'Thank You' to Art Kennel, MD

The ILR Board would like to thank Dr. Art Kennel, for his service to the ILR. He contributed wisdom, organizational skills and a deep love and familiarity with the llama industry. His contributions in the following areas were particularly valuable:

• He was the architect and author of our comprehensive strategic plan.
• He was instrumental in organizing our joint conference calls with the Boards of LANA and GALA.
• He was president of our sister corporation, The International Llama Foundation, which holds funds donated for research purposes and is a 501c5. Art has a long time involvement with the Morris Animal Foundation and was able to recommend appropriate research projects for us to support. We supported the Alpaca Genome project, because of its potential Registry application in the future.
• He contacted the authors and provided oversight in rewriting and updating all the old ILA brochures.

Thank you, Art, for your many contributions to the ILR and the Llama Community.

Sincerely,

ILR Board of Directors
Karen Baum, DVM, President
Sally Taylor, Secretary
Kathi McKinney, Treasurer
Sally German-Rucker