Chapter Chatter April 2015 Vol 6 Issue 4

Chapter Chatter
April 2015
Inside this issue:
H.O.G
1
Secretary Minutes
6
Bessie Stringfield
9
Guess who’s Vest
11
Run Pins
13
15
17
20
Tombstone
Bisbee
Buddys Bash
Anthem H.O.G 2376
The Harley Owners Group (HOG) is a sponsored community
marketing club, operated by Harley-Davidson for enthusiasts of
that brand's motorcycles. The HOG is "the grandaddy of all
community-building efforts," serving to promote not just a
consumer product, but a lifestyle. The HOG has also served to
open new revenue streams for the
company, with the production of tiein merchandise offered to club members, numbering over one million
strong, making it the largest factorysponsored riding club in the world. The Harley-Davidson community was the prototype for the ethnographic term subculture
of consumption, defined as "a distinctive subgroup of society
that self-selects on the basis of a shared commitment to a particular product class, brand, or consumption activity." The Harley
Owners Group was created in 1983 as a way to build longerlasting and stronger relationships with Harley-Davidson's customers, by making ties between the company, its employees,
and consumers. HOG members typically spend 30% more than
other Harley owners, on such items as clothing and HarleyDavidson-sponsored events. Much of the intent of this branding
effort is presenting Harley-Davidson as an American icon, with
the focus on authenticity and pride in being American-made. All
of this is credited with turning flagging sales around, and allowing the Harley-Davidson company to grow again.
SONS OF ANTHEM
Coming this Summer
From the Secretary
March General Meeting Minutes - 2015: Jeff Feldstein – Secretary
Minutes General Meeting:
Anthem HOG Chapter #2376, March 21, 2015 10:00 Am
Location:
Anthem Buddy Stubbs HOG Meeting Room
Officers Present:
Rory Kraft ( Director), Jim Osborn (Assistant Director), Jeff Feldstein
(Secretary), John Valentine (Membership Officer), Jean Miller
(Treasurer), Todd Carter (Webmaster).
Officers Absent:
Rodney Benner (Editor), Janet Benner (Activities Officer), David
Lundgren (Safety Officer), Adrienne Coro (Photographer), Laura Normann (LOH), Don Halford (Head Road Captain).
Attendance:
Members Present: 31
General Meeting Minutes:
Rory Kraft called the meeting to order at 10:00 AM.
Pledge of Allegiance led by Rory and stated by all.
Rory Kraft - Director: Welcome everybody. The meeting will not be long today, everybody
knows the Buddy Stubbs Bash is going on today and we are riding down as a group a little after the
meeting today.
I want to show you a $285.00 Sheetrock Screw. I took out of my tire after returning from HOT
training. I had just purchased a new set of tires prior to going to HOT training, and guess what; I
got to purchase another tire. I used superglue to get to the tire shop by gluing the screw back into
the tire and it held the 17 miles to the shop.
Jeff Feldstein – Secretary: When I was at HOT training I stopped at the ATT booth, one of
many vendors present and, are there any members here who are using ATT for Cell phone? No!
Well ATT gave me 5 cards good for a 18% discount off their regular services for HOG members,
they are up front on the white board shelf, anyone interested please take one. Also, I stopped by
the Best Western Booth and talked with them, and as you know they are a HOG approved Vendor
and offer may programs for Harley-Davidson Riders, and they offer exclusive for HOG members
an automatic upgrade to Platinum Elite status and receive 15% bonus points for each qualified stay.
You have the option to redeem Best Western Ride Rewards points for our annual H.O.G. membership dues. I have a literature sheet here which I will leave for all to see. Question from Janet Cowley, could you email a copy to me? We make copies for all who requested them at the meeting using our new donated printer.
Rory Kraft – Director: We have the Desert Ride coming up and we have a booth at Buddy
Stubbs Bike Bash, so stop by and see us at the booth, sign up if you have not yet signed up, and help
out if you can. We purchased a new tent for our use, from Costco, it has sides and we have an Anthem HOG Banner on it, and we now don’t have to rely on getting the Regular Anthem HOG tent.
Jean Miller – Treasurer: I have an awkward moment, I left the statement on my kitchen table on
the way out this morning, I will say we have monies in the bank and are well funded for this time of
the year.
Jim Osborn – Assistant Director: I will be working the booth at Buddy Stubbs Bike Bash today, so stop by.
John Valentine – Membership Officer: We have 97 members right now. And just for the few
members who do not appreciate the Zombie portion of my presentations, today there will be none.
John also mentioned some of our members are going away for awhile, the snow birds, and we will
miss them, so please keep in touch, read the News Letter to keep up with what is going on with the
Chapter and we will miss your volunteering. Thank you all, and we will think of you when the “heat
returns to the valley”.
