Clipper, March 21, 1946

              McCullough Gets 15-Yr. Pin; Wunder, Stuermer, Canaday, 10-Yr. Men
Dorothy Mills, New
Chief Stewardess
Dorothy Mills, one of the first two flight stewardesses to fly the Atlantic Ocean, has been appointed Chief Stewardess of the Atlantic Division, PAA.
Dorothy, who is 26 years old, is the first woman to hold this position in the Atlantic Division, the second in the company, and she is the only Chief Stewardess	in
the entire system	at
the present time.	In
her new job she is in complete charge of stewardesses — including hiring and scheduling them.
Flying lured Dorothy from the stage. After graduation	from ■	Lakeville High School	in
Salisbury,	Conn.,	she	became a member	of
the Black Friars Dramatic Club in New Haven and appeared throughout Connecticut in a number of their productions.
While vacationing in Miami, she entered Pan American’s first class of stewardesses and was the first girl in that capacity to fly to Havana, Merida, Balboa, and Nassau. Later she flew to Mexico and Central America.
Until last year, Pan American used only stewards in its transatlantic flights because working at a high altitude during this long trip was so fatiguing. With the acquisition of newer and faster planes and the increase in the number of women passengers, company officials decided to transfer stewardesses to the Atlantic Division on an experimental basis. Dorothy and Fay Wood were chosen for the experiment and made their precedent-setting flights in June, 1945.
Dorothy and Fay were deemed highly successful in their new roles and regular training classes for transatlantic stewardesses were started in September. After making many trips to Ireland, England, and Portugal, Dorothy was made a Check Stewardess in January to help train new girls.
NEW COURIER SCHEDULE
Dick Forster announces that the courier schedule has been revised to give more efficient service between NBA and the offices in the Chrysler Building.
Outlined below are the new scheduled times of arrivals and departures.
LEAVE	ARRIVE
NBA	9:00 A.M.	Chrysler	10:00	A.M.
Chrysler	10:15 A.M.	NBA	11:15	A.M.
NBA	11:30 A.M.	Chrysler	12:30	P.M.
Chrysler	12:40 P.M.	NBA	1:30	P.M.
NBA	2:15 P.M.	Chrysler	3:15	P.M.
Chrysler	3:30 P.M.	NBA	4:20	P.M.
NBA	4:30 P.M.	Chrysler	5:30	P.M.
Captain Arthur L. McCullough, who returned from more than three years service with the Army where he became a full Colonel, was presented his Fifteen Year Service Pin this month. Ten Year Service Pins were awarded to three other PAAers for their service with the Company, Gus Wonder, Chief of the Metal Shop, Clarence Stuermer, Division Accountant, and Harry Canaday, recently returned from Navy service in which he attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
Captain McCullough came with Pan American in Cuba in 1932 when we took over Cubana, where he was Operations Manager and Chief Pilot. With the outbreak of the Cuban revolution in 1933 he transferred to the Western Division, basing most of the time in Brownsville, where he remained until 1939. The Atlantic Division, which was then located in Baltimore, was his next assignment and he stayed there until the division moved to North Beach in 1940.
In August 1942 Captain McCullough was commissioned by the Army with the rank of Major. He was attached to a Troop Carrier Command as Operations Officer. He spent 2 months overseas in Africa and 1 year in India and was discharged with the rank of Full Colonel.
Gus Wunder, Ten Year NBAer, came with PAA in 1936 in Miami as Mechanic 1/c. He was immediately sent on assignment to Rio to work on the old NC822. On completion of the job he returned to Miami where he remained for the following 3 years. Gus transferred to the Atlantic Division in 1939 in Baltimore where he was made Assistant Chief of the Metal Shop. When North Beach was opened. Gus moved with the rest of the personnel and in December 1944 he was named Chief of the Metal Shop.
The Foreman’s Forum, organized last year at North Beach was organized by Gus Wunder. The Forum operates in conjunction with Queens County National Association of Foreman. He has worked on all the first aircraft
received from Sikorsky including the ol' Duck S-38’s, 40’s, 41’s, 42’s and 43’s.
Gus is not only a vet of PAA, but has been actively interested in aviation since 1915, during World War I.
The Atlantic Division’s money-man, Clarence Stuermer, Division Accountant also is a 10-year man for the month of March.
Clarence came with PAA in March, 1936 as an accountant in Brownsville. He came to New York in June, 1940 as Assistant to the Division Accountant. In September he transferred to Miami as Chief Accountant of PAA-Africa Ltd. and PAA-Ferries Inc. March. 1943 he became Division Accountant of A-O, Miami and in August of that year was made Division Accountant, ,Atlantic Division.
Harry Canaday, recently placed on inactive duty with the Naval Reserve, joined PAA in January, 1934 in the Eastern Division, Miami as an Apprentice Pilot. He then transfeired to the Pacific Division at the inauguration of that division in April, 1935 as a member of the first Transpacific survey crew which surveyed the Pan American route Wake Island, Guam,
Steward Training Course Completed
Graduates of the fifth training class for stewards and stewardesses have added fifteen new names to the roster of Pan American’s flying personnel.
Jerry Smrstik is the sole steward in the group, which includes the following stewardesses: Beatrice M. Avenia, Faith C. Bach, Sara Jane Bray, Elizabeth Ann Campbell, Lydia Daley, Velia de Francesco, Gladys W. Freeman. Lovel Hardwick Lees, Mary Lynch. Dolores Frances Metzger, Monica Joan Roche, Gloria R. Shoninger, Corinne A. Sofia, and Betty-Lou Soule.
to Honolulu, Midway,