The Annual Meeting, hosted by the Pacific Northwest Region of the CCCA was held in Bellevue Washington on January 9^th to 13^th 2008.  There were some fabulous car collections visited, important club meetings and much camaraderie among everyone present.  And most of all some of the west’s most beautiful cars were shown at the Annual Grand Classic®.   

The Metro Region was ably represented by members stretching across the country.  From John and BarbaraAnna Kefalonitis of New Jersey, Dan Gernatt and Roseann Morgano of New York, Bill Davis of West Virginia, Phil Guilhem of Oklahoma, Bob and Sheila Joynt of Illinois, Bobbie’dine Rodda of California and then back to the east again with new member, Bruce Giguere of Maine.  We wish a warm welcome to Bruce – he is the director of the New England Region.  I understand everyone had a marvelous time at the meeting.  The weather was predictably rainy, but that didn’t dampen the spirits of  the participants.

On Wednesday afternoon, January 9^th, the LeMay Collection was visited with dinner at Johnny’s Dock afterward.  Thursday morning was the Annual membership meeting where all the committees gave their reports and the results of the election were read.  Chris Snyder and Phil Guilhem, incumbents, were relected and 4 new Board members were installed.  We are very proud that John Kefalonitis is now on the Board, along with his running mates, Phil Doty, Al Kroemer and Rick Zeiger.  Congratulations to all.  The club is in good hands.  In the afternoon more collections were viewed along with visiting the Museum of Flight.  Friday morning more meetings were held – the first being the Board of Directors meeting where our new president, Sally Perkins was officially installed.  The Metro Region would like to congratulate Sally and wish her much success in the next 2 years.  The other meetings held were Regional Relations and Regional Editors, after which 3 more car collections were visited.  There are some fabulous cars on the west coast that we in the east rarely get to see, so it was a great privilege for those present to have the opportunity to see so many wonderful collections.

Thursday evening was the Regional Awards Banquet, which was held amongst the Classics.  What better place to honor the regions than with our great cars?  After dinner the awards were presented.  Although Metro did not take any first place awards, we did very well with very stiff competition from the other regions.  BarbaraAnna, our new director, received citations for 3^rd place for the following awards:  Steiner Grand Classic Award, Turnquist Award for Large Region Publications and Non-Print Publications Award (website).  Rick Zeiger from Southern California was presented with the Cantore Award for Regional Director and Aneice Lassiter of the Gold Coast Region won the Classic Spirit Award.  It was a grand evening enjoyed by everyone.