50 Years of Hill climbing!

[Ron Mann]

PHA Archive hosted a 50th anniversary reunion at the home of John & Jeanne Brandt on September 12th. It was a great turn out of PHA Veterans from the 60's & 70's!
In attendance was:
Barry Patterson
Ben Loquasto
Robert Oswald
Norma Oswald
Bob Seel
Dan Lipperini
Carol Lipperini
Dave Baker
Dave Smith
Dave Walter
Denny Gilbert
Don Kennedy
Don Struke
Duffy Ovens
Dwight Egolf
Marc Gerstein
Eunice Gerstein
Hughie Maloney
John Maloney
Bob Ladd
Jim Irons
John Brandt Jr.
Jeanne Brandt
John Novotnak
John Pitman
John Stinsmen
Jane Stinsmen
Larry Shaffer
Lyle Heck
Lynn Wenger
Martin Rapoport
Pete Leiss
Bob Laepple
Ron Szurgot
Sam Armstrong
Tom Edkin
Tom Hartman
Tom Knorr
Russell Kline
Tim Musser
Don Smith
Larry Brunner
Scott Beshore
Ron Glick
John Glick
Cortland Hannum
Jon Mearig
Henry Mearig
Ken Gamble
John Bahrt
Jake Krone
Mark Myers
Mike Oleyar
Tom Beil
Randy Miller
Art Gehret
Fred Snyder
Jerry Sigal
Larry Snover

I'm always looking for more contacts…if you know of any PHA Veterans, pass my contact info onto them!

[Sue Salsburg]

Who decided who was invited? Would have been nice to have been included - I raced with a lot of those guys. Sorry I missed the chance to catch up with old friends. Sue

[Ron Mann]

No worries...there will be more and bigger ones to come! I can add you to the dist list (has your email changed, I know you didn't like large files).

There was a lot of word of mouth on this one!

[beachfv14]

Hi Folks,
I'm late on this, but, The PHA "Veterans" Reunion was great. Thanks to John and Jeanne Brandt for having us, and to Ron Mann for organising the event. Gloria and I saw folks we hadn't seen in many years. For those folks who didn't hear about it, I understand it was meant to be for folks who ran in the 50s', 60s', 70s', and. for drivers who held PHA licenses.. when hills were sanctioned by PHA. and before all hills went SCCA.
Sorry to hear some folks felt left out. It would have been great to have all the drivers there but space would not have allowed it.
Besides, you youngsters still see each other at the hills, and at the banquet each year. We veterans needed a wheelchair friendly area, and Johns' place was. Unfortunately we had a conflict with the Vintage races at the Glen, so we missed a few folks, but it was a grand gathering of the Veterans of our sport, and I hope we can do it again before we all croak.
Thanks again to the Brandts' for their very gracious hospitality, and to Ron Mann for putting it together.

Tom and Gloria Hartman
Class of 72