Gaulden Reed
	The group's oldest member, Gaulden Reed, a Daytona Beach pioneer from the thirties who regaled the audience with a list of stories about Tom Blake and the Duke, moving everyone with his inspirational tone and a list of hilarious one-liners, most notably imploring the shortboard community to try riding longer equipment. "You guys don't know what you're missing," said the man of the sixteen-foot, 100-pound boards of yore. "We brought our girls out with us! And let me tell you, when we'd paddle with those girls in front of us, we were just two inches from paradise." And while that joke received the most laughs, it was his closing comment that summed up the celebratory feeling of the evening and the very reason for its existence. "I feel sorry for those people who don't surf," he stated solemnly. "They don't know what it means to be alive." -- Matt Walker