RETIREE’S CLUB OF ARIZONA
NEWSLETTER
January 2015
PO Box 11633
Scottsdale Arizona 85271-1633
www.garrettretireesaz.com
President
Ed Taschner 480-837-6262
[email protected]
2012-2013
Board of Directors
Secretary/Refreshments Chair
Diane Rencenberger
Membership Chair
Vacant
Events Chair
Diane Bennett 480-994-5243
[email protected]
Travel Chair
Barbara Rippstein 623-566-1572
Past President
John Lester [email protected]
Historian
Vacant
Nominating Committee Chair
Doug Culy 480-838-2233
[email protected]
Scholarship Committee Chair
Frank Holman 480-994-4590
[email protected]
Editor
Stu Mitnik 480-897-1629
[email protected]
Web Master
Mike Peterson 602-943-9543
[email protected]
Photographer
Volker Otto 480-816-9184
At Large Member
Al Stimac 480-218-7199
[email protected]
At Large Member
Dick Dippold 480-945-8607
[email protected]
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Vice President
Treasurer
Mark Steele 480-759-0233
[email protected]
Walt Blackmore 480-736-1362
[email protected]
Important Club Announcements
 Many Membership Rosters requested for pickup at the Nov
6 meeting WERE NOT PICKED UP. Last chance for
pickup will be at the Jan 7 meeting. If you do not pick up
your copy, your name will be deleted as requesting a roster.
 Please send in your dues. If dues owed have not been received by the Club by 1 December after dues notices have
been sent, the member shall be determined to be in arrears.
 We have lost track of the following members
 Sue Doll
 Jerry Northbrook
 Contact info - contact [email protected]
President Ed Taschner welcomed members and guests to
the Holiday Luncheon on December 9. Members, spouses
and friends attended a fine
meal at the El Zariba Shrine
Temple. See photos on page 5
and at the webside
We have observed a steady decline in attendance at the Holiday Luncheon and thus are
asking our local members to
participate in a survey. We
hope this survey will allow our
event planning to better meet
the needs of our members.
The questions are:
 Should the Club continue
with the Holiday Luncheon ?
Yes or No
 If Yes, where would you prefer event to be held?
 What is a reasonable price
range for this event?
 If No above, do you have any
suggestions?
Please respond to these and
with any additional comments
to – Diane Bennett at:
480-994-5243 or
[email protected]
Upcoming Events
 Jan 7 – Meeting – Ryan Reeves, General Manager, Lux
Air Jet Centers Goodyear.
 Feb 4 – Meeting - Tim Mahoney, President, Honeywell
Aerospace
The Club thanks you for
providing feedback. We will
publish the results in the newsletter.
As part of our giving back to
the community, we always
‘adopt’ two families with 3
children each to be the recipients of donated food and gifts.
Families are selected through
Vista del Camino.
At the conclusion of the luncheon, centerpieces and door
prizes are given away. Centerpieces were won by numbers 3 and 1 (has to do with
some tables having 8 and some
having 6). Door prizes were
won by Ray Grice, Jim Laird,
Sharon
Gooney,
Eloise
StGermain, Hank Tom and Diane Rencenberger
The speaker at the January
meeting will be Ryan Reeves,
General Manager, Lux Air Jet
Centers Goodyear. His presentation last January on the history of the Goodyear Airport was
outstanding. This time he will
be discussing the History of
Aviation in the UK.
This month’s charitable donation went to Vista Del
Camino. 50/50 winners were
George Wolfmeyer and Al
Finklestein. Club guidelines
dictate that we support local
charities exclusively. A list of
the charities from which the
board
chooses
donations
monthly is posted on the website. If you have a favorite
charity you would like the club
to consider for donations,
please bring it to our attention.
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President’s Column
There’s excitement revolving
around the direction our
Scholarship Program is taking.
With the Leadership of Dawn
Orgill from the HRC and our
own Frank Holman, I believe
we will soon be making a significant breakthrough in terms
of the value we provide our
students in the future. It’s too
early to provide details, but
stay tuned. These guys are
moving us into the big leagues
and our grandchildren will be
the beneficiaries of that.
I know it’s the way of life, but
I still have a heavy heart thinking of the passing of Ed
Gammill, our Historian and
past Treasurer. This was a
man everyone respected and
loved. I knew him as a dedicated, interesting, and caring
individual.
Ed was a pillar of the club and
a near charter member. He had
a passion for flying that moved
him to learn how to fly before
he could even drive. That passion took him into WWII as a
member of the 43rd Bomb
Squadron in the South Pacific.
