The year was 1960... it was a year that:

• Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts
• "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" hits #1
• "The Apartment" wins Best Picture at the Oscars
• "The Flinstones" premieres, the first prime time animation show
• Xerox introduces the first Commercial Document reproduction Machine
• Elvis Presley ends his 2-year hitch in U.S. Army
• John F Kennedy wins presidential Election

Measuring just 6" x 9", the yearbook was again a soft-cover, spiral-bound book, sold for the cost of $1.00. It had 98 pages, and ads from 43 catteries.

Only about 500 copies were ever printed - which combined with the fragility of a paperback publication with plastic spiral binding - makes it a very hard find these days!

Some notable items from the minutes of the Board Meetings that year were:

• The proposal for an Annual Judges School was presented and adopted.
   
• CFA moves from a New York corporation, to incorporation in the District of Columbia.
   
• Interestingly, a proposal was made by Mr. Winn that neuters and spays (one year after being accepted for Premiership!) should be done away with at the shows... Several judges reported that they enjoyed judging the Premier class, and did not feel that they held up the show in any way. In addition, many clubs reported that this class brought in a lot of gate, and was good advertising. The motion was defeated.
   
• A resolution was presented, asking that no judge be asked to wait more than 10 minutes for a cat to be brought to the judging arena... it lost!!! (Which certainly begs the question... just how long DID some judges did have to wait for cats at that time???)

1960 Show Season

The show season of 1959-60 had a total of 96 judging rings held. The first show of the season was held August 22-23, 1959 - which was almost 2 months earlier in the year than the first show of the 1958-59 season! The last show of the season was held February 27-28, 1960.

There was quite a large variety of formats at that time, and most shows only had a couple of rings each day. Often there was 1 Allbreed ring, 1 Longhair ring, and 1 Shorthair ring. For the few 2-day shows, one club would sponsor the rings on the first day, and a separate club would sponsor the rings on a second day. The breakdown of rings for this show season was:

Allbreed	30
Shorthair Specialty	25
Longhair Specialty	26
Siamese Specialty	4
Tabby & Tortie Specialty	2
Silver Specialty	2
Solid Color Specialty	3
All Short Hair (Except Siamese)	2
Domestic Shorthair Specialty	2

1960 Grand Parade

There were a total of 23 cats that earned their Grand Championship title during this show season - and still no Grand Premiers, despite the addition of that title the previous year.

Persian were by far the largest percentage that season, with 9 of the 23 grands being Persian! Amazingly, this group included GC Lee’s Hi-Hat Champaign, a cream Persian male who granded at the age of 14 years old!!!

The remaining grands consisted of 6 Siamese, 4 Domestic Shorthairs (what we now call the American Shorthair), 2 Burmese, 1 Manx, and 1 Abyssinian. These cats are listed/pictured below - only the cats' name and owner was actually listed in the Yearbook itself, all other registration information has been added based on Stud Book entries.

 

