News Items of Corvair Club Doings 

Updated 21-Nov-2009 ==== Copyright (c) 2009 Corvairs of New Mexico    

The December newsletter is now available for download.
There are photos from the Nov 7th Potluck/Bingo/Auction party.

Dues:
        CNM: 12 months $25.00 -or- 26 months $ 50.00 
      CORSA: 12 months $45.00 -or- 26 months $ 90.00 
CNM & CORSA: 12 months $70.00 -or- 26 months $140.00 

NEWS ITEMS 
RoseMary Martin Died
Election of Officers at October Meeting
Cash For Clunkers article by ROAD & TRACK's Peter Egan
Donna Mae Mims Died
Rocky Mountain CORSA will host the 2011 CORSA Convention


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RoseMary Martin Died 

Ruth Boydston called to tell us that RoseMary "Rosie" Martin, wife of
former CNM member Tom Martin, has died.

They joined CNM in May 1983 and Tom served two terms as vice-president,
1988-1990. Tom and Rosie invited CNM board members to meet at their house
on San Rafael NE several times in the late 1980s. Tom provided several
articles for our newsletter, including the popular "LA VENTANA" series,
and Tom and Rosie participated in CNM events such as Tri-State Meets and
club dinner parties.

Tom left CNM in 1990. They moved to the Belen area due to Rosie's health.

Below is the Albuquerque Journal obituary page.

- Jim

http://obits.abqjournal.com/obits/show/200357

MARTIN -- RoseMary, nee DoBell Martin, age 72, a native New Mexican residing in
Rio Communities and formerly of Albuquerque passed away on Wednesday, October
28, 2009.

She was born in Albuquerque's St. Joseph Hospital and birthed three of her four
children there. She was the second daughter of William Edwin and Elizabeth
(Maddison) DoBell.

RoseMary married John Thomas Martin on April 7, 1956 at the chapel on Sandia
Base. She is survived by four daughters, Vanessa Lynn and Kevin Marsden, Rosanna
and Randall Menck, Paula Elizabeth and David Mytyk, and Leslie Irene Churan.

She leaves behind 14 grandchildren and their spouses, Kevin C. Marsden, Jr., and
Lupe Mercado Marsden, Tara Marsden Barragan and Jesse Barragan, Lindsay Marsden
Gann and Ryan Gann, Christine Marsden Sachs and Richard Harold Sachs, Patrick
Thomas Marsden, Sherry Rebecca Marsden, Angela Menck, Andrew Menck, and Sarah
Menck, Daniel John Menck, Chelsea Rose Mytyk, Taylor Kay Mytyk, Micaela
Elizabeth Mytyk, Kyle Christopher Wood and Ashley Rose Churan.

Her seven great-grandchildren will also miss her warm presence, Cassandra Lynn
Barragan, Annaka Rose Barragan, Maya Kate Barragan, Audrey Elizabeth Menck,
Allison Rosemary Menck, Jonah Miles Menck and Andrew Scott Menck.

She passed her faith, her work ethic, and taught her children how to meet the
needs of others with kindness and consideration... an enduring legacy of love.

Rosie lost her father when she was 13. At this same age she obtained a job in a
shop at Nob Hill that featured children's apparel. She was fiercely proud of
attending Highland High School and Jefferson Junior High. Her first job on
graduation in 1955 was secretary to John Riden Baugh, the manager of the
Albuquerque offices of Gorman Engineering. He rewarded her performance for
Christmas 1959 with the enormous bonus of $1,200. She was justly thrilled.

Her husband's employment sadly took her out of Albuquerque to Omaha, Cedar
Rapids, Santa Monica, Granada Hills, Lincoln, but she thrived raising her four
daughters as a stay-at-home mom and new friends sprang up in her warmth. She
opened her home to any and every... impressing everyone with her
self-sacrificing, thoughtful and gracious nature.

In 1991, she and her husband in retirement moved to Rio Communities on the golf
course east of Belen. She never met a game of scrabble she didn't like,
delighted in crossword puzzles and reading novels. Her main love was party
bridge and the many friends who came into her life. She related each had a
quality she admired and enjoyed..even when they redoubled her bid. It was with
great sorrow in 2005 her health forced an end to her participation.

Her favorites were Butterfingers, Cheetos, Lay's Classic Potato Chips, Golden
Pride fried chicken and an evening toddy. She loved her family, her siblings,
Elizabeth Heise, Steve DoBell and wife, Joanne, Keith Niggel, brother-in-law,
and her Ambercare Hospice caregivers, Dr. Joseph Aragon, Nurse Linda Barela and
Nurse's aide Jeanette Burch.

After being a widow for many years, Rosemary's mother, Elizabeth remarried noted
Albuquerque artist, John P. Reynolds... thus gaining her beloved Reynold
siblings. In passing she will miss her in-laws, her friends and neighbors but
will joyously join her loved ones who preceded her in death... her parents, her
sister, Patricia, sister, Antoinette Niggel; her brother, Bill DoBell; and
brother-in-law, Richard Heise.

A Mass and Memorial service will be held on Saturday, October 31, 2009 at Our
Lady of Belen Catholic Church, 101 N. 10th Street, in Belen.