He was so passionate about his
experiences during WWII, that
he attended every reunion held
since 1983. He even presented
talks about his WWII experiences to our membership from
time to time.
After the war, Ed graduated
from the University of Arkansas with a Mechanical Engineer’s degree. He then hired
on with Garrett AiResearch in
1953 and followed Garrett’s
expansion into Phoenix in
1955. He retired from Garrett
(then AlliedSignal) after 35
years in 1988.
Ed leaves behind a legacy for
us of very detailed records that
no one could recreate. Our
hearts are with his family …
sons, Powell Edward (Eddie)
and Pat and daughter, Jennifer.
Thank you, Ed … for enriching all of us who knew you.
Warm regards, Ed Taschner
Have you moved? If so provide your new address to Stu
Mitnik in order to continue to
get this terrific newsletter et.
al.
We welcome any member who
wishes to speak to the meeting
on a topic of general interest.
To do so, please contact any
Board Member immediately
prior to the start of the meeting.
Please remember to wear your
badge to meetings and functions. It sure helps in remembering names.
If you have
lost your badge, we can make
you a new one for a $2.00
charge.
Reminder - we no longer
charge dues for the spouse of
couples who are both retirees
from AiResearch/ Garrett/ AlliedSignal/ Honeywell.
Our monthly meetings are
held at the Scottsdale Senior
Center, 1700 N. Granite
Reef, (just north of McDowell). The meetings are
held on the first Wednesday
of every month, September May, except for December –
our Holiday Luncheon. Our
social hour begins at 1:00
pm, club business is conducted at 1:45 pm, the presentation starts at 2:00 pm and
adjournment is at 3:00 pm.
Though Board meetings are no
longer being held prior to the
regular meeting, we do welcome your input. Please contact any board member or send
the editor any items that may
be of interest to our members.
HELP EACH OTHER
FIX-IT GUYS
Sponsored by Honeywell, Garrett and Sperry Retirees Clubs
In the last Newsletter we notified our Honeywell/Garrett retirees group members that we
have a Fix-It Guy organization
established for the purpose of
providing help to retirees or
surviving spouses by fixing
things around the house that
you are not able to accomplish.
This will hopefully keep the
job from being a “budget buster”.
The East Valley Fix-It Guys
group is patterned after the
Fix-it Guys group previously
established by the Honeywell/Sperry retirees Club.
There are two numbers you
can call for help:
East Valley Fix It Guys - 480463-6572
or
Fix-It Guys - 602-765-4466
Either will put you in touch
with the appropriate group.
Thanks,
Nick Hughes
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---------------AiResearch/Garrett Historical
Information – Historian position currently vacant
---------------We are looking for volunteers
to call club members to remind
them of upcoming meetings.
If you would like to help out,
please contact Diane Bennett
at 480-994-5243.
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NEWS YOU CAN USE
If you would like to honor or
provide information about a
member with a newsletter
blurb, please e-mail the information to [email protected].
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 February 17 – Day at the
Races
 March 20 – Amazon Fulfillment Center – Full
 March 26 – Spring Potluck
Picnic
 May 8 – Amazon Fulfillment Center
 We’re pleased to announce that Amazon has
scheduled a third – and
final – tour for our clubs
for Friday, May 8, 2015
at 1 p.m. This will be
our final tour because
Amazon limits group
tours to three from any
one organization.
 There a slots available
for this one, so, if you
are interested, please
contact Ed Taschner via
email
at
[email protected] so
he can get you on the
list.
More info at WWW.HRCAZ.
ORG
TRIPS & TRAVEL
No new information.
In Memory of our departClub Rosters
ed
friends and co-workers
Starting next year, we will no
longer be providing rosters for
pickup at the November Meeting. If you desire a roster, it
will be mailed to you. Too
many of you who requested
pickup have not and hauling
the boxes of rosters to the
meeting has become a burden.
---------------2015 Activity Calendar Honeywell Retirees of Arizona
(Honeywell North):
 January 21 - Musical Instrument Museum
CLAUDIA ADAMS
TOM BENNETT
CHARLES BOLANGER
R. CADMAN
JACK CAMPBELL
ALLEN GRASS
M. RADFORD
SALLY QUADE
BETTE ANN ROBISON
DORIS ROGERS
WILLIAM SLATTERY
JOSEPH WOYTON
GLEN WARNER
DENNIS WILSON
SHIRLEY YAKIS
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PO Box 11633
Scottsdale Arizona 85271-1633
www.garrettretireesaz.com
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