GC Beverly-Serrano Petite Born: 5/30/1955 Reg number: 83-SB-827, v87 Chinchilla Silver Persian Female S: CH Beverly-Serrano Keo D: Joy of Beverly-Serrano	GC Chez Moumette Cal of Nor-Mont Born: 9/16/1957 Reg number: 58-SB-917, v90 Cream Persian Male S: CH Longhill’s Super Mike D: CH Longhill’s Michaelina	GC Dixi-Land Queed of Azulita Born: 7/2/1953 Reg number: 71-SB-023, v71 Blue Persian Male S: CH Windibank Dear David of Dunesk D: Dixi-Land’s Iani
GC Lee’s Hi-Hat Champaign Born: 4/28/1946 Reg number: 43-SB-068, v43-44 Cream Persian Male S: Candy Kid D: CH Kansas City Moonglo of Eden	GC Minqua’s Juniata Born: 5/22/1957 Reg number: 98-SB-963 Blue Persian Female S: GC Renown of Dunesk D: CH Longhill’s Evette of Nigrette	GC Shawnee Moonflight Born: 8/1/1958 Reg number: 0102-000046 Copper-Eyed White Persian Female S: CH, DGC Klinkhammer Topper of Castilia D: GC Shawnee Moonflower of Gallahad Cat of the Year 1960, 1961, 1964
GC Shawnee Soap Suds Born: 8/1/1958 Reg number: 0103-000049, v89 Copper-Eyed White Persian Female S: CH, DGC Klinkhammer Topper of Castilia D: GC Shawnee Moonflower of Gallahad	GC Sheromar Boy Wonder of Nor-Mont Born: 6/21/1956 Reg number: 93-SB-963 Chinchilla Silver Persian Male S: CH Sheromar Shawn D: CH Shawnee Dawnalea of Sheromar	GC Windibank Patti-Kake of Azulita Born: 7/9/1956 Reg number: 95-SB-729, v86 Copper-Eyed White Persian Female S: CH Dixi-Land Dilli of Windbank D: CH June Rose Bear of Dunesk
GC Fan-T-Cee Kabar Kenny Born: 12/28/1957 Reg number: 0276-000052, v87 Blue Point Siamese Male S: Kabar Will O’the Wisp of Fan-T-Cee D: Fan-T-Cee Tinker Bell of Kabar	GC Laurentide Solitaire of Madali Born: 4/3/1957 Reg number: 99-FR-090, v86 Lilac Point Siamese Female S: Laurentide Mercury D: Laurentide Ephree Amethyst	GC Monk-Chiang Frostee Born: 5/12/1958 Reg number: 0274-000028, v88 Lilac Point Siamese Male S: CH Rosemar Wongse of Van-Lyn D: Monkchaing Ho Sui
GC Singa Delphine Born: 1/4/1957 Reg number: 99-SB-426, v88 Blue Point Siamese Female S: Holmesdale Caraban of Wu D: CH Singa Lindette	GC Van-Lyn Platine Born: 4/19/1956 Reg number: 92-SB-205, v84 Blue Point Siamese Female S: Sylvan Blue Phthalo of Vanar D: Crickmere Li Sao of Van-Lyn	GC Veja Suda Choi Born: 7/1/1958 Reg number: 0273-002697, v90 Seal Point Siamese Female S: CH Medicine Lake Wee-Zano Kitti D: Le Beau Chat Salina of Veja
GC Barlyn Ebony Duchess of Nor-Mont Born: 5/28/1958 Reg number: 0709-000005-3 Black Domestic (American) Shorthair Female S: CH Stonybrook Mr. Claws of Nor-Mont D: CH Barlyn Miss Mandy	GC Gray Horse Farm’s Jentleman Born: 3/31/1957 Reg number: 0736-000004-3, v87 Silver Tabby Domestic (American) Shorthair Male S: My-Lo Silver Joiee of Navajo D: CH Ramayana Jenna	GC Lavender Silver Pattern Born: 5/17/1953 Reg number: 57-801-1, v84 Silver Tabby Domestic (American) Shorthair Male S: Lavender Silver Goblin D: Lavender Silver Stripes
GC Solon Red Emburr Born: 4/15/1957 Reg number: 58-602-1A, v86 Red Tabby Domestic (American) Shorthair Male S: Eric The Red D: CH Solon Snow Trinket	GC Ko-Ko-Mo of Elyria Born: 4/26/1955 Reg number: 87-FR-821-B, v84 Burmese Male S: CH Lan Yen’s Ket Kay D: CH Kalyan Princess Kal-Lee	GC Reeba Ka Born: 4/26/1955 Reg number: 86-FR-361-B, v86 Burmese Female S: CH Lan Yen’s Ket Kay D: CH Kalyan Princess Kal-Lee
GC Selene’s Vignette of Willouise Born: 1/10/1956 Reg number: 92-SB-968-A, v84 Ruddy Abyssinian Male S: CH Ta-Lee-Ho’s Ipo of Ell-Mar D: CH Caper Cat Trinket of Selene	GC Wila-Blite Pola of Silva-Wyte Born: 4/22/1958 Reg number: 0603-000004-2, v87 Copper-Eyed White Manx Female S: Be-Sam-Bo of Wila-Blite D: CH Finlo’s Odette of Wila-Blite