Convention Memories: More about the 2003 ARBA Convention Group Winner

The breed judge for the 2003 ARBA convention was Cindy Wickizer who is holding Ashton after the BOB win.   She is in the ARBA Hall of Fame and a 5-term ARBA president: 1989 - 1994, 1997 - 1998, and 2005-2006..   When Chu's Sweet Sixteen won the convention Best In Show in 1992, Cindy was the ARBA president who handed me the Best In Show trophy at the ARBA banquet.  See: Northern California Angora Guild: Remember When: Best In Show at the 1992 ARBA National Convention (ncag.blogspot.com)   

 

After winning BOB, the next stop was the Heinold booth for the BOB photo.  

This photo was taken by my first generation digital camera that had very low resolution.

After Ashton won the Group, the next stop was the professional photographer's booth.

The photographer is looking at the images on her computer.  Look at the big computer in 2003! The photo session produced the "official" photo of Ashton that was used in the ARBA breed poster, shown in the blogpost yesterday.  There was also a photo of me with Ashton taken at the same time,  but I cannot find it.   The photo sessions were sponsored by Purina thus the owners were asked to wear a Purina t-shirt during the photo shoots.   

Three of us traveled together to and from the 2003 ARBA convention.   On the right is Charlie Lacey,  we don't see Charlie in shows much but he is still our NCAG president.   In the middle is Linda Rossell of Snohomish, WA.    Linda returned home with a pair of English Angora from me after the 2003 convention.   The pair produced a white doe that won the Group in the 2004 ARBA convention at Providence.  Linda went out of showing sometime in 2005.   If you wonder why there are blue and pink cloth draping on the coops behind us, in the 1990s and 2000s it was common to put pretty "curtains" to cover the coops.  The English Angora exhibitors were guilty of starting this trend.   Eventually this practice was banned by the convention sponsoring clubs.