[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: To the Board re Standard

  • From: <almanya@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <VPREZHMF@xxxxxxx>, <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:18:19 -0400

Thank you Helen!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amy Safdir
Almanya Shepherds
www.almanyagsd.com
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From: <VPREZHMF@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 11:18 PM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] To the Board re Standard


>I sent this to all Board members--Helen
>
> Since the Board email  is down,I have to send individually.As I 
> understand
> it,no Illustrations were sent with this Text Format,with possibly  adding 
> new
> Illustrations later on,but still doing it  without members  vote or input. 
> For
> now,I am addressing the problem with the text format of the  Standard that 
> was
> just sent to the Board.
> In1994, the AKC was approving judges for ALL the breeds  at an astonishing
> rate. They were receiving complaints that all Standards were  written
> differently, according to each Parent Club's wishes .  So in  1994,the AKC 
> decided that
> ALL Standards would be re-formatted into a  uniform,required Standard
> format,for all the breeds,starting with General  Appearance, and ending 
> with
> Disqualifications. A moratorium of 5 yrs was  declared in which no 
> Standard could be
> changed, After that ,the AKC would accept  amendments only after club 
> membership
> approval and within the  uniform required Standard format.
>   The product that was just sent to the Board,would not be  allowed by the
> AKC. What you are proposing is that after each section of the  uniform
> Standard, a paragraph is inserted written by John Ayotta,  explaining the 
> previous
> paragraph. In other words ,after the first Standard  paragraph( General
> Appearance ),his paragraph follows explaining,and  interpreting  what the 
> Standard is
> saying. The the next section of the  standard is written,followed ,again 
> by his
> explanation and interpretation and so  on,through the Entire Standard.
>   I have a real problem with this. Not only would the AKC not  allow
> OPINIONS to be added to the Standard,but I personally resent anybody 
> telling me how
> to interpret the Standard. Now if you were going to write an  article, say 
> for
> Dog News,or even our Review,and you presented our Standard  with these
> paragraphs of explanation--or if you were instructing a  club or  a 
> Seminar on
> GSDs,with explanatory sheets attached,that's a different ball game.
>  But you absolutely can't make it a part of the Standard. No matter  what
> the Board ends voting upon,it is imperative that you involve the 
> membership  You
> will get nowhere trying  to delay and then surprising us with new
> Illustrations in Sept,and trying to ram this thing through--Helen  Miller 
> Fisher
>
>
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