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Region 3 News:
REGIONAL AWARDS
The
Regional Awards Show and Awards Banquet was held in
2005
Awards Program
.
Sue Riley & Chris Willingham
Master
of Ceremonies
..John Chapman
Awards
Announcers
Dennis Allen & John Cesko
Walk
of Stars, Parade of Grands
.
.Dennis Allen
On
the Road Again
...
.
.. Sue Riley/Mark Henrichs
Video
Presentations
..
.
...James Watson
Regional
Awards Book
James Watson
Trophies..
.
Jan
Rogers
Ribbons
& Rosettes
..
...Donna Hinton
Decorations
..Tonya
Heinzen, Chris Willingham
Banquet
Seating
...Jeanne Anderson
Art
Work
.
.Terry Bratfish and Wild Endeavors
Banquet
Tickets
.
. Betsy Gaither, Donna Brawner
The 2006 Awards Show and
Banquet in will be held at the Doubletree in
Congratulations to
the top cats in the
Best Cat
in Championship
GC,BW,NW
PAJEAN'S VOODOO
Pam &
Jean Bassett
Best Cat
in Premiership
GP,NW
TEXAS BELLE
Elizabeth
Gaither-Donna Brawner
Best
Kitten
GC,NW
JOUVENCEBLEU
Susan
Ferguson-Karen Godwin-Monte & Robin Phillips-Donald & Mary Ann Sweeters
Congratulations to Dr.
Warren Joubert who was selected as
The Spotlight Award /
Exhibitor of the Year in the
DR. WARREN
JOUBERT CATCHARM CATTERY
Warren and his wife Kristine have
bred and shown Persians, specializing in bi colors for 19 years and enjoy
many grand champions and dms.
He always has a smiling face, and
is a congenial exhibitor and consummate competitor and gentleman. We are
proud to have him in the Gulf Shore Region.
Respectfully submitted,
Betty Haden, Committee Chair
This year the Gulf Shore Region
will be holding a fundraiser October 8th and 9th
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Congratulations to Donna Brawner
who was appointed as Chair of the Publications Committee
during the Annual. Pam DelaBar made the announcement at the
Sunday morning board meeting. This is a
massive project at CFA and Donna will be using her teacher skills to improve
the Yearbook and Almanac.
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If you are
interested in any of the above committees, contact the Chair to see how you can
help.
ANNUAL 2007 COMMITTEE CHAIRS
The following
have agreed to Chair the respective committees.
2007 Annual Chair James Watson
Entertainment and Hospitality nights Paul & Toni Huff
Delegate Services Marsha
Ammons
Banquet Decorations Betsy
Gaither & Betty White
Publicity Karen
Crooke
Special Projects Lonnie
& Gloria Hoover
Delegate Bags Karen Godwin
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.
The CFA On Line Breeder Referral list is now on
line.
$44.95 per year for 1-5 breeds with up to 4
pictures, $9.95 for additional breeds.
And it will include a text box for general
info. Breed Council Members will get a
$10.00 discount.
To sign up for this new service, go to http://secure.cfa.org and create a User Account. (Online
Almanac subscribers already have a User account). Once logged in, click
on Purchase Cat Breeder Listing Service. You will be asked to
supply the litter number of a CFA litter registered within the past 2 years.
CFA News:
The June Board Meeting &
Annual Report
Wednesday
morning Pam read the list of members of the Credentials Committee and they were
accepted. Eve Russell is the Chair of this committee. The
'CC' are the ones that check all the delegates applications to make sure
all the information is present and correct. This allows the delegates to
be seated and vote. They also open the election ballots on Friday
morning (starting at
Budget
Report: from Kathy Calhoun.
This is an over view of where we are as of
Assets are same as last year.
Ordinary Income-Registrations and related services. Registrations are
down about 7.7% from last year and 1.7% under budget. 03-04 was
$754,807. Budget for 04-05 was $712,500 and we came in at
$700,546. This follows the downward trend of the last several
years. Please register your litters!
Yearbook and Almanac. The new yearbook had an increase of almost 30% in
advertising. However the overall publications department suffered a loss
slightly more that budgeted. That being a loss of $61,381.
CFA Sponsored Events. Both the International and
Operating Expenses. Central Office ended below budget but operating
expenses (utilities, equipment depreciation, etc) was over budget for a overall
loss of $6,000.
Overall CFA made $9,008 last year and there are lots of "fixes" in
the works and many new projects are actually being implemented. Next year
promises to be a good one.
