CenterLine Dressage
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June/July 2010
The purposes of CenterLine Dressage: "to promote interest in and further the knowledge of dressage; to conduct dressage events and activities; to provide educational forums" from the Bylaws of CenterLine Dressage, adopted August 1983.
The membership needle climbed to 103 this month. Welcome to our newest member, Caroline Bean of St. Louis, who joined at the Carde Symposium. Caroline rode in the clinic on her mare Aqua JP and was taught in French at her request. She was one of 32 different people who took part in the meals, auditing, riding and enjoying the film presentations. Martin Kuhn was able to copy a couple of the video presentations which will be shown at a club meeting next winter. Those who missed these times together with Col. Carde are the poorer for it. We had participants from two adjoining GMO’s (SLADS & LEDA) as well as an auditor from Colorado and, of course, from our own club.
It has been crazy here with virtually no internet service for us since the week before the Carde Symposium. If you have received outdated e-mails or no response at all from me, I do apologize. We have been online again since June 21. This has impacted everyone as Kelley Clausing, your newsletter editor, and Martin Kuhn, your CLD webmaster, are all on the same system. Both the May and June Board meetings made it under the 90-minute goal I have for the maximum length for Board meetings.
Nancy Simpson was proud to report for show manager John Simpson that a Volunteer Coordinator has indeed surfaced for CenterLine Classic. We are pleased to welcome Cathy Swartz back to CLD activities. You may remember her from IceBreaker and FireCracker show staff several years ago. You are cordially invited to take part in the next Board Meeting on Sunday, July 18, 2 p.m. at StarWest.
It is with a great deal of regret that I withdraw from the commitments of a lifetime and end the Al Khamsa Dressage shows, Al Khamsa and Al Khamsa Fall Dressage, effective 2011. For many of the same reasons I also announce the end of the Sir Celebrations effective this year. The horses and the people who enjoyed them and supported them are, for the most part, gone. This unfairly puts the heavy financial and labor burden of those large endeavors on the shoulders of those who did not enjoy the camaraderie of the earlier efforts.
If you are interested in a CLD Club Tour of the Currier & Ives Exhibit at the Abraham Lincoln Library on Friday, July 16th, please let Rita Bass know: hughb63@yahoo.com or call (217) 816-9400. We will meet at 11 a.m. at the Presidential Library (NOT the Museum), 112 N. Sixth Street, and plan on a meal together (Dutch treat) afterwards at Bennigan’s. Please note this is a date change from Saturday to Friday as the Library is no longer open on the weekend.
We are gearing up for our 40th Anniversary bash in 2012. Do you have addresses, e-mail and otherwise, for any of these possibly charter members that Elaine Gibala has remembered? Vanda Bidwell, Mary Clevenger, Bev Crow, Terri Elsesser (Stark), Betty Gib, , Sara Kliner, Meg Laidlaw, Dennis Masonary, Gayla Sargent, Sherri Vermillion, Maureen White, Shirley Wyatt. (I have no addresses at all for Bev, Betty, Sara, Meg, Dennis, Sherri or Shirley. I have complete contact information only for Terri and Gayla. If you have e-mail addresses for Vanda, Mary, or Maureen, I would appreciate them.)
I am still just a phone call or an e-mail away.
Alice E. Martin
217-546-9400
president@centerlinedressage.com
P.S. I hope to see you on July 10 at FireCracker at StarWest and at the Michalak clinic the next day at Pratense Farms. We still need runners and a scribe for the show. Join us on Friday, July 16 at the Currier & Ives Exhibit at the Lincoln Presidential Library, and on Sunday, July 18 for the 2 p.m. Board Meeting at StarWest. Don’t forget the CLD approved schooling show at Merri Voigt’s on July 24th.
The membership needle climbed to 103 this month. Welcome to our newest member, Caroline Bean of St. Louis, who joined at the Carde Symposium. Caroline rode in the clinic on her mare Aqua JP and was taught in French at her request. She was one of 32 different people who took part in the meals, auditing, riding and enjoying the film presentations. Martin Kuhn was able to copy a couple of the video presentations which will be shown at a club meeting next winter. Those who missed these times together with Col. Carde are the poorer for it. We had participants from two adjoining GMO’s (SLADS & LEDA) as well as an auditor from Colorado and, of course, from our own club.
It has been crazy here with virtually no internet service for us since the week before the Carde Symposium. If you have received outdated e-mails or no response at all from me, I do apologize. We have been online again since June 21. This has impacted everyone as Kelley Clausing, your newsletter editor, and Martin Kuhn, your CLD webmaster, are all on the same system. Both the May and June Board meetings made it under the 90-minute goal I have for the maximum length for Board meetings.
Nancy Simpson was proud to report for show manager John Simpson that a Volunteer Coordinator has indeed surfaced for CenterLine Classic. We are pleased to welcome Cathy Swartz back to CLD activities. You may remember her from IceBreaker and FireCracker show staff several years ago. You are cordially invited to take part in the next Board Meeting on Sunday, July 18, 2 p.m. at StarWest.
It is with a great deal of regret that I withdraw from the commitments of a lifetime and end the Al Khamsa Dressage shows, Al Khamsa and Al Khamsa Fall Dressage, effective 2011. For many of the same reasons I also announce the end of the Sir Celebrations effective this year. The horses and the people who enjoyed them and supported them are, for the most part, gone. This unfairly puts the heavy financial and labor burden of those large endeavors on the shoulders of those who did not enjoy the camaraderie of the earlier efforts.
