Puget Sound Region VCCA General Meeting Minutes
May 19, 2008

Call to Order - The Meeting was called to order at Tillicum Middle School at 7:30 pm by Director Jim Martoza. 
Welcome - Leigh Wilcox, Pacific Northwest Area 3 Director; Ken Scott and Sandy Bruyn from Mt Rainier Region were guests.  Ellie Brown, long time friend of Evie Schein was visiting from Massachusetts.
Leeds and Needs - Passed clipboard around.
Secretary - Minutes accepted as printed in Tappet Clatter.
Treasurers Report - All is healthy is the word from Sallie.
Membership - Donna Onat reported that we have two new members.   Gene Sovar who visited the meeting last month has joined and already has a garage nite scheduled.  Mike Wechsler is a new member.  We now have 69 paid members.
Monroe Swap Meet - Ana recognized the 23 volunteers and pictures were taken with hats and fans from the swap meet.
Program - Leigh Wilcox presented Jim Farris with an award for the outstanding newsletter.  Leigh also touched on several items from National.  There will be special badges for 35, 45 and 50 year membership.  There will be yearly best of show awards for 4, 6 and 8 cylinder cars. 
Ken Scott will be Chief Judge at the Northwest Meet in August at Ocean Shores.  He encouraged all to have their car judged.  He gave an overview of the different categories.  He also encouraged members who are having cars judged and who are volunteering to be judges to send in your registration early. 
Sandy Bruyn is in charge of registration for the Northwest Meet and brought copies of the Prospectus for the meet to the meeting and answered questions from the members.

Stores - 50/50 winners were George Haley and Dave Haddock.  Door Prizes were won by Bill Johnson (2), Jerry Brownell, Betty Roberts and Jim Farris.

Garage Nite - Gene Sovar will host the next Garage Nite on June 11th.
Glove Box -  Bob Stamnes reported that Rod Schein is looking for a whiplash support device, more about this will be in his Glove Box article.  Bob is always looking for new items for the Glove Box.
Activities  - Dave Haddock reported that he had counted 7 chapter events in 16 days of  May and many members made most of the events.  June 7th is the Big Rock car show at Duvall.  Father's Day will be the GM Picnic at Graham.
Historian -  Bob Helgesen has placed a number of  pictures of events out on the website. 
Tappet Clatter - Still looking for pictures of members with their cars from when they were in their twenties.  Also stories about their first car.  Jim also encouraged everyone to get their old cars out to the events, it's a great way to attract new members!
Break Refreshments - Coffee and drinks by Bob Helgeson.  Bob Stamnes provided refreshments.
There were 35 attendees and the meeting was adjourned at 9 pm.
                                                                                                         Respectfully submitted by Dick Jones

MONROE SWAP MEET- THANK YOU

To all the volunteers - I would like to thank you all for a job well done at the Monroe Swap Meet. Your wonderful help is very much appreciated. I am very proud to be a part of such a dedicated team. Your hard work has created another milestone.  We received a check from "The Early Ford" Club of America for a total amount of $932.50. FANTASTIC! WE DID IT AGAIN!  Thanks go to:
Donna Onat, Rod & Evie Schein, Don & Sallie Comstock, Gene Gooding, Bill Johnson, Steve Grissom, Dick Jones, Bob Helgeson, Jerry Brownell, Dick Olson, Dave & Betty Roberts, Jim Seiber, Jim Martoza, Bob Stamnes, Al Howe, Bill Damm, George Warren, Dave Haddock and George and Ana Maria Haley.                                                                         
See you in 2009 Ana Maria Haley