Our Magyar pioneers never knew that future generations who lived by a magical system that circled the globe, would be looking backwards at them & judging them by the things they left behind. Today we know future Vizsla owners will look back at us. Because preserving in some form of hard copy has engendered an unsound fiscal periodical that does not generate enough support or income to pay for the meat of our history & has become so difficult, unimportant & costly, we risk losing that hard copy angel that has served the Vizsla for nearly sixty years. There are more than one historical article that were pushed back into Magyar mists issue by issue because there wasn’t enough income to justify printing the wonderful article, not printed or exhibited anywhere else in the world. Those omissions become egregious, particularly if that article is written by any of our VCA Lifetime Members or is about a long-lost 1950s Vizsla pioneer, especially if they were discovered under a large flat rock that nobody knew about.

Pay It Forward…to the this & the next Vizsla fancier generation…ALWAYS !!

I make the following food for thought suggestions for VCA Publications, to prepare a draft proposal to the Officers & Directors of the Vizsla Club of America concerning VCA publications. I may need help with the details. When you get old, you will understand how much harder it is every day to ignore the alphabet diseases, as well as yours…

• Substitute digital (DVD so videos may be included) VIZSLA NEWS issues for the membership fee of $45 or current fee.
• Add $5 to the membership dues per hard copy VIZSLA NEWS issue produced in the current year.
• Cut advertising fees in half.
• Develop scenic “advertising” programs at a discount rate that will promote at least 4 Vizslas per page at a 10% savings. An example would be a field, conformation, obedience, agility on a scenic backdrop of a past VCA Nationals. Another program example would be to promote at least 3 Vizslas per page, presented on a faded scenic background.
• Establish departments that will appear in every issue like Health, Rescue, Legal Laws that per issue might be as small as a quarter page.
• Reward CHICsters with 10percent savings.
• Reward regional clubs with 50% savings a page
• Provide at no charge quarter ads for VCA umbrella Rescue groups.
• In 2014 do 5 issues each a year of VIZSLA NEWS.& its Supplements
• In 2016 do 6 issues each a year of VIZSLA NEWS
• Create the position Creative Engineer. Make them responsible for creating, then advocating themed programs.
• Build various VIZSLA NEWS & Supplement ADvocators by refusing to wait for advertising or articles to come from the membership, whose responsibility it is for them to initially contact by telephone or in person.

 The VIZSLA NEWS CD Supplement

• Create a bi-monthly CD The VIZSLA NEWS Supplement that has on it various general information that doesn’t “need” to be in the hard copy/DVD of The VIZSLA NEWS, including all VCA regional club Performance & non- Performance AKC events, NAVHDA, etc
• Advocators for The VIZSLA NEWS & The VIZSLA NEWS Supplement should be rewarded with a year-end dispensed percentage income or paged-The VIZSLA NEWS or Supplement barter in a future issue. Those Barter ads will be identified in both publications.
• Provide small advertising options in The VIZSLA NEWS Supplement at minimal fees.
• Provide National Event catalogs on CDs at half the charge of the “printed on demand & not available at the event ” hard copy catalog fees. 

Current VIZSLA NEWS Staff/Reporters

• Have the BOD VIZSLA NEWS staff continue as they have, but they will now timely decide which information goes to the Club Historian, the hard-copy/DVD The VIZSLA NEWS, the CD The VIZSLA NEWS Supplement & the VCA website.
• If the current VN staff isn’t enough, then add positions.
• Have the Reporting VIZSLA NEWS staff continue as they have plus now responsible for providing timely respective interest Vizsla AKC Events for The VIZSLA NEWS Supplement (CD)
• Create a VIZSLA NEWS Supplement Editor & Scout (gathers AKC Event data themselves) & engages with local clubs for individual write-ups on events and or history of the club.

The VIZSLA NEWS database…

• Gather & digitally scan the complete collection of The VIZSLA NEWS from 1954 to today.
• Pay a set fee for every “properly” scanned page. Don’t pay by the hour.
• Define “properly” as imaged at a standard dpi & size needing no refidgiting & “correctly” numbered as to year, issue of
• The VCA may need to create another technical paid person position to establish & regulate the new VIZSLA NEWS database if the current paid VCA webmaster doesn’t have enough time to do both.
• Scanning every The VIZSLA NEWS issue will copyright all of them. This is important because until the late 70s/early 80s no VIZSLA NEWS was copyrighted.
• Charge a set yearly fee (reasonable) for access to The VIZSLA NEWS database.
• Have those yearly fees & advertising go into a fund that pays for the VCA website & database.

Volunteers

• Ask first for volunteers for VIZSLA NEWS, Supplement, Database & other VCA Periodicals.
• Include year-end barter as a negotiating opportunities for the combined VCA publications for VCA Publication Staffs.
• If there are no volunteers for a position, then appoint one.
• Have volunteers try to communicate in each relationship intermittently by letter, telephone or in person.
• Don’t depend on email solely. Email has odd limitations that tend to create problems of emotional mis-interpretation for all of its worldly accessibilities.
• Give all volunteers & potential volunteers…expectations
• Do not fret about the other committee still remaining open positions, but look to appointing someone to step in until they can be replaced if they want by a different volunteer.