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h"Where are they now?"
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Doug Adamson
dougdebaz@cs.com
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Hughes, Sep 1978 to
Northwest Jun 2008. address: 6129 S. 172nd St,
Gilbert, Az. 85298 Ph: 480-895-5677
Retired Jun 08 as DTW 757 Captain Too many mergers under the
belt and not up for another one for many reasons.
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Maria Elena Armanino (Lawbaugh)
mariaelena41@cox.net
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I was hired as a Flight Attendant in December, 1976, and was based in Las Vegas until my transfer to San Francisco in 1978. I flew with Hughes Airwest from 1976-80 and have wonderful memories of the great people and fun times while flying for the "Top Banana in the West"! My aviation career also included flying as a flight attendant for World Airways and Flying Tigers with my eventual retirement as an FAA Cabin Safety Inspector. I met a lot of wonderful people during my years in aviation but the enthusiasm and spirit of the Hughes Airwest crewmembers and ground personnel as well as their team approach to safety and service will always remain a special part of my aviation memories.
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Scott
Agonbroad
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PO
Box 870849
Wasila, AK 99669
(907) 373-3867 |
Retired NWA F/O B-747 |
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Rod
Alg
rod.alg@worldnet.att.net
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After almost 35 years with the airline business I was able to retire on
April
30th 1999. I began my airline career with West Coast Airlines in Portland, Oregon on
June 10, 1964. I stayed in Portland for the next 15 years, with the exception of
a summer spent working in Port Angles, Washington where I transferred to in time
to close the station. I transferred to Eugene, Oregon late in November of 1979. I worked there
until I was cut in December of 1980. Bumped to Idaho Falls, Idaho I worked there
until the station was closed Sept of 1982. Given the options of New York, Boston, or Memphis, I chose Memphis. We
arrived there Sept 23, 1982 for just a temporary stay. Waiting for something
better to open up, I ended up staying until retirement. Marilyn and I are currently traveling around the United States and Canada in
a motorhome. We have had this dream for several years. No grass to cut, now
house to paint, just following the sun. We plan to go South for the winter,
North for summer. There are so many different places that we have always said
that "We’ll see that when we have time." Now we are seeing them. Stay in touch.
Rod and Marilyn AKA: The Old Grouch
and The Biscuit Burner
4617
Limestone Lane
Memphis, TN 38141
901-573-5752
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Vern
Alg
vernalg@hotmail.com
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It
was June 1965 when I joined West Coast Airlines
as a Ramp Agent in PDX to work for the summer while
attending college. In PDX I married my first wife
(Pamela), had my daughter (Kristina), and completed
my undergraduate degree at Portland State. In
1973, I was riffed and transferred to Las Vegas.
Here I divorced my first wife, got my MBA
at UNLV, and married my second wife. I left
Republic in 1984 to go to New York Air at RDU. In
just two years, I was the General Manager of SAV,
ROC, and EWR. During that time Maggie
and I had a son, Brian. In 1986, Continental
brought me to Houston to help on the integration
of Frontier, People Express, and New York Air. Since
then I’ve headed up Crew Scheduling and started
a Project Management department. For the last
eight years, I’ve headed up the Interiors Engineering
team.
About five years ago I had a serious
motorcycle accident which resulted in a half dozen
operations and some accessibility issues. Now,
I’m single again and live with my 18 year old son,
Brian. He graduated in May (2003) and is off
to Texas A & M this Fall. I guess that
now makes me an empty nester. I spend a lot
of time traveling. My trips in the last year
have included Peru, Ecuador, Hungary, Mexico, Germany,
France, England, as well as fishing trips to Alaska
and Florida. When I’m not working or traveling,
I tinker with my collection of Velosolex bikes (8
so far) and my Citroen 2CV.
