Re: [pyrnet] GPCA

["Dolores Neal" <dneal@socket.net>]

A fast count in the 2001 Membership Directory shows
Members now that came in during 1960s......        11
                                                             1970s
91
                                                              1980s
187
at this point I keep hereing 800   Looks to me like we have done a lot of
growing in the 90s.
Go back and look at the names for Officers and Board of
Directors for the past 15 years. Just something to look at and wonder.

Dolores Neal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Weisser" <lmweisser@olywa.net>
To: <pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: [pyrnet] GPCA


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <JGentzel@aol.com>
>
> That's why it is surprising that it
> would go back to some more exclusionary policies when there are still
those
> like you and Jack who saw how bad it was when it was controlled by a few.
> >>
>
> Well, there really is a quantitative difference between a club with plus
or
> minus 50 members that held its meetings in a living room in CT and its
> national specialty in Trenton NJ (where it was quite commonly smaller than
> the GPC of California specialty) and what we have today with 800 members,
> open annual meetings and rotating national specialties.  The really huge
> growth of the club came in the early to mid 70s.  Since then it has been
> reasonably slow and steady.  I personally see no decrease in the numbers
of
> applicants or new members since the increase in requirements.  Besides the
> 1 year knowing issue we also have that the sponsors may not reside in the
> same household.
>
> Although I recognize that this is probably a non sequitur argument, it
> might be useful to know that the GPCA's requirements are a long way from
> being the most stringent among national breed clubs.
>
> Linda Weisser
>
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