If you are interested in a CLD Club Tour of the Currier & Ives Exhibit at the Abraham Lincoln Library on Friday, July 16th, please let Rita Bass know: hughb63@yahoo.com or call (217) 816-9400. We will meet at 11 a.m. at the Presidential Library (NOT the Museum), 112 N. Sixth Street, and plan on a meal together (Dutch treat) afterwards at Bennigan’s. Please note this is a date change from Saturday to Friday as the Library is no longer open on the weekend.
We are gearing up for our 40th Anniversary bash in 2012. Do you have addresses, e-mail and otherwise, for any of these possibly charter members that Elaine Gibala has remembered? Vanda Bidwell, Mary Clevenger, Bev Crow, Terri Elsesser (Stark), Betty Gib, , Sara Kliner, Meg Laidlaw, Dennis Masonary, Gayla Sargent, Sherri Vermillion, Maureen White, Shirley Wyatt. (I have no addresses at all for Bev, Betty, Sara, Meg, Dennis, Sherri or Shirley. I have complete contact information only for Terri and Gayla. If you have e-mail addresses for Vanda, Mary, or Maureen, I would appreciate them.)
I am still just a phone call or an e-mail away.
Alice E. Martin
217-546-9400
president@centerlinedressage.com
P.S. I hope to see you on July 10 at FireCracker at StarWest and at the Michalak clinic the next day at Pratense Farms. We still need runners and a scribe for the show. Join us on Friday, July 16 at the Currier & Ives Exhibit at the Lincoln Presidential Library, and on Sunday, July 18 for the 2 p.m. Board Meeting at StarWest. Don’t forget the CLD approved schooling show at Merri Voigt’s on July 24th.
May 2010
The purposes of CenterLine Dressage: "to promote interest in and further the knowledge of dressage; to conduct dressage events and activities; to provide educational forums" from the Bylaws of CenterLine Dressage, adopted August 1983.
Dear Member and Friend of CLD,
We have finally broken the 100 barrier in our membership. The current roster stands at 102. Welcome to our newest member, Kjersti Cory, who joined at IceBreaker. Treasurer Marie Meadows distributed Handbooks and membership cards at the show. She was able to give Kjersti the new CLD Handbook, one of 55 Handbooks that have been hand delivered to date. Our April Board meeting was the first to fall within my personal goal of 60 minute Board meetings; maximum time, 90 minutes.
For the April 12th meeting we had 11 Board Members present in the flesh and three calling into speaker phones. 10 of your 12 voting Board Members were present. Four of your 10 Co-ordinators (who are not also officers) attended, including our new Librarian, Brigitte Franzen. You are cordially invited to take part in the next Board Meeting on Sunday, May 23, 2 p.m. at StarWest.
Later that afternoon the Board will move north about a mile north to 925 S. Farmingdale Rd. to the CLD Barn Tour of Sangamon Equestrian Center at 4 p.m. New member Deanna Mayberry is the barn manager of the boarding facility that many of you may remember as Cobblestone. At 5 p.m. Dr. Deb Klamen will discuss emergency medicine for the rider, a timely topic with the accident of Courtney King-Dye on everyone’s mind. Afterwards we will enjoy another good CLD Potluck. Ya’ll come and learn.
Eighteen members of CLD enjoyed a tour of Heartland Equine Clinic on Sunday, April 19, in Curran. Drs. O’Keefe and Boyce gave good presentations on colic and equine nutrition to the group using AVA visuals. Thanks to Jo Keim and Hansen Engineering for use of their projector. All visitors coveted the soft flooring of the stall area and the soon to be completed indoor arena.
We received a minor miracle at IceBreaker on April 24. Despite a terrible forecast, we made if through with only a minor five-minute drizzle around 2 p.m. The show ran smoothly with lots of good volunteers helping Co-Managers Sue and Amanda Graham. Sue and Amanda want to thank those who helped: Amira Anthony, Ryan Ballinger, Susan Edwards, Deanna and Russ Mayberry, Marie Meadows, Julie Nichols, Anne Scrivner, and Judge Brenda Zeitler.
On April 12, I traveled to St. Louis to attend the Board meeting of SLADS. This is from their May newsletter: “Alice Martin, President of the Centerline Dressage Club spoke regarding the 2011 June show date conflict with the Al Khamsa Dressage show. Alice said it was nice to put a face behind the letter she wrote. She wanted to stress how important it is to think of neighboring clubs when planning the show season. She said clubs should exchange calendars. All in attendance discussed different show dates and the sharing of information on show dates. Leslie Burket, Liaison for the newly formed Community Involvement Committee, will be helping with this.” (Leslie is also a member of CLD and is on our Inter-Club Liasion Committee.)
SLADS will be hosting the Region 4 Championships this year at their annual fall show. As those of you who volunteered to help with our 2001 hosting of the Region 2 Championships well know, it is a huge effort that requires much manpower. If you are able to serve their fall show and the Region 4 Championships, October 8-10, at the National Equestrian Center, Lake St. Louis, MO, please contact their Volunteer Coordinator, Sarah Szachnieski, at seszachnieski@gmail.com (John Simpson, our able manager of CLD Classic I and II, has already volunteered to be their Asst. Mgr, and I have volunteered for a yet unknown position.)
