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Page Revised February
16, 2010
A
reminder! If you have a summer/winter home or for some reason
want a second address to be maintained by REPA then please
contact Jerry Frost with the address and approximate dates
you will be going back and forth… We are very, very
hopeful that this will cut down on all the Temporary Away
Notices (and thus trashed magazines) that we have been receiving
for the past five years… Remember that only your primary
address and contact information will be in the REPA Roster…
Also your entries in the REPA Database can be changed or updated
at any time and as many times as you wish! Just let Jerry
Frost know!
Tuesday,
January 12th
Some
items of interest from the January 9, 2010 REPA Board of Directors
meeting...
The
REPA Nominating Committee submitted and the BOD accepted the
folloing pproposed Slate of Nominees for the 2011 REPA Board
of Directors.
The 2010 Nominating Committee unanimously proposes the below
Slate of 2011 Officers be presented to the Membership at the
2010 Convention Business Meeting…
Bud Robbins……. President and Director
Bob Drawdy……. Vice President/President-Elect and
Director
Dick Burnette…… Secretary and Director
Jerry Frost………. Treasurer and Director
Jim Gardner…….. Convention Chairman and Director
Jim Holder……… REPA Editor and Director
Aubrey Reed
Ross McCort
Jim Holder
The
REPA Board also selected Captain Jerry Frost, REPA Treasurer
for the last five or more years, to be the Recipient of the
REPA Hall of Fame for 2010. Jerry will be inducted at the
St Simon Convention Banquet on November 9th.
Also
the following Motion was adopted by the REPA Board...
Move that the REPA Constitution and By-Laws be amended to
eliminate the requirement to put deceased pilots on the Bronze
Memorial Plaque effective January 1, 2010.
The intent is to relieve REPA of further obligations while
actively perusing other options.
Subsequently
an Ad Hoc Committee was formed by Director Jim Gardner, with
members, Jerry Frost, Bob Drawdy, Gil Gilbert and Charlie
delPizzo, to actively work towards finding a final solution
to the matter of the Bronze Memorial... This committee will
be reporting to the Board and Members at the St Simon REPA
Convention...
Wednesday,
November 18th
Folks….
I
recently received the below EM from REPA Affiliate Member
Jerry Griggs… The photo referred to was recently in
a REPArtee magazine, seeking ID on the two pilots
and F/A who were shown walking to an EAL Martin 404…
Captain Clint McHenry was able to ID them as the F/A later
became his wife…
As
you can see below the Hobby Museum is seeking additional stories
and photos about Hobby Airport in Houston, TX… If anyone
has anything to contribute please contact Mr. Drew Coats at
info@1940airterminal.com... If this address does not work
then send your contribution to me at Roadhog37>>at>>comcast.net
and I will forward it on to Jerry Griggs, who is in direct
contact with the museum…
As
requested I contacted Clint McHenry yesterday (17th) and,
as expected, he was quite willing to have his comments included
in the museum’s presentations…
Jim
Holder
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Jim….
This
photo below in this email chain is on display at the 1940
Air Terminal Museum at Hobby. It is about four feet by four
feet, a rather large photo. They also use it in their slide
show.
http://www.1940airterminal.org/
I told them the information I had about the photo that you
provided in a previous email. This leads to three questions,
1. Does Clint McHenry mind if we put the information next
to the photo on display in the lobby?
2. Do other REPARTee members have any Hobby Airport photos
or stories they'd like to relate to the museum?
3. Am I correct in assuming Clint McHenry was a line pilot
for EAL?
Let me know if Mr. McHenry has any objections or wants to
change any wording next to the display photo.
Tailwinds,
Jerry Griggs
----- Original Message -----
From: Drew Coats
To: Jerry Griggs
Cc: info@1940airterminal.com; collections@1940airterminal.org
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 7:15 AM
Subject: RE: 1952 Photo of Eastern Air Lines - Hobby Airport
Jerry,
This
is great information. Thank you for sharing it with us and
please convey our thanks to Mr. McHenry. What was Mr. McHenry’s
position while employed at the Houston base? May we use his
description in exhibits, etc.? Would you be so kind as to
ask him if he has other stories and/or photos from his time
in Houston?
Thanks,
Drew
From:
Jerry Griggs
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 12:37 PM
To: Drew Coats
Subject: 1952 Photo of Eastern Air Lines - Hobby Airport
Hello,
I was in your museum back in October attending the 1969 South
Houston High School Reunion. My dad is retired from Eastern
Air Lines working at Hobby airport from about 1948 until the
airline moved to Houston Intercontinental. He has the photo
below in his personal collection. I noticed you have the same
photo on display at your museum. I thought you might want
additional historical information on the photo which is provided
below by Eastern Air Lines retiree, Clink McHenry.
Let me know if there are questions.
Gerald Griggs,
Goddard, Kansas
Provided by Clint McHenry,
It might be of interest that the only air-conditioned area
in that terminal at that time was the control tower. The photo
was taken in late 1952 when the DC-3’s were still being
used and the Martin 404’s were being introduced in the
southwest. The crewmembers, left to right, are Don Landry,
Marcia Roeding, and Ed Wyrick.
The Houston pilot domicile was closed in October 1952 and
most of us moved to New Orleans shortly after. Two years after
Marcia and I were married we moved into Idlewood, a development
entirely conceived and built by EAL pilots. We all stayed
there until MSY was closed in 1964. The husbands, wives, and
children grew almost as one large family. It was a delightful
time. The residents were Jack Schlaffer, Tex Maxwell, Bill
Moore, Don Landry, Gib Geurin, McHenry, Morris Hooton, Jack
Rolfson, Fenwick Lind, Don Smith, Tom Yaeger, Ed Wyrick and
Chancey Flint.
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DONATIONS
Please don't throw away EAL "stuff." We would like to have
it in the REPA archives. Members would like to see it at our
conventions. We recently received Eastern memorabilia from
a United Airlines retired Captain. Don't let this happen to
you: A widow of one of our most beloved Captains donated all
his collection to the Smithsonian. I told her it would be
in a box and only made available should someone specifically
ask for information regarding the material that was donated.
It will not be on display. She regretted having sent it to
the Smithsonian. Point! We have more folks who would be seeing
this material than the Smithsonian. And, it could be donated
to them at a later time. Call or email us and we will will
make arrangements to have it added to the REPA Archives.
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