President		National Director
Jerry Young		Clarence Haggart
First Vice President		Alternate National Director
Eugene Herring		Bill Neumann
Second Vice President		Chaplin
Gaye Young		Mike Lucas
Secretary		Retail Sales
Liz Wilson		Sharon Rice
Treasurer		Webmaster
Jennifer Smith	www.coastaltarheels.com	Suzanne Brannan

We had such a wonderful time at Mike and Sherry Lucas’ country estate. Mike had it set up real good to keep us dry and warm in his garage that he has for his motor home. It was a good place to be. As usual, we had all but a couple of coaches in on Thursday. Vicki & Paul made a wonderful dinner of chicken bog with all the goodies to go with it. Leon was complaining that he did not like that stuff, but sat down and ate two platefuls, good job Leon. Friday we had a wonderful breakfast of pancakes, bacon, juice and coffee. Dinner Friday night, again was excellent, we had spaghetti, salad, rolls, desserts and tea. I tell you, when you get Vicki, Sherry and Dayne together, they can put a wonderful meal on the table. We had another full southern breakfast Saturday morning of sausage and egg casserole with grits, toast, juice, coffee and wonderful fresh fruit cups. Since we had a few that did not show up because of a little rain, we had leftovers from Thursday and Friday nights and guess what we even got treated to lunch on Saturday. The guys got up early and started cooking the pig for our pig pickin Saturday night and what a feast we had, trimmings included sweet potatoes, slaw, baked beans, hush puppies, banana pudding and tea. We had our 50/50 drawing Friday night and Mike Lucas won $35.00 and gave $20.00 back to the club for our 30^th anniversary fund. Now, that is a good host for you. We had the 2^nd drawing and Jenny won two tickets to the Steeple Chase race at the Carolina Horse Park that was just a few miles away. Frank and Dayne’s daughter-in-law, Margaret Crumpler, furnished the tickets for our drawing, she is a VIP at BB&T, and anyone that went was invited to their corporate tent. Thanks again Margaret for your wonderful contribution. James T went with Frank, Jack and Barbara went with Jenny and Leon and I am told they had a wonderful time. They all came back full of tales about the racing. Saturday morning after a wonderful breakfast, we had our meeting, starting about 9:15. I owe Mr. OTHO TEW an apology, He told me I had misspelled his name in the last newsletter. I have always called him ORTHO (with the "r") and nobody ever corrected me, and I have heard other people pronounce it the same way, but I was wrong, sorry about that Mr. Tew. Since I can’t pronounce your name right, guess I will just have to call you Mr. Tew. I also said that Alice Tew was taking reservations for the ladies luncheon at our Gear meeting in June, I was wrong, you make the reservations thru GEAR, the number is on your application we all submitted to attend the rally in June. I thought it was nice that someone from our group would be the person to call for reservations. We again discussed the GEAR rally to be held in June in Richmond, Va. We are going to have electric and water. There is a dump station  within our campground for those who may need it. We will be serving coffee and donuts. We had a lot of discussion about our 30^th anniversary in September. It’s in Williamston at the Bob Martin Agri. Center. Remember It’s only $130, inclusive, except for the show and dinner at the Deadwood theatre. Sharon Rice is Chairman of the host team consisting of Sarah Wright, Frances Garner and Gaye Young, and is in charge of all volunteers, and guess what, all members are going to be assigned a duty of some sort, so sign up for what YOU want to do. Dayne Crumpler and Gaye Young will be in charge of decorations, Liz Wilson will be in charge of door prizes (I really need a lot of help on this one), Frances Garner will be in charge of registration, Bill Neumann will be in charge of setting up, breaking down, clean up, etc. Sonny Hooks will be in charge of parking. Call or e- mail either of us, and we would really appreciate your help. We work hard, but have fun doing it. If you don’t have the person’s number of e mail, please call me @ 910 624 2412 or e-mail me @ lizwilson624@embarqmail.com; or Sharon Rice @ 252-241-7581, e-mail @lhoward@ec.rr.com. For the 30^th anniversary, Gaye is assembling a photo album of all members present and past. If you can email her a picture of you in front of your coach, or if your picture on our website is one to your liking, or attend a rally soon and she will photograph you in front of your coach. Also needed is a paragraph or two about yourselves. Email it to her at gerald_gaye_young@yahoo.com. This book will be continued in the future for new members. For those who need to send in their dues (please, its not too late and its only $12.00 per coach), our treasurer is Jenny Smith @ 910-457-0995 or e-mail @Jsmith1245@ec.rr.com. Her address is 4468 Pam Street SE Southport, NC 28461. Our meeting adjourned around 10:30.

Lost in the ‘50’s! Our May rally will be held May 2^nd - 4^th with most of us coming in on the 1^st. Dinner will be provided for us early birds on Thursday night @ 6:00 p.m. Breakfast Friday

morning @ 8:30 a.m. Friday evening @ 6:00 we will head to Holt’s Lake Seafood & Barbeque For dinner(dutch treat), afterwards back to the clubhouse for Mexican train, Cards & Marbles or whatever you want to play at. Breakfast Saturday a.m. at 8:30 a.m. with meeting following. Saturday evening dinner will be @ 6:00 p.m. with "50’s" style dinner, afterwards "50’s games. OPTIONAL: 50’s attire, roll up your blue jeans, bobby socks and tennis shoes/saddle oxfords, penny loafers, weejuns, high school letter sweaters, poodle skirts. Sunday morning breakfast at 8:30 with devotion.

The May rally will be held at the KOA IN Four Oaks, N.C. Directions: From I-95 take exit 90 in Four Oaks, travel East on 701 and KOA-Smithfield will be on the left. For reservations call Angie @ 1 800 562-5897, please state that you are with the Coastal Tarheels. Lost in the 50’s is the theme, created by Nick Paul. Call Gaye or Jerry Young if your are going to attend @ 919-632-2369. Hosting will be the Cassinghams, Kennys, Pauls, Wrights and the Youngs. Bring a picture of yourself from the 50’s or when you were "Young" for this rally.

June 5^th - 8^th will be our GEAR rally, with the volunteers due in on the 1^st (Monday, if possible)

August 8^th - 10^th - Galax, Va at the Deer Creek RV Park, 1-866-342-0300, Eugene & Irene Herring @ 910 865 5705