As 2009 winds down and I conclude my term as Club President, I’d like to thank the Club’s 2009 officers, all you Club  members who volunteered for one job or another over the course of the year, and all you members who participated in our activities.  Collectively, you made the Club’s 2009 activities happen, you made them fun, and you made them successful.  Without your efforts, we wouldn’t be able to continue conducting or participating in the activities we do.   The Club’s officers work throughout the year on the responsibilities they have agreed to shepard.  However, we also rely on other members volunteering for a wide range of jobs, including obtaining charity auction item donations, organizing and hosting monthly activities and meeting places, helping to put on the Portland All British Field Meet, organizing amd producing Northwest Meet and Rendezvous events, producing artwork for Club events and donations, posting items of interest on the Club web site, etc., etc.  The larger events we host periodically, such as the Northwest Meet and the Rendezvous, require many people and many months of concerted commitment and work to successfully complete.

The Club had a very busy and successful year year in 2009.  We began planning for the 2010 Rendezvous to be held in Eugene next June.  Healey was the featured marque at the Portland All British Field Meet, where we staged a successful, if wet, central display that included the first North American showing of Steve Pike’s two Healey Bonneville Replicas and a 100S, along with all the other fine Healey specimens folks loaned us.  We also handled our normal ABFM responsibilities of managing participant registrations and counting the Peoples’ Choice votes in a timely fashion for nearly 50 different car and motorcycle categories.  We also hosted the 2009 Northwest Meet, which was extremely well attended and was enjoyed by everyone who attended.  We raised funds and provided charitable donations to several worthy Oregon organizations.  Finally, we were able to experience a wonderful variety of activities and trips during the year.  

I hope you found our 2009 activities as enjoyable as I did.  A club like the AHCO is only as good as the participation of its members in its activities.  Since I became a member of the Club, a scant five years ago, my participation and volunteer efforts have resulted in great fun, good friendships and technical contacts, wonderful tours of some of Oregon’s best sports car roads, and many opportunities to learn about a wide variety of subjects, often well beyond DMH and his vehicles.

For those of you already active in the Club’s activities, thank you for your time and efforts this year.  I encourage your continued help in supporting the Club’s activities.  For those of you who haven’t participated or volunteered in the Club’s activities, I encourage you to try it if possible.  The Club can’t continue to do the things we do without the participation of its members and we can always use more help in keeping our club running and continuing to do interesting things.

Thank you all for your help and support during my term as your President.

Wishing you all a happy holiday season and looking forward to 2010.

 Jeff