John Simpson also needs help for the Region XI Arabian Dressage Championships, June 2-6. Contact him at jsnrhorse@prodigy.net if you can help with the largest Arabian show in the country if you do not count the Arabian Sport Horse Nationals.
We still need someone to step up for the position of Volunteer Co-ordinator. This job helps event managers find their work force. It is a great job for a people person who enjoys catching up with other members. Happily, long-time CLD supporter, Brigitte Franzen has stepped up to fill the Librarian position. She is converting the old video library from VHS to DVD. Plans are underway for some new videos to be added to the club’s collection. If you have a recommendation for a desired title, please let Brigitte know: fairness@gmx.com
Two new Junior members of CLD (of nine juniors participating) enjoyed a perfect spring day and enthusiastic instruction from Melanie Michalak at Pratense Farms on April 10. Riders participated from Quincy to Carlinville. It was my privilege to spend a couple of hours there enjoying the potluck and interviewing a couple of riders who had already gone. Thanks to Paula Briney for hosting the clinic and to whoever made the terrific brownies.
Chrissie Jacobs was grateful Dexter behaved himself as she rode him for the first time in a new place. Chrissie thought Melanie was friendly and had a positive way of teaching. She thought the best hint she got was to keep Dexter going when he broke from canter. Jayme Geisler on Bandana V +// liked how Melanie related riding to her own interest: playing the drum. The most valuable thing she learned was how to slow the canter down.
Make plans now to attend the Col. Christian Carde Symposium on June 4-6. CenterLine has received a $1000 grant from The Dressage Foundation to help pay his airfare from Paris. His three-day clinic has been upgraded to Symposium status with a group meal and lecture planned each day. Auditors are welcome at $10 per day or $25 for all three days. Your catered meal will be $7 for each luncheon on Friday and on Sunday. I hope you will all attend the Banquet on Saturday night ($20) to help thank one of the world’s top equestrians who has brought a little bit of the French school to Illinois. RSVP’s are necessary for all meals. Two slots are left open for riders, contact alice.martin@mac.com
If you are interested in a CLD Club Tour of the Currier & Ives Exhibit at the Abraham Lincoln Museum on July 17th, please let Rita Bass know: hughb63@yahoo.com Full details later, but plan on a meal together afterwards at a downtown restaurant.
I am still just a phone call or an e-mail away.
Alice E. Martin
217-546-9400
president@centerlinedressage.com
P.S. I hope to see you on May 23rd: 2 p.m. Board Meeting at StarWest
4 p.m. Barn Tour of Sangamon Equestrian Center
5 p.m. Emergency medicine for the rider by Dr. Deb Klamen
CLD Potluck to follow
Our prayers go out for Courtney King-Dye and her family.
Dear Member and Friend of CLD,
We have finally broken the 100 barrier in our membership. The current roster stands at 102. Welcome to our newest member, Kjersti Cory, who joined at IceBreaker. Treasurer Marie Meadows distributed Handbooks and membership cards at the show. She was able to give Kjersti the new CLD Handbook, one of 55 Handbooks that have been hand delivered to date. Our April Board meeting was the first to fall within my personal goal of 60 minute Board meetings; maximum time, 90 minutes.
For the April 12th meeting we had 11 Board Members present in the flesh and three calling into speaker phones. 10 of your 12 voting Board Members were present. Four of your 10 Co-ordinators (who are not also officers) attended, including our new Librarian, Brigitte Franzen. You are cordially invited to take part in the next Board Meeting on Sunday, May 23, 2 p.m. at StarWest.
Later that afternoon the Board will move north about a mile north to 925 S. Farmingdale Rd. to the CLD Barn Tour of Sangamon Equestrian Center at 4 p.m. New member Deanna Mayberry is the barn manager of the boarding facility that many of you may remember as Cobblestone. At 5 p.m. Dr. Deb Klamen will discuss emergency medicine for the rider, a timely topic with the accident of Courtney King-Dye on everyone’s mind. Afterwards we will enjoy another good CLD Potluck. Ya’ll come and learn.
Eighteen members of CLD enjoyed a tour of Heartland Equine Clinic on Sunday, April 19, in Curran. Drs. O’Keefe and Boyce gave good presentations on colic and equine nutrition to the group using AVA visuals. Thanks to Jo Keim and Hansen Engineering for use of their projector. All visitors coveted the soft flooring of the stall area and the soon to be completed indoor arena.
We received a minor miracle at IceBreaker on April 24. Despite a terrible forecast, we made if through with only a minor five-minute drizzle around 2 p.m. The show ran smoothly with lots of good volunteers helping Co-Managers Sue and Amanda Graham. Sue and Amanda want to thank those who helped: Amira Anthony, Ryan Ballinger, Susan Edwards, Deanna and Russ Mayberry, Marie Meadows, Julie Nichols, Anne Scrivner, and Judge Brenda Zeitler.
On April 12, I traveled to St. Louis to attend the Board meeting of SLADS. This is from their May newsletter: “Alice Martin, President of the Centerline Dressage Club spoke regarding the 2011 June show date conflict with the Al Khamsa Dressage show. Alice said it was nice to put a face behind the letter she wrote. She wanted to stress how important it is to think of neighboring clubs when planning the show season. She said clubs should exchange calendars. All in attendance discussed different show dates and the sharing of information on show dates. Leslie Burket, Liaison for the newly formed Community Involvement Committee, will be helping with this.” (Leslie is also a member of CLD and is on our Inter-Club Liasion Committee.)
