The Great Ones – Alva Rosenberg
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By Kerrin Winter-Churchill
Today, just as all aspiring dog men or women should know breed standards like the back of their hand, a basic working knowledge of Alva Rosenberg ought to be a required introductory element to the sport of purebred dogs.
Born in 1892 in Brooklyn, New York to German-Jewish immigrants, Rosenberg was the youngest of 11 children. His father, Joseph, was an entrepreneur who ran a fat-processing business that provided very well for the family.
From a young age, Alva’s fascination with dogs was apparent. Family lore tells of one trip to the circus where Alva ignored all the acrobats, jungle beasts, and clowns but was transfixed by a troupe of performing Poodles.
It was his mother, Ida, who set her son’s life course when she took him to Westminster when he was eight.
“My mother said if I became tired to let her know and we would leave,” Rosenberg told Walter Fletcher of the New York Times in 1972. His mother had to drag him out of Madison Square Garden late in the day.
By his early teens, Alva was working as a kennel boy for Dr. Edward Berendsohn, a wealthy breeder of Bulldogs and English Toy Spaniels. It didn’t take long for Berendsohn and his wife to recognize a special spark in their young employee. They proposed Alva for membership to the Long Island Kennel Club. The boy accepted and was readily welcomed by some of the leading figures in the dog show world.
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