Re: The final word on Evaluations
This message is from: Karen McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello...if Tami from Oregon is out there in weegee cyberspace, would you please let me know? I have some good news for you! Cheers, Karen ( ... with my apologies to the list) __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: My final word on Evaluations
This message is from: Jean Gayle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey Gail, where did it say you quit or resigned on this list? I for one would imagine you as a hard worker and dedicated. I have no idea what the politics are but for myself thanks for the long hours and hard work you put into this program. Just as an aside, I find life a bit easier when I recognize how hard I have worked and do not expect praise for it from others. Been left on the roost too often. Jean Jean Gayle Aberdeen, WA [Authoress of The Colonel's Daughter Occupied Germany 1946 TO 1949 ] http://www.techline.com/~jgayle
Re: My final word on Evaluations
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 9/5/99 10:17:23 AM Pacific Daylight Time, FofDFJORDS writes: Hello List, I recently received this private email from Tom Hans. I am going to pass it along to you along with my response to him. Hopefully this will answer much of the recent dialog and questions regarding Evaluations. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself- I am one of the newly elected BOD and very much want the evaluation process to proceed. I am a Friend of Nancy Hotovy and have had many discussions with her about the work that you and your committee are doing for the evaluations. I do not yet have a copy of the black book but am waiting to see what you have put together and want to let you know that I want to know what you are thinking and what I as a BOD can do on your behave to get the evaluation process rolling again. I have not had time to read all of the discussion on the digest but would greatly appreciate your input especially about the things that they are discussing that you and your committee feel will jeopardize the evaluation process as you see it. And what you would like to include that had not yet been discussed. Dear Tom, Thank you for taking the time to contact me. I started a response to you several days ago, saved it as I got interrupted before I could finish. When I retrieved what I had written previously, it was a jumbled mess so guess I will start over. This will probably be a lengthy letter as I am going to try to address most of the recent dialog on Evaluations that has been on the forefront lately. My computer crashed right before all of the discussion began. When I finally got this infernal machine back up and running, was OVERWHELMED by the Evaluation chatter and the fact that I, as current chair if the Eval. committee, was out of the loop during all of this!! Let me preface this by giving you a bit of background information about myself. I have served as a member of the BOD for 6 years (including one term as vice pres.) and just stepped down last year as per our by-laws that state one can only serve 2 consecutive terms. My first assignment when first elected to the BOD, was to design a new color brochure for the Registry. That is the one we are currently using. I have served on the Eval. committee since it's inception and was primarily responsible for designing the Western tests. Creating the American Evaluation program was a monumental task. The Evaluation committee started with a BLANK SLATE. It took quite some time to get this program to where it is today. It required hundreds of volunteer hours on the part of every committee member and it is still a work in progress, as I'm sure it will be for some time to come as it is refined along the way. This program was designed to meet the needs of Fjord owners in North America. The European evaluation programs have satisfied the needs of European Fjord owners, but needed to be expanded because they did not cover all of the ways that we use Fjords here in North America, i.e., Western and Heavy Draft. As I look back through time at the big picture, I see the Evaluation committee members as progressive thinkers, perhaps well ahead of their time, compared to the majority of Fjord owners. I don't mean this in a negative way, but rather a statement of fact since Fjords tend to attract a large number of first-time horse owners. I have always viewed this Evaluation program as a tremendous educational tool for Fjord owners. I have seen a great desire and thirst, on behalf of Fjord owners to learn MORE! What is GOOD quality? How does one tell whether a leg is straight? What makes one head better than another one? Questions like this are pretty basic, but I have been asked things like this over and over. By offering this Evaluation program, folks could begin to learn the answers to these questions. I could foresee that 10 years down the road, we'd be seeing better and better quality Fjords being produced here in North America because mare owners would become more educated about QUALITY and therefore should be able to make more informed decisions as to what stallion to breed to, instead of, He's close and he's cheap! Don't laugh, sadly, I've heard that one many times! It has certainly been my privilege to serve with both the past and present members of the Evaluation committee as well as Wayne Hipsley and Jim Havelhurst. This committee has been composed of many dedicated, hard working, selfless folks and it has worked like a well-oiled machine. I don't mean that we didn't ever goof up, but when we found a wrinkle that needed to be ironed out, we tried to fix the broken part. Whenever there are numbers of different people involved in something from all over such a vast country as ours, PERSONALITIES come into play. Guess there's always bad along with
