Officers
President Doug
Schwegman (859)
441-1110 Pres@nkyvette.com
Vice President Kurt
Meier (859)
781-4607 VPres@nkyvette.com
Secretary Jay
Deerwester (859)
384-2585 Sec@nkyvette.com
Treasurer Jon
Hanas (859)
342-6374 Tres@nkyvette.com
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING MINUTES:
The November
meeting was held at the RoadHouse on November 8th.
Please note: There won’t be
a regular December meeting, but instead the Christmas party will be held on
Wednesday, December l4th at the
President
Doug Schwegman called the meeting to order at 7:30 (or there about). Those who attended the meeting where Rod
Russell, Mr. Tom Keen, Bob & Judy Wiltse, Charles Griffin, Jerry
Sizemore, Larry Kidney, Marshall Hutcheson, John Betsch, Steve Waldenmeyer,
Gary Dirr, Ray Embry, Pat Payne, Dorothy South, Bob Reineke, Bart Beers, Wayne
Alexander, Chuck O’Bryant, Don & Susie Turner, Jim & Pat Bischoff, Gary
Benke, Jay Deerwester, Jon Hanas, Doug Schwegman, Kurt Meier, Gary & Gail
Clemens. The new members introduced were Dallas & Gayle Trinkle; (they are
a two Corvette couple).
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
PRESIDENT’S REPORT: Doug
introduced Dr. Julia Carter and Mr. Larry Douglas of the Wood Hudson Cancer
Research Laboratory who expressed their thanks to the club’s members for the
efforts that they made in hosting this year’s annual charity car show. Jon
Hanas presented them with a check for two thousand dollars, bringing the grand
total raised to $4,625.
TREASURER’S REPORT, MEMBERSHIP & WEBSITE NEWS: In
keeping with his dual webmaster/financial wizard duties, Jon covered several
topics. First he announced that pictures of all the new FTCC clothing were now
available for viewing on the web site. He also added that throws emblazoned
with the FTCC logo are available at $33.50. Although now technically clothing,
we suppose they’d pass for clothing (ala serapes) in
Second, he announced that we now have 101 members. That tally was the result of two resignations and two new members coming on board. As of the meeting 68 members have paid their 2006 dues resulting in our having a balance on hand of $4,846. Jon also reported that we have a series of Google (car related) links on our web site for which the club will receive a penny or two per click (isn’t technology great?).
SECRETARY’S REPORT: With everyone’s permission Jay skipped the reading of the minutes, thereby saving everyone the pain of having to listen to yesterday’s paper being re-read!
VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT: Kurt pointed out that Tom Keen
(who was with us) now stocks C5 and C6 parts so for those of us (like moi) who wear out the air dam on the front of their C5’s
about once a month, that’s great news! Kurt also read a passage from the
Campbell Lodge Boy’s Home Journal wherein a young man named Nathan was quoted
as saying that his favorite memory of the Home, “Was
the Corvette Club outing and being able to ride in a Corvette, which I’d never
done before”. Obviously, that mention makes all the hard coordinating work of
Stan and Rita Bond - and the time and efforts of the driver volunteers (and
cooks) well worth all the effort.
ACTIVITIES: Jon reported on a great Keeneland run which the Club hosted on Sunday October 16th.. A total of nine Corvettes made the run in sunny 65-degree weather. The group also pooled $13 to purchase a lottery ticket as they plotted to split up forty bazillion dollars. Burt alas, they had no better luck that they had at the track. Oh well, back to work on Monday.
Steve Waldenmeyer announced that the long awaited
cart-racing meeting that we’ve talked about for months will finally be held. It
will be the January meeting (1-10-06) at Competition Racing in
Jim Bischoff announced that Tom Gill Chevrolet has a 2006 Corvette with the new 6 speed, paddle shift, automatic transmission and that he was able to test drive it. He was VERY impressed with the performance of the new transmission and said that in lower gears it scared the "#@$%" out of him. So stop by Tom Gill's and ask to test drive the new C6 Automatic.
NEW BUSINESS: The slate selected by the nominating committee was presented, nominated, seconded and elected to the astonishment of the slate, (who ran unopposed). The officers are: President, Doug Schwegman, Vice President, Kurt Meier, Treasurer, Jon Hanas, and last and least, Secretary, Jay Deerwester.
DENTED HUBCAP AWARD: Believe it or not, there was no
actual Corvette award to be made, so Jon Hanas won it due to his Kathy’s Honda
Accord to Keeneland – having sold his C5 in advance of his taking delivery of a
shiny new C6.
SPLIT-THE-POT:
Jon forgot the split the pot paraphernalia so we went with out the best part of
the darned meeting!