Pictures: http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/vernalg
URL:
http://www.westcoastairlines.com
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Bob
Allen
Cake25252@cs.com
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I was
initially hired with West Coast on 6/24/59.
and was a relief agent for almost 8 years, based
out of GEG. I worked 2 1/2 years in North
Bend and then returned to Spokane. When
Republic in their infinite wisdome chose to
close spokane, my wife Diane and our three children
spent the next 11 years in Memphis. Boise
reopened in 199r and I made a transfer and then
retired in 1999. My wife and I are now
living in Hayden Lake ID and enjoying our retirement.
Home number is 208-762-5673 |
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Judi
Allen
judiallen2@aol.com
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I was hired in July 1969 by Eric Wilson as a secretary in Stations
Administration, supporting Duke Briscoe with Eric in our old Pacific Airlines
office. What fun.... I was always trying to type faster than Eric Wilson! I
was a Sun Valley Ski Ambassador, Employee Club Director, and was always involved
in the RW community. I left RW in 1980 and eventually joined Genentech during
the incredible growth period. I was able to purchase property at Lake Tahoe,
where I was a weekend Ski Instructor at Heavenly Valley for 2 years. I went to
work at the UCSF Cancer Center for a famous surgeon/Oncologist at the Breast
Center -- as I had become a breast cancer advocate after my own diagnosis. I am
well, and still am very involved with BC advocacy at UCSF and elsewhere. I
worked at Oracle briefly and coordinated their Int'l Finance Conference at
Wailea, Maui last year - and I stayed for a few extra days and purchased a
couple of cottages at the water in Kihei. Eventually I would like to conduct
healing journey(s) to places of healing, e.g., Hawaii, Tahoe. I still live in
Belmont, CA where I spent 14 years as a Park & Rec Commissioner and am now
on the Arts Commission. Can't retire yet.....
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Zoe Allen
zallen@peoplepc.com
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Res. Agent in SEA 7/1/68 to 5/?/84
-- I was in one of the very first RW training classes in PHX
& was so glad to be sent to SEA, being a Pacific Northwest native. I was
very sad when RC shut Seattle Res down.I accepted furlough in 1984 & changed
careers, working in commercial printing ever since. I have wonderful memories of
my co-workers and the fun times we had, particularly during the Hughes era. I
think we could all take pride in our airline during those years.
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Lee
Allison
Dusty0340@aol.com
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Hired
9/05/65 Retired 10/29/99 Hired
as a Station Agent for Bonanza in LAX and survived
the '68 merger. Transferred to SEA in '72 as Senior
Agent and lived thru the early days of RW/RC until
I was forced to transfer in 1985 when I. picked
DT W due wife was a F/A. for seniority reasons I
survived yet another merger in 1986. Worked as a
CSS in DYW mostly in the company control center
(Tower.) Also spent a few months in SEA as
a CSS in the early '90's. Now living in Redmond,
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Sharon
Alison
AvionMadre29@aol.com
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Hired 06-01-70
as RW Flight Attendant - Seattle, transferred to
ATL when RC closed SEA Crew Base, traqnsferred to
DTW in 1985 and still flying out of DTW.
Much
too young to retire plus can't live on husband's
retirement. Now living in Redmond, OR and commuting
to DTW
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Hans
Andersen
Hbandersen@aol.com
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I
started my airline career with BL at LAX as an operations
agent. In 69 I transferred to FCA (Kalispell).
In 71 I transferred back to LAX to keep my
marriage alive. I operated a side business
for many years while employed at LAX. I was
a senior agent at LAX with RC and retired in 1986.
While with RW I revised and rewrote much ot
the ticketing manual. Of course, that was
when tickets were still written my hand and penmanship
mattered.
When
the first yellow airplane landed in LAX I sent the
station report and said, "Flight 703, the yellow
banana, arrived LAX at 1535." I got written
up for that, darned near fired, and a year later
that was the company's theme. I guess
I was just ahead of my time. Since retirement
my wife (Beverly) and I moved to Santa Barbara County
where my marine surveying and consulting business
expanded. Today I am an international marine
consultant. My wife operates an exclusive
country club in Montecito, CA. Our eldes daughter
(Kirsten) is a political columnist in Washington,
DC. Her articles may be viewed at www.politicalusa.com.
