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BULLETIN - 2 77153 BCOA_dl.indd 2 9/26/12 10:45 AM July, August, September 2012 In This Issue ULLETIN Table of Contents The Official Publication Club 42 Basenji Club of Southeastern B of the Basenji Club of America, Inc. 62 Ad Rates Wisconsin, Clay Bunyard (USPS 707-210) 62 Affiliate Clubs 45 Greater Chicagoland Basenji Club, ISSN 1077-808x 3 Contents Arnietta Kurtz Is Published Quarterly 10 AKC Care and Conditions Policy, 17 Indian Nations Basenji Club, Sandy March, June, September & December AKC Beaudoin By the Basenji Club of America, Inc. 50 AKC Conformation Top 25, AKC 44 Rip Van Wrinkle Basenji Club, Janet Ketz, Secretary 6 AKC Delegate, Katie Campbell Susan Kamen Marsicano 34025 West River Road, 50 AKC Lure Coursing Top 25, AKC Feature: BCOA National Specialty Wilmington, IL 60481 51 AKC Titlists, AKC C1 Front – Collage, photos by L Periodical Postage Paid at Kerrville, TX 5 Archives Request, Donna DeFlorio Gregory and G Woodard and at Additional Mailing Offices. 53 ASFA Lure Coursing Top 20, ASFA 3 About the Cover POSTMASTER: 62 Calendar, Connie Camp C64 Back Cover Collage, photos by L Send address changes to: 12 Canis Basenji, Robert Vavra Gregory and G Woodard Basenji Club of America, Inc. Janet Ketz, Secretary 9 Financial – BHE, Laurel Hesse 37 African Stock Exhibition Judge 34025 West River Road 8 Financial – Club, Linda Siekert Critique Wilmington, IL 60481 4 From The Editor, Connie Camp 39 African Stock Exhibition Photos Copyright © 2012 12 Letters: Letter to the Editor-Mary 40 African Stock Exhibition Results by the Basenji Club of America, Inc. Lou Kenworthy 22 Basenji Club of America National All Rights Reserved. 10 OFA Statsistics, OFA Specialty, Results and Photos Material may be reprinted without written 62 Officers 27 Sweeptstakes Judge Critique, permission in publications 5 President’s Message, Carrie Jones Carrie Jones of BCOA Affiliate Clubs only. 63 Save the Date 2013-2015, BCOA 46 Presentation Notes - D. P. Opinions expressed herein are those of the individual 12 Change of Address Sponenberg authors. Articles & opinions do not necessarily express Committees Future National Specialties, or represent the policies and opinions of the Basenji Club of America, Inc. Advertising does not constitute endorse- 44 Breeder’s Education Committee Regional Specialties ment by the Basenji Club of America, Inc., and under no 13 Health Research, Kirsten Sigrist 41 Upcoming Specialties circumstance does publication of advertising guarantee 13 Judges Education, Marianne Advertisements services or products of its advertisers. The Editor, under 15 Djakomba, Doris Daniels the jurisdiction of the Club Officers and Board of Direc- Klinkowski tors, reserves the right to reasonably edit or refuse to print 14 Native Stock, Pam Geoffroy/Linda 45 Greater Chicagoland Basenji Club, all material submitted, including advertisements. Siekert Sue Joyner MANAGING EDITOR 13 Social Media, Clay Bunyard 41 Native Stock Project CDs, Linda Connie L Camp 54 Stud Dog Honor Roll, Julie Jones Siekert COPY EDITORS 56 Brood Bitch Honor Roll, Julie Jones 2 New World, Karla Schreiber P Bright, C Kuna, 13 Volunteer Committee, Heather 27 31 37 Reveille, Damara Bolte & P Fragassi, L Lundell Ervin Jane Lodge COPY COORDINATOR 16 Volunteer Committee Survey, 32-33 Yulara, Mia Lowbeer Susan Chuvala Heather Ervin ADVERTISING Clubs Pending 18 Basenji Club of Cincinnati, Rita Ross 44 Basenji Club of Northern California, Pat Fragassi Please take a look at snapshots and priceless memories from the 2012 National Specialty. Photos by Laurie Gregory and George Woodard Please see the Junior Showmaanship Competitors that came together for a group photo. The club intends to make a project of remembering to recognize Juniors exhibiting this and future Nationals. Who are they? Left to Right: Wyatt Ross, Anna Scherzinger (BJH), Olivia Rosener, Jade Hettick and Thomas Meade. One was missing from the photo:Amy Jasmine Lovelace Remember them kindly as they grow. Be a good example for them. They ARE our future! Basenji Club of America, Inc. BULLETIN - 3 77153 BCOA_dl.indd 3 9/26/12 10:45 AM FROM THE EDITOR Late night ramblings of the editor for your consideration. their website. Data this year as posted was difficult to use because bits and pieces of necessary information was absent (class names for divisions by The specialty is now enjoying the afterglow of a successful show. A color particularly were not included). Our super hero that rescued us was large number of people with and without dogs were present, a lot of events LeeBeth Cranmer. She scanned the official results from the superintendent occurred seamlessly. It isn’t easy to