Tag: Founding GMO
A Founding Club – St. Louis Area Dressage Society
Dressage instructor Sonya Kershaw and about nine novice dressage riders—most of whom were Kershaw’s students—started the St. Louis Area Dressage Society in 1973 in...
A Founding Club: Central States Dressage & Evening Association
The GMO now known as the CSDEA was founded in September 1970 as the Dressage and Combined Training Association. The group consisted of 128...
A Founding Club: Virginia Dressage Association
The Virginia Dressage Association was founded in 1973 as an outcrop of the Potomac Valley Dressage Association. At first, VADA was centrally run, with...
A Founding Club: New England Dressage Association
When New England dressage enthusiasts Priscilla Endicott and Pamela Fitzwilliams returned home from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, they sought like-minded riders in the...
A Founding Club: Long Island Dressage and Combined Training Association
In 1974, when David and Anne Gribbons started the Long Island Dressage and Combined Training Association, most dressage-minded enthusiasts in the area were actually...
A Founding Club: California Dressage Society
The GMO giant—with its 35 chapters, a busy central office, and thousands of members throughout California and spilling into Las Vegas and other surrounds—was...
A Founding Club: Equestrians Institute
By 1974, a group of western Washington state parents who’d started a Pony Club chapter back in 1960 decided to emulate the Pony Club...
A Founding Club: Indiana Dressage Society
Founding members Dan and Melba Kirtley discovered dressage in the late 1960s while Dan’s Navy unit was stationed in Colombia. On their return home...
A Founding Club: International Equestrian Organization
America’s first dressage club and USDF’s oldest GMO, the Pennsylvania-based International Equestrian Organization was founded in 1958 by the late Lilian Wittmack Roye, a...
A Founding Club: Delaware Valley Combined Training Association
Delaware Valley Combined Training Association in Region 1 was one of the charter GMO clubs that help found USDF.
In 1965, in Pennsylvania’s Chester County,...
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George Williams Accepts 1991 All-Breeds Award
USDF President George Williams accepts the second place Prix St. Georges award for the 1991 All-Breeds Awards on behalf of The Temple Lipizzans' Conversano II Belvedera (Conversano II Andora x Belvedera).
Understanding the USDF Governance Structure and Elections in 2023
Learn about the USDF Governance structure and upcoming elections in 2023
