| Lynn and Rick in Liberia on the
way to school in the morning. |
Rick Bogle and Lynn Pauly met in 1981 during Peace Corps
training in Washington, D.C. They served as education volunteers
in Liberia, West Africa. While in Liberia, Rick taught seventh
grade math and started a community adult literacy class. Lynn
worked at a curriculum development center and trained elementary
school teachers. She taught adult literacy in the evening. |
| Lynn has fourteen years of teaching experience.
She has taught every grade from first grade through eighth grade. |
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| Rick has eight years of teaching experience. He has taught
special education students, remedial reading, sixth grade, and
middle school math and science. |
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| Rick and Lynn began working to end primate experimentation
after learning about the problem from Sheri Speed, a veterinarian
from Portland, Oregon, in 1997. Their effort began with the
Ape Army and Rick visiting the (then) seven NIH Regional Primate
Research Centers. |
| The Ape Army began when supporters started giving
Rick stuffed monkeys as a show of support. Their ranks swelled
until hundreds were accompanying him around the country. |
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| Rick sat and handed out information in front of
each of the NIH primate centers for nine days at a time, from
five in the morning until ten at night. Many people began learning
what was happening behind the locked gates. Lynn worked behind
the scenes. She took care of their home, their cats, and taught
for another year. |
Just a few hours before Rick left Wisconsin.
The displays and posters have all been put away and the crowds
of protestors have left. |
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Rick wrote the Call
for an Immediate Presidential Moratorium on Primate Experimentation
that has now been signed by over two hundred organizations.
In 1998, Rick and Lynn joined with other concerned citizens
and founded the Coalition to End Primate Experimentation (CEPE).
Rick created the CEPE website which became the premier online
source for information on primate experimentation occurring
in the U.S.
Rick and Lynn began producing and distributing Primate
Freedom Tags. |
| CEPE organized and was the prime sponsor of the
1999 Primate Freedom Tour. Activists from around the country
visited twenty-four primate labs over the summer. Large demonstrations
and marches were held. Many newspaper articles and much television
coverage brought additional exposure to the problem. |
The Tour ended with a large rally in Washington, D.C. where
many well-known speakers from around the country added their
voice to the call for an end to primate experimentation. |
In 1999, Rick and Lynn incorporated
the Primate Freedom Project as a not-for profit corporation
and began publishing the life stories of monkeys trapped or
killed in the labs on the Primate Freedom Project website.
In 2002, Rick and Lynn began producing the Congressional
Educator and urging concerned citizens to ask their
representatives to intervene in the government’s primate
vivisection program.
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| Both Lynn and Rick have worked at the Sanaga-Yong
Chimpanzee rescue Center in Cameroon. Here, Lynn is caring for
Baboule, a bushmeat orphan. Rick is talking to Nama, a female
who had been chained to this spot for many years. Today, they
both live in a large forested area, protected by around-the-clock
guards. |
Rick and Lynn say they miss teaching and working with students.
The government’s decision to hurt primates has cost
some students the opportunity to be taught by these two excellent
teachers. |
Rick and Lynn today, working to open the National
Primate Research Exhibition Hall in Madison, Wisconsin.
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