One of the hopes of the founders of the Oakland County Sportsman's Club was that it be an institution for conservation of dearly held American values and virtues. There is a great deal I would change in style, sentence and paragraph structure, but there are now better things to do the facts and my sentiments are unchanged and are stronger today than ever. The Rackham School of Graduate Studies gave me an 'A' and the degree. WHRRI by itself deserves a book and it would take a book to address the cultural richness of the Club. Why certain events and people were "featured", and others not, served that end. The University's requirements were that I demonstrated the ability to show reasonably professional research and writing ability and that I addressed topics my advisors thought appropriate to the field of America Studies. The Webmaster offered me the opportunity to edit it, to rewrite some sentences that seem clumsy and tedious to me now, but I've decided to leave it as is. I hope it shows in Amateur Road Racing what I care about a lot. He spoke to each of us individually and after listening to my proposal, he commented that all my research was going to address was a shelf of books. Gleaves Whitney was and is the Director of Grand Valley State University's Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies and was the State Historian during the John Engler administration. Robert Houbeck, director of the library at U of M Flint invited a very dynamic speaker to address the group of us electing to do a thesis. I had set out to write "The Career of Empiricism in American Political Thought", which elicited a big yawn from my advisors. Amateur Road Racing in Michigan was written to fulfill the requirement for a thesis in the Masters Degree program at the University of Michigan in the American Studies Department.
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