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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

I would like to wish you and your families a very happy, fun, and healthy 2012 year. I hope everyone has had a wonderful year-end of holidays Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years.

A year has passed, very fast, for me at the helm as president of the GSRPOC. It has been a bit of a tough time for me (and others) to realize that many of the Region goals, I had set for myself, did not get accomplished. I have had numerous un-expectant interruptions that held me back from putting in the time I had hoped to.

The big region activity this year was the very successful Summer National Meet at Pacific Grove. The event drew a number of out of state members (Oregon, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, and Washington). The comments response from attendees was GREAT TIME and MEET. The car show and judging brought out many great looking cars on Sat. (a total of about 40 cars on the show field) - followed by a great fine banquet after the show. The main person that was responsible for putting (pulling this together) was our long time GSRPOC member Nick DeSimone. He got a lot of support from his wife Charmaine, David Maxwell (trophies), Margie Amos (table decorations), Denise Brady (Kragen Auto and other items for the goodie bag), Bob Semichy (the blue, American flagged, goodie bags, hospitality, and judging), David Geise (judging organization and head judge), Sparky (who came out from Illinois and help every where including show field organization). There were others who I did not get names. Thanks to Nick and all for a successful meet.

We have sadly fallen behind in our newsletter production this past year. Being president I receive many finely done (6-12 page color) monthly NL from our other regions around the country and would love like to see the same being done with our newsletter (NL). We have fallen behind with NL issues due the difficulty of quickly finding an editor who can undertake this daunting task. We need a volunteer editor and even an assistant editor. I will admit being editor is a bit of a job - having done it for two other clubs in my younger years before the advent of the computer and word processing.
But today, if you have a computer, and do not have the publishing tools to do a news letter - the web site has a link "Create a Newsletter" which has our basic NL already formatted, in PDF, and automat ally incorporates activities, stories, ads posted on the GSRPOC web site. NL input will come from myself, member contributions and what you, as editor, find. Web Master Tod Fitch has volunteered to fill in for the absence of a current NL editor and will only be able to put out a quarterly NL He has put out the fall 2011 NL via email link. This (November) issue of the Newsletter is available, obtained from the web site. All members, with email address, should have received a NL down load link, in an email, from Tod Fitch. The cost an labor of assembling a hard copy NL, for mailing, is out of question for now - but hopefully in the future - when a NL editor is found, along with member help in with it's assembly/mailing, we can offer the option of a hard copy NL as well as the down load present down load version which some day can include color,

Or club membership needs to grow and this we can all help by attending local car events in your area armed with copies of the GSRPOC membership application down loaded from our web site. By having these in hand, and a copy of the National Plymouth Bulletin (you can show the excellent quality of our National Bulletin) and give the application to attendees that show an interest in Plymouths encouraging them to join. The club is offering years free membership for every 3 new members you get to join. There will be an added, place for you to add your name to the application as the referring GSRPOC member. Our membership secretary chairman, Margie Amos, will note this reference. Please continue to think about ways to increase our membership and how to new members to join (or to rejoin) and forward them to your director.

The September 17 2011 annual business meeting, in Arroyo Grande, was blessed with Great weather and enjoyed by those of us who toured to the meeting location, at Rancho Grande Park, for the 1 pm meeting. Attendees were Nick DeSimone and Larry LaBrack Director of San Diego area) who drove together in Nicks 1940?? Ply club coupe, Tod Fitch (web master) on his way to Arizona, Bill Steed, Patrick Coady, Rob & Kim Hunt, Paul Taylor, Denise Brady (VP) and Ken Wilson.

Working from a, 4 page, prepared agenda the items were discussed and acted on. I have summarized the results of meeting discussion items and it is available to read under the web site's - NEWS- tab.

.With the new year here and the approaching good weather it's time now that members step forward and volunteer to hoist an event or offer to lead a 2012 GSRPOC tour. Let us make this year better then the last. If you have an outing/tour idea please contact your GSRPOC Area Board Director (listed under the web site tab -"Region Officers"). With your tour suggestion and/or offer to lead a car tour/event in your area. The preparation/route of a tour can easily be prepared by using the Internet and Goggle Maps and Satellite.

The first GSRPOC area event/tour will be in San Diego Feb 25 2012, hosted by area director Larry LaBrack (619) 972-0486. I'm hoping for many more GSRPOC events/tours in each of the other 4 areas of California this year. I encourage members to keep an eye out for Plymouth adds and car events, in your area, and post them on our web site.

Ken Wilson- GSRPOC president 

Edited on 2012-01-20 by Kenneth Wilson

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