Health Committee Membership List

Mary V. Miller -------- Chairman
Mary Miller is a retired surgical technician and has bred horses and/or dogs since 1965. Bostons have been in her home since the late 80's and her first Boston litter was born in June 1993. Mary is a member of the Bexar County Kennel Club, founding member of the Tejas Owner Handlers Association, Boston Terrier Club of America and was a professional ring steward with the Mission City Stewards Club for 14 years. Even though she does not have a French Bull Dog anymore, she is currently the president and one of the founding members of the Heart of Texas French Bull Dog Club. Her interest is in breeding healthy sound Bostons with wonderful temperaments and promoting health clinics for the screening of health problems.
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Maureen Blackwood

Leasa Garvin
Leasa (Tyrrell) Garvin taught Graphic Arts and Printing and served the BTCA 1993-94 Membership Committee, Coast to Coast Editor from 1994-1997 and helped form the Health Committee in 1998. Since 1987, she has raised many litters and put American and Canadian Championships of more than a dozen Bostons and competed in Obedience and Agility. She maintains the health committee e-list and helps with its printing needs. Leasa is interested in health screening tests CERF, OFA and BAER and seeing them become commonplace with breeders.

Kathryn T. Graves, Ph.D. -------Advisor

Julie Haddy
Julie Haddy is the database, website and accounting manager for a small trucking company. She is new to the sport of purebred dogs being introduced to it in 1998 with a Canaan Dog. She is a member of Canaan Dog Club of America where she is involved with the Ways and Means committee and a member of the Southern Classic Canaan Dog club. Since adding Bostons to the home, she has joined the BTCA, the Volunteer Boston Terrier Club and Greater Atlanta Boston Terrier Club. She participates in conformation as well as agility. Her goal is to promote a healthy and structurally sound Boston who belies its inclusion in the Non-Sporting group.

Sue Le Calsey
Sue LeCalsey was a member of the Doberman Pinscher Club of America from 1986 through 2006 and a former member of Penn Treaty Kennel Club of the Philadelphia area and a founding member of the Delaware Valley Doberman Pinscher Assistance Group. Upon moving to Green Bay, WI in 1995 we joined the Packerland KC. After buying Jolie`, our first Boston in 2000 we were hooked on their great temperament and lively personality and I joined the BTCA and BTC of Milwaukee. To date I have finished 11 homebred Champions with several more pointed. Several finished by 10 months of age (most from Bred by) winning numerous Specialty Shows and have won Best Of Breed over top winning Specials.

My greatest passion is to spread the word as to how important Health Testing is to our breed. And how equally important it is to register those results with OFA for future generations of Boston fanciers to have this information at their disposal for generations to come. We must be good stewards of this breed and do everything possible to improve the health of our beloved little Bostons. All my dogs are tested for BAER, CERF, Patella and the oldest 5 have had their DNA test for Juvenile Hereditary Cataracts. All tests are Clear/Normal and registered with OFA.

Pat McAnally
Pat McAnally is a retired attorney currently studying for a Master of Arts in Theology. For more than thirty years Pat has lived in a “Boston Terrier family” and currently owns three. She is a member of the BTCA, and considers the pooling of health, breeding and genetic data to be of major importance to the future of the Boston Terrier breed.

Sharon Saberton
Sharon Saberton is a receptionist/assistant for a veterinary practice. She has had a BostonTerrier since 1966 and got her first show Boston in 1971. She is a member of many Boston Specialty Clubs and a past show chairman for an all breed club for 23 years. Sharon has owned and bred many Specialty winners and Group winners. She has owner-handled a Boston to No. 1 in the country in 1991 and 1992, and one of his sons to the number one Boston in 2004. Sharon is committed to breeding happy, healthy, sound puppies. Her health interests are breeding, whelping and raising healthy puppies

Trudy Sample ----------Advisor
Trudy Sample, former Health Committee Chairman, is a retired Biology teacher, with an M.S. from Prudue (Purdue) University. She acquired her first Boston Terrier in 1938. Since then she has owned, bred, and shown many Bostons. She is past president of the BTCA . She is one of the founding members of the BTCA Health Committee and is a strong advocate of health testing. Trudy has an interest in helping breeders produce healthy Boston puppies and she implemented the first BTCA health survey. She is one of the founding members of the BTCA Health Committee and author of "The Boston Puppy Book - A Book for Boston Terrier Breeders".

Dr Jeannie Thomason -----WebMaster
Dr Jeannie (Jeanette) Thomason, is a doctor of veterinary naturopathy, the BTCA and BTCA Health Committee Web Master and a board member of the Sierra Gold Boston Terrier Club in Northern California. Being passionate about the health of animals, Jeannie has studied and done extensive research in the field of natural/holistic animal health. Jeannie has been breeding Boston Terriers since 1985; she began showing them in 1999 and has since bred several champions as well as some that have agility, rally and obedience titles. Dr Thomason strongly believes in health testing and educating breeders as well as owners and caregivers on its importance. Her focus in breeding is on health, longevity, and beauty both physically and mentally.

Elizabeth Wieland
J. Elizabeth Wieland acquired her first Boston in 1988. The second followed in 1989. Since then, she has become devoted to the breed and has studied their development, standard and health issues. Having experienced first hand many of the health issues, when she began breeding she chose to try to make intelligent decisions and try to breed away from problems. Elizabeth’s breeding goals are to breed mentally and physically sound dogs that adhere closely to the standard and to be excellent, well-rounded representatives of the Boston Terrier. Elizabeth states “ I believe I am responsible 100% for the breeding I do and the puppies that are born from these breedings for life.”
Elizabeth is an active member of the Clubs in Louisville and Cincinnati and has served in various offices. She has been a member of BTCA since 1991 and has worked with rescues since BTCA started doing it. While she is no longer able to foster dogs she is willing to help out any other way she.