We are looking for a volunteer to staff the Tech Chair Position for 2010.
The Tech Chairperson is responsible for:
Working with the board to identify technical topics of interest to the club members;
Locating speakers willing to share their expertise on these topics;
Coordinating the event logistics with the hosting organization or selected location;
Attending each of the Tech Sessions;
Attending the Zone 1 Tech Tactics Session;
Ensuring articles are written for each Tech Session.
Most of the Tech Sessions are held in the January to April, so the planning needs to be completed by December of this year. The current Tech Chair is available to review the background for the position.
If you are interested in the Tech Chair Position, contactIvy
Who we are!
The North Country Region (NCR) covers all of New Hampshire, and is one of the 18 regions which together form Zone 1of the Porsche Club of America (PCA). NCR has over 500 members and hosts many events including Drivers Education,Autocross, Rallies, and Technical Sessions, as well as several different social events.
A Brief History of
North Country Region,
Porsche Club of America
In 1977 a group of PCAers (mostly from New Hampshire, but with a few from neighboring towns in Maine and Vermont) grew dissatisfied with having to travel to the Rt. 128 area of Massachusetts (Northeast Region) or Portland, ME area (Down East Region) for Porsche events. They organized under the leadership of Michael Grishman (proprietor of Foreign Intrigue, then Pine Hill Automotive) and applied for a Region Charter of their own from the Porsche Club of America. The requirements were met and North Country Region became the 107th Region chartered by the Porsche Club of America on February 13, 1978. Its territory originally included all of New Hampshire and Vermont with the exception of Bennington County, Vermont, which was part of Hudson-Champlain Region at the time. In 1986 North Country surrendered its Vermont territory to the newly formed Green Mountain Region of PCA.
Always known as a friendly go-getter region, our newsletter, the Northlander, actually predates our charter with the first issue being in January of 1978. That issue lists the 26 charter members, four of which are still members: Ed and Nancy Broadhead, Richard & Laurinda Currier, Michael Grishman and Judy Hendrickson. From those 26 members in 1978 North Country has grown to over 450 as of the end of February 2006.
That first year also set the stage for North Country's winning ways as the Northlander was recognized at the 1979 Porsche Parade in Reston, VA, with a First Place finish in its newsletter class. Subsequent years saw the Northlander recognized many times in the national newsletter contest with the crowning glory being the Heinmiller Award for Best Newsletter in PCA at the 1994 Porsche Parade at Lake Placid, NY.
1994 was a particularly glorious year for North Country as the Region also won the Ferry Porsche Trophy for Best Region in PCA. The Region was also proud of their efforts in organizing and executing the Parade Concours d'Elegance. The precision and elegance of the display is still commented on throughout PCA and is held up as the standard to meet. The Region has since won the President's Parade Trophy in 1999 (Mont Tremblant, Quebec) recognizing the region with the most attendees considering size of the region and distance traveled.
