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NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN DRIVING SOCIETY, INC.
Representing Carriage Driving in the United States and Canada
IN THIS ISSUE:
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April 2017
ADS NewS
ADS NEWS
• President’s Message ..................1 • USEF and ADS Reach Preliminary Agreement to Reinstate ADS as the USEF Driving Affiliate..................1 • 2017 ADS Licensed Officials (As of March 21, 2017) ........... 2-3 OPINIONS • From Between My Blinders ........4
President’s Message
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A Request o matter how things turn out with our affiliate status, we have a lot of work to do inside the ADS; streamlining our processes, archiving our historical documents, improving the sport, and making it more fun. We have made some progress on the business end (there’s more to go) and have the infrastructure to do even more. I would like to ask each and every member to write me personally (ma@snowcamp.org) to let me know your complaints, priorities, suggestions, and ideas. Feel free to let it all loose and tell it like you see it, I will not be offended. Please try to have your response to me by May 1, 2017 and I will reorganize, summarize, and categorize the combined list and we’ll take it under serious advisement. Our members matter. Affiliate Status If you have not yet seen it, you can read the joint USEF/ADS press release (see below) about the signed letter of intent to reestablish the ADS as the USEF Driving Affiliate. The initial letter of intent listed a series of familiar issues and the federation’s (USEF) executive proposal for how to handle those issues. Except for some very minor changes, they were acceptable to us and I signed the letter. As of this writing, we are still waiting for a proposed affiliate agreement, and as long as that agreement maintains those commitments made in the letter of intent we should be very close to getting this all straightened out. Please send me your feedback as asked above - I will send an acknowledgement for each- if I do not send one within 48 hours, please resend, I get a lot of spam and there some chance that I have accidentally deleted it. Thanks for driving with the ADS, Mike Arnold
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USEF and ADS Reach Preliminary Agreement to Reinstate ADS as the USEF Driving Affiliate
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ross Plains, WI & Lexington, KY - The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) and The American Driving Society, Inc. (ADS) have reached a preliminary agreement that resolves the issues pertinent to enabling the restoration of the ADS as the USEF affiliate for the driving discipline. The leadership of both organizations are delighted that progress could be made and that it will be possible to continue their 40+ year relationship to the benefit of all of our driving competitors, officials, competitions, and the driving sport, and to be able to consider the driving affiliate matter to be settled. Murray Kessler, President of the USEF, and Mike Arnold, President of the ADS, jointly issued the following statement: “Together, the USEF and the ADS look forward to utilizing the best of both organizations to further enhance the quality and participation in the driving sport throughout this country and abroad, while at the same time implementing the Safe Sport and Clean Sport policies that are critical to the future of equestrian sports.” Details of the agreement, along with the restoration of the Affiliate Status of the ADS, which are subject to the approval of both the ADS and USEF Boards of Directors, are expected to be released within the next few weeks. 1
ADS News
2017 ADS Licensed Officials (As of March 21, 2017) Below is our current contact information for all ADS licensed Officials. PDJ = Pleasure Driving Judge PDTD = Pleasure Driving Technical Delegate CDJ = Combined Driving Judge CDTD = Combined Driving Technical Delegate C = Coaching D = Dressage First
