Rappin' On Racin'

Jean Lynch got started in racing back in 1957. Her husband, Ed, had a friend who was in the jalopy division at a track close to where she lived, called Hyde Park. Jean attended one of the races with Ed when he went to work the pits. In those days, women and children were not allowed in the pits, so Jean sat in the stands with her young son. From that day, Jean and Ed became fans of the sport of racing. They began making the trip to Langhorne to see the big race. After about a year, Jack Freeman, who was a part of the Langhorne Track crowd, approached Jean at home one day and expressed his interest in ob­taining the track at Latrobe, and asked if she would be interested in helping with the operation. She agreed to the proposal and went ahead and sold tickets to the specta­tors, then signed all the cars in, lined up all the cars, scored all the cars, then she paid off and went home, wrote the stories, did the points and composed the release for the next week. She became a "women of many hats". The tribute progr