CATS members,

As 2016 comes to an end we have come a long ways with the CATS club this year. Back in January when we had a small meeting at Ray Bischoff house to decide if we wanted to pursue a national 50th event at Ford World Headquarters. The first order of business was to re-establish the CATS club and become an organized regional club with the Cougar club of America. It was decided with direction from CCOA to move forward and give it a go and see what we could put together. My estimates were if we can get around 20 – 25 CATS members it would be a successful start of the club. We are now at 42 members! Which far surpassed my expectations.  Sometimes in life things just fall in place and were meant to be. Like Mark Kulwik becoming involved in the club and offering all of his help and experience with working at Ford and knowledge of putting on a show like this from his involvement in the Motor City Shelby Club. Scott Zeller with his eye on design and ability to put together an excellent web site that I feel is as good as the other regional Cougar clubs.  John & Dee Bauman with their many years of putting on all kinds of Cougar shows and the services they offer to the Cougar community with their Cougar parts business. Ray Bischoff  has been working hard keeping our finances in order as membership and 50th anniversary show registrations come in. Mike Keast is busy keeping track of the 50th show registrations and dinner tickets and sending out confirmation letters. Gary Hill is keeping track of our sponsors for the 50th show and has offered a lot of knowledge to the club with his experience as a business owner. With this team of experts we are actually staying ahead of the planning phases of the 50th show. I have gotten e-mails from CATS members offering to volunteer to help during the 50th show and we will need more as the planning continues.