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Months in the making, this was an event that was co- ordinated from three different starting points, with groups from Raleigh, Charlotte and Mebane all (continued on page 4) MEMBERSHIP CORNER This month, we’d like to give a warm Tarheel wel- ties, and welcome the opportunity to get to know come to 52 new and returning members and as- you better at some of these events. We encourage sociate members. This brings our total chapter you to contact your Area Coordinator to fi nd out membership to 2,816! Our membership is the life- about local dinner meetings and other ways to get blood of the Club. Without your participation, there involved in YOUR club. Come join us, you’ll have a would be no Club. We offer a wide variety of activi- great time! Doris Bain Raleigh NC Henry Horn Mocksville NC Adam Barr Hillsborough NC Tyler Hudson Fayetteville NC Mike Bledsoe Charlotte NC GINA JONES Charlotte NC Christopher Boyes Charlotte NC Kenneth Larow Greensboro NC Timothy Burge High Point NC Larry Levine Loveland CO Frederick Burris Gastonia NC Christopher May Charlotte NC John Butler Fairlawn VA Kirsten Morin Sawmills NC Louis Cantino Cary NC David Munday Matthews NC David Cook Angier NC Alex Munsey Raleigh NC Sandra Currin Lillington NC SCOTT MURRAY Charlotte NC Henry Currin Lillington NC Trang Nguyen Raleigh NC Dawn Dreibus Nebo NC Mark O’Dell Wake Forest NC Simon Ecklund Spring Lake NC Paul Patrick Cary NC Sandra Ferrell Purlear NC Phelan Perry Clayton NC Ben Flores Wake Forest NC Kyle Rehder Raleigh NC Taylor Floyd Asheville NC Rolando Saavedra Carrboro NC Tyler Forrest Greensboro NC Joe Schmid Silver Spring MD Samuel Fox Wilmington NC Frouzan Shirzad Charlotte NC Douglas Fox Wilmington NC Edward Thum Raleigh NC Lee Gaskins Rocky Mount NC Christopher Vasques Apex NC Sirish Gottimukkala Morrisville NC Paul Watt Fort Mill SC Stuart Graham Charlotte NC Paula Watt Fort Mill SC Randall Gray Raleigh NC Porter-Ann Whiteside Wilmington NC Michael Gross Raleigh NC Brian Whiteside Wilmington NC Tim Hansen Raleigh NC Spenser Wood Charlotte NC Marcus Hewitt Raleigh NC Kevin Yost Raleigh NC PAUL HOECKE Notes from the road Bavarian Tales Sometimes, a funny thing happens when who usually drove it, Dennis Cloud, was one of you’re in a group, just chatting about this and our driver school instructors and always joined that, with no particular goal in mind other than the Triangle gang when we convoyed to one of our sharing some quality time with friends. But schools at the Charlotte Speedway. And having then, some kind of process – call it serendipity him along solved an annoying problem. or free-association – kicks in, and you and your You see, the route we’d take to the track in- buddies fi nd yourselves dredging up all sorts of cluded NC 49, a two-lane notorious for its lack long-forgotten stuff from your past. Well, it’s what of good passing zones. It used to give us connip- happened the other day, as four of us car guys, tions as we tried to stay together while battling current and past club members, sat down for our weekend traffi c – that is, until Dennis came along weekly breakfast get together. with the red E21.