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2005-2006 Board of Directors
President Al Stimac 480-218-7199
Vice PresidentGeorge Davis 480-396-8456
TreasurerEd Gammill 602-840-7101
SecretaryFrank Holman 602-695-2565
Membership/Events/Travel Chairman 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
Photographer Volker Otto 480-816-9184 Al Stimac, President, welcomed members and guests to the meet-ing on April 5, 2006. Bob Phillips led the Pledge of Allegiance. The Club has a new post office box. See above for this infor-mation. Please use this new ad-dress from now on. Candidates for club officers for the upcoming year were elected by acclaim. President - George Davis VicePresident - Frank Holman Treasurer - Ed Sullivan Secretary - Diane Rencenberger Al then presented George with his gavel of office, and Jack Davis, belatedly, presented Al with his. A 5-minute Honeywell video, showcasing the breadth of the cor-poration was presented, with spe-cial thanks to Pete Baker and Elaine McKenna of the Product Integrity Department. Our featured speaker was Stuart Speicer. He presented many facts relating to the Piaggio accident that occurred during takeoff and killed Alexander, Aristotle Onassis’ son. Onassis essentially owned Monte Carlo, had an FBI file of over 4000 pages, and immediately prior to the fatal accident, the aircraft under-went a major inspection at the Onassis owned Olympia Airways facility. However, Greek mechanics using Italian documentation, man-aged to rig the ailerons backwards, resulting in the fatal crash immediately after the first post-inspection takeoff. Onassis claimed sabotage and held the pilot responsible. Stu and his firm sued Onassis in behalf of the pilot, won judgement for his client and was thus able to clear his name and reputation. His latest book, "The Deadly Sins of Aristotle Onassis," contains all of this information and is said to be a fascinating read. April 11th was our annual outing/luncheon with the clubs from North and Rim Country at Rock Springs. 252 members, spouses and friends, total, at-tended. The food and the weather were both superb. Check out the photos on the website. Our next meeting will be Wednesday, May 3rd. Our speak-er will be Tim Mahoney, pro-viding more insights into Honeywell activities. We wish to give a special Thank You to Jack Papke for his do-nation of a laser pointer for use by our speakers, and Dick Carpenter for his able assistance with audio-visuals supporting our speakers. 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. 50/50 winners were Bob Davenport and Ken Bedenkop. This month’s charity donations were given to the Beatitudes Center and the Make a Wish Foundation. Thank You notes were received from Chrysalis, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, and Az. Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic.
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Upcoming Events · May 3 -- Meeting -- Tim Mahoney, Honeywell Aerospace · Sept 6 -- 1st Fall Meeting - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 De-cember – 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. This summer, the Scottsdale Senior Center will be moving to its new location on the Scotts-dale Senior Campus at Mc Dowell and Granite Reef Roads. The September meeting will be the first at this new location. Address and maps will be provided in the newsletter and on the website. The officers hold their board meet-ings prior to the regular meeting and all members are invited to at-tend. We welcome any input you may have and please send the ed-itor any items that may be of interest to our members. 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 to-gether with some of your buddies! Call them! Phoenix 602-231-7920, Tempe 480-592-1389. Wellness Center info is also posted on our website. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Honeywell Volunteer Work-sheet is available on our website. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ron Alto, 480-206-6789. is again looking to see if there are some retirees interested in some post-retirement work. Position:
The
position would require some travel occasionally to the Northeast, but most
of the work would be done here in Phoenix. The selected individual will be
performing Boeing 787 mechanical Reliability tasks pertaining to the
CACTCS,
PECS, ICS, LPS, EAI, WWFD, CIPS, and
NGS subsystems. Listed below are:
Reliability Engineering tasks:
