Prez’s Corner

by Andy Winterbottom, President

Dear loyal Porsche colleagues, This is my October missive and there shall be two more for my final term as “El Presidente”. From here, I may graduate to "Past (but not too far gone) President". Once again, I would like to call out some of the outstanding board member contributors in no particular order. I'd like to group Carol Walker and Gil Igleheart together first: CAROL AND GIL: Gil as our never faltering activities director and doer. Carol, for not only being an activities doer, she is also our steadfast secretary whose minutes capture the essence of our board meetings. Coming up soon is the New Members Bar-B-Que on November 12th at the estate of Bonnie and Jason Len. This event is free to members of the California Central Coast Region because it is fully subsidized by the revenue from the Autocross and Drivers Education events, which means Chuck and Bob spent less then they brought in! CHUCK "CONCOURS" JENNINGS: Chuck has for the past several years been our “Autocross General” and has organized the Autocross School and six autocross events annually at the Santa Maria Airport Jet Center. We "inherited" the teststrecke that Porsche constructed about ten years ago to host the North America introduction of the 991 series Porsche. Chuck leads the hard-working team of contributors who make the autocross events a sellout almost every time. These autocross events are also a significant profit center for our California Central Coast Region. Chuck is also a CCCR past president and labored for four years as such to keep us better organized. SANJA BREWER: Sanja has held a number of CCCR board positions including being our past-president. She is presently is our Historian/Membership Director and organizes our Christmas/Holiday Party each year which this year will again be at the San Luis Obispo Country Club on December 3rd. Notably, this event too is significantly subsidized by the "profit" from the CCCR motorsports events. Sanja is our longest serving board member. RON GREEN: Ron is our vice-president of "this and that"; I know because I was formerly the vice president. Ron has been a strong contributor and among other duties organized and updated our bylaws keeping us current with the national PCA leadership. BOB BRUINGTON: Bob is our Drivers Education Events Director and Chief Driving Instructor. We put on three D.E. events each year at venues such as WeatherTech Laguna Seca, Buttonwillow, Big Willow and Streets of Willow raceways. Our last event at WeatherTech Laguna Seca attracted 71 drivers (of which 21 were ladies) with a full complement of D.E. instructors. It has been important to Bob to substantially increase the number of female participants in our DE’s. At the same time he recently organized a "Parade" session on the WeatherTech Laguna Seca circuit to promote more potential DE participation. JOE SHUBITOWSKI: Joe is our Webmaster and Database Administrator; I don't know of anyone else on the board who has the technical chops to do this as well as Joe does. The recent 356 "Registry" West Coast Holiday, organized by Joe Kuntze, was successful in large part because of Joe’s vigorous efforts. Joe came to us from the Los Angeles Region and their loss is our gain. BILL CHADWICK: Bill is our Treasurer and has kept us solvent and in good standing as a non-profit with Sacramento and the I.R.S. Bill is a former C.E.O. who can be and is a C.F.O. as well for our benefit. You can find Bill at our motorsports and social events making sure everything is copacetic. JOE KUNTZE: Joe K. is our Director-at-Large and was responsible for organizing the recent 356 "Registry" West Coast Holiday event. It turned out to be very successful and attracted more than a hundred Porsche 356s for a multi-faceted event around San Luis Obispo County. Joe is now helping to organize our activities. BILL GIBSON: Since Bill is our Safety Director, it is no coincidence that all of our motorsports and social events have been "safe" so far. Even COVID has stayed away from our events as far as we know. BOB KITAMURA: “Kit” is our Coastalaire Editor-In-Chief. Bob works tirelessly to bring to print four Coastalaire magazines per annum along with the companion digital versions. Bob has CCCR in the Panorama national PCA magazine "From the Regions" on a regular basis. Our high quality glossy magazines and digital issues attract many advertisers for the benefit of our membership and the advertising concerns as well. Again, given our finite bandwidth and talent, I commend Bob and all of our board members for their selfless contributions on behalf of our 700-plus membership. We are a volunteer organization after all.

Sincerely,