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Long lines
Since Piedmont’s long lines were one of, if not the
most successful of our inodes of communication, we
thought a column by the same name might be a good
way of mentioning some of the small, but newsy things
of interest that go on around the system. Any con
tributions you might have will be more than welcome.
Address them to the Editor, Piedmonitor, INT-213.
“You really showed the U.S. trunk airlines
how to play golf,” said Airline Executive
magazine editor Joe Murphy in his letters of
congratulation to Piedmont’s Joel Gibson and
Joe Moorefield.
Gibson and Moorefield were the grandprize,
number one, big winners in the 1977 World Air
line Golf Tournament.
The 12th annual tournament was held at
the Rose Hall Intercontinental Course in
Montego Bay, Jamaica. There were 38 teams
representing airlines from all over the world
in tne best-ball event.
Gibson and Moorefield scored 68-69-137 to
give them a four stroke win over the next two
teams who were from TWA and Pan Am.
In addition to the trophy, pictured at right,
the men were awarded championship blazers
from Hart-Schaffner & Marx. They’ll be wearing
those blazers for the 1978 tournament this fall.
They’ll go to New Guinea to defend their title.
Winning golf trophies has become the nicest
sort of habit for Gibson and Moorefield. In 1976
and in 1975 they won first place among all the
regional carriers in the world tournament. And
we’ve simply lost count of the number of times
they’ve won the annual Piedmont golf tourney!
If you’d be interested in practicing with
some real winners, Gibson is based in Wilming
ton and Moorefield is in Winston-Salem.
Jobs and titles change
A number of changes in jobs and titles have
been announced recently. New appointments
in the General Aviation Group C. E. Culler being
appointed director — aircraft services. He is
responsible for the aircraft maintenance,
avionics service and propeller service shops. R.
0. Earnhardt is now manager — aircraft main
tenance. J. W. Cox is manager — avionics
service. C. F. Wiesner is manager — propeller
service and V. L. Widner is assistant manager
— propeller service.
In airline maintenance, J. W. Johnson is now
director of power plant performance and
analysis. G. A. Reynolds was named director
Shenandoah manager Bob Stepp was given a special
plaque at the July service pin luncheon. In addition to
recognizing Stepp's 25 years of service, Davis noted
Stepp has worked those 25 years without missing «
single day, a quarter of a century's worth of perfect
attendance!
World champs Joel Gibson, left, and Joe Moorefield, right, received their tremendous golf trophy from Airline
Executive editor Joe Murphy.
of maintenance — INT and A. A. Lenderman
was appointed director of avionics.
Russell Godfrey has been appointed super
visor of the mailroom and print shop in addi
tion to his regular responsibilities as a buyer.
Beech award winners
Piedmont Aviation, Inc. was well represented
at the annual awards banquet at the Beechcraft
International sales meeting in October.
Joe Culler, L. P. Stevenson, Jerry Supple and
J. H. Rinehart won Million Dollar Sales Awards.
Beechcraft Executive Sales Blue-Coat Awards
went to Joe Culler and J. H. Rinehart.
Piedmont Aviation, Inc. won the Walter E.
Beech Memorial Award for having sold the
third highest dollar volume within our mar
keting area.
Piedmont also won the drawing to determine
who would purchase the classic 10,000th Bo
nanza. The classic plane with a Rolls Royce
interior that includes gold plate belt buckles is
Piedmont’s to sell to some lucky collector!
Annual report wins award
Piedmont Aviation, Inc.’s 1976 annual report
received a merit award in Financial World
magazine’s 37th annual report awards competi
tion.
Stockholder reports of companies from more
than 60 difi'erent industries are judged for
essential and appropriate information, journa
listic excellence of text and efi^ectiveness of
design and typography in the annual competi
tion.
Help cure a ham’s problem
The problem is contacts. The hams want
more.
Raleigh/Durham agent Carl Crumley has
been working on organizing an interline radio
club. They’ve named their group the Interna
tional Association of Airline Hams. So far
they have about 110 members representing 21
airlines in 33 cities and 10 countries. At least 15
of the members are Piedmont employees.
They’re publishing a newsletter which in
cludes an updated membership roster and have
an interesting approach to funding. It seems
they occasionally ask for a dollar contribution
to the postage fund. It all sounds abundantly
reasonable.
If you’re interested in joining, contact Carl
H. Crumley (N4VD), 512 N. Harrison Ave.,
Cary, N. C. 27511, area code 919—467-8530.
TOPS — it’s not a diet
It is an award for Total Outstanding Pas
senger Services to be presented every two
months to an employee who performs customer
services above and beyond the normal call of
duty.
The TOPS employee will be chosen by a
panel of company employees. Generally, the
election will be based on customer letters. How
ever, management and supervisory personnel
may also write letters recommending employees
for this honor.
Letters will be considered during the month
they are received. Those which come in after
the last day of the month will be carried over
for consideration during the following month.
Winners of the bi-monthly awards will
receive five shares of Piedmont stock and a
plaque.
A winner for the annual outstanding
customer services award will be selected from
TOPS winners chosen during the year. The Sep
tember through December, 1977 winners will
be included for consideration with the 1978 win
ners. The actual annual award has not been
determined.
The initial panel who will select the TOPS
winners includes Pete Van Duser — manager
The September flight attendant graduates assumed a
familiar pose, on the plane steps, for their group picture.
They are, from left, Janice Kreuzburg, Debra Buff, Linda
Kite, Adelaide Davis, Vivian Nelson and Cindy Edmond
son.