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Newsletter Date
Special Points of Interest
October Wine Tour
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CGCC Races
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Inside this issue:
President’s Article
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Community Service 4
Birthdays
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Meeting Minutes
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9,12,
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Corvette Museum
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Message from the President
Hello,
Spring is around the corner and Corvette season is in the air.....YEAH!
The Calendar is filling up with many fun opportunities so start marking your calendars. We are looking forward to another GREAT year of enjoying our many
events. Wet Weekend starts off the fun. If you have not been, come join
us....
5 Star is back up and running. We are meeting the end of each month, watch
for the dates. Come join the fun....
Looking forward to seeing you at the events and meeting.....
Alisa
Food news for the April 13 general Membership meeting.
The Lakewood Elks have proposed a revision to our rental contract for
our meeting room. We have "paid" rent for the meeting room by assuring a minimum number of meals being purchased. We are waiting for
the Elks response to our board approved contract that would pay them
a fixed amount every month. We are expecting greater meal variety as
a result of the new contract.
Waiting for a answer we do not know what the meal options will be for
April. I will do the usual week before e-mail of the menu. So, watch for
that information.
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PLEASE JOIN US!
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Second Saturday of Each Month 7:00
P.M.
Lakewood Elks
6313 75th St W
Lakewood, WA
Dinner & drinks are available prior to the
meeting. Come early to meet & greet!
Members, prospective members and guests are
WELCOME!
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
5-Star Meeting will be at Mitzels In
Fife on Thursday, March 28. Dinner
at 5:30 pm and Meeting at 6:30 pm.
Mitzels
5402 Pacific Hwy E
Fife, 98424
Thursday before the General Membership Meeting
7:00pm
2013 Officers & Committee Chairs
ALISA DILLON (253) 853-5823
PRESIDENT
CLUB SALES
Charlene Petersen (253) 691-2348
Michelle Wallace (253) 330-3962
DOUG WILLRICH (253) 973-8028 COMMUNITY SERVICE
Jan Landry (360) 832-6990
VICE PRESIDENT
PARADES
Jim Dillon (253) 853-5823
PHOTOGRAPHER
Conrad Neuman
(253)590-4724
EVENTS
Dennis Peterson (253)691-2348
Christine Mazjak (253)720-6153
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Jim Dillon (253) 853-5823
John Underhill
MARILYN UNDERHILL
(253) 752-5234
TREASURER
FIVE STAR
Rick Ford (206)854-1881
RAFFLE
Penny Swanson (253) 536-8440
Maile Willrich (253) 923-8028
NWACC REPRESENTATIVES
Chuck Hulka (253) 853-3118
Dennis Beaulieu (253) 847-4781
Elvira Tucker (253) 568-6647
GALA EVENTS
Angie Guy (253)306-5767
Cyndi Wikstrom (253)370-9980
SUNSHINE
Candy Bundy (253)584-3123
HISTORIAN
Billy Chambers (253) 202-0095
UNDER GLASS
Micki Wendt (253) 267-1887
[email protected]
BOB THOMAS (253) 862-1756
SECRETARY
NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM REPRESENTATIVE
Len Tucker (253) 568-6647
FOOD/PHONE
Elvira Tucker (253) 568-6647
MEMBERSHIP
Rick & Cheri Austin (206)384-5099
ROSTER
Rick Landry (360) 832-6990
WEB MASTER
David Bailey (206) 984-1320
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Classical Glass Corvette Club supports two charities with 5 Star profits, member donations and budgetary allotment. With your membership and volunteering for 5 Star
and other activities YOU are our Community Service! THANK YOU!
The Family Renewal Shelter needs our support both monetarily when you donate
at meetings to the zebra box, by bringing fast food cards, gas cards, Wal-Mart or
Safeway cards and new or used cell phone equipment plus generic phone cards to
meetings or get-togethers. The Family Renewal Shelter is a Christian humanitarian
organization dedicated to bringing healing hope and a new life to victims of domestic
violence. CGCC has supported FRS for more than 20 years and we THANK YOU.
Nat’l 24 Hour Hotline 1-(888) 550-3915.
The Washington Soldiers Home in Orting is the other charity we support. Recently they received $1,000 from 5 Star for their in-house Recreation Fund. One of
our members has a source for WW2 type board games and donated them to WSH.
They were very excited with these games and put them right into their supplies for
the soldiers that are bedridden. THANK YOU!
For any information regarding our community service, please email me.
