Days End Farm Horse Rescue, Inc.

Suzanne Lulewicz-Schooler
Chairman of the Board

Suzanne has more than 20 years of training and management experience, and has been facilitating training and coaching interventions in a wide variety of environments since 1990.

Suzanne is an experienced curriculum and instructional designer, facilitator, coach and consultant. She is a member and former president of the Metro Washington DC Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), and former member of the Consultants’ Consortium, HRD Consortium, and Scholarship Committee for the Columbian Women of George Washington University.

Suzanne has her Masters degree from George Washington University in the area of Education and Human Development, and has completed the six-year leadership program sponsored by the U.S. Chamber’s Institutes for Organization Management.

She has contributed to John Wiley’s Non-Profit Series: “Volunteer Training” for the Volunteer Management Handbook, “Role of Communications in Organizational Transformation and Renewal” for the Second Edition of The Non-Profit Handbook: Management (1997), “Strategic Education Planning – an Executive Leadership Tool,” for The Non-Profit Management Handbook (2000) Supplement, and the Third Edition of The Non-Profit Handbook: Management (2001).

Carolyn "Nicky" Ratliff
Board Vice Chair

Carolyn “Nicky” Ratliff, is Executive Director of the Humane Society of Carroll County, Inc., Sheltering and Animal Control Divisions. She has been working in the field of animal control and welfare for the past 38 years and in her present job for the past 29 years. Prior to entering this field, she was a Government Contract Administrator and a Private Investigator. She was the investigator for Howard County Large Animal Rescue, Inc., for 2 years in the 70’s.

Through the years, Nicky has served on Boards and Committees where she has influenced passage of numerous positive animal welfare laws and regulations in Maryland. She was the President of her state's association of animal control agencies and humane organizations (PAWS, Inc.) for 17 years and was recently instrumental in creating The East Coast Animal Control Academy. Nicky has been a guest speaker for numerous groups and organizations and has conducted workshops at national conferences on animal welfare and animal control issues.

She is currently a member of the Maryland Horse Council’s Equine Welfare Committee, Carroll County’s Agriculture Commission, Carroll County’s Domestic Violence Task Force. She served many years as a member of The Humane Society of the United States’ National Companion Animals Advisory Group, and The Maryland Department of Natural Resources’ Fur Bearer Advisory Committee and Captive Wildlife Advisory Committee.

Lynn Shuppel
Board Treasurer

A native of Baltimore, Lynn was educated in Catholic elementary and secondary schools, then received her BA from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, and her Masters Degree from the Catholic University of America. After spending 15 years in the field of education as a teacher, counselor and administrator on every level, she made the change to the business world.

Lynn decided to get her CPA designation a little later in life. She said it was a tremendous achievement for her to earn that designation at age 51. Lynn has worked for Metropolitan Life Insurance, USF&G and Turner Pension Consultants. She is currently pension administrator is with Pollard and Associates, a small pension consulting firm in Hunt Valley, Maryland. Lynn loves her current employment and has been with that firm for 16 years. Her work gives her the chance to use her CPA knowledge and skills, plus the other skills she has learned on the job. She says that she plans to work many more years and when she does retire, to continue to be involved with Days End and the Maryland SPCA.

Evan Rosenberg
Board Secretary

Evan has three decades of information technology experience, has run his own IT consulting business for over 13 years, is a successful investor, and is currently in the process of opening a new import-export/investment business.

Evan has a Bachelors degree from the University of Maryland and a Masters from Johns Hopkins University, with a background in psychology, information technology and management.

Before forming his IT consulting business, Evan's work experience included being an IT Director, manager and software developer, mostly in the health care field. His consulting business has served mostly health care clients, in addition to clients in the investement, education, trucking and construction fields.

IN MEMORIUM: Brenda Curry

  

April 2012: After a long battle with cancer, we at Days End were extremely sorry to learn that Brenda Curry, former President of Days End Farm Horse Rescue’s Board of Directors (2010 – 2011, passed away on April 14, 2012. Her contributions to DEFHR as a donor, volunteer, Board Member, Board President and friend were incredible. She was a beautiful, generous woman who loved and doted on all of DEFHR’s rescued horses. Her quest in her association with us was to raise money to secure the health, happiness and welfare of these animals -- a quest she worked diligently to accomplish. We will all miss her tremendously!

