Meet Our Board

Friends of the Animal Shelter, like most non-profit organizations, is run by a Board of Directors. FOTAS' two part-time employees report to and are accountable to the Board. The Board sets policy and direction for the organization. It also oversees the organization's finances and fundraising.

The members of our Board enjoy the Board meetings and their interactions with one another. At our Board meetings, the input of each member is valued and weighed in a creative atmosphere. All members of the Board are uncompensated volunteers.

If you would like to be considered for a position on our Board, please send us an E-mail for more information.

Peggy Moore -- President

Peggy has been involved with FOTAS since 1999. She was a college administrator in Weed, California before she recently retired. In addition to chairing the FOTAS board, she chairs the board of the Colestin Rural Fire Department. Peggy is writing a novel.

As if that weren’t enough, she has an 82-goat farm where she makes goat milk soap (Colestin Caprines Goat Milk Soap). She has two cats, a German Shepard (Ossian), an Akita/shepherd mix from the Shelter named Golda Meir, and three Great Pyrenees who are guardians to the goats—Meesha, Canis and Icey. She believes that she is part dog herself as well.

Jeani Kimball -- Vice President

Jeani has been a devoted FOTAS volunteer since 2002. She began working one day a week in the cat room, but soon found herself at the Shelter three days a week—and loving it! Jeani is an invaluable resource for the board, as she gets to experience the day-to-day workings at the Shelter. She regularly fosters dogs, cats and kittens.

Jeani shares her home with her husband Jon and cat Misty. Misty is a shelter alumnus who, at five months old had no social skills. And grooming?—not even in her vocabulary! Jeani taught her to become a "normal" cat—even teaching her to talk by talking (meowing) to her! Jeani has learned a lot from Misty, but still loves to go to the shelter to be with "regular" cats.

Jeane Lind -- Treasurer

Jeane became a FOTAS volunteer in July 2001 by helping out at the Farmers' Market adoption booth and in the cat sick-room at the shelter. She has since been a regular volunteer in the cat adoption room, at offsite adoption events, at the Shelter shot clinics, and in the pet adoption flyers program. She joined the board in 2003 and became treasurer later that year.

Jeane has two shelter alumni cats, Duppy and Amber, who have traveled thousands of miles with her and her husband in their small RV.

Colleen Macuk -- Secretary

Colleen is the Shelter manager and has been working with FOTAS since its inception in 1990. Her place on the board "assures open communications and the kind of understandings that has made our relationship so successful."

Colleen is owned by Bubba, a Shar-pei mix that she saved from parvo and Kya, a 6-year-old Australian Shepherd mix who is completely deaf and partially blind. In an amazing show of restraint, these are Colleen’s only two pets, and she says that "unless I am willing to trade my husband for more pets, they will be our only two for a while."

Maria Kelly -- Member at Large

Maria is a former DJ at Jefferson Public Radio and manages her own performing arts production company, Maria Kelly Productions.

Maria adopted a puppy from a litter that a volunteer was fostering and wanted to know if there was anything that she could do, even though she had limited time. The volunteer suggested she join the Board where she could do something about the homeless animal situation, something that Maria is very passionate about. Maria also sponsors pet of the week ads on the FOTAS website and is a consultant for our media and marketing programs.

Marnie Norvell -- Member at Large

Marnie joined FOTAS in 1998 after moving to Ashland from Arcadia, California. She is a former teacher and was an adoption counselor at the Pasadena Humane Society for many years. Marnie helps enforce the Shelter's spay/neuter program by counseling people who have adopted a pet but failed to comply with their spay/neuter contract.

Marnie and her husband Pete share their home with three rescued dogs, Duffy, Annie and Willie. Her interests are family, animals, tennis walking, reading, rafting, and theater.

Jeanette Larson -- Member at Large

Jeanette hails from Southern California after many years working for the County of Los Angeles and the University of Southern California.

Upon arriving in Southern Oregon in 1987 she established Cobblestone Counseling Center. She has been a member of numerous non-profit boards here in the Rogue Valley. She claims to have saved the best for last by joining the FOTAS Board. Jeanette says FOTAS has an amazing evolving history of making animal life so much better in our community, and she hopes she can help.

Seth Adleman -- Member at Large

Seth has been involved with FOTAS since the 2002. He has been involved in parades, shot clinics, Puss 'n Boots, and he helped turn the Neuter Before Adoption Program from a dream into a reality. He is a former grant writer for FOTAS, and he obtained a $5,000 grant to improve the dog kennels. Seth is the mastermind behind the design of the Mozart Room at the Shelter.

Seth shares his home with his two dogs—Maggie, an ex-New Yorker, and Peanut, who comes from the Shelter.

Tom Peil -- Member at Large

Tom has enjoyed volunteering at the Shelter since 1999. His time spent with the animals has been a pleasant and fulfilling experience. Tom is a regular dog walker and transporter of animals to a local T.V. station for an adoptable-pet segment of the evening newscast. Over the years he has helped out in many ways, including construction and handyman projects around the Shelter.

Tom's animal companion is Kali, an Ecuadorian yellow lab who loves to hike as much as Tom does.

Dee Wollter -- Member at Large

Dee has volunteered at the shelter since 2005 and is heavily involved with fostering, adoption counseling, and finding Pet of the Week sponsors.

After working for a newspaper for 20 years, she spent the next 20 years running a pet sitting service in Marin County, California. Since retiring to Medford, Dee has fostered several dogs and puppies and over 40 litters of kittens.

Dee lives with her four dogs and eight cats, most of whom are rescues.

Julia Roupp -- Member at Large

Julia has been involved with FOTAS since 1996, when she first volunteered as a dog walker one summer along with her seven year old daughter. In 1997, Julia joined the FOTAS board for six years, serving as President for five of those years and recently rejoined the board. She has been the editor of the FOTAS newsletter, The Scoop, since 2001 and Emceed the last 11 Puss ‘n Boots Balls.

Julia and her husband Brad own and operate Abbott’s Cottages in Ashland, and share their home with two teenagers and shelter alumni Fred (orange Tabby) and Truman (Terrier mix - pictured here) Julia says she has appreciated the opportunity to volunteer in different capacities as the needs of her family and business have changed over the years.