The year was 1962... it was a year that:

• The first Wal-Mart stsore opens for business
• "West Side Story " wins Best Picture at the Oscars
• Grammy Awards for Record of the Year go to "I Left My Heart in San Francisco ", by Tony Bennett
• Dick Van Dyke and the Beverly Hillbillies are the most popular shows on TV
• Marilyn Monroe is found dead
• The first US Rocket - Ranger IV - lands on the moon
• The Cuban Missile crisis occurred

Measuring just 6" x 9", the yearbook was again a soft-cover, spiral-bound book, sold for the cost of $1.00. It had 151 pages, and ads from 41 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:

• A special August meeting was held as a teleconference - but since the maximun number of attendees via teleconference at that time was 10, 2 separate meetings had to be held. The teleconference was paid for by the Pittsburgh Cat Club, as they had requested the meeting to be called, due to an issue with their show license for the year.
   
• Silver Tabbies were ruled to be part of the Tabby division - prior to that point, some shows had them in the tabby division, while others included them in the silver division.
   
• The idea of having "regional" awards is first presented, the main argument in favor being that it would be a way to counter-act the All-American awards, which were scored based on a cat's results in ANY organization, and keep the entries in CFA shows instead.
   
• Recogniton was sought for the Rex cats, and Provisional status was passed by the Board.
  
• Blue Smokes are recognized as an accepted color.

1962 Show Season

The show season of 1961-62 had a total of 152 shows held, the largest number in the history of CFA to this date. The first show of the season was held in August 1961, and the last show of the season was held in March, 1962.

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	48
Shorthair Specialty	42
Longhair Specialty	46
Siamese Specialty	3
Tabby & Tortie Specialty	2
Silver Specialty	2
Solid Color Specialty	2
All Short Hair (Except Siamese)	3
Domestic Shorthair Specialty	2
Foreign Short Hair	2

1962 Grand Parade

There were a total of 22 cats that earned their Grand Championship title during this show season.

Persian were by far the largest percentage that season, with 10 of the 22 grands being Persian!

The remaining grands consisted of 7 Siamese, 2 Burmese, 1 Abyssinian, and 2 Domestic Shorthairs (what we now call the American Shorthair). These cats are listed/pictured below - only the cats' name, registration number, and owner were actually listed in the Yearbook itself, all other registration information has been added based on Stud Book entries.

 

GC Azulita Paleface of Casa Cielo Born: 6/9/1959 Reg number: 102-01317, v95 Copper-Eyed White Persian Male S: GC Dixi-Land Queed of Azulita D: GC Windibank Patti Kake of Azulita	GC Beamsley Sunshine of Gaylands (Imp) Born: 8/7/1959 Reg number: 114-0159, v92 Cream Persian Male S: CH Beamsley Sunbeam D: Barwell Psyche	GC Ben-Mar Sparkle Born: 7/6/1958 Reg number: 111-0026, v87 Red Persian Female S: Kohinoor Tim O’Cream D: Moonfleet’s Tama of Ben-Mar
GC Bloemhill Miss Iowa Born: 6/25/1960 Reg number: 151-0253, v92 Blue-Cream Persian Female S: GC Bloemhill Spartan D: CH Longhill’s Misty Moon	GC Bloemhill Sparkle Born: 4/24/1958 Reg number: 58-4484 Cream Persian Female S: GC Bloemhill Spartan D: CH Bloemhill Largo	GC Cashmere Tenderly of Twilight Born: 4/5/1959 Reg number: 131-0272, v88 Chinchilla Silver Persian Female S: Sheromar’s Confederate D: Tina Marie of Cashmere
GC Charcoal's Blue Boy of Alta Born: 4/8/1955 Reg number: 58-1122-3, v86 Blue Persian Male S: CH Windibank Solitaire D: Blue Bride’s Charcoal	GC Evergreen's Elegance of Skyway Born: 5/31/1959 Reg number: 104-0026, v88 Odd-Eyed White Persian Male S: CH Melody of Greene-Gardens D: Evergreen’s Treasure	GC Kohinoor Kathleen of Moonfleet Born: 3/17/1955 Reg number: 92-SB-362, v83 Tortoiseshell Persian Female S: CH Southland’s Em-Cee D: Spero’s Burma of Kohinoor
GC Pinewood Blue Sky Born: 7/7/1958 Reg number: 106-0053 Blue Persian Male S: CH Pinewood Chere Ami D: Pinewood Pandora	GC Mizpah's Claudia of Yasmin Born: 3/6/1959 Reg number: 401-0133-3, v90 Sable Burmese Female S: CH Ghirardelli Alla Mizpah D: CH Antonica Pamphula of Mizpah	GC Mizpah's Ferdnand of Brierwood Born: 9/13/1960 Reg number: 400-0255-3, v90 Sable Burmese Male S: CH Ghirardelli Alla Mizpah D: CH Antonica Pamphula of Mizpah
GC Aberdeen's Lolita of Blue-Iris Born: 5/2/1959 Reg number: 271-0144, v90 Chocolate Point Siamese Female S: CH Van-Lyn’s Frost Christopher D: CH Kalyan Penny of Aberdeen	GC Chi-Charoen Moonshyne Born: 6/1/1958 Reg number: 276-0149, v88 Blue Point Siamese Male S: CH Chi-Charoen Ngoen D: Vanar’s Tazella	GC Cymri Tonette Born: 1/18/1960 Reg number: 277-0629 Blue Point Siamese Female S: ?? D: ??
GC Dong Dong Born: ?? Reg number: 273-1216 Seal Point Siamese Female S: ?? D: ??	GC Green Lane Danny of San-Li Born: 3/6/1959 Reg number: 272-1529, v91 Seal Point Siamese Male S: CH Green Lane Domonick D: Wu Lisa of Green Lane	GC Makhanda Maraca Born: 5/4/1959 Reg number: 273-3094, v90 Seal Point Siamese Female S: Medicine Lake Mikado of Makanda D: Palos Verdes Invader
GC Mei-Len's Mister Blue Boy Born: 9/25/1960 Reg number: 276-0758, v92 Blue Point Siamese Male S: CH Bridle Trail’s Pingson of Alray D: Shan-Ling Shadi Ladi of Mei-Len	GC McKnight Tar Baby Born: ?? Reg number: 56-FR-942-D American Shorthair Male S: ?? D: ??	GC Ormai Babette II of Aberdeen Born: 8/27/1959 Reg number: 373-0039-2, v91 Silver Tabby American Shorthair Female S: CH Reene’s Scamp of Silver-Vista D: CH Gryffn Silver Tupence of My-Lo
GC Sheramain T. Twinks of Aberdeen Born: 12/13/1958 Reg number: 380-0028, v88 Ruddy Abyssinian Male S: CH Dabru of Sheramain D: CH Sunra II of Sheramain