REPA NEWS

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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