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Animal advocate to hold two workshops

September 27, 2006

Centre PAWS (Promoting Animal Welfare Society) will sponsor two free events featuring internationally-acclaimed animal advocate Michael Arms.

Arms is president and executive director of the Helen Woodward Animal Center in San Diego, CA.

The first event will be a free public workshop that will focus on fundraising ideas and public relations and marketing plans for animal organizations. It will be 2:30-4 p.m. Tuesday in Vahlkamp Theatre on campus. Registration is required. Call Jan Wertz at (859) 238-5334 or e-mail jwertz@centre.edu to sign up.

The second event will be a public lecture by Arms titled "Do We Really Love Animals? The Truth about the Animal Welfare Industry in this Country." It will be 7 p.m. Tuesday in Young Hall, room 101.

"Centre PAWS is very pleased to have such a well-renowned animal advocate come to Danville," says Katrina Farris, Centre PAWS president.

Originally from Hopkinsville, Arms began his career in New York as district manager for the ASPCA from 1966 to 1976. He then joined North Shore Animal League as the organization's director of operations for more than 20 years and oversaw 400,000 animal adoptions during his tenure.

The creator of the pet Adopt-a-Thon, Arms developed the North Shore Animal League's pet adoptions promotion from a local event to an international collaboration involving 2,200 shelters in nine countries. The effort resulted in homes for thousands of orphaned animals in a 36-hour period.

After leaving North Shore, Arms spent two years as a consultant to animal welfare agencies throughout the United States to enhance their programs. As president of the Helen Woodward Animal Center, he developed the Home 4 the Holidays adoption program that resulted in more than 313,000 adoptions during the 2004 holiday season.

Centre PAWS is a newly formed student organization whose goals include helping local animal rescue organizations and the humane society to socialize cats and dogs, and perform basic training to make dogs more adoptable.

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