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HONEYWELL-GARRETT RETIREE’S CLUB OF ARIZONA
Cliff Notes PO Box 11633, Scottsdale AZ 85271-p1633 Sept 2019
President Vice President Treasurer Dolf Strom 480-991-6370 Vacant Joan Schenamsgruber 480-888-2285 [email protected] [email protected]
We have a New Name – Honeywell-Garrett Retirees Club
The mission of the Honeywell-Garrett Retirees Club of Arizona is to provide
a means for social, fellowship, and networking activity among retirees, and
to be involved in community and academic environments.
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EVENT DATE SPONSORING CLUB
Mtg – Tim Mahoney – Pres. Aerospace Sep 4 HGRC
Mtg – Hospice – What is Dementia Anyway? Oct 2 HGRC
Verde Canyon Railroad Oct 26 AAC
Mtg – AARP - Fraud Nov 6 HGRC
Tovrea Castle Nov 8 AAC
Tovrea Castle Nov 16 AAC
Holiday Luncheon – El Zaribah Temple Dec 11 HGRC
Mtg – Phx Herpetological Sanctuary Jan 8 HGRC
Mtg – Rob Spindler – TR Rough Riders Feb 5 HGRC
Mtg – Al Stimac – Hot to Sell on Ebay Mar 4 HGRC
Mtg – D Fennessy – Commemorative AF Apr 1 HGRC
Mtg - Dr C. Jagodzinski – Active Shooter May 6 HGRC
Special Event
Our September meeting will be followed by a
happy hour at Los Olivos Mexican Patio (7328 E
2nd St, Scottsdale) in the Lobby room with the
bar menu. All are welcome and members who
sign up a new member will both get free drinks.
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Highlights of the May Meeting
Mark Steele welcomed meeting attendees. Glenn Orgeron led the Pledge of Allegiance. Mark announced the Club members total contri-butions to the Scholarship Fund is now just under $8500.
Per Club Guidelines (although 1 month late per vote of attendees ant the April meeting), elections were held. Dolf Strom was elected President, there were no candidates for Vice President and Joan Schenamsgruber was elected Treasurer. Club Officers and Directors as listed on page 4.
The entire Club wishes to thank Mark Steele for his extended service as Club President and his continuing service as a member of the Board.
Our featured speaker was Brian Anton, former pilot with over 30,000 hours for Southwest Air-lines and much more. For the entire presentation, Brian spoke extemporaneously, using photo-graphs from his extensive history with the USAF. He did, however, comment that some (if not all) of his photographs may, at one time, been classi-fied.
Brian didn’t plan on becoming a pilot until after joining ROTC (USAF). Trained at Del Rio flight school, he ultimately became part of the Military Airlift Command (MAC). Assignments included flights to Thailand, Diego Garcia and Viet Nam
including 3 trips into Saigon in support of the evacuation.
His resume also includes flying a C5 (800,000 lb TOGW) into Kenya with 8 F-5 fighters on board.
After leaving the Air Force, Brian joined Southwest Airlines flying Boeing 737s. He logged 24,000 hours in the 737.
After his ‘prepared presentation’, Brian spoke at length about contemporary issues in commercial aviation. In 10 years there will be a significant shortage of commercial pi-lots, due to fewer USAF retirees and the high cost of obtaining required ratings and flight hours.
He noted that there are over 50,000 daily flights within the US and many international airlines that fly into the US operate with for-eign certified pilots in command. Significant numbers of these pilots do not have the op-erational experience required by United States airlines. He felt that this was a signif-icant factor in the recent crashes of the B737MAX.
The 50/50 drawings were won by Bob Rencenberger and Joan Schenamsgruber.
Verde Canyon Railroad
AAC - Larry Bowe
Saturday, October 26 Clarkdale, AZ
Where: 300 N Broadway, Clarkdale, AZ 86324 Tel. 1-800-293-7245 near the intersection of N Broadway and Miller Rd.
Time: Train leaves Clarkdale at 1:00 PM. The round trip takes approximately 4 hours.
Cost: 1st class ticket is $85 per person total (all ages) and includes sandwiches and snacks on board the train.
We need about 30 people to get our own 1st Class Car that is handicap accessible.
Don't miss out, sign up now. If you are interested in this fun trip, please contact
Larry Bowe @ [email protected] or Call him: 928-7590-2367
Send Larry a check made out to Aero Activities Club and mail to: Larry Bowe - 11452
Turquoise Circle, Dewey, AZ 86327.
