MOTORCYCLE SYNDROME

At 5 PM sharp, we had a room reserved for us for dinner at the Wood Grill Buffet in Harrisonburg. We were seated and finished within an hour. If you left the Wood Grill Buffet hungry it was your own fault.

When we arrived back at the hotel the local Harrisonburg TV station and newspaper had reporters there to interview the Motor Maids. Krissa Drentlaw presented Glennadine with a traditional 25th Anniversary cake, the Photo Memory book and a Shadowbox with Motor Maids from Virginia thanking her for 25 Years of PMS. Sue Hooper gave Glennadine a beautiful framed portrait.

The TV station and newspaper interviewed Glennadine about PMS and a few of the other ladies to include Gloria Struck about her life as a Motor Maid and her book that was published. A group picture was taken of everyone attending PMS.

Now was time to raffle off the prizes. The first number drawn by Dianne Gardner who picked a quilt that Linda Meeks had made for our event showing a road map to the different towns in which PMS had been held. Terri Mixon had two of her ticket numbers drawn and picked out two quilts donated by Mickie Sienko. Pat Herber from Pennsylvania picked a set of Calphalon pans that I (Sharon Pence) had donated. Lu Hartman also had two of her numbers drawn and selected a Wall hanging that Mickie had donated and also a Knife set that I had donated. The 50/50 raffle went to Susan Greene for the amount of $243 dollars. I do believe that the winners went away happy. After the raffles, the games began. I saw some pretty intense UNO card game going on at one of the tables and other card games being played, also.

I would just like to run down these stats about this PMS...We had 61 people attending the event from 14 states and Canada these included:

Two Golden Life members (50 years or more):

Gloria Struck and Jeanne Deak

Six Silver life members (25 years or more):

Glennadine, Gail Burkett, Ginny Windley, Nancy Blakeney, Sue Hooper and Lois Hendershot. We had a past President, Jeanne Deak (who was our 5th President and presided over the 1988 Convention) and the present MM President Sandra Hinksman in attendance along with a past Vice President Glennadine and a current Vice President Delanie Adkins.

This was a nice gathering for the 25th VA/WV PMS Anniversary. We hope to see everyone next year.