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Region 3 News:
THE 2007 ANNUAL IN THE GULF SHORE REGION,
There is now a link on the GSR Website http://www.cfagulfshore.org/
that will give you information on the items already selected for the Annual
delegate bag and ideas of what your club might want to contribute. In order to
make some attempt to keep the contents "in the bag" from the rest of
the country, George has put a small Junior Showmanship logo at the bottom left
of the GSR home page. You can click on the logo and it will take you to the
delegate bag information page. Karen Godwin has been working on this and has
lots of good suggestions and a list of past delegate bag contents. Please let
her know what you are going to contribute so she can keep the page update.
More on the CFA Annual in
This is a partial list of people to contact if you would
like to help on their committee:
Karen Godwin - Delegate Bag Items. She can tell you what’s already in the bags
and where to find ideas for items your club might want to contribute. She will also need help “stuffing the bags”
on Wednesday and Thursday.
Marsha Ammons and Carla Bizzell – Delegate services /
registration. They will be helping
Central Office get each delegate registered and hand out delegate bags.
John Chapman – Master of Ceremonies at the banquet Saturday
night. He will need readers to announce
some of the awards.
Donna Day – She will be benching the banquet. Matching up everyone that wants to set
together.
Betsy Gaither, Chris Willingham, Sheila Haskins, Betty
White, and Paula Watson - Decorations -
They will be setting up the banquet room and will need some help Saturday
afternoon.
Lonnie and Gloria Hoover - Hospitality on Wednesday night
– They will need some help rounding up
items to snack on.
Betty Haden, Toni & Paul Huff – Things to do around
Karen Crooke – Promotion.
She will be hitting the CFA and GSR list with information soon. Look for it.
Cheryl Coleman – Will be doing ‘On The Road Again’ again.
Schedule of events:
The CFA Board Meeting and Annual Meeting will be held at the
Hilton Austin,
Wed Jun 27 - Hospitality Suite
Thurs
Jun 28 - CFA Executive Board Meeting
Thurs Jun 28 - Delegate registration (afternoon)
Thurs Jun 28 - Hospitality Thursday
Fri Jun 29 - CFA Annual Meeting
Fri Jun 29 - Hospitality Friday evening with DJ
Sat Jun 30 - CFA Executive Board and Breed Council Secretary Meeting
Sat June 30 - Annual Awards Banquet
Sat Jun 30 - Celebration Party with DJ
Sun Jul 1 - CFA Executive Board Meeting
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2007
This year the event is being hosted by the Bougalie Rebels
Cat Club and is being held in
The Committee Chairs are:
In Charge of Everything Lynne Schreiner
Treasurer Betsy Gaither
Dinner Tickets/Caterer Betsy Gaither & Chris Willingham
Awards Rosettes Donna Hinton
Awards Book
Parade of Grands Sandi Defoe
On The Road Again Sue Riley & Mark Henrichs
Regional Awards Program
Awards Plaques Jan Rogers
Decorations Sheila Haskins, Charlene Bennett, Karen Rogers
Master of Ceremonies John Chapman
Banquet Benching Sheryl Zink
Photographer Larry Johnson
Facility Coordinator Lynne Schreiner
Don't forget any "On the Road" pictures
you'd like to submit. We would like to use pictures of as many different
people/cats as we can manage. Especially if you think you are coming to the
regional awards dinner....send us a picture
for the show! Please get us by email, FTP (see below) or hard copy any pictures
you'd like to see used in On the Road!!! If you email, them make them as high
resolution as practical and send them to me or Mark at:
(mark.henrichs@worldnet.att.net).
We need to receive these pictures as you get them and have time to send them.
The drop dead date is the middle of May but hopefully we will have the majority
before then. Sue Riley
Sandi Defoe offered to do the Grand Parade this year.
She will be taking grand photos on line at sdefoe@houston.rr.com and I will be scanning photos at any show I
attend from now until a couple of weeks before the awards banquet. Be sure the
photo has the cats full name attached. You can also send Grand Photos,
Regional Winner, DM and Color/Breed pictures to me at jwatson@tcworks.net
and we will be sure they get where they need to be. We will not grab photos
from your website as the resolution is not good enough to be projected on the
"big screen".
