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2006-2007 Board of Directors President George Davis 480-396-8456 georgedvs@cableaz.com Vice PresidentFrank Holman 602-695-2565 TreasurerEd Sullivan 480-854-9216 edsullivan9@cox.net SecretaryDiane Rengenberger Membership / Events / Travel Chairman Diane Bennett 480-994-5243 Volunteer ChairmanJerry Nelson 480-946-5975Past President Al Stimac 480-218-7199 Refreshment ChairmanJoe Richardson 480-895-6366 Editor Stu Mitnik 480-897-1629 Web MasterMike Peterson Photographer Volker Otto 480-816-9184 George Davis, President, welcomed members and guests to the meeting on February, 2007. Bob VanNimwegen led the Pledge of Allegiance. Diane Bennett announced plans for an October Road Trip. Itinerary includes 4 Corners, Durango, train to Silver-ton, Taos, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Phoenix. Contact Diane for more info. The Club has a new post office box. See above for this informa-tion. Please use this new address from now on. Our featured speaker, Dr Joe McAuliffe, Director of Re-search, Desert Botanical Gardens presented his re-search on the empty spaces between plants in the lower Sonoran Dessert. His scientific studies have proven conclusively that small topographical surface features are the result of interactions between desert plants (creosote bushes), burrowing rodents and badgers. The time scales to create these features range from 1000 - 10,000 years. Next meeting will be Wednesday, March 7. Our speaker will be Betty Blake, WWII “WASP” Pilot. She was living in Honolulu at the time of Pearl Harbor and was a "WASP" pilot during W.W.II at a time when few people knew that women pilots were ferrying all those different types of airplanes. 50/50 winners were Bob Byrne and Bill Spraggins. This month’s charity donations were given to Boys and Girls Club of Az., Habitat for Humanity, and Sunshine Acres. John Martin is seeking info on the where-a-bouts or contact informa-tion on Roger Heldenbrand. Reminder - we no longer charge dues for the spouse of couples who are both retirees from AiResearch/Garrett/AlliedSignal /Honeywell. We are looking for volunteers to bring some of our non-driving West Side members to and from the meetings. If you are willing to help, please contact Al. 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. We have a social hour beginning at 1:00 pm, the pre-sentation starts at 2:00 pm and adjournment is at 3:00 pm. The officers hold their board meetings 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. HELP EACH OTHER If you need some assistance, e-mail s.mitnik@worldnet.att.net with your need and contact information. AiResearch/Garrett Historical Information - Ed Gammill, Historian, announced that he now has 2 filing cabinets, and is eagerly awaiting anyone who has historical information about the company or any of our myriad of programs to donate the material to him. His contact info is on page 1.
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NEWS YOU CAN USE ARE YOU APPROACHING AGE 70 ½? DO YOU HAVE A SECURED BENEFIT AC-COUNT? If so, you need to con-tact Honeywell to determine your options for the distribution of these funds. Remember, the Secured Benefit Account is ‘qualified’ mon-ey (i.e. you never paid taxes on that money) and the law re-quires distribution from qualified accounts upon reaching age 70 ½. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Garrett Corporation, some time ago, established a $5,000 death benefit/Life Insurance for each of its employees. The intent was to make it easier for the family to pay burial costs. It is still in effect today but it in-cludes an option which you might find attractive: $4,500 of the $5,000 may be used to pay for Medical Expenses. The balance of $500, or whatever is left, will be paid at time of the employee death. This option, called "The 4500 Plan", is administered by Jenny Martinez, the "Honeywell Advo-cate" at CIGNA here in Phoenix. Her phone #: 623-582-4022. She indicates that we can claim all medical expenses against the "4500 Plan", including dental, medical insurance premiums, etc. The procedure to follow is to call Jenny, at the above #, and she will send you a couple of forms to establish your Plan qualifications and to claim your medical expenses for reimbursements against the $4,500 limit. We are thankful to Lou Kell for discovering this Plan! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Now is the time to encourage your family member /college student to inquire about the HRC Scholarship Program. Each of the three state universities has information on their web sites about their application process. An award of $1000.00 is available at each university annually. Check with the college scholarship office for application deadlines (normally in March). The requirements for application are as follows: 1. The applicant must be a family member of an active member (current dues paying) or associate member (spouse of deceased active member) of the Retirees. Family members are defined as children, grand-children, great-grandchildren, etc. of the retiree. On all applications the submitter must include the company, division, year of retirement, and the current phone number of the retir-ee or associate. 