SLADS will be hosting the Region 4 Championships this year at their annual fall show. As those of you who volunteered to help with our 2001 hosting of the Region 2 Championships well know, it is a huge effort that requires much manpower. If you are able to serve their fall show and the Region 4 Championships, October 8-10, at the National Equestrian Center, Lake St. Louis, MO, please contact their Volunteer Coordinator, Sarah Szachnieski, at seszachnieski@gmail.com (John Simpson, our able manager of CLD Classic I and II, has already volunteered to be their Asst. Mgr, and I have volunteered for a yet unknown position.)
John Simpson also needs help for the Region XI Arabian Dressage Championships, June 2-6. Contact him at jsnrhorse@prodigy.net if you can help with the largest Arabian show in the country if you do not count the Arabian Sport Horse Nationals.
We still need someone to step up for the position of Volunteer Co-ordinator. This job helps event managers find their work force. It is a great job for a people person who enjoys catching up with other members. Happily, long-time CLD supporter, Brigitte Franzen has stepped up to fill the Librarian position. She is converting the old video library from VHS to DVD. Plans are underway for some new videos to be added to the club’s collection. If you have a recommendation for a desired title, please let Brigitte know: fairness@gmx.com
Two new Junior members of CLD (of nine juniors participating) enjoyed a perfect spring day and enthusiastic instruction from Melanie Michalak at Pratense Farms on April 10. Riders participated from Quincy to Carlinville. It was my privilege to spend a couple of hours there enjoying the potluck and interviewing a couple of riders who had already gone. Thanks to Paula Briney for hosting the clinic and to whoever made the terrific brownies.
Chrissie Jacobs was grateful Dexter behaved himself as she rode him for the first time in a new place. Chrissie thought Melanie was friendly and had a positive way of teaching. She thought the best hint she got was to keep Dexter going when he broke from canter. Jayme Geisler on Bandana V +// liked how Melanie related riding to her own interest: playing the drum. The most valuable thing she learned was how to slow the canter down.
Make plans now to attend the Col. Christian Carde Symposium on June 4-6. CenterLine has received a $1000 grant from The Dressage Foundation to help pay his airfare from Paris. His three-day clinic has been upgraded to Symposium status with a group meal and lecture planned each day. Auditors are welcome at $10 per day or $25 for all three days. Your catered meal will be $7 for each luncheon on Friday and on Sunday. I hope you will all attend the Banquet on Saturday night ($20) to help thank one of the world’s top equestrians who has brought a little bit of the French school to Illinois. RSVP’s are necessary for all meals. Two slots are left open for riders, contact alice.martin@mac.com
If you are interested in a CLD Club Tour of the Currier & Ives Exhibit at the Abraham Lincoln Museum on July 17th, please let Rita Bass know: hughb63@yahoo.com Full details later, but plan on a meal together afterwards at a downtown restaurant.
I am still just a phone call or an e-mail away.
Alice E. Martin
217-546-9400
president@centerlinedressage.com
P.S. I hope to see you on May 23rd: 2 p.m. Board Meeting at StarWest
4 p.m. Barn Tour of Sangamon Equestrian Center
5 p.m. Emergency medicine for the rider by Dr. Deb Klamen
CLD Potluck to follow
Our prayers go out for Courtney King-Dye and her family.
April 2010
The purposes of CenterLine Dressage: "to promote interest in and further the knowledge of dressage; to conduct dressage events and activities; to provide educational forums" from the Bylaws of CenterLine Dressage, adopted August 1983.
Dear Member and Friend of CLD,
Since your last letter, CLD has grown from 84 members to 98. Our last Board meeting was a little noisier than the February meeting. This time we had 16 present (Elena Voigt loud and clear phoning in from Carbondale). Nine of your 12 voting Board Members were present. Five of your 10 Coordinators (who are not officers) attended. We were pleased to have two member guests, Brenda Coss and Teri Morenz, who contributed to the far-ranging business of the Board. You are cordially invited to take part in the next Board Meeting on Sunday, April 18, 2 p.m. at StarWest.
At 4pm that afternoon we will move to the "Open Barn" at Heartland Equine Health Center in Curran. Some of you attended their Grand Opening on March 13 to see their lovely new facility at 6000 Industrial Drive. This time the members of CLD are invited to tour and learn more about colic and hay quality and nutrition in PowerPoint presentations made by Drs. John O’Keefe and Rachel Boyce. Then we will enjoy another good CLD Potluck at 5:30 p.m. in the clinic. Ya’ll come.
I hope you were one of the 40 people who enjoyed a bracing tour of Pratense Farms’ many thoughtful additions to their arena on Saturday, March 20. Thank you Paula Briney for the invitation. At 5 p.m. that evening Gerhard Politz, who was instructing a three-day clinic at nearby StarWest, brought us up to date on what plans USDF has for furthering dressage education in the US. New programs are in the works for those just embarking on their dressage journey and for those at the top of the Training Pyramid. The chairman of the Instructor/Trainers Council filled us in on big ideas that should appeal to every level of dressage enthusiasts.
For me the highlight of the lecture was a video of Rembrandt and Nicole Uphoff at the top of their form. It was an elegant picture of elevation and tempo, quite unlike some of the current favorites on the world stage with their thrashing tails and diving forehands.