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President’s Column
Hello everyone I am Dolf Strom your new President. I am starting this column with good and slightly good news. First, we changed our name to Honeywell–Garrett Retiree Club of Arizona. Since all new retirees had a Honeywell badge, Honeywell was added to the Club name to improve the chances of finding us when searching the Internet. We kept Garrett because that’s our history. The first meeting of the club was Feb 1984 when 6 people meet at the Stockyards restaurant. They met to discuss concerns about revisions to the pension plan. In 1991 the group grew and it was decided to get formally organized. Seven officers were elected of which two are still in the club. There are two documents on our Website, one dated June 1991 by Hal Hazel and one dated Feb 2000 by Warren Koepsel, who is still in the Club and operates the Fixit Guys.
Today the club has 536 members. In 2019, 36 left the club but there were only 2 new members, net loss of 34. To combat this trend, the club is doing an inaugural happy hour to be at Los Olivas, Scottsdale, immediately following the September meeting. All members and spouses are invited. Members who bring in a new member will both get free happy hour from the bar menu. So recruit new members and the drinks are on us.
Our Sep 4 speaker is Tim Mahoney, President, and CEO Honeywell Aerospace that contains our original Garrett founded by Cliff Garrett. Tim is always well attended and does a great job of pre-senting the state of our original Garrett plus the rest of Aerospace.
Lastly, of the 536 members, 93 receive the newsletter via paper mail because that is per your re-quest. The club is happy to do that but you should be aware the paper version has less content, fewer pictures, less jokes and the club is not in control of the distribution process. There were several times the newsletter was delivered after the meeting occurred. With the email version, the club is in control of the delivery and the newsletter has always been delivered on time. If you have Internet access and an email address I recommend you switch over.
So – welcome back from Summer and let’s have a great year for the Club.
Dolf Strom
President
New Honeywell Corporate policy will no longer provide the Club with lists of new retirees or deceased employees. We need all Club Members to inform us if you know of a new retiree or the passing of a for-mer employee.
Editor’s Corner
Our monthly meetings are held at the Scottsdale Senior Center, 1700 N. Granite Reef Road, (just north of McDowell). The meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month, September thru May, except for December – our Holiday Luncheon. Our social hour begins at 1:00 pm, club business is conducted at 1:45 pm, the presentation starts at 2:00 pm and adjournment is at 3:00 pm. Club Monthly Board Meetings will now be held at the Scottsdale Senior Center (same location as meetings) at 11:30 am in Room 10. Feel free to bring a lunch, meet with the Board and provide your thoughts and input.
The history of Honeywell, old editions of the Newsletter and a link to Scholarship Program information and forms can be found on the GRC webpage http://www.garrettretireesaz.com/
If there is something that you would like to see in the newsletter, or if you want to comment on the Newsletter itself, e-mail the in-formation to [email protected]! We will publish, space available and the approval of the Board. Any comments or claims made within the publication are solely the responsibility of the individual authors and do not necessarily express the views of Honeywell Inc. or the Directors, Officers, Staff or members of the Garrett Retirees’ Club of Arizona. If we are notified of employment oppor-tunities, we will send to members by a special email.
With our revised club guidelines that will change the roles and increase the number of Board Members, we are again encouraging members to attend Board Meetings as a guest to influence and support Club policies.
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Your 2019 – 2020 HGRC Board of Officers and Directors
Officers
President Dolf Strom (480) 991-6370 [email protected]
Vice President Currently Vacant
Recording Secretary Mark Steele (480) 759-0233 [email protected]
Treasurer Joan Schenamsgruber (480) 888-2285 [email protected]
Directors
Editor Membership Stu Mitnik (480) 897-1629 [email protected]
Events Diane Bennett (480) 994-5243 [email protected]
Scholarship Vice Chair Frank Holman (480) 994-4590 [email protected]
Scholarship Committee Brian Unsworth (480) 946-5194 [email protected]
Webmaster Mike Peterson (602) 943-9543 [email protected]
Refreshments and Outreach Diane Rencenberger (480) 775-8116 [email protected]
Director at Large Bob Davenport (480) 838-9340 [email protected]
Sept 4 Meeting – Tim Mahoney, Pres Honeywell Aerospace
Tim Mahoney is President and Chief Executive Officer of Hon-eywell Aerospace, Honeywell’s largest business group, headquar-tered in Phoenix, Arizona. Aerospace is managed through four businesses: Electronic Solutions, Engines and Power Systems, Mechanical Systems and Components, and Connected Aerospace.
