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

Hey Dick,   any word or recent history on DR. Fred Goldstein, the Wal/Dal  FAA doctor who treated us all for so many years.Last time I talked to him he had a house close by in Park City.He came up in conversation a while back talking amongst some Wal / Dal compatriots.
Dave Brinton

Dave’s email address: dfunnywood@me.com

Hi all

Once again, my address has been incorrectly published .

It is 5605 Military Court
Fairfield, CA 94533

Margot Murphy

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.

This is a “Save-the-Date” for the next Wallybird Luncheon which will be on Thursday, July 18, 1130-1400 at the Fairview Metropolitan at Oakland Airport.

This is ALSO a call for speakers for the above event. If you have a topic that would be of interest to our group, or know of someone who would have an interesting topic, please let us know. Free lunch for the speaker!

If we can’t find a speaker, Paul will be forced to talk to you about his misspent youth. Alternatively, I will facilitate a discussion on “My favorite Sky King episode”. Hopefully that will provide you with some incentive!

Please contact Curt Taylor at curttaylor@sbcglobal.net

and Paul Browne at pjbro@sbcglobal.net

More details in our next blast!

Hi Dick   I had a senior moment when I typed in Margo’s address   The correct address is:   Margo Murphy 5605 Military Court Fairfield CA 94533-9725   Thanks

Notification with the passing of Rita Kwan Akelis, wife of retired Western/Delta pilot Captain Anthony Akelis.  Rita was 85 years of age at the time of her passing.  She is survived by her husband Tony and her children. Obituary information for Rita may be viewed online at https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/rita-akelis-obituary?pid=193064562 Also at http://hosting-1085.tributes.com/obituary/show/Rita-Kwan-Akelis-107162622  Sneider & Sullivan & O’Connell’s Funeral Home of San Mateo CA has been entrusted with arrangements. Should more information be received we will be sure to pass it along.             Thank you,                 ~ Carol for the PCN   https://pcnflightwest.blogspot.com/2019/06/rita-kwan-akelis-wife-of-wadl-capt-tony.html Obituary………….. Rita Kwan Akelis Born in Hong Kong May 31, 1934. Died June 2, 2019 In Burlingame, of heart failure. Rita graduated Mary Knoll Catholic High, Kowloon, and attended nursing college in London. She returned to Hong Kong and became a Flight Attendant for Cathay Pacific Airways. Later, she was recruited by an American carrier, TransOcean Airlines, for her fluency in Chinese dialects. When TransOcean Airlines ceased operations, she was hired to continue her career by United States Overseas Airlines.   Rita met her future husband, a pilot, Captain Anthony Akelis of Delta Air Lines, who at that time was a Flight Engineer for United States Overseas Airlines. While flying the Pacific, Rita dated Tony. They married in Hong Kong in 1962 at a Catholic church.   She was a very talented designer and artisan, making flower arrangements and custom-stitched quilts, handbags, jewelry boxes, decorative ornaments, and other fabric creations, including knitting one-of-a-kind scarves. All her handmade items were sold at a co-op store in Palo Alto, CA. Her skills first started as a hobby and later became a full-fledged business.   She also had a green thumb, growing many flowers and plants at home herself, which she then included in her fabric projects.   Rita enjoyed walking, hiking, skiing, and attending outdoor and indoor events. She volunteered at Strybing Arboretum in San Francisco as a docent, and served as host at various flower and plant parks in the San Francisco area.   Rita raised two children, daughter Aline, who became a court reporter, and son Vincent, who became an airline pilot, almost on her own as Tony was away half of the time flying for the airlines.   She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Tony; her two children; her sister, Norma; her brother, Man Woo.

Condolences may be sent to:

Tony Akelis

35 Avendale Rd.

Hillborough, CA 94010

flyone@comcast.net

I just received this from Paul Browne. Dick

Thomas G. (Tom) Goldt passed away on June 2nd.A Mass Of Christian Burial will be said at 1100hrs on Friday June 28thSaint Joan of Arc Church2601 San Ramon Valley Blvd.San Ramon, CA  94583

AS soon as I receive any new info about services etc. I’ll pass along. Dick

Sad news…Tom Goldt passed away this morning (Saturday the 1st at 2:45).   Hal

Begin forwarded message:From: mulligoldt <mulligoldt@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: High Flight
Date: June 1, 2019 at 5:16:47 AM PDT
To: Hal Cody <halcody@sbcglobal.net>
Poem was beautiful..appropriate..Tom passed away this morning at 2:45am….Marin

High Flight
By John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
(A sonnet written by John Gillespie Magee, an American pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War. He came to Britain, flew in a Spitfire squadron, and was killed at the age of nineteen on 11 December 1941 during a training flight from the airfield near Scopwick.)

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Portions Of This Lovely Poem Appear On The Headstones
 Of Many Interred In Arlington National Cemetery,
Patricularly Aviators And Astronauts

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“Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds –
and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of –
wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence.
Hovering there I’ve chased the shouting wind along
and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.

“Up, up the long delirious burning blue 
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, 
where never lark, or even eagle, flew; 
and, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod 
the high untrespassed sanctity of space, 
put out my hand and touched the face of God.”

I received this today from Duane Meier. Will forward any info as soon as I receive it. Dick

Hi Dick   It is with much sadness that I just received word that Fred Guenzel passed away yesterday, Details are pending. I will advise when they are available.   Duane

Hi Dick   It is with much sadness that I just received word that Fred Guenzel passed away yesterday, Details are pending. I will advise when they are available.   Duane