Dr. Paula T. Beall
Sagarmata Cattery
In Memoriam
Paula T Beall, PhD,
died in her home of natural causes
July 13, 2006 at age 59. She held
a Master's degree in biochemistry
and a Doctorate degree in biophysics
from the University of Texas, Houston.
In 1970 she started her career as
a medical technologist at Pitt Memorial
Hospital in NC, later working on the
faculty of Baylor College of Medicine
in Houston, TX as an Assistant Professor
in the Department of Physiology. She
taught medical students and served
as a principal investigator on basic
research grants in the area of biological
water and electrolyte physiology.
She pioneered research in MRI imaging
of the human body and authored many
abstracts, papers, chapters, and co-authored
two books in the field of biological
NMR (MRI) imaging.
From 1979 to 1981 she was loaned
to the biophysics program of the Office
of Naval Research in Washington D.C.
where she continued her research in
the field of biophysics and received
the Highest Commendation Award from
the Admiral for exceptional service
to ONR.
From 1984 on she formed her own private
consulting firm, Beall and Associates,
to further her work in science. She
consulted with a well-known pharmaceutical
company in NY, supervising a team
of PhD scientists and technicians
for modern drug delivery methods.
As a part of her work there, she supervised
all animal experimentation and pharmacokinetic
experiments for the group, conducting
aseptic surgical procedures on monkeys,
miniature pigs, dogs, rabbits, guinea
pigs, rats, and mice. She conducted
hundreds of experiments and reviewed
and approved all animal protocols
while serving on this pharmaceutical
company's animal use committee.
More recently, she worked from her
home office as a member of the Regulatory
Affairs Professional Society in managing
Federal and State regulatory approval
processes for diagnostic and therapeutic
products. She was a specialist in
biologicals, but also trained in routine
pharmaceutical regulatory matters.
Paula was Vice President of the Atlantic
Himalayan Club, Inc. and Assistant
Editor of Cat Tracks for about the
last 5 years. She has been a member
of the Atlantic Himalayan Club almost
21 years and has been writing scientific
articles in Cat Tracks since 1993.
Prior to that she was a contributor
of articles to the Himalayan Society
and published the Chocolate Drop for
many years.
Barbara and Dick Levitan, Felitan
Cattery from NY, wrote: "There
is information about Paula that is
relatively unknown. She lived in Westchester
County, NY for a few years and that
is where we first met her. She was
a member of the Westchester Cat Club
and also one of the charter members
of OSA (Oriental Shorthairs of America).
She owned an ebony smoke female, Felitan
Moon Shadow of Sagarmata. She was
also one of the first News Letter
editors of OSA. We needed help to
get the club 'on it's feet' and Paula
loved to be helpful. She later granded
one of our orientals, Felitan Digeridoo
of Sagarmata."
Her first cat was named "Prince"
but she went on to found the Brazos
Valley Cat Club and breed many fine
Himalayans/Persians. She helped a
little known breed, the LaPerm, get
established with a litter from her
LaPerm she called Lakme BC Tumbleweed
of Sagarmata.
Paula loved breeding more than she
did showing because, in her later
years, traveling and walking was a
problem. She was confined to a wheel
chair the last few years. She died
surrounded by all her cats and kittens
and had great ambitions about granding
something special under her own cattery
name. A memorial service was held
by the family in Houston July 29th.
They request that a donation be made
to your favorite charity in Paula's
name.
Paula's sudden departure was carefully
thought out by her. She had a will
in place and had appointed a cat breeder
friend of hers, Beth Weiser, Purrfurrence
Cattery, as Executor of her estate
and inheritor of her cats so that
Beth could find proper homes for them.
We cat breeders should take a page
from this lesson and get our wills
in order.
Beth prefers to be contacted by e-mail
at cats@purrfurrence.com
by those interested in acquiring some
of Paula's cats/kittens. Because Paula
had acquired Foxy lines, many of her
stock carry chocolate and lilac.
Written by BJ Fox
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BJ Fox now lives in Arkansas and
has been in the cat fancy for almost
30 years. Foxy Cattery holds the distinct
honor of having bred the best chocolate
Persian in the world and beautiful
lilacs too. She still breeds cats
and shows on a very small scale. BJ
will be assisting Beth Weiser, PurrFurrence
Cattery, in Houston, TX, in the
placement of Paula's remaining cats/kittens.
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