Slipstream - January 2011

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Maverick Minutes Lisa Steele, Secretary The last Board Meeting of 2010 began with some holiday music in the background with beautiful decorations along the table and cheery faces in the room. Mr. Pres began the meeting at 7:05 with a very BIG “THANK YOU” to Clint Blackman for all of his hard work and service with the Sunday Drives. A big round of applause was given to Clint and the clapping continued for John Harvey who will be stepping in and continuing Clint’s hard work and dedication. Clint Blackman announced that the Holiday Light Drive would be on Sunday, December 12th. The meeting place is Starbucks in Highland Park Village. Clint assured the group that he will be around but taking a little break for a while (a well deserved break, Clint). Jim Falgout reported that during the last two years Maverick Region has sent $1,623.85 more to Hope House than collected in donations. There was a motion by John Hamilton to donate the difference to Hope House. Christy seconded the motion. Motion passed to donate the difference to Hope House. Jim also announced his usual happy phrase, “We have money.” Ed Mullenix reported that the Tech Session on November 27th was good and well attended with 7 folks. This was a good number considering it was a holiday weekend. The session lasted about 2 hrs. and everyone had a good time. The next Tech Session is on the calendar for January 15th at Autobahn. The topic of discussion will be brake maintenance…maybe this Secretary should attend this one. Ed is also throwing around the idea of setting up a service clinic prior to DE/TT events to do tech inspection. There is no venue yet but this is still a work in progress. Pat Friend announced that he got in a new batch of badges. He also brought along lots of Silent Auction items for Founder’s Day from Park Place and Dallas Euro Cars. Travis Howard reported that the AX/TT Awards Banquet was quite a success. Everyone loved the beer mugs and shot glasses for their awards. He said that it was A LOT of FUN!! Travis also announced that he has scheduled a Time Trial at MSR on Oct.23rd and it will be the 1.3 course (should be exciting to do this as a time trial). Apparently Pennington Field is no longer wanting to have Autocrosses in their parking lot so Travis is looking for another space. Robyn Howard said “I had what he had” referring to all of her husband Travis’ report. Robyn did tell the group that she is currently talking with a few people about sponsoring some Autocrosses and Time Trials to help fund the more expensive locations. Christy Payne is looking forward to a great Founder’s Day Event. She reported that the Silent Auction/Raffle was looking good with some great items. Christy reminded the group that the New Member Party will be on January 29th. Christy also had information from Richard Bradley to share with the group. Apparently Richard received a few reports of some damaged Slipstreams, so if you had a Slipstream that was damaged please contact Richard because he has extras. Richard is also kicking around the idea of having an “Advertisers Spotlight” each month for advertisers to give a little spiel about their business. Madhu Rao was present and assured the group that he would be happy to help in any way he could at Founder’s Day. What a wonderful attitude!! BJ and John Harvey reported that the Turkey Chase Sunday Drive was great. They had about 25 cars. Don Brown laid out a very nice course. Carey Spreen reported that he might have a great place to do a Rally. He received an email from Mike Mayberry who has a Bed and Breakfast and horseback riding (not in the same room of course) near Whitesboro. There are some great roads for a Rally all around that area, so Carey is going to check it out. 8
Wendy brought up the recent passing of one of our DE Instructors, Azam Zaidi. As an honor to his memory, the board voted to send a donation to an organization aimed at helping the victims of the flooding this year in Pakistan. Wendy also brought some very colorful name tag holders that would be perfect for DE’s. Everyone agreed they would be perfect! She also discussed that Jerry DeFeo was concerned that not a lot people look at and read the Trivia. The Board all agreed that the Trivia is wonderful and would hate to see it go. A new face at the Board Meeting was Mike Farrar. He feels like he has taken advantage of the club for the last 10-12 years and he is ready to help out in any way that he can. I can personally say that Mike has always been a wonderful help at the DE’s with anything the Hospitality Chicks needed. I know we will find the perfect “job” for Mike. Another new face sitting at the table was Rick Schwausch. He, too, would like to give back to the club and contribute some of his time. John Hamilton chimed in and suggested that they could possibly help be a backup for the equipment manager. Chris Christensen announced that our next Happy Hour will be at Bavarian Grill in Plano on December 16th. Forty people attended the HH at Bavarian Grill the last time so it should be a good turn out. Judy Brodigan (aka Hot Body according to her sweet husband Mike) was present but had nothing to report. Mike Brodigan (aka Mr. President) was busy in the Bahamas last month but if you read Slipstream you noticed that James Shoffit was announced Mav of the Month. Mike also announced that Jack Griffin is considering having a Social event in his fabulous garage. I will definitely attend this social event to see his awesome collection of cars. Mike told the group that the last 2 years has been a privilege to work with such wonderful people…been FUN he says!! Lots of claps around the room!! Thank You Mike for all that you have done and continuing doing for the club!! Mike announced that the Mav of the Month for January is Pat Friend. John Hamilton (aka up and coming new Maverick President) announced that dates are finalized for the 2011 DE schedule. The Club Race has been moved to October 29-30 at ECR. This will be a much cooler time of year for the race cars. Memorial Day weekend will be a regular DE and Nov. 19th/20th will be at MSR for the 1.7 track. Meeting adjourned at 8:15 A personal note from the secretary…I have enjoyed every crazy moment at all of the Board Meetings for the past 2 years. Thank you to everyone who is a part of the wonderful Maverick Region! January 9
Page 1: http://mav.pca.org Upcoming Events
Page 4 and 5: Drifting John Hamilton, President H
Page 6 and 7: President John Hamilton C-817-907-7
Page 8 and 9: RAC Performance, parent company of
Page 12 and 13: Turkey Chase Report - from the eyes
Page 14 and 15: 12
Page 16 and 17: 14
Page 18 and 19: Evolve your 944 Porsche® into the
Page 20 and 21: IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT THE REPAIR
Page 22 and 23: We were a little surprised and at t
Page 24 and 25: Experience Your Porsche in a New Wa
Page 26 and 27: Happy Hour - November HH @ Mac’s
Page 28 and 29: Founders’ Day 2010 - GT at the GT
Page 30 and 31: Tech Corner Ed Mullenix, Tech Chair
Page 32 and 33: German Engineering With Southern Ho
Page 34: Unclassifieds Unclassifieds are ava

Slipstream - January 2011

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?