{"id":13,"date":"2014-03-07T18:02:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holbyfoundation.org\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2020-07-23T18:51:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T18:51:45","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/holbyfoundation.org\/?page_id=13","title":{"rendered":"Our History"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<div class=\"custom-frame-wrapper alignleft\"><div class=\"custom-frame-inner-wrapper\"><div class=\"custom-frame-padding\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-80 \" src=\"https:\/\/holbyfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eh-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"266\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>The <strong>Eric Holby Animal Welfare Foundation<\/strong> is a registered 501C3 charitable\u00a0organization. It was founded in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Holby was born in Denmark in 1924 and came to the U.S. as a very young child. He lived in Chicago, IL and attended Steinmetz High School.\u00a0 He married Dorothy Vrooman from Oak Park, IL in 1950.\u00a0 They lived in Elmhurst, IL until 1988 when they moved to Elburn, IL.<\/p>\n<p>Eric worked for the commerce department setting up trade fairs all over the world, then returned to continue his education and became the chief welding and metallurgical engineer with Fluor Corp in Chicago.\u00a0 He also served on several technical committees of the American Welding Society.<\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-frame-wrapper alignright\"><div class=\"custom-frame-inner-wrapper\"><div class=\"custom-frame-padding\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-88\" src=\"https:\/\/holbyfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/dhhelen20140316_17171151-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holbyfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/dhhelen20140316_17171151-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/holbyfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/dhhelen20140316_17171151.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\nDorothy received a masters degree in Spanish from Northwestern University and taught Spanish at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. After retiring from teaching, Dorothy began a second career as a cat photographer. Many of her photographs were used by advertising agencies as well as calendar and magazine publishers.\u00a0 During the 1980\u2019s her photographs were often seen on the cover of Cat Fancy Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Eric and Dorothy always had an affinity for animals, particularly cats. Dorothy\u2019s family had always had cats but Eric and Dorothy did not have one until 1975 when they rescued their first. Together, they went on to rescue many cats through the years and many of those cats remained with them at the house in Elburn, IL.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999 Eric established the Eric Holby Animal Welfare Foundation.\u00a0 The Foundation was designed to help fund organizations and individuals who help make a better life for animals.<\/p>\n<p>They had one son, Eric who began a career in aviation, ultimately becoming president and chief pilot of Integrated Flight Resources in West Chicago, IL.\u00a0 He married Tammy Lee from Austin, MN and together they continue to manage the foundation and support the cause of animal welfare. Tammy helps in rescues and adoptions and serves on the board of directors for a local shelter.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The Eric Holby Animal Welfare Foundation is a registered 501C3 charitable\u00a0organization. It was founded in 1999. Eric Holby was born in Denmark in 1924 and came to the U.S. as a very young child. He lived in Chicago, IL and attended Steinmetz High School.\u00a0 He married<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-FullWidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holbyfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holbyfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holbyfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holbyfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holbyfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/holbyfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/holbyfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holbyfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}