Everyone connected with Precious Paws, including the Board Of Directors, is a volunteer.
Precious Paws was established in October 2003 by Georgyne La Lone.
A Quick Message From The Directors
"Precious Paws has accomplished much in our first years, but this is only the beginning for us! We want to be able to do much much more. We have been blessed with very good friends who have contributed greatly in many ways to us. We would like to thank them ever so sincerely. We owe them a great deal.
On behalf of our rescues, we are pleased that you care about the other creatures who share this Earth with us!"
GEORGYNE LALONE - Founder/President
While at Paramount, Georgyne was approached by a friend to help her find a home for a cat she found living in her carport right after the 1994 earthquake after she exhausted all resources trying to find the cat’s owner. At that time Georgyne was handling Patrick Stewart’s travel arrangements as he was working on Star Trek: The Next Generation. During a conversation right before the earthquake, Patrick had mentioned that he wanted a cat. Remembering that, Georgyne contacted Patrick and said she had a cat for him and he just had to have her! It was love at first site, and Patrick adopted Bella. It was such a gratifying feeling finding that home for Bella that Georgyne decided that was her calling... that she wanted to work in rescue to help find homes for other homeless animals.
Georgyne became a volunteer with Lifeline For Pets a couple of months later. Georgyne then started taking care of the cats on the Paramount lot, she would take in the kittens and friendly adults, get them ready for adoption and find them homes. She trapped the wild adult cats, got them spayed or neutered and released them back on the Paramount lot. Georgyne founded Precious Paws in 2002 as a registered non-profit group who's sole purpose is to make a difference in the lives of these amazing animals, each one with their own story, life and love to give to a special person or family.
CARLA ROSELLI - Vice President
Carla is originally from Chicago, Carla got her start in rescue by trapping her first feral mom cat with kittens. She found them in an old van in a junkyard behind her film class. In 1997 Carla headed to Los Angeles to work in the film industry. She drove across country with her 2 cats (including one from that old van in the junkyard). Carla got a job at Paramount in 1999 where she still works in the post production /projection dept. She met Georgyne at Paramount when she wanted to get involved with helping the cats on the Paramount lot. The rest is history.
PAULA ROBERTSON – Secretary
Paula is currently designing websites. (In fact she really needs a job!) A mother of one born in 1980 and a cat mom to “ a couple of cats”. For approximately 20 years she was a landlord and property manager, working the family rental business. She is also a Registered Dental Assistant and a Medical
Assistant. Paula became a volunteer with Lifeline For Pets when one of Lifeline’s volunteers gave Paula a kitten without collecting an adoption fee. Paula offered to volunteer her time to work off the $40 adoption fee. That was 1991. Paula quickly became an A#1 bottle-baby / unweaned kitten foster parent. She has also been involved during the maturation of the most well established rescue groups in L.A. County, to work together to disseminate information via the internet, to save the sweet lives of many pets. Through a fellow volunteer, Jordana Arkin, Paula met Georgyne. Soon thereafter Georgyne started volunteering with Lifeline. When one of Paula’s apartments became available, Georgyne became her tenant. And the rest, as they say, “is history” and is full of "tails, tears, smiles and laughs". Paula continues her volunteer website involvement with Precious Paws. She has also designed and built web & social networking sites, for "Tails Of Joy" and "On Shore Foundation", to the specifications of the founders of these rescue organizations.
SUZANNE WELKE - Treasurer
Suzanne is an Associate Producer for television. She has worked many shows in her 20 year career such as 'Wings", "Frasier", and "Girlfriends" for Paramount Pictures, as well as "The X-Files" for 20th Century Fox. Her involvement in animal rescue began during her time on "Wings" where she met Precious Paws' founder, Georgyne. Also while at Paramount, Suzanne married Stephen Welke, Co-Producer of "Star Trek: Voyager" and Star Trek's "Enterprise". Currently, Suzanne is raising 2 human daughters, and 2 feline sons.
LEANN MOEN - Director, Fundraising
LeAnn Moen began her career as Executive Assistant to Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion. From that position she went on to be the assistant for Richard Perry of Planet Records, who was the most renowned producer in the field of popular music during the 1970s working with recording artists such as The Pointer Sisters, Rod Stewart, Barbara Streisand, to name a few. She then moved on to promoting concerts in Honolulu for five years, then moved back to California to work for we
ll known record producer, Bob Ezrin, who produced “The Wall” for Pink Floyd, Kiss, Alice Cooper, among many others. Then moved on to work for the CEO and COO of the House Of Blues for six years. Currently she is working for the Chairman of Ticketmaster, Terry Barnes.LeAnn was in a girl group, SWEETALK, that was produced by Bobby Sherman in the early 80’s. They recorded in Bobby’s home studio. There were 3 girls that sang 3-part harmony. The group broke up before they released the LP. LeAnn still stays in touch with the girls and Bobby.
