Inatome Elected AAA Michigan Board Chairman

    DEARBORN, Mich., Feb. 4 -- Rick Inatome, information systems
expert and chairman of Mentor Capital Partners, LLC, was elected for a one-
year term as chairman of the board of directors of the 1.7-million-member
Automobile Club of Michigan (AAA Michigan) at a board meeting today in
Dearborn.
    William P. Baer, chairman and chief executive officer of The Crown Group
of Warren, was elected for a one-year term as vice-chairman at the board
meeting.
    Inatome was first elected to the board in 1995 and served as vice-chairman
from 2000 to 2002.  He succeeds Walter E. Douglas, president and majority
stockholder of Avis Ford in Southfield, who remains on the board.
    The board meeting followed AAA Michigan's annual membership meeting, at
which AAA Michigan members elected five board members to three-year terms:
Inatome, Yousif B. Ghafari, Larry L. Johnson, Robert H. Naftaly and Stephen R.
Polk.