Brenda joined Branch 28 in 2007. She jumped right in volunteering to help the club wherever she was needed, including working concessions at the shows and selling raffle tickets in the community. In 2012, she stepped up and accepted the position of Club Treasurer. She has served in that position through 2023, and has done a bang-up job, making club finances clear to even the most math challenged of our members.
Her contributions don’t stop at Treasurer for 11 years. Brenda has been responsible for putting together our Ad Book (show program), for years. This book takes considerable planning and lay-out work and accounts for a large part of our club’s annual income.
Brenda also maintains the inventory of caps, shirts, and other memorabilia we sell at our shows. And guess who staffs the sales table, where she sells raffle tickets, drinks, and memberships too. Brenda volunteers to go out with the raffle tractor to shows and community events to sell raffle tickets. You’ve probably seen her and husband, Al, at the Republic “Steam O Rama” (Branch 16).
The reason we want to give Brenda this honor is because she’s an irreplaceable super-hero and has been blessing our club for years with her tireless contributions. It’s time for us to show our appreciation to her for her service.
Her contributions to collection and preservation of antique equipment would include her consistent exhibition of her Allis Chalmers collection at our shows. She and her late husband Al (inducted 2023) also contributed lumber and materials to build a replica farmhouse on our grounds that we use as a museum to display all sorts of antique relics and furnishings.