Welcome to National DeSoto Club, Inc.

35th annual National DeSoto Club Convention

35th Annual Convention

Brookfield, Wisconsin

July 28 - August 1, 2021

**Updates 7/15/2021**

The show location has been finalized! If weather is good, it will be the Knights of Columbus facility located at 4700 N 145th St, Brookfield, WI. The rain/wet ground location will still be at the Sheraton on Moorland Road. Spectating is free and open to everyone!

For late registrants, we are waiving the additional $10 late fee. Please just pay the original $45 registration fee plus your selections for shirts and events. If you have not mailed your registration by now, please bring it and the payment to the convention directly. Please, however, contact me with your selections (a scan of your form is ideal) so I can plan accordingly. Please send to desoto2020@outlook.com.

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There is still time to register! Reserve your rooms now at the Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel for the 35^th annual National DeSoto Club convention! Special NDC room rates are $109 + taxes per night for either a single king with a pull-out sofa or two double beds and are applicable for up to three days before and after the convention. Located only 15 minutes west of downtown Milwaukee, the host hotel has an indoor/outdoor pool, fitness center, ample car/truck/trailer parking, and is directly off I-94 in close proximity to Brookfield Square shopping mall and many other food and shopping locations.

Host Hotel Address: Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel, 375 South Moorland Road, Brookfield, WI 53005

Host Hotel Phone: (262) 364-1100 (you may need to provide a mini code of "DSO" when you call)

Reservation Link with NDC Rate, click here

If you have any issues with reservations or special requests, please contact myself or Dick Bradley (Sheraton) at richard.bradley@marriott.com.

2021 NDC Convention Registration Form - CLICK HERE

Magazine Update 7/15/2021

As a member of the NDC, you are aware that you haven't received any club magazines since our roster issue earlier this year. This has been due to at least three factors:

1. Our Editor, Geoff Overley, had software problems in that the program he uses decided to push an update that resulted in Geoff losing all that he'd written up for the March-April issue. So he had to recreate all that he'd written from scratch.

2. Our Editor has also been having some health problems that results in him not being able to work on the magazine issues, nor on much of anything else.

3. Our Co-editor retired from that position earlier this year, so Geoff has been going at this alone. (Remember, he doesn't get paid to do this - all of his hard work is on a strictly volunteer basis.)

So has this caused some hardships for our members - sure. Will we get through this - absolutely. What can you do to help? Well, for one thing, if you think that you can and are willing to fill the Co-editor position, please let Geoff know. I'm not sure how much experience you need for this task - I'm guessing the more the better. (I don't know, however, just how desperate Geoff is to train a new editor.)

You can also help by submitting articles about your De Sotos - fun that you've had with your car(s), or technical issues and solutions, or its history, etc. - to Geoff via desotoadventures@gmail.com. That way, when he does get everything back up and running, he'll have lots of articles to chose from to fill in future magazine issues. If you own a 1946 De Soto, then a write-up about it and you would be especially welcomed since Geoff plans to put together an article about that year De Sotos celebrating their 75th anniversary.

Bill Noble

Secretary, NDC