[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Some more History for you

  • From: "Robert Dir" <dir@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <VPREZHMF@xxxxxxx>, <Ginialtman@xxxxxxx>, <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:24:47 -0600

Geez Helen--what a great historian you are.  What would we do without you?
You are GSDCA treasure--truly.  Sandi Card
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To: <Ginialtman@xxxxxxx>; <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 2:48 PM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Some more History for you


> I thought you'd like a little more History<VBG> Helen Miller  Fisher
>
> Up until 1996 AKC owned ALL Standards of every breed in the  USA,
according
> to their Charter,Constitution and ByLaws That included  the little  pocket
> standard and the Illustrated Standard for us,along with  our regular
written
> Standard. This is why Orrie had to go through Ernie to Len  Brumby to get
our
> Illustrated Standard approved.
>
>  On Dec.10, 1996,the AKC made an amendment to Art IV of their
> Charter,Constitution,& ByLaws stating that a Parent Member Specialty Club
could now own
> it's own Standard,and the AKC could have FULL  USE of the approved
standard.
> Remember, in their view, this includes  all 3 forms of our
Standard-pocket,written
> & Illustrated
>
>  Now go check our By-Laws in your membership book.(page 14)Art VIII,
Sec1.
> Amendments
> . We are okay here,because it gives the option of 10 % of our membership
or
> the Board to propose an amendment to our Illustrated Standard(changing
> Pictures)  It came from our Board so that's fine.. Sec 2. Voting. Read
> carefully.regarding  passage of vote .  2/3 of the membership must pass
the finished
> product,  In addition,when we have ammended anything before(ByLaws), we
sent the
> old form along with the new one, so each person could  see  both parts (in
this
> case Orries along with the new version.) Sec 3. Read every
word,especially
> the last two lines. In other words,the AKC has to approve it.  This is why
> Carmen always said, "that before we send anything out to the  membership
and spend
> that kind of money,we'd better send it to the AKC before it  goes to the
> membership"
>
>
>      We used to require a pro and con statement going  out with anything
the
> membership had to vote on. I checked with Ted  Beckhardt,Kathy Steen,and
> Evan,because I remember distinctly that he was an  author for a pro or con
> statement when he was on the Board. They remember it as  I do,but I've
scoured my P&P
> and it isn't there.. So I can't quote a scour  for you. But it was an
> excellent idea. especially now. We have many members that  are not on the
List,and
> have no knowledge of all this stuff going on about  the Illustrated
Standard
>
>        So I just want the Board to  understand,that #1.The AKC considers
the
> Illustrated Standard,as our  Standard,not just a book full of drawings,and
it
> is an amendment to change  from the first one .#2. Therefore the finished
> product,should go to  the AKC first,then to entire membership with a
ballot.. This
> is going to really  be expensive for our club,especially if it stays at 36
> pages Whenever it gets  finished,the Board might want to  consider calling
it
> something else  ,and put some informational & educational articles in
it,plus a
> pretty  generic cover on it, and sell it to the members at the Products
table.
>   Helen Miller Fisher
>
>
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