BRIDAL PATHS


COMINGS & GOINGS


Kim DeChello is the new Executive Director of Maryland T erapeutic Riding. DeChello was the Acting Executive Director and Board Chairman since November.


Kerry Fairweather, a current board member and this year’s Derby Day Co- Chair, has been elected Chairman of the Board of Maryland T erapeutic Riding.


Jennifer Purcell has been hired as the interim Executive Director of the Maryland Horse Council.


Congratulations to Elizabeth Ann Tate of Paradise Stables in Mt. Airy and Wayne Kitzmiller, who were married on April 28 at Paradise Stables.


Maryland Will Miss... Robert “Bobby” Reber, a prominent fi gure


in foxhunting along the east coast and former Wicomico huntsman, died on May 21. He was 74, two days shy of his 75th birthday. Born in West Chester, PA, Reber was an avid sports player in high school, later serving in the Army stationed in Germany and then work- ing for Hewlett Packard until his retirement in 1998. T roughout his life, foxhunting was his true passion. He and his brother Ralph acquired some foxhounds and horses, starting their own pack after a childhood spent following foxhounds with their father and uncle. In 1987, he began breeding his own line of Penn- MaryDel foxhounds, also riding as a “whip- per-in” in various local foxhunting groups and riding with others in PA, MD, DE, NJ, VA and Ireland. He served as the Vice President of the Friends of Penn-MaryDel organization, known for his ability to ride “diffi cult” horses and train quality hunting horses. In 2000, he began hunting fi xtures near Chestertown, MD. When his health prevented him from riding with the packs after 2014, he continued to follow hounds in his truck nicknamed “T e Black Stallion.”


Richard Montali, DVM, considered one of the founders of modern investigative zoologi- cal pathology and a major contributor to zoo and wildlife medicine, died on May 27. He was 79. Born in New London, CT, Montali grew up with a great love of animals, especially


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horses, which led him to pursue a pre-veterinary track at the University of Connecticut. In 1964, he graduated from the Cor- nell University College of Veterinary Medicine, and after several years of prac- tice, became a resident in comparative medicine and pathology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medi- cine in Baltimore. Montali found his call- ing at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., as Chief Veterinary Pa- thologist, where he was a great mentor and leader. He worked with the Department of Veterinary Pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and received the American Association of Zoo Veterinarian’s Emily P. Dolensek Award, the American College of Veterinary Pathologists’ Distinguished Member Award and the Amer- ican College of Zoological Medicine’s Murray Fowler Lifetime Achievement Award. A Maryland resident since 1965, Montali


followed his love of horses to establish himself as an accomplished horseman who competed in dressage and eventing. He rode with the Goshen Hounds through the 1970s and 1980s and was a member of the Potomac Valley


Dressage Association for many years. He was also a founding member of the Maryland Combined Training Association.


Gloria Jean Bowers, a Richard Montali, DVM


woman devoted to serv- ing the community, died on June 5. After retiring from Southern States in 1994, Bowers started working for the Charles County Sherriff ’s Offi ce, retiring as Deputy Direc- tor of Budgeting in 2017. Bowers was a member of the Maryland Farm Bureau, Charles County


Farm Bureau and Women’s Group and the American Quarter Horse Association. She was also a 4-H and Girl Scouts leader.


Robert H. Crompton, III, a man devoted


to foxhunting, died on March 8 in Maryland. Crompton spent nearly 40 years of his life hunting, showing and breeding the Andrews Bridge Foxhounds in PA. He was the Master of Foxhounds for Andrews Bridge Foxhounds from 1968-2008. His breeding program was devoted to improving the conformation of the Penn-Marydel breed, and in 2008 he was recognized with the Julian Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award.


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