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IAHA Buys Half-Arabian Registry
At the October 8, 1950 meeting held at the Pomona show, the
bank balance read $428.29. After Northern California dues added $108, and the
Registry sent $500, the the total was $1,036.29. But the useable money was less
because the Registry’s donation was earmarked for trophies and awards for
Arabian classes at fairs and open shows.
Hurlbutt found a solution. In 1949, the U.S. government was
disbanding the cavalry, and the Half Arabian and Anglo-Arabian registries were
for sale for $3,000. With $500 of his own money and a $1,000 bank loan in his
name and Glenn Purvine’s, he purchased the registries for half the asking price.
IAHA now had a source of income--$3 for each Half-Arabian or Anglo-Arabian
registration.
In 1953, IAHA hired its first employee, who worked for the
association for more than 30 years, Ralph E. Goodall, Jr., a fledgling
accountant from Hurlbutt’s office. As Half Arabian/Anglo-Arabian registrar and
association office manager, he was paid $100 a week, plus $1 for each
registration. The office was in Hollywood, later in Burbank, California, where
it was to stay until 1984, when it moved to Westminster, Colorado. Goodall
became a full-time employee of IAHA as executive secretary, and later executive
vice president, retiring in 1984.
"We were always looking for money to keep afloat in those early
years," says Goodall of Camarillo, California. "Earle threw his own money at the
association. He had a vision and he was following it through."
"People that owned Arabian stallions gave us names of grade
mare owners who bred that year so IAHA could send them a registration blank.
IAHA was begging for business. IAHA had poor business knowledge then," recalls
Rodney Tetrault of Eaton, Indiana. Tetrault served on several IAHA committees
and as treasurer for two terms.
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