Tom Elliman, was the guest of Bill Gowen and our speaker on March 24.  He started in Maine and returned back to his roots in 2007 after he lived and worked in Motorsports in the following cities: Oxford and Portland, ME, Loudon, NH, and Dearborn, MI.
 
He graduated from Lincoln Academy in Newcastle and went on to Wesleyan University.  After college and the army, Tom started at Channel 8 working as a weather reporter. He and a friend had the idea of doing a short Motorsports segment weekly. This grew into a career which ranged from working at local tracks such as Oxford Speedway, to becoming the manager and promoter of N.H. International Speedway in Loudon, all the way to the big league with Ford Motor Company in their racing division.
 
Tom entertained the Westbrook Gorham Rotary Club with the history of Motor Sports back to the original motor car built in Germany, through amateur racing which consisted of drivers with full time jobs who raced on their own time, through semi-professionals who worked part time at one job and part time in an expanded racing season, all the way to big time professional racers who did nothing but race.
 
Tom has worked at:
Greater Portland Landmarks
Republican City Committee
Marketing Consulting Services
Ford Racing
New Hampshire Motor Speedway
NASCAR