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Don’t Lift
Stan Corbett
Wow! The 2012 NER DE season is over. Our last
two events were very close together — WGI
on August 24th–26th, followed two weeks later by
our final event at NHMS on September 11th–12th.
My report on WGI is in this issue and I’ll report on
NHMS next month. An item of note — we finished
the 2012 DE season with no rain for the year! We
came close — we had a shower one morning at
CMP that dried up before the track went hot, and
it rained at WGI (of course) after the track went
cold Sunday afternoon.
Our big driver giveaway this year was umbrellas
— really nice, really big, golf umbrellas at WGI.
Because not everyone that attended the event at
WGI picked up their umbrellas, participants at the
final event at NHMS also received umbrellas. We
ordered 164 umbrellas and they are gone. I hope
all our drivers liked them. Based on the comments
I received, most folks appreciated getting something
other than the usual shirts or hats.
Once again, I would ask if any of our attendees
are interested in providing a write-up, long or
Please take the time to join me in thanking
the members of the Track Committee for
their efforts this year
missing runs on track, to make the event flow
smoothly.
This year’s Track Committee has been:
Track Chair, Stan Corbett
Chief Instructor, Jerry Pellegrino
Track Operations, Joe Billmaier
Novice Development, Dick Anderson
DE Registrar, Mark Keefe
Chief Scrutineer, Chris Outzen
Track Tech Lead, Ann Anderson
Instructor Development, Ray Bahr
Control Chief, Kristin Larson
DE Socials, Adrianne Ross (also On-track
Registrar at several events)
Ground School, Steve Artick
Consultant, Matthew Wallis (also Chief Instructor
when Jerry is not available)
Please take the time to join me in thanking the
members of the Track Committee for their efforts
this year. Encourage them to stay on for another
season (hint, hint).
Next month I will report out on our new DE
Rebate Program and our final event, September
11th–12th at NHMS.
Didn’t Lift!, Stan
short, on one of our events please send it along
to me or to Adrianne, our newsletter editor. If it’s
short and you send it to me, I’ll probably include it
in this column (you’ll get a shout-out of appreciation).
If it’s longer, I’ll coordinate with Adrianne to
decide on how to use it. You can also send along
pictures if you like — no guarantees, but we may
use some of them.
I noted earlier in the year my trepidation with
being your new Track Chair, stepping into a role
so well done by Bruce Hauben and, before him,
by Laurie Jitts. Now that the season is over I can
look back and say I enjoyed the job. Yes, there
were moments of near panic and some less than
stellar statistics (we had a reportable incident
in all but one event). I can honestly say that I
flat-out enjoyed the job and especially found
running the WGI event fun! Much of the credit for
the success of the DE season goes to your track
committee. Several of the members put in many
hours prior to our events handling registrations,
creating schedules and worker assignments, and
linking students and instructors together. All of
the members put in time at the track, sometimes
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