coordinate the needs of US and and missing data was gleaned from that resource. international visitors, being sure that all have access to fun, food, facilities For future events - I know that everyone has a favorite show superintendent and functions (the events) without any becoming lost between sites. I can’t or secretary. If using a full-service superintendent, I’ll ask that specialties begin to name the names of all the visible or behind-the-scenes workers so review what information (quality and type) is available in online results. If the will just leave it at THANKS for all you did. The group needs an extra pat on costs and resources associated with superintendents are very similar, please the back because Gettysburg seemed to be a bee-hive of bikers on some lean towards the one that has the best online results if you have a choice. I kind of mysterious pilgrimage to that area. Thankfully the bikers were good will admit that I’m rather spoiled in this respect, most shows in my area are people that would’ve fit in with most of us and other than the crowd and hum MBF or Onofrio. One can actually SEE the catalog on the morning of the of engines, things were pretty quiet. 2012 is history now and 2013 is gearing show for most events using MBF. Both Onofrio and MBF have outstanding up for their event. I’ve never been to the PNW (Pacific Northwest) and hope viewable online catalogs that can be cut/pasted into a document or email that I’ll be able to add that area to my list of states I’ve visited. Anyone else very easily. already planning to go? Reserve your rooms early to be sure that you’re at Have recently received a few items that may involve copyright issues – if the best place. you’re using any article written by someone (other than yourself) or directly Photographers Laurie Gregory and George Woodard provided most of the copying data from others, please be sure to get a signed release/permission pics with many featured for win pics and on the cover as a collage or maybe to print from the author that will be mailed to the editor and/or club secretary a scrapbook of memories from the show. I felt obligated to use the one with for record purposes. A live-ink signature is the legal document we need. K Campbell with the African battle axe… I am sure there’s a story behind that Submitters of that information are responsible for acquiring that information. that I’m not privy to… inquiring minds would LOVE to know! If printed in another publication, we need reprint permission using the same Please be sure to notice the front cover – the Juniors are featured in the method. Please acquire prior to submitting your information. center. They ARE our future and we all need to see the young folks and By the time this reaches you, election time will be over or nearly over. hope they will carry on when many of us retire from active showing. Some Hope you marked your ballots clearly, placed them in their special envelopes of the more senior juniors are looking forward to college and careers. AKC and mailed them in the envelopes provided. Postmark dates and received has a scholarship program and some if not all of these young people may dates are important so hopefully yours has been mailed within the timeframe. be applying. I know two ‘aged out juniors’ that are recipients – one works at Talliers reported at the Annual Meeting that some ballots are not counted AKC, another is at a major university studying genetics. because ballot instructions are not followed. This applies to all official ballots Speaking of covers.... Ads and covers in this issue are products of a young you receive, not just election ballots. man in Basenjis: Jarod Johnson. He’s fairly new in the breed and offered to Technology is ever expanding and it’d be interesting to find that someone do a little work for us. Hope YOU think he did a good job with the specialty has the time and energy to determine how to stream video on the BCOA or candids on the covers as well as the ads. Specialty website so people (all of you) can watch the National ‘real-time’. Since the Mid August extension of our deadline for publication, the Will it be ’13? Even if streaming the specialty is not available, maybe the collection of data surrounding specialty events for the bulletin has been host group could arrange to post ‘real-time’ results on their Facebook page.. interesting. The average person doesn’t realize the tremendous volume of information to be assembled. The biggest single collection of data is to Connie L Camp provide the catalog from the National for all of you who were unable to attend. Editor Each superintendent has a different method for including this information on Basenji Club of America, Inc.