As we start off 2012, I feel very honored to be President of this chapter. I look forward to working with a great Board of Directors, some new, some returning. We still have chairmanship positions that are open, but as of now, here are the roles of your new board:

LUIS SOLER, who has much club experience with Driver's Ed, tours, and our sponsors, will be our Vice President and Membership Chairman. Starting in January, he will also be doing the e-mail blasts.

KAY MALOY remains our Chapter Secretary, Newsletter editor, document keeper, DE registrar, and so much more.

KATHY SOLER will remain our Treasurer. I'm happy to have her experience and expertise to keep track of our funds, pay bills, and do all the Chapter banking. And, she does the Calendar updates on our website too.

INGRID PLOOY is our Advertising Chair. She is working on developing a more comprehensive long range sponsor program to not only help the chapter but make is easier for our sponsors to budget and plan their expenditures in advance.

NANCY BOCANEGRA will be responsible for the trophies for our annual awards dinner. We have a full slate of awards to give out on January 22nd. Have you made your reservation yet?

DALE MILLER is our Safety Chair. Most of our events in-volve driving our cars, and we want to follow the rules of the road on tours, and our own PCA and chapter rules when on the track. Regardless of the event type, we want to be able to drive our cars home in the same condition they departed.

JACQUIE LIETZ continues as our Event Chair for 2012. There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes to make all these chapter events happen. Jacquie plays a key role in helping set them up.

TOSHI IWAHASHI is our Public Relations Coordinator and will be working with the whole team, and our sponsors, etc., to get the word out on what we are doing. He also fills in for Phil with name tag door prizes and is one of our breakfast hosts.

In addition to the Board of Directors, we have others who are taking on a key role for 2012:

MIKE ROBERTS, DE Chairman, is off to a great start with our Driver's Education Program. With lot's of input from his "DE committee" he has many ideas for 2012. You already saw our instantly popular DE holiday cou-pon. Look for some ground school sessions on track driving, skid pad opportunities, and more this year.

INGRID FRENCH will continue as our Charity Chair and Tour mentor. She is also Insurance coordinator. In-surance certificates need to be processed for all driv-ing events. Thinking about sponsoring a tour this year? Ingrid can help with that. (BTW, very nice Holi-day Lights event at the French's house last month. Thanks for that.)

PHIL ESKILDSEN is still the "Name Tag Guy" and this year he is also setting up several Technical Sessions with some of our sponsors.

SCOTT POPE, Chief Instructor is working with Mike Robert's and the DE team. We are planning to develop more instructors within our chapter this year too.

MIKE CIOPYK is our Track Registrar and contributor to the DE committee.

STEVE JONES - Webmaster. Just like other things some members take for granted, our website does not man-age itself. It takes a lot of expertise to make it all happen.

And, there are many members not on this list that help out in so many ways. We need you all to make it work.

As we start off the New Year, I especially want to thank WALT LIETZ for leaving this chapter in such great shape. We have had 2 very successful years under his leadership. Not only are our finances sound, we had many more activities than in recent past years. A large number were even hosted by Walt and Jacquie at their home. Quality events help attract member-ship and keep the chapter strong. He left some big shoes for me to try and fill. I'm glad he and other past presidents are around to help keep me on the right path. See you at the Extravaganza!

/Doug/