Remember When: English Angora Winners at the 1994 ARBA Convention

I have attended 34 ARBA conventions starting in 1987, cumulated lots of memories.  In the next few days I am sharing some of the memories from 30 years ago.    1994 Convnetion was held at Tulsa, OK.   This was the second Tulsa convention that I had attended, the first one was in 1989.   Rabbits and I were flown to OK, we were in a group of 5 exhibitors from different breeds.  We had 40 some rabbits in the group.   When flying from SFO to DFW to connect to OK, the airline forgot to put the rabbits in the first flight at SFO.   At the connection point, we realized that the rabbits did not make it there.  We were very worried and sad, begged the agents to find the rabbits and to wait for the rabbits but no avail, we had no choice but to board the second flight.   When the plane was taxiing on the runaway, suddently the captian announced that there would be a short delay and the plane stopped.   Looking out the window, guess what? We saw a long luggage cart rushing toward the plane and then the cargo door opened, the 40 some rabbits from our group went from the luggage cart to the cargo hold, they made the connection!     It was an experience that never repeated; cannot imagine any of the airlines would stop a taxiing plane to let the live animals catch the flight.

These are the 1994 ARBA convention numbers of Angoras shown listed in the Results Book: 132 English Angoras, 56 French Angoras, 14 Giant Angoras and 40 Satin Angoras.  

 

My white doe Kimmie was the BOV white and colored doe Cynthia was the BOV colored and went on to win the BOB English Angora.  Kimmie was the best white wool winner and Cynthia won the best colored wool and the best overall wool. 

The BOSV colored was Kathleen Wileman's colored senior buck and went on to win BOSB.

The BOSV white was Susan Clothier's white senior buck.

Class winners are not listed in the result book, but I got this photo of the winner of the colored junior buck class shown by Pete Chavez and Lori Williamson.

The judge for English Angora was Eunita Boatman.  In the photo, judge Boatman just picked the BOV white doe.

Judge Boatman is examining a colored junior, not sure whether it's a buck or a doe.  You may recognize the wooden judging coops.  These coops were made in 1992 and they have been used in the last 30 plus years including the 2023 convention at Louisville.    The same wooden floors have been exposed to 30 plus years of poops and pee!