photo counesy of Hugh Monon
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Piedmonfs Up-And-Coming Actors
Another winning team has
joined the ACC this year and its
players can be seen during every
televised game.
Piedmont employees are playing
throughout the Atlantic Coast
Conference basketball season on
television advertisements for the
airline. It's all part of Marketing's
new ad campaign designed espe
cially for the Chesley Sports
Network.
The nine SO second ads and one
60-second ad were made last fall
during a four-day filming in Win
ston Salem. They are also being
aired in selected markets and have
run as regular commercials featur
ing specific destinations.
In addition to the televised
games, Piedmont is also sponsor
ing a promotional called “The ACC
l.Q. Test." The grand prize winner
will receive four books of tickets to
the ACC Tournament , four round-
trip plane tickets to Washington,
D.C., from any Piedmont sched
uled departure point, and two
hotel rooms for four nights
(March 4 - 7). Ten first prize
winners will each receive a regula
tion college basketball, and 49
second prize winners will be
awarded a Piedmont flight bag.
Entry blanks are located at air
ports in ACC cities.
John Pogue. ROA and April
Brown
One of the celebrities in Pied
mont's new ads is Flight Attend
ant John Pogue.
"Lots of my buddies have seen
the ads,” Pogue, a Winston-Salem
native now stationed in Roanoke,
said, “and I've gotten good com
ments from people from my home
town.
"The production company peo
ple were just super to work with."
Pogue, who has been an attend
ant for one year, is the third
member of his family to fly with
Redmont. His father, now an exec
utive with McLean Trucking Com
pany, was a purser (flight attend
ant) from 1949-57. His sister,
Nancy Pogue Livengood, is a flight
attendant stationed in Winston-
Salem.
The young girl who appears in
the ads with Pogue is April Brown,
niece of CRO Supervisor Linda
Wilhelm.
Top: Phillip Hale. Avionics, with
camerman. Left: Riley Carpenter.
Line Maintenance. Above: Keith
Varner and Ed Rucinski, both in
Sheet Metal.
a feather in Piedmont's cap
The film “The Hawk and John
McNeely," sponsored by Piedmont,
has been awarded the CINE
Golden Eagle, the highest honor to
be given to a non-theatrical mo
tion picture in the United States.
The film is now part of the official
U.S. entry in foreign film festivals
this year.
Stars of the film made at Grand
father Mountain (North Carolina)
are hang-glider pilot John McNeely
and his red-tailed hawk. Portions
of the film have been shown on
the television shows “Good Morn
ing America," "David Brinkley;
NBC Magazine," and “PM Maga
zine" nationally. Smithsonian
Magazine will feature McNeely in
an upcoming issue, and the Janu
ary issue of PACE Magazine also
has a story on McNeely's accom
plishments with the hawk.
The hawk, who lived with
McNeely and flew with him when
he hang-glided, reverted to the
wild shortly after the film was
completed. McNeely now has
another red-tailed hawk he has
named “Piedmont," in honor of
our airline, and may train him for
hang-gliding this summer. A teen
ager found the new hawk near
his parents' chicken coop, weak
and injured. He brought the young
bird to McNeely who has been
nursing him back to health. He
plans to use Piedmont in lectures
to try and give people an apprecia
tion for the bird.