MAFCA ELECTIONS
Election 2024 - Candidates for 2025-26 Board
This year you will not receive a ballot in the mail with your MAFCA membership renewal form. For just the second time in more than 25 years, the number of people volunteering and nominated for election to the Board of Directors was less than the number required to fill the Board’s membership. Per the MAFCA bylaws, this allows a waiver of election, and those nominated will be confirmed as elected at our next Board meeting on December 12 during the National Awards Banquet in Salt Lake City.
ELECTION RESULTS – Dec 2024:
Sherry Winkenhofer
Nebraska
After careful consideration, I would like to become a candidate for the MAFCA Board of Directors. In 2007, my husband, Kan, came home with a “pile of rust” he said was a 1929 Ford Fordor. We quickly bought a running 1929 Tudor, now named “The Old Lady.” I have been the editor of our club’s newsletter since 2008, editor/ writer of the A World, MAFCA’s youth newsletter, since 2010, a member of the MAFCA era fashion committee from 2017–2023, and currently serve as the fashion editor of The Restorer. Kan passed away in 2012, so I learned to drive The Old Lady. Over the years, I have enjoyed promoting the history and our wonderful car to various groups and museums, and indeed almost everyone I meet! I have competent knowledge of computers as evidence in my newsletter jobs, and would enjoy the opportunity to contribute to MAFCA as an active member of the board.
Dave Krill
California
I began my journey with MAFCA in 1962 when I bought my first car, a 1930 Town Sedan, from Red Grow at his used car lot in Glendale, California. Red advised me to join MAFCA and directed me to the Jewel City chapter in Glendale. I took his advice, and my life changed forever. Since those early days I’ve belonged to the Ventura chapter, where I became president and later the Paso Robles A’s, where I also served as president and chaired two Central California Regional Group jamborees. I recently retired from a 50-year career in dentistry, where I owned and operated five dental practices. I served on the University of Southern California dental school faculty for five years. I am a veteran (US Army 1963–’71) and have been married to Cyndi for 51 years. We have five children and 14 grandchildren. I believe I can be an asset on the board and help us move forward, especially to appeal to younger folks.
Happy Begg
South Carolina
I have been a member of MAFCA since 2004 and very active at the local and national level since 2009. I have served in my local chapter, the Palmetto A’s of South Carolina, as newsletter editor, treasurer, vice president, and president. I spearheaded the formation of the Southeastern Touring Group, a long-distance Model A Touring Club, in 2016. Nationally I chaired the 2012 National Awards Banquet and co-chaired the 2019 National Tour. I have served on the MAFCA Board as Vice President in 2014–2016, 2021, and 2022 and as President in 2017. I have also worked with the local chapter hosts for the 2014–2016 and the 2021, and 2022 National Awards Banquets; the 2014, 2016, 2022, and 2024 National Conventions; and the 2015, 2017, and 2021 National Tours. Before retiring, I worked many years in the West Bloomfield, Michigan, School District and served five years on the Society of Automotive Engineers, Detroit Section, Annual Meeting Committee. I have very good organizational, fundraising, and event management skills.
Doug Linden
Massachusetts
I have been a proud member of MAFCA for over fifty years and during that time our family has enjoyed many happy miles touring in our Model A and meeting so many wonderful people. I joined the Minuteman Model A club in 1971 have served over the years as president, secretary, treasurer and am currently the newsletter editor. After retiring as a global manager for an international communication equipment manufacturer I decided to become a candidate for the MAFCA board of directors. I thought it was important to give back some time to support the club that had provided so much enjoyment to our family. I was elected to the board (twice) and served and have served as President, and as Publication, Membership, Advertising and Chapter Coordinator director positions over those two terms. I look forward to serving on the board for the next two years.
Jay McCord
California
Kay and I have been members of MAFCA since 1979. We have been members of Harbor Area A’s, Bakersfield Model A Club and are founding members of the Santa Maria A’s. I have served on the Santa Maria A’s Board for over 20 years serving in most offices including 8 years as President. I have served on the MAFCA Board for 6 years serving as Membership Director, Chapter Coordinator, and President in 2022. I have also served on the Model A Ford Foundation Board for 6 years. It is fun to be involved in the Model A Hobby because of the wonderful people in the club. It is my desire to be of service to the membership and do so as primary administrator of the Model A Ford Club of America Facebook Page. Our Chapter was the host of the 2024 National Awards Banquet. I love the Lord, My Family, and the Model A Ford.
Dave Frazee
California
I am David Frazee, son of 2005 president, John Frazee. I bought my first Model A in 1978 when I was 13, but my dad made me sell it at the same swap meet an hour later. It took another ten years before I had one I could keep. During those years I was an officer in many clubs, studied public speaking, writing, and history, and eventually became an archivist with a Masters in Library and Information Sciences from the University of Washington. I worked at Seattle's Museum of Flight, the Nordic Heritage Museum, and then settled into working for the Escondido Public Library for twenty years, raising a family and coaching baseball. My scrapbook includes interviews with the local paper concerning local history, serving the Escondido Rotary Club as membership secretary, and the Escondido Historical society as secretary, as well as restoring my first house and helping restore Model A's with my Dad. Being occupied with work, kids, and volunteering with local history, I seldom participated in the Model A Club. Then, shortly after I retired, my Dad told me that basically, if I didn't take over the newsletter of the Palomar A's, that the club would soon fold, and since I wasn't working, I should do it. He also told me that what with the various board members, all I'd have to do is use my computer and editing skills to paste all the articles together they submitted. So, I did for 2018. That was, indeed, not true, as I've had to write up almost all of the content, and have come to organize tours, breakfasts, the membership, the internet, our communication with the Southern California Regional Group (which elected me secretary) and this last year, in addition to all of that, I was chapter president.