General Membership Meeting - 28May2015

We held our Spring General Membership Club Meeting in the Club Hangar on Thursday, May 28, 2015. The featured speaker was Harry Andonian. The event was attended by around twenty people. The Club provided queso, pulled pork sandwiches, bratwurst, potato salad, walnut brownies, and oatmeal chocolate chip cookies for consumption by the attendees.

The Business Meeting was convened at 1700 for the Regular Members to consider and vote on BJ Finney as Treasurer. The current treasurer, Joe Wiser, recently changed to an Associate Member and as such is no longer eligible to be a board member. After much discussion and a hotly contested nomination process, Mr. Finney was voted in as the Treasurer of the Majors Flying Club. Thanks to BJ for stepping up and a huge thanks to Joe Wiser for his detailed and organized reporting system of the club finances. Joe's monthly reports, as well as his quarterly reports to the E-Club, are easy to read, detailed, and nicely formatted. Thank you Joe.

The President, Dennis Mathis, kicked off the General Meeting around 1730. Dennis announced the new Treasurer, touched on the FAA Wings program, and mentioned the clubs progress on saving money toward the implementation of ADS-B for the Archer. The two members of the 2015 Ground Class who were not able to attend the graduation ceremony were presented their graduation certificates by Harry and Dennis. Congratulations to Brandon and William.

Dennis next introduced the well known and always entertaining Harry Andonian. Harry scrolled through several slides detailing his 200+ airplanes flown, talked about his struggles to get into the Armed Services as an aviator, his solo flight (including a dashing picture of Harry on that special day), the Vomit Comet, U2 flameouts, bombing Florida, and blacking out a city and causing car crashes on the highway. Always entertaining, always new stories. Great stuff. Thank you Harry.

Mr. Mathis presented Harry with the standard Majors Flying Club coffee mug but this one had a twist. The cup has that dashing picture of Harry on the day he soloed and the date he soloed. It is a very cool coffee mug. You can almost see the picture under Harry's fingers in the picture where Harry is holding the mug. Nicely done Mr. Mathis.

The meeting was adjourned around 1850.

Many thanks to the members who stayed around and helped put away chairs and clean up the place. It was much appreciated.