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GARRETT RETIREE’S CLUB OF ARIZONA
Cliff Notes Page 1
PO Box 11633, Scottsdale AZ 85271-1633 March 2016
President Vice President Treasurer Ed Taschner 480-837-6262 Mark Steele 480-759-0233 Walt Blackmore 480-736-1362 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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EVENT DATE SPONSORING CLUB
Day at the Races Feb 23 HSRC
Mtg – Ryan Booher -Activerx Mar 2 Garrett
Southwest Airlines Maintenance Tour Mar 30 SRC
Mtg – Michael McCollum – Spacecraft Pro- Apr 6 Garrett
pulsion and Science Fiction
Spring Roundup –Kiwanis Park – Tempe Apr 20*
Garrett
Mtg – Tim Mahoney – Honeywell Aerospace May 4 Garrett
Canyon Lake Steamboat Cruise May 11 Garrett
NOTE DATE CHANGE
Canyon Lake Steamboat Cruise May 11
th, 2016 - $21.00 per person
All-Aboard at 12:00 noon - 1.5 hour trip (narrated) Absolutely Amazing Scenery
No Host Lunch at Tortilla Flats Restaurant for those who wish Call for reservations by May 1st: Diane Bennett – (480) 994-5243
(carpooling available from the Scottsdale Senior Center & back – provided by Garrett members)
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Highlights of January Meeting
Mark Steele welcomed members and guests on Feb 3. Frank Holman let the Pledge of Allegiance. Mark made the fol-lowing announcement:
Spring Roundup date has changed to April 20.
Our featured speaker, Ryan Reeves, who previously presented an outstanding history of the Goodyear Airport, traveled to Eng-land to research aviation history for a book titled “A Winged Pilgrimage”. He notes that, even though aviation history is barely 100 years old, many key historical sites no longer exist, and in the US, there are not many young people active in the support and preservation of this history.
Not so in England, where aviation history is actively preserved and the WWII role of US airmen is revered throughout the country. Highlights of his trip included:
USS Intrepid Museum in New York City that still displays the WWII kill board and has a recreation of a kamikaze raid from 1944.
In England, he visited the Cardington Air-ship Sheds which have been rebuilt and preserved to display the history of lighter-than-air aviation.
Next stop was Old Warden where WWI flight-worthy aircraft are displayed and flown. Housed there is a Blackburn Mono-plane, the oldest airworthy plane in the world.
He then visited the RAF Museum, London
where, on display, is the RAF command ta-ble from the Battle of Britain. Also housed at the museum is a memorial to the Ameri-cans of the 8
th Air Force.
Next stop, RAF Duxford, preserved as it was during WWII, even to tape on the windows. The first operational squadron of Spitfires was based at Duxford and the 1939 vintage control tower is still active. There is also a museum dedicated to US Airmen in Britain.
He visited the Cambridge American Ceme-tary and then traveled to the airfields of East Anglia: RAF Finmere; RAF Framingham, home of the 390
th Bomb Group; and finally,
Thorpe Abbots, home to the 100th Bomb Group also known as “The Bloody Hun-dredth”. No combat unit sustained such heavy losses as the Group's original flight crews; only four of the original thirty-eight co-pilots completed their combat tour of twenty-five missions. The history of the 100
th Bomb Group is the basis for the novel
and movie “12:00 High”.
In the box below are references to the sites Ryan visited. I recommend that those of you who are history buffs but without computers visit your local library and use their comput-ers to read the fascinating histories actively preserved in England. Or better yet, travel to England and visit them in person.
Ryan’s final comment is that history needs to be accessible to youngsters or it won’t be remembered. He was continually astounded by the number of British youngsters that were more familiar with the role of American aviation in WWI and WWI than he was.
Information Sources Cardington Airship Sheds http://www.airshipsonline.com/sheds/Cardington.htm
Old Warden http://www.shuttleworth.org/the-collection/
RAF Museum, London http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/
RAF Duxford http://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford
Cambridge American Cemetery madingleyamericancemetery.info
RAF Finmere https://sites.google.com/site/derelictionintheshires/military-sites/raf-finmere
RAF Framingham http://www.controltowers.co.uk/f/framlingham.htm
Thorpe Abbots http://www.100bgmus.org.uk/
100th
Bomb Group http://www.8thairforce.com/legacy_100thbomb.htm
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PRESIDENT’S COLUMN
We Need You!!
