Meet the Leaders
Chris Heckman "Chris" or "Mr. Heckman" - Main Leader
Chris has been involved with the R/C Car Club for over 30 years. Starting in 1992 as a member, Chris spent 8 years holding such positions as club Vice President and President. After reaching the age where he could no longer remain a member, Chris stayed on as a Junior Leader for 1 year, graduating to Co-Leader the next. After spending 1 year as Co-Leader, the Main Leader resigned and Chris took over in his place. Chris has enjoyed his many years with the club and still has his R/C Car collection which he is known to break out for some meetings, and at the Fair time, for some fun racing.
Rob Bishop "Mr. Bishop" - Co-Leader and Track Leader
Rob became involved with the R/C Car Club about 20 years ago when his son Randy joined as a member. After a year or so, when the club was looking for co-leaders, Rob stepped up. Rob assists in the day to day running of the club and has even spearheaded projects such as creating a frequency board for fun racing at the Fair and working on creating a lap counting system. Rob is very good with electronics and has developed an interest himself in the R/C Cars and on a lucky occasion, you may catch him racing around.
Joan Heckman "Mrs. Heckman" - Volunteer
Joan became involved with the R/C Car Club in 1992 when her son Chris (now Main Leader) joined as a member. After 4 years, the leadership resigned and Joan and her husband Fred stepped up to Co-Lead the club with then leader, Rich Riley. Once her son graduated as a member, Joan stepped down from the leader position, although always staying around to help. After taking a short 2 year break, when her son became Main Leader, Joan became very actively involved again. Joan handles a lot of the paperwork and is responsible the Fair display creation.
FORMER LEADERS
Rich Brewer - Co-Leader
Rich became involved with the R/C Car Club about 6 years ago when his son Tim joined as a member. After a year or so, when the club was looking for co-leaders, Rich stepped up. Rich assists with the day to day running of the club. He has spearheaded the online computer registration and race creation project so that the club could move to a standardized and quicker registration/race creation process. While you may not find him out racing, you will always find Rich tucked behind the computer.
Tim Glowinski - Co-Leader
Tim, a club alumni, recently became a leader. Always willing to help the members and other leaders, Tim has shown a great love for the hobby. Tim's innovative ideas extend to both his vehicles and ideas for ways to improve the club. Tim is known to be a big fan of Team Losi products. He has also been the driver in getting the club donations from the major R/C manufacturers which contributes both to our display and allows the club members to receive some great give-a-ways. He is known as our R/C Santa!
Brian Willis - Co-Leader
Brian is a club alumni who became a leader. Brian was always looking to help the leadership as well as younger members. Brian is a huge Team Associated fan and keeps his small stable of vehicles clean and well maintained. His love for off-roading and mudding extends down to his crawler.