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NEWSLETTER
PO Box 9034 Scottsdale Arizona 85252
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2004-2005 Board of Directors
PresidentAl Stimac 480-218-7199 Vice PresidentGeorge Davis 480-396-8456 georgedvs@cableaz.com TreasurerEd Gammill 602-840-7101 SecretaryFrank Holman 602-695-2565 Membership/Events / TravelChairman Diane Bennett 480-994-5243 Volunteer ChairmanVacant Past President Jack Davis 480-488-0169 Refreshment ChairmanJoe Richardson 480-895-6366 Editor Stu Mitnik 480-897-1629 Web MasterMike Peterson mrpetersonaz@cox.net Al Stimac, President, wel-comed members and guests to the meeting on May 4th, 2005. Jack Davis led the Pledge of Allegiance. Al made the following announcements in support of our club. We still need both a Volunteer Chairman, and a historian/club photographer. Anyone interested, please contact Al or Stu Mitnik. Al continues to solicit ideas from the members on speakers for our meetings. Anyone with ideas should contact Al or George. Al also announced that anyone who would like to speak about any of our friends who have passed on are more than welcome to do so at the meetings. Reminder - we no longer charge dues for the spouse of couples who are both retirees from AiResearch/Garrett/ AlliedSignal/Honeywell. Our featured speaker was Joe Sotello, UBS. Joe, a former AlliedSignal employee, is now a financial advisor with UBS. Providing a wide range of financial services, UBS has authorized Joe to offer free or reduced cost products to members of our Retiree’s Club, including a free Financial Goals Analysis. Joe welcomes calls or emails at 602 667-8110 or joseph.sotello@ubs,com. In the area of Long Term Care, UBS analysis indicates that the product provided by MetLife is an optimum choice. Joe was accompanied by Linda Fabian of MetLife who provided an overview of long term care insurance, available at a discount through Joe. Key reasons to consider Long Term Care insurance include: · Peace of Mind · Protection of Assets · Maintaining Choice · Removing the burden from the family Again, if you have any interest in these areas, contact Joe directly at the phone number or e-mail address above. The speaker at our Oct 5 meeting will be Sgt. J. R. Parrow, Scottsdale PD, K9 Law Enforcement. A 21-year veteran of the Scottsdale Police Department, he has more than 15 years experience working as a K9 Handler. He will share with us some of his experiences that have included over 300 felony arrests, seizures of buried explosives, and dignitary protection. In addition, Frank Holman will briefly highlight this summer’s retiree tour of the Danube River. 50/50 winners were Wil Coe and Sam Kitaguchi. Does anyone know haw to contact Don Halvorson? If yes, please inform Diane Bennett. Thanks. Our monthly meetings are held at the Scottsdale Senior Center, 7375 East 2nd Street (2nd Street and Civic Center Drive.) The meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month, September - May, except for December – our Holiday Luncheon. We have a social hour beginning at 1:00 pm, the presentation starts at 2:00 pm and adjournment is at 3:00 pm. Please note that the Scottsdale Senior Center will be moving to a new location on the Scottsdale Senior Campus at McDowell and Granite Reef Roads. We will let you know when this tran-sition to the new location is scheduled to take place.
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The officers hold their board meet-ings prior to the regular meeting and all members are invited to attend. We welcome any input you may have and please send the editor any items that may be of interest to our members. This month’s charity donations were given to American Red Cross for Hurricane Katrina Relief. A Thank You Note was received from the Challenger Space Center. NEWS YOU CAN USE Honeywell Health and Wellness Center memberships are available for retirees and their spouses at just $10 per month per person. Get together with some of your buddies! Call us! Phoenix 602-231-7920, Tempe 480-592-1389. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Honeywell Federal Credit Union is offering 23 month CDs at 4.5% annual per-centage yield. Member Ser-vice Center phone is 1-800-533-4004. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A Honeywell Retiree Scho-larship has been awarded to William J. Honer at U of A. William is a relative of Howard Juell (deceased)/ Janice Juell. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Do you play a musical instr-ument? Would you like to learn? East Valley New Horizons Band starts Fall practice on Monday, Oct. 3 at Powell Jr. H. S., 8th St and Extension in Mesa at 5:30 pm. See http://www.miss-karen.com/EVNHB.htm or contact Dr. Karen McGale at corenfa@msn.com for more information. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ron Alto is looking for DERs. If qualified and interested, contact him at 480 206-6789. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - R. J. Pfammatter was the featured artist at a reception Sept. 3 in Taos, NM. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Honeywell Volunteer Worksheet is available on our website. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Note: The next outing of the Oak Street Gleaners will be October 6th the first Thursday in October. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Other Stuff Are They Male Or Female? ZIPLOC BAGS - male, be-cause they hold everything in, but you can always see right through them. SHOE - male, because it is usually unpolished, with its tongue hanging out. COPIER - female, because once turned off, it takes a while to warm up. TIRE - male, because it goes bald and often is over-inflated. HOT AIR BALLOON - male, because to get it to go any-where you have to light a fire under it ... and, of course, there's the hot air part. SPONGES - female, because they are soft and squeezable and retain water. SUBWAY - male, because it uses the same old lines to pick people up. HOURGLASS - female, be-cause over time, the weight shifts to the bottom. HAMMER - male, because it hasn't evolved much over the last 5,000 years, but it's handy to have around. REMOTE CONTROL - female! Ha! You thought we'd say male. But consider, it gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know the right buttons to push, he keeps trying. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
For those of you who watch what you eat, here's the final word on
nutrition and health. 1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans. 2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans. 3. The Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.
4. The Italians drink a lot of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks
than Americans. Conclusion - Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some interesting facts about the 1500s:Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still s smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bou-quet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence today’s cus-tom of carrying a bouquet when getting married. Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege
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of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose some-one in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water." Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. During rains it became slippery and some-times the animals would fall out. Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs." There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence. The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had real floors. Hence the saying "dirt poor." The wealthy’s slate floors would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to keep their footing. As winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence a "thresh hold." In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. The left-overs from the dinner stew would remain in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, "Peas por-ridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old." Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could "bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat." Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous. Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper crust." Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a "wake." England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, some-one could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer." And that's the truth. Now, whoever said that History was boring ! ! ! In Memory of our departed friends and co-workers JANE ADAMS JOHN BEEKMAN EUGENE EASTER GERALD FARRELL CHARLES GIPSON ROBERT GRANADOS RICHARD HALL THADDEUS KWIATKOWSKI ROBERT RAY WILLIAM SHUELL R. SMART E. WHITELOCK EDDIE RENDON DARRYL ROGGEMAN RALPH SCARFE EDWARD SIKORA ROY TAYLOR VERNON THOMPSON JOSEPH WEIDMAN JOHN WILLIAMSON JR JOAN WOLFE ROBERT AMOS WILLIAM ARMSTRONG TOMMIE BROCK J. BROOKS RICHARD BROWN DONALD DINQUEL MACARIO ESQUER RUBY FLADGER DARYL KLINGER RONALD LADIGO J.B. MANN JOHN MARTIN KIM PARKER G. RELF J. RITTER AMELIA SIUTA WELDON WELCH GEORGE YABO
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