At the annual election meeting, held in January 2006, Skip choose not to
run for president of Bracket Masters Racing Team again and stepped down as president/secretary/treasurer. Skip was elected to the single office of
Treasurer. Skip remains the Webmaster for
bracketmasters.com web site which makes Mr. Skip a lot less busy in the
organization.
February 5, 2005
- The 100 Black Men of Metro Baton Rouge awarded Skip
their "Portrait of Caring" award for voluntary work at Glen Oaks High School
and working with the Jr. Dragster Kids of Bracket Masters. The award
was presented by Mrs. Jacqui Vines, President of Cox Communications Baton
Rouge, who co-sponsors the award. This took place at the 100 Black Men
Annual Mardi Gras Gala, which is a black tie affair, at the River Center.
Four persons were given the same award for various volunteer service
programs in the Baton Rouge area. Skip was honored to receive this
award. All recipients were interviewed on the "Red Carpet" and the
interview was included in a 30 min. special program that aired on Cox
Channel 4 in Baton Rouge.
Skip, Barbara & Connie with award
In January 2001, just shortly
after retirement, Skip decided the team needed a web site. After
attending several courses and reading up on web site creation, Bracket
Masters web site
was created. The site
has grown from a one page site to over 175 pages of information and photos.
Each
team member has a page that they
can put anything they want to appear on their page. Several
members have multiple pages.
The site
has many photos of cars from around the Baton Rouge area and from race tracks where the team has participated in events.
When the site was started
(2001), we were happy to have 60-80 hits in a week. Now (2005), we
average over 100,000 hits per month! The site has not generated any revenue for
the team and we pay for all the web space, software and computers needed
to publish the site. The team just purchased a state of the art
computer with 19" flat panel monitor and a new camcorder. We also
purchased several software programs that will allow making video DVD's. It has been a lot of fun and as a result of this
site, Bracket Masters Racing Team is known all over the United States and we
get some hits from Canada and others countries. We take many photos at the
tracks where we appear. We have an
announcements page that keeps up with the local happenings at the tracks in our immediate area
and the places where we are going to run. We also have a Good
Racing Links page that has many
places to find answers to drag racing questions and just good information in
general. It seems that everyone has their favorite area of the web
site, and since we don't have a Table of Contents or an index, but people
seem to find there way around and find new areas of the site that they like
every time they visit. The people that bookmark and only visit their
bookmarks miss out on new additions from time to time.
The two things that we are
most proud of are; our
Jr. Dragster Kids
and our annual race, the
"Louisiana Drag Classic".
The LADC completed five years in 2004. The race was cancelled just
days before it was the be run in September 2005 due the Hurricane Katrina. The race
had gotten better each year
and we were trying to make it a little unique each time. We concentrate on the
local area for our racers, with a few people from out of town invited as our
special guests. We have given awards to local racers and
businesses that have made a significant contribution to the drag racing
community in the Baton Rouge area. We have rewarded persons who have supported our Bracket Masters Racing
Team in some valuable manner. We plan to continue having the Louisiana
Drag Classic and we may add other races to our schedule. During 2005,
we sponsored a race at Louisiana Raceway in Eunice, LA, which was a part of
the "Battle on the Bayou" series.
Article From "Refreschen
Louisiana" Magazine - July/Aug 2005
May 2, 2006 -
Little Barbara is graduating from Glen Oaks
High School! Today was the start of Sr. Class functions. It started out
bright and early with an 8:30 AM Breakfast. Awards were given out to
many of the seniors. Barbara was awarded the highest award in the Computer
Science class. She has also taken and passed the Microsoft
Computer Certification Test. Actual graduation is on May 22, 2006. Barbara is
headed to LSU to study Biology and other subjects to lead to her dream
of becoming a Pediatric Dentist.
The family wishes Barbara all the blessings in the world. We are
really proud of her and we will be backing her in all of her future plans.
Congratulations Barbara!
Photos from
Little Barbara's Senior
Breakfast (>100)
June 5,
2006 - Barbara and Skip visited St. Louis, MO for the past 10 days.
While we were there, we visited with Barbara's cousin, Robertine, and helped
her move back into her home, that was damaged by fire in late 2005.