Other Stuff Boudreaux been fish'n down by de bayou all day and done run outa nightcrawlers. He be bout reddy to leave when he seen a snake wif a big frog in his mouf. He knowed dat dem big bass fish like dem frogs, so he decided to steal dat froggie. Dat snake, he be a cotton mouf water moccasin, so he had to be real careful or he'd git bit. He snuk up behin' dat snake and grabbed him roun de haid. Dat ole snake din't lak dat one bit. He squirmed and wrap hisself roun' Boudreaux's arm try'n to git hisself free. But Boudreraux, him had a real good grip on his haid, yeh. Well, Boudreaux pried his mouf open and got de frog and puts it in his bait can. Now, Boudreaux knows dat he cain't let go dat snake or he's gonna bite him good, but he had a plan. He retch into de back pocket of his overalls and pulls out a pint a moonshine likker an' he pour some into de snake's mouf. Well, dat snake's eyeballs roll back in his haid and his body go limp. Wit dat, Boudreaux toss dat snake into de bayou. Den he goes back to fishin'. A while later Boudreaux dun feel sumpin' tappin' on his barefoot toe. He slowly look down and dare wuz dat water moccasin wif' two more frogs. |
In Memory of our departed friends
and co-workers JOHN BANCROFT JAMES FOX JACK GORDON HARRY GOTTSCHALK RONALD JOHNSON GEORGE KAVANAGH ROBERT PARSONS DONALD ROBERTSON ROBERT K. SWOKLA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - More Observations of Steven Wright If you're not familiar with the work of Steven Wright, he's the famous erudite scientist who once said: "I woke up one morning and all of my stuff had been stolen...and replaced by exact duplicates.” His mind sees things differently than we do, to our amazement and amusement. Here are some more of his gems: I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met. OK, so what's the speed of dark? How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink? If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously over-looked something. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to avoid work. Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now. I intend to live forever -- so far, so good. If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Three men are sitting stiffly side by side on a long commercial flight. After they're airborne and the plane has leveled off, the man in the window seat abruptly says, dis-tinctly and confidently, in a loud voice, "Admiral, United States Navy, retired. Married, two sons, both surgeons." After a few minutes the man in the aisle seat states through a tight lip-ped smile "Admiral, United States Coast Guard, retired. Married, two sons, both judges." After some thought, the fellow in the center seat decides to introduce himself. With a twinkle in his eye he proclaims, "Master Chief, United States Navy, retired. Never married, two sons -- both Admirals. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - During training exercises, the lieu-tenant who was driving down a muddy back road encountered another car stuck in the mud with a red-faced colonel at the wheel. "Your jeep stuck, sir?" asked the lieutenant as he pulled alongside. "Nope," replied the colonel, coming over and handing him the keys, "Yours is." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Having just moved into his new office, a pompous, new colonel was sitting at his desk when an airman knocked on the door. Conscious of his new position, the colonel quickly picked up the phone, told the airman to enter, then said into the phone, "Yes, General, I'll be seeing him this a-fternoon and I'll pass along your message. In the meantime, thank you for your good wishes, Sir." Feeling as though he had suf-ficiently impressed the young en-listed man, he asked, "What do you want?" "Nothing important, sir," the airman replied, "I'm just here to hook up your telephone." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Q: How do you know if there is a fighter pilot at your party? A: He'll tell you. Q: What's the difference between God and fighter pilots? A: God doesn't think he's a fighter pilot. Q: What's the difference between a fighter pilot and a jet engine? A: The jet engine stops whining when the plane shuts down. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Airline cabin announcements: On a Southwest flight (SW has no assigned seating, you just sit where you want) passengers were ap-parently having a hard time choos-ing, when a flight attendant an-nounced, "People, people, we're not picking out furniture here, find a seat and get in it!" On a Continental Flight, with a very "senior" flight attendant crew, the pilot said, "Ladies and gentlemen, we've reached cruising altitude and will be turning down the cabin lights. This is for your comfort and to enhance the appearance of your flight attendants." On landing, the stewardess said, "Please be sure to take all of your belongings. If you're going to leave anything, please make sure it's something we'd like to have."
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