4560 Flightline Drive

EAA Chapter 765                  July 2006                           Kingman, AZ 86401

Without members coming together and taking on responsibility and giving of yourself in an area that is of interest to you our membership looses the opportunity and experience of working with you and getting to know you better.                                                         John Pool, President     

Hangar Note:

            I would like to remind everyone that the Hangar Coordinator, Gene Wolff, must be notified when you want to use the hangar.  Gene schedules all activity that concerns the hangar and will make sure you are taken care of.  Please, do not ask  Officers, Members, or Directors if you can use the hangar as this only causes confusion.   

            With the Zodiac project in process and other activities that take place there are tools, supplies, equipment, and other items that need to be respected.  Please ask if you need something to use or want to check out magazines as this will help in individuals not being offended and through a check list items will return.

            If you are free in the mornings the hangar is open from 7:00 am until 9:00 am for coffee and chat.  Sometimes there six or seven members and nonmembers enjoying the cool morning get together.  Come on out!!!!

(Fred Williams, a former  “long-distance” member from Texas, joined our Chapter because of his tour of duty in Kingman.  He wrote me a letter dated 6-22-2006 which I found so interesting I wanted to share with our Chapter. -  Editor)

Hi, Julia,

Thanks for the newspaper article about Don’s career. Although our paths did not cross, we were in the same areas at the same time.  I was also born in 1916 and entered the CPTP [Civilian Pilot Training Program] in Santa Monica and soloed off Mines Field in October 1942. This was followed by secondary and cross-country instruction courses under Waldo Waterman at Pasadena City College in Baker, California. After Baker I went to Mather field for Primary, Secondary and Advanced courses, Class of 43-C; then to Kingman, Arizona, from March 43 to March 45. Before I got married in March 1944, six of us were given a local and sat in a chair while the doctor removed our tonsils. One was a fellow pilot, Don Krug (B-17) who was employed before and after military at the Pasadena Star News.

Incidentally, I took my commercial cross-country from Baker to Prescott, Arizona, and return via Las Vegas and Kingman in 1942 while the base was under construction. After Kingman, I went to Bormquen Field, Puerto Rico, to fly C-47s in the Caribbean. Then on to Santa Maria to set up the ATOP program and instruct Primary, Commercial, ATP in a Fairchild PT-19, BT 13, Cessna T-50 and DC-3. Finally I changed over and became a Tax Consultant (enrolled to practice before the IRS) for 29 years. Also had a Fire & Casualty, Life and Disability License, Real Estate License and was a Licensed Agent to sell stocks, bonds and mutual funds. In this field I did quite well.

Now, I’m active in the New Braunfels EAA Chapter 499 and Austin Jazz Society. Our EAA Chapter meets on the second Saturday of the month from 10 am to noon. Then a bunch of us go to lunch for good hangar flying. I have been trying to get my EAA group to elect a Program Chairman. Our group has dwindled down from 75 to 35 members with an attendance of about 20. We are losing key members to relocation in other cities and we are having a hard time filling in these slots.

I am fine – looking forward to my 90^th birthday in November.   

                  Fred

                         EAA CHAPTER 765

CHAPTER OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS ELECTIONS

NOMINATING COMMITTEE

DUTIES AND ASSIGNMENTS

JULY 11, 2006

The nominating committee ( three min. ) shall perform the following:

1.          Prior to the October 10, 2006 regular meeting of EAA Chapter 765 the committee shall canvas the current Chapter Officers and Directors to determine if they wish to seek re-election to their current position or be nominated for any other position.  Canvas the members of all committees and groups to seek those who may be interested in an elected position.  Further, you are to make yourselves available to the Chapter Membership seeking any Chapter Members who may be interested and who are eligible to run for elected positions:

                         Chapter Executive Officers –

                     President

                             Vice-President

                       Secretary

                        Treasurer

                        Chapter Board of Directors –

                                                Class I Director:   Chapter President, Vice-Pres.,

                                                                         Secretary, and Treasurer.

                                                Class II Director:  Three (3) to Nine (9) additional

                                                                         Members.  Currently there are 5

                                                                         Class II Directors.

2.          At the October 10, 2006 Chapter Membership Meeting the Nominating Committee shall present to the membership the nominations they have obtained.  Open nominations will be accepted from the members at that time.

3.          Once all nominations have been received, a slate of nominees will be posted at the regular meeting place and published in the next November Chapter Newsletter.

4.          Elections of Chapter Officers and Chapter Directors will take place at the November 14, 2006 Chapter Membership Meeting.

           5.     All newly elected Chapter Officers and Chapter Directors shall assume

                     their responsibilities at the December 12, 2006 Chapter Membership

                    Meeting and Christmas Party.

John Pool, President

To Members of EAA CHAPTER 765:

            The Experimental Aircraft Association, Kingman Chapter 765’s purpose, as stated in our Bylaws, is to promote, encourage, and facilitate an atmosphere where all are welcome, that celebrates and nurtures participation, fosters safety and high standards in design, construction, and restoration, provides opportunities for education and recreation, and invites cooperation between the chapter and governmental agencies and private enterprises.  We support and promote the mission, vision, goals and objectives of the EAA through programs and services within the Chapter family.

            If you were to stand in the rotunda of the administration building at the Panama Canal, you could read a plaque engraved with the words of Teddy Roosevelt:

            “It’s not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done

             them better. 

 The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the

             arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives

             valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there

             is no effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually

             strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great

             devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at  the best

             knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the

             worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly.  So that  his

             place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither

             victory nor defeat.”

            Of the Panama Canal, author David McCullough, in The Path Between the Seas, wrote, “… no statistics on tonnage or tolls can begin to convey the grandeur of what was accomplished.  (It is) an expression of that old and noble desire to bridge the divide, to bring people together.”

Author Jeff Adams wrote in Building Success, “What happens when people work together for a common goal?  The impossible becomes more than possible – it becomes reality.  Common foes are defeated.  Opposition – from inside as well as outside – is overcome.” 

            The Purpose, Goals, Mission, Vision, and Objectives of our chapter can only become reality if we see them worthy of our involvement.  We are a service organization and we are at our best when we join together and serve others such as Young Eagles in hopes of planting a seed that nurtures and brings about an understanding of General Aviation in hopes that it fosters a passion such as we have for it. 

            My hope in sharing these thoughts with you is that it will help you to better understand how much your involvement is so needed in order for our chapter to continue to move forward and fulfill our purpose.

John Pool, President Chapter 765           

  AGENDA

EAA CHAPTER 765

Membership Meeting Agenda

Don Downie Memorial Hangar

July 11, 2006   7:00 p.m.

Meeting called to order:

John Pool, President

Welcome to Guests:

Harry May, Vice President

Secretary’s Report:

Dennis Macklin

Approval of Minutes

Treasurer’s Report:

Scott Brackett

Approval of Minutes

Old Business:

Web Site/Newspaper

Hangar Update

New Business:

Young Eagle Day Addition –

September 16^th –   Coordinator Needed!!

Airport Campground –

Program: 

Ideas Needed!!!!!

Next Meeting: 

August 15^th,   2006 - 7:00pm -

Motion of Adjournment

MANY OF YOU WILL WANT TO WATCH THIS AND SHOW IT TO YOUR "KIDS!" ALL PEOPLE INTERESTED IN FLYING WILL WANT TO VIEW AND REVIEW THIS 8-MINUTE MOVIE OF THE FLYING OF A SOPWITH CAMEL AND ALSO THE CAMEL AND A SPITFIRE IN FLIGHT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtprTL66-FY