Tag: USDF Flashback
Marilyn Heath – 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award winner
Marilyn Heath received the USDF Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013. Marilyn has been a long and faithful volunteer to USDF, through her dedication to...
Ellin Dixon Miller – 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award winner
Ellin Dixon Miller received the USDF Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. During her tenure as USDF President (1994-1999), she was a transforming force. Her...
Col. Clarence Edmonds – 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award winner
Col. Clarence Edmonds was awarded the USDF Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. He contributed for many decades to the growth and development of both...
Kay Meredith – 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award winner
Kay Meredith was awarded the USDF Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. Her leadership of USDF in its critical, early years provided the foundation for...
Marianne Ludwig – 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award winner
Marianne Ludwig was awarded the USDF Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. She served as the USDF’s first Region 4 Director from 1978 to 1979,...
A Founding Club – Kansas City Dressage Society
In 1967, several dressage enthusiasts, including Arlene Rigdon, Lois Arnold, and Linda Landers, began an equestrian study group. The gatherings grew and in 1973...
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: 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...