She has been a guest on Politically Incorrect
with Bill Maher and is expected to be a guest again
this fall. Our other daughter (Gretchen) works
for the Hilton Hotel Group and is doing well.
I
talk occasionally with other old BL, PC, RW and
RC employees and always have fun looking back at
the Golden Age of Aviation. We were the brightest
and the best and those were the days when you "had
to be somebody" to work for an airline. I
am so sorry that those days are gone forever.
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Donn
Anderson
AVer@hawaii.rr.com
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I first hired on in a large group of new agents needed by
Bonanza Airlines during the great major carrier mechanics strike of 1966. After training, I was assigned to our little
ticket counter in the massive TWA terminal at LAX. What an experience! My next assignment was Station Trainer at LAX
for Bonanza. On the day the Air West
merger went into effect I was sent all by myself to BUR to be the DC-9 “expert”
on the ground for the arrival of the first West Coast Airlines jet at BUR. Of course, we had no idea where any of the
airplanes were on that day, or for weeks to come for that matter, and we could
hear the confusion down at LAX. When the
DC-9 finally arrived, the air stair door jammed. Something I had never seen before. What a fiasco!
During the early days of the merger, I was on the ticket
counter. What an experience! I used to get up in the morning, listen to my
airline scanner until I heard the first Airwest flight number, look to see how
late it was, and then go throw up! No
kidding, the abuse from the public every day was that bad. The only good news was we got to send people
from the ticket counter to the gate! In
those days we could bid and work all sorts of positions and I did everything a
station agent could do at LAX at one time or another. Even worked as a temporary fueler/cleaner
during a strike, a ground handler for Continental Airlines in SAN during
another strike, and got qualified as a flight attendant working one flight to
Calgary in anticipation of yet one more strike that never happened. Got a complimentary letter out of that
experience! During the Airwest days, I
was fortunate to be selected as one of the 7 Regional Trainers for the Stations
Department, still based in LAX. Each
month I got to visit 11 other stations and present the latest training
package. Still the best job I ever had!
Eventually the centralized Training Department was
dismantled and each department took over its own training needs. I was promoted to Manager of Stations
Training and transferred to SFO. Worked
out of the old Pacific General Offices until the spiffy new Hughes Airwest
offices opened in San Mateo. In 1975, I
went to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with the F-27 Project as the Administrative
Assistant for our pilot and mechanic families.
That was one of the greatest growing and stretching experiences of my
life! After Saudi Arabia, I returned to
the SMT GO until the Republic Merger. My
last position with Republic West was as Station Manger-SEA. I left Republic in 1981. I loved my 15 years in airline customer
service. But how the industry changed in
that period of time! The Hughes Airwest
years were absolutely wonderful!
For the last 21 years I have worked in a variety of church
related jobs…the first as pastor and director of a church owned swim, tennis
and fitness club! Just like airline
customer service, except the same “passengers” came back every day! Since 1998 I have been serving as pastor of a
wonderful little church by the name of Waipuna Chapel located in Upcountry Maui
on the Kula Highway at the 3,000 foot level of Haleakala.
My wife, Diane, and I have been married for 37 years. Two out of our three grown sons are married
and I had the tremendous privilege of being asked to perform their wedding
ceremonies. We have four wonderful
grandchildren. God is good!
If you are ever on Maui, look us up. I am the only Donn with
two “n’s” in the phone book! Mahalo nui
loa (thank you very much) Tom for this excellent website and Aloha ke Akua (God
bless) you all.
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Marilyn (Fiscalini) Anderson
retired2660@sbcglobal.net
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I started with Pacific Airlines 12/1/66 at the OLD wooden
hangar in SFO. I was very happy to see the NEW offices built, so I could
actually take off my coat while I worked and didn't have to listen to the
F-27's reving up their engines just outside my window!
I worked in Sales, Promotions and Stations. It was a
real pleasure to work for Eric Wilson and all the other sales people. You
probably remember Me as Marilyn Fiscalini.
