RETIREE’S CLUB OF ARIZONA

NEWSLETTER

January 2015

PO Box 11633 Scottsdale Arizona 85271-1633

www.garrettretireesaz.com

President Vice President Treasurer Ed Taschner 480-837-6262 Mark Steele 480-759-0233 Walt Blackmore 480-736-1362 edtaschner@cox.net mrdsteele@aol.com wlblackmore@yahoo.com

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Board of Directors

Secretary/Refreshments Chair Diane Rencenberger

Membership Chair Vacant

Events Chair Diane Bennett 480-994-5243 AzBennett3@cox.net

Travel Chair Barbara Rippstein 623-566-1572

Past President John Lester 480-831-17jlester@gmail.com

Historian Vacant

Nominating Committee Chair Doug Culy 480-838-2233 dougphyl74@cox.net

Scholarship Committee Chair Frank Holman 480-994-4590 frankholman@cox.net

Editor Stu Mitnik 480-897-1629 smitnik@cox.net

Web Master Mike Peterson 602-943-9543 mrpetersonaz@cox.net

Photographer Volker Otto 480-816-9184

At Large Member Al Stimac 480-218-7199 stimac@cox.net

At Large Member Dick Dippold 480-945-8607 dickydip39@gmail.com

President Ed Taschner wel-comed members and guests to the Holiday Luncheon on De-cember 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 de-cline in attendance at the Holi-day 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 pre-fer 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 AzBennett3@cox.net

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 re-

ceived 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 smitnik@cox.net

Upcoming Events

Jan 7 – Meeting – Ryan Reeves, General Manager, Lux

Air Jet Centers Goodyear.

Feb 4 – Meeting - Tim Mahoney, President, Honeywell

Aerospace

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The Club thanks you for providing feedback. We will publish the results in the news-letter.

As part of our giving back to the community, we always ‘adopt’ two families with 3 children each to be the recipi-ents of donated food and gifts. Families are selected through Vista del Camino.

At the conclusion of the lunch-eon, centerpieces and door prizes are given away. Cen-terpieces were won by num-bers 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 Di-ane Rencenberger

The speaker at the January meeting will be Ryan Reeves, General Manager, Lux Air Jet Centers Goodyear. His presen-tation last January on the histo-ry of the Goodyear Airport was outstanding. This time he will be discussing the History of Aviation in the UK.

This month’s charitable dona-tion 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 web-site. If you have a favorite charity you would like the club to consider for donations, please bring it to our attention.

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 sig-nificant 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 think-ing of the passing of Ed Gammill, our Historian and past Treasurer. This was a man everyone respected and loved. I knew him as a dedi-cated, 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 pas-sion took him into WWII as a member of the 43

rd 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 experi-ences to our membership from time to time.

After the war, Ed graduated from the University of Arkan-sas with a Mechanical Engi-neer’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 enrich-ing all of us who knew you.

Warm regards, Ed Taschner

Have you moved? If so pro-vide 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 meet-ing.

Please remember to wear your badge to meetings and func-tions. It sure helps in remem-bering 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/ Al-liedSignal/ Honeywell.

Our monthly meetings are held at the Scottsdale Senior Center, 1700 N. Granite Reef, (just north of Mc-Dowell). 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

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pm, club business is conduct-ed at 1:45 pm, the presenta-tion 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 wel-come your input. Please con-tact 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, Gar-rett and Sperry Retirees Clubs

In the last Newsletter we noti-fied our Honeywell/Garrett re-tirees 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 bust-er”.

The East Valley Fix-It Guys group is patterned after the Fix-it Guys group previously established by the Honey-well/Sperry retirees Club.

There are two numbers you can call for help:

East Valley Fix It Guys - 480-463-6572 or

Fix-It Guys - 602-765-4466

Either will put you in touch with the appropriate group.

Thanks,

Nick Hughes

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AiResearch/Garrett Historical Information – Historian posi-tion 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 in-formation to smitnik@cox.net. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Club Rosters

Starting next year, we will no longer be providing rosters for pickup at the November Meet-ing. 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 Hon-eywell Retirees of Arizona (Honeywell North):

January 21 - Musical In-strument Museum

February 17 – Day at the Races

March 20 – Amazon Ful-fillment Center – Full

March 26 – Spring Potluck Picnic

May 8 – Amazon Fulfill-ment Center We’re pleased to an-

nounce 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 EdTaschner@cox.net so he can get you on the list.

More info at WWW.HRCAZ. ORG

TRIPS & TRAVEL

No new information.

In Memory of our depart-ed friends and co-workers

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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