THE OFFICIAL VOL XLVII NUMBER 1 Jan/Feb/Mar 2012 BULLETIN Ankhu Basenjis Announces
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THE OFFICIAL VOL XLVII NUMBER 1 Jan/Feb/Mar 2012 BULLETIN Ankhu Basenjis Announces.... PUPPIES born November 29, 2011! Sire GCh DC Jerlin's Our Zuri Pupin MC, LCX, TT, SGRC2, ORC, LCM, VFCh, VB Dam Four-Time Group Winning Ch. Ankhu Promises in the Dark Best wishes for years of fun & success with their boys to Ankhu Basenjis Carrie & Mike Jones Clay Bunyard & Terry Fiedler www.ankhubasenjis.com Jan Feb Mar 2012 In This Issue ULLETIN INSIDE B The Official Publication of the Basenji Club of America, Inc. FEATURES Foundation Stock 16 (USPS 707-210) ISSN 1077-808x Introduction by Pamela Geoffroy Is Published Quarterly Avongara Akua 17 March, June, September & December Avongara Makala 18 By the Basenji Club of America, Inc. Avongara Naziki 19 Janet Ketz, Secretary Avongara Nilli 20 34025 West River Road, Wilmington, IL 60481 Founder Population 23 Periodical Postage Paid at Kerrville, TX How Many Founders Does It Take To Make A Breed? and at Additional Mailing Offices. Dr. Jo Thompson Memo to Myself 28 POSTMASTER: Reprint from April 1975 Bulletin – R Dwinnells Send address changes to: Basenji Club of America, Inc. Mary Lou Kenworthy Janet Ketz, Secretary 34025 West River Road INSIDE Wilmington, IL 60481 President’s Message 5 Copyright © 2011 Editor’s Message 4 by the Basenji Club of America, Inc. Letter to the Editor 6 All Rights Reserved. BCOA Financials 8 Material may be reprinted without written AKC Delegate 7 permission in publications of BCOA Affiliate Clubs only. CLUB NEWS Opinions expressed herein are those of the individual authors. Basenji Club of Cincinnati 13 Articles & opinions do not necessarily express or represent the Basenji Club of Northern California 12 policies and opinions of the Basenji Club of America, Inc. Ad- vertising does not constitute endorsement by the Basenji Club Basenji Club of Southeastern Wisconsin 11 of America, Inc., and under no circumstance does publication Hi Country Basenji Club 11 of advertising guarantee services or products of its advertisers. Rip Van Wrinkle Basenji Club 12 The Editor, under the jursidiction of the Club Officers and Route 66 Basenji Club 13 Board of Directors, reserves the right to reasonably edit or re- fuse to print all material submitted, including advertisements. ADVERTISERS MANAGING EDITOR 2012 National Specialty C4 Connie L Camp 2012 Orlandi Seminar C3 COPY EDITORS Ankhu Basenjis C2 Patricia Bright, Carol Kuna Basenji Club of Cincinnati 13 M Blutreich, S Burns Canis Basenjis 6 COPY COORDINATOR C-Quest Basenjis C1 Susan Chuvala ADVERTISING Native Stock 36 MANAGING EDITOR Pending GCH C-Quest Jokuba Zensational (Ch C-Quest’s Soul Driver - Ch Asia’s Bootylicious) Zen is pictured winning Bred By Exhibitor Group 2 at the AKC Eukanuba National Cham- pionship under judge Dr. Jose Luis Payro. What a thrill! Zen has been thrilling us since day one; he was Best of Breed over specials for a major DQGSODFHGWKLUGLQWKHJURXSKLVYHU\¿UVWWLPHRXWDWMXVWVL[PRQWKVRIDJH Right now Zen is busy learning how to be a Special and it looks like he’s a quick study - he just won the Breed 4 out of 5 days in York, PA defeating 10+ specials each day and picking up more than 100 breed points. Zensational! Owners: Nicholas Pineiro, Russella Bowen-Wilkerson & Cindy Russell Basenji Club of America, Inc. BULLETIN - 3 FROM THE EDITOR Hi! to me. I hope that nothing has been missed but if so, will I’m the new Managing Editor of the Basenji Club of America’s apologize in advance and correct it in the next issue. With that Bulletin. This is a brand new world to me and I’m on a steep confusion on where thing should be sent, the ad quantity is not learning curve to learn all the background processes and where it needs to be. Carmella Troisi-Hoerr has done the ad software utilized to create this and future issues. Kim did an OD\RXWIRUWKLVLVVXH7KHUH¶VDQRSSRUWXQLW\IRUVRPHRQHWR¿OO admirable job producing the Bulletin and I hope that I can come the shoes of advertising manager for upcoming issues. For close to walking in her shoes. She provided electronic copies those of you that know the production software and can utilize it of past issues that I’ve found greatly helpful. I’ve had two others well, you’re welcome to make your own camera-ready ad. I will RXWVLGHRIWKHRUJDQL]DWLRQWKDWJDYHWLPHWRKHOSPHZLWK¿QHU encourage those that self-design to please consider that points of using the software. I’m proud to produce what you see Microsoft PowerPoint and Publisher are not the most productive but understand my education is a work in progress and it will