Annual Call to Conclave

 

Elkhart Lake Racing & Sipping Society

 

2004

 

 

Your founder, as at this time last year, has only recently returned with

His lovely wife from rambling about the country in their vintage 1973 Airstream Globe Trotter travel trailer. This year our wanderings took us

to a niece’s wedding in Asheville, N.C., on to Alexandria, Va. for a

few days with our kids and grandkids, a day and night in Lima, Ohio with

Jim Bell’s brother and his wife, and finally to Racine for the Fourth

of July celebration. All in all, this amounted to two weeks on the road

prior to returning to Iola just in time for the annual onslaught of Car

Show weekend.

 

But, to business; in a continuation of the alarming trend noted in last

Year’s epistle, the staff here at ELR&SS InterGalactic Epicenter, in

Iola, has again been assailed by the supplications of some the

Society’s more anal and insecure members entreating to be told the

logistics of this year’s encampment (as if they haven’t been

virtually etched in granite during this past decade plus). However,

loath as I am to shirk the overbearing burden of my office as your Founder (and personal role model) and ever mindful of the ultimate

responsibility that lies squarely on these shoulders by virtue of the

innocent, almost puppy-like confidence placed in me by the Membership in

recognition of my sacrifice--I shall again deign to address my keyboard

and undertake to still your pitiful fears and to quench your thirst for

information.

 

While rumors have not recently been intercepted as to the possible

demise of the ubiquitous Ken-Ev Campground, traditional locus for the

annual ELR&SS Encampment (yes Virginia, now proposed for the eleventh

consecutive year!). We must be ever vigilant for the possibility that

the various federal, state, county, and/or township authorities have

chosen to call campground management to account for one or more of their

numerous affronts to public health and safety and have finally shuttered the miasmic sinkhole. In that event, the alternative venue shall once

again be the Sheboygan Marsh County Park public campground (located just

a few miles northwest of Elkhart Lake on County J). Members whose brain

cells have not entirely atrophied may recall that the "Marsh" was the

Society’s venue of choice back in its formative years and is the

source of many memories therefrom.

 

BE IT KNOWN, THEREFORE, that the

 

44th ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT of the

 

Elkhart Lake Racing & Sipping Society

 

shall convene at its namesake village on Thursday the 15th day of July

2004 at approximately 10:00 a.m.  It is hoped that THE SACRED STANDARD,

having reappeared last year, will again return to its traditional turf

to be implanted and regarded in humble adulation by the assembled

multitude.

 

So, yet again, the invitation is extended and the choice is yours. Lies

will be told, gas will be passed, and various degrees of bonding will be

experienced.

 

James T. Lenzke,

 

Founder, Primary Instigator, parentus tritatum et maxiparentus in trius

immentuous ad infinitum et quid pro quo in perpetuum and Senior

Consulting Chili Chef (ret.)