Greetings for 2011, the year of our Club’s 50th Anniversary and with our membership at a fifty year high of 237 members, we are looking forward to a gala celebration on April 2nd.
We had a record-breaking year in 2010 with 42 club members participating in our annual Talladega Grand Prix Raceway Driver’s Education. That’s 19% of our membership, up from last year’s 12%; including three instructors, three instructor candidates, nineteen students, and seventeen workers. Additionally, we had seven Peachstate and one Alabama Region instructor candidates participating in the Peachstate Region’s PCA National DE Instructor School. Thanks again Peachstate!
We scheduled a variety of activities last year that appealed to everyone, including nine Saturday morning Pit Stop Cracker Barrel Breakfasts; eleven Thursday night Dinner Meetings at the Outback, Ol’ Heidelberg, Simp Mcghees in Decatur, and the Golden Rule; seven Saturday Day Tours to Florence where club members donated $2,500 to the North Alabama Children’s Home; to Franklin for lunch; to the Inaugural Alabama Indy-car Grand Prix Race in Birmingham, to the Tennessee Tubs Car Show at Bushy Creek Farm west of Nashville, to Atlanta’s High Museum to see the Allure of the Automobile Display; to the Beechcraft Heritage Museum in Tullahoma; and to Chef Troy’s Talk of the Town Café in the Bankhead National Forest. We also conducted our annual Tech Session at Club-sponsor Freddie Louis Auto Accessories followed by a free lunch at Dreamlands Bar-B-Que.
Club members participated in five Zone and National events with six members attending the Porsche Parade at St. Charles, Illinois, winning trophies in the Concours, TSD Rally, Gimmick Rally, and Autocross. Club members also attended the Tennessee Region’s Winterfest in Chattanooga, the Smoky Mountain Region’s Spring Thing in Oak Ridge, the Carolina Region’s Porschefest in Ashville, and the Peachstate Region’s Rennfest in Young Harris. |
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Club members drove and instructed at eight Zone Three DEs with the Alabama Region at Barber, the Peachstate Region at Road Atlanta, and the Carolina Region at Carolina Motorsports Park.
Sixty-five club members attended our Annual Business Meeting at Porsche of Huntsville, followed by Christmas Dinner at Limestone Bay Trading Post. Door prizes from Porsche of Huntsville and Freddie Louis valued at more than $2,500, were distributed during the meeting and the 2010 officers were confirmed to continue serving in 2011, most of them for a 6th term.
In addition to conducting another Driver’s Education at Talladega on April 30, 2011, our main priority this year will be the preparation for the 50th Anniversary Gala. Diligent research led to the discovery of the design of our Club’s first logo, a Tri-state emblem in service from 1961 through 1981. This logo was followed by the Jim William’s designed Fuchs Wheel club logo in service from 1982 through 2003, followed by the current stylized 911 logo. All three of these logos have been reproduced as grill badges and will be available at the Gala.
The Gala will start with lunch at The Cedars Plantation just west of Belle Mina followed by a Porsche Parade with a goal of 100 vehicles east on I-565, south on Memorial Parkway, then through downtown Huntsville, by the dealership, and to the Marriott Space Center where we will host a reception and dinner featuring a 1961 Porsche Roadster and a 2011 Porsche 911 GTS; Porsches representing our 1st and 50th year of existence. If you ever plan to attend another club event, this should be the one!
Jim Cambron
President, Heart O' Dixie Region
Porsche Club of America
(256) 428-2869; cell 679-5454
Email:
James.Cambron@cobham.com |