Club
Applications: There are 654
clubs registered with CFA. This is down from several years ago. The
following new clubs were voted on. Region 4, Central Pennsylvania Cat
Club - passed. Region 7, Breeders Alliance & Sphynx Trust -
passed. Region 7, Siamese, If You Please - failed. Some info on
this one: of the 22 members, 19 already belong to other clubs. The
club is located in an area already saturated with clubs and their are few show
dates available.
International
Report: Darrell Newkirk gave
the report. Mostly had to do with Awards, Points, and addendums to show
rules to clear up some question. If you need more information, let me
know and I'll provide it.
CFA/IAMS
Cat Championship Show: For
those that don't know, that's the new name for the Madison Square Garden Show
previously known as Cats New York and several other names. Plans are
proceeding and the show is budgeted to make a profit this year. Many of
the items that cost us last year have been addressed.
International
Show: The show in
Central
Office: These are mostly house
keeping items, ratification of items passed at previous Board Meetings, out of
regions show requests, and club name changes. Some of the
highlights: Name change that failed: Mid-Wisconsin Cat Club to
"United Balinese, Javanese and Oriental Longhair Fanciers".
This was returned on Sunday's meeting and the change approved was "Rainbow
Plumes".
There
was a motion to change the requirement of 3 signatures on the delegate
form by eliminating the club's President's signature. This Failed.
The Board felt that it is important as a checks and balance system to require
all 3 signatures; Club Secretary, President and Delegate.
On-Line
Breeder Referral List...question about allowing breed rescue groups to
list. Failed.
Central
Office wants to charge a $5.00 "look-up" fee if your registration
information is incomplete or wrong and has to be changed. This prevents
having to mail back the registration as incomplete and delaying the process of
registering the cat or litter. Passed.
Other
items were to allow for charges to do a 3-generation pedigree if it included
cats prior to 1980 when computer records started. As these have to be
hand processed, a fee of $80.00 per hour will be charged with a minimum of
$20.00. After 1980 cats, the fee is only $20.00. Passed.
Animal Welfare: It has been a very busy year with hoarders
being tops on the list. Linda Berg has been attending meetings with Joan
Miller such as the HSUS convention in
Legislative: This is a really involved situation with PAWS
and
Judging
Program: Rachel Anger was
appointed Chair (Non-Voting) of the Judging Program Committee.
The
following Judges were advanced:
Accept
as Approval Pending AB from another Association:
Cherrie, George
Groenewegen, Arie
Advance to Approved 1st Specialty Apprentice 2nd Specialty:
Collier, Marge SH Approved
1st Specialty
Collier, Marge LH Apprentice
2nd Specialty
Advance
to Approval Pending, Specialty:
Abelson,
Vicki SH Approval Pending 2nd Specialty
Jaeger, Barbara LH Approval Pending 1st Specialty
Jantzen,
Jeff
LH Approval Pending 2nd Specialty
Johnson, Susan SH Approval Pending 1st Specialty
Kurokawa, Kazuko SH
Approval Pending
Pinder,
Ray LH Approval Pending 1st Specialty
Powell,
Sharon LH Approval Pending 1st Specialty
Webster,
John LH Approval Pending 1st Specialty
Wood,
Beverly SH Approval Pending 2nd Specialty
Advance to Approval Pending, AllBreed:
Komota, Hisako Approval Pending AllBreed
Rogers, Jan
Approval Pending AllBreed
Ueda,
Ayumi
Approval Pending AllBreed
Advance to Approved Specialty:
Vonwonterghem, Peter LH
Approved 1st Specialty
Advance to Approved, AllBreed:
Protest
committee: After
There
were no protests for the Board at this meeting. The Board went into
Closed Session and then adjourned about
Tuesday morning started out with a Strategic Planning Meeting
at
Barbara
Miller, an outside consultant, facilitated this meeting. We primarily
worked in small groups and then changed tables to discuss what we learned at
the previous table. A very good business planning process that allows everyone
to voice their ideas about where CFA has been, where we are and where we are
going. Several new plans were developed and projects started. The
key items addressed were how do we Attract and Retain new exhibitors/breeders,
Educate the public about CFA and purebred cats, Internal vision and
communication and the internal systems that makes CFA work. Look for more
to come from this meeting and the ideas it generated.
At
Meeting
with the International Division. Points per country were discussed.
Closed
session to discuss items pending action.
Adjourned
The
Friday meeting was a little different this year. Instead of all
the committee reports being read to the delegation, most of them were printed
in the delegate books. Only key reports were presented to the group.
I am proud to be part of the Business Development Committee chaired by Kitty
Angell. Our report on the developing marketing projects was well received
and will put money to the bottom line of CFA.
The
following are a "done deal";
4Kids
Entertainment is the exclusive
worldwide merchandising agent for CFA.