Coming right up is a CLD-subsidized Youth Clinic with Melanie Michalak, a Freestyle specialist and, quite simply, the most enthusiastic clinician I know. The clinic will be held at Pratense Farms on Saturday, April 10, for Youth, and on Sunday, April 11, for others until 1 p.m. For more information, please contact Paula Briney at brineypaula@aol.com or 217-652-1635. (Older riders can take part on Saturday if it does not fill with Youth, so do get your name in as wanting to ride, even if you can only ride on Saturday.) Auditors are welcome.
Now a plea for a Volunteer Coordinator. Over the years our club has enjoyed the unpaid labor of Mary Lou Flowers. She served for years as show secretary, manager, and, most recently, as Volunteer Coordinator. Last year was a rough one for her family. She lost both her parents in quick succession. She has many responsibilities to her family this year and is bowing out of the job she has always done with a smile and a quiet way of making you want to volunteer. Please call me if you are willing to serve in this necessary position. You would help show managers find their work force and ditto for other large CLD undertakings.
The next date I want you to put on your calendar is June 4-6. Many of you already know of Col. Christian Carde, the former ecuyer en chef at Saumur, the French national school of horsemanship. Family health problems may make this his last trip to central Illinois where he has been teaching twice a year since he was the 2001 instructor for CLD at Illinois Horse Fair. CenterLine Dressage has received a $1000 grant to help pay his airfare from Paris. His three-day clinic has been upgraded to symposium status with a group meal and lecture planned each day. Auditors are welcome at $10 per day or $25 for all three days. Your catered meal will be $7 for each luncheon on Friday and on Sunday. I hope you will all attend the banquet on Saturday night to help thank one of the world’s top equestrians, who has brought a little bit of the French school to Illinois.
Please let me know if you are interested in riding all three days with Col. Carde or helping with the symposium. As we move headlong into the show season, the pace with only quicken. Your entries for IceBreaker are due. See you there on April 24th where you will receive your handbook and membership card.
I am still just a phone call or an e-mail away.
Alice E. Martin
217-546-9400
president@centerlinedressage.com
P.S. Merri Voigt has prepared guidelines for CLD Approved Schooling Shows. She also submitted her own application for a show at her farm in Chrisman on July 24th this year. Thanks, Merri, for the guidelines and application form that you designed, and for hosting the show. he show was approved by the CLD Board electronically on March 30.
Wooo-hooo,
CenterLine of Region 2.
From shows that are schooling,
to a symposium, no fooling.
Wooo-hooo,
CenterLine of Region 2.
(Poetry for April Fool’s Day, of course!)
Dear Member and Friend of CLD,
Since your last letter, CLD has grown from 84 members to 98. Our last Board meeting was a little noisier than the February meeting. This time we had 16 present (Elena Voigt loud and clear phoning in from Carbondale). Nine of your 12 voting Board Members were present. Five of your 10 Coordinators (who are not officers) attended. We were pleased to have two member guests, Brenda Coss and Teri Morenz, who contributed to the far-ranging business of the Board. You are cordially invited to take part in the next Board Meeting on Sunday, April 18, 2 p.m. at StarWest.
At 4pm that afternoon we will move to the "Open Barn" at Heartland Equine Health Center in Curran. Some of you attended their Grand Opening on March 13 to see their lovely new facility at 6000 Industrial Drive. This time the members of CLD are invited to tour and learn more about colic and hay quality and nutrition in PowerPoint presentations made by Drs. John O’Keefe and Rachel Boyce. Then we will enjoy another good CLD Potluck at 5:30 p.m. in the clinic. Ya’ll come.
I hope you were one of the 40 people who enjoyed a bracing tour of Pratense Farms’ many thoughtful additions to their arena on Saturday, March 20. Thank you Paula Briney for the invitation. At 5 p.m. that evening Gerhard Politz, who was instructing a three-day clinic at nearby StarWest, brought us up to date on what plans USDF has for furthering dressage education in the US. New programs are in the works for those just embarking on their dressage journey and for those at the top of the Training Pyramid. The chairman of the Instructor/Trainers Council filled us in on big ideas that should appeal to every level of dressage enthusiasts.
For me the highlight of the lecture was a video of Rembrandt and Nicole Uphoff at the top of their form. It was an elegant picture of elevation and tempo, quite unlike some of the current favorites on the world stage with their thrashing tails and diving forehands.
Coming right up is a CLD-subsidized Youth Clinic with Melanie Michalak, a Freestyle specialist and, quite simply, the most enthusiastic clinician I know. The clinic will be held at Pratense Farms on Saturday, April 10, for Youth, and on Sunday, April 11, for others until 1 p.m. For more information, please contact Paula Briney at brineypaula@aol.com or 217-652-1635. (Older riders can take part on Saturday if it does not fill with Youth, so do get your name in as wanting to ride, even if you can only ride on Saturday.) Auditors are welcome.
Now a plea for a Volunteer Coordinator. Over the years our club has enjoyed the unpaid labor of Mary Lou Flowers. She served for years as show secretary, manager, and, most recently, as Volunteer Coordinator. Last year was a rough one for her family. She lost both her parents in quick succession. She has many responsibilities to her family this year and is bowing out of the job she has always done with a smile and a quiet way of making you want to volunteer. Please call me if you are willing to serve in this necessary position. You would help show managers find their work force and ditto for other large CLD undertakings.
