Clipper, Vol. 2, No. 17, December 1945

              Em AMERICAN
LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
VOL. 2—NO. 17	451201	Copyright, 19US, by Fan American Airways, Inc,
DECEMBER, 1945
Workers Become High Pressure Salesmen As Victory Bond Drive Nears Conclusion
Seventy-five thousand dollars needed!
With the Victory Loan drive half over on Nov. 15, Pan American employees still had $75,000 to go to met their quota of $150,000.
Making a person-to-person canvas are tlje numerous drive leaders striving for fulfillment of the quota set for the last bond drive. Robert F. Green, Industrial Relations manager and chairman of the drive, is being assisted by the following Treasury representatives: Lloyd Smalley, General Accounting; John Webb, Pamsco, and John Cook, Industrial Relations.
Department leaders include William Lyons, Executive; Arthur C. Gulliver, Operations; George Strehlke and Robert Forrest, Traffic; Richard E. Ott, Services of Supply; Dee Swanson, Press Relations; Earle Waring, Airways; Ruth Hopkins, Medical; Dean Baxter, Maintenance; Mary Sammon, Communications; Jollie W. Allen, Meteorology; Mrs. George Bullen, District Sales; Thomas O’Toole, Africa-Orient; Arthur Black, Industrial Relations.
Victory bond volunters in each department are:
OPERATIONS: Division office personnel, Luida Gover; pilots, Mable Appleby, Jean Winter, Gloria Dickinson, Patty Bix, Gloria Straub and Capt. Max Weber; navigation instruction, Wilfred Stiles and James Nolan; Dinner Key Terminal, Karl Harper; Coconut Grove training, Joseph Smith; grounds, Mort Beyer, Andy Knight and Guy Reeves; flight and Link instructors, Georgin Bragg and Mary Jane Swestyn.
TRAFFIC: Reservations, Richard Clapp Continued on Page 7
HIGH PRESSURE SALESMANSHIP is employed by PAA’ers determined to meet a $150,000 Victory Bond Drive quota. At top, Richard Clapp and Lillian Snow, Pantra drive leaders, wield the big stick to “talk” their coworkers into buying bonds. Their method quite evidently worked with black-eyed, bandaged Fred Searl buying a $500 bond; Mildred Nimz, with her arm in a sling, buying $300 worth; Virginia Seymour, blinded by her bandages and sitting down, buying a $1,000 bond, and Margo Rob' erts, kneeling, signing up for a $500 bond. Clapp and Mrs. Snow reported sales of more than $5,500. Above, Charles Ingalls of the Instrument shop, looks a bit surprised at the tactics employed by supersaleslady Sally McMillan who needled him into buying a $1,000 bond.
Division Manager Relieved Because of 111 Health
W. Overton Snyder, manager of the Latin American Division of Pan American World Airways and one of the key figures in the company’s pioneering of airways throughout the West Indies and South America, will relinquish his post December 31 because of ill health now that the war emergency is over.
As division manager since 1934 of Pan American’s operations throughout the Caribbean islands, and South American East Coast he has played a leading role in pioneering new routes throughout the southern hemisphere and in building up the company’s far-flung system of airways that links more than 3 0 0 capitals and trade centers of Latin America with the United States.
One of the early pioneers of aviation,
Snyder’s interest in flying goes back to his boyhood days in Baltimore, when he built and flew his own gliders with the help of a boyhood pal. His knowledge JP*. o. Snyder of aviation gained
during the intervening years enabled him to guide the program of expansion and inauguration of new methods _ and techniques developed by Pan American in its Caribbean operations.
During his regime were developed many of the methods of over water “air navigation,” safety techniques, night flying and other operational procedures which enabled Pan American pilots and crews to span successfully the vast reaches of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans during the past 10 years.
Associated with the company since 1928, during which time he has made his home in Coral Gables with his wife and son, Overton, Jr., Snyder is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended the public schools and the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, from which he was graduated in 1914.
Later he attended Lehigh University and was graduated from there in 1918 with a degree in mechanical engineering. During the war he went to France as an ensign in the aviation branch of the Navy and on his return to the United States became an officer of the Maryland National Guard, in the first aviation unit of its kind in the country. He continued his aviation training and purchased a plane for his own use. When the Department of Commerce was organized, Snyder was one of the first to obtain a transport pilot’s license, and as early as 1923 was one of the pilots chosen for the first scheduled air race in America, sponsored by a Baltimore newspaper. During the intervening years his interest in flying never lagged, and he still Continued on Page 6