RETIREE’S CLUB OF ARIZONA

NEWSLETTER

January 2013

PO Box 11633 Scottsdale Arizona 85271-1633

www.garrettretireesaz.com

President Vice President Treasurer

John Lester 480-831-3784 Walt Blackmore 480-736-1362

JohnLester@Sprintmail.com wlblackmore@yahoo.com

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2012-2013

Board of Directors

Secretary/Refreshments Chair Diane Rencenberger

Membership /Events Chair Diane Bennett 480-994-5243 AzBennett3@cox.net

Past President/Travel Ed Taschner 480-837-6262 edtaschner@cox.net

Historian Ed Gammill 602-840-7101 edgammill@aol.com

Nominating Committee Chair Doug Culy 480-838-2233 culyd@asme.org

Scholarship Committee Chair Frank Holman 480-994-4590 frankholman@cox.net

Editor Stu Mitnik 480-897-1629 smitnik@cox.net

Web Master Mike Peterson 602-943-9543 mrpetersonaz@cox.net

Photographer Volker Otto 480-816-9184

At Large Member Al Stimac 480-218-7199 stimac@cox.net

At Large Member Dick Dippold 480-945-8607 dickdippold@peoplepc.com

There was no meeting in De-cember as this is the time for the club Holiday Luncheon. Once again, most of the 90 at-tendees trekked over the river (dry) and through the woods (well, cacti actually) to Foun-tain Hills and the fabulous Sunridge Canyon Golf Club. [Editors note: some of the at-tendees actually live in Foun-tain Hills]

Now for the important stuff. Door prizes were won by Herman Andresen, Maggie Plumos, Al Finkelstein, John Lang, Loretta Coulson, Bar-bara Storey, Craig Thomp-son, Bill Waggoner II, John Lester and Chuck Mottet. The 50/50 winners were Loretta Coulson and John Chappel. And the BIG news – centerpieces were won by Number 3.

Selected photos from the event are in the Special Supplement area of the email newsletter and all photos will be posted

on the website.

Last month we indicated that there would be 2 meetings in January. However, the late January speaker cannot be a-vailable so our meeting sched-ule is returning to the normal 1

st Wednesday of the month.

Sorry for any confusion we may have caused.

Our January Speaker is Kim Carr, Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center. Kim spoke at a meeting several years ago and they brought a beaver. Don’t miss the meet-ing to find out what they brought this time!

DUES TIME – PLEASE REMEMBER TO SEND IN YOUR ENVELOPES.

President’s Column

President’s Column

Who can believe that Year 2013 is here already! It seems that we just rang in 2012

Upcoming Events

Jan 2 – Meeting – Kim Carr - Southwest Wildlife Con-servation Center

Feb 6 – Meeting – Stan Marks – Judge pro tem Mari-

copa county Superior Court Mar 6 – Meeting – Dave Elston - Grand Canyon

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—my how time flies! As we wrap up our Christmas and holiday activities, it’s time to wish all of you a very happy, prosperous and healthy New Year.

As far as our club is con-cerned, we just concluded our very successful Holiday Luncheon in Fountain Hills. Not only was a good time had by all who attended, with good food, good fellowship, and a gorgeous day, but we celebrat-ed the spirit of the holiday by bringing canned goods and Christmas ornaments for dis-tribution to our Vista del Camino “families” as well as toys and gifts for their chil-dren. A big “thank you” to Ed Taschner and Dick Dippold for their Christmas shopping for these six children. And a “great big thank you” to Diane Bennett who put all the pieces of this event together.

Ed Taschner and Frank Hol-man have been visiting the state universities recently, in order to get a better handle on how our scholarship funding is managed and disbursed. You can read elsewhere in this newsletter an article on this matter.

Please disregard my note last month on having two meetings in January and none in Febru-ary. Our originally scheduled speaker that was moved to January 30 has had to cancel, so we have rescheduled our meeting to our regular Wed-nesday, February 6. I hope this does not confuse anybody, but as of now, all of our spring 2013 meetings through May will be on our regularly sched-

uled date—the first Wednes-day of the month.

