Humane Society To Mark 50th Anniversary
Special Program At Shelter Arranged For Sunday Afternoon
A milestone representing a half-century of devotion to home-finding and other help for dogs, cats and other dumb animals will be reached by the Humane Society of Ann Arbor on Sunday with observation of its 50th anniversary.
Municipal Judge Jay H. Payne will honor the society’s founders in a talk to be given at the public anniversary program, which will start at 3:30 Sunday afternoon in the Goodyear Shelter, 616 Barber Ave.
An anniversary plaque designed by Carleton W. Angell, University artist, will be presented by Prof. Bennett Weaver.
The society’s birthday also will be the topic of a WPAG radio program at 5:30 Sunday afternoon. Douglas K. Reading will be the moderator of a discussion on the society. Mrs. Roger Stevens and Mrs. W. H. Worrell, members of the society’s board of directors, and William Douglas, jr., the shelter officer, will participate.
In its 50-year history, the society has developed its activities from humble beginnings including services of a part-time humane officer to operation of a shelter with a full-time officer. The shelter was made possible by a bequest in 1932 from Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Goodyear, two of the founders of the society.
Other founders who laid the groundwork here for the society's years of aid to animals were Andrew Ten Brook, W. S. Perry, H. J. Brown, Jennie Voorhies, Cynthia Sager, William N. Brown, and Byron A. Finney.
Present officers of the society are Harold Benz, president; Dr. H. R. Shipman, vice-president; Mrs. Donal H. Haines, secretary; Miss Priscilla Stockwell, treasurer; and Mrs. Edward Kraus, Mrs. James Smalley, Mrs. Jay Williams, Mrs. Stevens and Mrs. Worrell, directors.
Anniversary Plaque To Be Given
This plaque, designed by Carleton W. Angell, University artist, will be presented for the Goodyear shelter at the public 50th anniversary program of the Humane Society of Ann Arbor. The program will start at 3:30 Sunday afternoon at the shelter. The dog on the plaque was modeled on the artist's memory of “Orson,” a dog owned by the late Dr. W. B. Hinsdale. The verse consists of Coleridge’s lines, “He prayeth best, who loveth best all things both great and small; for the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.”
