As previously advertised, we have been afforded a great opportunity to gather and tour on the USS Hornet in Alameda. We need to have your RSVP by 1200 Sunday July 17^th (next Sunday!). If you would like a box lunch, please specify your preference from the choices below and respond to Curt Taylor at curt@taylorsinpv.com by the RSVP deadline.

Date: 21 July 2022

Time: 1230

Location: 707 Hornet Avenue, Pier 3, Alameda

Box lunch charge: $10

Suggested donation to USS Hornet Air and Space Museum: $20 (check can be made out to same)

Sandwich meat choices: Beef/Ham/Chicken/Turkey/Pastrami

Bread Choices: White/Wheat/Rye

Drink Choices: Coke/Pepsi/Ginger Ale/7 UP/Water

            If you desire a diet soda, please so indicate.

Lunches will include potato salad and a bag of chips.

Family and friends invited!

Many thanks to our docent hosts Allan Cartwright and Tony Schoemehl

RSVP: Curt Taylor (Paul is taking a break) at curt@taylorsinpv.com by 1200 Sunday 17 July!

We are pleased to announce that we will be making another run at a Wallybird Luncheon at the Fairview Metropolitan Banquet Facility on Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 1130.

We have been advised that due to Oakland City ordinances, ONLY fully vaccinated guests will be allowed in and you must present your vaccination card and a photo ID.

This will be a very important meeting as we will be discussing the future of our luncheons as well as the Wallybird website. Now that Dick Deeds has “gone West”, we don’t have anyone to maintain the site, and it is on life support even now. Please come and be part of the conversation about where we go from here

With regard to our luncheon venue at the FM, we have been well served by them, but the cost has increased $3 per person to $28 per person just since last July, so we can no longer break even at $30 after tax and tip. We are offering this lunch at $30 and will dig into our reserves for tax and tip. It may be that we can find a place more suitable for our numbers, such as a buffet with a meeting room, or a place with large tables where everyone just pays individually. Be thinking about places that might fit the bill and feel free to do some recon.

Where: Fairview Metropolitan Golf Course
10051 Doolittle Drive, Oakland, CA 94063
(next to Oakland International)

When: Thursday, 21 April 2022 1130-1400

Menu: House Green Salad, Broccoli Salad, Roasted Vegetables, Oven Roasted Potatoes, Salmon with Bernaise Sauce, Tri-Tip with Red Wine Sauce, Dinner Rolls with Butter, Coffee, Decaf, Hot Tea, Water, Chef’s Choice Dessert.

Other beverages are available at the adjacent bar. 

Cost: $30 per person

Please RSVP to BOTH Paul Browne (pjbro@sbcglobal.net) AND Curt Taylor (curttaylor@sbcglobal.net) by 1200 Monday 18 April 2022.

Frank Mayne is recovering from a stroke he suffered last year and is in a care facility in the East Bay. He would love for you to call him on his room phone at 925-954-1455.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

As we had suspected, we are having to cancel the April luncheon due to the shelter at home order being extended. So stay hunkered down and we’ll see you in July (hopefully) with your stories of how you survived the Pandemic of 2020. Maybe we can start a photo gallery of new ways you’re finding to entertain yourself. Stay tuned and stay healthy!

Feel free to reach out to us:

Curt Taylor

curt@taylorsinpv.com

Paul Browne

pjbro@sbcglobal.net

HI All,

Paul and I just wanted to let you know that due to the current pandemic restrictions, our April 16th luncheon may be in jeopardy. We’ve been in touch with the Fairview, and they are shut down until April 8th. As nobody yet knows the direction this will take, we’ll just have to hold the 16th loosely until we have a better idea in a few weeks.

In the meantime, stay hunkered down under your dining room tables and wash your hands, lots! We all are in the age group where we are at higher risk, so be safe!

All the best,

Curt

curt@taylorsinpv.com

Paul

pjbro@sbcglobal.net

Now taking reservations for the next Wallybird Luncheon

When: Thursday, January 23, 2020

Where: Fairview Metropolitan Banquet Center, 10051 Doolittle Drive, Oakland, CA 94063

Time: 1130-1400s

Menu: Salads:House Green, Italian Pasta, Broccoli, Penne Pasta

Entrees: Chicken Marsala, Tri-tip marinated in Red Wine Sauce

Sides: Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Oven Roasted Vegetables, Dinner Rolls

Dessert: Brownies

Coffee, Decaf and Hot Tea Beverage Station

Other Beverages available at the bar for an additional charge

Cost: $28 per person

Spouses and Friends welcome!

