A UNIQUE SPECIAL GUEST IN 2009….A ONE-OF-A-KIND SEMINAR IN 2010 !

It’s never too early to plan ahead, and that’s exactly what Cauliflower Alley Club is already doing to pave the way for our 45th annual reunion in Las Vegas in 2010.

During this year’s reunion, the Club will welcome a very special first-time guest in the person of Dr. David M. Reiss, a practicing psychiatrist from San Diego, California.  As well as being on the front line of psychiatry for the past 25 years, Dave has enjoyed a pair of particular interests.  He’s been active for all of that time and more in many facets of the harness racing industry, including being a racing official, and an owner and breeder of the fleet standardbreds in the U.S. and Canada.  He’s also been a fascinated and focused observer of professional wrestling since seeing it for the first time during his teenage years.

This visit is an extension of Dave Reiss’s almost lifelong interest in pro wrestling, on both a personal and professional level.  He’ll be meeting for the first time with many of the retired and current wrestlers and others who attend CAC, and just generally getting to know us.  But Dave and CAC have a definite eye on the future – in this case, next year’s reunion — and in the works is a significant contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the business by the younger generation of men and women who make their home in the ring.

Dave has coupled his intimate knowledge of psychology and psychiatry with his own keen observations of not only wrestlers, but the public that supports them at the box office and in front of the television set, and the overall culture of wrestling.  He is in the process of bringing that body of knowledge together in the form of a seminar that will be delivered for the first time at the 2010 CAC reunion.

 Wait a minute, you might say – a seminar by a psychiatrist will be filled with highly technical terms, far beyond the understanding of most of us.  Definitely not in this case, says Dave.  “I can speak as technically or non-technically as would be useful –  but one of the things I enjoy most is talking to non-mental health, non-medical audiences.”

 If you’re attending the 2009 reunion in a few days, you’ll very possibly run into Dave Reiss somewhere along the way.  And even if you’re not going this year, keep 2010 in mind, and watch the website for further news of this interesting addition to next year’s agenda.