Let's talk leadership. Your club officers and board directors are all volunteers. We are
always looking for additional volunteers to help lead in many ways. Every two years,
we replace our President & Vice President per our club rules. From time to time, we
have need of new leaders to help the club's operations. We are again seeking help
from you, our members. I would like each of you to consider volunteering to help with
the following club needs:
Vice President - VP recruits and schedules the speakers for each club Members'
Meeting. Sets up the audio/visuals for each meeting. Normally moves to Presi-
dent after two years. Mark Steele will be moving to President next year and we
will need to fill his shoes as VP.
Editor - Stu Mitnik has been our Editor for countless years and recently volun-
teered to be our member chair who maintains the database of all our members,
past & present. We are now looking for a volunteer to replace Stu as editor of
the Cliff Notes.
Secretary - we have been chronically weak in this area and have not had anyone
available to document actions taken by your Board.
On the bright side, we have been successful in bringing on new directors to the Board
and will be presenting them to you in April.
Please think about how you want your club to move forward and how you might help.
We DO need the help!
See you at our March meeting.
Ed Taschner
Benefits Resources Honeywell Retiree Service Center
Dept. 09796 - 2601 Research Forest Drive
The Woodlands, TX 77381
Phone: 1-800-526-0744
Hours of Operation: Monday through Friday 9:00 A.M.-6:00 P.M. Eastern Time
Website: “Your Benefits Resources™ http://resources.hewitt.com/honeywell
Northern Trust / Pensions, PO Box 92922
Chicago, Ill 60675 - 1-877-258-3699 #5
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Fix-It Guys
Sponsored by Honeywell, Garrett and Sperry Retirees Clubs
We can help Honeywell retirees or surviving spouses with fix-it jobs around the house that you are not able to accomplish. This will hopefully keep the job from being a budget buster for you.
Call us at the appropriate number below. PLEASE LEAVE A CLEAR MESSAGE GIVING YOUR NAME, TELEPHONE NUMBER, JOB INFORMATION AND NEAREST CROSS STREETS.
Nick Hughes (coordinator for East Valley 602-677-0649) Clint Langford (coordinator for North Valley 602-765-4466)
We can probably help and will get back to you as quickly as practical. We furnish the la-bor at no cost to you - you furnish the cost of the materials or parts.
Below is a list of volunteer Fix It Guys from both the East and North Valley.
East Valley
Mike Briske Nick Hughes Bob Davenport Ken Probert
Jim King Charlie Paine Mike Griffin Warren Koepsel
Frank Holman Stu Mitnik
North Valley
Gene Kupka Lee Rippstein Dan Schoff Clint Langford
Wally Secosky Matt Schuetz Bob Farney Ed Skutecki
Paul Simison Roy Newbold
Need your help – We have lost contact with:
If anyone has contact information, please call or email Stu Mitnik at 480-891-1629 or [email protected]
Jan Williams John Dannan Ray Czerwonka Weldon Bagley Charles Back Ray Arreola
Monthly Charity News
Your Board of Directors has voted to donate $100 each month to the Scholarship Fund and the other $100 to local charities as usual. This month’s charitable donation went to . A Thank You note was received from St Mary's Food Bank. Club guidelines dictate that we support local charities exclusively. A list of the charities from which the board chooses do-nations 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.
50/50 winners were Dave Peterson and Frank Holman.
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Editor’s Corner
We continue to monitor newsletters sent via email that are not being received. We will at-tempt to contact you by phone or other means to ensure that we have the correct email ad-dress on file. If we are unable to obtain a correct email address, we will send your copy of the newsletter via USPS.
The Board has reviewed the response to this year’s dues notices and although working well, we have decided to further improve the process. Beginning in August 2016, dues notices will be sent in a letter separate from Cliff Notes. This letter, sent to both winter and summer addresses, will include dues owed and an opportunity to contribute to the Scholarship Program, although dues and scholarship contributions will need to be sep-arate checks. We will ask you to mail the entire letter back to us with requested infor-mation updates and roster requests. We thank you for your support of our process improvements.
Our monthly meetings are held at the Scottsdale Senior Center, 1700 N. Granite Reef Road, (just north of McDowell). The meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month, September thru 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.
