newsletter logo 2

Greetings from Toby's Foundation,

This AussiE-Update is dedicated to Sheila Dolan.

In Memory of Sheila J. Dolan, April 20, 1943 - September 10, 2010

sheilaand Gridley 2

Pamela Douglas, President of Toby’s Foundation says: “we have lost a wonderful friend and a great supporter. Sheila was a remarkable person and will be greatly missed! The Aussie world has lost a champion who can never be replaced. Toby’s Foundation has lost someone that we could always rely on. Sheila helped us from the very beginning after Toby was diagnosed with canine epilepsy. She supported our efforts to raise awareness of canine epilepsy and to stop this disease by supporting the research to find the genes responsible and develop a screening test. Sheila was committed to the health of the Australian Shepherd and was instrumental in helping us in the fight against canine epilepsy. She was willing from the very beginning when support for our efforts was scarce to stand up for us and lend her support. We are very thankful to Sheila and always will be for the help and support she gave us personally and for Toby’s Foundation. We are honored to have known Sheila. It would have been so difficult, if not impossible, to accomplish what we have without Sheila’s support and help along the way. Our deepest condolences and thoughts and prayers go out to her husband Pete, her children, grandchildren, and all her family and friends and her beloved Aussies.”

Kathy Glaes is putting together a two page memorial ad for both the Australian Shepherd Journal and Aussie Times in Sheila’s memory. Any funds in excess of the cost of the ads will be split equally among the USASF, ASCA Foundation, Toby’s Foundation and ASHGI. All monies must be received by Kathy Glaes no later then November 10, 2010.

We hope you will support this initiative to honor Sheila’s life and memory.

Please see the information below from Kathy Glaes.

Thank you!

To All Friends of Sheila Dolan:

I am putting together a two-page memorial ad for both the Australian Shepherd Journal and the Aussie Times to honor Sheila’s contributions to and impact on the Aussie community. Sheila was committed to Aussie health and Aussie rescue. She believed strongly in the versatility of the Australian Shepherd and helped train her dogs to go from the conformation ring into the obedience, agility, herding and rally rings. Had her health been better, she would have been out there tracking as well.

If you are interested in contributing to this ad, please send your contribution (whatever amount you are comfortable with) to me, along with how you want your name/kennel listed. All money left over from paying for the ads will be split equally among United States Australian Shepherd Foundation, ASCA Foundation, Toby’s Foundation and ASHGI. Your money must be in my hands no later than November 10 or you will not be listed in the ad. Promises of money on the way don’t count. Names will appear in both publications. I will not split names for only one or the other.

Checks: Make checks payable to “Kathleen Glaes” and note in the memo area “Sheila ad”. Mail to me at Kathy Glaes, 1215 Cross Keys Rd, Reading PA 19605. Enclose a note to let me know how you want to be listed.

Credit card: Accepted through paypal.com to KLGLAES@mac.com (you can type it all lower case—I just want you to see there are 2 Ls in the address). Put a note in the “message to recipient” box that it is for the Sheila ad and include how you want to be listed.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO YOUR CLUB LISTS AND ANY FRIENDS YOU KNOW WHO MAY WANT TO TAKE PART IN THIS.

Email me if you have any questions. Thanks!

Kathy (klglaes@mac.com )

www.opari-aussies.com

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

-Douglas Adams

AussiE-Update No. 31, Volume IV

September 22, 2010