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2012 Board Introduced

December 6, 2011.   DAF's first Christmas party at the San Pedro Elks Club seemed to be great success.  Dressed up in their holiday finest, the approximately 60 attendees imbibed, dined and danced the night away.  Tired of trying to convince their male counterparts to dance, the ladies took over the dance floor, formed a circle and proceeded to recreate their own version of Dance Fever.  For those of you who did not attend the party, the view from the festive Elks Lodge ballroom was spectacular.  Thanks to all of the people who helped put this great event together.

The 2012 DAF Board of Directors was announced at the party.  Mitch Taylor, Admiral-for-Life but President-for-Two-Years, stepped down as President (and was promptly recycled as Programs Chairman).  Joe Cogan was named by the Board as the new President.  A big thanks to Mitch for his two years of leadership and congratulations to Joe on his new position - the Board sincerely hopes that you will successfully make it through the double-secret probationary period.

Three long-time board members, Diana Piper, Lisa Hahn and Wyn Oetken, ended their participation on the board at the end of 2011.   The club is very grateful three for all of the time and energy these three people devoted to club activities over the course of many years.  Dave Weir also stepped down as Program chair - thanks Dave for a great year of programs.

Two new couples joined the Board: Jody and Craig Narr (Treasurer/Secretary) and Kelly and Ray Wolfbrandt (Door).  The Board welcomes these new members and unanimously agreed that, unlike Joe, no probationary period was necessary.  The full Board of Directors list for 2012 is as follows: 

Position Board Member
President Joe Cogan
Fly-In Chairman Peter Broen
Programs Chairman Mitch Taylor
Door Kelly and Ray Wolfbrandt
Secretary / Treasurer Jody and Craig Narr
Membership Wayne Grau
Website/Newsletter Editor - Photographer Larry and Jodie Chapman
Decorations Mary Falstrom

joomplu:1447The Mystery Winners

No Threats of Litigation - New Precedent Set

The November program was the awarding of the Mystery Fly-In Trophy to this year's winners, Curtis Hahn and Chuck Livergood. The guys, with the help of the Internet, answered all the quiz questions correctly. They even got most of the tiebreaker questions right. Even more amazing, they showed up for lunch at the correct airport. Congratulations, guys.

Note: This year's Mystery Fly-In was designed by an august committee headed up by Fly-In chairman Wayne Grau. The committee members were Mitch, Larry, Peter, and Joe. A fabulous documentary (expose΄) of the committee's structured, well-honed design process was produced by Jessenia Galvan-Lloyd, Jan and Mitch's granddaughter. It is a good thing, too, because the committee members have no recollection of designing anything. Thank you, Jess.

Also, many thanks to Larry Chapman for putting together a video collage of the July DAF trip to Telluride. Spectacular stuff.

 

OK - It's Tehachapi

November 5, 2011.  This year's annual Mystery Fly-In was a huge success. Thirty-three DAFers in 16 aircraft participated. By some quirk of fate, all aircraft landed at the correct mystery airport. For those that did not attend the fly-in, the Mystery destination was Tehachapi (KTSP). As you know, the Mystery Fly-in consists of a quiz and a fly-in. The correct answers to the quiz let you deduce the mystery destination. In order to win, you must get the highest score on the quiz and show up at the mystery destination for lunch. So, to reduce the embarrassment and frustration to our veteran pilots caused by the quiz, the fly-in committee really went to great effort to dumb it down. Unfortunately, the committee did not reach the proper level of dumbness. Maybe next year we will just publish the answers ahead of time. All participants had a great time. Some were even "starting to have fun yet." ...Joe

 

October 7-9, 2011.  Jackson, California is a fun place!!! After a week of wondering whether the weather would cooperate, (which it did), 10 airplanes, 1 helicopter and 3 cars arrived in Jackson on October 7 carrying a total of 29 DAFers. The weather was perfect for the entire weekend (except for a slight headwind going) and we had a great time exploring an area of Northern California that many of us had not visited before.

The weekend began with a happy hour by the pool on Friday night. As usual, the gang brought lots of food and beverages. We had a beautiful a view of cows roaming in the pasture and of the Amador County hills. On Saturday, we toured four towns in the area starting out in Plymouth which had some nice eating establishments. We found the corn maze at the Amador Flower Farm and managed to wind our way through it. Next was Amador City where many of us bought our picnic lunch at Andrae's. Then we headed to Sutter Creek. Sutter Creek was having its 4th Annual Musical Organ Rally, so we were lucky enough to hear some of the music coming out of those beautiful instruments. Next was a picnic in at the Kennedy Tailing Wheels Park and then off to the city of Jackson. We completed our tour at Drytown Cellars where we were treated to a private wine tasting. Many of us went our separate ways for dinner on Saturday night but, we all found something delicious to eat. Sunday brought perfect weather (and a bit of a tailwind) for the trip home.

Thank you to everyone who came on the trip to Jackson! We hope you all had a good time!

...Liz & Peter.