Your USARM Board of Directors for 2005 Contact information for the 2005 USARM BoD:
2005 USARM Officers and Directors
President-Kati James Vice President-Jerry Huff Treasurer-Ron Cowen Secretary-Steve Ynzunza Directors at Large: Dave Jansen Ken Berri Jim Short A Message from Kati It is going to be my honor and privilege to serve USARM, this year, as its President.
There are some very exciting events in the upcoming months and your USARM BoD is already working very hard to ensure that these events are a success. To better inform YOU, the members of USARM, minutes of each meeting will be published in the flowing month's Grid. A financial report is forthcoming in the March Grid, the MotoGp committee will be meeting every 2 weeks, and your 2005 BoD, its officers and members will continue to promote and support local club events. Your support and input, as USARM members, is invaluable to me and to the rest of the Board. Please keep talking to us, asking questions and making suggestions. Please use the USARM web site, the USARM Forums, join the mailing list, and watch for the next copy of the Grid to arrive. All these places will give you the best updates and information that we, the 2005 BoD of USARM, can give you! Thank you for your continued support & looking forward to seeing and talking to you all at the track. Kati James kati@redshift.com 831-633-8664 831-261-0950 The Importance Of Joining The USARM Mailing List It is important that all of our members that have email join the USARM Mailing List. It is the BEST way to get updates about events, changes in schedules, and any other important information that YOUR BoD and event contacts have of telling you about news. If you have friends who you know do not have email, please pass along any new information to them. It is very hard for the BoD to call every member to pass along important information, so PLEASE take a minute & join the USARM Mailing List This Is How!
Subscribe to the USARM Mailing list: There's an email link at the very bottom of the home page of the USARM website where there's a short paragraph about signing up for the USARM Email list. If you click on this Join USARM E-mail List link, it should create an outgoing email to usarm-request@usarm.org with subscribe as the subject. That's all that's needed to sign-up for the USARM Email list. You do NOT need to put anything in the message are of the email but if you must, maybe the word, subscribe. You will then get an email that asks that you confirm that you want to be added to the USARM Email List. You should be able to just reply to that email to confirm you want to be added to the USARM Email List. After confirming your subscription to the list, you can then send an email to usarm@usarm.org and that will then be re-directed to those that have subscribed to the USARM Email list. You MUST subscribe to the list to be able to have email sent to usarm@usarm.org go the the members that have subscribed to the USARM Email List.  Exciting new events for 2005-Stay tuned!! Come out & support YOUR USARM events! (Photo Credit: Mike Allison) Carl's Corner Some time ago an invitation was extended to me to participate in the on-line USARM forum based on my experience. For those of you who do not know me, I'll give you a bit of my background. I retired from the navy in 1974 as a chief petty officer after 20 years of service. I then retired in 1996 as a supervising correctional counselor after 22 years with the California department of corrections. I was a member of the sports car club of America for more than 25 years and held national licenses in emergency services as well as flagging and communications for more than 12 years. Additionally, I held a divisional license as an announcer. In that time frame I was recognized as a "dedicated worker" (someone who attended more than 75% of the yearly events) for 10 of those years. I have also worked at many events such as go -cart schools, motorcycle schools, CART, IMSA, and whatever else at tracks from Portland, Oregon to Buttonwillow. I have been a member of USARM for more than 15 years and have rarely missed an event especially at Laguna Seca and ThunderHill and have worked as control, starter and flagger/communicator. Furthermore I have been honored by USARM in that I was the initial recipient of the Jim Thurston communicator of the year award in 1994 and worker of the year in 1996 and 2001. It is my belief that I have sufficient knowledge and experience to provide beneficial and useful information to those who care to read Carl's Corner on the USARM website under Forum. I want to make it very clear that my opinions, questions, hints, etc., are my own and in no way whatsoever are necessarily those of USARM, its manual, its Board or its members. While my hope is that a majority of readers will agree with me, it is more important to get feedback and if there are those whose points of view differ, and then tell me how I can do a better job. My stated goal is to help USARM become a family of professionals rather than a professional family. We are paid to perform as professional course marshalls, it's time in the face of increasing competition that we all do the job properly with all of the resources available. Carl Sloan USARM Member The Year 1904 Maybe this will boggle your mind, I know it did mine! The year is 1904. One hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes! Here are some of the U.S. statistics for 1904 : 1. The average life expectancy in the U.S. Was 47 years? 2. Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub. 3. Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. 4. A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars. 5. There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles of paved roads. 6. The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph. 7. Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California. 8. With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union. 9. The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower! 10. The average wage in the U.S. was 22 cents an hour. 11. The average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per year. 12. A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year A dentist $2,500 per year A veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year A mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year 13. More than 95 percent of all births in the U.S. took place at home. 14. Ninety percent of all U.S. physicians had no college education. 15. Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and by the government as "substandard." 16. Sugar cost four cents a pound. 17. Eggs were fourteen cents a doze. 18. Coffee was fifteen cents a pound. 19. Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo. 20. Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason. 21. The five leading causes of death in the U.S. were : 1. Pneumonia and influenza 2. Tuberculosis 3. Diarrhea 4. Heart disease 5. Stroke 22. The American flag had 45 stars. 23. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet. 24. The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was 30!!! 25. Crossword puzzles, canned beer and iced tea hadn't been invented. 26. There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day. 27. Two of 10 U.S. adults couldn't read or write. 28. Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated high school. 29. Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores. 30. According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health." (Shocking!) 31. Eighteen percent of households in the U.S had at least one full-time servant or domestic. 32. There were only about 230 reported murders in the entire U.S. After you've completed your membership application, you can fill out the application to work the MotoGP Race at Laguna Seca in July. Remember that you must be a member of USARM before your MotoGP application will be accepted and considered. You can download the MotoGP worker application as either an MS Word Format or an Adobe Acrobat PDF Format. |
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