And Now, A Word From Our
2008 President, Mark Eissler:
May 2008
What Are You Going To Do?
Well, have you thought about it?
There’s a lot of Corvette Club of Michigan things you can do this Spring and
Summer.
Some opportunities are:
May 11 Mother’s Day
Autocross
It’s a Corvettes Only Autocross day at the General
Motors Hamtramck Assembly Plant lot. If you are not planning to autocross, you
can join the cruise to the autocross that Kerry Hlady is organizing from the Les
Stanford Chevrolet Service area. Meet up at 10:45 AM, Depart at 11:00 AM. (If
you are autocrossing, go directly to the Hamtramck lot.)
The Corvette Club of Michigan’s big 50th
Anniversary Celebration Weekend
It begins on Friday June 6 with an
informal dinner gathering at the Moose Preserve in Bloomfield Hills. Sign up
with Kerry Hlady.
Then on the morning of Saturday June 7, join us for Breakfast at the Athens
Coney Island on Woodward in Royal Oak. Get there around 9 AM (no sign up for
the breakfast, just show up). Eat and then Cruise Woodward with your fellow CCM
Members.
Saturday Evening June 7 is the Really BIG Deal.
The Corvette Club of Michigan 50th Anniversary Celebration Dinner
at the General Motors Heritage Center in Sterling Heights. (Please
sign up with Ted Hou by May 4th.) I urge you not to miss this
dinner. After all, CCM will only be 50 years old once. And the GM Heritage
Center is generally not open to the public.
The Organizing
Committee of the Corvette Club of Michigan
50th Anniversary Celebration Dinner wishes to
inform the Membership that the registration deadline for our Dinner is Friday,
May 23, 2008. Your registration for the Dinner AND your payment for the dinner
must be postmarked no later than May 23rd. Regretfully, the Committee will
return all registrations for the Dinner that are postmarked later than May
23rd.
And as if that weren’t enough, the Club’s annual Summer Picnic is the afternoon
of Sunday June 8, at the Hickory Shelter in Maybury State Park, Northville.
Wow! But that’s not all!
Corvette Encounter
The return of Corvette Encounter is
Sunday June 29th at the Les Stanford Chevrolet Dealership on Michigan
Avenue in Dearborn. So get your Vette cleaned up and shined up and enter it in
the Judged Show during the Encounter. And during the Encounter, Corvette Club of
Michigan will raffle off a new Corvette! Contact Jim Rees to buy that winning
Corvette Raffle ticket! Each ticket is only $50 and proceeds will go to
charity.
Here are more things you can do:
Join the Corvette Club of Michigan Board of Directors
There are
currently 3 openings on our Board, each with a say in Club Business and a vote
in important Club doings. Read about the very simple duties and consider
helping your Club.
- Public Relations Director
The Public Relations Director’s duties
are to sell (once per Club Year) a limited amount of advertising that we publish
in our newsletter, SlipStream. Additionally, the Public Relations Director will
submit such stories of Club events and activities to outside publications as
appropriate and is responsible to arrange for Corvettes at local parades if the
Club is asked to provide any.
- Program
Director
The Program Director’s duties are to
arrange for speakers or programs at our monthly Club meetings. In reality, we
only have need of 8 or 9 programs in any given Club Year. Additionally, the
Board usually has helpful suggestions for and a list of folks to draw from for
programs.
- SlipStream Publisher
The duties of SlipStream Publisher are
to collect articles for publication in and to arrange for the publication of
SlipStream. Please consider helping CCM maintain this great Club tradition.
Please contact Vice President Mary
Wentzel or me for more information on these important Board positions or to
“take the job”, we need you.
More things to do:
Buy great CCM Merchandise!
It’s easy and simple to do. Just check
out this link to begin the
ordering process. Please note that your Board of Directors has arranged for all
these great Club Merchandise items through our good friends and long-time
supplier, Jeff Wixom and his crew at Sunset Sportswear of South Lyon, Michigan.
Well, what are you going to do? Keep Wavin’ Mark Eissler, President
February
2008 Column
Fellow Corvette Club of Michigan
Members, welcome to our 50th Anniversary Year! Your Board of
Directors is planning some big doings! Social Director Kerry Hlady has been
keeping you posted on many of these developments through Email and his reports
at our monthly meeting, but allow me to summarize them here.
