Clipper, Vol. XX, No. 2, March 1963

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LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
PAN AM BUILDING DEDICATION . . . PAGES 4 - 5
VOL XX, No. 2.
MIAMI, FLORIDA, MARCH 1963
630314
Pier Finger Being Altered At Terminal
Change to Permit Loading at Level Of Clipper Floor
Improvement of its pier finger at Miami International Airport for greater convenience of passengers is being planned by Pan American.
In addition to extensive redesigning of the pier finger, Pan Am has scheduled several moves of facilities now housed on the ground level of the terminal.
The pier 4 alterations include air conditioning and redesigning so that all passengers will be loaded and unloaded aboard Clippers at the aircraft floor level. This will eliminate use of the ladders passengers now must use to go aboard and debark. Upon leaving the aircraft they will walk at the same level directly to the lobby level of the Terminal.
In Planning Stage
The improvement is in the planning stage and has been approved in principle by the Dade County Port Authority.
The arrangement provides for alteration of the pier with an extended overhang of several feet on the upper level so that aircraft can be moved close to the pier and loaded and unloaded from the nose door through a covered “bridge” device. Passengers will thus wait in air conditioned comfort and board and debark in inclement weather without being in the open.
The plans call for accommodations for six aircraft — three on each side of the pier. Approval of government agencies for the proposed change is required.
Facilities To Move
Upon completion of the pier alterations, some facilities now located on the ground level of the terminal will be moved.
Operations, the pilots’ lounge and outgoing baggage facilities will be located on the ground level of the pier finger.
The station managers office, clearance, flight service and the training room will be moved to the lobby level of the terminal back of the traffic counters, bringing about greater efficiency.
Board Elects New Officers
Executive changes affecting three System General Office departments have been announced.
Henry H. Berke, formerly vice president — services of supply, has been elected a vice president by the Company’s board of directors.
He is succeeded as vice president — services of supply by Howard M. Blackwell, formerly assistant vice president — services of supply. Blackwell is succeeded by Edwin Drescher as assistant vice president.
James E. McGuire, also formerly an assistant comptroller, has been elected assistant vice president, serving as manager of Panamac, the company’s data reduction center.
Donald W. Thomson has been elected assistant comptroller; he previously held the post of chief accountant.
Thomas D. Ford has been named administrative assistant — CAO, in the office of the comptroller. He was formerly assistant chief accountant.
Roger B. Doulens, formerly assistant to vice president Pryor, has been elected assistant vice president.
Also announced was the appointment of Robert L. Sonner as purchasing manager:
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New Office Structure Soars into Gotham Skyline
Promotion For Drescher
— Insert: President Trippe at Microphone
Text of President Trippe’s Building Inaugural Address
Edwin Drescher, assistant comptroller of Pan American, has been elected assistant vice president — services of supply.
Drescher joined Pan American in January, 1942, and was assigned to the airline’s Miami office. He became manager of the division accounting department in 1945, and was named Latin American Division manager in DRESCHER 1952. He remained division manager, with headquarters in Miami, until his appointment as assistant comptroller in September, 1960.
Before entering the airline industry, Drescher was with the New York Title & Mortgage Company from 1925-33 and the Chase National Bank, 1933-41. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1907 and was graduated from the School of Commerce and Finance of New York University in 1930.
Terminal Building Opens at Piarco
Pan American has moved its airport facilities into the new terminal building recently opened at Piarco Airport, Port of Spain, Trinidad.
The new terminal building was constructed by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago and has been in the process of completion for about five years.
All great buildings are monuments as well as shelters. They have a purpose beyond their use. The enormous pyramids of Egypt were erected not only to preserve the bodies of the Pharaohs from desecration and the common dust, but to remind posterity of their magnificance and power. We build for other ends. Our noblest structures are created not to preserve the dead, but to serve the living, and the monumental purpose is not to commemorate great kings but to speak for the imagination, the vitality, and the strength of a free people.