Also, Jan Rogers birjanji@our-town.com
will be doing our Awards Plaques again this year. Her program works best
from actual photos or high-resolution digital photos. If you have a Regional
Winner (Championship, Kitten and Premiership) or DM, she will need your photo
also. If you are sending a digital photo to either of us for a RW or DM, please
CC: the other person so we will both have the same photos.
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GSR
Director -
GSR
Secretary - Trudie Allen
GSR
Treasurer - Betsy Gaither
GSR
Finance Committee - Chair Betsy Gaither, Bill Coombes, Chris Willingham, Jimmie
Hawley
GSR
Legislative News – Karen Crooke, Lynette Clooney
GSR
Webmaster – George Snell
GSR
Regional Shows Committee -
GSR
Clerking Committee - Marsha Ammons, Chair
GSR
2007 Annual Chair -
GSR
Historical Committee - Betty Haden, Chair
GSR
Pure Breed Rescue - Betty Haden, Chair
GSR Junior Showmanship Committee -
Chair-Cheryl Peck, Grace Guidry, Brenda Moore
If you are interested in any of the above
committees, contact the Chair to see how you can help.
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ANNUAL 2007 COMMITTEE CHAIRS
The following have agreed to Chair and
help with the respective committees.
2007
Annual Chair
Delegate
Services Marsha
Ammons, Carla Bizzell
Annual
Treasurer Betsy
Gaither
Banquet Decorations Betsy
Gaither, Betty White, Chris Willingham, Sheila Haskins, Paula Watson
Publicity Karen
Crooke
Special
Projects Lonnie
& Gloria Hoover
Delegate
Bags Karen
Godwin
Vendors
“Things
to do in
Announcer/MC John
Chapman
Once
again, if you want to help, check with the committee chair and volunteer your
services. This is a preliminary list and
will expand as the Annual approaches.
And it will approach much sooner than you think. Clubs, start thinking about what you are
going to donate to the Delegate Bags.
You can contact Karen Godwin for ideas and suggestions of where to look
for “goodies”.
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CFA News:
February 2007 CFA Board Meeting unofficial notes.
The International Show lost a lot of money last
year. We were locked into the same
location for 2007. All things being
considered, the board elected to cancel the 2007 International Show in CA and
move on to the 2008 show in
Long Hair Exotics. The breed council voted to register LHE as such but wanted to show them at Persians. One of the major arguments for this move was to allow the LHE to be titled as show cats. The board felt there would be a better way. The best way to do this is to setup a LH / SH division of the Exotics. This was not presented to the board as an option, so the proposal was voted down. By having a LH division for the Exotics, they could be shown, titled and receive the recognition they want. Maybe next year.
The CFA-IAMS Cat Championship Cat Show broke even this year. However, everything came off without problems. This makes it a little scary to commit that much time and effort to put the show on and hope everything works exactly right this time. To take the pressure off CFA’s financial commitment, it was agreed that if a sponsor will guarantee a certain amount, we would go on with the show. The deadline is April 1 for that agreement to be in place.
The Bali/Javi/Oriental proposals were voted down as it was presented to the board. The apparent mission was to merge these breeds without actually doing so. If the breeds were going to be cross bred and kittens from a singe litter registered as different breeds, then they just need to merge the breeds and have divisions for hair length and color class.
Now back to the normal report. The Feb meeting is primarily about breeds and standards. FYI, the RagaMuffin the only current MISC breed. The LaPerm is the only current PROV breed. There were no new breed applications. There were no breed advancements.
It is too long a report to give each breed results. If you are a member of your breed council, you should get an update there. If you have any specific questions, please ask. . Most dealt with color class changes and clarifications. These are a few examples:
The Manx proposal failed as they were asking for a color description change but did not provide the required documentation.
The Ocicat proposal failed its request for a color class split due to lack of numbers shown.
