From: | Hodge | e-mail: | hodge@engineeredmaintenance.com |
Subject: | October Meeting Minutes | Date: | Sat Oct 30 08:55:10 2010 |
Highlands Chapter Meeting Minutes October 21, 2010 Location: Hodges House When: October 21, 2010 @ 6 PM Attendees: Hodge, Rollo, Richard, Tom, Mike, George, Dave, Bob and Chip We met at Hodge’s house at 6 PM last Thursday. Hodge supplied the food this time - hotdogs, chips and beer. Hodge cooked the dogs on his grill and they were great. Nice and crispy. (I brought along a few beers for the guys. I see that Yuengling’s finest wasn’t too popular. I’ll choke the rest of them down somehow). Thanks Hodge for hosting the meeting and keeping us fed. The unofficial meeting started at 6 PM with a bunch of stories and a general bull session. Between the conversation and the meal, we didn’t get the official meeting started for some time. It was great to have the guys together again. Mike brought a bunch of new shop towels and handed them out to the guys. Thanks Mike. They will be well used. Several members presented their 2011 dues to George prior to the start of the official meeting. We’ll need to get a head-count of the folks that have paid-up up for the coming year. If you haven’t paid yet, try to get your dues to George before the start of the New Year. Hodge started the meeting at 7:30. He told us that he would like to formally submit some photos to the AMCA for the 2011 Calendar. He reminded us that the Highlands Chapter has been represented in every calendar to date. Flathead Ed had created a CD with photos from a couple of our 2010 events. (Patriot H-D and Smoke Hole). I had Rollo’s copy at my house and promised to make an additional copy and send it along to Hodge. (That’s been done. I also sent Hodge a CD of all of my photos from the last three years). We’re hoping to have a couple of our 2010 photos included in the upcoming calendar. Hodge will pick a few good ones and send them in around November 1, 2010. The next order of business was discussing the Christmas party. Richard suggested trying a new place this year. Previous parties have been held at the Thai restaurant in Hendon and at Clyde’s in Ashburn. We’ve done the Thai place a number of times and it’s always been good. Clyde’s didn’t lend itself to open conversation as a lot of the couples had to sit at booths. We want to find a place with large tables where the whole group can participate in the conversations. Hodge whole heartedly agreed with Richard about trying to find somewhere that obviously had good food and had a large enough room for our crew to sit. We all decided that Clyde’s was great it just did not allow us to all sit in a more open and same table style atmosphere. The group decided that the goal was to find somewhere that had both good food and the seeting arrangements discussed above. Hodge suggested that if that is the goal then we needed to stick to those parameters as we search for and select our final selection. First we picked a tentative date. Hodge suggested having the party early in December. We picked Saturday December 4, 2010. Someone suggested we coordinate with the British bike club to ensure our party doesn’t conflict with their Christmas event. We’ll have to check this out, but for now you should pencil in December 4th for our get-together. Tom said he would check with Clyde’s to see if another, more open, room would be available. Dave said he would check out a few places and post some suggestions to the exchange. (Check the Exchange – He has already come up with several good suggestions). I said I’d try to come up with a place or two. (So far, I haven’t offered up anything. I’ll have to work on that). Rollo suggested PG Skidoos in Fairfax. He will check it out and get back to us. Hodge is hoping to have our suggestions by Thursday October 28, 2010. Heads Up – The Freeze Your Butt Ride is Back Again We were reminded that our annual run is scheduled for the weekend after Thanksgiving. We’ll put out a notice as the time nears. I understand that cold weather is upon us, so we’ll be assured of a chilly ride for our last run of the year. We’ll have to stop somewhere along the way for some hot-spiced cider. Next subject: T-Shirts. Hodge had suggested at the last meeting that we put together some ideas for higher quality non-event-specific T-Shirts. He continued to express his ideas at the October meeting. Hodge would like to keep our old Highland image somewhere on the T-Shirts. This includes a non-distinguishable-by-make antique bike with the highlands in the background. Hodge thinks that it would be fitting a tribute to our past to include this image above the breast pocket. Richard had brought along his AMCA jacket with the winged image on the back. We agreed that this graphic was pretty cool and that it should be incorporated into the design if possible. Probably, we will put it on the back. There was some discussion about modifying the image. Someone suggested that this image could not be changed without permission from the AMCA. It’s something we’ll need to check out. Dave said that he had a fellow producing high quality T-Shirts for the Hummer Club. He thinks that he could get pricing on our T-shirts once we have a design established. Mike suggested that we include ladies’ T-shirts in the mix. He is convinced that a little sparkle would entice some profitable sales. All of us agreed that the T-shirts should not reference any particular club event or date. That way, we could sell the shirts over a period of time. Right now we have a bunch of older Natural Bridge T-shirts that nobody wants to buy anymore. Hodge said we used to put out quality T-shirts and that each member placed an order of how many he wanted. That way all of the shirts were guaranteed to be sold. We may want to put together an order list once we’ve decided on a design. Hodge suggested that we’d need to devote most of a meeting to T-shirt design. He said we should plan on using the next meeting for this purpose. It was about 8:30 and someone suggested we adjourn the meeting. There were lots of “seconds” offered, so we closed for the evening. It was great seeing the guys, as always. Hope to see you all for the Freeze Your Butt Ride. Best Regards, Bob Nicholas, Secretary – Highlands Chapter – AMCA October 26, 2010 |