Under this agreement, 4Kids will market cat treats, toys, games, food, beds,
grooming products, health aids, scratching posts, carriers, men's and women's
apparel to promote CFA. These items will show up at FAO Schwartz,
Wal-Mart, Target and similar stores starting next year.
CFA
entered into an agreement with CatBank to provide
The new Health Care Plan is in effect. Check it out at www.info@petpartnersinc.com
You should be getting info in mailings from CFA.
New Breed Identification Posters are being produced with the CFA logo. It
will be 24 x 36 inches. Also available will be the CD/
This year started the Corporate Sponsor Appreciation Plaque and they
were presented to those who were present. We have six levels of
sponsorship with the entry level at $5,000 is
We honored our
1. Meow Mix Company:
2. PetCo Foundation:
3. Masterfoods
We honored our Sapphire sponsors as follows
4. Cats Rule:
5. World's Best Cat Litter:
6. Dr. Elsey's Precious Cat:
7. Royal Canin:
8.
Hartz Mountain Corporation:
9. Bowtie Publications (Cat Fancy, etc.);
10. Doskicil Manufacturing Company, Pet Mate Products:
We honored our Diamond sponsors as follows
11. Genetic Savings & Clone:
And coming in at the Ruby level
12. Friskies Pet Food Company:
13. The Iams Company:
Lunch was on Iams.
Most of you have already seen the results of the amendments but here they are
just to make the report complete.
1. Withdrawn. Concerned club members in
2. Withdrawn. Changing the annual club dues
to $180.00 if amendment #20 passed. (it didn't)
3. Passed by 2/3 Create an Audit Committee
to work with the Treasurer and have and independent audit from an independent
CPA firm (we already do this).
4. Failed Change to
a 4 year term for Officers and Directors.
5. Failed
Candidates must live in the region for 4 years before running for Director.
6. Passed by 2/3 The Treasurer shall be the
CFO and oversee financial management of the Association.
7. Failed Multiple
winners ribbons if the cat meets the standard. Two open blue point Siamese
males should both get winners ribbons if they are of sufficient merit.
8. Withdrawn Change to CH or PR after
getting six winners ribbons or change to GC or GP after granding at any time
during the show.
9. Failed Create an Achievement Winner
Award for something between Granding and getting a Regional Win.
10. Passed 2/3 Add postage to the penalties for failure to
pay or bad check collection.
11. Passed 2/3 To qualify to compete as CH or PR on the
second day you must 'notify and file' a claim form with the master clerk.
12. Failed same as above except for Grands and did not
include the 'and file a claim form'.
13. Withdrawn Housekeeping for 12.
14. Passed Basically a 2 day show sponsored by two
clubs with two show licenses, one for each day.
15. Withdrawn Requesting approval by the Regional
Director if the show date or location is moved more than 50 miles.
16. Passed 2/3 Allow a 6 ring show on Sunday.
17. Failed Provide a 6 hour break during a two day show
that starts late, runs till 11:59pm and picks up again at 12:01am to make it a
"2 day show". (This was to address an issue with a single club)
18. Passed 2/3 Raise clerking fees. $35 for 1 day
with up to 4 rings, $40 per day for 225 back to back, and $45 for 1 day 6 ring
shows.
19. Failed Increase for master clerk.
20. Failed Delete the entry surcharge. Also
connected to #2 to double the club fee.
21. Failed Kitten points earned across show seasons for
awards.
22. Failed Kittens must have registration number to
enter show.
23. Withdrawn Establish a lifetime microchip registry.
The Business Committee took care of this.
24. Failed Create Outstanding Cattery Title for
catteries producing lots of DMs.
From the floor:
25. Failed Requiring Judges to attempt to play with
kittens during judging.
26. Passed This was a revised version of #12 and
included the phrase 'notify and file paper' with the master clerk.
27. Passed This address show rule #15.08h about the
center divider in judging cages. Clips are no longer allowed. You
must use a method that will not allow the cat to "break through"
to the other side. Suggested
using plastic cable ties (tie wraps).
28. Failed Establish individual ring counts for
scoring.
29. Failed Revisit #8 with different wording.
Adjourned
about
On
Friday night, some Board members and Judges raised money for the Sy Howard
Legislative Fund by participating in the Dunking Tank. I wore my
Saturday was a day to go to the Atlantic City Board Walk for
some shopping and looking around. Other
events were the Breed Council Meetings and Iams put on a Public Relations 101
program to help clubs advertise their shows and events.