New dates for Breed Council membership and voting;
8/1 – BC Membership application deadline
8/1 – New/Advancing Breed Applications due
9/1 – Ballot items due to CO
10/25 – Ballots mailed from CO to BC members
12/15 – Ballots returned to CO deadline
Judges Advancement and application
Accepted as trainee;
Michie Shinmoto – LH
Advanced to Apprentice;
Dee Dee Cantley – SH
Barbara Jaeger – SH
Sharon Powell – SH
Advanced to Approval Pending;
Peter Vanwonterghem – SH
We are sad to report, since our last meeting, the deaths of
Judges Boris Teron, Ray Pinder and
Resigning from the judging program after 35 years of service
is Ricky Carroll. Also resigning was
Tokuko (AKA Suzie) Yamazaki from
The Business Development Committee: Kitty Angell, Chair
Kitty reported good sales of the CFA branded toys. They are now (or soon will be) in the following stores: PetCo, PetSmart, Zellers, Wal-Mart did a test market and liked the product, also there are several small outlets around the NY, NJ area that might lead to larger distribution.
A new group will be doing the work for CatBank. A company called DDC will take over operations as soon as the contract is ratified. They did a presentation for the board and this looks like a superior operation. We just received a royalty check from our CFA Pet Healthcare program. A positive program for CFA.
Treasurers’ Report: Kathy Calhoun, CFA Treasurer
Total revenue generated from litter registration was down 9.5% when compared to the same period of time last year. Total revenue from individual registration was down 10.6%. Other categories which have experienced significant changes when compared to the same period last year (May through December of last year) include the following:
Cattery registration continues to decline and was currently 11.5% below last year
Breed council dues continue to increase. Compared to last year the category was up 33.6%.
New Club Applications: Joan Cummings, Chair
All were approved except for Hotch Potch Cat Club due to lack of show dates in the region.
Turkish
Hotch Potch Cat Club Region 1
Ocicat Trust
International Division:
Abyssinian Breed Club Europe –
Borneo Cat Club –
Feline Society of
Hong Kong Shorthair Cat Club – Hong Kong
Persian
& Exotic Cat Club – Hong Kong
Royal Club –
Victory –
New items on club applications:
What are the club’s plans or objectives regarding the
disbursement of funds raised?
Clubs should state their membership requirements.
International Division: Darrell Newkirk, Chair
The following shows were held with great success.
Shanghai Cat Love Show
Dutch Purrpuss show
GALA Cats Club –
CFA returns to France with the France Cat Fanciers
Hong Kong Cat Fancier’s club
Cat’s R Us, Klagenfurt, Austria
The CFA International Website has been updated by our webmasters Rob Loot and Henny Wintershoven. The new facelift of our website looks marvelous. I invite you all to take a look at our new website www.cfainternational.org.
Junior
Showmanship: Emily
Marshall Turner, Chair
We have CFA clubs, judges and individuals who continue to support the program and I thank them. But unless CFA as an organization decides to financially support this program on a continuing basis whether or not we have outside cooperate sponsorship the program will always be in peril.
Now for the good news, the Junior Showmanship program
continues to grow in our overseas clubs. CFA clubs have sponsored Junior
Showmanship at shows in Europe,
Breeders Assist Program: Linda Berg, Chair - Liaison to Board, Kay Janosik
The program is up and running. They have assisted about 10 breeders so
far. The Gulf Shore Region’s new Chair
of this committee is Sonya Coulson. She
will be assisted by Betty Haden and Dru Milligan. The
CFA Purebred Rescue: Committee Chair: Linda Pollack Mercer, M.D. - Liaison to the Board, Kay Janosik
Lots of changes are going on. Stay tuned. Approx. 1700 cats were rescued in 2007.
Management Committee:
The committee is still working on job descriptions for board committees and other committees. The major work has been done and we are now completing various other committees.
Winn Feline Foundation: Dr. Susan Little, Chair – George Eigenhauser, Liaison to the Board
In ongoing efforts to develop our own media relations program, we have created a Winn Feline Foundation News group. This will be used to distribute media releases to journalists. The first media release, announcing the award to Kim Campbell, was used to test our new service on December 13, 2006. Betsy Gaither has been working non-stop since she joined our board in June 2006. She has established Winn’s own merchant account services. She has had the huge task of re-ordering Winn’s finances, including purchasing new accounting software, and converting our financial records from the database held at CO.
