Friends of Earl Ma

A Living Memorial to Earl Ma

A living memorial to Earl "theunions" Ma by his friends and for his friends.

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Ed Rollings is now a member of Friends of Earl Ma
June 4
UPDATE: May 20, 2009 - The Earl Ma Award is unfortunately on indefinite hold while the current uncertainty around the Stars of Karting/Championship Karting International debacle sorts itself out. I don't know right now what Stars' future plans are...
May 20
I'd love to make the breakfast, but I won't be attending weekend 2 of qualifications. Anyone thought about Saturday morning on race weekend? I could attend an event then. -Roger
May 11
May 23, 2009 all day
Every May, I would head off to the Saturday morning media breakfast at the Speedway, and watch as Earl won many awards. Since Earl was usually staying at our place, it was easy to make time for this great event. This may, I''d like to plan a brea...
May 11

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Earl Ma Sportsmanship Award

Okay, folks, I am in talks with the Snap-on Stars of Karting presented by IRL to award an Earl Ma Sportsmanship Award to deserving drivers in their series. Right now I'm fleshing out details but I'm working on saving up some cash from my business to award a dollar figure ($100 per race, or maybe $500 at season's end).

If it works out this season I'm thinking maybe having an award trophy done. Ideally it'd be a 76-type orange ball on a trophy stand or something. But that's only if I can afford t… Continue

Posted by Thunderbird Creative Media, LLC on March 20, 2009 at 2:34pm — 4 Comments

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Earl stuff at CafePress.com

Been a while since I've posted anything here. I got an e-mail the other day from CafePress.com that I had a sale on some Unions merchandise that Earl and I put together before he died. I kept the CafePress store up and added some memorial stuff after he passed with the intention of passing any proceeds onto the American Cancer Society.

Well, I totally forgot it was there until I got that e-mail, but it's still there. So if any of you want some Unions stuff, just go to http://www.cafepress.com/t… Continue

Posted by Thunderbird Creative Media, LLC on January 30, 2009 at 4:01pm

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"Eulogy for The Unions"

By request, here is the eulogy I wrote for Earl that ended up winning an AARWBA award:

EULOGY FOR THE UNIONS
by Tony Johns

To understand who Earl Ma was, one only needed to see him at the Chateau Thomas Winery in Plainfield, Indiana, just two weeks ago.

Playa Del Racing's pre-Indy 500 party was going on in the second-floor loft at Chateau Thomas on the Saturday before the race. Earl was an invited guest of Playa Del's rookie driver Phil Giebler, who happened to be one of Earl's… Continue

Posted by Thunderbird Creative Media, LLC on July 12, 2008 at 9:00am

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Ironies, ironies...

Found out today that I won what may be my last AARWBA contest award - a second-place award for Online Column Writing.

Ironies abound... earlier this week, I finally shut down Racing Press, the web-zine that Earl and I had run for 10 years together. It had been more or less totally dormant since Earl died - I didn't have the money or the heart to keep it going. But the article I won with was a Racing Press article.

The article, as it turns out, was the extended unofficial eulogy that I wrote im… Continue

Posted by Thunderbird Creative Media, LLC on May 25, 2008 at 8:55am — 2 Comments

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It's Indy time and I miss Earl more and more...

Last year, I was in Indianapolis for another Indy 500. My buddy Phil Giebler was qualified for the 500 and I was looking forward to seeing my friend Earl Ma again.

Earl was determined to see Phil in the 500 regardless of his health, which was deteriorating (although how fast none of us knew until it was too late). He was in a wheelchair and paraplegic by then but he was still taking photos and working as hard as we all remember he could.

I was only able to meet up with him twice during the who… Continue

Posted by Thunderbird Creative Media, LLC on May 13, 2008 at 10:42am — 1 Comment

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New photos from Jerrette Kamaka...

Started by Thunderbird Creative Media, LLC Aug. 11, 2008.

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Remembering our friend... 2 Replies

Started by Vic. Last reply by Vic Jun. 25, 2008.

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The Guestbook from the previous site

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