Prior to becoming CEO, Tim served as President of the Business & General Aviation business, President of the Air Transport & Regional business, and as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). As CTO, Tim had global responsibilities for engineering, research and new product development, managing the company’s
R&D programs and more than 12,000 employees, as well as improving operational efficien-cy and engineering alignment for delivering new products to the market.
In leading the Air Transport & Regional business unit that serves OEM, airline, and after-market segments of commercial aviation, Tim strengthened customer relationships and de-velopment program execution on major systems for new aircraft platforms.
Tim typically will brief us on current performance and new activities and is more than will-ing to take questions.
Tim and the rest of Corporate Leadership must be doing something right as Honeywell stock currently sells within only a few percentage points of its all time high, even after having spun off 3 major business units.
Photographer Volker Otto (480) 816-9184
Non-Voting Functional Chairmen (w/Club Affiliation)
Travel Chair (HRSC) Barbara Rippstein (623) 566-1572 [email protected]
Scholarship Board Chr (HRSC) Jim Redmond (623) 362-2421 [email protected]
Events Coordinator Keith Hughes (623) 825-5243 [email protected]
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Fix-It Guys
Sponsored by Honeywell, Garrett and Sperry Retirees Clubs
We can help Honeywell retirees or surviving spouses with fix-it jobs around the house that you are not able to accomplish. This will hopefully keep the job from being a budget buster for you.
Call us at the appropriate number below. PLEASE LEAVE A CLEAR MESSAGE GIVING YOUR NAME, TELEPHONE NUMBER, JOB INFORMATION AND NEAREST CROSS STREETS. We can probably help and will get back to you as quick-ly as practical. We furnish the labor at no cost to you - you furnish the cost of the materials or parts.
Below is a list of volunteer Fix It Guys from both the East and North Valley.
Warren Koepsel – Coordinator - 480-510-9304
East Valley
Bob Davenport Ken Probert Stu Mitnik
Charlie Paine Frank Holman
North Valley
Lee Rippstein Dan Schott Roy Newbolt Bob Farney
Monthly Charity News
Your Board of Directors has voted to donate $200 each month, $100 to the Scholarship Fund and the other $100 to local charities. 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 website. If you have a favorite charity you would like the club to consider for dona-tions, please bring it to our attention.
This Club season donations will be sent to:
To Be Selected at the September Board Meeting
JESS ADAMS
THATA MAXINE BLOOM
VIRGIL CODAY
L. CHARLES (CHUCK) ELSTON
ETHEL FELIX
MARCUS FRANKLIN (FRANK) SHANNON
DR. JOHN MASON
BILL SNYDER
BRU8CE STAPLES
JIM STONE
IRENE TYSON
DAN CURTIS WELCH
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HRSC & GRC Scholarship Foundation
Program Updates
Your Honeywell Retiree Clubs Scholarship Foundation Board:
Jim Redmond, Foundation Board Chair [email protected] 623 362 2421
Gwen Scheetz, Secretary/Treasurer [email protected] 602 616 9889
Brian Unsworth, ASU Representative [email protected] 4809565194
Dawn Orgill NAU Representative [email protected] 602 881 7772
Frank Holman, U of A Representative [email protected] 602 695 2565
Once again the popularity of the scholarship program has increased this year. Applications of next year are currently being reviewed. Thank you to the Garrett and Honeywell Retiree clubs as well as Honeywell International for their generous donations. The majority of the yearly total available funds come from contributions by individual members of the Garrett and Honeywell Retiree clubs. All of you who gave are making a difference in the lives of these deserving recipients.
Cost of a college education has been increasing yearly and our number of valid applicants has increased from 1 at program start to 12 for this year. So far, we have been able to award each of the qualified applicants with at least $1,000. Continued awards of this modest amount for each applicant will likely be impossible unless we can increase contributions. Please review your charitable contributions and seriously consider adding this Scholarship Program to your list of worthy causes. The Scholarship Program is qualified as a 501(c)(3), so donations should be tax deductible (check with your tax advisor). Please remember, students receiving these benefits are all family members of retired Honeywell and Garrett employees. By giving to this program, you will be directly helping the friends and family members of people you worked with for years.
