Marilyn's Bio

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="133285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Highland Llamas</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Highland Llamas"><B>home</B></A><B>          </B><A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Us"><B>About Us</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FAQ">FAQ</A>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Memorial">Memorial</A>   |   <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dans Bio">Dan's Bio</A>   |   <B>Marilyn's Bio</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="132d2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <IMG SRC="16fb0050.jpg" border=0 width="176" height="261" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="227b0110.jpg" border=0 width="176" height="273" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>Marilyn's Bio</B></I></div> <div> Marilyn has owned and bred llamas since 1985. She has served on the Board of Directors of several llama associations - the Llama Association of North America as Vice President & Chairman of the Show Committee. She has been show manager of the Rogue River Gold show and private treaty sale, the "HOBO Classic" show and ALSA Western Regional Championships for six years. Marilyn is an active participant in major shows and sales. In addition to judging halter, performance and fiber competitions, she also presents seminars on marketing, breeding services and techniques, showing, sheering and grooming.</div> <div> Marilyn became interested in llamas in 1984 after Dan attended a financial seminar and a llama conference. She really became "hooked" after getting some "hands-on" at a training session by Paul and Betty Barkman. Marilyn and Dan purchased their first llamas and alpacas in February 1985 when they lived in Southern California. In 1986, they took a bold and unique step by providing a Traveling Stud Service. Since that time, they have traveled over 300,000 miles with their studs on breeding trips. Marilyn has been involved with several national and local llama and alpaca organizations. She and Dan, with several other people helped start the Llama Association of Southern California. Marilyn has belonged to LANA, ILA, AOBA, ILR and ALSA on a national basis and LASC, WVLA and CAL-ILA on a local basis. Marilyn belongs to a local group in his area called the Southern Oregon Llama Owners. </div> <div> Marilyn was a contributing editor of Llamas magazine for five years co-authoring with Dan over 50 articles on a wide range of topics. Marilyn and Dan have conducted their highly touted seminars "<I>Successful Marketing is No Accident</I>" and "<I>Marketing into the 21st Century</I>" for various associations in different parts of the country. Marilyn has spoken at conferences on a variety of topics. </div> <div> Marilyn is the recipient, along with Dan, of ILA's "<I>Push-Me-Pull-You</I>" award, LANA's "<I>Humdinger</I>" and "<I>Lifetime Achievement</I>" awards and the the <I>"Linda Pierce Memorial"</I> award. </div> <div> Dan, along with Marilyn and a number of other breeders, purchased the "Firecracker" Llama sale in 2001. They held the first West Coast llama jackpot show and sale called "Llama Quest" in May 2001 in Roseburg, Oregon. They put on a 2nd jackpot show and sale in 2002.  In 2002, they also started and continue on an annual basis to put on the highly successful "HOBO Classic" show in Medford, Oregon.  Llama Quest is a nonprofit corporation. All profits from the sale will be returned to the Llama Community through promotion and advertising in non-llama publications, scholarships to vet schools, internships, youth programs and other worthwhile llama projects.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>