Most of our Celebration will be in June, 2008. We are planning our annual Club
Picnic to be in June this year to align with our anniversary. Also our Club
will hold a special 50th Anniversary Dinner at the GM Heritage Center
in Sterling Heights. Picture, if you will, yourself, your spouse, your CCM
friends and special invited Corvette Dignitaries, all hob knob-ing and rubbing
elbows among a priceless collection of significant concept cars, one-off design
study cars and vintage production cars while enjoying excellent food and spirits
in celebration of our 50th Anniversary! Watch these pages for
information on how and when to purchase tickets.
And, as if that weren’t enough, get ready for the return of Corvette Encounter
in a big way and with a new twist, to mark the 50th birthday of our
favorite Corvette Club. Membership Director Jim Rees has stepped forward and
assumed the challenge of bringing back Corvette Encounter. We are happy to
announce that Les Stanford is 100% supportive of the Club’s efforts toward
Corvette Encounter 2008. Jim has reported to the Board that Les Stanford
Chevrolet will host us, tentatively at the end of June, at the newly expanded
dealership in Dearborn. And what was that previously mentioned “new twist”?
CCM will raffle off a new Corvette to one very lucky ticket holder at
Corvette Encounter 2008. We anticipate beginning to sell tickets for the raffle
very soon. Profits from the raffle will go charity. Look for Jim Rees’
report in this issue of SlipStream.
We have new Corvette Club of Michigan club merchandise and apparel that you can
purchase to show your support for CCM! Thanks to Membership Director Jim Rees,
there is even a cool new 50th Anniversary Club Logo that you can
choose to adorn this new merchandise. And thanks to Board Members Joe Scafero
and Ted Hou and our Club webmaster, Steve Budaj, we think we’ve streamlined the
browsing / viewing and ordering process for these awesome wearables! Just check
out the
link to begin the ordering process. Please note that your Board of
Directors has arranged for all these great Club Merchandise items through our
good friends and long-time supplier, Jeff Wixom and his crew at Sunset
Sportswear of South Lyon, Michigan. So your support of CCM through our Club
Merchandise will also support a great Michigan business, too.
CCM Opportunities for February 2008:
Are you excited about being a member of Corvette Club of Michigan? Do you have
a desire to help the Board of Directors operate our Club? Do you have ideas on
activities or events? Perhaps you want change? Then have I got a deal for you!
The Board of Directors is composed of 21 Club officers. And we have three
openings on the Board: Public Relations Director, Program Director and
SlipStream Publisher.
The Public Relations Director’s duties are to sell (once per Club Year) a
limited amount of advertising that we publish in our newsletter, SlipStream.
Additionally, the Public Relations Director will submit such stories of Club
events and activities to outside publications as appropriate and is responsible
to arrange for Corvettes at local parades if the Club is asked to provide any.
The Program Director’s duties are to arrange for speakers or programs at our
monthly Club meetings. In reality, we only have need of 8 or 9 programs in any
given Club Year. Additionally, the Board usually has helpful suggestions for
and a list of folks to draw from for programs.
The duties of SlipStream Publisher are to collect articles for publication in
and to arrange for the publication of SlipStream. Please consider helping CCM
maintain this great Club tradition.
Please contact Vice President Mary Wentzel or me for more information on these
important Board positions or to “take the job”, we need you.
Please know that the following Members compose your 2008 Board of Directors:
Vice
President Mary Wentzel
Treasurer Ted Hou
Recording Secretary Pat Jutras
Corresponding Secretary Dyan Janowitz
2nd Year Board Rep Jan Van Maanen
2nd Year Board Rep Fred King
2nd Year Board Rep Diane Watson
1st Year Board Rep Dave Krom
1st Year Board Rep Ken Watson
1st Year Board Rep Chris Davies
Past President Mary Wentzel
Competition Director Chris Scafero
Detroit Council (DCSCC) Rep Bruce Wentzel
Points Director Ken Sumner
NCCC Governor Joe Scafero
Membership Director Jim Rees
Social Director Kerry Hlady
NCM Ambassador Joe Thomas
And finally, I want to thank you, the
Members of Corvette Club of Michigan, for the privilege of returning as
President of your Club. It’s our 50th Anniversary Year!
Let’s get out there and make it a great one!
Keep on Wavin’ Mark Eissler, President
