As this long and grueling winter comes
to a close, I’m sure you are all ready to ramp up our club activities again.
2004 has been a tough year for me both medically and career-wise, but
things are beginning to look bright again.
I know many of our members had similar difficulties over the past year,
and I hope you’ll forgive me for the tardiness of this quarterly status
report.
Our membership will break the 5000-member milestone this coming quarter,
as we expected and predicted. If
our regional directors and area coordinators start planning now for upcoming
spring events, our rate of growth will continue to accelerate as well.
We do have a few leadership changes to announce:
Steve Frey (MI) was going to become Michigan Coordinator, but new family
responsibilites for Region 9 Director Chris Hughes
requires her to vacate that position. So
Steve become our new Region 9 Director and is already working on some great
activities. Steve’s email address is 77ss@mail.com.
Allen Burch (CO) is our new Region 16 Director for Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and
Colorado. He is retired from the U.S. Air Force and lives in Colorado Springs.
His email address is bulletman700@hotmail.com.
Doug Hart (WA) is our new Region 19 Director for Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and
Alaska. He has been very active in El Camino clubs in the Pacific Northwest and
has been a moderator on ECC for some time.
His email address is dughrt@aol.com.
Rob -------- (CA), better known
as “Poltergeist” has been added to our Board of Directors and is
increasingly assisting Robert More in administration of the website.
He replaces Peter Brown who is no longer active with us.
We
have been in contact with other members about stepping up into roles as area or
state coordinators, in those areas where there are enough members and sufficient
interest levels. Some of you may
also have noticed that we have had some very spirited discussions on our website
about the layout of our current regions. This layout was set out by Dan Smith when we had less than
100 members. Now that we have grown
into a rather sizable organization, we are willing to consider redrawing those
lines to reflect membership levels in particular areas, and most especially when
someone is willing to step up as a leader in that area.
So, please keep this concept in mind as we grow, and continue to offer
suggestions for these necessary changes.
Also
being sent to each of you under separate email, is a list of members in your
region who have provided their location in their member’s profile.
Please try to use this rough list and develop it better by sending an
email notice to your members about upcoming events you are planning for this
spring. Continue to refer to http://www.hemmings.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/events.main
for information about existing shows and events in your area that you may wish
to attend as NECOA members.
Thanks
to all of you for your efforts in continuing to help our club’s tremendous
growth!
John
Harris, NECOA National Director
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