Georgia Equine Rescue League

   Patty Livingston is an IT Systems Analyst, retiring from Hewlett Packard in 2010 after 23 years of serving as a software Release Manager/Project Manager. In January of 2009, she became the President of the Georgia Equine Rescue League, Ltd. (GERL), a 501©3, non-profit organization, and is currently serving her eighth year in that capacity. After leaving HP, Patty dedicated the next three years of her time creating several new GERL programs, before accepting a two-year contract position with TD Bank as a Quality Assurance Analyst. Those programs include a castration program called Stallion to Gelding, a Crisis Intervention program, “Feed A Horse” program and law enforcement training on the handling of equine and equine laws throughout the state of Georgia.
   In addition, Patty created and orchestrated an annual statewide castration day in Georgia where equine veterinarians across the state agree to castrate horses for $100 with GERL paying $50 per horse to encourage stallion owners to participate. This program is responsible for turning over 100 stallions into geldings in just one day! GERL has helped pay for the castration of over 700 stallions since the creation of their castration programs. She also wrote an Equine “Get Well” Plan that is a simple 5-step plan to get Georgia on track to solving its horse problems.
With over ten million horses in our country today, Georgia is the leader with all of these programs in place. It is her goal to share the success of GERL with other equine rescues all over the country, in hopes of having every state adopt their own “Equine Get Well Plan”.

Patty Livingston
gerlpatty@yahoo.com

Cynthia Anderson
gomaisfat@yahoo.com

CeCe Calli – Treasurer
(706) 371-5804  /  foster@gerlltd.org

Donna Pieper
(404) 797-3333
Email: horsesdlp@gmail.com

The Secretary position at GERL has been filled by Donna Pieper who has actually held positions on the
GERL Board in the past. Donna and I have been able to get together and review our membership database
and I am feeling very good (and extremely fortunate) to have Donna fill this important position. She is
accustomed to working with applications and has caught on quickly to the gaps where she is most needed.
For the first time in a long time, I feel that we might actually get around to the important task of doing a
membership drive this year with Donna’s help and expertise..
Big thanks to Donna for stepping up to take on this task. I am looking forward to working with her and
expanding our horizons a bit with regard to mastering the membership database

Linda Kundell – Alternate

My name is Linda Kundell and I am a volunteer for GERL as an Area Coordinator for Oconee, Athens/Clarke, Greene and Oglethorpe Counties. I own two Spotted Saddle Horses at this time with all the “stuff” that we need to be able to trail ride and camp. I belong to CTHA and Back Country Horsemen and work on trails when I can. Just before I called GERL and said that I would be an Area Coordinator I realized that I didn’t have to donate thousands of dollars or work until I dropped. I just figured out that I had to help a little.

I never owned horses when I was little but always, and I mean always, wanted to ride, groom, touch, smell, read about and anything else that you can do with a horse for my whole life. It is a passion, a love, a well whatever it is, I’m caught and will always have horses in my life.

I’m retired, married and have two children who are in their late thirties (O.K, that means that I’m pretty old at this point!!). I also have four grandchildren (there it is again, that age thing) one of whom is nuts about horses like me (thank goodness someone will be able to take these horses and give them a wonderful old age when I’m gone). The grandkids and I have some camping and riding adventures (they live in Tennessee and Georgia at this time) when we can.

I became a member after an organization that I am a member of donated some money to GERL. Then I volunteered to be an AC. I have fostered a horse for GERL. I have inspected barns for individuals who want to foster and met some very nice people. I have transported horses for GERL. I think that transportation might be my favorite thing to do since it means some animals are going to be fostered or adopted. I have inspected a place that wanted to adopt a horse from GERL. I have volunteered at GERL fund raising events and I have written some articles for the newsletter (I write like I talk so you get what you pay for!!). I have learned that there are many things that I can do to help this organization. They don’t take too much time or effort. I still have lots of time to spend with my grandchildren and my horses.

I would love to talk to you about GERL and how, between you and me, we can help horses in Georgia. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions, comments or just want to talk about horses. As my husband says, it seems to be my thing in life. I look forward to hearing from you.

Linda Kundell
lindakgerl@gmail.com
706-769-6395

Cece Calli

I am a new area coordinator in the Hart, Elbert and Franklin County area.

I live now live in Hart County Georgia, by way of California and Florida. I have raised, raced, bred thoroughbreds and had a lay-up facility in the San Francisco Bay area. Now I have “retired” from the thoroughbred business I found myself wanting to give back to the animals that have given me so much pleasure. I found through extensive research this wonderful organization “Georgia Equine Rescue League”. The work that they do and the horses that they have brought back from the brink is very impressive. Reading the duties of an A/C looked a bit daunting to me, but once you break it all down its really just what we would do ourselves if we had a group behind us. We are here to help the horses, but also we are here to help the owners through education. I’m all about understanding. I have learned so much through the years and learn something new everyday.

So please take the time to really read through our web site I’m sure you will be impressed. And if I can help you out in any way, just shoot me an e-mail or give me a call. I would love to answer your questions and if I can’t then we will just have to figure it out together.

CeCe Calli
gerlfoster@aol.com
(706) 371-5804

Cece Calli

I am a new area coordinator in the Hart, Elbert and Franklin County area.

I live now live in Hart County Georgia, by way of California and Florida. I have raised, raced, bred thoroughbreds and had a lay-up facility in the San Francisco Bay area. Now I have “retired” from the thoroughbred business I found myself wanting to give back to the animals that have given me so much pleasure. I found through extensive research this wonderful organization “Georgia Equine Rescue League”. The work that they do and the horses that they have brought back from the brink is very impressive. Reading the duties of an A/C looked a bit daunting to me, but once you break it all down its really just what we would do ourselves if we had a group behind us. We are here to help the horses, but also we are here to help the owners through education. I’m all about understanding. I have learned so much through the years and learn something new everyday.

So please take the time to really read through our web site I’m sure you will be impressed. And if I can help you out in any way, just shoot me an e-mail or give me a call. I would love to answer your questions and if I can’t then we will just have to figure it out together.

CeCe Calli
gerlfoster@aol.com
(706) 371-5804

 Cynthia Anderson – 770 713-9887 / gomaisfat@yahoo.com

Amy Cox  – Coordinator for the Poker Ride.

CeCe Calli  – Rescue Challenge Coordinator (706) 371-5804 / gerlfoster@aol.com

Leslie Lambert
gerlvolunteers@gerlltd.org

Interested in becoming an Area Coordinator?
Contact Our Area Coordinator Director
Gloria Bell
(706) 392-7520
gloria@decorinsights.com

Click here to visit the Area Coordintor Page…

“OPEN POSITION”

Sarah Lopez

Nancy Bogardts / a4dognight@hotmail.com

Lisa Clark and Cynthia Brayton

Marian Finco
mhfinco@aol.com
(706) 340-4368

Linda Kundelll
Kundell@bellsouth.net
706-769-6395

Patty Livingston
gerlpatty@yahoo.com

CeCe Calli

Jackie Moore

SD Computer Services
Steve DeMoss
678-427-5771

Pickers Paradise Coordinator – Cindy Farris
(508) 769-2065  / rowse81957@hotmail.com