Kimberly Jordan Daboo

Kim has been involved with Clumber Spaniels since 1997, when she acquired Chewy after 25 dogless years. She has been Secretary of the Clumber Spaniel Club of America since 2000. Other club memberships and affiliations include the Beaver County Kennel Club, Laurel Highlands Kennel Association, Pittsburgh English Springer Spaniel Field Trial Club, Professional Stewards Association, Clumber Spaniel Club of Canada, and The Clumber Spaniel Club (UK).

In addition to showing dogs in conformation, Kim also enjoys tracking and obedience with her Clumbers. She hopes to try agility and hunting in the near future. Her other dog-related activities include stewarding, chairing the puppy match for BCKC at their Canfield, OH show, Clumber trophy chair for the American Spaniel Club's flushing spaniel show, and coordinating the 2005 CSCA National Specialty, which will be held in Pittsburgh.

Kim is Director of Computing, H&SS at Carnegie Mellon University. She holds a BA from Williams College and an MS from the University of Oregon. Previous employers include Swarthmore College, Williams College and Whitman College. She is a native of Maine, but has lived in such exotic locales as Williamstown, Massachusetts and Walla Walla, Washington.

Cyrus Daboo

Cyrus is Chief Technology Officer at Isamet, makers of the Mulberry e-mail client. His bio is here.

Kim and Cyrus were married on 10 May, 2003.

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What is a Hoiho?

"Hoiho" is the Maori word for the Yellow-Eyed Penguin, the rarest penguin in the world. It translates to "Noise Shouter". Find out more about this endangered penguin from the Yellow-Eyed Penguin Trust, the New Zealand Department of Conservation, the Kiwi Conservation Club, and the Otago Museum.

We chose "Hoiho" as our kennel affix as a way of honoring Penguin, the bitch who gave us our start in conformation showing. Those who have met her know she is indeed a "rare" Penguin! It is also a very short word, giving us a lot of flexibility when we name puppies in keeping with the AKC's name-length limit.