Message from the President
A CTOH Board
Meeting was held on February 7, 2006. A brief list of Agenda
items discussed follows:
Board Meetings: Dinner
subsidy - CTOH provides funds or Board Meeting Attendees not
required to pay annual dues. Required CTOH membership
approval.
Telephone
Contact List: Bill
McBride will work with Betty Morris to establish a workable plan of
getting CTOH events communicated to the members. Betty, the
leader to the telephone contact list, will contact 5 or 6 callers
who will contact 5 or 6 members regarding upcoming events. She will
be supplied with particulars of an event prior to making
calls. Betty will report back to event coordinator with names
of those planning to attend.
CTOH
Membership Directory: Hugh Jackson and Wyndham Smith will
update, publish and distribute a CTOH Membership Directory.
Hood
Scoops: CTOH is seeking
someone to replace Hugh Jackson as the editor of Hood Scoops.
A copy of Hood Scoops will be snail-mailed to past members with an
invoice included for membership renewal. Members who have been
receiving Hood Scoops via e-mail and wish to receive a hard copy
through the mail, please notify Hugh Jackson or one of the
officers.
Name Badges: Name badges
not worn at CTOH functions will cost $1. Was this item was
approved at the last CTOH meeting in Pearland? CTOH will
reinstitute the policy of providing new members with
badges.
CTOH
Officer Nominations: Dave Barnes volunteered to gather the
names of members who wish to be officers in CTOH for 2007.
Those members who wish to be an officer, please contact
Dave.
Cruises:
Major
Cruises
Bluebonnet
Cruise: April 21 - 23
Fredericksburg. Louise and Cleo Bickford are coordinating this CTOH
cruise. The event will be held in conjunction with the Texas
Hill Country Cruise being sponsored by the Metroplex Early Birds.
Ten rooms have been reserved for the Deluxe Host Budget Inn in
Fredericksburg in the name of Louise Bickford – call soon to reserve
a room before they are all taken.
Poker
Run: Sponsor/Coordinator
for 2006 will be Dave Barnes, Hugh Jackson and Marc
Markel.
Other
Cruises
BigD Little
Birds, Nacogdoches,
March 10-12
Moulton
Parade, Moulton, July
30, 2006,
Kolache
Festival, Hallettsville,
September 23, 2006
CTOH
Annual Christmas Party: Date set for December 2, 2005.
Location will be in Old Town Spring. Gerry Estes volunteered
to reserve a place for the party. Puffabelly Station was
mentioned as a likely candidate and having a joint event with the
Vintage TBird Club was recommended.
Corporation Charter
Status:
Charter lapsed many
years ago. Bill McBride and Marc Markel are working to get the
Corporation Charter active again.
CTCI
Chapter Report:
Report will be filed as
soon as CTOH Corp charter has been received. All officer and board
members must also be members of CTCI. CTOH President will be
designated the contact person. The number of CTCI members and
non-CTCI members will be supplied from CTOH role of members.
CTOH
Website: The Board authorized
Jeff Skiba to provide an estimate of cost to redesign the CTOH
Website. Guidelines regarding the purpose of the website were
discussed.
May you have
fair winds and following seas,
Diesel Bill
McBride