Conference 1983

GREG SEPTON of Milwaukee Museum Greg suggested bringing the Arrogant Son Of a Bitch (ASOB) competition to the Guild in 1983.  The ASOB competition was an informal bird challenge created in the USA by a small group dedicated to raising standards. The idea was for the entries of the chosen species to be judged by their creators as a group. Each piece was judged in turn by a show of hands, thumbs up or down until a winner was chosen. In the USA, all the other mounts were destroyed. Foremost amongst this group was Greg.

At the conference, the species was a teal and Greg acted as facilitator/MC but unlike the Americans. the losing mounts were not destroyed.  The trophy was won by James Dickinson.

Greg also did further presentations on:

• Barry Berry's slideshow on his method of preparing fibre-glass casts of fish;
• Greg's own work on a family of peregrines from study skins that had spent 50 years in alcohol; and
• Greg's own slideshow depicting both live and mounted gamebirds.