Clipper, Vol. 13, No. 10, October 1954

              Pan American W Airways
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Volume 13
OCTOBER, 1954
No. 10
Employee Interests Uppermost
For “unselfishly donating his time and energy for the betterment of his fellow. employees,” the James E. MeGuiness award for 1953 was recently presented to Tony Loicono (left, above), last year’s president of the Pan Am Club. The presentation was made by George Updike, the company’s representative on the club’s board of directors.
McGuinnes Award To Loicono For Activity In Pan Am Club
The James E. McGuinnes award, for 1953 was presented to Tony Loicono, last year’s president of the Pan Am Club, during the recent installation ceremony for the club’s board of directors and officers. &
The McGuinnes award is presented annually to an employee who, it is determined, has unself-
ishly donated his time and energy for the betterment of his fellow employees.
Instituted in 1943, in honor of the Pan Am Club’s first president, the award is a plaque which is permanently located in the PX. A smaller plaque and a personal gift are presented to the winner, for permanent possession.
Previous winners of the award are: Walter Smith, 1944; Ray Cal-(Continued bn Page 12)
Fund Campaign $1,500 Shy Of Atlantic Goal
Just over $5,000 was collected' this year for the Greater New York Fund, in a campaign conducted among Atlantic Division personnel, according to an announcement made as a final report of collections was being prepared late last month.
Incomplete returns placed the total contributions of AD employees at $5,003, some $1,500 less than last year, according to George Up-(Continued on Page 2)
Trippe Is Named IATA President For 1955-1956
Juan T. Trippe, president of Pan American World Airways, has been elected president (1955-56 term) of the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
The election was held during the 10th annual general meeting of IATA, held last month in Paris. It is the custom of the association to elect its president one year in advance of his term.
IATA was formed at the close of World War II and has been called “the congress of the world’s air lines.” Attending the meeting of the association last month were the presidents and chief executives of 70 airlines from 50 countries.
President for the current year is Max Hymans, president of Air France, who released a statement in which he said that two recommendations made by IATA committees would have world-wide acceptance during the coming year.
These recommendations are, he said, that airlines should (1) seek to develop air cargo as a greater source of revenue and (2) streamline their operations for more ef-(‘Continued on Page 2)
Rules Give Different Benefits To Blood Donors, Non-Donors
New regulations have been adopted governing the eligibility of Atlantic Division employees for partcipation in the Pan Am Club’s blood bank.
The changes in regulations concerning the blood bank were adopted by the club’s board of directors on September 8. Greater benefits are now offered to donors. Non-donors are eligible only for “minimum benefits.”
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multiple donors, one-time donors and non-donors are entitled to different benefits. The release of blood is controlled by the chairman of the club’s welfare committee.
Multiple Donors
Multiple donors, AD personnel who have donated to the blood bank on more than one occasion, will be entitled to an unlimited amount of blood, for themselves and for eligible dependents.
Eligible dependents, in the case of a multiple donor, are: spouse, children, parents and parents-in-law. Personnel who have been refused as donors (by the Red Cross physician) on more than one occasion, and those who have a combination of contributions and refusals totalling two or more, are (Gaiitinufed on ' Page 12)
October 31 Set For Fifth Mass And Breakfast
The fifth annual communion breakfast of St. Theresa’s Aviation Guild will be held in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Commodore, beginning at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, October 31.
Preceding the breakfast, Hi§ Eminence Francis Cardinal Spellman will preside at a mass and communion, to be held in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, beginning at 8 a.m.
Brigadier General Carlos Romu-lo, special Philippine representative to the United’ States, and Gene Lockhart, stage, screen and television actor, will be the speakers at the breakfast.
The St. Theresa’s Aviation Guild was formed in 1950, with Fr. Charles Lee as its chaplain and moderator. The guild’s membership now includes employees from 29 domestic aand international air carriers.
The first communion breakfast, five years ago, was attended by about 500 employees. Last year, under the sponsorship of PAA, over 1,100 tickets were sold. Host airline this year is Air France.
