age. Nippy has set a new record of the oldest living
gibbon, and we hope there will be more gibbons who have the honor of living as
long as he did.
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