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] 1 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. 2 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 3 ---------------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. ---------------- 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]. ---------------- 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 4 RETIREE’S CLUB OF ARIZONA SPECIAL SUPPLIMENT October 2014 PO Box 11633 Scottsdale Arizona 85271-1633 www.garrettretireesaz.com You can always tell when people up North get bored 6 7 8
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