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AAA Names New Chairman At 96th Annual Meeting

20 April 1999

AAA Names New Chairman At 96th Annual Meeting

    SAN DIEGO, April 20 -- Charles E. Allen, chairman, CEO and
co-founder of the Graimark family of companies in Michigan, was elected
chairman of the AAA Board of Directors at the 96th AAA Annual Meeting here
today.
    More than 1,000 delegates and club officials, representing the
federation's 91 affiliated clubs in the United States and Canada, also elected
Robert Cardoza of Modesto, Calif., vice chairman, and Marilyn M. Pfaltz of
Summit, N.J., secretary.
    The two-day meeting for the nearly 42-million-member, not-for-profit
federation is being held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel here.
    Allen is a past chairman of the AAA Michigan/Wisconsin Board of Directors.
The Detroit-based Graimark company consists of a real estate investment
advisory firm, a full-service investment banking firm and the Domino's Pizza
master franchise in South Africa.
    Cardoza has been a director of the California State Automobile Association
since 1979 and is immediate past chairman of the club.  He also serves as
chairman of the AAA Financial Services Corp.  Cardoza retired recently as
chairman, president and CEO of Pacific National Bank in Modesto.
    Pfaltz has been a director of the AAA New Jersey Automobile Club since
1977 and served as chairman from 1995-97.  She is a founding partner of P&R
Associates of Summit, N.J.
    Re-elected to new three-year terms on the board of directors were: Terry
W. Baker of Portland, Ore.; Marguerite D. Hambleton of Buffalo, N.Y.; Charles
H. Hire of Columbus, Ohio; Edward L. Jones, Jr. of Philadelphia; and Ronald L.
Steffens of Dearborn, Mich.
    Elected to new three-year terms were: Jeanette L. Gamba of Oklahoma City,
Okla., and Willis B. Wood, Jr. of Costa Mesa, Calif.
    AAA news releases can be downloaded from http://www.aaa.com/news.