Jan Landry: [email protected]
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Happy Birthday
March
Janice Campbell 3-Mar
Betty Felker
4-Mar
Bill Barsanti
7-Mar
George Schwartz 9-Mar
Phyllis Huteson 10-Mar
Dennis Beaulieu 11-Mar
Tom Whitman 12-Mar
Bob Felker
14-Mar
Loretta Able
14-Mar
Penny Swanson 15-Mar
Mark Majscak 18-Mar
Phil Funk
19-Mar
Don Mulligan 20-Mar
Micki Wendt
20-Mar
Ron Halsey
21-Mar
Pat DePirro
23-Mar
Gwen Beaulieu 25-Mar
Angie Crawford 28-Mar
Meo Feroy
29-Mar
Michael Thams 31-Mar
April
Art Johnson
Edie Grube
Jeff Berfield
Fred Huteson
Bill Brown
Diane Knutson
Bob Jones
Gene Gratzer
Cheri Austin
Rayetta Montgomery
Rick Ford
Bob Thomas
Raymond Holmes
Gary Fowler
1-Apr
4-Apr
10-Apr
11-Apr
12-Apr
13-Apr
14-Apr
15-Apr
18-Apr
24-Apr
27-Apr
29-Apr
30-Apr
30-Apr
October Wine Tour
Greetings wine enthusiats!! Well here we are again planning year 7
of our wine tours.
We are back to the beautiful Lake Chelan Wine Country, Friday,Oct. 4-Sunday 6th of 2013.
Where: Campbell's Resort — phone # 1-800-553-8225
Dinners: to be determined.
We reserved 14 rooms, 7 traditional ($136/nt), 7 delux($174/
nt).. Make your reservations early as it is crushing time and the
town books up quickly. More traditional price rooms available to
switch to if necessary. More info to come later. When you call indicate you are with the CGCC group and the group reservation # is
292519
Submitted: Betty Felker and Chuck Hulka
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MEETING MINUTES
General Meeting – March 9, 2013
The meeting was called to order at 7:05pm by President Alisa Dillon
President: Alisa Dillon
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Welcome everyone
Vice President: Doug Willrich
Phil Berven was appointed Sergeant at arms.
About 17 people had dinner tonight.
We need a new Web page chair, if you have experience and are interested let Doug know.
Treasurer: Marilyn Underhill:
Marilyn provided a detailed financial report.
Alisa solicited a motion to accept the treasurer’s report as presented.
Rick Landry made the motion to accept the treasurer’s report, Ray Helt seconded the motion. The
motion was voted on and the report was approved.
Secretary: Bob Thomas
Alisa asked if there were any corrections to the published minutes, none presented. A motion was
solicited to accept the minutes for the February meeting as printed in the UnderGlass. John Underhill made the motion, it was seconded and approved.
Club Sales: co-Chairs Charlene Petersen and Michele Wallace
We have no specials tonight, but they have 45th Anniversary shirts available for order. The cost for
them is $48.00.
Community Service Chair: Jan Landry
She read a letter from the Family Renewal Shelter that was published in their newsletter.
Nothing is going on, but if you are out and around and see something that could be a benefit to the
Shelter, pick it up and give it to Jan.
Events Chair: Dennis Petersen
Putt Putt Golf outing, we won the participating trophy, 28 people attended. Good time.
Corvettes of Auburn Open house. Saturday 16th of February, well attended event by a lot of the
clubs. Good food, great times.
Poverty Bay Wine Festival in DesMoines, 10 cars showedup, we had to kick the Triumph club out
of the parking spots, but once that was done, we staged the cars and went in and enjoyed the wine
festival.
March Events
TCC is having their Bowling event next week. We have to have numbers by tomorrow
Book club is meeting on Sunday March 17th.
April Events,
Wet Weekend, April 20th. Meeting in DuPont at the McDonalds at 9:00am on Saturday. We will be driving the same basic route as last year. Lunch will be at
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Camp 18, then on to Seaside. There is a group going down Friday, and a group staying Sunday
night.
Doug Willrich talked about his trip in May to Laguna Seca.
Five Star Events: Rick Ford
Rick could not make the meeting
Lots of things happening on the 5 Star committees. And we still need volunteers to help with the
event.
The next meeting will be on March 28th at Mitzels at 6:30
Food/Phone: Elvira Tucker
Today she made lots of good cookies for break time.
Gala Event: Chair: Angie Guy. Cindy Wickstrom
We have Steve Guy to give the report; Short stack has Bacterial Pneumonia so she is taking care of
him. She is exploring options for the Xmas parties, Angie wanted to know if we want to have the
summer picnic at the Soldiers home or have it somewhere else, and do a drive through the Soldiers
home. Let Angie know via email or call her.
Historian: Billy Chambers
No report, but he called Alisa and the scanning is progressing.
Membership: Rick and Cheri Austin
49 members tonight and Dick and Karla Lynch from Jet.
NCM Representative: Len Tucker:
If you are not a member of NCM and you claim to be a Corvette person, you should join. You will
make your fee back with the discounts at the NCM store.
Caravan to Bowling Green, September 2014.