Betsy also headed the effort to interview candidates for a new accountant to perform auditing functions for Winn. A new firm has been hired and we are pleased that this will improve our ability to meet our requirements as a non-profit organization.
CFA Legislative Committee: Joan Miller, Chair
In January the weekly charts of introduced State bills start coming in. I have been reviewing summaries of approximately 50 to 55 bills each week and reading the full text of many. I select about 10 to 15 each week for CFA tracking. Joan Miller was selected the new President of The National Council on Pet Population Study & Policy.
Publications Committee: Carol Krzanowski, Chair
Donna Brawner resigned as the committee Chair for personal reasons, but will remain on the committee. The committee reported that there is no longer enough support for the printed Almanac and it is scheduled to be discontinued after the Oct/Nov 2007 issue that includes the Regional/National Winners. Most of the content will be moved to the On Line Almanac. The yearbook still has problems but they are working on getting it out earlier.
IT/WEB Committee: Dick Kallmeyer, Chair
The CFA web site had 6.8 million page loads for October to December 2006, up 10% over a year ago. There were 1.5 million unique visitors, with 87% of these first time visitors. Revenue generated from web sales during this period was $71,683. In 2006, total page loads were 25.5 million with 5.7 million unique visitors and 4.8 million first time visitors. The CFA kids site received 484 thousand page loads, about 40,000 per month. Over $275,000 was generated via web sales. Note that this revenue includes Winn donations. The Winn foundation is moving to their own web site. This will generate a significant amount of necessary work for changes to the CFA site (over 783 link references) and will impact current projects.
CFA
Foundation: David Mare, Chair
Consideration has been given to the possibility of collecting pertinent archaic records and photos showing the development of all recognized breeds. I plan to contact each Breed Council Secretary to solicit their help in gathering these items. It might be possible to show some of these items with the respective BC booths at future CFA International Shows. Like so many of these things, much of it is stored in boxes in people’s garages and getting people to go through these boxes has been a challenging task. I am hopeful that after the Holiday Season has ended we will have more cooperation in getting people to sort through these possible archives.
National Scheduling Committee: Gina Lehman, Chair
The committee has been sharing show scheduling information as new shows are added to the regional calendars and existing shows are changed to different weekends. By having the open communication via our email list, regional directors and schedulers are able to help their clubs schedule shows on weekends where they have the best chance for success in drawing entries. We worked with Gwen at Central Office on 43 different show changes (date, location or licensing club) since the last board meeting.
Clerking Program:
Clerks Status: We currently have 309 clerks of various
levels as of January 9, 2007, 23 Master Clerk Instructors (MCI), 116 Master
Clerks (MC), 170 Certified Ring Clerks (RC).
This is an increase of 26 clerks (no change to MCI, 9 additional MCs,
and 17 additional RCs).
Ambassador
Committee: Willa Hawke, Chair
We have adopted the
following mission statement: “The CFA Ambassador Program was developed to create an informed cadre
of individuals throughout CFA who are committed to educating and reaching out
to spectators at cat shows in the hopes of attracting new and active members of
CFA who will become engaged participants in whatever facet of the fancy that
they enjoy.” We have begun using the mission statement in all of our
correspondence.
The CFA Ambassador
Program is continuing its’ pattern of successful initiatives heading into
2007. To date, we have signed up over
125 new Ambassadors, with 55% of our new Ambassadors coming from Ho*ng Kong and
the International Divisions.
Enthusiasm for this program is evident with far reaching
effects.
Thank you for taking the time to read all of this and I hope that if you have questions or comments that you will not hesitate to ask me. There were some reports that were very difficult to condense into this format. If you did not see a report that you have questions about, please ask.
Thank you for your support.
Respectfully submitted,
CFA Management Committee, Chair
Chair, 2007 CFA Annual in