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Welcome to new member, Ron Toth. He has owned the TC for 20 years and still smiling.
Seems our meeting place got flooded out during the last big rain storm. All the carpet was pulled up.
Ice cream and brownies make the floor seem unimportant to Joe Douglas and Kevin Kershaw
OK men, here's the plan.......
"OK ladies, here's the plan......
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January 25, 2005
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Three winners of our raffle for the night. Above: George Kershaw. Below: Dave Coleman and Lloyd Hendrickson. Pete Thelander also won a belt buckle but escaped the camera.
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Our new President for 2005, Pete Thelander, called the meeting to order at 8:06 pm. Of course nobody paid any attention so he tried again and the throng settled down so we could begin. Minutes of the general meeting (Nov.) were in the newsletter for all to read so were not read at the meeting. No corrections were noted. Pictures of the annual meeting (Holiday Party) were also in the newsletter. Everyone had a fantastic time and were very appreciative of the Ludwickís hosting it at their gorgeous new home. Our Treasurer, Joyce posted a proposed budget for 2005 on the wall for anyone interested in looking. It is still early but we have 16 members who have renewed their membership so far. Had 61 members at the Holiday party and the auction brought in $1294. We currently have $5,564 in the bank of which $4,365 is proposed expenditures for the year leaving us a $1,199 cushion. Harvey was not present so there was no mail to go through. We had two guests this evening. Bob Zwart who has an M type and Ron Toth who has a red 1948 TC. Ron has had the TC for 20 years but it has been in the family since new. (Ron paid his dues later in the meeting and became a Guild member) The Midget Chassis is now available on our club web site in PDF form. Response has been favorable and we will continue this service. Programs - Lloyd is still looking for assistance in doing meeting programs. He read off what he has so far. February he has Butch Taras talking on oil pumps. March brings Carl Cederstrand discussing transmissions. April will be a Hobby Night. June is tentatively set for a parking lot car show. July is our traditional picnic at the Henkels. September we will meet at the Simon Auto Museum and October is our pot luck dinner and costume contest. May, August and November are still open at this point. The date for the Holiday Party is tentatively scheduled for December 10. It was suggested that San Diego be the venue and Joyce Edgar will look into locations. Gene Olson is our Events Chair and will give his spiel after the break as he can't make it to the meeting until 9:00. Jim Crandall took over management of the Guilds web site. He has already made some nice changes. He questioned if we should limit access to some parts of it to members only (access to the newsletters for instance). We decided to revisit the issue once we have a few more issues available. There was no other business and we adjourned the meeting to
let Pete set up his presentation on taking the NE back East to
attend three different events. Fran Thelander brought goodies
for the evening and asked for members to sign up for future meetings. After the break Gordon Glass made a proposal of an event at the Petersen Museum and to help support it through some sort of donation. Looking at doing this in June. Gene Olson then arrived and filled us in on event ideas. Kite Fly is coming up. Wild flowers should be great this year. Several museum ideas were presented. We need a leader for the Conclave this year to give Bob a break. Minutes taken by Secretary
George and Lloyd chatting with guest Bob Zwart.
Left: Pete and Fran Thelander's participation badge for the 50th anniversary of the Collier Cup Race at Watkins Glen. Right: A patch given to the Thelanders at Watkins Glen. Center: An award presented to Pete for outstanding preservation of MMM MG motorscar spirit and history. Congratulations Pete! |