In lieu of flowers, the family request donations be made to St. Vincent De Paul
Society, 916 Castillo, Belen, NM 87002. Sign RoseMary's online register book at
	www.romerofuneralhomenm.com
Romero Funeral Home, 609 N. Main St., Belen, NM (505) 864-8501

PUBLISHED ON: THURSDAY OCTOBER 29, 2009



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ELECTION OF OFFICERS (click photos for larger view)

	
	Robert Gold, Treasurer
	Art Gold, Secretary
	Pat Hall, President
	Ray Trujillo, Vice-President


	Mike Stickler, outgoing President
	Art Gold
	Ray Trujillo
	Pat Hall
	Chuck Vertrees, outgoing Secretary



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CASH FOR CLUNKERS ARTICLE BY PETER EGAN
Appreciation to Road & Track Magazine -by- Jim Pittman

Many of us old car nuts felt a vaguely unspecified feeling of
sadness and disbelief when we heard about the "Cash for Clunkers"
program, and we felt even more dismay when we learned that the
"clunkers" that were traded in on a new car had to be destroyed.

If you are one who shares this feeling, go out right now and buy
the November 2009 issue of Road & Track magazine and turn to page
26 to read Peter Egan's SIDE GLANCES column.

I have been getting Road & Track for decades and I always turn
first to Peter Egan's column. Road & Track tests exotic cars
that I would never be able to afford, even if I thought I could
drive them (can you really see me driving a new Corvette 130 MPH
up La Bajada Hill on I-25? I didn't think so). But Egan writes
truly for us old car nuts--about lusting to buy yet another old
English sports car, or the joy of driving a cheap Mazda Miata
instead of an expensive Mercedes, or going to a junk yard to get 
that special part to complete your restoration project, or how 
you feel when the last bolt is tight and you hit the starter and 
the newly rebuilt engine starts right up.

Somehow he manages to get the very essence of the soul of the car
nut down on paper. If you've ever been cramped under a car and had
oily engine grit fall in your face, if you've ever had your wrench 
slip and bash your knuckle on a sharp edge, if you've ever given a 
bolt just one more grunt--and stripped the threads, well, then, 
Peter Egan is the writer for you.

In the November issue he writes about his angst at learning that
the engines of the clunkers have to be drained of oil and then run
to destruction so they can never run again. But listen:

	"I don't know why, but there's something more
	 troubling about the destruction of a working
	 engine than there is about the scrapping of an
	 already dead car. Engines have kinetic life--
	 a heartbeat, if you will--and they do real
	 work. They're also the end result of several
	 thousand years of technological and metallurgical
	 progress, and, to work at all, they have to be
	 assembled with great care and precision. If you
	 rebuild one, there's hardly anything more
	 suspenseful--or rewarding--than starting it up
	 and hearing it run properly."

I suppose I look on the "Cash for Clunkers" plan as a trial run,
maybe one of many, that we needed to make to try to focus people's
attention on the idea of that we have to be more thrifty with our
resources, a trial run at helping us survive the current recession
or depression or whatever it is we find ourselves in, a noble
experiment that was just, well, not perfect or not even really
very noble, but maybe somehow necessary. Like using our taxpayer
money to bail out the "too big to fail" Wall Street titans.

Maybe our next scheme to spend a few millions of taxpayer dollars
will be a little more elegant and maybe a little more effective.

In the meantime, I for one thank Peter Egan for so often finding
the right words to pierce directly to an old car nut's heart.



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DONNA MAE MIMS DIED
"Corvairsation" - October 2009 - Tucson Corvair Association


	Donna Mae Mims, 82, of Bridgeville, died Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009.
Born July 1, 1927, to George Warnoch and Margaret Bodner. She was known by
many as the "Pink Lady," "Think Pink," "Donna Amazing" and even "Free Maui."

Donna started racing in 1958 and was the first woman driver ever to win a
Sports Car Club of America National Championship H Production in 1963.

Her career and involvement in Yenko led her to racing such cars
as the Camaro, Austin Healey, MG, Corvette and Corvairs. She worked
for Yenko Chevrolet and Yenko sports car division as executive
secretary for both and was the liaison for design and production
with the Yenko sports car division with such cars as the Deuce,
Camaro, Nova, Chevelle and Corvair. She worked closely with
Zora Arkus-Dontuv, Ed Cole and the pioneers of Chevrolet Racing.

She coordinated parts delivery and car development of Corvette Race
Cars in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. She raced many times in Sebring,
Daytona and Riverside. Donna Mae was as original participant in the
original Cannonball Run where her 1968 Cadillac Limo was wrecked
with her teammate behind the wheel. She was known as being able to
go toe to toe with some of the best drivers in the country at speeds
up to 140 miles per hour. She was an avid longtime member of the SCCA
and her other interests included Jazz music and teaching Sunday
school as an active member in Mt. Lebanon United Methodist Church.

Donna Mae Mims was the spokesperson for Don Yenko's racing division
and during the Yenko Stinger days. 



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ROCKY MOUNTAIN CORSA HOSTS 2011 CORSA CONVENTION 
Reference: Denvair News, August 2009, Page 4
Editor: Eric Schakel

CORSA 2011: It's All Real!

Our own Timothy Shortle stood in front of the CORSA Board of Directors, and
presented our case for hosting the 2011 International Convention right here on
the Front Range. Tim, as the only RMC member who made the trip, was obviously up
to the task as the Board accepted our offer.

With the official acceptance, we can start to lay out the groundwork for a solid
convention. The preferred hotel is the DoubleTree Denver Tech Center, and they
were kind enough to lower their rooms to the CORSA-desired $99.00 rate.

A former Hilton, the hotel was completely and extensively refurbished in late
2008. It's a first-class venue, only minutes From the RTD Light Rail Station.
The grounds have a grassy park area and there are many shade trees. There's even
a huge church complex next door with additional parking, much of it covered.



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