Last
State Email
Phone
PDJ
PDTD
CDJ
CDTD
C
D
Barbara Akers
NY akers@fairpoint.net
518-392-3490 Recorded Learner
Keith
MA kdangst@comcast.net
978-374-0008
Francine Arrington
FL jonfrancine@bellsouth.net
321-639-4667
Jessica Axelsson
NJ ponydriving@yahoo.com 609-846-5105 Registered Learner Recorded
Debbie
Banfield
KY
Linda
Bennett
FL stargait@verizon.net
Joanne
Bellion-Povenski
PA chesspiecesirdaniel@yahoo.com 610-282-4616 Registered
Francois
Bergeron
Angstadt
gayla3329@aol.com
502-542-0032
Registered
Learner
813-495-8913 Learner
Senior
Learner
CN mober@oricom.ca
450-829-3349
WI berrygirlbvn@gmail.com
608-692-6465 Registered Recorded
Chris
OR cbstable@msn.com
503-682-2282 Recorded Learner
Senior
Audrey
Bostwick
PA threejrs@verizon.net
215-766-2363 Registered
Mickie
Bowen
PA
CoachN4@aol.com
610-357-5796
Mary Anne Boyden
SC
maryanne.boyden@gmail.com
602-377-4107
Registered
Dana
Bright
PA
cdeponyz@comcast.net
717-246-2351
Registered Registered
Holly
Brinker
BC hollybrinker@live.com
Larry
Brinker
Al
Bulgawicz
Dede Bushneck
Registered Registered Learner
Recorded
Learner
Deborah Bevan Bickford
Learner
Learner
Senior
Recorded
Senior
604-533-1049
Registered
BC brinkers@telus.net
604-533-1049
Registered Recorded
TX mini@willowcrest.com
281-351-9770 Recorded
Registered Registered
NC drivingmissdede@gmail.com 919-815-4723 Registered Learner
Nicole Cable
NY nac_12@yahoo.com
716-474-1818 Registered
Ted
Campbell
CA t.v.campbell@verizon.net
562-431-7264 Registered
705-434-4648 Registered Registered Registered
Mary
Cork
ON tyandaga@zing-net.ca
Anne
Councill
PA acbirchhollow442@gmail.com 717-993-8956 Registered
Gregg
Cutler
CA Gregg.J.Cutler@gmail.com
Margaret
Cutler
CA
m.jody.cutler@gmail.com
805-428-0734 805-501-4060
Registered
Recorded
Registered
Registered
Senior
Recorded
Registered
Registered
John Freiburger
WI frei@chorus.net
608-835-0001 Registered Learner
Karen
TX kmgarrett@prescottfarm.com
979-324-0048
Garrett
Registered
Ruth Graves
TX iminthebarnnow@gmail.com 903-883-4638 Registered Recorded
John
VT
Greenall
john@greenallcarriage.com
802-436-2266
Registered Registered
Senior
Registered Registered
Sem
Groenewoud
NY
famgroenewoud@gmail.com
914-631-3776
Registered
Rebecca
Gutierrez
SC
reb.syd@gmail.com
803-646-0462
Recorded
Sandra
Guy-Fox
MI
snadyfox@aol.com
269-979-1846
Recorded
trotoneasy@aol.com
413-822-1267
Recorded
Registered
Steve
Holm
VA
Karen
Homer-Brown
KY bhs@iquest.net
317-502-1326 Registered
Toddy Hunter
NY toddyorf@aol.com
585-624-1735 Registered
Marc Johnson
MA obstacle21@aol.com
978-807-0060 Registered
Craig
NC wcraigkellogg@embarqmail.com 910-603-9744
2
Kellogg
Registered Registered
Learner Recorded
Senior Registered Learner Registered
First
Last
State Email
Phone
PDJ
Kali
Knickerbocker-Maher NY kalk173@live.com
585-721-3421
Susan
Koso
978-561-1735
MA susan.koso@comcast.net
PDTD
CDJ
CDTD
C
Registered Registered
Wayne
Kramer
LA wkramer@gmail.com
225-439-4782
Linda
Latzke
CO linda@latzke.us
719-488-2784
Anne
Leck
MN awleck@outlook.com
952-955-3180 Registered 804-229-9708
Recorded
Registered
Recorded
Recorded
Registered
Lynn
Legg
VA lmlegg@vcu.edu
Andy
Marcoux
MA andy@coachmansdelight.com 508-298-8504
Recorded
Mary Ruth Marks
WI
Registered
Erika
Matulich
FL ematulich@ut.edu
813-982-2200
Debra
McCarthy
FL eliteavatar@gmail.com
315-383-4187 Learner Recorded
Jane
Merritt
CA painted.sportpony@hotmail.com 530-623-6361 Recorded
mrmarks@tds.net
D
Recorded
Learner
608-513-7490
Recorded
Registered
Registered
Rebecca Merritt
PA twospots13@gmail.com
215-348-1741 Registered
Ian
Moller
MI ianmoller@yahoo.com
734-426-8606
Scott
Monroe
ME scottmonroe@sbcglobal.net
860-459-0208
Merrie
Morgan
CA ponypair@yahoo.com
760-608-0517
Recorded
Tracey
Morgan
MD GEMMAPONY@aol.com
301-648-5158
Registered
Ken
Mott
ON Kenmott7783@gmail.com
705-424-0627
Sue
Mott
ON suemott424@hotmail.com
705-424-0627
penny@jnpfarms.minden.nv.us
Registered
Recorded Recorded
Recorded
Recorded
Penny
Nicely
NV
775-267-2392
Senior
Richard
Nicoll
MA rcvnicoll@gmail.com
757-814-9520
Senior
Jean
Northrup
NB
506-832-0909
Registered
