GARRETT RETIREE’S CLUB OF ARIZONA Cliff Notes Page 1 PO Box 11633, Scottsdale AZ 85271-1633 May 2016 President Vice President Treasurer Ed Taschner 480-837-6262 Mark Steele 480-759-0233 Walt Blackmore 480-736-1362 [email protected][email protected][email protected]SPRING ROUNDUP CANCELLED ONLY 21 MEMBERS SIGNED UP TO PARTICIPATE 2015/16/17 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULE EVENT DATE SPONSORING CLUB Mtg – Tim Mahoney – Honeywell Aerospace May 4 Garrett Canyon Lake Steamboat Cruise May 11 Garrett Mtg – Emily Burns – Estate Planning Sept 7 Garrett Mtg – Jim Evans – Commemorative Air Force Oct 5 Garrett Mtg – TBD Nov 2 Garrett Tovrea Castle Tour Feb ‘17 SRC
Mtg – Jim Evans – Commemorative Air Force Oct 5 Garrett
Mtg – TBD Nov 2 Garrett
Tovrea Castle Tour Feb ‘17 SRC
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Garrett Retirees’ Club of Arizona Newsletter May 2016
Highlights of April Meeting
Mark Steele welcomed members and guests on Apr. 6. Bob Davenport led the Pledge of Allegiance.
Mark announced that the recommended changes to the Club Operating Guidelines have been approved. He also reminded members that next meeting election of new officers for 2015/2016 will be held.
Our featured speaker was Michael McCollum, science fiction writer and Chief Engineer, valve product line at Honeywell Tempe. His topic: “The Arty of Matching Propulsion to Plot.”
So what is science fiction? – Literature about the future? – literature of speculation? – literature about science? – what editors are actually buying? Science fiction is alike all fiction – as story of “What If”.
The 1st science fiction story was written in
1803 by Mary Shelley and titled “Franken-stein”.
Science fiction can have a variety of fla-vors: High tech; cautionary tales (“On the Beach”); social commentary (“Gulliver’s Travels”); space opera (“Star Wars”) and fantasy. Whatever flavor, all science fiction is about people. However science fiction has special problems as the author must create a coherent environment without in-consistencies within which the story takes place.
Science fiction always starts with a clean slate. At least 25% of the words must be descriptive in support of the environment, but everything must be subordinate to the plot:
Machinery must support the basic situation
Interplanetary civilizations require spaceships
Spaceships require propulsion
Propulsion systems must be neither too good or too poor for the plot
All forms of spacecraft propulsion yet dis-covered are reaction drives (since there is no friction in space to enable a propulsion sys-tem like a car). Therefore, to move forward a spacecraft must eject something out the back (i.e. Newton’s Law).
At this point Mike discusses various types of reaction drive propulsion systems together with the ability of these systems to accom-plish interplanetary objectives. His point was that even if, as a writer, you cannot de-scribe the technical workings of your propul-sion system, it as a minimum must appear plausible and capable of meeting your plot objectives (ref: Star Trek dilithium crystal propulsion).
So can a science fiction writer avoid all tech-nical mistakes in his or her story? No – but he must do the best that he can but he must never:
Allow errors to intrude on the story Cause ‘willing suspension of disbe-
lief” of the reader to occur Draw attention to the act of reading
Michael is the author of 10 science fiction novels and one book of short stories, with to-tal sales of 250,000 books in bookstores. He is also the proprietor of Sci Fi - Arizona, an Online Science Fiction bookstores and pub-lishing company. http://www.scifi-az.com/
With our revised club guidelines that will change the roles and increase the number of Board Members, we are again encouraging members to attend Board Meetings as a guest to influence and support Club poli-cies.
Board Meetings are held immediately prior to our meetings on the 1
st Wednesday of the
month at an offsite location.
If you are interested in attending a Board Meeting, please contact anyone on our list of Directors on page 9.
Garrett Retirees’ Club of Arizona Newsletter May 2016
Fix-It Guys
Sponsored by Honeywell, Garrett and Sperry Retirees Clubs
We can help Honeywell retirees or surviving spouses with fix-it jobs around the house that you are not able to accomplish. This will hopefully keep the job from being a budget buster for you.