ad-design software choices for our purposes. You may use it to improve. create a pdf to demonstrate how you want your ad laid out but My personal goal for this publication is to bring it back to the text should come in a form that is editable in Microsoft Word. being a place to encourage participation from the fancy. Ad space IS available! Reserve early to get YOUR preferred Constructively written diverse and varied opinions may be ad space. Shop online for your ad (pay online) at www.basenji. offered for publications provided language and content are org . Color ads – cover is $225, back cover is $175, inside appropriate for the audience. We all have differing opinions… covers and center spread are $140 per page. Full pages inside we would not be nearly as interesting if we all thought alike! DUH SHU SDJH 6SDFH LV ¿UVWFRPH ¿UVW VHUYHG 7R Discourse and differing opinions are encouraged, provided JXDUDQWHH\RXUVSDFHFRQ¿UP\RXUVSDFHE\HPDLOZLWKDIROORZ it’s respectful and civil. When necessary, submittals may be up online payment for your ad. Self-designed ads are returned to authors as appropriate for improvement to enhance acceptable. Hand-drawn sketches of your ad layout are perception of the written word (if it confuses me/us, it might acceptable when accompanied by your typewritten information confuse others). For letters to the editor, if the item submitted is and your photographs. Photos and text submitted electronically particularly lengthy, it may be returned to shorten or to encourage makes it easy for us to avoid typos. All ads, once completed, using as an article vs an editorial. Items that are volatile or not will be returned to the owner for approval before publication. FOHDUO\KDYLQJDEHQH¿WWRWKHIDQF\PD\EHRIIHUHGWRUHYLHZIRU Please note there are deadlines – meeting each deadline is consideration. extremely important. Between publication of the 4th quarter 2011 issue and this I look forward to a productive year. issue, there’s been some uncertainty about who should receive information and/or where to send items to for publication. I’m Connie Camp proud that most if not all items made their way through channels [email protected] Committees (March 1, 2012) Adding the full committee list to the publication for your use. Please direct initial e-correspondence to committee chairpersons. Please see website for updated committee members. Committee Chair/Co-Chairs will be published in each issue. 2012 BCOA Committees Role Name ............................................................................... Email African Stock Project Co-Chair James Johannes [email protected] Co-Chair Linda Siekert........................................ [email protected] AKC Delegate - Pending AKC Katie Campbell [email protected] AKC Gazette Column Chair Marcia Woodard [email protected] AKC Legislative Liaison Chair Vickie Jacobs ............................................... [email protected] Archive Action Committee Chair Donna DeFlorio ........................................ [email protected] Breeders’ Education Chair Susan Coe.............................................jcoe@bigpond.net.au Chair Laurie Stargell [email protected] Breeder Referral Chair Sandy Beaudoin [email protected] Breed Standard Co-Chair Damara Bolte [email protected] Co-Chair Midge Greenlee ................................ [email protected] Member Andrew Sawler (Trainee) Bulletin Editor (magazine) Editor Connie Camp [email protected] Bulletin Advertising Manager Pending Bulletin Board Editor (newsletter) Editor Melody Falcone [email protected] By-Laws/Corporate Documents Chair Midge Greenlee ................................ [email protected] Karla Schreiber [email protected] Wanda Pooley [email protected] Continued on Page 24 Basenji Club of America, Inc. BULLETIN - 4 President’s Message Carrie Jones Greetings! My name is Carrie Jones and I am your new president. I have In reading your Bulletin Board newsletter, you will note that the served as a member of the Board from 2005-2008 and again in AKC Delegate ballot approves what can be considered a high- 2011 prior to being elected to this new position. Experience and end unbudgeted expense of $2,200.00 (assuming the Delegate knowledge obtained while I was a Board member are serving attends all four meetings) and while this is a new expense for me well in 2012 -yet I still do have many BCOA, many all-breed kennel clubs and questions and am continuing to learn parent clubs routinely pay at least a portion about Club matters on a daily basis. of the expenses incurred by their Delegate Thankfully, I have a diverse, experienced while attending the AKC quarterly meetings. group of individuals