Atlantic Division employees may purchase tickets for this year’s breakfast from any of the following:
IDL — Dorothy Bartone, Tim O’Shea, Ginny Logan, Peggy Con-boy, V. Hatched, Ed Guderian, J. Burke and S. Wetter; and at LIC —Eleanor Murtagh, John Henry, Bill Fitzgerald, Louise Kopp and Bob Sheils.
Future Service To Be Improved
What Pan American has done during 1954 and what it will do to make its services more comprehensive and attractive was described last month by Vice President Willis G. Lipscomb in a closed circuit television broadcast to 21 United States cities, coast to coast.
The telecast was the second such to be used in the travel industry since Pan American on February pioneerd the use of this method in bringing its 1954 program simultaneously to every Pan American agent in the United States. -—- -----------—r»——7
Some 3,500 persons saw the telecast as it was “piped” to theaters, hotels and studios throughout the major cities. And a special audience saw it on a large screen in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, New York.
Featured on the telecast was President Juan T. Trippe, who told the audience:
29% Of All Pax
“In the short space of 27 years, Pan American Clippers have (■Continued on Page 12)
Hamilton Smith Is Named Chief AD Check Pilot
Captain Hamilton ‘Ham” »Smith, Jr. has been namd chief check pilot for the Atlantic Division, replacing Captain C. N. “Jooj” Warren who has returned to the status of check pilot, “for personal reasons.”
Captain Smith started his flying with Pan American in 1935, at Brownsville, and transferred to Rio de Janeiro in 1938.
During the latter assignment he was made sector chief pilot and continued in that position until his transfer to the Atlantic Division in 1941.
From 1944 to 1946, Captain Smith served as assistant chief pilot in charge of training for this division. He was then granted a two-year leave-of-absence from PAA, to take over the duties of assistant manager of Syrian Airways, being stationed in Damascus.
Since his return to Pan American in 1948, Captain Smith' had flown as a check pilot, prior to the recent appointment.
Fall Dance Is Set For October 16
An Autumn Festival, sponsored by the Pan Am Club for Atlantic Division personnel, will be held at the Nassau Country Club, Glen Cove, on Saturday October 16.
Dancing to the music of Bob Richardson and his orchestra will begin at 9 p.m. The party will continue until 1 a.m. Dress is optional.
Tickets at $1.75 each, tax included', may be purchased from the following people at Idlewild: Marie Vasak (center hangar), Pat Cochrane (hangar No. 3), Jean C. Perry (hangar No. 4), Pete Hanusch (Green Bus teerminal), Ann Rufo (IDL terminal) and Joe Murray (cargo and commissary).
La Guardia personnel may get their tickets from Leonard Pace. And Long Island City employees should contact Ann Claps or Kay Migyanko.
Arrangements for this dance have been made in accordance with results of a poll conducted last year among Atlantic Division personnel.
The poll indicated a preference heiU~at ~tr*coufF~ try club (rather than at a large hotel in New York. And it was also the vote of employees to hold the affair on a Saturday night.
$1,000
The collection, conducted by the Pan Am Club’s welfare committee in behalf of an Idle-wild employee whose wife was stricken with an illness, amounted to $950, it was announced by Gene Mahon, chairman of the committee.
This sum was increased by $50, given by the welfare committee. And John Crawford, an Idlewild inspector, returned his award (a certificate for $25 in merchandise at the PX) to contribute to the success of the money-raising campaign.
In This Issue
Barcelona .................10
Beirut ....................10
Berlin .................... 8
Bermuda ................... 3
Boston .................... 3
Detroit ..................  3
Duesseldorf .............   9
Flight Personnel ......... 11
Frankfurt ................. 9
Hamburg ................... 8
Helsinki .................. 8
Jo’burg ..............'....10
Karachi ...................10
Lisbon ....................10
London ..................6, 7
New York ................4, 5
Nice ...................... 6
Rome ...................... 6
Shannon .................. 6
Stockholm ................. 9
Stuttgart.................. 8
Vienna .................... 8