Phil Snyder was best known for 15 years with the Humane Society of the U.S., but was in the field for 20 years before that & 15 years afterward SEBRING, Florida––Phillip Ryan Snyder, 88, better known as just Phil Snyder, died on November 22, 2025. Born in Plymouth, Michigan, in 1937, Snyder at his retirement […]
Sandy Rowland, 77, longtime Humane Society of the U.S. representative
Car crash ends 20-year career in Bowling Green civic affairs & politics BOWLING GREEN, Ohio––Sandy Rowland, 77, for more than 30 years a dynamic Great Lakes Region representative for first the Fund for Animals and later the Humane Society of the U.S., died on April 17, 2024 “from extensive injuries sustained in a car accident […]
Wayne Pacelle resigns HSUS presidency, succeeded by Kitty Block
Ousted by donor & staff rejection of board vote of confidence WASHINGTON D.C.––Kitty Block, previously president of the Humane Society of the U.S. subsidiary Humane Society International, on February 2, 2018 ascended to the HSUS presidency. Block became interim HSUS president following the surprise resignation of 13-year president Wayne Pacelle, less than 24 hours after […]