March/April, 1979 f^ieafTwafJirae page five Meanwhile, back at the CRO, Nashville Sales Manager Jim Sheats was promoting Tennessee Day. Highlighting the festivities was a Dolly Parton Look-a-Like contest. That's General Manager Walt Ryczek enjoying personal greetings from “Dolly P." Sheats. Swissair and Massport recently sponsored a tour of Switzerland to promote our new direct service to Boston. Piedmont participants included, from left, Ginny Digirolamo, Amy Chatman, Teri Newby, Debbie Thompson, Lois Atkinson, Jackie Truell, Ed Laskowski, Peg Baltes, Ricky Hartgrove, Judy Zachary, Diana Goolsby (front), Linda Wilhelm, Laverne Rehder, Diane Barker, Bob Wallace of Swissair and Jim Beck. Long Lines (continued from page four) Familiar faces in new places Don’t count on seeing the same faces in the same places out on Piedmont’s system these days. Faces, places and titles are changing. Piedmont captains Jim Sifford, left and Gene Sharp, center, recently attended a 727 flight operations sym posium at Boeing in Seattle. They are shown here chatting with Boeing flight test pilot Tom Twiggs. Among the recent changes are Larry Brooks, from station manager at O’Hare to assistant director-inflight services in Winston-Salem. Allen Perry has moved to Winston as staff assistant to the vice president-passenger ser vices. He had been station manager at Raleigh- Durham. Parkersburg’s Jim Birthisel has be come manager-customer services at Charleston, West Virginia. H. L. Giles is moving from Knox ville to become station manager at Lewisburg. On May 1, S. K. Douglass from Columbus becomes station manager at Nashville. V. T. Dotson will assume the responsibilities of man ager-customer services at Nashville. Jeannie Dial has moved from station manager at Lewis burg to station manager at O’Hare. Milt Ward became station manager at Raleigh-Durham, moving from the same position at Charlottes ville. Dan Berry has left the station manager’s post at New Bern to become station manager at Charlottesville. Johnny Lawrence has moved from Bluefield to Shenandoah as station man ager. Phyllis Highsmith has been named manager- reservations sales at the Central Reservations Office in Winston-Salem. She had been manager- customer services at O’Hare. Eddie Jones at LaGuardia has been promoted from area manager to division manager. His stations now include LaGuardia, Boston, New ark Pittsburgh, Chicago, Washington-National, Baltimore, Dulles and Shenandoah. Since the Company’s need for coordination with governmental agencies became less import ant with the passage of the Airline Deregula tion Act of 1978, our office of governmental affairs in Washington has been closed. 0. E. “Bud” Halsey, who managed that facility since its establishment in 1977, has been reassigned to Winston-Salem headquarters as manager- cargo sales. He reports to Vice President-Mar- keting W. G. McGee. Halsey is coordinating cargo sales efforts with the cargo department to assure continued growth in this area of the Company’s operation. Sales personnel changes include Mary Kost being promoted to city sales manager in Nash ville. She had been sales representative in Chicago. Joe Grant has been promoted to dis trict sales manager in Miami from city sales manager in Wilmington. Jim Sheats has moved from Nashville city sales manager to district sales manager for Dallas/Ft. Worth. Fred Sheets has moved from city sales manager in Cincinnati to be city sales manager for Tampa/ St. Petersburg. The maintenance department has announced the appointment of J. L. Konkle to the newly- created position of maintenance coordinator in Winston-Salem. The fifth annual Piedmont basketball tournament was held in Roanoke the latter part of March. The INT-CRO team won the single-elimination event which had 12 teams participating. The winners were, first row from left, Tony Wright, Pierce Swing and Doug Shell. On the back row are Mike Bowen, Jimmy Mitchell, John Michael and Gene Cox. Clearing house elects Bates The Airlines Clearing House, Inc., which now settles about $600 million monthly in billings among its 155 members and associate mem bers, has named new officers. Piedmont’s Forest G. Bates is vice president. R. B. Klinke of United is president and ATA’s C. H. McCall was re elected secretary-treasurer. March flight attendant graduates included, in the usual order, Robert Casey, February flight attendant graduates included, left to right, Barbara Graham, Lyn Smith, Barbara Sudduth, Thomas Martin, Jacqueline Daniels, Patricia Halpin, Elizabeth Debbie Tanner, Sharon Shepherd, Leslie Gilley, Debbie Allen, Sheryl Hawkins, Pam Mc- Story, Katherine Arnold, Jan Williams, Ann Ricks, Helen Turner, Charlotte Riggs, Kinney, Debbie Johnson, Jack Hutchins, Jean Dennison, Chuck Cannaday, Brenda Innes, Betty Copenhaver, Maureen Guertin, Susan Wall, Phyllis Mebane, Nicholas Perez, Donna McGee, Cynthia, Perry, Leisa Withers, Terry Hamby, Denise Smith, Linda Lezeska”, Katharine Dempsey, Deborah Grizzard and Kim Stewart. and Billy Scott.