[F500] Howell C. Jones III Sportsmanship Award

[Eric D. Christensen]

OK kids... time to put your money where your mouse is! This is an
official challenge!!!! I'm in for $250. Come on... match me! Or at
least kick in what you can.

It's less than one rotten, rainy, miserable test day. One of those
ones that you wish you hadn't towed for 3 hours each direction to do.
:-) It's 2 tires, or a golf cart rental at The Runoffs. It's a top end
rebuild  for your spare Rotax. It's a month's collocation and
bandwidth charges for the f500.org server. Heck... It's less than my
bar tab at Buck's! :-)

Seriously, It would be wonderful to really make this award something
special and lasting. Howell personified the graciousness and
sportsmanship that IS F500. I can think of nothing better than to
honor one of the many in the F500 family who continue to define
sportsmanship by example, and to honor them in Howell's memory.

With a little luck and a lot of generosity (which the F500 folks seem
to naturally have in excess), maybe we can raise enough money to
ensure that this becomes a perpetual award.

By the way... many, many thanks to Julie, Lou and O.S. for their
effort and support. I, for one, recognize the amount of work
organizing something like this is. Rest assured that your efforts are
well appreciated!

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Eric D. Christensen    edc at proadmin.com
SCCA Formula 500       http://www.f500.org




> -----Original Message-----
> From: f500-admin at www.f500.org
> [mailto:f500-admin at www.f500.org]On Behalf
> Of Julie Cook
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 9:01 PM
> To: F500
> Subject: [F500] Howell C. Jones III Sportsmanship Award
>
>
> Were you thinking this was going to be a one-off award? We
> really have
> been working on the logistics of this award over the past
> few months -
> slowly, when real life doesn't get in the way.  O.S. Brannon and Lou
> Schultz have once again agreed to handle the nominations and voting
> process of the award and you'll probably be hearing from them in the
> next few days. My job is finance and procurement.
>
> Last year a number of you expressed interest in helping to
> finance this
> award. Because we hadn't decided how to handle excess money
> received, I
> was reluctant to accept your donations.  In the end, to
> make sure that
> the award happened, Howell's family paid half the cost of
> the award and
> Rusty and I covered the other half.  Again this year
> Howell's father and
> sister are planning to help with the cost of the award and
> although we
> still don't have a final plan for a memorial account for any funds
> received, we would happily accept any donations anyone would like to
> make toward this award.
>
> What I would suggest at this time, if you'd like to make a
> donation to
> the Howell C. Jones, III. Sportsmanship award fund would be
> to make your
> check payable to FineLine Racing and write F500
> Sportsmanship award on
> the check.  I will send you a receipt and will keep a separate
> accounting of these donations.  Then as soon as we return from the
> Run-Offs I'll make a real effort to move any excess money
> into some sort
> of Foundation account or something similar.
>
> I would also welcome any suggestions anyone might have to help
> fundraising.  The only idea I have is a "White Elephant Sale" at the
> party. I suspect teams that have been doing this for years may have
> things that you no longer use that someone else might like
> to have. We
> can throw these things on a table and see what they bring.
> (Does Solo
> have a Snell helmet requirement? I know we have a couple of
> helmets we
> could throw on the table.)  Anyone else have any other suggestions?
>
> Ultimately this entire award will be handled by O.S., Lou
> and anyone who
> might want to handle the financing/procurement.  For the
> time being, I
> am happy to help O.S. and Lou with this. Afterall, they are
> doing the
> hard part.
>
> Donations should be sent to Julie Cook; P.O. Box 682; Stone
> Mountain,
> GA  30086.
>
> Julie
>
>
>
>
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