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NEWSLETTER
PO Box 11633 Scottsdale Arizona 85271-1633
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2006-2007 Board of Directors
George Davis 480-396-8456 georgedvs@cox.netVice PresidentFrank Holman 480-994-4590 TreasurerEd Sullivan 480-854-9216 edsullivan9@cox.net Secretary/Refreshments ChairmanDiane RencenbergerMembership / Events / Travel Chairman Diane Bennett 480-994-5243 Volunteer ChairmanJerry Nelson 480-946-5975 Past President Al Stimac 480-218-7199 HistorianEd Gammill 602-840-7101 Editor Stu Mitnik 480-897-1629 Web MasterMike Peterson Photographer Volker Otto 480-816-9184 George Davis, President, wel-comed members and guests to the meeting on April 4, 2007. Ron Clarke led the Pledge of Alleg-iance. The current Club board stood for re-election at the April 4 meeting and were re-elected to fulfill the 2nd year of their 2 year term. Early next year we will be looking for candidates for offices listed at the left. Please think about the oppor-tunity and consider serving your fellow club members. The Club issues new membership rosters each year. We would like to remind you to properly destroy (shred) old rosters. This infor-mation is provided for the sole use of our members so that they may stay in touch with good friends. We do not wish this information to fall into the hands of solicitation organizations or worse. Diane Bennett is taking reser-vations for the October Road Trip. Itinerary includes 4 Corners, Durango, train to Silverton, Taos, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Phoenix. Contact Diane for more info. The Club has a new post office box. See above for this infor-mation. Please use this new address from now on. Our featured speaker, Emily Burns, Estate Planning Attorney, last spoke to us in October 2004. She again reiterated the need for estate planning to provide the peace of mind that plans are in place prior to any adverse life event. Emily updated the audience on current rules and issues. · Current rules allow Gift Tax exempt gifts of up to $12,000/year, $24,000/yr if mar-ried, to any individual. · Your trust documents or powers of atty. need to be able to waive HIPAA requirements to allow medical information to be accessed quickly. · Federal Estate Tax Exemption level is currently $2M per spouse. · To avoid litigation, it is im-portant that family financial information be shared if an in-capacitation occurs, including costs of care. She also urged us to create Powers of Atty. for both business and health care (living will) in the event of incapacitation. The Spring Roundup at Rock Springs was another great event. 224 fellow retirees, from both the Valley and up North, attended. In the 50/50 drawing, Jim Kennedy, Rim Country, won $130, Bobby Olivas, Phoenix, won $65, Judy Piontkowski, Phoenix, won $65, and Pauline Russell, Yavapai (Prescott), won $65. Check out the photos on the website to see if you or any of your friends were caught in an embarrassing pose. Our last meeting of the spring will be Wednesday, May 2. Our fea-tured speaker will be Richard "Dick" Ingelido, who will relate stories from his book about Field Service during the Viet Nam con-flict. 50/50 winners were Ray Tensfeldt and Bob Byrne. This month’s charity donations were given to Beatitudes Center DOAR and the United Food Bank. Reminder - we no longer charge dues for the spouse of couples who are both retirees from AiResearch/ Garrett/ AlliedSignal/ Honeywell.
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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 meet-ings are held on the first Wed-nesday of every month, Septem-ber - 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. A board meeting is held 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.
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If you need some assistance, e-mail s.mitnik@worldnet.att. net with your need and contact information. AiResearch/Garrett Historical In-formation - Ed Gammill, Historian, reports that Richard Gross gave 26 issues of MILESTONES to be ad-ded to our historical collection. I believe that MILESTONES was created in 1982 under the GARRETT logo. I do not know when it was discontinued. We now have complete issues for 1983 through 1989. I have random is-sues from other years from 1982 through 1990. Ed’s contact info is on page 1. NEWS YOU CAN USE
ARE YOU APPROACHING AGE 70 ½? DO YOU HAVE A SECURED BENEFIT AC-COUNT? If so, you need to contact Honeywell to determine your options for the distribution of these funds. Remember, the Secured Benefit Account is ‘qualified’ money (i.e. you never paid taxes on that money) and the law requires distribution from qual-ified 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. Although the death benefit is in effect for all, the 4500 Plan is available only to those of us who retired prior to 1 Jan. 1996. To confirm that you are eligible, you may: · Contact Honeywell Advo-cates - 623-582-4022 · Visit the website www.Honeywell.com/retiree (prior registration/ password required) · Contact Honeywell Retire-ment Service Center - 800-526-0744 (if you do not have a password, dial *0 to speak to a representative) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Oak Street Gleaners are looking for a few more vol-unteers. They perform their service activity on the last Wednesday of every month. Contact Al Stimac for more info. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 them! Phoenix 602-231-7920, Tempe 480-592-1389. Wellness Center info is also post-ed on our website. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Honeywell Volunteer Work-sheet is available on our website. However we have found that it contains an out-of-date mailing address. We are correcting the website info. If you sent in the form this year and it did not have a Palo Verde address, please down-load a new copy of the form and resubmit. We apologize for this oversight - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2007 Activity Calendar Honeywell Retirees of Arizona (Honeywell North): · Sep 17 Diamondbacks vs. Giants More info at WWW.HRCAZ. ORG
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 In Memory of our departed friends and co-workers LESTER BLOWERS GARRY DEMPSEY LETICIA DIAZ DAVID GILLAN KATHRYN GREEN S. HALBERT DENNIS HARMON JAMES KUNKEL PHYLLIS LACEY VIRGIL MEAD HELEN PEER TRIEM PHAM LOLA RIBLETT JOSEPH SCIACCA J. STRAYER JOHN THOMPSON MARY ZABRISKIE
Other Stuff Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submis-sions to its yearly neologism cont-est, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for com-mon words. The winners are: 1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs. 2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained. 3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. 4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk. 5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent. 6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absent-mindedly answer the door in your nightgown. 7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp. 8. Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavored mouthwash. 9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steam-roller. 10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly re-ceding hairline. 11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam. 12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proc-tologists. 13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist. 14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms. 15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there. 16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men. The Washington Post's Style Invitational also asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year's winners: 1. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future. 2. Foreploy (v): Any misrep-resentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid. 3. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period. 4. Giraffiti (n): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. 5. Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it. 6. Inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. 7. Hipatitis (n): Terminal coolness. 8. Osteopornosis (n): A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.) 9. Karmageddon (n): its like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer. 10. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you. 11. Glibido (v): All talk and no action. 12. Dopeler effect (n): The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. 13. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web. 14. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out. 15. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating. And the pick of the literature: 16. Ignoranus (n): A person who's both stupid and an a..hole. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ATC Chatter A Pan Am 727 flight, waiting for start clearance in Munich, over-heard the following: Lufthansa (in German): "Ground, what is our start clearance time?" Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak in English." Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany. Why must I speak English?" Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent): "Because you lost the bloody war!" |
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