Wet Pets and Other Watery Tales
Camden-Rockport Animal Rescue League
The Book:
About the Editors
HAZEL H. WEIDMAN
Hazel H. Weidman, currently owned by a rescued street cat named Sweep, is a retired professor of social anthropology from the University of Miami in Florida. She received her B.Sc. from Northwestern University, her A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University.
For many years Dr. Weidman was active in bringing medical anthropology into focus and structure within the framework of the American Anthropological Association. There is now a Society for Medical Anthropology, which is an affiliate of that parent body. She is well published in her field and founded the Medical Anthropology Newsletter, which has evolved into the International Journal of Medical Anthropology. She has taught at the College of William and Mary, the University of Alabama School of Medicine, and, for twenty-one years, at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
At the time of her retirement from the University of Miami in 1989 she was Professor of Social Anthropology and Director, Office of Transcultural Education and Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the medical school.
Hazel recently moved from her retirement home in Camden, Maine, to an active life care community in Scarborough, Maine, where her interests continue in support of the Camden-Rockport Animal Rescue League. For several years she served as a member of its Board of Directors.
JACQUELINE K. TEARE
Jackie Teare, co-owned by two shelter cats -- a feisty feline named Murphy and a sweet, scaredy cat named Suzy -- is a freelance writer with more than thirty years of experience as writer and editor, in locations ranging from Washington D.C. to Guam.
A veteran of The Associated Press in Michigan, Newhouse News Service in Washington D.C., and a feature placement service in the Capitol area, her work has appeared in newspapers around the country. Her reporting has focused on a wide range of topics, from national politics to regional business, agriculture, and social services issues.
A native of Massachusetts, she received both a B.A. and an M.A. in journalism from Michigan State University. In the 1960s, she became the first woman in Michigan to accept an invitation to join the previously all-male Society of Professional Journalists (Sigma Delta Chi).
Jackie started the Camden-Rockport Animal Rescue League's current newsletter, The Pet Connection, in 1994 and continued as its volunteer editor. She also served on the CRARL Board of Directors for several years. She lives in Rockport, Maine, with her husband, John.