Again, have a HAPPY NEW YEAR. We’ll start out by meeting on January 2. See you there!

John Lester

This month’s charitable dona-tion went to Arizona Science Center and Phoenix Chrysa-lis Center. Club guidelines dictate that we support local charities exclusively. A list of the charities from which the board chooses donations monthly is posted on the web-site. If you have a favorite charity you would like the club to consider for donations, please bring it to our attention.

Have you moved? If so pro-vide your new address to Diane Bennett in order to continue to get this terrific newsletter et. al.

For those of you who are not aware, the registration enve-lopes are permanent records of your dues payment history. It would be appreciated if you would not deface, cut, or otherwise make them unusable and therefore make it neces-sary to make a new envelope for the records. Also, if there have been no changes in your address, phone number, marital status, or e-mail address, please just print your name and the date and nothing else.

Your cooperation would be greatly appreciated.

We welcome any member who wishes to speak to the meeting

on a topic of general interest. To do so, please contact any Board Member immediately prior to the start of the meeting.

The Club issues new member-ship rosters each year. We ask you to properly destroy (shred) old rosters. This in-formation is provided so that our members may stay in touch with good friends. We do not wish this information to fall in-to the hands of solicitation or-ganizations or worse.

Please remember to wear your badge to meetings and func-tions. It sure helps in remem-bering names. If you have lost your badge, Diane Ben-nett can make you a new one for a $2.00 charge.

Reminder - we no longer charge dues for the spouse of couples who are both retirees from AiResearch/ Garrett/ Al-liedSignal/ Honeywell.

Our monthly meetings are held at the Scottsdale Senior Center, 1700 N. Granite Reef, (just north of Mc-Dowell). The meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month, September - May, except for December – our Holiday Luncheon. Our social hour begins at 1:00 pm, club business is conduct-ed at 1:45 pm, the presenta-tion starts at 2:00 pm and adjournment is at 3:00 pm.

Board meetings will no longer be held prior to the regular meeting. However, we do welcome your input. Please contact any board member or send the editor any items that

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may be of interest to our members.

HELP EACH OTHER

If you need some assistance, e-mail smitnik@cox.net with your need and contact infor-mation. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AiResearch/Garrett Historical Information - Ed Gammill, Historian, reports that John Harper sent a package includ-ing 1997 and 1988 AiReport-ers, Horizons, Powerlinks and FlightLinks, He asks that if you send/give him photos, please write on the back the names of everyone in the pho-to.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

The scholarship season is in full swing! The Honeywell Retirees’ Club (HRC) and the Garret Retirees’ Club (GRC), along with Honey-well Aerospace, sponsor scholarships to the three State universities each year. It’s the season to make sure your families know about this opportunity. Eligible candi-dates will have completed their freshman year with a 3.0 GPA or better and be enrolled for the next scholastic year (2013). In the past, this award was lim-ited to sophomores, juniors, & seniors. This year and beyond, graduate students are included as well. Candidates must also be related to a currently active or deceased member of one of the two clubs.

Eligibility:

-time enrolled Sophomore, Junior, Senior or Graduate student.

technically oriented (STEM students receive preference), but all applications will be considered.

i-mum 3.00 GPA.

ave family des-cendancy to an active or de-ceased member of the Honey-well Retirees’ Club of Arizona (HRC) or the Garrett Retirees’ Club of Arizona (GRC).

need (Submit a Free Applica-tion for Federal Student Aid or FAFSA)

Applications must be in by February 1. Awards should be made before the beginning of the 2013 fall semester. The best method to begin the pro-cess is to contact your school’s Financial Aid Office and re-quest information on the Hon-eywell Retirees’ Scholarship Program:

Arizona State University

ASU Scholarship Office - Tempe campus Student Services Building, 2nd floor (855) 278-5080 https://scholarships.asu.edu

University of Arizona

Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid Administration Bldg., Room 208 1401 E University Blvd. Tucson, AZ 85721

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P.O. Box 210066, Tucson, AZ 85721 (520) 621.1858 askaid@email.arizona.edu

Northern Arizona Univer-sity

Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid Gammage, Building 1 600 S Knoles Drive PO Box 4108 Flagstaff, AZ 86011 Financial.Aid@nau.edu (928) 523-4951 http://nau.edu/student-resources/

Your Club contacts for this op-portunity are ... for HRC, Ed Taschner, (602) 300-6262; and for GRC, Frank Holman, (602) 695-2565. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Club periodically receives information about employ-ment opportunities that may be of interest to our members. We put notices in the news-letter and post them on the website when new opportuni-ties become available.