THE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM HAS DISTRIBUTED
AWARDS FOR THIS YEAR
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Northern Trust / Pensions
PO Box 92922
Chicago, Ill 60675 –
1-877-258-3699 #5
< new website
Honeywell Retiree Service Center
Dept. 09796 - 2601 Research Forest Drive
The Woodlands, TX 77381
Phone: 1-800-526-0744
Hours of Operation: Monday through Fri-
day 9:00 A.M.-6:00 P.M. Eastern Time
Website: “Your Benefits Resources™
http://digital.alight.com\honeywell
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Need your help We have lost contact with:
If anyone has contact information for any of these members, please call or email Stu Mitnik at 480-897-1629 or [email protected]
John Dannan Bill Rickey
Gary Armstrong Walter Jones Dennis Thomason
Jesse Begley Lee Grochowsky Jim Beam
Giving Back, with Honeywell and RTVOS HRSC – Doug Metzger
November, 2019 specific date TBD
In line with our “giving back” culture, the retiree clubs will be invited once again to join Honeywell Aerospace and Rebuilding Together Valley of the Sun (RTVOS), for a “rebuilding” service project somewhere in the valley. RTVOS and Aerospace are planning an event this fall in the November time frame. It will be a community hous-ing/shelter event, performing tasks like maintenance and clean-up for folks who are unable to do so for themselves. In 2017 we helped out a needy school in Maryvale. In 2018 we helped to provide housing for homeless veterans.
It will be a great opportunity to support those in need in the valley, while spending quality time with other retir-ees and active employees. The specific tasks, as well as specific locations and dates, will be chosen this summer by Honeywell and RTVOS. There will always be a variety of work available to accommodate different skill levels. Tools and materials will be provided.
Place a note in your calendar to help this noble effort to give back. We’ll be publishing more details as they de-velop. Our point for this event is Doug Metzger. Doug is making a list now of interested people to contact first when we have more details. Your name on this list is NOT a commitment. We won’t ask for a commitment until we have more details about the activity, the dates, and the locations.
to get your name on the list, please contact Doug at 602-319-6637 or [email protected].
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New Events Process
To avoid finding out that events you may be inter-
ested in attending are sold out – all events are being
posted at the GRC website
www.hrcaz.org
Click on Events Schedule then click on the event
you are interested in to find details on how to sign
up
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Question: Why do retirees count pennies?
Answer: They are the only ones who have
the time.
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Question: Why are retirees so slow to clean out the basement, attic or garage?
Answer: They know that as soon as they do, one of their adult kids will want to
store stuff there.
What I have Learned with Age
I've learned that wherever I go, the world's worst drivers have followed me there. Age 29
I've learned that motel mattresses are better on the side away from the phone. Age 50
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. Age 74
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Most of us over 60 were HOME SCHOOLED in many ways
1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE. "If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning. ”
2. My mother taught me RELIGION. "You better pray that will come out of the carpet. ”
3. My father taught me about TIME TRAVEL. "If you don't straighten up, I'm go-ing to knock you into the middle of next week! ”
4. My father taught me LOGIC. " Because I said so, that's why.”
5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC. "If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me. ”
6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT. "Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident. ”
7. My father taught me IRONY. "Keep cry-ing and I'll give you something to cry about. ”
8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS. "Shut your mouth and eat your supper ”
9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM. "Just you look at that dirt on the back of your neck! ”
10. My mother taught me about STAMINA. "You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone. ”
11. My mother taught me about WEATHE . "This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it ”
12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY. "If I told you once, I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate! ”
13. My father taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE. "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."
14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION. "Stop acting like your father!
15. My mother taught me about ENVY. "There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do. ”
16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION. "Just wait until we get home.
17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING. "You are going to get it from your father when he gets home! ”
18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE "If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to get stuck that way. ”
19. My mother taught me ESP. "Put your sweater on, don't you think I know when you're cold? ”
20. My father taught me HUMOR. "When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come run-ning to me. ”
21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT. "If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up. ”
22. My mother taught me GENETICS. "You're just like your father. ”
23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS. "Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn? ”
24. My mother taught me WISDOM. "When you get to be my age, you'll understand.
25. My father taught me about JUSTICE. "One day you'll have kids and I hope they turn out just like you!
I signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose fitting clothing.
If I HAD any loose fitting clothing, I wouldn’t have signed up in the first
place!
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with ‘Guess’ on it. So I said ‘Implants?’
She hit me.
Don’t argue with an idiot; People watching may not be able to tell the differ-
ence.