The Up-And-Coming Airline
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people & places
Jim Beck, station agent, DFAV,
has been elected second vice presi
dent of the Dallas/Fort Worth
Interline Club. The club has ap
proximately 1,000 members in the
Dallas area.
Betty Butner J\ '
Betty Butner, CRO assistant
supervisor, spent two months this
fall as Piedmont's I^oaned Execu
tive for the 1980 United Way
Campaign in Winston-Salem. She,
along with 12 other executives,
helped raise more than
S3,501,444. Four major firms for
which she was solely responsible
went over their goals by more
than 50 percent: The Bahnson
Company (76.6 percent), Fairchild
Industries (54 percent), Hanes Dye
and Finishing (277 percent), and
Piedmont Publishing (71.6 per
cent). Several accounts she shared
also had major increases in giving.
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Contributions by employees to
the 1980 United Way Campaign in
Winston-Salem were up 16 per
cent over 1979, according to Bob
Wall, Maintenance and Engineer
ing, Piedmont's campaign chair
man.
Employees contributed
$65,385.14, almost $9,000 more
than the previous year. Mainte
nance led all departments in total
giving with over $20,000 in contri
butions followed by CRO with
almost $16,000. Marketing, Pied
mont Fabricators. Accounting, and
Data Services experienced the
greatest percent increases over a
year ago.
Other campaign committee
members included Diana Goolsby,
co-chairman, CRO: Bill Lee, 1981
chairman. Charter and Conven
tion Sales: Diane Beeker, CRO:
and Bill Spencer, CRO.
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Piedmont was a major sponsor
of an exhibit on flight held recent
ly at the Nature Science Center in
Winston-Salem. A collection of air
craft scale models, a Curtiss OX-5
propeller engine and a radio tuned
into the conversation from the
Airport Control Tower were among
the items the company exhibited.
The recent movie Piedmont spon
sored featuring the hang-glider
pilot and his trained hawk was
also on loan to the Center. Sheri
Folger and Ed Albertson, both in
Marketing, were responsible for
arranging the exhibit.
Piedmont is featured in the De
cember 1980 issue oiAirline Execu
tive in a stoiy entitled "How Conser
vative, Frugal Piedmont Boosts
Profits Under Deregulation." Presi
dent Tom Davis is pictured on the
cover of the magazine holding a
model of Piedmont's 737.
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The G. Lynn Nisbit Award for
contribution to travel promotion
and development was awarded to
Piedmont at the annual meeting
of the Travel Council of North
Carolina recently.
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Anna Bailey, flight attendant
supervisor, INT, was featured in
an article in the Winston-Salem
Sentinel recently. The stoiy em
phasized the intensive schooling
Piedmont flight attendants receive
in order to be prepared for medi
cal emergencies.
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Tarheel Aviation, a new publica
tion out of Fayetteville, NC, will
feature Piedmont in its first issue
which is scheduled for publication
Wallace Kerr, station manager,
BWI, has been elected president of
the Southern Maryland Nu-Voice
Club, a self-help rehabilation pro
gram for laryngectomees and their
families supported by the Ameri
can Cancer Society. A laiyngecto
mee is a person who has had the
larynx, or voice box, removed sur
gically, thus permanently losing
the ability to speak normally. The
club seeks to help new laryngecto
mees by example and by offering
encouragement.
Roy
~ook
Westbrook
Old Hickory Council of the Boy
Scouts of America has named Roy
Westbrook, maintenence supervi
sor, INT, chairman of the 1981
Scouts Jamboree to be held July
29-August 4 at Fort A. P. Hill,
Virginia. Approximately 30,000
scouts and leaders from around
the nation will be attending the
seven-day event. Westbrook will
appoint the jamboree committee
and preside over selection of the
jamboree leaders. In addition, he
will serve as a staff leader at the
jamboree and a commissioner for
the southeastern region. The jam
boree theme is “Scouting Reunion
with History." Last year West
brook, who has been very active in
scouting for 11 years, received the
Silver Beaver Award from the Old
Hickory Council. It is the highest
award given by any council in
recognition of outstanding service
to youth and community.