Rory asked for a show of hands of members who are going to the Bike Bash, and almost all attending are going, so Rory explained the route to all. Rory also located are booth on the grounds for
all so they will be able to find us.
Maggie Roberts – Member: I wanted to thank you all for donating the t-shirts for Children’s First
Academy. There will be a ride to the Academy to give the shirts to the children, and we wanted to
have 300 to take with us, and it looks like after this morning we have the 300 we wanted so we will
be putting together a ride in the near future. We will let Janet Benner know the timing and put it
out to the members. The Principal wanted us to visit after the testing is done and that would be
around April 19th, we will try to get this organized by then.
By the way, John Roberts’s bike won 3rd place at Daytona this year so if you would like to see it he
is riding it today.
Rory Kraft – Director: This week is Bike Week and we will have demo rides at Westgate on
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. All the bikes will be there for you to ride, so come down and see us.
By the way, NO COLORS, OR VESTS, a Westgate policy, so please be aware of that. I also wanted
to mention that we have been purchasing a few things for the Chapter, two easels’ which we are using one today at the bash.
Questions about the Wednesday Ride, which is a #93 event; it is the 15th year of the Ride for the
Burn Camp. We are having a ride to #93 on Wednesday morning and then going on the ride.
General talk about the Tombstone ride we had, some of the places we went, Bisbee portion of the
ride, the route we took down, the Trail Riders Inn where we stayed.
Meeting Adjourned 10:31 AM
Respectfully Submitted
Jeffrey Feldstein
Secretary
Anthem HOG #2376
Bessie Stringfield
In 1930s America, a woman riding a motorcycle was an unusual site. A woman riding alone, crosscountry on the dirt roads that laced together rural America was almost scandalous. And if that woman was African American, well, let's just say jaws might drop when Bessie Stringfield motored into
town on her Harley-Davidson.
In the 1930s and 1940s, Stringfield made
eight, long-distance, solo rides, eventually
traveling through all 48 states. She left on her
first ride at age 19 after tossing a penny on a
map to select a destination. She didn't ride to
make a statement. She just had a passion for
motorcycles, and simply refused to let the
barriers of her times hold her back. "I was
somethin'," Stringfield told author Ann Ferrar in a 1990 interview. "What I did was fun
and I loved it."
Ferrar profiles Stringfield in her book Hear Me
Roar: Women, Motorcycles and the Rapture of
the Road, an account that provides much of the
historic record of her life and exploits. Stringfield
was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1911, and
moved to Boston with her parents. Orphaned at
the age of five, she was adopted by a wealthy,
white couple who nurtured her fierce independence. When she was 16, she asked for a motorcycle and was given a 1928 Indian Scout. She
learned to do stunts on the motorcycle and began performing, riding side-saddle, on one footboard,
and even standing on the seat.
In 1930, Stringfield replaced the Indian with a new Harley-Davidson, and set out on her first
"gypsy tour," performing as a barnstorming stunt rider along the way. In an era that historian Rayford Logan has called "the
nadir of American race relations," when discrimination against African Americans was rampant and often
violent, Stringfield learned
to cope. Often denied hotel lodging, she would seek
a room with a local black
family, or just sleep on her
motorcycle. During World
War II, Stringfield volunteered for a civilian courier
service and rode from base
to base with documents for the Army as the only woman in her unit.
"All along the way, wherever I rode," Stringfield told Ferrar, "people were overwhelmed to see a
Negro woman riding a motorcycle."
Stringfield relocated in the Miami, Fla., area after her adoptive parents died in the late 1930s.
There she cruised the city streets, often with two poodles riding along on her knees, and was
dubbed by the local press as the "Motorcycle Queen of Miami." In the 1950s, she earned a nursing
license and made that her new career. She was also the founder of the Iron Horse Motorcycle Club,
and purchased a home that became the Iron Horse club house. In a 63-year riding career, Stringfield owned 27 Harley-Davidson bikes, "Always blue, and always new," she told Ferrar. The last
was a 1978 FLH. She died of a heart ailment in 1993, at the age of 82.
In 2000, the American Motorcyclist Association created the Bessie Stringfield Memorial Award for
Superior Achievement by a Female Motorcyclist. She was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall
of Fame in 2002.
Send me your guess, Winner will get
their name in next months newsletter
Last Months Vest was worn By Rory Kraft
Correct Guesses :
Keith Buchberger,
Not Sure what time a
ride starts or if it has
been canceled or changed ????
Call the HOG HOT LINE
623-565-5055
Do you have an idea for a
great ride ???
Please let our officers know
so we can let our Road Captains research it and plan for
it in the future !!
