THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF SILVER WINGS INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Fall 2019
From Our President
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ell, Ladies and Gents, WE DID IT! We pulled off the largest Silver Wings Convention ever! Let’s hear it for The TWA Hotel at JFK! The Terminal was resplendent, all dressed in white, and bedecked with sparkling people in all of its spaces! Over 1000 of us and our friends and relatives filled our events to capacity and then some! The Hotel was sold out for four days and bar bills were the highest ever! Traveling to the Flight 800 Memorial and the Cradle of Aviation one day, followed by a luncheon cruise of lower Manhattan on a Hornblower ship that rocked its way through the harbor to the strains of “I Will Survive” and the pounding of a thousand dancing feet, we celebrated for four days of power-packed fun and friendship. Saturday was a triple header from hearing Tyler Morse’s personal tale of the TWA Hotel, followed by an afternoon of pure fun and professional photography, and culminating in our Banquet. Are we returning; you bet...next time with napkins and water glasses! Thanks to the New York Committee, it was a whirlwind of fun, renewed friendships and love.
Oh! Greetings and gladness and hugs and air kisses, Upon every arrival each friend reminisces, As we enter a building that long has been dark, Which is now recognized as a world-class landmark, Its talons touch earth and its wings are unfurled, It is never aloft yet it showed us the world, For it led us to flight; Up Up and Away! On the airline we all loved... TWA!
Poem by Jeanne Gibbons
Wings Forever, ~ Beth Holcombe
TWA Hotel Scarves FOR SALE!
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TWA Terminal Scarves, which were created specifically for the JFK Convention, feature black and white photos of the Terminal in the 1960s with a red and black striped border on the ends.
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Patti Churchill celebrates 85th birthday AND 32 years PERFECT ATTENDANCE at Silver Wings, International conventions!
Order from Valerie Roffe at Valerie.Roffe230@gmail.com. Check or credit card - $36.00 (plus $3.00 shipping for one and $5.00 for two or more). Buy several for friends or relatives to commemorate our joyful reunion and convention!
SWI has “Before & After” albums thanks to Julia Falk. If you are new to SWI send your TWA graduation picture AND a retirement picture to Julia (via post office mail, not email). Put dates on back of pictures. If you have no retirement picture, send something close to it, in uniform if possible. Also, still waiting for lots of older members pictures! Address: 3333 Noyo St, Oakland, CA 94602
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