First issue LAS Airways Retirees Newsletter February 2018

The No Name Yet News

What’s in the air ?

Well, we’re cleared for take-off
Welcome to the first of
what we propose/hope will
be many newsletters for
members of the
new/reformed LAS Airline
Retirees group.
This first newsletter nec-
essarily is a slim volume
because of the speed with
which our group was
birthed and formed after a
declaration of independ-
ence from our earlier asso-
ciation with the American
Airlines Vanguards.
Indeed, our primary, per-
haps only item of news in
The No-Name News?
We believe our members
should determine the name of
THEIR newsletter. So we’re
asking for suggestions. What
do we call it? Email ideas to
Bernard Hunt at
chatachak@gmail.com.
this inaugural issue is a call
to the first official plenary
(that means of all mem-
bers) meeting.
That meeting will be at 1
p.m., Tuesday, March 13, at
Total Wine & More, 601 N.
Stephanie Street in Hender-
son. Total Wine has gener-
ously made a room avail-
Datebook
able for us. (Please patron-
ize this good company details
whenever you need to buy
Where: Total Wine and More,
wines or spirits.)
Stephanie Street Power Center,
First item on the agenda 601 N. Stephanie St., Hender-
at that meeting is to en- son, NV 89014
dorse/confirm (or reject)
the seven people who When: Tue.sday, March 13,
founded this group and from 1 p.m.to 3 p.m.
appointed themselves its
steering board. Why: First meeting of the new/
Next, we will hold an elec- reformed LAS Airline Retirees
Asn.; to discuss and formulate
tion for two new board the way forward; elect board
members so that body can members/directors of the new
have an optimum operating organization; to express your
ideas on what kind of a group
number of nine. we should have; and to shoot
See TAKE-OFF on Page Two the breeze with old friends.

Board members? Where’d they come from?

This new group was formed and retir-
Board members are a necessary evil in ees flocked to the ranks. At last report,
any well-functioning group: Someone we have more than 70 members.
actually has to do the work. The Gang of Seven will submit them-
This new organization had its birth in a selves for endorsement at the first mem-
chat by seven airline friends about their bers meeting on March 13.
concerns with Vanguards and why HP Marilee Howell Dan Shumate But who are they?
and US retirees increasingly were aban-
the Gang of Seven appointed themselves They are: Dan Shumate; Marilee How-
doning that group. ell; Katherine Nowicki; Lynda Carlson;
an action force and declared independ-
The chat led to a breakfast gathering to Gloria Schellhase; Bernard Hunt and
ence from Vanguards on behalf of all
discuss how to fix the concerns. The con- Penny Bensyl.
disaffected retirees from America West
clusion was that they couldn’t. And so See BOARD on Page Two
and US Airways.