RE: The final word on Evaluations
This message is from: Mike May, Registrar NFHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 09:48 PM 9/1/99 -0500, you wrote: As far as I know, the Eval Comm is still waiting for a detailed BOD reaction to their recommendations so they can proceed. While the BOD is waiting to hear back from the committee! That appears to be the case. A suggestion to improve communication - the BOD meeting minute section of the NFHR web site has not been updated since March. I thought the BOD had agreed to post approved minutes. Your right I am to blame for this one. It just slipped my mind. I will get them up there as soon as I can. For my part, I will forward this particular message to all BOD members who have email (only one member does not). Actually all members do have email now. Dennis Johnson was the only one without and he has had it now for close to six months. His address was in the last Herald. It is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have already forwarded your message to the BOD mailing list. Mike === Norwegian Fjord Horse Registry Mike May, Registrar Voice 716-872-4114 FAX 716-787-0497 http://www.nfhr.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: The final word on Evaluations
This message is from: Cynthia Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Salutations the Brians Jacobsen and Jensen, good words in your recent messages and may I add one final thought for this round: It was mentioned to me during an Education Meeting teleconference last Spring that the Board was waiting to hear from the Evaluation Committee. I told Board members at the time that Nancy Hotovy had reported at the Feb. meeting of the MWFHC that the Evaluation Committee was waiting to hear back from the Board as to how to proceed after submitting their recommendations. Committee members had been disappointed at initial BOD reaction to their recommendations but were under the impression that a more considered reaction would be coming from the board. As far as I know, the Eval Comm is still waiting for a detailed BOD reaction to their recommendations so they can proceed. While the BOD is waiting to hear back from the committee! I mentioned this impasse again in public at the annual meeting in Blue Earth (as did Nancy) since Storrs said the BOD was still waiting to hear back from the evaluation committee. My comment to that was that if they expected to hear from the Evaluation Committee and hadn't, why had no one from the BOD contacted the committee to find out what was going on? The BOD is supposed to provide leadership AND support to these committees. Obviously, there is a communication problem here - and whose responsibility is it to ensure things are happening - the BOD. Now, I know they are all volunteers and have other lives and jobs to do, but it is a leadership position they volunteered for in an election process to further our favorite breed and manage registry affairs. All the BOD members are on the list. Hopefully, they are reading the evaluation thread - but it doesn't hurt to call or e-mail either. A suggestion to improve communication - the BOD meeting minute section of the NFHR web site has not been updated since March. I thought the BOD had agreed to post approved minutes. A little information about what is going on could go a long way towards preventing rampant guessing or passing around of hearsay. While the Herald may be the official publication of the Registry, it's timeliness is not its strong suit. For my part, I will forward this particular message to all BOD members who have email (only one member does not). Cynthia Madden mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Omaha, Nebraska USA
RE: The final word on Evaluations
This message is from: Jeri L Rieger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Very well said Brian. I also appreciate all the addresses. I, for one, communicate with my elected government officals regularly and have learned the truth of the statement about the squeaky wheel getting the grease. Jeri in Missouri
Re: The final word on Evaluations
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Brian, everyone, Brian, wonderful post, great points to ponder. I had never thought of calling a BOD directly. I had assumed through our (Great Lakes Fjordhest) formal requests for evaluations presented to the BOD, that would make our stance clear. A few phone calls certainly will not hurt! Lynda Daniel Bailey and Lynda C. Welch-Bailey Bailey's Norwegian Fjord Horse Farm White Cloud, MI
