PURPOSE: The Public Education Committee maintains information/communication between the American Kennel Club Public Education Department, the Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club of America, and Pembroke fanciers.

TASKS:

1. The Committee receives and maintains all mailing materials from the American Kennel Club Public Education Department.

2. The Chairman writes quarterly columns/summaries from the AKC Public Education newsletters for the PWCCA NEWSLETTER.

3. The Committee mails/faxes AKC Public Education material to interested parties; or informs them how to receive the materials from the AKC Public Education Department.

4. Annually the Committee orders educational materials for the PWCCA National Specialty. These materials are to be sent by the AKC to the host hotel, in care of the Committee Chair. Use the catalog from the previous year's National Specialty for information needed in filling out the order form. Check with the host hotel contact person for name of the hotel mailing contact person.

5. Three weeks before the Specialty, confirm the order with the AKC Publication Materials Department. Arrange with the Show Chair for table set up, and transportation of the materials to the set up.

6. At the National Specialty, arrange for a representative to set up, monitor, and take down the educational materials table.

7. When a new Public Education liaison for PWCCA is appointed, the AKC requires a letter from the PWCCA on PWCCA stationery, signed by an officer, stating the changes in contacts.

ORACLE:

1. 14-H, 9/9/97, pg. 2: M/S/C that the Board create three distinct educational committees: Judges Education Committee, Peer Education Committee and the GENERAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE, with the duties previously assigned to the Education Committee dispersed to the appropriate new committees to report to the
Board through the Education Liaison as shown in the Organizational Chart. EDUCATION-GENERAL (NOW CALLED PUBLIC)--THE CHAIR WRITES THE COLUMN FOR THE NEWSLETTER, KEEPS THE FANCY AWARE OF AKC EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PERIODICALS AVAILABLE, PROVIDES AN INFORMATIONAL TABLE AT THE SPECIALTY FOR ALL ATTENDEES. Education-Peer--The chair maintains the calendar of events which is sent to the NEWSLETTER chair, affiliate editors, and secretaries of affiliated and non-affiliated clubs, and organizes educational programs to be offered at the Specialty. Education-Judges--This committee is responsible for judges seminars at the National; the Mentor program; mailing Illustrated Standards to prospective judges; requesting newly approved judges' biographies for the
NEWSLETTER; Judges Pictorial; encouraging regional PWC clubs' judges seminars and developing a packaged program to allow local clubs to present a standard format for education).