Nancy Benscoter, APA President
The beginning of summer is always a busy time for the APA. At the end of May, we held our Annual APA Member's meeting in the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) building at Glendale Airport where we elected some new Board of Director's (BOD's). Our guest speaker, Col. Bob Ashby, a Tuskegee Airman of World War II and Korea, captivated us here with his experience and stories! We also updated you on the status of the APA and debuted our remodeled website. In June, the new BOD's elected the 2012-2013 APA Board Officers, per our bylaws.
I want to thank everyone who took the time to join us for our annual members meeting! All of you helped make this years event a great success and a truly enjoyable time together! Special thanks to our host, the CAP squadron 308. They treated us to hamburgers on the BBQ and reminded us that when you join the CAP, you can FLY FREE. They are in great need of pilots to help them fly with cadets and also fly the large number of missions they have with the Air Force. Many of these missions go unfilled due to a lack of enough pilots. Contact, Mario Grana with the Glendale CAP at www.cap308glendale.org or go to the national website of www.gocivilairpatrol.com to search for a CAP squadron in your area to get started flying for free.
I would like to introduce your newly elected BOD's for the 2012-2013 fiscal year and your new APA Officers. They are as follows:
President - Nancy Benscoter 1st VP - Tommy Thomason 2nd VP - Mark Spencer Secretary - Craig Albright Treasurer - Stefanie Spencer Executive Director - Jim Timm Director - Brian Forstall Director - Bob Carter Director - Chris Danforth Director - Dr. John Raniolo Director - Fred Gibbs Director - Ron Stafford
Working with the BOD's our coordinators are:
Newsletter Editor - Asa Dean Membership - Vickie Gookin Web Master - Stefanie Spencer
We have a great team and I am very excited for the coming year! I assure you that we are all committed to you, the Pilots of Arizona and General Aviation. Safe flying & enjoy reading this month's newsletter.