The history of Honeywell or an old edition of the Newsletter can be found on the GRC webpage http://www.garrettretireesaz.com/
If there is something that you would like to see in the newsletter, or if you want to comment on the Newsletter itself, write a letter to the editor or e-mail the information to [email protected]! We will publish it, space available and the approval of the Board. Any comments or claims made within the publication are solely the responsibility of the individ-ual authors and do not necessarily express the views of Honeywell Inc. or the Directors, Of-ficers, Staff or members of the Garrett Retirees’ Club of Arizona.
Southwest Airlines
Maintenance Facility
Tour Wednesday - March 30, 2016
This is a unique opportunity to tour Southwest Airlines Maintenance Facility.
You will be able to walk through an aircraft and sit in the cockpit then tour
the maintenance and operation areas in a two hour guided tour.
This free tour is planned for Wed 30th March, 2016 at 10 am, but names of all
attendees are required in advance for security purposes.
To register sent the full names of all in your party to Keith Hughes at
[email protected] or call 623-825-5243 for details.
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Idle Thoughts Of A Retiree's Wandering Mind:
HRSC & GRC Scholarship Program
Program Updates
The Honeywell Retiree Clubs Scholarship Program is open and accepting ap-
plications until April 1.
These scholarships are open to students attending Arizona State University
(ASU), Northern Arizona University (NAU), or University of Arizona (UofA), who
meet the following requirements:
Descendant of an active or deceased member of the Honeywell Re-
tiree Social Club (HRSC) or Garrett Retirees’ Club (GRC)
Second semester freshman, sophomore, junior, senior or graduate
student
Cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or greater
For more information, go to the website at www.hrcaz.org, and click on Schol-
arships, or contact a member of the Scholarship Foundation Board.
We would also like to remind everyone that donations to our Scholarship fund
are now tax deductible. We hope that all of our members take the challenge
and help us support the many bright and worthy students that apply for a Hon-
eywell Retiree Clubs Scholarship each year. If you would like to make a con-
tribution, you can send a check payable to Honeywell Retiree Scholarship, in
care of our Treasurer, Gwen Scheetz, or contact any of our Board members.
Your Honeywell Retiree Clubs Scholarship Foundation Board:
Dawn Orgill, Chair, [email protected] 602 881 7772
Gwen Scheetz, Secretary/Treasurer [email protected] 602 616 9889
Bob Davenport, NAU Representative [email protected] 480 560 6273
ASU Representative
Frank Holman, U of A Representative [email protected] 602 695 2565
All I ask is a chance to prove that money
can't make me happy.
If the world were a logical place, men
would be the ones who ride horses sidesad-
dle.
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure.
How can there be self-help "groups"?
Show me a man with both feet firmly on
the ground, and I'll show you a man who
can't get his pants off.
Is it me or do buffalo wings taste like
chicken?
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Volunteer Opportunity
AzSEF (Arizona Science and Engineering Fair) and Intel ISEF (International Science and Engi-neering Fair) will BOTH be held at the Phoenix Convention Center this year, and I'd like your help again with Display and Safety. The AzSEF will award spots in the upcoming 2015 Intel ISEF to be held, inPhoenix in May. The AzSEF will run from April 6th to April 8th (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday). Student/Project Sign-in is from 8am to 6:30pm on Wednesday (6th), (D&S will run from 8am-8pm) and from 8am-2pm on Thursday (7th). The Fair includes grade school and high school divisions but our focus will be mostly on the high school students that will be competing for spots in the Intel ISEF competition. Last year, there were 1100 students and 900 total projects. The work will include following a checklist to verify that the display meets the documented restrictions for display, dimensions and safety concerns. There will be training and experienced people in D&S to help answer questions should you run across something you are not sure of. The Intel ISEF will be held May 8-13th (D&S begins work on the 7th with training) for students in grades 9-12 who have qualified via their state, regional or country science and engineering fair. Over $4 million in prizes are awarded to these high school innovators from over 75 different coun-tries and territories (this is NOT the same as the science fairs we had as kids!). Would you please consider helping with Display and Safety inspections during one or both of the-se fairs? Please add your name to the list of interested volunteers by emailing Tom Marshall [email protected] and indicate which fair (or both) you are interested in. We’ve had a lot of fun working with these really bright kids last year and I'm sure this year will be even better. It is exciting to see what they come up with. In some cases, it is downright amazing.
