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Pres. Danik called the meeting to
order at 5:35 p.m. and asked each person in or around the tent to introduce
themselves. He then recognized all of the POG officers and board members
that were present, and thanked the Dale Buehner family for the cooking they
had done for this event. Dale came forward and thanked John Penton for all
he had done that caused the POG to be established and he spoke of all the
efforts that he sees from the various board members. He also thanked all who
had contributed money to purchase the food that they had served, including
John Penton, Karl Schneider, Buehners Office Supply, the Del Solars and Al
Born. He also thanked those who had brought cookies and worked in the
cooking area, including John Slivka, the Mickevicious brothers, Reba
Guthrie, Pat Herbison, Don Roth, Dales wife and son Anthony.
Paul spoke briefly on the POGs participation in events in the last year
including the event at Davenport, Iowa, Penton Day at the AMA, {including
the wedding of Toni Proffer and Gary Roach}, Ted’s trail ride in Michigan,
the Oley, Pa. event and the John Penton GNCC. Paul extended a special
“thanks” to Lee Buffenmyer and Rob Shofstalh for the display that they set
up and manned at Oley and to Toni and Gary Roach and Alan Buchner for all
they did at the GNCC. Paul spoke briefly about the Jack-Piner T-shirts and
caps that Scott Brogan had made up to commemorate the “Year of the Jack-Piner”.
Pres. Danik asked for a motion to dispense of the reading of the minutes of
the June meeting in the interest of time. More than one person moved to do
so and more than one person seconded the motion so I did not get their
names. The motion carried.
D. Wilford gave the membership report showing that during the month we had
one new member and one member came off the expired list as well as 25
renewals, seven being for two years. The report shows 397 active members and
221 on the expired list, as this list goes back to the beginning of the POG
and includes any deceased members. The report also showed the sale of 12
issues of Still Keeping Track and one DVD/Program. Doug also thanked all who
had renewed recently and those who joined this week-end.
Treas. Alan Buehner gave the financial as of June 30th, 2005. Alan also
spoke of the up-coming Newsletter and again thanked Ted Guthrie for all of
the reports/stories that he has made available so that he always has
something to use as fill-in, if its needed, so he highly suggests that if
you have a good story or something of interest to report, that you contact
Ted so he can get it written. Paul than mentioned that we have already
printed 27 issues of Still Keeping Track” and asked members to think of how
much effort Alan has put into them and asked that every one be sure to thank
him for all of his efforts.
E. Youngblood had to leave early and was not available to give us an update
on the PFP committees work but Paul stressed the importance of keeping the
POG alive for the future generations. Bill Smith, our Webmaster gave his
web-site report and told of how his friend Karen does so much work to keep
the site up-dated. He reported that the sites visits for June was 26,415,
down by 2,874 from May. Bill had Ron Carbaugh come forward and explain how
he became the Sheriff of the web-site. Paul mentioned the up-coming steel
tank book and T. Guthrie told how he and Reba have been gathering a lot of
information from individuals. Ted says he welcomes any and all ideas,
stories, etc. that could be used in the book. Also, he and Paul mentioned
Bill Smith’s “Steel Tank” surveys and how they will be used to write the
technical section of the book. Bill says he has received 86 of the surveys
which he will use to determine when certain changes were made to the bikes.
He received some as late as today and it turned out that a very, very late
one was the one that won the new Berkshire steel tank with Johns autograph
on it. John Penton drew the winning ticket for Penton #V5504 that belonged
to Bob Wardlow from Mich.
Jack Penton spoke about the KTM dealers meeting to be held at the museum
this year and stated that Rod Bush invites all POG members to attend on
Sunday Aug. 21st and that he would welcome any/all Penton motorcycles to be
displayed as well as any KTMs from 1977 to the 1990 models.
Under old business, Alan spoke briefly about our by-laws and tax status
changes that are taking place. Under new business, Kent Knudson introduced
his part of the PFP in the form of 16 year old Adam Giddings who had won
both motos of the 125 cc Sportsman Expert class and Adam also won the
Classic 125 cc class today on Penton motorcycles. Adam is the son of James
Giddings who builds Kents motors for his racing team. Kent stated that
Adam’s grandfather had sold new the motorcycle that had the engine they were
using today. Toni Roach told a funny story about Adam learning some of the
racing lingo that was used back about the time the engine Adam used today
was being built and sold, that being more than twice as many years as Adam
is old. Alan mentioned the “History of Moto-cross “ book which is being sold
at the museum which has a picture of Kent’s motorcycle that is also on
display there. Alan also mentioned that DVDs were on sale that his nephew
Anthony and his friends made from the interviews they did at last years
Vintage Days. Pres. Danik thanked everyone who brought their Pentons to
display this week-end including Jeff and James Borer, the Mickevicious
brothers, Dave McCullough, Dwight Rudder, Bob Andersohn Don Cole, Don Roth,
Gary Ellis and Ted Del Solar. Also the special “Ted Penton Technical” award
went to Kevin Grimes for the immaculate job he did of building a replica of
Leroy Winters 1968 Berkshire 6 day bike. Kevin told a story of how he used
to hang around Leroy’s shop when he was a boy. Kevin also donated several
pictures of the 1968 Vase team to the POG.
Under “Point of Discussion” John spoke of the up-coming KTM Dealers meeting
at the museum, the new moto-cross exhibit and book and the Daytona Beach
Memorial Monument. He then recognized many of his former employees who were
present and told of how proud he is of each of them. It was noted that
John’s birthday is near the time of the KTM dealers meeting so we all
celebrated it early with a large birthday cake and the Mickevicious brothers
presented John with a jar of Michigan sand as a gift. John remarked that it
did not have the petroleum odor that Mich. sand usually has and he then told
a story about Lenny Keen, an old Enduro friend giving him a Superior engine
powered oil pumper as a gift. Bill Smith suggested that anyone who takes
some good photos this week-end to get with him so they can be put on the
web-site. A lot of door prizes, including key chains, pins, badges, decals
and a cap that was donated by Larry Maiers and a couple DVDs and a Jack-Piner
T-shirt that was donated by the POG were given to 30 members whose names
were drawn from a cap.
The meeting adjourned at approximately 7:00 p.m. and the next meeting is
scheduled for Aug. 4th at KTM, USA in Amherst, Ohio.
Al Born, Sec. of POG
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