Brenda Grammatico, President, Volunteer Coordinator & Adoption Representative
Brenda lives in Farmington, NY, with her husband, Jim. She co-founded GAGR
with Nan McClary and Tyler Wood in November of 2002. Brenda adopted her first greyhound in March of 1994 and has had seven greyhounds grace her home and life since then. Emma, Elliott, Frankie and Izzy are the current hounds in residence. Brenda began volunteering in greyhound adoption in 1994 doing meet and greets and eventually transports and fostering. Please contact Brenda regarding volunteering opportunities.
You can reach Brenda at contact@greyhoundadopt.org or call
Toll Free: 877-211-1451 or directly at 315-986-2568.

Rick Harrison, Vice President, Sales Coordinator & Adoption Representative
Rick Harrison, Vice President & Adoption Representative Rick lives in Walworth with his wife, Kathy, two daughters, Jennifer and Maeghan and their greyhounds Brenden and Jack. He is a medical imaging sales representative for Lantheus Medical Imaging covering most of upstate NY (Rochester to Albany, everything in between, and the north country). Due to his extensive traveling throughout the state, he has become our "long distance" adoption representative. You will often see Rick volunteering for various fundraising events and is one of our official chefs, alongside Jim Grammatico and Bob Snyder, at our annual picnic. Recently he took over the merchandising for our web store and vending opportunities. Rick also enjoys spending long hours on the road to transport new greyhounds to Rochester for adoption. "Just feed him and he'll bring 'em" is our motto for him. You can contact Rick at greythnds@rochester.rr.com or by calling 315-986-8131.

Nanette McClary, Secretary & Adoption Representative
Nan lives in Hemlock, NY with her husband, daughter, 6 greyhounds and 7 cats. She co-founded GAGR with Brenda Grammatico and Tyler Wood in November of 2002. She adopted her first greyhound, Ginger, in 1997 and proceeded to flunk fostering numerous times, resulting in the current 6 greyhound total. When she isn't volunteering for GAGR., Nan is a Spanish teacher at Livonia High School. Nan is also active in grant writing, setting up meet and greets, doing transports and dog washes. You can contact Nan at secretary@greyhoundadopt.org, 585-367-2867.

Wanda Fish, Treasurer
I've lived in W. Henrietta, NY for 29 years but had no experience with greyhounds until I adopted Sly Sooner (now ‘Sly') in January, 2001. I still often wonder what my face looked like to the placement rep that brought Sly into my home. Sly hurdled the coffee table as if it wasn't there! My immediate thought was “What did I get myself into?” While we filled out the transfer of ownership, Sly stood with his head resting on my dining room table watching as papers were passed. Then I thought: “What if I had food on this table?” My fears did not last long and before I knew it I started volunteering to foster dogs waiting to be adopted. When Brenda co-founded GAGR, I offered to be the treasurer. I had fostered a few dogs and found that I preferred to give a home to the older hounds. Sly is now 10 and moves a little slower but still lives up to his name of being the Sly Dog! He lives to two other girls: Jillie who is 9 and sweet little “Daly” who is 8 years old.