Tinkerbell

Lulu

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 (In Memory)

Lance and Justin (In Memory)

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).

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.