The Run Pin, What, How, When and Where…
As H.O.G. members we have some cool benefits which enhance our experience as a HarleyDavidson Motorcycle Owner and H.O.G Members.
As Members of H.O.G., the Official Riding Club of the Harley-Davidson Motor Company, we often collect items to signify where and when we did a ride. We have Mileage pins, rally pins, HOG
event pins, Chapter pins and of course, our membership year pins. These pins come in different
shapes or designs.
We sometimes have to ride through the dead of night, rain, sleet, hail, really great weather, extreme
heat and cold to retrieve that run pin. We wear them on our jackets, vests and sometimes have a display in our garage or home.Yeah, show the world where you’ve been.
Why do we do this? At this time I will state the phrase “if I have to explain, you wouldn’t understand”.
It is the journey; it is about the ride either with your friends or on your own. It is going there and
back and what ya did. The run pin signifies you were there, maybe even more than once.
A couple of programs we have where pins may be retrieved by H.O.G. members are the U.S.
H.O.G. Rally Program and the H.O.G Pin Stop Program.Yes two different programs and two different ways to get your run pin.
First the U.S H.O.G. State Rally Program (which will be called in 2015 U.S. H.O.G. Rally Program, see article in this issue about that). If you have been to one (if not why?) you know these are
H.O.G. Events for H.O.G. members that are planned by H.O.G. member volunteers. There is the
pre-registration that will offer that symbol of attending the event, the run pin. Rallies vary in what
they offer for the pre-registration fee, so please read the registration detail. As a side note; onsite
registration at these H.O.G. Events may have pins available while supplies last. These pins are designed by the rally committees working with our H.O.G. art department to bring them to life. Do
not be confused here; U.S. H.O.G. State Rallies are not where you get a free event pin.You can visit
hog.com for information on 2014 H.O.G. State Rallies yet to be held.
Second is the H.O.G. Pin Stop Program. At many of the
major motorcycling events, such as Daytona, Sturgis, Laconia, etc. H.O.G. has an area where H.O.G. members
can drop by and pick up a free pin for this event.Yes, free
event pin that is again a symbol you were there, you
rode, and you experienced
another adventure on your Harley-Davidson Motorcycle
as a National H.O.G. member. Often there is another perk that is associated with these pin stops.
Maybe a special product reveal or a party just for you the national H.O.G. member. No registration
required to get your free H.O.G. Event Pin at these select events. Check out hog.com for the remaining locations of the H.O.G. Pin Stops.
To recap, U.S. H.O.G. State Rallies and H.O.G. Pin Stops are two different programs. So, share all
this with your membership to eliminate any confusion.
Another thought before I go, review member benefits and get all the National H.O.G. membership
information at hog.com/benefits
Travel well Brothers and Sisters and see ya on the road!
JT Hasley
Photos By Adrienne Coro and Janet Benner
More Tombstone
Photos by Adrienne Coro and Janet Benner
Photos By Adrienne Coro and Janet Benner
More Bisbee
Photos by Adrienne Coro and Janet Benner
2015 Anthem H.O.G Officers
“ Mr. Chopper ”
Sgt.-at-Arms
Director: Rory Kraft Sr.
Assistant Director: Jim Osborn
Treasurer: Jean Miller
director@anthemhog.com
asstdirector@anthemhog.com
treasurer@anthem.com
Secretary: Jeff Feldstein
Membership: John Valentine
secretary@anthemhog.com
Membership@anthemhog.com
Activities : Janet Benner
Ladies of Harley: Laura Normann
activities@anthemhog.com
loh@anthemhog.com
Safety Officer: Dave Lindgren
safety@anthemhog.com
Webmaster: Todd Carter
webmaster@anthemhog.com
Photographer: Adrienne Coro
Editor: Rodney Benner
Head Road Captain: Don Halford
photographer@anthemhog.com
editor@anthemhog.com
roadcaptain@anthemhog.com
Our Booth
John Roberts getting help with his bike ??????
Photos by Janet Benner
Maggie Roberts flirting with Harold the Hog
Anthem Az. H.O.G Chapter #2376
Buddy Stubbs Harley Davidson
41715 N. 41st Drive
Anthem, AZ 85086
623-465-1122/ anthemhd.com
Who We Are: Chartered in September, 2009, Anthem
HOG Chapter 2376 is sponsored by Buddy Stubbs
Anthem Harley-Davidson. The Anthem HOG
Chapter
Website:
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www.anthemhog.com Email:
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are always welcomed. Come on by! We currently
have in excess of 125 members. The Chapter has
designated St. Mary’s Food Bank as the charity
actively supported by the membership. We are a
chapter that rides often.
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