Monument To Civilization
The building we dedicate today is such a structure. It will be a working place for thousands of men and women. It will be a monument to our civilization and to our free-enterprise system. Its size is impressive. It is the largest office building in the world. Its beauty is evident. Its admirable proportions and pure mass dominate a crossing of famous streets in a famous city — and mark a harmonizing center to which men’s eyes will turn with recognition and delight for years to come.
Back of its great size and balanced beauty there are facts of human effort and cooperation which add a new dimension. It was conceived and constructed by an Atlantic partnership, whose continuing vitality is evident by the presence here today of the President of the Board of Trade of Great Britain and the Secretary of Commerce of the United States. Through this partnership the savings of hundreds of thousands of private citizens on both sides of the Atlantic have been channeled to finance the work and bring this joint effort to success.
Speaks For Human Unity
All this is history now, but there is something more which is not history — Pan American. The Company for which I speak today, was named some 35 years ago to develop human understanding and unity in a diverse and separated hemisphere. That name has gradually changed on the tongues of the millions of human beings who have spoken it, not in this hemisphere alone, but all over the world. Use has worn it away to two short syllables —PAN AM—but these short syllables now speak for human unity throughout the whole free world—a unity furthered by fast, frequent, low-cost transportation that has made for us many close neighbors and true friends on every continent.
On behalf of 30 thousand Pan Am men and women, at their posts along the air routes of the world, and on behalf of our forty-thousand share holders it is my privilege to name this great building, which will serve as the Home Office of our company, the Pan Am Building.
Trippe Names Structure as Guests Watch
Airline Offices Start Moving in About April 26
The world’s largest commercial office structure was formally opened in New York on March 7 at 200 Park Avenue with President Juan T. Trippe dedicating the new Manhattan landmark as “The Pan Am Building.”
Trippe named the new Home Office “on behalf of 30,000 Pan Am men and women at their posts along the air routes of the earth and on behalf of our 40,000 shareholders.”
A large proportion of Pan Am’s Manhattan - based employees will move into the Pan Am Building on April 26. The Company’s major sales office in New York will be opened on the street-level floor of the building at the corner of Vanderbilt Ave. and 45th St. in May. Additional groups of employees will be moving in later in the year. Dignitaries Cut Ribbon
Joining Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller in the traditional ribbon cutting exercises were Secretary of Commerce, Luther E. Hodges; his ministerial counterpart in the British cabinet, Frederick James Erroll, President of the Board of Trade; Mayor Robert F. Wagner; Senator Jacob K. Javits; and State Comptroller Arthur Levitt.
Also participating in the opening exercises were Jack Cotton, the British real estate magnate and chairman of City Centre Properties, Ltd., of London, which owns a half interest in the structure; President Trippe, of Pan American World Airways, the building’s principal tenant, and veteran real estate man James D. Landauer, president of Grand Central Building Inc., the Towning corporation.
Seventh Tallest Building
The giant new skyscraper, seventh tallest in the world, highlights a dramatic new octagonal building shape. Soaring 808 feet high to its roof-top heliport, the structure presents eight distinct sculptured surfaces in a 49-story tower rising from a broad 10-story base that ties into and continues the horizontal roof line of Grand Central Terminal.
Sheathed in textured masonry panels containing surface raised quartz crystals, the Pan Am Building’s facade provides a forceful contrast to both the many neighboring rectangular and square building shapes and to the metal exteriors that have dominated newj office building construction in the! city.	I
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LAD Cargo Jumps 41 Per Cent in First Six Weeks
Clipper Cargo carried in the Latin American Divison showed a gain of 41 per cent during the first six weeks of 1963 over the comparable period last year.
An increase of almost 30 per cent in cargo transportation for the first month and a half of 1963 was reported by Pan American System on its global routes. The airline flew 22,317,000 ton miles of cargo compared to 17,-252,000 ton miles for the first six weeks of 1962. Transatlantic cargo traffic was up more than 28 per cent and Pacific cargo up more than 18 per cent.
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