LeAnn met Georgyne when Georgyne contacted LeAnn to get concert tickets for Michael Piller in 2003 and for some reason they started talking about cats, oh what a surprise, so not only did Georgyne get the concert tickets for Michael, but Precious Paws gained a new friend! LeAnn began by soliciting for donations from her friends and co workers to help bail out shelter cats, that is where it all began. LeAnn did such a fantastic job, LeAnn was given the position of Director of Fundraising in 2007. LeAnn has the unique ability to find homes for the hard to place cats. This year, 2008, alone LeAnn has pulled and found homes for about 15 adult and senior cats that were on death row at our local city shelters. LeAnn also helps at our adoption events and is currently fostering her first shelter rescue.
SUSAN OLSEN - Director, Media and Special Projects
Best known for playing “Cindy” on “The Brady Bunch”, Susan began rescue work as a foster parent for LA Animal Services. As a volunteer for their Bottle Baby program, she learned to care for unweaned kittens and puppies. After meeting Georgyne she started foster parenting for Precious Paws and is now on the Board of Directors. She now houses and cares for kittens and cats until they can be adopted into new homes. Recently, she was featured on Fox Reality Network’s “Gimme My Reality Show” where she humorously demonstrated aspects of rescue and foster parenting. One of Susan's humorous passions is her Photoshopaholic "Fluff" Art which can be found on her social networking sites. Such a sense of humor!
Susan on MySpace.com
(all lists below are in alphabetical order)
VOLUNTEERS
WENDY ALLEN (More Bio Info Soon To Be Added.) www.allenmarketingpr.com Wendy is the founder of Allen Marketing & PR. She is an experienced
marketing consultant and freelance writer. A native of California,
Wendy spent 18 years in Hollywood, working at Paramount Pictures in the
high-impact television industry. After working on hit sitcoms such as
"Wings" and "Becker," she decided to put her talents into marketing and
public relations.
JEANNA CRAWFORD Jeanna has been working in the Film Industry for close to 20 years. Having moved to Los Angeles from her native St. Louis, Missouri, she has worked on such films as Men In Black, True Lies, Army of Darkness, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and The Attack of the 50' Woman. Currently Jeanna works as Webmistress for the Official Monty Python's Flying Circus web site: PythOnline.com.
Over the many years on film sets, Jeanna has become an activist for feral cats. Utilizing the TNR (Trap/Neuter/Return) program Jeanna successfully managed to round up and maintain several colonies on the special effects studios back lots. This experience naturally lent itself to joining forces with Precious Paws and Georgyne in their tireless effort to make a difference in the lives of these wonderful furry friends.
BARBARA M. HAMMOND Barbara has been a cat owner for most of her adult life. She has been a friend of Precious Paws for several years. When she had been cat-less too long, she adopted Crystal and Tabby from Precious Paws. Sadly, Tabby died a few months later. Next into the family came Bumper, rescued from the shelter on her kill day. Bumper quickly went from an emergency foster to adopted member of the family. This summer a kitten, Lil’Bitz, decided that being a foster wasn’t good enough and also joined the family. Barbara has assisted at Glendale Petco adoptions and at our fundraisers. Barbara is a Special Education teacher in Los Angeles as well as a filmmaker and writer.
DANIEL HAUSMANN Bio soon to be added
PENNY JUDAY Penny's vast film career is highlighted by her position as Art Coordinator on four Star Trek films, beginning with "Star Trek Generations" and concluding with "Star Trek Nemesis." Juday also served as the Art Coordinator for the film "Alien: Resurrection." This is in addition to Penny's other duties as props archivist and a stint as coordinator for Star Trek: The Magazine. Penny is currently (2008) working in the art department of Criminal Minds.
In 1996, working with Herman Zimmerman in the art department on the Paramount lot Penny began feeding a 'mama' cat outside of the Star Trek: First Contact stages, unbeknownst to her, she just happened to be feeding the very same cat that Georgyne was trying to trap for spay/neuter. A note was left... plots were hatched... and cats were rescued. And once again...the rest is history.
ROBBIE RIST Have a look at his professional information at Internet Movie Database. Robbie is helping us with our fundraising projects.
DAVID TWEET David has worked in the Film Industry for over 20 years in Film Editing and Production on such films as Short Circuit, Stakeout and Payback . A community leader, David was honored by the City of Los Angeles for outstanding achievement and citizenship, for efforts and accomplishments associated with enhancing the lives of his neighbors, the surrounding community and the community at large...He has also done volunteer work with local outreach programs and organizations in and around Los Angeles area working with the homeless and less fortunate...
