Friends Board of Directors Members and Their Pets

 
  Tom Clark
Stevie Cote   
Sgt. Michael Delaney  
Eddie Fakhoury
Dr. Cheryl Good, DVM    
Elaine Greene 
Joe Hallissey

Nannette LeFevre    
Barbara Mattison 
Debi Price  
Sue Ringey  
Beth Siroskey 
Joe Veryser
Kathleen Walsh
 
 

Meet the Friends Board Members and their pets:

Stevie Cote


Lady
(In Memory)


Nikki
(In Memory, 9/1/92 - 6/27/07)

Stevie and her husband, Frank, helped organize the Friends in 1993 when they found three stray dogs on the Dearborn Hills Golf Course.  They worked with the City to get the Friends organization sanctioned and helped transform the Shelter from the “pound” that it was then.  They take pride in the success of the Friends and the animals we have been able to save.

Both Stevie and Frank have MBAs from U of D and had over 30 years each with Ford before retiring.  They have since started their own business, eBusiness Results, doing internet and intranet consulting.  They reside in Dearborn and have cats adopted from the Shelter and rescued from their (and other) neighborhood.  

One of the dogs they rescued from the golf course in 1993, Lady (shown here), led a happy and truly spoiled life with their next-door neighbors, Vi and Gordon Hutchinson.  Nikki was the first cat that the Cotes adopted from the Shelter.  He came into the Shelter hairless, bloody, and quite ill, but has turned into a spectacularly beautiful and loving friend.  His photo represents all the "Cote Kitties".

Elaine Greene


Tucker
(In Memory, 11/1/95 - 6/27/07)

Elaine has been the Shelter Director since July 1996, when Friends for the Dearborn Animal Shelter took over the operation of the Shelter for the City of Dearborn.  She worked for Michigan Humane Society for 22 years before coming to the Dearborn Shelter.  Elaine is also a Licensed Veterinary Technician, which in layman terms is an animal nurse.  She supervises a team of four full time and two part time shelter employees as well as numerous volunteers from the ages of 12 years and up.  Elaine, along with her two dogs, one cat, two birds and the occasional foster pet, enjoy their home in Dearborn.

Michael Delaney


Grunt
(Shown here with as a "centerfold" of the 2001 Friends and Detroit Tigers calendar.)

Michael DeLaney is a Sergeant with the Dearborn Police Department supervising the Ordinance Enforcement Division. Michael oversees the Dearborn Animal Shelter Operation and is a FFDAS Board member acting as our liaison to the Police Department. Michael owns a white female Bull Terrier named "Grunt". Michael is a life long Dearborn resident, currently living in west Dearborn with his lovely wife "Elaine", together they own three dogs, one cat, and two birds.

Dr. Cheryl Good


Shira


Goldie and Boogie



Lance and Justin

 

Cheryl has been involved with the Friends since they were started in 1993 and has been serving as the Shelter Medical Director since then.  She graduated from the Michigan State University College of  Veterinary Medicine and owns a veterinary clinic, Dearborn Family Pet Care, in Dearborn.

She resides in Saline with her husband, Mark and 

  • Three children, Miranda, Ian, and Alan.  
  • Four dogs - a Yellow Lab Shira (shown as a puppy); Golden Retriever, Goldie (a Shelter rescue);  Black Lab, Boogie; and Chow-Shepherd mix, Roscoe (rescued badly injured from an abusive home)
  • Three cats,  Belle (a Shelter rescue), Lance and Justin (rescued from the cold when a few hours old).

 


Chester (In Memory)


Belle


Roscoe

Joe Hallissey

Joe is married to Veronica (for 56 yrs.) and has two (2) married sons and five (5) grandchildren.  He has a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University, and  MA Program at Boston University.  In his 44 years in Dearborn, he has been involved in a variety of activities - Dearborn YMCA Director (6 yrs) and owner of Hallissey Travel (32 yrs.)  Beyond his business, he has devoted a great deal of his life in the business (Chamber, etc.) and volunteer (Dearborn Schools, HFCC, Rotary, etc) communities.  He retired from his businesses on June 30, 2006.  "Our Dearborn family consists of my wife, our Golden Retriever “Beau,” and myself."

 

Nan LeFevre


Cricket


Merlyn


Ziggy & Tommy Girl

Nan joined the Board in 2004 when she agreed to own our Stray Cat Strut project.  She is an LVT (Licensed Veterinary Technician) and currently works at Lincoln Park Veterinary Hospital.  She also is an instructor in the Veterinary Technical Program at Wayne County Community College / Wayne State University. 

She has a BA from Marygrove College in Special Education and a AAS from the Veterinary Technical Program at Wayne County Community College / Wayne State University. 

Prior to becoming an LVT she had 20 years in retail management in conjunction with Human Resource Training with various retail companies. 

She and her husband Alain have 5 cats (Cricket, Merlyn, Timothy, TommyGirl (the model for the Stray Cat Strut Cat), and Ziggy) and 2 dogs (Kayla and Morrie).  All but Cricket (who Alain adopted as a "normal" kitten) are someone's reject or a "scratch & dent" special.


Morrie (In Memory, 2007) & Kayla


Timothy & Ziggy

   

Debi Price


Big Brother Smudge and Dudley


Calvin and the girls, Abby and Mollie


Molly and her bear

Debi has been a volunteer for the Friends working at the shelter since 2004.  She started by fostering mom cats and kittens, then joined the off-site adoption and the adoption follow-up adoption project teams.  She began conducting volunteer orientations in 2005 and found this particularly rewarding, since she could share her passion for helping the animals with the new volunteers.  She lives in Dearborn Heights and has one daughter Melissa who lives in Canton. She has been a Registered Nurse for 26 years and is currently the working at Oakwood Dearborn as the Manager of Central Staffing, Nurse Resources.  She also is part-time Faculty at Henry Ford Community College, working as a Clinical Instructor.
Sue Ringey


Sinatra and Jack

Sue began to volunteer at the Dearborn Animal shelter in March 2004 after she lost my playful Cocker Spaniel Snoopy.  Her housemate has a medical problem that prevents him from walking & is quite frail, so she didn’t want to get another dog.  She worked weekends walking dogs and joined the SIT team to make the dogs more adoptable by teaching them basic sit & down commands.  She then brought home a little Beagle mix as a foster (Sinatra) and adopted him in early May. 

She has lived in Dearborn Heights since July 1992.  She works at BCBSM in Management Accounting.  Sue has a MSA from Central Michigan University and BSA from Wayne State University.  She is originally from Middlebury, Vermont.  Her family relocated to Detroit ( where she attended High School) when she was a child.

 

Beth Siroskey


Scruffy


Whizzer
(In Memory)

Beth’s love for animals led her to join the Friends Board in June 2000. As Auctions Director, she is responsible for raising funds through live and silent auctions at the Friends' annual Critter Invitational golf outing and the annual Black Tie and Tails dinner-dance. She helped establish the Friends' mail appeal process and retired as Appeals Director in December 2005. Beth is a life-long resident of the Dearborn area and works in Public Affairs at Ford Motor Company.

 

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