CORSA 2012: Thursday AM Update Other Stuff

[Ken Schifftner]

Gang:

Since I've worked with Don Wagner and Jim Allen before on judging, Brian volunteered me to be the Concours person (Bill Cohen, I can hear your sigh of relief!).

What I need to know ASAP (Ron?) is whether we are allowed to park the Concours cars along the lake side of the hotel.  The idea is to use the gazebo as the "pivot point" where the announcer will be and run two lines of cars...one running to his left and right sort of at right angles to the other.  The President's Suite could be used for tabulating and Hospitality Suite will be next door for water, bathrooms, etc. Those rooms are very near the gazebo.

I need to know if that outside area is available however (fire lane?).  I asked Jason if he could get someone to go to the Hotel and take a series of pictures of the proposed Concours site so I can share those photos with Don and Jim to get their valuable input.

With the Saturday time constraints, I'll need to get extra judges.  One judges for cleanliness only.  We'll need to have at lease three (3) crews of 14.  We'll likely get 25-30 "veterans" but can't count on it. I'll ask the local clubs to have folks step up and volunteer.  A contact list will need to be sent to Harry Jensen as early as possible. I'd like to get four (4) teams on paper in case we get more Concours level vehicles as late registers.

Also...a suggestion for the Women's Activity was a Quilting Tour (if possible) like they did here (maybe an antiques tour?).  A few women asked me if we were going to have a quilting tour. Just to let you know....


Ken Schifftner


-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian <bmoneill at juno.com>
>Sent: Jul 28, 2011 9:18 AM
>To: conv-2012 at corvair.org
>Subject: CORSA 2012: Thursday AM Update
>
>Concours yesterday.  My interest was in how posting of scores went.  Was shocked to learn this is only second year that a computer data base was used.  prior years --pencils and hand held calculator!!   Except Parsippany 84, of course.  Posting crew was Iowa convnetion posters who volunteered to do this year.  (Most volunteered to do it next year.)  Most not computer geeks so last year was learning experience.  Harry jensen's 'tweaks' and the posters experience made it a breeze.  Postin finished at 2;47 PM!!!
>There goes the excuse that we can't have a concours on Saturday becasue we wouldn't be able to get the scoring done.  Still some 'my car will get dirty' objections.  I'm being polite abd trying to assure them that all day Thursday is available to scrub your ball joint with a tooh brush.  A very few might not come but the desnity of cars in NE will make up for it.
>Spent about two hours becoming familar with harry jensen registration and event data base.  Works very well.  My thoughts rught now we shouldn't re-invnet the wheel.  Big issue is his coordiantion with host chapter on site.  I think that Al  Lacki working as liason between him and Mike Paroz will be a big help.  I'll explain in detail when I get home.
>Today, I intend to discuss ways to allow non-CORSA members to attend thru some form on temp membership.  Bob marlow proposed a detailed plan to CORSA BOD a month or so ago but it was ignored with comments like 'the convention isn't for outsiders'!!  No way to get new members.
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