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Among Our Own.(NEWS)
IT'S NOVEMBER, SO WE'RE ALL inundated with "giving opportunities to bolster our charitable contributions as the tax year ends. This is one that, like the CARA auction Dutch Mandel told you about last week, gives you a chance to support the racing community.
It's been 10 years since Pete Lyons and I covered the groundbreaking for the Inter-national Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen, N.Y., and the facility is now but bursting at the seams. There are plans for a needed expansion to accommodate the vast, growing collection of books, films and original archival materials (race records, posters, programs, personal papers of racers and journalists, club newsletters, photos, home movies, videos and more).
When I last visited in early October, Lyons was the guest speaker for the center's annual open house, and he kept a crowd's rapt attention for more than an hour and a half, displaying his photos and telling tales of his years covering Formula One and Can-Am. Similar "Center Conversations are a regular activity, and the list of speakers who have appeared is a growing who's who of motorsports.
Director Mark Steigerwald pointed out a stack of boxes containing a collection ...
- Open-wheel racing returns to Watkins Glen after 24 years.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire September 21, 2005 700+ words
...inaugural Watkins Glen Indy Grand Prix, and another guy in particular hardly can wait. Eighty-four-year-old Cameron Argetsinger, the man who started the road-racing tradition at Watkins Glen in 1948, is on pins and needles in anticipation...
- 2007 AUTOWEEK QUIZ ANSWERS.(Competition)
- Magazine article from: AutoWeek February 18, 2008 700+ words
...Andretti and Bob Collins book is What's It Like Out There? 5. The major-domo for many years at Watkins Glen was Cameron Argetsinger. 6. The longtime major-domo at Elkhart Lake was Cliff Tufte. 7. The first USAC road-racing champion...
- PR Newswire Photo Advisory for Wednesday January 15, 2003 at 6 a.m. EST.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 15, 2003 700+ words
...automotive power systems. (Photo by Pete Lyons/Motor Press Guild; contact the photographer...best near-term option. (Photo by Pete Lyons/Motor Press Guild; contact the photographer...automotive power systems. (Photo by Pete Lyons/Motor Press Guild; contact the photographer...
- BEST OF FRANCE AND ITALY; A car show of delightfully narrow focus.(Revs)
- Magazine article from: AutoWeek January 14, 2008 700+ words
Byline: PETE LYONS What if you put on a car show and lots of interesting ones came-such as a racy Ariel Atom, a pretty MG TC, a gleaming old Pierce...
- LANL Kicks Off Nuke Waste Transmutation Project.
- Newspaper article from: Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, NM) January 17, 2001 700+ words
...countries, especially France, take that glob of spent mix-matched nuclear fuel, reprocess it and use it over again, said Pete Lyons, Domenici's science adviser. The United States, however, plans on burying it. But that solution has problems. For...
- Alerts: Turning Pennies into Dollars (OTCBB: TXPO), (OTCBB: TKER), (OTCBB:...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire April 10, 2007 700+ words
...present very compelling ways for ILECs to save considerable money as they revamp their local access infrastructures," said Pete Lyons, President and CEO of EIT. By decoupling a service provider's dependence on a given systems vendor's ONT and cabinet...
- Jazz with Alan Joyce.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire May 1, 2009 700+ words
...appearances for the Sunday lunchtime session at the Lion Hotel, New Basford. Round formed the quintet in 1998 with tenor-saxist Pete Lyons and its classic hard-bop line-up of trumpet, tenor-sax and rhythm adheres mostly to compositions from the Blue Note...
- AutoWeek.(autoweek.com)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: AutoWeek February 19, 2007 700+ words
...online-only articles on autoweek.com that we thought you might need to see a list in print. For starters, we have a Pete Lyons interview with Scott Speed, a quick update on the maiden off-road trip in our long-term Toyota FJ Cruiser, some driving...
- CRITICS HAVE ONE QUESTION.
- Newspaper article from: The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM) December 22, 2001 700+ words
...Committee member is only "trying to make sure all the important parts of the program are funded," says his science adviser, Pete Lyons, a scientist on leave from Los Alamos National Laboratory. One of those parts, which Lyons admits is presenting a challenge...
- NO ASTERISK; Scott Dixon scores a Watkins Glen hat trick.(Competition)
- Magazine article from: AutoWeek Lyons, Pete July 16, 2007 700+ words
Byline: PETE LYONS Modern Indy cars have raced only three times at historic Watkins Glen, and Scott Dixon has won all three races-always by beating...
Source: HighBeam Research, Among Our Own.(NEWS)