Maverick Minutes Madhu Rao, Secretary November 2, <strong>2011</strong> 8 60 hard to days… 60 degrees, believe how hot it was just two months ago. I hope you are able to drive your Porsche in this wonderful weather. John Hamilton opened the meeting with updates from the membership team. Our Region added 18 new members in October. Our year to date total is 125, great news! John also provided an update regarding the upcoming Founders’ Day event, which will feature a silent auction benefitting the Huffaker-Hughes Hope House (a lot of alliteration there). Should be another great event! Lastly, John mentioned that Richard Bradley, our award winning <strong>Slipstream</strong> Editor, is interested in receiving any information/photos from the recent Rennsport Reunion. Travis Howard described the recent Time Trial (TT) on October 23, which was well attended. He also updated the group regarding the rescheduled Autocross (AX) event on <strong>December</strong> 10th in Mineral Wells. Jim Falgout reported that $6,375 still needs to be paid by advertisers. He is looking forward to reviewing the financial situation after the proceeds from our Club Race in late October have been processed. Pat Friend noted that he would contact the advertisers with outstanding balances. Brendan Eagan described plans for a “Westside” Sunday Driving Tour in 2012 encompassing the area West and North of Ft.Worth. Sounds like a lot of fun to me. Brendan also updated the group on the October marketing campaign, which includes providing new Porsche owner’s copies of <strong>Slipstream</strong>, our Maverick Region brochure, and Panorama. If you are a new Porsche owner and would like to provide Brendan any feedback about this program feel free to email him at tours@mavpca.org. John Harvey noted that the last Sunday Tour will be the extremely popular Holiday Lights tour on <strong>December</strong> 11. I you are interested in more information about Sunday Drives and/or to download the tour map to your Garmin GPS type in this webpage link > http:// mav.pca.org/Events/Tours.asp. Mike Brodigan noted that the recent Club Race and Drivers’ Education event worked out well. The weather was perfect! Mike mentioned that Mike Farrar and Pat Heptig would be joining the DE team to promote these events. Excellent! Mike described an idea to reorganize the DE groups into novice, intermediate and advanced for future DE events in 2012. Plans are underway for an introduction to DE event next year as well. Excellent again! Lastly, Mike noted that a one-day combination TT and DE event would be held on June 2, 2012. Wendy Shoffit announced that registration for the October Club Race was 49 and DE was 41. Mark your calendars for the 2012 race, which will be held on October 27, 2012. Carey Spreen announced the success of the recent Sunday Driving Tour and Rally to San Martino Winery on Oct. 23rd. He described plans for an upcoming “Hare and Hound” Rally in March 2012. Knowing Carey this will be a lot of fun. Linda Bambina reported on the 50th Anniversary events and activities. She is seeking a location to stage a photo for the anniversary event. Her requirements are to have a platform about 30 to 40 feet high and a large enough area to position several Porsches for the photo shoot. Knowing Linda this will be a fun event and a great memento for our club. If you know of such a location please contact her at bina42@ tx.rr.com. If you have any historical articles, memories, or Maverick Region photos to share with the region please contact her at that address as well. Lastly, Linda mentioned she was able to contact 100% of all of the previous Selcer Award winners to introduce herself and gain their feedback/participation as well. Great job! Charlie and Teri Davis presented some concept ideas regarding a new Maverick Region logo. They presented an excellent review of the evolution of the current Maverick Region badge and provided some much needed context regarding this. Those in attendance were treated to a lot of history about the Maverick Region in this discussion. Stay tuned for more information on this subject. Lastly, Chris Christensen informed the group that the Happy Hour dates for 2012 are on the Maverick Region calendar. As many of you know, Chris will be retiring from the Executive Council after the November <strong>2011</strong> election. On behalf of the Board, and the Executive Council, thank you for all your help this past year. Meeting adjourned at 8:31pm. RESULTS: Begining January 1, 2012, the new officers, elected by you will include: John Hamilton as President, Tom Minnella as Vice-President, Madhu Rao as Secretary, and Jim Falgout as Treasurer.
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