VTR Newsletter award to Bob Iwan.

Each year at the Vintage Triumph Register's NATC convention, chapter newsletters are evaluated and awards are given for excellence. This year, at Breckenridge CO, the Central Pennsylvania Triumph Club was selected as one of the VTR chapters having an outstanding newsletter. This award was presented to outgoing editor, Bob Iwan, by president Bill Shover at the club Christmas party on December 2, 2011.

When making the presentation to Bob, Bill noted that many other car clubs have abandoned the printed newsletter due to the lack of volunteers for the editor position, and use only their website as means of communication to their membership. "CPTC has been fortunate to have enough dedicated members to keep the both newsletter and the website alive" according to Bill. "Club member John Miele was recently elected to join the CPTC board of directors in this capacity. If we all work to make John's job easier by providing him with articles and pictures, we will continue to have a club newsletter that is second to none."

Bob is the latest in a long line of highly motivated and skilled newsletter editors. CPTC's Triumph News had previously received the VTR award in 1996 due to the efforts of then-editor, Dennis Ward. Our succeeding editors, Scott Suhring (8 years) and Bob Iwan (4 years), continued this trend of excellence. We thank these members for the contributions they have made during their time in office that have allowed CPTC to be recognized again this year at the national level.

Hug a tree and save $5.

As a group, the officers of this organization are a pretty thrifty bunch (other terms have also been used). We are always on the lookout for ways to conserve, so when we redesigned the web site we discussed some opportunities to change our way of doing business. As we looked at the new web content, we realized that the on-line newsletter was a big winner because it is a lot more attractive in color than it is in black-and-white print. We also realized that storing it on the server in a PDF format allows members to download the entire newsletter to their own computers, view it any time they want and save it for as long as they want.

But we also realized that not all members have computers or want to give up the surprise of finding a newsletter in their mail box. SO HERE IS THE DEAL.

We are now in a position to become more environmentally friendly and, at the same time, pass along some savings to the members that help us do that. If you elect to download you newsletter instead of having it mailed to you, we will reduce your dues by five dollars. In addition to putting $5 in your pocket, we will not need to raise yearly dues any time soon, will have a few more dollars available to purchase the regalia that you want and will be able to underwrite the cost of some of our events. On the other hand, if you want to continue receiving your newsletter in the mail, you can do that and continue paying $20 per year. The choice is yours.

If you opt to get the newsletter through this web site, send an email to the Vice President and tell him that you want to save a tree. Every month, he will send you an email letting you know when the latest issue of the newsletter is available on line. And when it is time for you to pay your dues, the price will be $15 instead of $20. If you don't want to change, do nothing and the newsletter will continue to be mailed to you every month.

We hope that you will find this change to be a benefit, so tell us what you think. If you think we're nuts, tell us that too. But don't forget to tell us whether to charge you $15 or $20.

Triumph News

The TRIUMPH NEWS has been the official voice of the Central Pennsylvania Triumph Club since 1989. Everything that happened in the last few months and everything that will happen in the next few months is reported in this newsletter.

Full color newsletters are provided to members on this page. We can't print the mailed newsletter in color due to the huge expense involved with color printing. But you can view the newsletter here in all of its original glory. Also, because these files are in a PDF format, you can save these to your computer and/or print them to your color printer.

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