Pan American clipper, Vol. 6, No. 49, August 1948

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ATLANTIC DIVISION
Read on four continents and four islands in between
Volume 6
August, 1948
Number 49
Mankowski in Dakar The Best Things in Life, AND
Is First Local SM
Joseph Mankowski, Polish born resident of French West Africa, has been named Pan American station manager in Dakar, it is announced by F. C. Ruegg, assistant to the operations manager — field. Mr. Mankowski is the first local overseas employe in the Atlantic Division to attain the rank of station manager.
Born in Krasilow,
Joseph Mankowski
Poland, Mr. Mankowski’s first job was in South America where he was representative for a Warsaw machinery company. He returned to Warsaw as manager of the West African and South American departments of the Overseas
(grading Company and in 1937 he became Po-ish commercial attache for French West Africa and Liberia.
From 1939 to 1945, Mr. Mankowski was Polish consul for French West Africa and Liberia and since 1945 he has been secretary to the Société Commerciale des Ports Africains in Dakar.
In addition to Polish, Mr. Mankowski speaks fluent English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese.
Pan American Airways has asked the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to operate to San Juan, Puerto Rico from Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore-Washington as well as New York.
KATHERINE MCLAUGHLIN... D0U8LE-CR0SSER
Crossing the Atlantic once in a single day is considered an adventure by some folks but for Stewardess Katherine McLaughlin it tells only half the story. She made a complete round trip across the Atlantic within 24 hours, on duty all the way.
Katherine, who became a stewardess less than two months ago, was a member of the crew of a Constellation flying from London to Gander. The trip took 10 hours and on her arrival at Gander she discovered that an eastbound DC-4
I had just arrived with its stewardess, Jane Gott-kchall, suffering from a sprained ankle.
" Within the hour Katherine had transferred to the DC-4 and was on her way back to Shannon. After this 11-hour crossing, Katherine had a few hours of rest before.proceeding to Prague.
It wasn’t until two days after she was back in New York that Katherine felt the strain. “Just thinking it over, I decided I MUST be tired,” she said.
The Autumn Leaf Ball, Are Free
The high cost of living is rather like the weather. Everybody’s talking about it, but so far nobody’s done much about it.
Nobody, that is, but the PanAm Club.
Just when you’ve decided you can’t afford to go out dancing, the PanAm Club hires the largest ball room in New York. Then, for the first time in its history, the Club announces that this dance will be FREE.
The Autumn Leaf Ball is the name chosen for the occasion and the date is Friday, September 17. It will be held in the main ballroom of the St. George Hotel, 51 Clark Street, Brooklyn. Don Henri, his electrolyn and orchestra will provide the continuous music for dancing. Don and his boys played at the two earlier PanAm Club dances — at the Taft and the Roosevelt — and are established favorites with Pan American dancers.
Jean Foley of personnel service, chairman of the PanAm Club’s social activities committee, . reports that the ballroom at the St. George will accommodate 2,850 people. Every employe in the Atlantic Division is entitled to two free tickets for the dance, upon presentation of his identification card.
Ticket Distribution
Tickets, available from the personnel service section, Room 2236, north wing, will be distributed to NBA personnel from Monday, September 13, through Wednesday, September 15. Any employe who is unable (because of a flight or vacation) to pick up his tickets on those dates may send in a written request that the tickets be sent to him. The address should be included in the request. Special arrangements are being made for ticket distribution in Flushing and Long Island City-
Transportation facilities to the St. George are numerous and convenient. A free city parking area two blocks from the hotel will accommodate 1,000 cars. By subway, the hotel is about 20 minutes from Times Square and the entrance to the subway is at the hotel.
In the well known tradition of PanAm Club hospitality, plenty of refreshments will be on tap at reasonable prices.
Ned Barnes Heads Management Club
Edwin A. (Ned) Barnes, Jr., the Atlantic Division’s maintenance cost analyst, was elected president of the PAA Management Club of New York at the July meeting of the newly organized club. Charles J. Cole, assistant to the general traffic manager of the PAA System, was elected vice president; Charles H. Leach, Division passenger sales manager, secretary, and Arthur M. Mackin, supervisor in general accounting, treasurer.
Mr. Barnes, a graduate of Harvard College, served in the Navy during the war. He spent more than two years in Panama, where he was special projects officer and port director operations officer at Cristobal. Transferring to Seattle, he served as LST operations and loading officer, then he moved to the Brooklyn Navy Yard as senior operations duty officer. He joined Pan American in 1946 as staff analysis engineer and became maintenance cost analyst last March. He is currently acting as Miami overhaul base coordinator at LGA.
By the end of July, a total of 333 applications for membership in the Management Club had been received.


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Damascus Eliminates Maintenance Delays
Twenty-two Clippers transited Damascus during the month of June and not a single maintenance delay occurred, according to Johnson Garrett, PAA’s station manager in the Syrian capital.
Credit for this excellent record goes to Fred Harris, senior maintenance supervisor, Dick Frisius and Bill Dimitrovich, station master mechanics, and Bill Kuster, station mechanic first class. In addition to the record for June, there was only one maintenance delay throughout May.