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Author: ARRA Research   Date: 4/4/2023 2:18:48 PM   

ARRA Gives Thanks Two Recent Donors - Young historian search continues!

 

Ringoes,NJ – The Auto Racing Research Associates group would like to recognize two recent donations of racing papers to their cause of furthering the research of our sport of auto racing!  The group has been bestowed with a number of great donations over the years and the two recent acquisitions were quite hefty and will go a long way towards helping with the documentation of our sports statistics.

    “David Frank of Annville, PA contacted me back in early March about donating his collection of Area Auto Racing News that stretched back to the mid ‘80s.”  ARRA President Fred Voorhees commented.  “And just two weeks ago..Glen Frye of Monroeville, NJ saw my comments about the David Frank donation and decided to donate his late Father “Jeep” Frye’s entire collection of, again Area Auto Racing News, to our cause and I just picked that collection up this past Sunday.  The collection was amazing!  It was an almost complete collection of AARN from the very first issue back in June of 1963 that stretched to last Summer.”

   The two donations almost reached a total of 100 years of the weekly racing paper.  The Glenn Frye donation allowed President Voorhees and Co-Founder Bill Braga to enlarge their libraries of research material further back into the sixties than their current collections had gone.  For the most part though…..the donations will serve a much different purpose if President Voorhees gets his wishes.

   “I am hoping to get a few racing fans who may be interested in taking a part in the documentation of our sport…to participate in a great way to do something extra to the sport that means so much to so many of us…to become members of ARRA and get into the interesting hobby of completing research projects that will enable drivers and racing groups live on in the future and to have their racing honored long after they are gone.” Fred revealed  “I am inviting anyone who thinks they may be interested in this great way to pay back to the sport to get in contact with me and I will be glad to explain what goes into being an historian with our group.  With the recent donations of racing papers, plus what I had already had on hand…I may, at this point, have at least two and maybe three collections of racing papers to hand over to a budding historian to get them started in auto racing research.  I am talking absolutely great collections – all going at least back into the seventies, so the research possibilities are vast for a new historian!  I have taken thirty, forty years to build up the research library that I now use, but any new historians coming aboard will get an absolutely awesome start with such collections of papers!”

   So once again, thank you to David Frank of Annville, PA and Glenn Frye of Monroeville,NJ for such great and far reaching donations of racing papers.  They will not go unused or unappreciated!

 


Glenn Frye donation 1963 - 2022


David Frank donation mid 80's to 2022




 
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