The Gsd League of Great Britain Committee The League secretary and treasurer / membership secretary Mrs Carole Lister Warrant Wood Farmhouse, Tern Hill, Market Drayton. TF9 2JA Telephone/Answer phone:- 01630 638540  thomasmonds@aol.com President: Mr. Percy Elliot Vice Presidents: - Mr Jack Oliver - Mr George Woods Chairman: Mrs Nikki Farley Vice Chairman: Mrs Wendy Stephens THE COUNCIL Steve Foran - stephenforan@thinkpositive.co.uk Mrs Chris Hazell - c.hazell@tiscali.co.uk Mr Syd Farley - nikki@nikonisgsds.co.uk Steve Byfield (GSDL Working Dog Group) - stephen.byfield@btinternet  Helen Davenport Willis - helendavenport585@btinternet.com Jim Millar - jim.millar@ardengrange.com Brigid Fahy-Newlands - brigid.newlands@btinternet.com Show secretary - Paul Cassidy - Tel: 0121 603 4231

Each of the committee members have their own responsibility within the club, please contact the member who you feel may be able to help you. A Stamp and DNA - Syd Farley - 01675 443133 - nikki@nikonisgsds.co.uk The purchase of anything from our site - Chris Hazell- 01544 327104 - c.hazell@tiscali.co.uk ABOUT THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS Nikki and Syd Farley It was in 1978 that Nikki and Syd bought their first German Shepherd with the outstanding name of Maximillian of Marston. This in hind sight was not a very good purchase as Max was not a pristine example of the breed but it did however open up a whole new chapter of interest and had major influences in their life. Max influenced them to join a BAGSD Club, Birmingham West where they entered the world of obedience and display team activities. As with all clubs, members came and went and after a few years Syd became Chairman and Nikki took up that onerous position of secretary. During this period they both undertook the BAGSD Instructors Course and later Syd became the Club Chief Instructor which was both hard work and entertaining to say the least. Nikki meanwhile had entered into pastures new, becoming involved with the breeding and exhibiting of the German Shepherd. This inevitable lead to a somewhat hectic time at weekends with one at obedience and the other at breed shows and eventually after 10 years this was the main cause of them leaving Birmingham West but they are still on the books of that Club even now. Breeding and showing as many are aware is a hard task master requiring hours of training and preparation of dogs and success can take years to come. The KC. Kennel name of Nikonis has achieved quite a few successes over the years, 5 Champions, Vidbar Garbo of Nikonis, Bedwins Zoe and 3 home bred, Nikonis Elektra, Yago and Colin plus 2 Malaysian Champions Nikonis Java and Jack. Nikki has gone on to become a Championship Show Judge and a Breed Surveyor, judging not only in this Country but also in Ireland and Singapore with an appointment for 2008 in Australia. Recently the Nikonis Kennel has exhibited in Germany both in the Junior and Senior classes of the German Sieger Show coming a well respected V51 with an English bred dog. Syd has been heavily involved through the WUSV working group GB in setting up the German SV “a” stamp, Elbows and DNA schemes in this country. He was also one of the working party to present the original concept to the KC to hold a Sieger type event which is now in its fourth year. Both Syd and Nikki have been active members of the League Council for many years with Nikki having served 4 years as Chairman and still currently holding the position of Vice Chairman. Both are very involved in the successful 2 day Championship Show held at Weston Park every 4 years and this involvement has helped greatly with the running of the British Sieger Show.

CHRIS HAZELL I have owned Shepherds since 1966 and joined the League in 1967. I bred my first litter in 1968 and have shown in breed and worked dogs in Obedience and Working Trials. I now trace pedigrees for research into problems that affect the breed. STEVE FORAN My first involvement with a GSD was when I first met my wife in or around 1976. Her family had a lovely Vornhill Vigilante son from Mrs Judy Pilling at Gorsefield. He really was a nice type of dog looking back. Roll onto to 1982 and we were broken into. My solution was to buy a GSD to guard the house. He was a bi-colour of Asoka breeding. After a few problems my wife started to work him in obedience and he often won many trophies etc. We then bought a Fanto v Diemelbergland daughter from Sean and Belinda Kinsella. Chaka was excellent, great hard character and she worked in obedience and competed in agility. She produced our first Champ Show winner from the D litter to Gigant Blue Iris. Following on from this I started breeding myself when we split up and from my first attempt I managed to produce two Champions Enya and Eloise. The father was Ch Kelnik Fergus the mother was Chanask Enya, sister of Champion Chanask Edison. The breeding has followed this bitch line to the present day. We have achieved some success with Schifo sitting on 2 CCs and many res CCs. Some have become pat dogs, police, army and prison service dogs. Over the last few years we have been showing on the continent and we have 2 animals with Schutzhund qualifications and I have shown at the German Sieger show. The closest we got to the Siegerin Tabatha Du Val Danzin was when we were printed on the same page in the catalogue. For more information log onto Google and type in Mirrwood GSD.