Mark Your Calendar!
Carelities' summer Olympics is
tentatively scheduled for Saturday,
May 30, at Wake Forest University
in Winston-Salem. Details to be
announced in the April
Piedmonitor.
Thanks to INT employees, 110
needy families — over 400 people
— had a brighter Thanksgiving
holiday last year. Thousands of
items of food and over $1300 in
cash were donated by employees
from every department. The cash
bought turkeys and traditional
trimmings plus additional canned
items. The drive was coordinated
by Sunnie Cram, Marketing.
A guardhouse is being con-
stnacted and additional fencing is
being added around the Winston-
Salem offices to make the parking
area less accessible to outsiders.
"We re-evaluated security needs
in light of the security problems
employees have recently encoun
tered in our parking area," Dennis
O'Madigan, director of security,
said, “and decided to increase
security measures."
A fence is being built around
the entire perimeter of the park
ing area, O'Madigan explained,
and the guards' station will be
moved from inside the building to
a new guardhouse close to the
perimeter. Two close-circuit televi
sion cameras and patrolling
guards have been added to provide
additional protection for employ
ees and their vehicles.
In January, a local television
station showed film clips on its
news program of a house fire. The
family—two adults and three
children—were left homeless, the
parents, unemployed. The next day
a campaign began at CRO to offer
assistance. Over 600 dollars (one
from each employee) and several
boxes of canned goods were col
lected for the family.
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On Tuesday, January 20, CRO
was decked out in ribbons to
honor the returning hostages.
Each of the 600 employees wore a
yellow ribbon armband, and 52
trees around the building were
also wrapped with ribbon. Televi
sion Station WXII featured the
office and its employees on the
evening news program.
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Piedmont provided free trans
portation between any points on
its system to any of the 52 former
hostages requesting flights. The
offer was valid for 30 days follow
ing their return to the United
States, January 25.
In making the announcement
President Tom Davis said, "We
share, at Piedmont, the gratitude
of Americans of all walks of life
that the ordeal of these fine citi
zens and military personnel has
ended. We want their return to be
welcomed as warmly and gener
ously as we can."
The Piedmont Winston Salem
Chapter of the National Associa
tion of Accountants recently won
the NAA Presidents' Award for its
outstanding service to its mem
bers. It was the third time in the
past five years the chapter has
received the award. Members from
Piedmont's financial and corpo
rate services division include Jim
Browne, John Hoffmann, J.C. Jones,
Audree Long, and Dick Jennings.
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Flight Attendant Beverly Osborn,
INT, recently took top honors at a
regional AAU Masters Swim Meet
held in Oakridge, Tennessee. She
took first place in the 50-yard and
100-yard backstroke, second place
in the 200-yard backstroke, and
placed in several other events.
More than 200 people competed in
the east coast meet. Last August
Osborn, who was a part-time
agent in CRO before becoming a
llight attendant in December, re
ceived several medals in the Na
tional AAU Masters Swirir Meet
lield in Santa Clara, California.
Osborn graduated from East Caro
lina University, where she was on
a swimming scholcirship her
senior year.
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Harry Bradshaw, a pilot stationed in
Roanoke, and his wife Wanda were
recently chosen Roanoke County Foster
Parenis of the Year.
For 13 years, the couple has taken more
than 45 foster children into their home
and raised them as their own. whether
they've been abandoned, abused, or In
trouble with the law. Most of the children
stay only a few months bejore permanent
homes are found. Bui the Bradshaws
have cared for children as old as 16. and
they are raising a seven year-old boy who
has been with ihem since birth.
"We've just thoroughly enjoyed it." the
Bradshaws said. "The children give as
much io us as we give to Ihem."
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photographer on hand for special
events when given ample notice.
Deadline for the April issue is
March 25.