Corvette Super Sports – General Meeting Minutes

Tuesday, September 7, 2004

Proceedings

The meeting was called to order at 7:07 p.m. by President Greg Glodery.  The general meeting proceeded after it was determined that a quorum was present.

The general meeting minutes were accepted as submitted in August.

Old Business

Greg Glodery expressed his gratitude to all members for making the Third Annual CSS car show a huge success by sponsoring trophies, showing up early on the day of the event, partaking in different roles and staying late to clean up the Lodge and parking lot.

1.      Charity Drive.  Marietta Darke stated the September 25th John Force show was a great turn-out.  She thanked the twelve CSS members who volunteered their time.  Marietta also reminded the club about the CHiPs for Kids event in December.  The deadline to register is November 2 and Channel 2 KCAL will be there.  This is a fun holiday event.

H.I.S. House needs items for their silent auction on November 6.  If you are interested, please see Marietta.

2.      NCCC News.  Ellis Chee was not at tonight’s meeting so Greg Glodery did the honors by reading a thank you note from Doug Hall of SoCal Corvette for our $100 donation to help him recoup from his medical bills and loss of work.  Doug was very surprised and touched by our club’s kind gesture.

3.      Past Events.  CSS Third Annual Car Show – Chairman Steve McDaniel reported he received positive feedback from club members as well as the participants.  Some possible improvements for next year are as follows:

a.       Quicker data entry;

b.      Separate locations for raffle ticket sales;

c.       Stay with block style parking;

d.      Should we accept only pre-registrants if we get too large or is this limiting ourselves?

e.       Order more meat since we ran out;

f.        Get a quote from a parking lot sweeper.  Lee Beidleman mentioned he has a large vacuum.  We all agreed that cigarette butt cans were very helpful this year.

g.      Elk’s Club tow away signs need to be posted.  The guard had to page the Seven-up employees to move their cars.

Steve admitted he was a bit nervous about organizing such an event but this was definitely a ‘group’ effort and he thanked everyone especially Donna Stewart who organized the food service and who also made it possible to have a planning meeting at her residence.  A quote from Steve, “Special thanks to Bill Darke for his good notes from last year.  Also, special thanks to Greg Glodery for his support and faith in my abilities to chair this special event.  Too many to thank, but everyone did a 110%.  Thank you all!”

At the next Board meeting we will fine-tune for next year’s CSS annual car show.

New Business

1.                   Treasurer’s Report.  Ann Meeuwenberg gave the Treasurer’s report.  In regards to the income vs. expenses for the car show, Ann passed out a preliminary report to the members.  These numbers should be finalized by next month’s general meeting.  NCCC and CSS membership dues are now being accepted by Ann and are due by November.

The La Habra 56th Annual Corn Festival –Jim Schweitzer sent a photograph of the event as it appeared in the Orange County Register on 8/2004 as a special thank you to the seven CSS volunteers.

2.                   Membership Application.  The Board of Directors approved Jim and Elaine Cooper’s and Jim Italiano’s membership applications.

3.                   Upcoming Events.  Ken Vasilik provided upcoming events which will be posted on the website as well as flyers provided at the general meeting.    

There will be a photo shoot with models on September 13-15 for a National Calendar.  If interested, please see Greg Glodery.

Dave and Ilona Alciatore will host a social event on October 23rd at their new home in Fallbrook and they passed out an invitational flyer this evening.

September Birthdays:   15 – Hal Oberman, 23 – Katie Kennedy, 27- Judy Caruso and Wilma Coke.

Wedding Anniversaries:  No anniversaries this month.

4.                   Special Guests.  Donna Stewart introduced us to Kathleen Richardson from Pacific Coast Corvette Club (Huntington Beach – 2004 corvette), Sharon Andrews Kathleen’s friend (Cypress – 1998 corvette, her 6th baby and not her last), Alice Torres (Eugene, Oregon – Hazel Beidleman’s sister), Paul and Cindy Lombardo (Huntington Beach – 1987 and 2003 anniversary edition corvettes) and Dick and Esther Gruenhagen (Downey – no baby yet).  A warm welcome to our guests and we hope to see them again real soon.

Other Important Business

§         Pat and Jan Work’s 50th anniversary corvette was selected by the PCC girls as September’s clean car.

§         The free dinner raffle winner was Don Iannone.  Liz Sawickis drew Ron Jobes’s name for the 50/50 $52 cash prize.  Other raffle winners were Hal Oberman (2), Marcia Lynch, Tom Wilcox (2) and Ron Jobes, and Jim Cooper. 

§         Thank you Bill Freeland for the wonderful refreshments.

§         Please disregard the CSS Golf Tournament scheduled for September 18 on the website.  This is a typo as the tournament has been delayed until further notice.

§         At the next Board of Directors’ meeting, President Greg Glodery will accept nominations for next year’s Officers and Board members.

As always, it was another good meeting and we had a full house, thanks to our guests, too.

There was no other business and the meeting was adjourned at 8:26 p.m.  Tom Cuccio motioned to end the meeting and all agreed.

Respectively submitted by

Esther McDaniel

Secretary

P.S.      This is my last general meeting minutes since Steve and I will be relocating to Oregon.  It has been a real pleasure being a part of the Corvette Super Sports and we will miss all of our friends.  Until we meet again…!