The
Awards Dinner started at
This
was my first year as Regional Director at an Annual and the highlight of the
whole trip was getting to present the National Awards to the Gulf Shore Region
Winners. What a thrill, second only to being on the receiving end of
getting the award.
Sunday
morning while everyone else is
packing, eating a leisurely breakfast and heading home, the Board of Directors
is starting still another meeting at
Kathy Calhoun presents the proposed budget for 2005-2006 and there is
discussion regarding why some numbers are up and some are down. Some of
the committees are not funded just because we don't have the funds at this
time. The proposed budget is just that, proposed. It's a working document
that allows us to see where the money is allocated and if we want to move some
of it around. The bottom line was a net income of only $2,516 for next
year. This budget does not reflect any income from the new programs that were
introduced and should be greatly changed when those get under way.
Pam DelaBar announced the committee appointments for the year 2005-2006 and
asked that they be ratified as a group. They were and they are as follows:
Advertising/Public
Relations..
............
Allene Tartaglia, Chair
Animal
Welfare/Purebred Rescue
.
. Linda
Berg, Chair of Animal Welfare
Betty Haden, Chair of
Purebred Rescue
Audit
Committee........
... Kathy
Calhoun and Stan Barnaby, Co-Chairs
(assisted by Mark Janosik)
Awards
and Honors...........................
.... Rachel
Anger, Chair
Breeds
and Standards............
.........
.... Annette
Wilson, Chair (assisted by Peg
Johnson)
Business
Development Team...............
Kitty
Angell, Chair Committee; James Watson,
Donna Jean Thompson,
Kayoko
Koizumi (Asian interests),
Roeann
Fulkerson (business planning)
Centennial
Celebration Committee.....
.... Liz
Watson, Chair (assisted by Eric Won)
CFA
Cat Agility............................................ Kim Everett-Hirsch,
Chair (assisted by Wayne Mull)
CFA
Educational Products........................... Jo Ann Cummings, Chair
CFA
Foundation............................................ David Mare, Chair
CFA
IAMS Cat Championship Show......... Allen
Scruggs, Chair (Pam DelaBar, Liaison; assisted by Gary Veach)
CFA
International Show............................... Debbie Kusy, Chair
Clerking.........................................................
Club
Criteria/Analysis.................................. Kathy Calhoun, Chair (assisted by Gary Veach)
Club
Membership......................................... Jo Ann Cummings, Chair
Credentials....................................................
Eve Russell, Chair
Disaster
Relief Fund.................................... Pam
DelaBar, Chair
Code
of Ethics for Exhibitors/Judges.......... Peg
Johnson, Chair
Executive
Committee................................... CFA
Officers; Peg Johnson
Finance/Budget.............................................
Kathy Calhoun, Chair
International
Division................................... Darrell
Newkirk, Chair
Judging
Program Committee........................ Rachel
Anger, Chair/Non-Voting Member
Junior
Showmanship..................................... Emily Turner, Chair (Kitty Angell, Liaison)
Legislation.....................................................
Joan Miller, Chair
Management/Marketing
Team................... James
Watson, Chair (assisted by Peg Johnson)
Market Research
.Peg Johnson, Chair
Mentor..........................................................
Patricia Jacobberger, Chair (Liz Watson,
Liaison)
Ombudsman..................................................
Sigfrid Hauck, Chair
Personnel.......................................................
CFA Officers
Protest
Committee........................................ George Eigenhauser, Chair
Publications...................................................
Donna Brawner, Chair (Kathy Calhoun, Liaison; assisted by Carol Krzanowski)
Show
Rules.................................................... Loretta Baugh, Chair
Show
Schedule Coordination........................ Gina
Lehman, Chair (Debbie Kusy, Liaison; all Regional Directors)
Scientific
Advisory Committee..................... Dr.
Karl Bowman, Chair
Technology....................................................
Dick Kallmeyer, Chair (assisted by Karen Lawrence)
Winn
Foundation.......................................... Dr. Susan Little, Chair (George Eigenhauser, Liaison)
Of
special interest to everyone is the new committee called Show Schedule
Coordination. This will be a group to assist the clubs select show
dates based on all the information you could possible want. During the up
coming
months they will be gathering information on number of shows, distance from the
last show, population density, exhibitor density, size of regions and where the
closest McDonalds is located. We will all have to wait for this
committee to get a feel for the national situation, but the results should be
of benefit to all of us.
The next item of interest to the
New Business. Consisted of items tabled from the Friday meeting pending
clarification. No big things here. We did decide to hold the February
2006 and future February Board Meeting in
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.
Look
for a revised Show Planner on the
Thank
you for your support.
Respectfully
submitted,
James
Watson
Chair
CFA Management/Marketing Team
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