After everyone was almost done with Dinner, the Awards Ceremony started, around 8 pm

Rick had congratulated the members of Cowtown with the great achievements of 2003 along with discussing the growth of the club during this year.

Rick handed out the President's Gifts which was a custom embroidered Polo for each officer

I didn't get all their pictures since they grabbed them and sat back down at the head tables before I could snap a picture.

<=Don Wells - VP (left)

Don Fowler - Treasurer (right) =>

Mo Wheeler - Secretary (no pic)

Sylvia Hoaldridge - Newsletter Editor (no pic)

Nelda Mitchell - Governor (no pic)

The President's award this year went to Silvia Hoaldridge.

There was some comment that this was for keeping him in-line all year

Don Wells, our Vice-President, handed out his few awards / presentations, we did not get pictures of these awards so if you did, please send them to Doug

Don presented the President (Rick Garabedian) with a custom shirt

Outstanding Cowtown Male for 2003 was Don Wells

Nelda Mitchell , our NCCC Governor, presented the Cowtown awards for the Men and Women who have the most NCCC points in the club.

Nelda started out with a nice speech about the great job our members have done this year making Cowtown Vettes 2nd Place in the Southwest Region and hopefully in the Top 15 in the Nation.  Nelda did mention the names of the members that participated in the NCCC Racing events this year.

Nelda provided a synopsis of what the Governor does during the year and how the awards she was going to present were derived.  She also introduced and acknowledged Joy for all the hard work she does during the year to support her and Cowtown.

Each of the following awards were first place winners in their class within Cowtown for the 2003 Season

Nelda awards Bruce Lewis with the CTV Trophy for his 3rd place finish in the Men's Overall & 2nd in Speed Points for the Southwest Region

Doc Lambert won the Men's Concours Points Race...

While Debbi Lambert won the Women's Concours Points race

Walt Zschirnt won the Men's Drags Points Race

Yvette Lewis won the Women's Drags Points Race

Doc & Debbi Lambert won the Rallye Award, an NCCC sanctioned event which also required long distance travel to participate

Doc & Debbi Lambert also won the Funkhana Award this year, also requiring long distance travel to participate

Nelda asked Pete McGrath to come up, as the CTV 2002 Top Competitor winner, where she presented him with his permanent trophy to keep after returning the large trophy that is passed to the next winner each year.

The Top Competitor trophy goes to the person in the club who earns the most NCCC points during the season.  Sometimes it is really close; others not.    Past winners:

1977  Robert Jandrucko

1978  Debbie Lindsey

1979  Jerry Lindsey

1980  Debbie Lindsey

1981  Jerry Lindsey

1982  Tom Jamison

1983  Sonny Arnold

1984  Sylvia Hoaldridge

1985  Sylvia Hoaldridge

1986  Sharon Zschirnt

1987  Kenny Moore

1988  Nelda Mitchell

1989  Chris Luhnow

1990  Nelda Mitchell

1991  Karen Luhnow

1992  Cheri Joines

1993  Judy Berndt

1994  Greg Berndt

1995  Nelda Mitchell

1996  Roger Mitchell

1997  Bernyce Molenda

1998  Nelda Mitchell

1999  Marvin Snyder

2000  Bernyce Molenda

2001  Roger Mitchell

2002  Peter McGrath

Now for the Top Competitor Award for 2003... which went to Yvette Lewis for a total of 105 Events entered (all within our Region) winning a total of 938 points for the season.

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