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PIEDMONITOR
August/September, I973
The first passengers to leave the new Newark airport via Piedmont enjoyed cake and
coffee in colorful surroundings prior to boarding.
Checking in for the flight out Bruce Parrish, at left, was among the happiest
'passengers' to see Newark open for business. Eddie Jones, right, and Terry
Thomas worked the gate check-in that first day.
Party lor passengers marked Newark opening
Rather than presidents and vice presidents,
press and prima donnas Piedmont promoted the
opening of the new Newark International Air
port with a party for passengers.
Both the outbound and incoming travellers
were impressed, with the facility itself and with
Piedmont’s hospitality.
The first deplaning passenger, a ten year
old who flies with us frequently, paused at the
jetway entrance to audiably express his ap
proval. His “W-o-o-o-w!” went a long way
towards conveying the initial reactions of most
of the first day crowd.
For more than a week prior to the September
8 opening Tom Crouch, Eddie Jones, Bruce
Parrish and the enthusiastic EWR agents had
worked until midnight every night getting
ready for the big day. On the night before the
day of, they were still unpacking and settling
in at 4:00 a.m.
When the Flight 70 arrived there weren’t
any door knobs and all the escalators weren’t
working but unabashed smiles hid any imper
fections.
Terminal A, Satellite Two, Gates 25 and 26
are Piedmont’s part of the new Newark Air
port. The $400 million complex, which will
eventually have three terminals, all larger than
the old Newark facility, took ten years to build.
Along with Piedmont, Trans World, United
and Northwest were the first carriers to move
in to Terminal A. Terminal B was occupied by
Eastern, Allegheny, Delta, National, New York
Airways and American several weeks later.
Terminal C is scheduled for completion in
early 1976.
Among the Company personnel on hand for the opening day passenger party were, from
left, station manager Tom Crouch, director-operations planning Carroll Gambill, Pete
Lindsey and Lee Gaither.
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Stewardess Karen Thore, right, helped agent Mary Lang serve cake,
coffee and juice to the first outbound passengers.
A/lonager's sons are star ball players
The scene is all too typical.
In walks a smiling man with pictures,
clippings and a son who plays baseball. He’s
greeted with a series of muted groans.
One colleague leans over to another and
whispers: “Oh no, not again.”
Understandable. But if that proud father
happens to be Doug Guin, it may well be worth
your while to give a listen.
He has two ball-playing sons. But they’re
not typical — far from it.
One, at the age of 15, is the best hitter on
a Colt League all-star team that won the state
championship.
The other, a 13-year-old Pony Leaguer, took
matters a step farther. He’s not only the best
hitter but the best pitcher as well.
The older is Monty, the younger Greg.
And while their accomplishments are legion,
the boys did manage to cause a few problems
for Doug and his wife Jane.
As the boys’ teams advanced through the
various levels of tournament competition, they
wound up playing at the same time in different
cities.
As a solution of sorts Doug, who is also
president of the Warwick Moose Pony League,
followed Greg. Jane attended to Monty and the
Warwick Colt League.
Greg, who despite being a year younger
than most of his fellow all-stars still led the
league in every batting and pitching category.
he was nearly a one-man team .
A .533 hitter during the regular season,
he was the team’s most feared batsman. But
it was as a pitcher that the young southpaw
carried the Moose to a game away from the
Regional title.
In the District tourney, he won three of
the four team victories. In the State, he pitch
ed two out of three wins.
And in the Regionals in Greensboro, N. C.,
Greg finally lost a game but not before he
won two to put the Moose in the finals.
As for Monty, he was just the outstanding
batter in the entire state tournament while
playing outfield. He, like Greg, has been an
all-star since Little League days.
And don’t be surprised if Doug Guin comes
back next year with a whole new batch of
clippings and pictures.
It may be something you’re just gonna
have to get used to.
Doug Guin is Piedmont’s station manager
at Newport News, Virginia.
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Monty, Doug and Greg Guin