The next date I want you to put on your calendar is June 4-6. Many of you already know of Col. Christian Carde, the former ecuyer en chef at Saumur, the French national school of horsemanship. Family health problems may make this his last trip to central Illinois where he has been teaching twice a year since he was the 2001 instructor for CLD at Illinois Horse Fair. CenterLine Dressage has received a $1000 grant to help pay his airfare from Paris. His three-day clinic has been upgraded to symposium status with a group meal and lecture planned each day. Auditors are welcome at $10 per day or $25 for all three days. Your catered meal will be $7 for each luncheon on Friday and on Sunday. I hope you will all attend the banquet on Saturday night to help thank one of the world’s top equestrians, who has brought a little bit of the French school to Illinois.
Please let me know if you are interested in riding all three days with Col. Carde or helping with the symposium. As we move headlong into the show season, the pace with only quicken. Your entries for IceBreaker are due. See you there on April 24th where you will receive your handbook and membership card.
I am still just a phone call or an e-mail away.
Alice E. Martin
217-546-9400
president@centerlinedressage.com
P.S. Merri Voigt has prepared guidelines for CLD Approved Schooling Shows. She also submitted her own application for a show at her farm in Chrisman on July 24th this year. Thanks, Merri, for the guidelines and application form that you designed, and for hosting the show. he show was approved by the CLD Board electronically on March 30.
Wooo-hooo,
CenterLine of Region 2.
From shows that are schooling,
to a symposium, no fooling.
Wooo-hooo,
CenterLine of Region 2.
(Poetry for April Fool’s Day, of course!)
March 2010
The purposes of CenterLine Dressage: "to promote interest in and further the knowledge of dressage; to conduct dressage events and activities; to provide educational forums" from the Bylaws of CenterLine Dressage, adopted August 1983.
Dear Member and Friend of CLD,
Since your last letter, CLD has grown from 80 members to 84. We held a lively Board of Directors Meeting on February 20 with 13 in attendance, two by phone. The following Saturday we enjoyed an afternoon with Conrad Schumacher (on video) with 18 present including five guests and three attendees that signed up with CLD.
Welcome to new members Deanna Mayberry, Manager of Sangamon Equestrian Center, and her daughter Sammy, a Youth member. Thanks also to Dr. Rachel Boyce for renewing her membership. We have been invited to farm tours at both establishments.
We will tour Heartland Equine Health Service’s new digs in Curran on Sunday, April 18, at 4 p.m. Drs. John O’Keefe and Rachel Boyce will give presentations on colic and on hay quality and nutrition. A potluck will follow in their clinic building at 5:30 p.m.
Several people have stepped up to the plate and accepted Coordinator positions with the club. Leslie Burket, who is also a SLADS member from Westchester, MO, is investigating charities that our club might undertake in a continuing relationship. Leslie is also working on Inter-Club promotions with adjoining GMO’s to spread the news on CLD projects and symposiums. Vice-President Elena Voigt from Carbondale is chair of Inter-Club Liaisons.
The By-Laws Committee is chugging along with several housekeeping (grammar, spelling, punctuation) corrections in the works, plus a couple proposed clarifications to the By-Laws. Immediate Past President Tracey Walker heads the Committee and is ably joined by two lawyers we are lucky enough to have as members, John Simpson of Springfield and Sue Schultz of Belleville. Our target is to distribute copies of the revised Handbook and By-Laws at IceBreaker on April 24.
Our new Show Safety Coordinator, a position mandated this year by USEF, is Anne Scrivner of Rochester. At the February 20 Directors Meeting, she brought pages of material she generated to fulfill the requirements of this new position.
Under the general heading of education, we have Kate Fleming-Kuhn of New Berlin working on the Education Day speaker for November. Kelly Griffith of St. Joseph presented ideas for her Grassroots Coordinator position. A Youth Clinic with David Blake in the Champaign area is also in the works. David is a CLD alum, now working with Steffen Peters in California. His mother, Nancy Blake, is still a Champaign member of CLD. Jordan Meadows of Auburn, our Jr/Young Rider Coordinator, brought ideas to build Youth membership. Scholarship Chair Janet Fitch of Champaign is working on promotion of our two current scholarships. Janet is also preparing guidelines for a new scholarship to pay clinic fees for Youth or Adult Amateurs, which was proposed by Newsletter Editor Kelley Clausing of New Berlin. Paula Briney and Marilyn Weber are securing an instructor for a Youth Clinic at Pratense Farms and a Quadrille Clinic for Youth members.
Kelley Clausing has set up a Facebook account for CLD. At this writing, 42 have members have become "fans" of CLD! Jordan Meadows will help with the Facebook pages specifically to help attract Youth. The Omnibus has been printed. We are folding, stapling, sealing, labeling and stamping. It will soon be in a mailbox near you and online at www.CenterLineDressage.net.
IceBreaker Co-Managers Sue and Amanda Graham of Glenarm reported on their progress in securing personnel for April 24. They still need volunteers! Scorers and runners are particularly needed. Jan Gurga of Lincoln and Julie Nichols of Mt. Pulaski have agreed to be Co-Managers of FireCracker on July 10. They also need volunteers! Manager John Simpson of Springfield is hard at work on Classic I & II, August 28 and 29.
Former Director Merri Voigt traveled the furthest to attend the meeting to present her guidelines for CLD-approved schooling shows. She is planning a CLD-approved schooling show at her Chrisman farm in July.