Call us at the appropriate number below. PLEASE LEAVE A CLEAR MESSAGE GIVING YOUR NAME, TELEPHONE NUMBER, JOB INFORMATION AND NEAREST CROSS STREETS.
Nick Hughes (coordinator for East Valley 602-677-0649) Clint Langford (coordinator for North Valley 602-765-4466)
We can probably help and will get back to you as quickly as practical. We furnish the la-bor at no cost to you - you furnish the cost of the materials or parts.
Below is a list of volunteer Fix It Guys from both the East and North Valley.
East Valley
Mike Briske Nick Hughes Bob Davenport Ken Probert
Jim King Charlie Paine Mike Griffin Warren Koepsel
Frank Holman Stu Mitnik
North Valley
Gene Kupka Lee Rippstein Dan Schoff Clint Langford
Wally Secosky Matt Schuetz Bob Farney Ed Skutecki
Paul Simison Roy Newbold
Through March 1 2016, the East Valley Fix It Guys have participated in 17 Fix Its in-
volving travel of almost 500 miles to help our friends.
I always carry a knife in my purse. You know, in case of cheesecake or something.
Monthly Charity News
Your Board of Directors has voted to donate $100 each month to the Scholarship Fund and the other $100 to local charities as usual. This month’s charitable donation went to Child Crisis Center East Valley. Club guidelines dictate that we support local charities exclu-sively. A list of the charities from which the board chooses donations monthly is posted on the website. If you have a favorite charity you would like the club to consider for donations, please bring it to our attention.
50/50 winners were Ray Czerwonka and Alan Baer.
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Editor’s Corner
We apologize to those of you who received the newsletter via USPS late. We were late get-ting the newsletter to Repro but something else happened that resulted in the late delivery. We will endeavor to get the newsletter to print earlier and avoid the other events that oc-curred.
The Board has reviewed the response to this year’s dues notices and although working well, we have decided to further improve the process. Beginning in August 2016, dues notices will be sent in a letter separate from Cliff Notes. This letter, sent to both winter and summer addresses, will include dues owed and an opportunity to contribute to the Scholarship Program, although dues and scholarship contributions will need to be sep-arate checks. We will ask you to mail the entire letter back to us with requested infor-mation updates and roster requests. We thank you for your support of our process improvements.
Our monthly meetings are held at the Scottsdale Senior Center, 1700 N. Granite Reef Road, (just north of McDowell). The meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month, September thru May, except for December – our Holiday Luncheon. Our social hour begins at 1:00 pm, club business is conducted at 1:45 pm, the presentation starts at 2:00 pm and adjournment is at 3:00 pm.
The history of Honeywell or an old edition of the Newsletter can be found on the GRC webpage http://www.garrettretireesaz.com/
If there is something that you would like to see in the newsletter, or if you want to comment on the Newsletter itself, write a letter to the editor or e-mail the information to [email protected]! We will publish it, space available and the approval of the Board. Any comments or claims made within the publication are solely the responsibility of the individ-ual authors and do not necessarily express the views of Honeywell Inc. or the Directors, Of-ficers, Staff or members of the Garrett Retirees’ Club of Arizona.
PLEASE ARRIVE 30 MINUTES PRIOR TO SCHEDULED CRUISE. NO REFUNDS FOR NO
SHOWS
16 miles NE of Apache Junction at Canyon Lake
Things to know before you board
All children must wear and keep on a life jacket, please inform the captain of the weight of your child.
No beverages, food, alcohol, firearms (ccw holders ok) or weapons allowed. Unopened bottle water is ok.
A snack bar is available on board with water, soda’s, snacks and alcohol. Please keep in mind that it is a cash bar, cash or checks ONLY.
No glass containers are allowed at Canyon Lake. Crew will check all carry-ons, so please have coolers, purses, and small bags unzipped and
open for inspection as you board the Dolly. Smoking is not allowed on board. Pets are allowed on board if potty trained, quiet and non-aggressive.
