Moregrip1

If you?ve been away for a few years, you are unaware that the Inliners Club we remember doesn?t exist anymore. I was known on this forum as 41 Coupe. Ex Chapter
Head of Texas Gulf Coast and Ex Inliner member since 1980.

When Luke Lucas term as president was over and he was done trying to bury what was left of the disastrous two terms of Will Willis, he decided to wash his hands of it and dropped it in the lap of his VP Allen Jewell, then Chapter Head of the Northern Nevada
Chapter.

Allen accepted the job reluctantly. I didn?t know Allen, but after talking to him a few
times, it seemed he had some good ideas to restructure the club. He started having
monthly Board meetings, including Chapter Heads as Board members, which was the way the Bylaws were originally written.

Membership had been dropping like flies. Their solution was to raise dues to $37 annually and go into an all out membership campaign thru the Chapters.
I hope I?m not telling you something you don?t already know, but I think the membership had known for a long time that joining Inliners was like beating a dead horse. They decided to decrease the number of issues of the 12 Port News, which had turned into a real rag several years earlier, leaving members to ask the question ?Why
do I need this thing ?. They voted long time Treasurer Lou Becker out, replacing him
with the wife of Bay Area Chapter Head, Marleah Scott. A complete idiot in my opinion. They also terminated the long time relationship with 12Port News editor
Wanda Kincaid, in an effort to cut costs.
When Allen took over, he held regular Board meetings, allowing one hour a month, which soon deteriorated into 20 minutes devoted to club business ( mostly no business)
the rest to BSing amongst the Elites he had lined the Board with, after vowing to eliminate their influence at the beginning.
They reorganized the club requiring members rejoin, shut the old website down and
formed a new one and quit supporting the The Bulletin Board.

Last I heard, Allen turned the running of the Nevada Chapter over to his wife.
You may remember Beater of the Pack, as a contributor to the BB forum. I?ve talked to him several times. Apparently they still hold Chapter meetings, but no Inliners business is discussed..

When the new changes took effect the first of the year, I resigned my Chapter Head
position and resigned my club membership.

I have since moved to Colorado, Will Willis is still running the High Plains Chapter, of which I have no plans to become involved with in anyway..
I am still an Inliner and hope to meet some of their members..

I hope this has provided some insight as to what has happened to what was a fun
organization to be a part of.

You can find me here or at my email address

Larry Cates
lhcates@hotmail.com

Best Wishes