Initially, the military required a Registered Nurse aboard each flight,
and those Flight Attendants who were nurses wore their nurses' uniforms.
This is Pat Parlette some years after she graduated from nursing school.
This is Pat Parlette in 1964 with the first Seaboard World uniform
for Flight Attendants.
The new uniform was introduced when Seaboard's first DC-8 went into service.
Reunion in Norwalk, CT, 1981
Pat Parlette is behind Pat Laska.
Christmas, 1971, Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam
USAF Photos by Detachment 4, 600th Photo Sq. AAVS (MAC)
Sweet duty for Master Sgt. Yancy,
helping the ladies with Christmas decorations.
Ellie Prakopcyk, Pat Parlette, Ethel Payne, and Sue Beerly.
Ellie Prakopcyk
Ethel Payne Ison
Sue Beerly
Pat Parlette
Weather delay in Shannon, 1978
Pat Parlette, Vicki Thornton, Pat Laska, Barbara Morton,
Larry Sullivan, Mary Green, Gail Guynn.
Carl Hirschberg and Pat during Carl's last flight
(with Flying Tigers/Metro), July 9, 1982.
Pat improvised a cake, and made "candles" out of drinking straws.
Bud Redgate and Pat Parlette
Flying Tigers operations at JFK, 1986.
Bill Dodds and Pat at the 1988 Reunion,
St. Augustine, FL.
T-shirts are from the 1987 Flight Attendant's
West Coast Reunion.
Crew "hotel" on Guam, 1960's
Not exactly the Ritz
A very senior crew
Jim Ritter, originally one of the early radio operators; Don Campfield,
the 3rd navigator hired (in 1947); Bob Warner, the 2nd pilot hired (in 1947);
Jan Irwin, hired in 1956, Chief Stewardess from 1963 to 1967;
Bob Snowden, also hired in 1947
Honolulu-based employees in the 1950's
The names are below the photo.
Elliot Held was the station manager and the rest were mechanics.
Jean Glick and Sheila Cellecz at the 1996 SPAR reunion
Ponce de Leon Golf and Conference Resort
St. Augustine, FL
Capt. Ed McKinney, Job Vanderweyde (Ground Supervisor of Cargo),
and F/O Kaplowitz in Luxembourg operations, 1950's
