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VOL. IX, NO. 6
THE BEST WAY TO TRAVEL — ALL OVER PIEDMONTLAND
JULY, 1967
Sales Department
Names New Managers
Piedmont Airlines has an
nounced the appointment of Vin
cent Dieringer as New York
Area Sales Manager.
A native of Cedarhurst, New
^^ork, Dieringer attended Florida
j^^outhern University following
four year tour of duty with
the U. S. Air Force.
Prior to joining Sabena Bel
gian World Airlines in 1958 Die
ringer worked in the control de
partment of Pan American
World Airways. At Sabena Die
ringer served as a sales repre
sentative, manager of the New
York telephone sales department
and special projects manager for
North America.
Mrs. Dieringer is the former
Loretta Lusk of Bluefield, West
Virginia. They have two daugh
ters.
Dieringer’s sales territory for
Piedmont will include the met
ropolitan New York area and
New England.
Coiner — ORF
Norman A. Coiner has been
named City Sales Manager for
^-Norfolk, Virginia.
A native of Newport News.
Virginia, Coiner graduated from
the public schools there and at
tended the NASA Apprentice
School — Instrument Research
Division.
A former transportation spe
cialist for the Air Transport As
sociation’s Military Bureau, Coin
er also served as a special mili
tary representative for the Bu
reau.
Prior to joining the AT A
Coiner was an agent for Pied
mont at Newport News and Ft.
Eustis. He was City Sales Man
ager for Piedmont at Raleigh-
Durham, and Tri Cities.
Mrs. Coiner is the former
Billie Jean Davis who was Su
pervisor of Stewardess Training
for Piedmont Airlines. They
have two children.
Mr. Coiner’s territory will in
clude Norfolk, Virginia Beach.
Newport News, Portsmouth.
Virginia and Rocky Mount and
Elizabeth Citv. North Carolina.
Forsyth — DCA
William A. Forsyth has been
appointed Sales Representative
for the District of Columbia. He
is working with “Bud” Halsey,
Piedmont’s District Sales Man
ager in Washington.
Forsyth is a native of Pem
broke, Massachusetts. He attend
ed the United States Naval
Academy at Bainbridge, Mary
land before joining the Navy in
1962.
Prior to joining Piedmont,
►Forsyth was a ticket agerit with
Eastern Airlines in Washington.
He also worked at the State De-
partment Combined Airline
Ticket Office.
Forsyth is a member of the
Washington Interline Club, the
Washington Board of Trade and
the Airline Traffic Association.
Vincent Dieringer
NYC
Norman Coiner
ORF
Bill Forsyth
DCA
Accounting Personnel
Take Over New Jobs
Jerry Hines
Hines Is Named
Supervisor of
Stewardess Training
Piedmont Airlines has an
nounced the appointment of
Jerry G. Hines as Supervisor of
Stewardess Training.
A native of Concord, North
Carolina, Hines graduated from
the public schools there and at
tended the Weaver Airline Per
sonnel School in Kansas City,
Missouri, where he graduated in
1961.
Hines joined Piedmont as a
flight attendant based in Wash
ington, D. C. in 1961. He trans
ferred to W’inston-Salem in 1963.
Mrs. Hines is the former Te
resa Jacobs of Kannapolis, North
Carolina. They have two chil
dren.
In his new position Hines
joins Audry Nicholson in , the
training of all Piedmont steward
esses.
Audree F. Long, as Chief Ac
countant, has assumed the re
sponsibility for all accounting
functions under the direction of
T. W. Morton, Controller and
Secretary of the Company. The
supervisors of the general ac
counting, revenue accounting,
cost accounting and billing and
collections sections are now re
porting to long. He continues
to supervise the payroll activi
ties.
Jack G. Walker has transfer-
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Annual Reporf for '66 Wins Award
Piedmont Aviation, Inc., has
again received an award of
Merit from Financial World
Magazine’s Annual Report Sur
vey.
The award is in recognition
of the excellence of Piedmont’s
1966 annual report to sharehold
ers selected on the basis of con
tent, design and typography
from among more than 5,000
entries in the Financial World
Twenty-Seventh Annual Report
Survey conducted during 1967.
By this achievement Pied
mont’s annual report becomes
eligible for consideration for an
Oscar-of-Industry trophy, results
of which will be announced by
the magazine in September.
The design and typography of
Piedmont’s 1966 annual report,
was done by Piedmont’s adver
tising agency, Liller, Neal, Battle
A. T. C. Celebrates
25th Anniversary
The 25th Anniversary of the
founding of the Air Force Air
Transport Command will be
marked by a reunion dinner to be
held on Friday, October 6th, in
the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in
New York. Five hundred former
A.T.C. officers are expected to
attend.
Lieut. General Harold L.
George (Ret.), A.T.C.’s wartime
commander, will be a co-chair
man of the anniversary with
C. R. Smith, his deputy com
mander, now board chairman of
American Airlines. The anniver
sary committee will include lead
ers from the worlds of aviation,
industry, the professions, and
government.
A.T.C.’s long roster of cele
brated alumni includes former
Senator Barry Goldwater; form
er Governors William W. Scran
ton and Samuel P. Goddard, Jr.;
United States Ambassadors An
gler Biddle Duke, William Mc
Cormick Blair, and Graham Mar
tin.
The Air Transport Command’s
global operations during World
War II included ferrying over
300,000 U. S.-manufactured air
craft to every warfront.
Former A.T.C. officers desir
ing to attend should contact:
Gordon A. Rust, Wesley Adver
tising, 630 Fifth Avenue, New
York, N. Y. 10020. '
and Lindsey of Atlanta, Georgia.
This is the fifth consecutive
year that Piedmont has received
the award.
Audree F. Long
m
red from Data Systems to be
come the Supervisor of General
Accounting. The Accounts Pay
able function, headed by Win
fred A. Fishel, and all other
general accounting activities, ex
cept payroll, which were form
erly under the supervision of
Long are now under the super
vision of Walker.
Rilla M. Gregg has been nam
ed the Assistant to Corporate
Secretary and is responsible for
certain corporate secretarial ac
tivities of the Company.
Jack Walker
I
Rilla Gregg
Winfred Fishel
Airline Pilots Try Out
The New Boeing 737
Pilots from 16 of the 19 air
lines which have ordered the
737 flew the new Boeing twinjet
in Seattle recently during an all
day demonstration at Boeing
Field.
Brien Wygle, assistant direc
tor of flight operations for Boe
ing and 737 project pilot, was in
the cockpit for the seven one-
hour flights.
“I took two or three pilots
with me each trip,” Wygle said.
“Each of the 18 pilots had a
good chance to become acquaint
ed with our newest jetliner.”
The operation was much like
the work the short-range jet
transport will face when it is
delivered to the airlines late this
year. Designed for numerous
takeoffs and landings, the 737
completed more than 30 during
the day. A number of takeoffs
were made with a simulated
failure of one of the two engines.
Landings were the touch-and-go
type. Some were made using
instrument approaches. Wygle
said each pilot had the oppor
tunity to land and take off at
least once.
The pilots were unanimous in
their praise of the 737. “They
particularly were pleased with
its excellent handling qualities,
cockpit simplicity and systems
such as cabin pressurization,”
Wygle said.
Wygle added that they also
were impressed with the 737’s
new control wheel system when
flying in the autopilot mode. “It
is just one of many features
which simplifies the work in the
cockpit and makes it possible to
devote more attention outside
the airplane.”
“They gave the aircraft a
good workout which included
stalls with various flap set
tings,” Wygle said.
The Boeing-owned ' number
one 737 was used for the flights.