An AMA Gold Leader Club
March, 2002
No. 418
From the President,
Warren Barrick
The March 12th general membership meeting is the last
date for dues
collection without penalty. Make an effort to pay your
dues and avoid the
$10.00 late fee.
The March meeting will attempt to get our instructional
efforts off to a
good start. If you are new to the sport and the club,
it is a must that you
attend to sign up for instruction and to gain some specifics
about what will
be expected for you to "solo." VP Pat Taggart
and Joe Pasquini will have
important tips as well as schedules for dates of instruction.
Evening instruction will not begin until Daylight Saving
Time begins on
April 7th so sign up now so that you will be able to
avoid the rush. As
soon as favorable weather arrives, daytime and weekend
instruction will
begin. Get to know your instructor and maintain contact
with him so as to
speed your instructional process. Do not abuse your
relationship with your
instructor.
Experienced pilots are needed as instructors. Please
volunteer; remember we
need to give all the help we can to the novices. They
are the future of our
sport, our hobby.
Thanks to all that came to the Awards Banquet at the
Camelot on February
12th. We had a great meal and a lot of fun. We had
more than 90 in
attendance. Ron Strobel had a terrific video presentation,
"Going Up IV"
and as M.C., I was able to get in a few "zingers"
at several members. The
list of award recipients is elsewhere in this edition.
Ron Strobel has videos of past years' activities on
sale for $10.00. You
can also purchase this year's video for $5.00. Contact
Ron at Video Net
to make a purchase.
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KWIK CONNECTOR SAFETY
If you are a fan of Kwik Connectors, but have some reservation
about them
coming off the servo output arm, try this suggestion
sent by Sean Tolan, Del
Haven, New Jersey.
Sand the rounded side of the plastic retainer flat enough
so that when
snapped in place, a Sullivan safety connector clip can
be slid under to
retain it. Simple and easy, huh?
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ANNUAL BANQUET
by Dee Messina
If you missed our club banquet, you missed seeing a
great group of people
assembled as Americans do, just to further life as we
know it.
Aside from the good food and drink, we laughed with
each other, and at each
other. We honored past members and our present ones.
The club video 2001
is the best yet.
As a famous comic strip illustrator always said, "A
tip of the hat" to our
president, our committees and our membership. It all
works. It was a fine
time. Many thanks.
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TWO WIN DOUG DAVIDSON AWARD
Alex Primas and Metrus "Dee" Messina are the
2001 recipients of the "Doug"
Davidson Award, the most prestigious award offered by
the Valley Forge
Signal Seekers. At the Awards Banquet, Warren Barrick
cited these two
individuals as very worthy of their honor and "very
special" examples of
what good club citizens represent.
The late Frank Morris was awarded the Technical Achievement
Award. Two of
Frank's sons, Frank and Stephen, accepted the award
in their father's name.
Good Guy Awards were given to Joe Yalove, Sam Fitzgerald,
Harry Charnock,
Nathan Marks, John Bragitikos, and Carl Sutton.
Other awards and their recipients were as follows:
Britney Spears (Bellybutton) Award to Charley Swope
Lead Tailwheel and Saddam Hussein (No Fly Zone) Award to Jim Campana
#64 Rubber Band Awards to Mrs. "Jo" Klopp,
Mrs. Ellie Pasquini, Mrs. Al
Campana, Mrs Rom Boutin, Mrs Mike Estock, and Mrs. Pat
Taggart
Gourmet Lunch (Shore Dog) Award to Bob Dolan
Mr. Clean Award to Rick Bruce
Dawn Patrol to Sam Fitzgerald
Stormovik Award to Harry Charnock
Fireball Awards to Al Campana, Bud Klopp, Joe Pasquini, and Charlie Swope
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PAST RECIPIENTS OF THE
DOUGLAS DAVIDSON MEMORIAL AWARD
Presented to the Member of the Valley Forge Signal Seekers
for Outstanding
Services and Devotion to Club and Hobby:
1964 Dan McClain
1965 Joe Krush
1966 Bob Lamey
1967 Lou Laux
1968 Bob Lamey
1969 Norman Evans
1970 Fred Vankeuren
1971 Jack Salmon
1972 Tom Knerr
1974 Joe Weizer
1975 Joe Bouchard
1976 Joe McDermott
1977 Joe Weizer
1979 Jerry Cavanaugh
1980 Jerry Cavanaugh, Brent Sickles
1981 Bill English
1982 Martha D. Thomale
1983 J. Gilpin Allen, Donald W. Handley
1984 Jeff Troy
1985 Tom Kozel
1987 Fran Oli
1988 Don Klopp
1989 Dave Schlie
1990 Ed Casson
1992 Chuck Beelby
1993 Rom Boutin, Ed Snead
1994 Bob Suderman
1995 Chuck Karr, Walt Pierzchala
1996 Charles Swope
1997 Warren Barrick
1998 Joe Pasquini
1999 Al Campana
2000 Dennis DiBonaventura
2001 Alex Primas, "Dee" Messina
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NEWSLETTER ONLINE SEARCH
by Michael Myers
Good news! The online archives of the Hear Ye newsletter
is now searchable.
This means that you can look up that old article from
several years ago in
seconds.
Every Hear Ye from July 1995 to the present is stored
online, and the index
page now has a box at the top to type in what you are
looking for.
For example, if you want to install Fowler flaps on
that new plane, just
type "Fowler" into the text box, and up come
four articles including one by
Rob Caso from August 1995 and one by Russ O'Brien from
November 1998. Very
convenient.
You can look up who won the Doug Davidson award in 1997
(type in: davidson
1997), or even which newsletters have your name mentioned.
The search box
is a free service and another reason for kudos to the
internet.
To find this new tool, just go to the Official Signal
Seekers Home Page
and click
the link to the Hear
Ye newsletter.
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MARCH RAFFLE
by Joe Yalove
The following items are included in the March Raffle:
1. Craftsman 12-piece ratchet set USA
2. Craftsman 12-piece ratchet set METRIC
3. 4-piece precision mini pliers set
4. 4-piece mini-micro ratchet clamp set
5. 3-piece pliers set
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GREETING FROM ACROSS THE SEA
The following message was received by the membership
chairman. It lends
some insight into how far the Club's influence is felt.
Hi Rudy....
Regrettably I will not be renewing my membership for
2002. We have
transferred back to England and this is where I will
be for the foreseeable
future. I am sorry I have been so long in communicating
this but in the
move we "lost" our old email and have only
just got back on line.
I very much enjoyed my 3 years with the Club and am
particularly
appreciative of my long suffering, patient and calm
instructors, Jim Campana
first and then Frank Butta. Between them, they finally
managed to keep me
in the air long and competently enough to earn my wings.
I will miss the
beautifully situated flying field, the camaraderie and
helpfulness of the
members, and the great flying weather (compared to rainy
England).
I am not sure when I will ever get a chance to visit
Philadelphia, or Valley
Forge, again and my best wishes for the future to the
Club and its members.
Regards,
Peter Scott
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CLUB CALENDAR
Tuesday, March 12th -
General Membership meeting at the church at 8:00 PM.
Instruction Night: sign
up for instruction, meet your instructor, learn what
is needed to "solo."
Show-N-Tell, Raffle.
Membership renewal deadline!!!
Tuesday, April 2nd -
BOG Meeting at 7:00 PM.
Tuesday, April 9th -
General Membership meeting at the church.
Feedback or comments to:
Marilyn Ayres , HearYe editor
Michael Myers, Webmaster
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