Doug
Orr
AB dougrorr@gmail.com
403-328-3617
Kail
Palmer-Miller
PA
610-802-0463
southfld@nbnet.nb.ca kail.palmer@gmail.com
Registered Registered
Senior
Registered
Registered Registered
Geraldine Pearson
OR blackberryhills@centurylink.net 503-655-6466 Registered
Terry
MI terrypickett55@gmail.com
810-796-3024 Registered
PA polsanb@gmail.com
802-522-6574
Pickett
Hannah Polson
Recorded
Recorded
Registered
Learner
John
Porter
FL john@cypresskeep.com
813-495-0070
Learner Learner
Holly
Pulsifer
MA hpulsifer@hotmail.com
978-356-3655
Senior
Senior
Marcie
Quist
NC quistlaw@gmail.com
910-639-1699
Senior
Recorded
Lauren
Reece
ME reece1823@aol.com
207-698-9974 Recorded
David
Remley
NY davecinremley@gmail.com
585-750-1654 Registered
Katy
Rhinehart
SC
gkm104@heartofiowa.net
641-478-3285
Learner
Sue
Rogers
VT
noblegesture@tds.net
802-952-8456
Recorded
Daniel
Rosenthal
NJ drosenthal@earthlink.net
908-892-0415
Recorded Registered Learner
Learner
Sara
Schmitt
NJ
saraeschmitt@gmail.com
908-303-1830
Recorded
Muffy
Seaton
SC
fourfleas@aol.com
540-454-1092
Registered
Registered
Linda
Sewall
NC lcsonion@gmail.com
252-753-7777
Learner
Lisa
Singer
PA
chateaulog@aol.com
610-960-8695
Registered
Rochelle
Temple
SC
rskydiver@aol.com
804-837-4888
Learner
Registered
Kacy
Tipton-Fashik
Registered
FL kacyf@thegrandoaks.com
352-409-1398 Recorded
William Venditta
PA coachhornfarm@verizon.net
610-869-4603 Registered
Recorded
David
Ventura
CA dventura222@yahoo.com
925-634-9466
Registered Registered
Katie
Whaley
KY hatsbykatie@gmail.com
859-707-0818 Registered
Boots
Wright
FL
webothfarms@gmail.com
352-629-7801
Senior
Ed
Young
NY
edyoung7@frontiernet.net
585-243-5426
Registered
Senior
Keith
Yutzy
TX keith@lonestardartmoors.com 713-805-7574
Hardy
Zantke
CA
HZlax@aol.com
310-375-6162
Registered
Senior
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OPINIONS
And the other story catching my special attention was where one driver wrote that he finally got a driving horse with which it is a real pleasure to drive and be partners - whereas before he was struggling with one for nearly five years before deciding that the horse was not suited for driving. I am really happy that he did make that decision and that he did find a horse with whom he is in harmony - and yes, his picture certainly does show that. So, if this situation sounds familiar - please do yourself a favor and make a similar decision. Not every horse is suited well for driving - not every horse is fun to drive - but there are so many which are. So do move on and find your match. As the saying goes: Sometimes it takes kissing many frogs before you find a prince. Do find your prince, because life is too short to spend your driving hours not having fun! Happy and safe driving,
Hardy
The American Driving Society, Inc.
arriage driving brings us so much fun and joy. USEF’s President, Murray Kessler, talked at their annual meeting in January about putting the joy back into the sport. Hey, I think we at the ADS have always been doing that. Looking at the February Whip we can see some prime examples. We are not only about competitions, we are just as much about education as we are just plain fun and joy! Each spring I look forward to reading the stories of our annual Hours To Drive participants. Once again, this year I was not disappointed. That’s the grassroots, those are our drivers! And this year - it seems to me - they all sent in their best pictures. They all look terrific - and are showing the fun and that is reflected in their short stories too. This is what the ADS is all about. I can’t go into all of them. Just two comments: Did you see there was even a driver from New Zealand participating and earning his 250 hours pin? Wow, we are even down under.
P.O. Box 278, Cross Plains, WI 53528
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By Hardy Zantke
Phone: 608-237-7382 • Fax: 608-237-6468 E-mail: info@americandrivingsociety.org www.americandrivingsociety.org RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED
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