Robertine is blind. We took in a St. Louis Cardinal baseball game, the
Astros beat the Cards, 6-3. The new Busch Stadium is really great.
June 30 - July 2, 2006 - Barbara
celebrated her 40th year high school class reunion of Cohn High School, Port
Allen, LA. with festivities for the whole weekend. It started off with
a social event at one on the classmates home on Friday night, for classmates
only. Barbara was in charge of the Souvenir Committee. Saturday
night was the ball, held at the Sheraton Atrium, Baton Rouge, LA. The
class attended church Sunday and they had a picnic following church. PHOTOS
October
2, 2006 - Barbara Holbert is selected to be Employee of the Year from
her office at Motor Vehicles, office of Planning & Development!
Barbara won the competition between 5 other employees, where the employees
vote for their selection, to get the award. This is Barbara's 2nd
Employee of the Year Award. She was also the first selection when the
award was originated about 6 years ago.
Barbara's job is very demanding and requires knowledge of motor vehicles
registration paperwork, license plate issue and vehicle title work.
Her work requires travel to other state offices and public tag offices to
conducts audits of those offices. Barbara also teaches other state
employees and public tag employees how to complete transactions to issue
state license plates, titles and registrations. She also interfaces
with Motor Vehicles Computer Data Processing to troubleshoot problems with
the states network of motor vehicles computers around the state. A big
part of Barbara's job is answering questions from the public and other
employees at motor vehicles while doing phone duty. She frequently
stands in for her supervisor and runs the office when the supervisor is not
present.
The award ceremony was held at the Headquarters
of Motor Vehicles in Baton Rouge. Refreshments were served and the
three employees being recognized from various branches of Motor Vehicles
were given pins and letters to commemorate their accomplishments.
Congratulations Barbara!
April 16, 2007 - Skip
purchased a 1967 Camaro racecar and plans to get the car ready for Super
Street Class racing. Skip is also working on classification of his
2002 Ford Focus for NHRA Stock Class racing.
Skip's New 67 Camaro
November 27, 2007 - Jeremy Herbert,
grandson, has been on WAFB-TV, WGMB-TV and WBRZ-TV news during the past two
weeks. Today he was featured in the People Section of The Advocate,
Baton Rouge's major morning newspaper. READ
ARTICLE Jeremy is
President of a youth organization that he started called, Young Educated
Males Against Drugs and Violence. Jeremy was also given an award by
the East Baton Rouge School Board for this accomplishment.
Jeremy is a Cadet Capt. in
Glen Oaks High School's Junior ROTC program. He is also a member
of the Senior Class of '08 and is a four year letterman on the football
team, having been named Team Captain in his Sr. year. Jeremy was named
All District-2nd Team Cornerback this year. His nickname on the
football team is, "Lockdown"! Jeremy also played several positions on
the schools baseball team for three years, until the team sport was dropped
after his Junior year. He is a Student Government Association
representative.
Barbara and myself, along
with all of his sisters and his brother are really proud of Jeremy. Jeremy plans to attend Southern University in Baton
Rouge, and go into their Engineering program.
(May 19, 2008) Jeremy finished his senior year at Glen Oaks High School with a combined 3.05 GPA for the four years.
November 25, 2007 - Skip
retired from Bracket Masters Racing Team. Skip will take a position as
Audio/Visual Coordinator, web site coordinator and photographer for Shiloh Missionary
Baptist Church. Skip will remain webmaster for Bracket Masters Racing
Team for the present time and function as interim Treasurer until the
election, but will have no others team duties.
April-May 2008 - Jeremy Herbert, news and accomplishments!
Jeremy R. Herbert
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Jeremy At Banquet - Jeremy Drives Jr. Dragster - Jeremy Prays At Sr. Breakfast
Jeremy was selected to be one of eight "Young Heroes".
These Young Heroes come from all over the state of Louisiana.
There were over 200 nominees. Read background story.
(The TV show will air on LPB, June 15, 2008, Fathers Day, at 4:00 pm).
Jeremy Graduated, with honors, from Glen Oaks High School, May 18, 2008.
May 12, 2008 - Short History of Skip's Racing - Part #1
May 17, 2008 - Skip's Racing History - Photography - Part #2
May 28, 2008 - Skip's Submarine History - Part #3
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