If you would like to honor or provide information about a member with a newsletter blurb, please e-mail the in-formation to smitnik@cox.net. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Shoshana Leon, Honeywell Worldwide Community En-gagement Manager Arizona Challenger Space Center in Peoria is looking for volun-teers for its MARS (Meet a Real Scientist) program. Vol-unteers are needed to do a brief speech, presentation, and hands-on demonstrations and activities from 10:30AM-3:00PM on Sundays. The tar-get audience is middle school students and their families. For more information contact shoshana.leon@honeywell.com

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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Honeywell Health and Well-ness Center memberships are available for retirees and their spouses at just $10 per month per person. Get together with some of your buddies! Call them! Phoenix 602 -231-7920, Tempe 480-592-1389. Well-ness Center info is also posted on our website. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2013 Activity Calendar Hon-eywell Retirees of Arizona (Honeywell North):

January

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Light Rail experience and

lunch at Monti’s Casa

Vieja

January

23

Olive Mill tour and

luncheon

February

12 Day at the Races

TBD Spring Training Baseball

Game (SRC)

March

27

Broadway Dinner Theater

(SRC) – Buddy, The Bud-

dy Holly Story. Note the

new date.

More info at WWW.HRCAZ. ORG

Other Stuff

COLD IS A RELATIVE THING....

65 above zero: Floridians turn on the heat. People in Minnesota plant gardens.

60 above zero: Californians shiver uncon-trollably. People in Minnesota sun-bathe.

50 above zero: Italian & English cars won't start.

People in Minnesota drive with the windows down.

40 above zero: Georgians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, wool hats. People in Minnesota throw on a flannel shirt.

35 above zero: New York landlords finally turn up the heat. People in Minnesota have the last cookout before it gets cold.

20 above Zero People in Arizona all die. Minnesotans close the win-dows.

Zero: Californians fly away to Mexico. People in Minnesota get out their winter coats.

10 below zero: Hollywood disintegrates. The Girl Scouts in Minnesota are selling cookies door to door.

20 below zero: Washington DC runs out of hot air. People in Minnesota let the dogs sleep indoors.

30 below zero: Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. Minnesotans get upset be-cause they can't start the snowmobile.

40 below zero: ALL atomic motion stops. People in Minnesota start saying... "Cold enough fer ya? "

50 below zero: Hell freezes over.

Minnesota public schools will open 2 hours late.

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When my grandson Billy and I entered our vacation cabin, we kept the lights off until we were inside to keep from at-tracting pesky insects. Still, a few fireflies followed us in.

Noticing them before I did, Billy whispered, "It's no use Grandpa. Now the mosquitoes are coming after us with flash-lights."

In Memory of our depart-ed friends and co-workers

MINNA BECK

RICHARD CALLISON

ELLIS COLLIER

HECTOR DIAZ

SIMON DUMITRES

JAMES GLOCKSIEN

GERALD KEYSER

DEANE THOMPSON

THOMAS ULBRICH

OTTO VIERTEL

JILL WRIGHT

JOHN YOUNGS

RETIREE’S CLUB OF ARIZONA

SPECIAL SUPPLIMENT

January 2013

PO Box 11633 Scottsdale Arizona 85271-1633

www.garrettretireesaz.com

ATTENTION: ALL BORDER PATROL AGENTS.

"Be on the lookout for a `50 Chevy... Red with White top"

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The REDNECK FIRE ALARM

For those of you that want to continue to be fire safety conscious... even in these economically challenged times, here is the solution.

Now that's funny, I don't care who you are!

Why I still buy newspapers!

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DUH?

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