While another AT&T repairman was trying to figure out why our digital answering machine stopped working after we installed internet telephone service, this trophy caught my attention.

I guess I ended up with it because Coventry airline pilot Jon Tenbrook had moved to Glenwood Springs to run his father’s Chrysler dealership and, since I was the External Vice President of the Crystal Lake Jaycees while Jon did his work, my house was as logical a home as any. At least, I think it was that year.

I was reminded of that year while I was at the Illinois Republican State Convention. I and Springfield’s Jaycee Bob Gray co-chaired a mock Illinois constitutional convention at the Holiday Inn East. We discussed it along with his son’s being a McCain delegate to the National Convention.

The inscription says,

Looks as if I didn’t get all the basement dust off.