Club Meeting - 26January 2017

The Majors Flying Club (MFC) held a Membership meeting on Thursday, January 26, 2017 in the hangar clubhouse. The get together featured tasty pizza, board member elections, the presentation of a couple of certificates, delicious Gordon Hay brownies, and a presentation by Harry Andonian.

Six boxes of hot and tasty pizza were delivered to our door around 5 p.m. It didn't take long for the majority of the pizza to disappear in the first fifteen minutes. If you got there much later than 5:30 p.m., you probably would been out of luck (sorry about that Manning). In between gasps of air whilst chowing down on the pizza, several folks were spotted attacking the "stack o' brownies". Gordon's brownies were as spectacular as ever.

MFC President Dennis Mathis called the meeting to order at 5:40 p.m. and promptly banished the non-members to the hangar so that the board member elections could be held. Mr.'s Dennis Harwell and Joe Rector conducted the election with parliamentary precision and a strict adherence to the club by-laws. After a furious round of nominations and with the threat of a filibuster finally put to bed, the following list of nominees was presented: Mark Armstrong, Dennis Guinn, Dennis Harwell, Dennis Mathis, and Denis Rottler. The pattern should be obvious - three of the nominees spell their first name incorrectly and we aren't sure how the fourth nominee made it through the first name filter criteria for the board. Be that as it may, with unanimous approval of the MFC members present, the list of nominees was voted in to serve as members of the board for 2017.

Dennis Mathis presented Mr. Young Lee with his solo certificate (picture on the left above). Young soloed in the might Cessna on November 30, 2016 and is under the tutelage of Mr. Mathis. Mike Zimmerman was also presented with a very nice, etched, black glass plaque to commemorate Mike's 10 years of service as the primary A&P mechanic of the club airplanes (picture on the right above). We have Mike to thank for the reliability of the club airplanes due to regular maintenance, periodic inspections, and the annuals. Thanks Mike!

With the business part of the meeting concluded, the audience was treated to a presentation by Harry Andonian on his favorite of his favorite airplanes, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom. As Harry said, "all of the planes I flew were my favorites, but the F-4 was my favorite of my favorites". As you know, Harry has had quite a storied career in aviation, is our local hero, has a road in Greenville named after him, and has too many accolades to mention. It seems like the logbook is now up to 27,300 hours!!! As usual, Harry entertained us with his stories about his time in a variety of F-4 models in the Vietnam era. Well done Harry.