Garrett Retirees’ Club of Arizona Newsletter May 2016
HRSC & GRC Scholarship Program
Program Updates
Applications for the Honeywell Retiree Clubs Scholarship Program closed on April 1. The Scholarship Board will be meeting in April to review all applicants and recipients will be notified in May. Watch our website, www.hrcaz.org, for more information on the candidates. As you know, these scholarships are open to students attending Arizona State University (ASU), Northern Arizona University (NAU), or University of Arizona (UofA), who meet the following requirements:
Descendant of an active or deceased member of the Honeywell Retiree Social Club (HRSC) or Garrett Retirees’ Club (GRC)
Second semester freshman, sophomore, junior, senior or graduate student Cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or greater
What you may not know is that our Universities have asked for another rate increase. If approved, our incoming undergraduates will see annual tuition increases of: ASU $10,627 (1.4% increase), UofA $11,769 (3.2% increase), and NAU $10,764 (3.8% in-crease). If you would like to make a contribution to support our students, you can send a check payable to Honeywell Retiree Scholarship, in care of Treasurer, Gwen Scheetz, or contact any of our Board members.
All of our Scholarship Recipients have told us how much they appreciate the money the Honeywell Scholarship provides, and how important it is to each of them. The Scholar-ship Board will be looking at ways to provide even more support to our deserving stu-dents.
Your Honeywell Retiree Clubs Scholarship Foundation Board:
and break-throughs such as the electric taxi system
involving French-based partner Safran Aerospace and
the new HPW3000 engine co-designed and produced
with Pratt & Whitney
Tim’s presentations are always interesting and entertaining. He is always accessi-
ble and spends a significant amount of time answering a wide range of questions.
This one’s a “Must Attend” function if you’re interested in where the Company is
headed.
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Meet Jonathan Henry Dwyer 2015-2016 University of Arizona Scholarship Winner
work on projects such as nanoparticle drug delivery for currently incurable diseases like can-cer and thin-film synthesis for electronics and energy storage.
Admitted into the summer research program at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana). Jonathan presented his research project: protein adsorption to gold nanoparticles, improving the knowledge base for targeted drug delivery using gold nanoparticles.
Jonathan is the treasurer of a student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) which is focused on providing professional development to chemical engineering students and performing community outreach.
In April the club will host the AIChE Southwest regional conference where students from nearby universities come to receive profession development, socialize with other chemical engineering students and participate in two main competitions: Chem Car competition involv-ing creating a miniature car powered solely by a chemical reaction; and a research paper competition where students present findings on research projects and judges give a financial reward to the best presentation.
Jonathan shared the following, “I truly appreciate the generosity of this foundation over the last three years. There is no way I would be where I am today without the financial support you have given me. Thank you again for your generosity.”
The Scholarship Team wants to congratulate Danielle for her hard work. She will complete
her undergraduate degree in less than four years—great job Danielle. Danielle’s grand-
mother, Dawn Orgill is especially proud of her, and all that she has accomplished in such a
short time.
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Jonathan Henry Dwyer is the grandson of Garrett retiree Henry Prejs.
Jonathan is currently enjoying his senior year at the Universi-ty of Arizona in Tucson study-ing Chemical Engineering. He has made the decision to con-tinue his education and plans to attend graduate school and continue his focus on nano-technology. (Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale.)
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Just a LOT of good stuff to do with THIS!
Once in a while something so totally cool comes out that even a guy who doesn't normally even know what he'd like for Father's Day or Christmas would immediately ask for it:
Thank you, DeWalt!!!
New Nail Gun, made by DeWalt. It can drive a 16-D nail through a 2x4 at 200 yards.
This makes construction a breeze, you can sit in your lawn chair and build a fence.
Hundred round magazine.
Someone invades your home, just nail their ass.
I replaced my alarm system!
New alarm system! Live Safe and Save You Money.
I’ve disconnected my ADT home alarm system and unregistered from the Neighborhood Watch.
I've got two Pakistani flags raised in the front yard, one at each corner, and the black flag of ISIS in the center.
The local Police, Sheriff, FBI, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, Secret Service and other agencies are all watching the house 24/7.
I've never felt more safe and I'm saving $49.95 a month.