March Speaker
Our speaker for the March 2 Meeting will be Ryan Booher, Assistant Vice President, Training and Development of Activerx.
The ActiveRx mission is to enhance the quality of life for people 60 and older. ActiveRx is all about strength. It’s the foundation that enables you to experience powerful, life-altering improvements in function, fall prevention, disease prevention and quality of life. We also provide a comprehensive culture of care, enabling you to feel secure in an atmosphere where you can concentrate on improving your life through Strengtherapy.
Strengtherapy system is scientifically proven to quickly and safely regenerate, rehabilitate, rebuild and maintain strength for those 60 and older.
Activerx is a franchised system with 2 Valley locations, one in Surprise and the other in Scottsdale on Osborne near the hospital. More info at http://www.activerx.com
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MEET VIRGINIA SHERBECK
A SCHOLARSHIP WINNER FROM ASU
put in my best effort, even if the task at hand seemed impossible. Another obstacle in
my education was signing up to be an information technology specialist in the Army Na-
tional Guard during my freshman year at ASU. Although it put my education on hold
several times over my six years in the Guard, the lessons I learned in the Army and dur-
ing my deployment to Afghanistan are invaluable.
When I’m not studying disease processes or how to best care for sick or injured pa-
tients, I like to be active. I enjoy indoor rock climbing and rollerblading. I also like
watching movies, particularly Marvel superhero movies.
I would like to thank the Honeywell retirees’ Club for selecting me to receive a scholar-
ship. This scholarship, in addition to the Post 9/11 GI Bill, has helped cover a lot of the
tuition and fees associated with attending the Arizona State University nursing program.
Virginia is the dependent of Honeywell Retiree Clubs member Laura Lindberg.
As a recent graduate of Arizona State Universi-
ty’s post-baccalaureate nursing program I look
forward to the many opportunities available to
me in the nursing field. After I pass the NCLEX
(National Council Licensure Examination) I hope
to get a job at one of the valley hospitals and
maybe in the future return to school to become
a doctor of nursing practice. I chose nursing
for my second degree because there are so
many different career paths available to those
with a BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing), the
opportunities are almost limitless.
I have faced many obstacles in pursuing my
education. Being dyslexic made reading and
writing very difficult for me. I learned to always
The Shuttleworth Collection's
1912 Blackburn Monoplane No. 9
G-AANI in flight during an Old
Warden Sunset Flying Display.
This aircraft is the oldest airwor-
thy airplane in existence.
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Your 2015 – 2016 Board of Directors
President Ed Taschner (480) 837-6262 [email protected]
Vice President Mark Steele (480) 759-0233 [email protected]
Recording Secretetary Vacant
Treasurer Walt Blackmore (480) 736-1362 [email protected]
Editor Stu Mitnik (480) 897-1629 [email protected]
Membership Chair Vacant
Events Chair Diane Bennett (480) 994-5243 [email protected]
Scholarship Committee Frank Holman (480) 994-4590 [email protected]
Web Master Mike Peterson (602) 943-9543 [email protected]
Historian Vacant
Recruiting Chair Doug Culy (480) 838-2233 [email protected]
Refreshments & Outreach Diane Rencenberger (480) 775-8116
Photographer Volker Otto (480) 816-9184
Past President John Lester (480) 831-3784 [email protected]
At Large Director Al Stimac (480) 218-7199 [email protected]
At Large Director Dick Dippold (480) 945-8607 [email protected]
Non-Voting Functional Chairmen (w/Club Affiliation)
Travel Chair (HRC) Barbara Rippstein (623) 566-1572 [email protected]
Scholarships Director (HRC) Dawn Orgill (602) 881-7772 [email protected]
ROBERT GOUCHER
D. HART
A. HUNT
VINCENT KOTALIK
NORINNE MCMULLAN
DICK MURTHA (CORPORATE)
GENE MYERS
BRUCE NELSON
JOHN OSBORNE
DANNY PENROD
LOIS PYNE
ROBERTO SANCHEZ
A. SAUDER
CHARLES SMOCK
BETTY SEBRING
OLIVE SMITH
CHARLES SMOCK
JOHANNA VANRYSWYK
FRANK WHITE (FIELD SALES)
It’s Not Too Early to
Think About Joining us
At the
Spring Roundup
Note – Date Change to April 20
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