There are still areas for which no one has yet volunteered. If something strikes your fancy, please get in touch with me. We need a Sponsorship Coordinator, an Audit Coordinator, a Parliamentarian, and a Volunteer Coordinator. We are looking forward to our as-yet-unscheduled invitations to barn tours at Tony Correa’s, Sangamon Equestrian Center, Monfort & Associates DVMs, and Tower Hill Equestrian Center. Our next farm tour will showcase the new addition to Pratense Farm at 4 p.m. on March 20. Gerhard Politz will give an overview of dressage education as envisioned by USDF at 5 p.m., and we will enjoy a potluck together at 5:30 p.m.
I am still just a phone call or an e-mail away.
Alice E. Martin
217-546-9400
president@centerlinedressage.com
P.S. Under long-range planning, Janet Fitch has agreed to assemble your ideas for the big 40th Anniversary Celebration in the works for CLD in 2012. Certainly we want to serve cake and punch to everyone at each show and CLD event, as well as have a super star for Education Day. Your ideas for this year-long party are eagerly awaited.
Dear Member and Friend of CLD,
Since your last letter, CLD has grown from 80 members to 84. We held a lively Board of Directors Meeting on February 20 with 13 in attendance, two by phone. The following Saturday we enjoyed an afternoon with Conrad Schumacher (on video) with 18 present including five guests and three attendees that signed up with CLD.
Welcome to new members Deanna Mayberry, Manager of Sangamon Equestrian Center, and her daughter Sammy, a Youth member. Thanks also to Dr. Rachel Boyce for renewing her membership. We have been invited to farm tours at both establishments.
We will tour Heartland Equine Health Service’s new digs in Curran on Sunday, April 18, at 4 p.m. Drs. John O’Keefe and Rachel Boyce will give presentations on colic and on hay quality and nutrition. A potluck will follow in their clinic building at 5:30 p.m.
Several people have stepped up to the plate and accepted Coordinator positions with the club. Leslie Burket, who is also a SLADS member from Westchester, MO, is investigating charities that our club might undertake in a continuing relationship. Leslie is also working on Inter-Club promotions with adjoining GMO’s to spread the news on CLD projects and symposiums. Vice-President Elena Voigt from Carbondale is chair of Inter-Club Liaisons.
The By-Laws Committee is chugging along with several housekeeping (grammar, spelling, punctuation) corrections in the works, plus a couple proposed clarifications to the By-Laws. Immediate Past President Tracey Walker heads the Committee and is ably joined by two lawyers we are lucky enough to have as members, John Simpson of Springfield and Sue Schultz of Belleville. Our target is to distribute copies of the revised Handbook and By-Laws at IceBreaker on April 24.
Our new Show Safety Coordinator, a position mandated this year by USEF, is Anne Scrivner of Rochester. At the February 20 Directors Meeting, she brought pages of material she generated to fulfill the requirements of this new position.
Under the general heading of education, we have Kate Fleming-Kuhn of New Berlin working on the Education Day speaker for November. Kelly Griffith of St. Joseph presented ideas for her Grassroots Coordinator position. A Youth Clinic with David Blake in the Champaign area is also in the works. David is a CLD alum, now working with Steffen Peters in California. His mother, Nancy Blake, is still a Champaign member of CLD. Jordan Meadows of Auburn, our Jr/Young Rider Coordinator, brought ideas to build Youth membership. Scholarship Chair Janet Fitch of Champaign is working on promotion of our two current scholarships. Janet is also preparing guidelines for a new scholarship to pay clinic fees for Youth or Adult Amateurs, which was proposed by Newsletter Editor Kelley Clausing of New Berlin. Paula Briney and Marilyn Weber are securing an instructor for a Youth Clinic at Pratense Farms and a Quadrille Clinic for Youth members.
Kelley Clausing has set up a Facebook account for CLD. At this writing, 42 have members have become "fans" of CLD! Jordan Meadows will help with the Facebook pages specifically to help attract Youth. The Omnibus has been printed. We are folding, stapling, sealing, labeling and stamping. It will soon be in a mailbox near you and online at www.CenterLineDressage.net.
IceBreaker Co-Managers Sue and Amanda Graham of Glenarm reported on their progress in securing personnel for April 24. They still need volunteers! Scorers and runners are particularly needed. Jan Gurga of Lincoln and Julie Nichols of Mt. Pulaski have agreed to be Co-Managers of FireCracker on July 10. They also need volunteers! Manager John Simpson of Springfield is hard at work on Classic I & II, August 28 and 29.
Former Director Merri Voigt traveled the furthest to attend the meeting to present her guidelines for CLD-approved schooling shows. She is planning a CLD-approved schooling show at her Chrisman farm in July.
There are still areas for which no one has yet volunteered. If something strikes your fancy, please get in touch with me. We need a Sponsorship Coordinator, an Audit Coordinator, a Parliamentarian, and a Volunteer Coordinator. We are looking forward to our as-yet-unscheduled invitations to barn tours at Tony Correa’s, Sangamon Equestrian Center, Monfort & Associates DVMs, and Tower Hill Equestrian Center. Our next farm tour will showcase the new addition to Pratense Farm at 4 p.m. on March 20. Gerhard Politz will give an overview of dressage education as envisioned by USDF at 5 p.m., and we will enjoy a potluck together at 5:30 p.m.
I am still just a phone call or an e-mail away.
Alice E. Martin
217-546-9400
president@centerlinedressage.com
P.S. Under long-range planning, Janet Fitch has agreed to assemble your ideas for the big 40th Anniversary Celebration in the works for CLD in 2012. Certainly we want to serve cake and punch to everyone at each show and CLD event, as well as have a super star for Education Day. Your ideas for this year-long party are eagerly awaited.
