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TAKE A MOMENT AND LEARN ABOUT OUR ASSOCIATION AND OUR CREW

 

The Bluetick Breeders and Coon Hunters Association (BBCHA) is an international organization founded on numerous straight forward principles. The BBCHA mission statement could be summarized by quoting the organization’s original motto: Intelligent Coon Conservation, Dog Protection, Promote Wild Coon Hunts, Honest Dealings, Friendship & Fellowship through Sportsmanship and Better Breeding.
 

BBCHA was founded on those principles on September 12, 1954. It was founded by old guard breed supporters that gathered during cotton picking time in the basement of a restaurant in West Memphis, Arkansas.  Those beginnings were humble; however, the first line of business was to elect officers and in a few short months sponsor the first Bluetick Fall Round Up in DeQueen, Arkansas in order to ultimately champion the sport of varmint hunting with Bluetick tree hounds.
 

The Bluetick hound was an old breed at the time with a new direction- to be separated from its English breed parent and to gain its own identity. BBCHA has successfully pursued and accomplished those breed goals since it's founding, with many original breed pioneers guiding the progress.  Those founders were primarily like-minded ole country boys who had lived through a depression and two world wars.  Conquering those challenges, they were anxious to get on with their careers and favored pastimes. The results of their endeavors have been:
      -an increase in the number of outstanding Bluetick hounds
      -continuation of the original Bluetick Fall Round Up  
      -over a half-century of grand comradery amongst breed supporters
      -the publication of the famous BBCHA Historical Blue Book (published annually since 1964)
      -expansion of coon hunter gatherings such as the celebrated Battle of the Breeds.
 

The BBCHA torch was held high for many years by the Greatest Generation. It has now passed on to the young guard of the 21st century who is encouraged to firmly grasp the torch and make a quantum leap in the direction of new ideas with unprecedented enthusiasm.  
 

A comment in the first Historical BLUE BOOK, which still rings true today, stated, “And when the story is written of men and hounds, see to it that the treeing Bluetick coonhound is bred right, hunted often, and accepted by all as a big hearted cooner that will hold its own in any semblance of cooning competition whether it's down in cooning bottoms or at present day organized competitive coon hunts or in bench shows” -Guy Ormiston

Officers

President - Ken Herman 

Vice President - Jeri Loveland

Sec/Treas - Debbie Killough 

Membership Chairman - Wendy Herman

Board Chairman - Harold Johnson

 Bluebook Ads Chairman - Savannah McCollum

Bluebook Editor - C.W. Eldridge Jr. and Jim Combs

Publicity Director - David Simons

Hunt Director - George Goldman

DIRECTORS

 

 

Bill Bennefield                                                                 

Gerald Black                                         Willy Newsom 

Matt Brumfield                                Bobby Pollock 

Sonney Croswell                                Darrell Nelson 

Josh Crumpton                                Jeremy Purvis

Don Cummins                                       Jimmy Ritter 

C.W. Eldridge                                         Newell Standridge

Dennis Elbrader                                     Diane Stine 

William Foster                                       Wes Stine 

Tommy Gale                                          Ed Stum 

David Gardin                                        Michele Winters 

Woody Galloway                                  Mack Singleton 

Eddie Green                                          Bob Turnbow 

Richard Green                                       Rob Selling   

Justin Harrington                                 Mark Vest 

Cynthia Grooms                                   Phil Volgel 

George Guthrie                                     Harold White 

Harald Johnson                                    Russ Whitham 

Roger Lathrop                               

Jeff Lovell 

Emeritis Board of Directors

 

Floyd Alexander           John J Henneman             Steve Morgan                 Doyle Uchtman

David Bramlette           Kenny Jones                       Guy G Ormiston              Lonnie Uchtman

Judy Carpenter            Danny Kerchief                    Dell Patterson                Trena Uchtman

Harry Darby                  Ken Lain                                B.H. Patterson               Dennis Sheperd

Dudley Davis                Durwood Lindsey                 Phillip Powell                 Danny Stephens

Harry Ennis                  Hervey Lindsey                     Rod Rose                        Wallace Steelman

James Evans               Buddy LIsk                             Eric Saylors                    Bryan Tate

Bill Ferebee                  Oscar Thomas                      Marlin Skinner                Wilbur Uchtman

John Vanderbeck        Walter "Jack" Smith

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