December 30, 2005  Newsletter:   Hau’oli Makahiki Hou

Founding Members of the Cavalier King Charles Club of Hawaii 

Photo taken at the first Club meeting at Thomas Square on 11/20/2005

Congratulations Founding Members, our final numbers are in, we have 69 Founding Members, including eight Junior Founding Members and $l,590 in dues and donations deposited in our account at Bank of Hawaii.  With such a great start for our Club, we should have an outstanding first year!

The Board had its first meeting on December 10 and many things were discussed which we urge all members to think about, make choices, and plan their participation to make this a fun and exciting Club for all of you and especially your Cavaliers.

We have established the first of the Standing Committees and we welcome suggestions for additional committees.  This is only a preliminary list, so please review, decide on which committees you would like to serve and contact the Chairman at the email addresses listed.  Please send suggestions for additional committees (and if you would be willing to serve on them) to Kaye Walsh, Secretary, at brianandkaye@walsh.net to be included in discussions at the next Board Meeting.

Standing Committees:

Frank Yamashita, President, F499213@aol.com will chair the all-important Events Committee overseeing, providing assistance and advice as needed. This Committee will have at least the following subcommittees:  

Other committees are:  

Education: Herman Libarios, Chairman wailibzoo@hotmail.com 

Olinda Amtsberg  amtsberg@msn.com and Kap Richards kapr@hawaii.rr.com, Members  

We want to welcome our newest officer and director to the Club, Darlene Tsubota enelradk9s@verizon.net , who will also serve as Vice President. You may have seen her with those winning Cavaliers at one of the most recent shows.  

We are looking for the artists in our Club to compete for a logo design for the Club.  It can be round or square (or no shape at all really), but it should be able to be printed and easily read in a size about 4 inches by 4 inches or 4 inches round.  Once we have decided on a logo, we will have shirts printed, one for each Founding Member, with most of the cost subsidized by the Club. We will have additional shirts printed in the future, but there will never be any more Founding Member shirts.  The words “Founding Member” will be printed beneath the new logo one time only.  Please submit all designs to Kaye Walsh, Secretary, brianandkaye@walsh.net.  The Directors will then get together, pick the top three or so designs and put it out for a vote by the Members.

We now need everyone to ponder and come up with a domain name for our website.  Let’s make it fun, but no more than about 15 characters.  We could always do CavalierClubof HI, but someone can probably come up with something much better.  It should be searchable so that anyone looking for a Cavalier club to join in Hawaii would find us.  Again submit suggestions as above and the final selections will be put out to the Members to decide.

We will establish a website which will have newsletters, a photo album to post pictures of your cute dogs, meeting dates, a calendar of upcoming events such as our Club events, AKC shows, activities at Thomas Square, etc., links to other pages for health and education information and any other items of interest suggested by the members.  We have several people interested in helping with the website and we hope to make it fun and interesting for everyone.  

Sometime as early in 2006 as the weather will permit a somewhat guaranteed good day, we have all been invited by Dr. and Mrs. Gary Johnson to have a potluck with all our dogs at their home in Haiku Plantation, Kaneohe.  They have a completely walled in home, and the dogs can safely run free.  It should be a great afternoon.  Stay tuned for the date and details.  

We have started a database with all our Member information, addresses, numbers, etc. and we would now like to start collecting information on any dogs you would like to have listed in the directory for the Club.  Send information to Kaye Walsh, Secretary, brianandkaye@walsh.net

List any dogs that you would want to enter into any event including fun matches, rally, agility and obedience, not just those that will show in conformation, AKC sanctioned matches.  Neutered dogs can have fun too!!

AKC No.

AKC Name

Call Name

Sex

Birthdate

Color

Microchip No. and Company (AVID, Home Again or other)  

Finally, please send your suggestions to any of the people listed above for matters that you would like to Club to address such as specific health issues, proper breeding, grooming, training for events, etc.  We plan to have speakers at General Membership Meetings who can help you keep those Cavaliers healthy, happy and beautiful!  

Remember, this is your Club; we know you are all enthusiastic, want to have fun and be more informed about the breed.  The more you participate, the more fun you will have and the smarter you will be!!

Kaye Walsh, Secretary