In 1980 I left the airline due to an auto accident.
But, good does come from bad - I started my own company. I was President,
CFO, CEO and anything else that was needed. The company, Heavy
Equipment Parts, Inc. ran for a wonderful 21 years before my husband and I sold
it. It is still a very successful company.
We have had some fun along the way - including racing
Corvettes (I was women's champ for a few years in a row) and we are now into
boating. We have a Chris Craft 381 Catalina, and are really enjoying our
retirement. We boat in the Delta and SFO Bay. We live in Cameron
Park, CA. We will celebrate our 31st wedding anniversary May 2008.
Thank you, Tom for a wonderful website. Can't wait for
the Sept. reunion!
See you there.
Marilyn & Lynn Anderson
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Bob Andrews
rdandre1@earthlink.net
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I worked for Hughes Airwest in ONT from 1977. I am still with Northwest in ONT,
after being transferred from ONT-DTW (for 4 years) and then LAX for 8 years, and
now back in ONT.
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Kaki Androsuiuk
kaxter@cox.net
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Well, after my 5,000th PHX reunion, I figure it's
time to get on board. Many of you will remember me as Kaki Hauprich, but I've
been Kaki Androsiuk for 22 years (ssh--don't tell my husband about those early
years; he still thinks I needlepoint on overnights---Ha!!) I'm in my 36th year
of flying, based in Los Angeles flying Asia, Asia, and more Asia. My husband
Nick and I have a 16 yr.old son named Nicky. I now realize what "paybacks"
mean. Man alive, is this kid strong-willed or what?! I was LEC in Phx for the
flight attendant union (AFA) for over 10 yrs. When Phx closed I started what
has now become the Phx Flight Attendant Reunion. More of you should come---it's
always fun to see whose butt has spread more than your own. I'm very active with
Hopice of the Valley, doing volunteer work and scheduling the volunteers. Who
would have guessed that a good sense of humor would be appreciated among the
sick. I love it--definately keeps me grounded. I see myself at 75 still flying
and desperately trying to get down the aisle despite my widening girth. I still
love the job, and figure that as long as they make Depends, I'll be in
business. Thanx be to Tom for making this on-line reunion
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Jan
& Pepper Archambault
janarchambault@mindspring.com
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Jan
(Airwest 10-23-69) and Pepper (Hughes 06-?-76)
Archambault are still flying out of DTW. Pep
is on the A-320. We're living in Toledo. We
have a daughter, Allison. She is going to school
in Paris this year.
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Jim Arnone
rom22@cox.net
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Crew Scheduler in Phoenix from 1976 to 1985.
Left the company in late 1985 after transfer 6 months in MSP electing to reside
and work in Phoenix in another profession. Still in PHX . Don’t
plan on retiring for a while as I get bored easily. Currently working for
a pharmacy full time “piloting” a truck since 2000.
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Richard Artus
pileits@yahoo.com
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I hired on with Pacific Airlines in July of 1968, just as they were changing their name after the merger with WestCoast and Bonanza to AirWest. I went to work for Pacific in Monterey, Calif as a Station Agent. I had just gotten out of the Army there in Monterey at Ft. Ord. I felt I was pretty lucky even getting the job considering they hadn't hired someone off the street there in Monterey in many years. I just happened to be at the right place at the right time. As a "ramper" there in Monterey (MRY) I remember one night finally being allowed to park one of last lights for the night, a 727! As I guided the airplane to a stop I looked up at the Captain sitting there in his BIG jet thinking to myself, "I ought to THERE, rather then here on this ramp! I only stayed on with AirWest for just under a year when a life changing event caused me to look for work elsewhere, (United Airlines in Chicago) My aviation career took many twists and turns through a series of various aviation related jobs but ultimately I did my last 16 years in the Airline business with United Airlines retiring recently as Captain for United Airlines, what was another wonderful airline now doomed to failure.
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Claus M. (Nick)Assaturian
Mckrditch@aol.com
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