Irish Setter Club of the Pacific-San Francisco

Irish Setter Club of the Pacific-San Francisco

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In 1945 several Irish Setter fanciers, breeders and exhibitors decided that it was time that an Irish Setter Breed Club was formed in the Bay Area because as of that time the only Irish Setter Breed Club in the state was located in Los Angeles. So it was that a small group of twenty or so gathered to form what was to become the Irish Setter Club of the Pacific-San Francisco. Chief among the ‘founding fathers’ were John and Vera Ashton, Doris and Henry Frank, Jake and Sally Huizenga, Martha Heyde, Helen and Rollie Mann, Bob and Alice Blair and Clint Metzler. There were amongst those who founded the club a broad experience in conformation showing, field trialing and obedience leading to a balanced interest in all three facets of dogdom in those days, a feature of this Club which persists to this day. more

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