In a message dated 9/15/09 3:30:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time, mary-anne.boulet@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes: I do know that only British visitors called them Alsatians. For those few that read my posts, I will give a bit more history. In the United States in 1913 the GSDC of America was formed. In 1916, the name German was removed, and we were incorporated as the Shepherd Club of America. I am sure that was in reaction to the war, and the way Germany treated the rest of the world. When I went on the board, Bob Williamson asked me to check the corporate status of our club. I had a devil of a time finding the club in the Department of Corporations in New York. I finally tracked it down by the year of incorporation and discovered we were not the German Shepherd Dog Club of America as we all thought. We were the Shepherd Club of America. Any time in the interm, anyone could have taken over the name. I re-incorporated the German Shepherd Dog Club of America, and the rest is history. So, when your grand-children talk of our club, you can say, you actually knew the man who incorporated this club as the GSDCA. On the other hand, I remember Bob Penny talking about knowing VonStaphanitz' daughter. Life is strange. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Evan Ginsburg Asgard German Shepherds http://www.asgardgsd.com/ Where Type Movement and Temperament come together ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2009. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================