Steve Erlitz
Board Member

    

Steve started fostering a horse with his wife, Mary Ann, at the old Days End Farm in the mid-2000’s and has been hooked ever since. Horses were foreign to them, as they were born in raised in New York City. They relocated to Maryland in 1991 when he transferred to the U.S. Department of Transportation in Washington, DC, as a network engineer. He recently retired from there after almost 37 years of service. Steve also served 20 years in the Army (7 active duty) in military intelligence and retired as a Chief Warrant Officer 3 from the Reserves in 1994.

As varied as his professional career has been, so is his assistance with DEFHR. In addition to fostering, he started helping at events twice a year, and now you will see him helping in the office, assisting at many of our event functions and tables, working as one of our barn inspectors, serving on our IT Team, Development Committee, Nominating Committee and, of course, the Board of Directors which he joined in 2010. As of August 2011, he and Mary Ann have become horse owners adopting one of our SOS guys, "Dandelion". “We love being horse owners and we hope to do right by them. We believe that since they were abused, we feel they need to be able to spend their remaining years happy and well cared for. We’d like to see that for all of them.”

Tina Snyder
Board Member

    

Tina Snyder is owner and head trainer of Safe Haven Farm, a unique equine learning center that  promotes rescue horses as teachers and competitors. Ninety-five percent of Safe haven's horses have come through Days End. Most compete successfully in hunters, dressage and eventing.

Tina has competed nationally and internationally with the U.S. Equestrian Team. Today her 13 DEFHR horses serve as ambassadors showing the horse world that they tremendous heart and versatility. While traveling on the show circuit, Tina's crew of riders, grooms and support staff "talk the talk and walk the walk," distributing literature, using public service announcements, carrying an up-to-date book of horses available for adoption, and stopping to talk "DEFHR" to anyone interested. At events, all the allumni horses are registered and announced using the name given by Days End. Baker Bean pictured above is a Days End rescue horse.

 Tina's daughter's first pony came from Days End 19 years ago. Lollipop is buried in front of the barn at Safe Haven, and is a daily reminder and inspiration. Rescue horses are often seen from the wrong perspective. The only thing they have in common is that they ended up in bad situations and fought their way back to health and trust. For that, they deserve our respect and a chance at a good home. 

Besides serving on the board, Tina coaches several members of the Days End horse training team, staff and volunteers and is always willing to help a new adopter create a life long bond and understanding with their horse.  

Marcia D'Alessio
Board Member

    

Marci has been volunteering at Days End since 2008. She grew up riding and showing POA’s (Pony of the America's) through high school but when going away to college she had to make the tough decision to put horses on the side to focus on her education. In 2008, her passion for horses was reignited when she started volunteering at Days End.

She soon became involved with the Volunteer Training Team and helped train a number of Days End horses. She is also a member of the Days End Rescue Riders Drill and Show Teams. With successes at local events, many of the horses that she showed were able to find their forever homes.

Marci's background is in Marketing Communications and she currently works for a large non-profit located in Frederick, Maryland. She is also a certified personal trainer and Les Mills Body Combat instructor. Marci’s passion for horses shows through everything that she does at Days End Farm.

2011 Auxiliary Board

Richard J. Forfa, DVM
Auxiliary Board Member

      

Dr. Forfa started Monocacy Equine Veterinary Associates in 1983. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Veterinary Practice with a specialty in Equine Medicine. Dr. Forfa graduated from University of Parma, Italy in 1980.

From 1980-1981, he practiced at the Thoroughbred racetracks at Monmouth Park and Meadowlands. He also practiced on Maryland's Eastern shore prior to starting Monocacy Equine.

He is particularly interested in the care of the mare and foal, gastrointestinal diseases and conditions of the hoof of the horse. He enjoys combined carriage driving and is an avid fly fisherman.

Sigrid Haines, Esq.
Auxiliary Board Member

Ms. Haines practices in the health care area. She was born in Fayetteville, New York, attended Bucknell University and received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1981. She received her J.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1984, where she was student editor of Health Matrix, an interdisciplinary journal of law, medicine and economics.

Sigrid is a member of the New York, Maryland and District of Columbia bars and has experience as a hospital management consultant. She is also active in the Health Law Section of the Maryland State Bar Association, serving as its Chair in 1996-97, and on the Section Council in various leadership positions from 1993 to the present. She has received an “AV” rating from Martindale-Hubbell and serves on the Maryland State Bar Association Board of Governors for the 2010-2012 term.

Sigrid has been an attorney at Lerch, Early & Brewer, Chtd., in Bethesda since 1989 and has been a principal since 1995.

 

 

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