2. Only students that will be entering their sophomore, junior, or senior year are eligible. 3. Students applying must have evi-dence of cumulative 3.0 or high-er grade point average. 4. Applicants must re-apply annually. 5. Receipt of this scholarship does not restrict the student from receiving other scholar-ships. 6. Students majoring in Science and Technology related fields will be given preference, but if there are no approved applicants in related fields, then all majors will be considered. In the case of equal qualifications, financial need will be the deciding fact-or. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Cathy Marley would like to let her fellow retirees know that she recently published her first book. Entitled “Peeking Over the Edge…views from life’s middle”, it is a celebration of life’s best half, the years after we turn 50. Peeking Over the Edge is available through her website, www.CathyMarley.com or at her publisher’s website, www.buybooksontheweb.com. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Medco Drug Insurance,
I have just been informed by the Honeywell Retiree Advocate that MEDCO has significantly relaxed its policies regarding medications prescribed in quantities (dosages) larger than the “FDA-approved prescribing and safety clinical guidelines” mentioned in the subject “December letter”. If your prescribed medication(s) exceeds these guidelines and if you have not acted as requested by the subject letter: - MEDCO will not drop your in-surance coverage for the affected medication(s). - MEDCO will fill out your pre-scription to the lesser FDA-ap-proved quantities (dosages). Your Drug Insurance will cover this order. If you need the higher quantities your doctor will have to conduct the “Review for approval” requested in the subject letter in order for you to get the higher dosage covered by your Drug Insurance.
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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 bud-dies! Call them! Phoenix 602-231-7920, Tempe 480-592-1389. Well-ness Center info is also post-ed on our website. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Honeywell Volunteer Work-sheet is available on our website. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2007 Activity Calendar Honeywell Retirees of Arizona: · Mar 1 Huhugam Heritage Center tour · Mar 12 Spring training baseball game, deadline March 5. · Mar 21 Spring Potluck picnic at Saguaro Ranch Park, Glendale, AZ · Mar 30-31 Kitt Peak / Arizona Sonora Desert Museum · Apr. 15-21 Joint cruise with Sperry to Caribbean · Apr 16 Spring golf outing-Tatum Ranch More info at WWW.HRCAZ. ORG Other Stuff Newly discovered element The recent hurricane and sub-sequent "road home" inefficiencies helped prove existence of a new element found only in the state of Louisiana. In early October, 2005, a major research institution announced discovery of the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element has been named "Louisianaium". Louisianaium (Lv) has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held to-gether by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton like particles called peons. Since Lv has no electrons, or protons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of Lv causes one reaction to take over 17 months to complete, when it would normally take less than a second. Lv has a normal half-life of 4 years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Louisianaium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to be-come neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron pro-motion leads some scientists to believe that Lv is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as Critical Morass. When catalyzed with money, Lv becomes Adminis-tratium (Am) - an element which radiates just as much energy as Lv since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The new supermarket near our house has an automatic water mister to keep the produce fresh. Just before it goes on, you hear the sound of distant thunder and the smell of fresh rain. When you approach the milk cases, you hear cows mooing and witness the scent of fresh hay. When you approach the egg case, you hear hens cluck and cackle and the air is filled with the pleasing aroma of bacon and eggs frying. The veggie department features the smell of fresh buttered corn. I don't buy toilet paper there any more. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Want Ads FREE YORKSHIRE TERRIER. 8 years old. Hateful little dog. Bites. FOUND DIRTY WHITE DOG. Looks like a rat. Been out a while. Better be a reward.
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