First Turn

Peter Olliviere , President

Happy Holidays to each person that is part of the Porsche Family of Gold Coast. If you are a member great, if not I still wish you well in the coming year.

I have had the privilege of leading the Gold Coast Region as it’s President for two years, a term that comes to and end on December 31, 2022. As I look back at the past two years, I can say with all confidence that it has been a time truly filled with challenges and successes. My term started out with the restructuring of Gold Coast after the Gulfstream Region was created from what was the northern part of Gold Coast Region. We were just under three thousand members at that time and some predicted that we could lose as much as a third of our membership to the new region. Since hindsight is 20/20, we can look back and see that those that predicted disaster were wrong. Instead of decreasing in size Gold Coast grew and thrived. Today, two years later, we are larger in terms of membership than when the reorganization occurred. I should also mention the Gulfstream has thrived. None of this is by accident. The success of the transition was due to some very hard work by the members of both Board of Directors. I want to thank those people for stepping up to the plate and giving of their time and talents to make it happen. put in place governmentally and by our national organization to attempt to minimize COVID’s effect. Organized events came to a halt due to fear of spreading the virus. This greatly effected the social and Concourse parts of our calendar, but none the less we were able to work with a trimmed down calendar and once again thanks to the efforts of our Board we came through it all emerging stronger than ever.

Another milestone during my term was COVID and the rules and restriction COVID lasted about a year, and it seems strange to condense such an important event to one small paragraph. It gave us, Vaccination, Shots, Booster, Pandemic, Ventilator, ZOOM, Masks, and other words that have moved from the seldom used column to everyday conversation. But what it really did was create another chapter in the 60year history of the Gold Coast Region that adds to our book of success. To underline the turnaround we have had, in August we had the largest single event in the history of Gold Coast with 370 members registered to attend the Escape to the Cape.

As I said my term as president ends December 31st. I’m writing this just a few days before the election comes to and end. I did run for reelection but like most things I could win, or I could lose. Since you won’t see this till after the election has closed, I’m not breaking any rules by saying that if I lost my bid for reelection, it’s been my honor to contribute to the Club over the last two years, and if have been reelected then thanks for your support and I will do my best to deserve it. Thank you for the ride of my life and, HAPPY NEW YEAR! Peter