Attached are my handwritten notes from the day. Some are about projects I'm working on, but you should be able to follow the topics. Of course the meeting lasted 4 hours longer than necessary due to much rambling conversation. but we did put a calendar together.
Hidden Creek,lion country and Keystone are putting Quiz rally together, to be held at Schikellamy High school in Sunbury. Jean R is going to run Dressage rally, after the universally acclaimed mess from last year. SJ is at Dugan's. There is talk for 2010 of moving eventing qualifier to a one day in late may or early June to allow more weeks of spring training. Irv will investigate letting northern tier clubs qualify with rallys from other regions if spring weather leaves too little time to get in shape. (State college was hot on this.)
One side of the room asked dates of D4K and Syd/Kate responded "what difference does that make?".
USPC champs looses $20,000 - $30,000 each year and is loosing backing from Kentucky. They are thinking about 4 regional champs. that way they can loose $20,000 in four places the same year. Syd explained that they merely needed to charge more like USEA AEC.
Lots of folks inquired about dressge@Bloomsburg. Hidden Creek wants me to investigate using Quentin. I'm just concerned that weather could ruin the day, but we've only had one activity really shut down for rain in all these years.
They (Syd) wants to be certain that all clubs include all of the instructors that are being used so she can get them all to clinics to be sure they are teaching "proper seat". She started sounding like a priest talking bout the "one tru church" when she said (and I wish I had recorded it),"we certainly don't want to see Phillip Dutton's style appearing in Pony Club"! They want EVERYONE to attend her standards and ratings clinics. including coaches, parents, riders even if not preparing to rate.
I am supposed to supply her with Laverne's and Jen G's and Karl's & Lendon's and Dutton's (who has the wrong seat) and now the guy next week's email address so she can teach them how to teach, (so they can grow up to be as good as Syd).
Black Diamond is going to reactivate. Bridlewild is going inactive. Radnor is losing volunteers.
Kate C. sidestepped discussion about HM at eastern nationals, so Irv brought it up for her later. Some "chiefs" were demoted. His phone rang off the wall all weekend with calls from pissed parents. who aren't competitors so they don;t count. Syd and Kate are working on training the other HM Chiefs to be bitches so all are compliant. Texas requires diapers padding exposed corners on trailers and there are bugs in Connecticut. They didn;t share the rules about bugs.
When a HM judge from Delmarva gives our kids penalty points for a rule that she invented it teaches our kids how to deal with a weird boss... ( I had some difficulty interpreting this one.) ( but I have a reputation for not understanding bosses.)
12 y.o. d3 can go to champs as stable managers.
Champs shirts is a free for all... Lands End is out. Shirts from any year are acceptable, as long as they are white and each person wears at least one.
USPC insurance and hold harmless has been found to be unacceptable by landowners with lawyers in Phily suburbs. Ann D. is paying $250/day for private insurance for their activities that use shared properties. USPC pointed her to a guy in Kansas. Quote KY " We have what we have and that's all that we have".
Yvonne from Keystone has applied to be a HM queen and is going to KY to learn to be like Kate and Syd.
Did not discuss food. someone mentioned pitbull pony parents who broadcast spurious emails. "the parents need to stay out of it, it's the kids who are the competitors" (Kate). I figured run-silent-run deep.
Hidden Creek went directly to the bar. will drive home later.
Many people missed you guys. ( this is "no S##T"). Except Jane from Stirling ("We're a new club and are clueless") Stirrups who "has facilities that could accommodate any rally conceivable with hotels nearby" who expressed (somewhat privately) that there is one MLPC officer that she didn't miss... Is one of you holding out on me? so she somehow thought I needed to hear that? After all, I married at least one of you. ( don't forward this to Livia, please!) Syd announced that Radnor is center of universe and the universe is 50 miles wide(tall/round).
I think that if she announced that "We're a new club and are clueless" one more time (I think that would have been the twelfth) they would have asked her to join Southern NY or her adopted in Bermuda... Then we spent time discussing if she should have been a for-profit Center vs a non-profit club.
OH. there is one, soon to be 4 horse centers in the region. most are apparently very high end.
Jen, you're sending the packet that I was to have delivered?
see notes about when checks for rallys must be received. That lady is BIG!
Devon booth wasn't mentioned. I don't think anyone in attendance was there. (does than make them oxymoron's?) Margo was a no show. Irv mentioned his daughters in every 15 minute segment. Cote's and Pitts girls are gong to NYC or CBS or ABC. (one of Irv's kids went twice!) and Irv gets 27 emails per day because he's also on the activities committee. and now Kate is a vice RS because Irv lives up north and isn't always in the loop and if the weather prohibited him from getting to a rally there would be back up form Barb. and everyone should go to annual meeting because it's so rewarding. Next year in TX.
Whoever is putting on that clinic next weekend (all their officers are new this year) said they are looking forward to seeing Mac! ;)
My guess is that everyone headed to the bar and just didn't invite each other... I came home (to the bar.)
Writing this recap was the high point of my day. Please read it at my eulogy, should I live that long.
Jeff Kurtz
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