Purina has paid for the Futurity trophies for the last 4 or 5 years.......they are still donating the same amount of funds to the GSDCA, but the grant is worded differently......We no longer have Rau as superentendent ...and many clubs have done all the work that Rau wou would normally do........the result of this is much more profit for the Futurities...........this year if Rau had been doing the Futurities, there were some clubs that would have lost money..... The trophies cost about $12000.00 for all 9 regions(or about $1340.00 per region)....clubs are smaller than they were 5 years ago and so is the membership of the GSDCA.......money is tighter......It is unfortunate that a full set of trophies must be ordered, when there are classes that do not have 4 dogs in them or do not have 4 dogs show up........all trophies that are extras must be sent back(not cheap to do so).......When the clubs collected donations for the trophies, any trophy not used and sent back the regional club received 40% of the cost of the trophy......not much since they were the ones that had to hustle to get trophy donations.......If they did not get enough t donations, they were still charged for all the trophies even if they did mot need all of them It is not just the GSDCA that needs to tighten its belt and watch how it can save money, it is the whole country. When times change and money flows more freely we can always go back to giving more trophies.....the Futurity committee has been working hard to make sure that each regional club can make as much money as possible...........just compare this years profits with the futurities over the last 8 or 10 years and you will be able to see the entries have gotten smaller, but the profits have increased Judy Mendelsohn Futurity Committee- Finances ----- Original Message ----- From: "sheila lieberman" <dgshwpromo@xxxxxxxxx> To: "the list" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 8:10 AM Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Getting Wood Back in 02 when the Miami GSDC hosted a maturity, we had to have someone beg for support from people and clubs to pay for the wood, all of it cost about 1500. I was able to get support for specific placings as well as general donations from individuals and clubs. It was work, a lot of requesting from clubs that have or might host another futurity, and donations from generous people who know how much winning wood means. I also showed what I thought was a very good bitch. She got dumped. I have never gotten wood, but those who did seemed very happy. Why don't we go back to this method of paying for the futurity trophies? sheila ________________________________ From: dick jones <dick_jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: myjoygs@xxxxxxx; Bokenkampgsd1@xxxxxxx; marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ELG440@xxxxxxx; showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: f.fasano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tue, November 9, 2010 9:47:20 AM Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Getting Wood We need to find a way to continue to give wood for at least First Place .................it is so important to continue this tradition ! Perhaps better purchasing could save this very special win. We have Purchasing Professionals in the club................Dick Jones ----- Original Message ---- From: "myjoygs@xxxxxxx" <myjoygs@xxxxxxx> To: Bokenkampgsd1@xxxxxxx; marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ELG440@xxxxxxx; showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tue, November 9, 2010 7:48:13 AM Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Amateurs & no futurity wood? The goal for many... especially newbies was to "get wood" at the futurities, sorry to see that go, ============================================================================ ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2010. 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. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. 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