Geez Helen--what a great historian you are. What would we do without you? You are GSDCA treasure--truly. Sandi Card ----- Original Message ----- From: <VPREZHMF@xxxxxxx> 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 > > ============================================================================ > POST is Copyrighted 2005. 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://www.showgsd.org > ============================================================================ ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2005. 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://www.showgsd.org ============================================================================