He has information on Collector Car Insurance and they now licensed to sell insurance in the State
of Washington.
He has Raffle tickets.
Pre Raffle Draw for 6 additional tickets.
Bob Thomas won the drawing.
Jet Chevrolet rep: Dick Lynch
Special deal this month, if you want a 60th anniversary Jacket cost is $86,000 and they through in a
2013 Corvette for Free.
Discount of $3000 if you already own a Corvette is in place until April 2013.
Doug Willrich reported that Barbara Madison is riding a bike for cancer and the Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research; she is on the Road now. We have a box up on the membership table to give donations; the box will be there for three months.
Mark Swanson reported there are pictures from Race day at Lemay’s that Chuck Brezina took sitting on the back table so you can see what all of the buzz was about.
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CGCC RACES AT FAMOUS LIME ROCK PARK RACEWAY
A group of CGCC drivers found themselves at one of the famous U.S.
racetracks for a morning of elapsed time
challenges. Fire suits, Nomex gloves, Piloti driving shoes and liability insurance were not required as this was a virtual contest.
The new Lemay Museum has 3 driving simulators that use I-Racing
software to replicate a variety of racecars and tracks from all over the
world. Our venue was Lime Rock and our ride was the Acura ARX open
cockpit prototype level racecar. The track and the car offer a lesson, and
some insight to what we see on TV and as spectators at sports car racing events.
Each CGCC driver had 3 separate driving opportunities to get a feel for
the track and the car. As the 2nd set of laps started the competitive
urges started, along with some experiences at driver off-track. Record
keeping of fastest lap times, "tech crew" input and "no consequences"
crashing brought out the full-on competitive mode with ever decreasing
lap times. At the end of the 3rd session Rick Austin had turned in the
fastest lap time, 46 seconds, Doug Willrich 2nd at 48 seconds, Fred
Huteson took 3rd as the trophies were awarded.
Mark Swanson organized this very fun event and promised another will
follow. I-Racing has the Corvette factory racing C6-R in their inventory
and hopefully we might get our hands on that.
Thanks to Mark for doing all the advance work on the driving event.
When the next one comes along be sure to get on the list.
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THANK YOU CLUB SPONSORS!!
Rainier Collision, Inc.
Rainier Auto Repair
Gig Harbor, Washington
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What's In Your Museum
2012 ZR1 - World Record Car driven by Jim Mero on June 9, 2011 at the
Nurburgring.
Corvette Engineer, Jim Mero, shaved six seconds off the previous Corvette
best lap set in 2008 beating out the Nissan GT-R, Maserati MC12, Ferrari
Enzo and the Pagani Zonda F Clubsport with a time of 7 minutes, 19.63 seconds.
Did you know that the 13-mile, 10-corner Green Hell in the picturesque Eiffel
Mountains, is the most demanding track in the world, requiring of cars that would conquer it a complete
suite of attributes: enormous top-end speed, low-speed handling and grip, drivability combined with hardedged, flat-track cornering, excellent dynamic balance and braking? To test there costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Do you consider yourself a Corvette enthusiast? Are you a member of the Museum? Why not? The Museum is where you will find the information you need for your Corvette. The Museum has the build sheets
and window stickers for all of the Corvettes built in Bowling Green. They also house all of the archives
collected by NCRS through the years for restoring your classic. And membership starts at only $50 a year.
Individual Member
Membership card
Silver member lapel pin
Free admission to member*
Discount on NCM sponsored events
Annual subscription to America's Sports Car
10% discount on merchandise from the Corvette Store and catalog***
Discount on insurance from NCM Insurance Agency
Price: $50.00
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Family Membership
Two membership cards
Two silver member lapel pins
Annual subscription to America's Sports Car
Free admission to Museum for member and immediate family* **
Discount on NCM sponsored events
10% discount on merchandise from the Corvette Store and catalog***
Discount on insurance from NCM Insurance Agency
Price: $100.00
Lifetime Member
Lifetime membership to the Museum
Lifetime Member name badge(s)
Name engraved on a special lifetime plaque displayed in the Museum
Lifetime subscription to America's Sports Car
Gold metal membership card
Lifetime Membership Certificate
Custom designed lapel pin
Free admission for member and immediate family * **
Invitations to VIP functions sponsored by the NCM
Discount on NCM sponsored events
15% discount on merchandise from the Corvette Store and catalog***
Discount on insurance from NCM Insurance Agency
Price: $1500.00 (one-time donation)
Payment plan available, please see Lifetime Membership on line for more details.
Please apply at on line at Member Services, download a form to join via mail, or call 800-53-VETTE to
join us as a Member. Or see me for a form at one of our meetings or events. Don’t forget to mention my
name and CGCC when you apply.
Check out NCM Insurance for collector car insurance for your pride and joy.
