Pan American clipper, Vol. 5, No. 17, September 11, 1946

              Volume 5	September 11, 1946	Number 17
Septet at Shannon
R. C. LANIK H. H. GALBRAITH
Mr. Lanik began his association with PAA at Treasure Island, San Francisco, where he was hired as apprentice radio operator. Nine days later he went to Wake Island, then back to Treasure Island where he became a radio operator in 1937. After serving in Honolulu for two and one-half years he moved, in 1940, to the Atlantic Division at North Beach as a flight radio officer. He became radio operator-in-charge at Baltimore in 1942, the job he now holds.
PAA FIRST AGAIN ^
AROUND THE WORLD
Recent CAB approval of extension of service in the Pacific enables Pan American to be the first airline to fly commercial passengers and express around the world without making connections with any outside company.
Through the new ruling, PAA has had its Central Pacific routes extended from Midway Island to Tokyo, Shanghai and Hongkong, and from Manila to Saigon, Singapore and Batavia. The company has also received permission to operate directly between Honolulu and Wake Island and its present central route certificate has been extended from Hongkong to Calcutta where connections can now be made with PAA’s North Atlantic route to complete the global encirclement. San Francisco and Los Angeles were designated co-terminals on the Central Pacific route.
Preparations are now under way to put these newly authorized routes into operation. Inauguration of round the world service depends on idearance of operating rights over the certifi-Bhted routes.
“ In the South Pacific area, further CAB rulings extended PAA’s present route from Noumea, New Caledonia, to Sydney, Australia. In the north, PAA’s Alaska service were consolidated into a single line with Seattle and Fairbanks as the two terminal points and Ketchikan, Juneau, Whitehorse, Burwash Landing and Tanacross as stops.
Etchison, Galbraith, Lanik And Young Receive 10-Year Emblems
James W. Etchison, Jr., Huxley H. Galbraith, Robert C. Lanik and Captain Raymond A. Young are all eligible to receive ten-year service emblems this month. All joined Pan American in September, 1936, and they’ve played an active part in the company’s spectacular growth.
Mr. ttchison joined Pan American in Miami as a mechanic 2/c. The following year he moved to Port Washington as a mechanic 1/c and in 1938 he went to Baltimore as a flight mechanic. JtHe held this position when he was transferred to North Beach in 1940 and the next year he became WÊKK a flight engineer at North Beach. In De- J. W. ETCHISON cember, 1941, he became assistant chief flight engineer, the position he still holds. From February, 1943 until August, 1945, he was as-' signed as supervisor of Pan American’s Flight Mechanics’ School.
Mr. Galbraith also joined Pan American in Miami, where he was first assigned as a clearance clerk. He was transferred to Port Washington in 1939 and moved to North Beach as a clearance officer in 1940. Two years later he was named clearance superintendent at North Beach, the post he held until last May when he was appointed to the executive department.
PAA-er’s To Attend Foremen’s Meeting
Eight PAA-ers, members of the Pan American Airways Foremen’s Forum, will be delegates to the National Association of Foremen’s Convention, to be held September 12, 13 and 14 in St. Louis.
Members of the group will include A. H. Wunder, chief of the metal shop; A. P. Ele-bash, Division engineer; C. E. Doyle, assistant maintenance training superintendent; H. M. Mitchell, assistant industrial relations manager; J. A. Woolbert, main base storekeeper; O. L. Augustine, chief of the paint shop; J. F. Moore, chief of the hydraulic shop, and A. W. McCormack, radio shop foreman.
It is expected that approximately 10,000 delegates will attend the St. Louis convention, which will be one of the largest ever held by the N.A.F. The PAA Foremen’s Forum, an affiliate of the national group, was formed to permit discussion of foremanship and supervisory problems.
These seven Irish colleens, the passenger service girls at Shannon, are regarded as having	Captain Young joined Pan American in
the “number one glamor job in Ireland.” Left to right they are DOROTHY ANDERSON,	Brownsville as an apprentice pilot. In 1937 he
LAL KIRWAN, ANGELA HENRY, MARIE CULLIGAN, HELEN KIRWAN, MAURA CAIN	went to Chile as a flight mechanic radio operand MARY GRAHAME.	(Continued on page 3)
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