Happy Birthday, Gene East

[Original Looper 1]

Happy Birthday Gene!

For those of you that weren't racing back in the 1960's, Gene East was the "go to" guy for Quincy Welding.

Gene was a welder, machinist and also crew chief at the boat races for Quincy Welding for many years. He literally was the backbone of Quincy Welding during it's highly successful years.

The photo here was given to the QuincyLooperRacing.us web site by Charley Bradley. It is of Gene East as he was getting ready to "deck ride" in 2 man F Runabout for Wayne Walgrave.

To read Gene's racing autobiography, you can click on this link to his legends page on the QuincyLooperRacing.us web site.
http://quincylooperracing.us/subpage74.html

From the entire Christner family, have a great birthday Gene. Happy Birthday, big brother!

thanks,

Paul A Christner

[F-12]

From the other side of Florida. Hope you have a great one, and also hope by the evenings proceedings, you realize how many people care and look up to you for the role model you were and still are in our lives. Also hope you at least get to eat a little dinner..............Have fun.

[Bill Van Steenwyk]

Hi Gene:

Eileen and I hope your day was all that you wanted. I really didn't think you were quite as ancient as your birthday indicates. The years have been kind, now if they will just be gentle, you have it made.

B&E

[jeff55vDSH]

Happy Birthday Gene!

[Master Oil Racing Team]

I just got off the phone with Gene to give him the happy birthday greetings and also got to talk with Art Neadeck and Jim Schoch. What a great bunch of guys.

[Gene East]

Thanks for all the greetings guys. As Wayne said, we had a great party.

Special thanks go to Charley Bradley for orchestrating the arrangements, although he did corrupt my son to the point of lying, "I don't know anything Dad".

Thanks to all who called at the restaurant. Ron Hill asked me to post some pix.

We'll do that tommorow when my son comes over and shows me how.