If you would like additional information about the NCM, please contact me during any of our meetings
and events, or contact the Museum directly at 1-800-53VETTE or on their web page at http://
www.corvettemuseum.org/.
Len Tucker, Your National Corvette Museum Ambassador
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MEETING MINUTES CONT.
BREAK
NWACC Rep: Dennis Beaulieu, Chuck Hulka, Elvira Tucker
Dennis reported that the schedules for all of the Autocrosses are posted on the NWACC web site.
Nothing else going on at this time.
Newsletter: Micki Wendt
Doug gave the report. The Events calendar needs to be in Word Doc format, she is also asking for
articles for the UnderGlass. Micki would like articles about you, your cars, etc. Also if you set up
an event, write up something for the UnderGlass. Maile suggested that we start with the Board members.
Member present award:
Karla Lynch drew Conrad Neuman’s name on the first try and Conrad won a gift certificate to Red
Lobster.
Parades: Jim Dillon
The Rhododendron Festival coming up in May. Jim needs someone to run this
After that there will be the July 4th DuPont Parade. Those participating will caravan to Eatonville for
their parade.
Photographer: Conrad Neuman
If there is anyone who has joined since August, we need your pictures for the newsletter. Please get
hold of Conrad.
Public Relations: Jim Dillon, John Underhill
Not much going on, working on getting the dates set for the cruise in this summer.
Roster: Rick Landry
There will be a new roster coming out next week. Remember it’s confidential
Sunshine: Candy Bundy
Doug gave the report
Mike Ervin was sent a card for some surgery he had.
We received a thank you card from Marilyn Underhill.
Website: Volunteer needed – a big Thank You to David Bailey for his years of service.
Old Business
Last month we went into closed session to discuss the autocross equipment, at the Board meeting we continued the discussion and came up with the following motion which was read to the membership by Alisa.
In response to your letter dated January 22nd 2013, A motion was made to relinquish ownership and
liability of the autocross equipment in your possession to Ron Waller, Chuck Hulka, and Tony Hyatt
and that the funds remaining in the Autocross repair fund remain with the CGCC .The autocross
equipment is being relinquished for the best interest and betterment of the club.
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THANK YOU CLUB SPONSORS!!
Contact Dick Lynch Fleet/Commercial Sales Manager, Cell (253) 405-3610,
or email [email protected]
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The Board vote was 10 in favor 3 opposed and 2 abstained
Alisa opened up the floor for discussion.
Alisa recapped the events that lead up to this decision.
There was some discussion from several members.
Rick Landry made a motion that we accept the motion that the board voted on.
Dennis Petersen seconded the motion
Alisa read again the motion prepared by the Board and it was put to the membership for a vote. Results
were, 37 in favor, 8 opposed and 2 abstained.
A letter will be send to Ron Waller regarding the decision and another letter will be sent to NWACC
notifying that CGCC are relinquishing their ownership and are no longer going to be responsible and
CGCC is releasing all liability for the equipment.
Maile thanked the Board for the honesty and transparency on this issue.
New Business
Elk’s contract. The Elks Board came to us at the end of last year to renegotiate our contract. Alisa
and Doug met with the Elks and the Elks Board came up with the following options for us.
Option 1: Monthly rent will be $100.00, including storage. (We normally rent this room out for
$350.00 per event for members, $500.00 for non-members)
You will do your own clean up.
Your Members are welcome to eat and drink in our Lounge, for the same prices as our Members.
There will be no need for you to guaranty any set amount of dinners to be sold.
Option 2: You will guaranty 15 dinners at $12.00 each. (See attached choice of menu items)+ $25.00
rent per month. Storage is included.
You will do your own clean up.
Option 3: You will guarantee 20 dinners at $12 each. (See attached choice of menu items)
You will do your own clean up. Storage is included.
Clean up means: Folding and stacking chairs. Vacuum/Sweep as needed, empty garbage. Return
glasses/dishes to Lounge
The CGCC Board voted to accept Option 1, the $100.00 per month rental, with no requirement for meals. This
seems the most equitable to all members and a good deal for the club. One of the non-negotiable items is to
clean up the room after the meeting. Fold up the chairs and tables. We will get Elk member pricing for the
menu items for those that are interested in eating before the meeting.
Dennis B. pointed out that currently those that are eating are funding the room, this way the whole club pays
for the room. Several members indicated that the rent is more then fair.
A committee has been formed to review the Bylaws and make suggestions for changes. This committee has 2
Executive Board Members, 3 Board members and 2 club members.
5 Star registrations is on-going, everyone sign up.
Raffle by Maile and Penny Swanson,
Zebra Box $ 75.00 - Thank you
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CLASSICAL
GLASS CORVETTE CLUB
OF TACOMA
P.O. BOX 111208
TACOMA, WA 98411-1208