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Volume 31 issue 8
Presidents Corner
Well, the dog days of summer
have arrived! The thermometer hit 104 today and looks like it’s a heat
wave in
Visited with Bud in the care
center the other day and he is doing better, just very very weak. He enjoys
company so if you get the chance drop by. He is in the Vista Care center on
If you have taken notice we
are still trying to keep the field in good shape for as long as we are there.
At the present time, there is no new news and you know the old saying, “no news
is good news”, I guess that applies here also. They are still working on the
retention pond drainage and I am thinking that as soon as they finish that and
get the concrete pored, we should know more about the move. I am actually
looking at late winter early spring as a possible time for moving.
I dropped by All American
Discount Hobbies last night and its closed. I peeked into the window and saw
nothing of much value inside, so I guess Frank has flew the coup and closed
shop! There is another new hobby shop opened up in
. Please add him to you phone
list! I would like to thank the membership for helping to keep the
field clean and free of debris.
Thanks
NEW
MEMBERS
We continue to pick up new members. Please welcome Pat
Willcox and Ron Huffman to the club. Pat is into Combat and now a member of the
GCRC combat team
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Willcox, Pat |
1927 Running springs |
Kingwood, TX |
77339 |
281-358-1750 |
262 |
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Ron Huffman also joined us in June. Please add him
also.
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Huffman, Ron |
725 FM 1959 #1309 |
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77034 |
713-898-0174 |
770379 |
$
39.00 |
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The following are short bio of the members that have been
nominated for the General Membership position on the Board. The ballots
for the election will be mailed this next week. Check the box of your choice
and drop into the mail. Simple as that!
HERMAN
Herman Burton, age 65, retired.
Native Texan, college degrees, engineer/self-employed businessman,
numerous volunteer activties. Former Seabrook city councilman, mayor
pro-tem. Hobbies include traveling, photography, R/C, and having fun with
my wonderful 4 grandchildren.
SONNY
SHEPHERD
My name is N. A. Shepherd, but I am known by Sonny
Shepherd. I live in LaPorte
I realize that I have not met all the members of GCRC
since I joined, but I hope to do that as time permits. I joined GCRC
because I like the way the Club was organized. Organization is a key element in
keeping a Club like GCRC running smooth so that every member can enjoy the
hobby.
My intent if I am elected is to help make this a great
place for each member to fly. Since I am retired, I have time to see that the
field is in good flying condition at all times. I am a woodworker so if things
need to be repaired or built, I am pretty good at getting it done. I would be
willing to listen to the members if they have any suggestion that would benefit
the club. I look forward to meeting all club members.
MIKE McGRAW
Not
Submitted
Bud Frazier
Library
Steve Ross has offered to be the club librarian. GCRC
has many VHS tapes that are not only fun to watch but are very
educational. Steve will take these and catalog them into some sort of
order and furnish the membership, through the newsletter, with a list of the
movies and the process needed to obtain the use of them. This is a no fee
program. We only ask that you return them within a reasonable time so that they
may be available to other members.
Bud Frazier has donated many of these tapes and when
doing so only asked that they be shared with the entire club. He has also
donated many plans for models that he has built and they too will be offered.
We only ask that you take the plans down and make a copy and use that instead
of the original, then return the original to Steve Ross.
IN MEMORY
Please continue to keep the Ross family in your prayers
as they grieve the loss of Chief Chester, Laura Ross’s father and retired
Deputy Fire Chief for the city of Houston. Chief Chester was a 39 year veteran
of the Houston Fire Department and very well respected. I had the pleasure of
working for this man for a few years before he retired and he did set many
standards that are still in use today in the Fire Department. May He Rest in
Peace.
What It Means to Be
Young
Youth is not a time of
life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and
supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor
of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means the
predominance of courage over timidity, of adventure over the love of ease. This
often exists in a man of sixty more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old
merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the
skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust,
fear and despair—these bow the heart and turn the spirit back to dust.
Whether sixty or
sixteen, there is in every human being s heart the love of wonder, the sweet
amazement at the stars and the starlike things, the undaunted challenge of
events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what-next, and the joy of the game
of living.
You are as young as
your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as
your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
Sam Ulman
Some Crashes Are Avoidable
by Calvin Mitchell
On September 19, a
crash that could have been avoided occurred when a new student, who had what he
believed to be the correct frequency pin, turned his radio on, causing J.D.
Woods to crash his beautiful, newly repaired Chipmunk. The airplane was totaled
and we all felt bad to see this happen. It took us a few minutes to figure out
what happened. The student's airplane
had been safety inspected according to our usual procedure. We failed to notice
that the student had put one of the frequency tags on his antenna upside down.
Instead of reading 29, the student had channel 26 on the antenna. The student took
the channel 26 pin from the frequency board, believing he was getting the
proper pin. J.D.'s airplane was on channel 29, and when the student turned on
his radio, J.D.'s airplane crashed. Part of the blame should go to the radio
manufacturer because they don t differentiate between a 6 and a 9 on their
frequency tags. How much more would it cost to put a line under the 6 so we
could tell which it is? The remainder of the blame falls on our inspection
checklist which doesn't remind the inspector to check the actual numbers on the
crystal against the actual frequency numbers (not channel numbers) on the
frequency board. We never thought of that. WE MUST NOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN
AGAIN.
John Kling