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Who Was Helen Woodward?
Helen Whittier Woodward, the Center’s founder, was committed to making the world a better place for people and animals. In 1972, she and a group of friends envisioned a facility that would encompass comprehensive animal care and public education programs.
Through her support and leadership, she guided the facility into one of the area’s most highly regarded animal and human service programs. The California native who maintained a home in Del Mar for 40 years, Helen Woodward dedicated her life to a number of charities, including those for animals, blind people, and the elderly.
Picture this. There actually was a cow in the backyard of the Los Angeles home where Helen Woodward was born in 1907. Her father, Max Whittier, a farm boy from Maine, became a pioneer in the California oil industry. While looking for water, Max discovered oil. This led to the creation of the “Rodeo Land and Water Company” and eventually the community of Beverly Hills. From their home on Sunset Boulevard, Helen and her three brothers looked across the bean fields that stretched all
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Helen Rosen Woodward
Helen Rosen Woodward is best known for her contribution to the world of advertising and is generally believed to be the first female account executive in the United States. Born in New York City to Polish and German immigrants Louis and Frederika (Sachs) Rosen, she attended the Girls’ Latin School in Boston and in 1913 married William E. Woodward, a non-Jewish writer and historian. She was largely self-taught, read voraciously, was excited by new ideas, and was imbued with a bristling patriotism.
Woodward recounts the challenges she faced as a young working woman in a variety of businesses in her forthright autobiography Through Many Windows. Her keen observations about office life in the early part of the century make fascinating reading. She explains that “girls in offices” in this period were nearly all opposed to suffrage “except for an occasional Jewish girl.” Gradually, women began to change as their self-respect and self-reliance grew.
In 1907, Woodward began her long career in advertising and her long association with women’s magazines, includ
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The Story of Mike Arms
Michael Arms is a pioneer in the animal welfare industry. He is recognized worldwide as the creator of both the International Pet Adopt-a-thon and Home 4 the Holidays adoption campaigns, as well as the Remember Me Thursday adoption awareness campaign. Mike is credited in the last 40 years with saving the lives of millions of orphan animals.
A life altering experience while at the ASPCA in the late sixties defined Mike and has benefited orphan animals to this day. After handing in his resignation and with only six days left, Mike had to fill in on a call for a dog hit by a car. Upon his arrival he saw a dog that had been hit with such force that his back was broken. Three men came out of a nearby doorway and told Mike that he wasn’t taking the dog anywhere: they were taking bets on how long it was going to live. Mike bent to lift the injured puppy into the ambulance anyway, so the men attacked Mike with a bottle, a baseball bat and a knife. The little dog that should not have been able to move crawled to Mike’s side to lick him to consciousness. It was
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