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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 ChairmanVacant Past 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 Al Stimac, outgoing President, welcomed members and guests to the meeting on May 3, 2006. He personally led the Pledge of Allegiance, and then told some really bad jokes. The Club has a new post office box. See above for this infor-mation. Please use this new ad-dress from now on. Ed Gammil gave his last trea-surer’s report and reminisced to the audience. He was awarded a plaque in remembrance of his long service to the Retirees Club. Dee Marlowe was recognized and shared her recent award listing her in “Who’s Who in American Poetry”. Congratulations Dee. Our September meeting (and subsequent) will be held at the new location of the Scottsdale Senior Center. Our featured speaker was Tim Mahoney, President Air Transport and Regional Aviation, Honeywell Aero-space. He presented the latest information on the outlook for Aerospace and indicated that the Mega-Trends for the aero-space business are: · Demographics · Energy Cost · War on Terror · Emissions · Rise of China and India Our next meeting will be Wednesday, Septermber 6. Our speaker will be Bryan Seegers, a former Honeywell project engineer and now owner of M-DOT. His topic will be miniature turbomach-inery. Congratulations to this year’s recipients of Honeywell Retiree Club Scholarships: Rachel Kastensmith, NAU, granddaughter of Jim Laird Kali VanNimwegen, ASU, granddaughter of Bob VanNimwegen Attention - The Club by-laws have been revised. They are included in the mailing with this newsletter. We will be asking for a vote of approval at the September meet-ing. 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 Bill Waggoner and Virgil Dutton. This month’s charity donations were given to the Andre House and the Child Crisis Center, East Valley. Thank You notes were received from Az Children’s Center, Beatitudes Center and Make A Wish Foundation. 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 presentation 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 The Club is now providing a new service with the newsletter. Each issue we will post notices from members who need assistance with things like handyman tasks or other small help that club members might volunteer to provide. If you need some assistance, e-mail s.mitnik@ worldnet.att.net with your need and contact information.
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NEWS YOU CAN USE Honeywell Health and Well-ness 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 posted on our website. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Honeywell Volunteer Work-sheet is available on our website. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CPR ON YOURSELF! Good to know Signs of a Heart Attack. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line. You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. 60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up. The pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. It's pain unlike anything you've ever experienced before. Let's be careful and be aware. Read this... It could save your life!! Let's say it's 6.15pm and you're driving home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. You're tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself. HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without letup until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Next meeting of the Oak St. Gleaners is Sept. 27. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DRIVER SHORTAGE STRANDS VALLEY VETERANS Seventy-five thousand veterans in the Valley require transportation - 750 trips by van each week - for medical care. Earlier this month, the group of volunteer drivers at Carl T. Hayden Veterans Affairs Medical Center dwindled to just a single person. The volunteer group was respon-sible for driving East Valley veterans to the hospital in Phoenix to receive treatment. As a result, 79-year-old Stuart Sanders, a World War II veteran who lives on a strip of land between Mesa and Apache Junction, lost his ride. Sanders has a mild heart condition, but said his need for treatment is not as great as other veterans. VA officials said the termination of van service was due to a recent loss of volunteer drivers, making it impossible to keep up with an in-creasing number of veterans who need rides. Administrators said the hospital gives priority to its resident patients, who must travel to other facilities to receive specialized treatment such as chemotherapy. Hospital administrators said the hospital has three drivers on its payroll. They make about 700 trips each month. The VA hospital needs to cover six daily shifts 7 to 11 a.m. and noon to 4 p.m. Those willing to volunteer should call (602) 277-5551, Ext. 2909. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Richard "Dick" Ingelido, a Honeywell retiree, is currently living in Australia. During 25 years of Field Service he had a number of unique experiences, the most memorable being time spent in Vietnam with the First Marine Air Wing supporting the Garrett engines on the OV-10 aircraft in 1968/69.
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has written and self-published his memoirs. Glenn Arner and Jackie Olness
(Honeywell retirees) have read his book and he’s had nothing but good
comments on it from all readers. The book is titled "It's Not About The
War" and is available and can be reviewed on his web site: . |
Ole Griffith‘s granddaughter, Hilary Griffith, ASU senior, has been chosen as Miss Arizona and will be in the Miss America contest early next year. She is 20 years old and her platform is "rape awareness and prevention". More info on Hilary at www.miss-arizona.org, or hilarygriffith@aol.com. Also, Ole's son, Jeff Griffith (Hilary's father), was chosen #1 high school softball coach in the nation. Needless to say, Ole is bursting at the seams with pride. Other Stuff An Air Force Chief Master Sergeant and a General were sitting in the barbershop. They were both just getting finished with their shaves, when the barbers reached for some after-shave to slap on their faces. The General shouted, "Hey, don't put that stuff on me! My wife will think I've been in a whore-house!" The Chief turned to his barber and said, "Go ahead and put it on me. My wife doesn't know what the inside of a whore-house smells like." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Well," snarled the tough old Navy Chief to the bewildered seaman, "I suppose after you get discharged from the Navy, you'll just be waiting for me to die so you can come and piss on my grave." "Not me, Chief!" the Seaman replied. "Once I get out of the Navy, I'm never going to stand in line again!" "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 air-man 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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