Pan American clipper, Vol. 9, No. 3, March 1951

              ATLANTIC
DIVISION
Read on four continents and four islands in between .
Volume 9
March, 1951
Number
3
Flight Service Has Prime Opportunity To Train Pax as Number One Salesman
Dottie Burke Reigns As Snow Ball Queen
By Harold R. Harris Vice President
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“That’s a good slogan you’ve got — The Passenger Is the Number One Salesman,” an executive in another airline said to me recently. “Are you doitig anything to make the slogan a fact?”
Indeed we are! We’re tackling the problem in all sorts of ways, and we’re beginning to see results.
Consider the matter of passenger service in flight.
Our pursers and stewardesses are in contact with the passengers much more than any of the rest of us. In a good measure, our success or failure depends not only on the technical proficiency of these cabin attendants, but also on their own state of mind or morale, or interest in their work.
On every trip, each purser and stewardess has, or should have, many precise reactions to our passenger service program. They see the reactions of the passengers to the phases of our service which break down. They have their own reactions to features of our service which might be improved. They note passenger reactions to ground functions which could be improved. They have the know-how to detect
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Eastern to Charter
Pan American Planes
Pan American World Airways has concluded an agreement by which Eastern Air Lines will operate under charter between New York and Miami aircraft of PAA’s Atlantic Clipper fleet which are now operationally routed without passengers between its New York and Florida bases.
Under the agreement, Pan American will be relieved of the cost of ferrying empty aircraft between New York and Florida, while the availability of these aircraft will permit Eastern to accommodate additional passengers during peak periods over this high-density traffic route.
The flights will be conducted under Eastern’s name and control as extra sections to their regularly scheduled services. Flown by Pan American crews, the chartered aircraft will fly nonstop between New York and Miami. Constellations will depart from and land at Eastern’s LGA and Newark terminals, and the Boeing Strato Clippers will utilize PAA’s facilities at Idlewild.
This agreement is entirely unrelated to the current petition of Pan American and Eastern for the approval of an interchange agreement between the two companies relating to the Miami-New York route and certain routes in Latin America.
The Passciujer is the Number One Salesman
JOBS AVAILABLE IN FLIGHT SERVICE
Flight service personnel—stewards and stewardesses — will be hired by the Atlantic Division during the next two months. Applications filed by men and women already employed by Pan American in other capacities will be given special consideration, according to Charles H. Leach, flight service superintendent.
To save time, and avoid disappointment, prospective applicants should check the following qualifications carefully before filing applications. EVERY steward or stewardess must:
Be a US citizen, able to obtain passport and visas;
Be a high school graduate, with two years of college preferred;
Have good posture and appearance, be in excellent health, have a pleasing personality and voice, be prepared for hard work, and be of unquestionable moral character;
Be willing to accept assignment outside the US and accept living conditions along the PAA routes;
Be able to swim;
Speak and understand one foreign language, namely French, German, Portuguese, Italian or any Scandinavian language;
Meet these requirements:
	Steward	Stewardess
Age:	21-35	21-26
Height :	5'4"-5'8"	5'2"-5'6"
Weight:	125-160	100-130
Marital	Married	Single,
Status:	or single	not widowed or divorced
Application forms may be obtained from the placement section, Room 4234, south wing, LGA.
Personable and popular Dorothy Burke, unit supervisor in the personnel department, was the most envied girl in Pan American the night of the PanAm Club’s Snow Ball. When all the votes, were tallied on the Starlight Roof of the Waldorf-Astoria February 16, Dottie had been elected Snow Ball Queen for 1951. To her went the grandest of all grand prizes ever to be awarded at this annual Snow Ball — a Clipper trip to Paris with all expenses paid.
Wearing an off-shoulder, ballerina style gown of white lace, Dottie was the picture of radiance when the midnight announcement of the election results was made. Jean Foley, who in 1948 was the first to wear the Snow Ball Queen title, presented the royal crown, and Vice President Harold R. Harris proferred the envelope of tickets and cash that will spell a week of gayety and glamor in Paris.
Bare shoulders and filmy fabrics were the order of the evening for the entire royal court. Evelyn Wiedmann, in sequin-studded satin, and Ann Claps, wearing nylon net with a side-draped skirt, joined the queen in choosing white, while petite Helen Dregan work pink net and lace, and Terry De Salvio was striking in a gown and stole of yellow organza, trimmed with ostrich feathers.
In addition to her crown and trip pass, the new queen received an armful of red roses, and an expense check for $100. Each of the runners-up was presented with a $25 gift certificate by Ed Corrigan, Snow Ball chairman.
With the beautiful Starlight Roof as its setting, this year’s Snow Ball was voted by all present one of the most successful dances ever presented under PanAm Club auspices.
Vice President HAROLD R. HARRIS presents to Snow Ball Queen DOROTHY BURKE the ticket by Clipper to Paris that was the grand prize in this year’s Snow Ball competition.