Clipper, Vol. 3, No. 7, December 1955

              VOL. 3, NO. 7
Published by and for PAA Employees at N. Y. and Washington, D. C. System General Offices	DECEMBER, 1955
VICE PRESIDENT ANDRE PRIESTER DIES
ANOTHER REMINDER
Employee’s Party — December 16. Children’s Party — December 17
HOWARD B. DEAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
A scholarship award to enter Yale University in the Fall of 1956 will be made to the son of a PAA coemp. The amount will be $600.
The Howard B. Dean Memorial Scholarship is given every other year to a boy chosen for admission to the Freshman year at Yale University. He must meet Yale’s entrance requirements.
Each student awarded the scholarship for the Freshman year may renew the award in each of his years in Yale College or the School of Engineering if average scholarship standing and good conduct are maintained.
Yale College offers courses in the liberal arts and sciences leading to a degree of Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science. The Schools of Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Metallurgy award the degree of Bachelor of Engineering. A course in Industrial Administration is also offered leading to a degree of Bachelor of Science.
Boys awarded these scholarships are expected to meet a part of their expenses through part-time work at Yale University.
Candidates for the Scholarships are urged to acquaint themselves with Yale’s entrance requirements in time to arrange courses in high school or preparatory school to comply with such requirements.
Applications for admission to the Freshman year should be filed with the Board of Admissions of Yale University in the Fall of the applicant’s final school year. Requests for Scholarship Application should be made to the Board of Admissions at that time. This scholarship application should be returned to the Board of Admissions not later than February 15th of the applicant’s senior year. The candidate should obtain from the Personnel Department a certificate (which be should attach to the scholarship application) that his parent is employed by PAA.
Details about the Scholarships and employment opportunities may be obtained by writing the Board of Admissions, Drawer 1502 A, Yale Station, New Haven, Connecticut.
HOTEL NACIONAL DISCOUNT
Discount privileges for PAA personnel traveling on vacation are slightly different at the IHC-operated Hotel Nacional de Cuba in Havana.
The following rates at the Nacional are available to PAA employees April 16 through December 15: six dollars single (for a $10.00 room); nine dollars double (for a $13.00 room). No discount is available for the remaining four months — December 16 through April 15.
MANAGEMENT CLUB MEETING —TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13
Andre A. Priester
The Company is saddened by the death of Vice President André A. Priester, recognized as one of the world’s outstanding air transportation engineers. He died in Paris on November 28, at the age of 64, after 28 years of service with the Company.
Mr. Priester had gone to Paris to attend a meeting of IATA. He was presiding as Chairman of the Technical Committee when he was stricken.
In his search for improved transport planes and methods of operating them, Mr. Priester presented designers and engine manufacturers with programs for increased safety and efficiency. Both in Pan American and in the airline industry he stood for Safety First. To this end he insisted upon a high standard of training for flight and ground personnel. He successfully urged that the position of captain be surrounded with training, dignity and authority required for command aloft.
Mr. Priester was responsible throughout the earlier years of the Company for the technical direction of operations and for advice in selection and development of new flight equipment. He played a leading part in the devel-
opment of many commercial air transports from the Fokker F-7 to the Boeing Stratoclipper. More recently, he was concerned with the technical aspects of jet transport development.
Mr. Priester fostered many outstanding developments in civil aviation: four-engine aircraft, more efficient power plants and fuel, radio communications and navigating aids and long range cruising techniques for over-ocean flight. He was interested in superior service to airline passengers and pioneered the first use of cabin attendants.
Born in Krian, Netherlands East Indies, he attended schools there and in Holland. He also attended the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. He served with the Royal Netherlands Army as a First Lieutenant during World War I. When the war ended, he began a year of aircraft study and learned to fly. He began his aviation career with KLM in 1920 and in six months became assistant operations manager. During his five years with that Company, he became aware of the possibilities of long-distance international air transport.
Coming to New York in 1925, he was air transport specialist for the Atlantic (Fokker) Aircraft Company and operations manager of the model airline set up between Philadelphia and Washington for the Sesquicenten nial Celebration in Philadelphia in 1926.
In the course of these duties he met Juan Trippe, who was then organizing PAA. Their first meeting developed into a lifelong association.
Mr. Priester was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences in 1937. He is survived by his wife, Synthia De Haan Priester. Funeral services were held in Paris.
A group of employees were at Idle-wild Airport on December 2, when Mr. Priester’s body arrived. Capt. Howard Cone, a friend of the family, flew the plane. Mrs. Priester was aboard. Burial took place in California.
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