February 2010
The purposes of CenterLine Dressage: "to promote interest in and further the knowledge of dressage; to conduct dressage events and activities; to provide educational forums" from the Bylaws of CenterLine Dressage, adopted August 1983.
Dear Member and Friend of CLD,
Resolutions, resolutions. As we embark on a new year, we always have hope for the future. Certainly there was hope in March 1972 when CenterLine Dressage was first organized at Elaine Powell’s Golden Miss Stables in Fisher, IL. (Elaine is now Gibala, an “R” judge living in Winchester, KY.) At one point, not so many years ago, CLD had over 200 members. That number is important because our delegate to the USDF Convention receives one vote for every 25 members in our GMO (Group Member Organization). Currently, CLD has 80 members, at a time when dressage is a growing sport in the U.S.
Obviously the first order of business in 2010 is how to grow the membership of CLD. Your ideas and help are needed. If each member recruits a new member this year, we would double our membership. If CLD is not serving your needs as your local dressage organization, we need to know how we can serve you better.
Take a look at the Calendar of Events to get an idea of what is currently planned for this year. It can be found on page 9 of The Reader, as well as online at www.centerlinedressage.com. Is there something there that you would like to help with? We can certainly use volunteers. Is there something that you would like to see added to the calendar? Can you help put it on the calendar?
Finally here is a list of some items that we already do and some items that we have as possibilities:
1. Charity - Hooved Animal Rescue and Protection Society (HARPS)? Salem Children’s Home?
2. Inter club liaison to get addresses for each club president and newsletter editor of adjoining GMO's to receive our newsletter
3. By-Laws
4. Member Handbook
5. New Safety Coordinator - Anne Scrivner
6. Growing CLD
- Youth Members: YR’s, activities, education, scholarships
7. Symposium Education Coordinator - Kate Fleming-Kuhn
8. Grassroots Education Coordinator
9. Awards Banquet
10. USDF Convention - Paula Briney
11. Sponsorships - coordinate sales for event programs
12. Annual Audit of Books
13. Guidelines for Board procedures
14. IceBreaker Manager
15. FireCracker Manager
16. Classic I & II Manager, John Simpson
17. Parliamentarian
18. Scribing/Judging Clinic
19. Farm Tours - Thus far we have received invitations from Tony Correa, Cobblestone, and Monfort & Associates, DVM
20. AA and/or Jr. Scholarship for three slots in a three-day CLD clinic
21. Equine Wellness Presentation
22. Volunteer Coordinator to help secure volunteers for events and keep track of volunteer hours for awards
Do any of these strike your fancy as an area you would like to help with? Do you have other ideas? I would love to hear them. I am just a phone call or an e-mail away.
Please get in touch.
Alice E. Martin
217-546-9400
president@centerlinedressage.com
Dear Member and Friend of CLD,
Resolutions, resolutions. As we embark on a new year, we always have hope for the future. Certainly there was hope in March 1972 when CenterLine Dressage was first organized at Elaine Powell’s Golden Miss Stables in Fisher, IL. (Elaine is now Gibala, an “R” judge living in Winchester, KY.) At one point, not so many years ago, CLD had over 200 members. That number is important because our delegate to the USDF Convention receives one vote for every 25 members in our GMO (Group Member Organization). Currently, CLD has 80 members, at a time when dressage is a growing sport in the U.S.
Obviously the first order of business in 2010 is how to grow the membership of CLD. Your ideas and help are needed. If each member recruits a new member this year, we would double our membership. If CLD is not serving your needs as your local dressage organization, we need to know how we can serve you better.
Take a look at the Calendar of Events to get an idea of what is currently planned for this year. It can be found on page 9 of The Reader, as well as online at www.centerlinedressage.com. Is there something there that you would like to help with? We can certainly use volunteers. Is there something that you would like to see added to the calendar? Can you help put it on the calendar?
Finally here is a list of some items that we already do and some items that we have as possibilities:
1. Charity - Hooved Animal Rescue and Protection Society (HARPS)? Salem Children’s Home?
2. Inter club liaison to get addresses for each club president and newsletter editor of adjoining GMO's to receive our newsletter
3. By-Laws
4. Member Handbook
5. New Safety Coordinator - Anne Scrivner
6. Growing CLD
- Youth Members: YR’s, activities, education, scholarships
7. Symposium Education Coordinator - Kate Fleming-Kuhn
8. Grassroots Education Coordinator
9. Awards Banquet
10. USDF Convention - Paula Briney
11. Sponsorships - coordinate sales for event programs
12. Annual Audit of Books
13. Guidelines for Board procedures
14. IceBreaker Manager
15. FireCracker Manager
16. Classic I & II Manager, John Simpson
17. Parliamentarian
18. Scribing/Judging Clinic
19. Farm Tours - Thus far we have received invitations from Tony Correa, Cobblestone, and Monfort & Associates, DVM
20. AA and/or Jr. Scholarship for three slots in a three-day CLD clinic
21. Equine Wellness Presentation
22. Volunteer Coordinator to help secure volunteers for events and keep track of volunteer hours for awards
Do any of these strike your fancy as an area you would like to help with? Do you have other ideas? I would love to hear them. I am just a phone call or an e-mail away.
Please get in touch.
Alice E. Martin
217-546-9400
president@centerlinedressage.com