David and Georgyne have been friends for many years but he only recently became aware of her non-profit rescue work with cats at Precious Paws. He was so impressed with her perseverance, hard work and determination to save and better the lives of needy, helpless and defenseless cats as well as so many other animals in need...and the hard working group of caring volunteers working for Precious Paws...that he joined the Precious Paws team as a volunteer and is now helping to save animal lives.
HONORARY MEMBERS
MIKE & FELICIA ACCORDINO
ELAYNE BOOSLER
LEE COLE
ADRIANNE CURRY
DANIEL HAUSMANN
MARTY HORNSTEIN
GERI JEWELL
DAVID KAUFMAN
CHRIS KNIGHT
LISA PICOTTE
SANDRA PILLER
ELIZA SIMONS ROBERTS
ROD RODDENBERRY
DOUG SHANNON
BOBBY SHERMAN
ERIC STILLWELL
OUT OF STATE
FUNDRAISING VOLUNTEERS
SUSAN BALLINGER
BARB DECKER
NANCY DUGAN
KATHI HOFFMAN
TINA HOWARD
GINNY RENTA
MICHELE SEAY
SUZIE STYLC
WENDY WINAN
A HANDFUL OF
OUR SPECIAL
SUPPORTERS / FRIENDS
MIKE ACCORDINO
FELICIA ACCORDINO
CATHY ALDRICH
SINNE ANDERSON
JORDANA ARKIN
MARY ANN BARNES
SHEILA BARNES
SCOTT BAKULA
INGRID BEHRENS-O'BRIEN
JILL BLOTEVOGEL
GARY BERMAN - CREATION ENTERTAINMENT
CYNTHIA BURNS
VICTORIA BURROWS - STAR PAWS RESCUE
SHARON ELLEN BURTMAN - CHESSCAT PRODUCTIONS
CHARLENE CODELLA
JUAN CARLOS COTO
RAY COURT - HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITY SHOW
CELESTE CRAWFORD
THE DAVIDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION
SANDRA DAVIDSON
STEPHANIE DAVIDSON
NICOLE DE BOER
MIKE DEMEO
RENE' ECHEVARRIA
TIBA EDELMAN
MARILYN ELLIS - LIFELINE FOR PETS
ROBERT ERDIAKOFF
ANTHONY FREDRICKSON
LORI GOLDEN - THE PET PRESS
ADRIENNE GOLDSTONE
KELSEY GRAMMER
ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL
KATHY HART - LIFELINE FOR PETS
CAROL HARTWELL - LIFELINE FOR PETS
MARYLEE HOLZHEIMER - HOLZHEIMERS'
PATTY HOOPER - HEADS 2 TAILS FOUNDATION
GABRIELLE JAMES
LISA JANES - LIFE 4 PAWS RESCUE
GREG & LEISA JOHNSON
DANNY KATAYAMA CPA
MOIRA KIRLAND
JR KLEGSETH
KRISTIN KLEGSETH - VET TECH
SHIRLEY & EDWARD LA LONE
EDDIE LA LONE
CAROL LEIFER & LORI WOLF
PJ LESLIE
LISA LILLIEN
BOB LONG
MIKE LOOKINLAND
CINDY MANUS
SHEENA METAL - THE SHEENA METAL SHOW
FRED MILLER
SYL MULINO
PATTI MUSTARI
JC O'CONNELL
XOCHITL OLIVAS
ON SHORE FOUNDATION
NICHELLE NICHOLS
PHIL PELLETER
LISA PICOTTE
MICHAEL PILLER
JAN REESMAN
ALISON REYNOLDS
ERIC ROBERTS
MARISA & COREY ROBERTSON
MAJEL BARRETT RODDENBERRY
TREVOR ROTH
LLOYD SEGAN
AMY SHERMAN
DAWNA SHULMAN
EILEEN SMULSON - OPERATION BLANKETS OF LOVE
DR. CAROL SKAAR DVM
DR. MARTIN SMALL DVM
DR. ALAN SMITH DVM
KATHY SMITH
DEBRA STILLWELL
SUNSET DAWN WEBSITES & PETSITTING
SHERI SWEITZER
JAMES SYMINGTON - PRODIGY TALENT
DAWN TERHOEVE
KIM THOMPSON
KITT TRONCONE
KYLE RICHARDS UMANSKY
DICK & JIMMY VAN PATTEN - NATURAL BALANCE
DIANE WARREN - DIANE WARREN FOUNDATION
WITNEY WATTS
ELLEN WEBSTER
ANGELA WEEKS
JENNIFER WEINGROFF
STEVE WELKE & FAMILY
BARRY WILLIAMS
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