August POG meeting.

[Paul Danik]

The August Penton Owners Group meeting will take place on Thursday August 1st. in the Jackpiner room, located inside the KTM office building just west of beautiful downtown Amherst, Ohio. The meeting will commence at 7pm and one does not need to be a POG member to attend.

The attached photo was taken after the July POG meeting. The folks in the photo are as follows. Front row left to right, John Penton, Jack Penton, Alan Buehner and Rick Bennett.  Second row, left to right, Karen Turner, Bill Smith, Larry Maiers, Jim Reed, Paul Arthur Busick, Paul Danik, Greg Troyan, Matt Weisman, Barb Wiesman, Jim Borer, Scott Brogan, John Borer and Tom Worcester.

Matt Weisman, who was the man in charge of promoting the Penton Sportcycles and the Hi-Point line of products with literature and the Keeping Track newsletters,  gave a very heartfelt explanation of how he made a sincere effort to acknowledge the efforts of the amature Penton riders in his newsletters. Matt also made mention of how any letters that arrived at Penton Imports addressed to John Penton or Penton Imports, always got a personal reply. Matt was also the man behind creating numerous movies for Penton Imports, such as the 1973, 1974 and 1975 ISDT movies. Matt had a very creative and dedicated right hand woman by his side helping with all of the above and much, much more in his wife Barb.

It was a real joy just to sit and listen to Matt tell of his days working with John Penton "back in the day", and rest assured John had a smile on his face as he listened to Matt reminisce of those days and say how much he enjoyed them and working with John. It was most certainly a very special meeting.

Hope to see you Thursday.
Paul