Speaker: Ted Edwards is a historian and author, gymnast, mountain climber, and teacher/professor. His special interest is in the WWII air war in the Pacific, and he has written a book entitled “Seven at Santa Cruz” about the daring exploits of one Stanley “Swede” Vejtasa who scored seven kills during the battle of Santa Cruz in the South Pacific. Ted will be talking about Swede and maybe other Aces of the Pacific War.

Please RSVP by Friday, January 17! That’s this week!

Send your RSVP’s to both Curt Taylor (curttaylor@sbcglobal.net)

and

Paul Browne (pjbro5790@att.net)

Fellow Wallybirds,
This will serve as a Save the Date for our next luncheon, which will take place on 23 January (Thursday) 2020 at 1130. Some of you may notice that’s later than we normally have it, and you would be right! The Fairview Metropolitan was already booked for 3rd Thursday when we checked back in July, so we opted for the following (4th) Thursday. Future luncheons will revert back to the 3rd Thursday (16April, 16July).

Secondly, we are in need of a speakers for future luncheons, so if you know of someone who might have an interesting topic to present, please let me know prior to 15 December or after that let Paul know. If any of you have some interesting hobbies or activities that would be of interest to the group, let us know as well. Aviation-oriented is always good, but we can also branch out to other activities. We have lots of talent in this group, so let’s share it! Absent any volunteers, Paul will come prepared to play some of his favorite polkas on his kazoo.

Have a great Holiday Season and we’ll be looking forward to seeing you on 23 January!

Regards,
Curt (and Paul)
Paul Browne pjbro5790@att.net
Curt Taylor curt@taylorsinpv.com

We are one week away from our last luncheon for 2019! Please get your RSVP in by 0900 on 15 July if you are going to join us.

Our speaker will be Jim Sullivan, a tax attorney who will speak on the new tax laws and strategies for dealing with them. He has worked with a number of Western pilots.

When: Thursday, July 18, 2019

Where: Fairview Metropolitan Banquet Center (same place we’ve been)

Time: 1130-1400

10051 Doolittle Drive, Oakland, CA 94063

Menu:

House Green Salad, Broccoli Salad, Italian Pasta Salad, Penne Pasta Salad

Chicken Marsala, Tri-tip,

Roasted Vegetables, Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Dinner Rolls and Butter

Chef’s Choice Dessert- Cookies or Brownies

Coffee, Hot Tea

Other beverages available at the adjacent bar.

Cost: $28.00

Speaker: Jim Sullivan-Tax Attorney

Spouses and friends are welcome to join us.

Please RSVP to BOTH Paul Browne and Curt Taylor at:

Paul: pjbro@sbcglobal.net

Curt: curttaylor@sbcglobal.net

Our July Wallybird Luncheon is only a little more than 2 weeks away! Time to sign up Ladies and Gentlemen. Here’s the skinny:

When: Thursday, July 18, 2019

Where: Fairview Metropolitan Banquet Center (same place we’ve been)

10051 Doolittle Drive, Oakland, CA 94063

Time: 1130-1400

Menu:

House Green Salad, Broccoli Salad, Italian Pasta Salad, Penne Pasta Salad

Chicken Marsala, Tri-tip,

Roasted Vegetables, Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Dinner Rolls and Butter

Chef’s Choice Dessert- Cookies or Brownies

Coffee, Hot Tea

Other beverages available at the adjacent bar.

Cost: $28.00

Speaker: TBD

Spouses and friends are welcome to join us.

Please RSVP to BOTH Paul Browne and Curt Taylor at:

Paul: pjbro@sbcglobal.net

Curt: curttaylor@sbcglobal.net

There will be a celebration of life gathering for Fred at Rawlingson Hall in Paradise Valley Estates from 2-4PM on July 27th

The address is;

Paradise Valley Estates
2600 Estates Drive
Fairfield CA 94533

Margo requests an RSVP of those attending via e-mail cazzycat@aol.com

Margo’s mailing address is:

Margo Murphy
2605 Military Court
Fairfield Ca 94522-9725

Phone 707 673 4616

Burial will probably be at the National Cemetery in Dixon CA. Time and date to be announced.