President's Message

 

Runabouts to Rockets
Volume 45 #5-6
May - June 2026

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On behalf of the NAOC, I wish to congratulate Rick Winn for receiving another Golden
Quill Awards for Runabouts to Rockets. The Golden Quail Awards Committee from Old
Cars Weekly recognizes higher achieving editors of club publications annually with
these awards. Rick dedicates and donates countless hours of his time on every issue
and it’s great to see him being recognized by publicly by this committee with other club
editors. Whenever I compliment Rick on a great issue, he is quick to tell me that he
couldn’t do it without articles submitted by the members, and the monthly support that
he receives from Jim Schultz. Be sure to thank Rick and Jim the next time you see
them.

In the last issue, I congratulated the members that were recently added to our Board of
Directors, but failed to thank two of our members that finished their terms. I would like
to thank Dale Huefner and Dick White for their time and contributions to the board and apologize for not doing so in the last issue.

When you receive this issue, our NAOC Meet in Dayton will only be about two months
away! If you’ve planning to attend and have not already submitted your registrations
and booked your room, please do so as soon as possible. June 8’th is the published
registration deadline for the meet and to have your car judged. The hotel block room
rate is good until June 9’th. These cutoff dates allow us to order the awards and finalize
our tour and meal counts. We welcome registrations up to and often during the event
but cars registered after the cutoff date are not judged and registration for the Tours,
Welcome Party and Awards Banquet are usually not available once our final counts are
turned in.

It’s normal for the majority of the registrations to come in a month or two prior to the
event, so I want to thank everyone that has registered early. As an incentive to register
early, we gave away one free room night at the end of January to Bruce Powelson for
his early registration, and committed to another drawing at the end of March. To date
we have received 50 registrations for the meet and 55% of the room block are booked.
A total of 36 members booked rooms and sent in their registrations by the end of March
to be eligible for this second drawing. The winner of the March drawing is Jim & Rose
Hollingsworth from Strongsville, Ohio. Since this is the last issue of R2R that you will
receive prior to the meet, be sure to check our website antiqueolds.org for any updates.
Suzette Hall and I have updated our NAOC Membership Application and have included
it on the inside back flyleaf cover of this issue and on our website. Please make a few
copies and give them to your Oldsmobile friends that are not currently members, and
ask them to join us. We always welcome new members to our NAOC family!

I plan to set up a recruiting table at this year’s Oldsmobile Homecoming in Lansing, so
please stop by if you attend. It is normally a great place to rest and see other members.
I’m looking forward to seeing everyone in Dayton!

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Greg Minges

President

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