Clipper, Vol. 6, No. 5, June 1949

              Pan American World Airwave
LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
UPPER
VOL. 6—NO. 5
JUNE, 1949
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TEN-YEAR’ WOMEN HAVE ANNUAL LUNCHEON
Talking about the “good old days” was part of the fun when members of the PAA Women’s Ten-Year Club of Miami met recently for their annual luncheon. Shown here at the Coral Gables Country Club are (left to right) Miss Ellen Cory, Mrs. Theo Stewart, Mrs. Frank Brown, president; Mrs. Bessie Walters Steven, club founder and first president; Mrs. Ada G. Weimer and Mrs. Irene Reel. The original membership of 13 has grown to 39. New members this year include Misses Rita Burke, Elizabeth Ellis, Edith Copin and Alice Shearston.
LAD Sales, Advertising Activities Merged In Traffic Reorganization
Appointment of Ernest L. Foss to the new dual post of LAD sales and advertising manager has been announced by Porter Norris, division traffic manager, as part of a departmental reorganization to consolidate promotional activities.
Foss has been in charge of division ad-<£------;---
vertising for the past five years.
Frank H. Sheldon was named assistant division sales manager in the reorganization. Under him are three superintendents —Fred Stoddard, passenger sales; John C. Cooper, cargo sales, and Shelby W. Merrill, agency and interline sales—and a cargo sales coordinator, Ray C. Buckner.
James C. Oliver becomes assistant advertising manager and William Ryder, advertising production manager.
Foss brings to his dual post a diversified background. After graduating from high school in his home town of Portland, Maine, he studied acoustics and engineering at the RCA Institute in Chicago.
He became a radio operator and then opened a radio store in Chicago, serving at the same time as a sound engineer for a recording company.
Foss developed into a lecturer on technical subjects when, in 1934, he joined General Motors’ motorcade exhibit, the “Parade of Progress.”
In 1942, Foss joined the Mexico City staff of an advertising firm. One of his accounts there was PAA. It was a natural step from there to the post of advertising manager of LAD.
He is president of the PAA Management Club and a former president of the Miami Advertising Club.
Sheldon, a native of East Orange, New Jersey, attended high school there and St.
Lawrence University in Canton, New York.
His ten years’ experience in airline traffic include service as district traffic manager in Panama and Bolivia for Panagra. Later he was assistant to the general traffic manager at Lima, Peru, then superintendent of mail and express. He transferred to PAA in 1946 as assistant to the traffic manager and soon became division sales manager.
Stoddard’s first contact with Pan American came 20 years ago as a salesman for Curtiss and Sikorsky. Another early job was that of traffic manager at the Moline, Illinois, airport.
He sold insurance in Miami for five years before joining PAA’s district sales office in 1939. During the war he served with PAA’s Africa-Orient Division in Accra and Natal.
From 1944 to 1946 Stoddard was PAA airport traffic manager at New Orleans, then special sales representative in Sao Paulo, and in Venezuela.
Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Stoddard was educated at New York Military Academy and New York University.
Born in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, Cooper was educated in California.
As a telegraph operator and later as a commercial representative for All America Cables and Radio, Cooper traveled all over Central and South America for 19 years. In 1942, he joined TACA Airways in Miami as cargo manager. Five years later he became U.S. and Caribbean representative for (Continued on Page 3)
Mitchell Heads LAD Stations
Richard S. Mitchell, a former airline pilot, has been appointed LAD superintendent of stations.
He succeeds Murlin C. Arner, whose assignment to another post will soon be announced.
Mitchell was formerly vice president of TACA Airways in charge of operations, and held the same position with Peruvian International Airways until he resigned last year. He has been in LAD operations since September, 1948.
A Californian from San Francisco,
Mitchell attended high school in Los Angeles and worked as an aviation mechanic while learning to fly. He soloed in 1927 and after several pilot’s jobs with small California lines, he became the personal pilot of William Randolph Hearst, the publisher.
He flew for Hearst three years, and for four more years as a pilot for United Air Lines.
During the war Mitchell was with Con-solidated-Vultee as manager of its Consair-way Division, an air transport operation in the Pacific theatre.
Mitchell, his wife and their cocker spaniel live in Miami aboard their cabin cruiser in the city yacht basin, an arrangement that permits him to enjoy to the utmost his favorite sport—fishing.
Class in Navigation Open to Employes
A class in navigation, free to LAD employes, is being organized with David Abrams, PAA navigation instructor, as teacher. The class meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the ground school, Building 134, COB.
The seven-week course covers all phases of navigation sufficient for a pilot’s examination.	. , H.
It is one of the evening trade extension courses offered by the state vocational training department which have included meteorology, radio, hydraulics, aircraft and epgine maintenance.
Teachers are PAA instructors and the courses are open to all PAA employes. The only charge is a $1 registration fee.
VACATION BARGAINS
It’s vacation time in LAD and employes planning a trip in Latin America are offered special rates at more than 100 hotels in virtually every country. The discounts range up to 25 per cent. Department heads and the passenger traffic department have complete lists of hotels available. Reservations should be made in advance.
Robert S. Mitchell