The skywriter, Vol. 4, No. 24, January 1950

              Vol. 4, No. 24
JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1950
NEW YORK 17, N. Y.
CRAIG JOINS IHC
Wallace S. Whittaker, president of IHC, has announced the appointment of Nicholas Craig as Director of Hotel
Nicholas Craig
Sales and Advertising. Mr. Craig was formerly Sales Manager of Pan American - Grace Airways and was associated with PAA for a number of years as Regional Representative in New England and District Sales Manager in San Francisco.
In addition to his PAA and Panagra
service, Mr. Craig has had a wide experience in the travel and transportation industry. Together with Carlos Drake he formed the travel agency of C. C. Drake Co. with offices in Chicago and Paris and later operated his own travel agency in Chicago. In the early days of aviation he was General Traffic Manager for Braniff Airways. He later joined the American Express Company and served in Milwaukee and Buenos
Aires.
Now It's "Pan American World Airways, Inc."
Pan American World Airways on January 3 completed the program for the simplification of its corporate setup. Pan American Airways Corporation was absorbed by Pan American Airways, Inc., and the name of the latter was changed to Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Official documents making the changes were filed in Wilmington, Delaware, and Albany, New York.
PAA has outgrown the name it used when its operations were entirely in South and Central America and the Caribbean. Clippers now fly to the Orient, South Africa, Alaska, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the Middle East, India, and around the world. Altogether the Clippers serve 64 countries on all continents.
The company will retain its famous initials—the three letters which appeared on the first commercial airplanes to carry the American flag across the Pacific, the Atlantic and around the world. The abbreviation carried on the tails and wings of the Clippers will remain PAA.
Ed. Dowling Elected 1950 Skyline Head
Ed Dowling was elected President of the club at the first meeting of the 1950 Skyline Club Board in the cafeteria of the Queens Plaza Building on January 24th. Vice Presidents are Jo Ozimek and Art Nottelmann. John Thistle took over the duties of the Treasurer, while the post of Secretary was filled by Mary
The 1950 Skyline Club Board. Standing I. to r. Joan Brady, Muriel Schultz, Betty Morin, Stan Beach, Dorothy Young and Bob Sheron. Seated I. to r. Joe Cantwell, Mary Carroll, Art Nöttelmann, Ed Dowling, Jo Ozimek and Mary Lyons. Board members absent when the picture was taken are Alec Cushner, Francis O'Brien, Howard Brooks, John Thistle, Jean Andersen, Catherine Fitzsimmons and Ann Reeves. Tom Conway took the picture.
PAA Offers Low Price Holy Year Pilgrimages
A two-week Holy Year all-expense tour for $582, has been announced by PAA, the only airline able to offer this low-cost tour of Rome, Nice, Paris and London all in the space of 15 days.
Guaranteed hotel reservations are provided throughout the tour which is offered in cooperation with leading travel agencies, and is effective until March 16.
Nice, where there is a two-day stopover, is the first stop after leaving New York. Going on to Rome the pilgrim has four days in the Eternal City with tours of the basilicas and other churches where the Holy Year rites are being held.
After Rome the tour goes to Paris for a three-day stay. London is next on the itinerary with a three-day stopover, including sightseeing tours of the city.
From London the pilgrim will leave on a double-decked Clipper, arriving the 15th day at New York International Airport.
The new low rate is in keeping with Pan American’s general policy of reducing fares and in particular our desire to provide the least expensive transportation for pilgrims to Rome.
If you have any friends who might be interested in this tour, please call A1 Green, Ext. 772 in Queens Plaza, and ask him to furnish them with more detailed information.
Carroll. In addition to the President and Vice Presidents, Mary Lyons and Joe Cantwell were elected to the Executive Committee.
Mr. Dowling and Mr. Nottelmann were both re-elected to the Board at the Annual Meeting of the Club, also held in the cafeteria of the Queens Plaza Building, on January 20th. John Thistle, Mary Carroll, Jean Anderson, Joe Cantwell, Betty Morin, Joan Brady, Dorothy Young and Howard Brooks are the newly elected members. Members of the 1949 Board whose terms carry them over to the 1950 Board are Jo Ozimek, Mary Lyons, Tom Conway, Stan Beach, Alec Cushner, Bob Sheron, Frank O’Brien, Catherine Fitzsimmons, Ann Reeves and Muriel Schultz.
Bob Lord, outgoing 1949 President, presided at the Annual Meeting and gave a report on the activities in his year. An important 1949 contribution to the progress of the Skyline Club was the establishment of the store in the Queens Plaza Building. Since all of the Club’s activities are operated on a nonprofit basis at no cost or less than cost to members, it is hoped that successful operation of the Skyline Store will ben-fit members not only through direct savings, but by making it possible to provide more useful activities free or at lower cost to the membership.
The social program included three successful dances in the Winter, Spring and Fall. The first Annual Summer (Continued on Page 4, Col. 2)