By Bernice Young

I am so honored to be asked to do this presentation. The program this evening is to honor our own Tom Miles, who was recently elected to serve as President of the National Model T club of America. The Tin Lizzies are so proud that he is a member of our local Tin Lizzies club.  Model T’s have been an interest of Tom’s since his early youth. He has restored his T,  just recently purchased 3 T‘s, one of which is special to me, and has assisted many others in restoring theirs. Tom is always ready to help in any way needed. You can always count on him and he will never let you down.

Many of our members say Tom doesn’t know the word no, It’s always ―I'll do anything I can to help. He has served in most all of the offices of the Tin Lizzies, serving as President in 1994-95 and is still a staunch supporter of the club.  He has been chairman of regional and local tours which promote interest in Model T’s. He has organized and co-chaired two National MTFCA Business meetings here in Albuquerque. He made a masterpiece of our annual meeting and copies were sent to several chapters to encourage them to host annual meetings. He has served for years on the National Board as Director, Vice President (for several years) and now will be serving as President and we say he will be the Number 1 Honcho in January.  Tom has gone to Hershey to help man the MTFCA booth for several years and is always willing to assist in any way to promote the National Organization. He has helped with the planning of the Centennial party and has been a valuable liaison with the International T Club.

Tom initiated the Restoration Videos, and has filmed, produced and edited all of them. He just returned from Sacramento on Saturday where he was filming one of them– about 35 hours of filming that will now be edited.  In this filming process he has contacted each presenter and has spent a great deal of his personal money to do this, including some of the equipment purchasers. When people from other countries wanted the tapes in PAL format he offered to convert the tapes for them. When it was necessary to convert to DVDs, he converted the earlier tapes to digital. The tapes have been a source of income to the MTFCA and have assisted many in their restoration problems.  As a professional photographer and journalist, Tom has written articles and provided photos for the Vintage Ford Covers, including , one of which I am very proud of and dearly cherish (Volume 40, May-June 2005) where Roy, Bernice and the 27 Touring and Ambulance were on the cover. In 2008, at the National Business Meeting inCalifornia , Tom was honored to receive the Rosenthal Award which is the highest recognition award from the National Club.

Tom is a great ambassador for the Club and hobby of owning and driving Model T‘s. He is definitely worthy of being our next National President.  Not too many local clubs can say they have a National President in their club, and it makes us very proud to say Tom is a member of our Tin Lizzies of Albuquerque .

Tom - we are so proud of you and honored to have you in our club, to know you as a personal friend, and we are especially proud of your accomplishments in the National Model T Ford Club of America.