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Dec 10, 2009, 11:00:20 PM12/10/09
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S. ROGER WOLIN, 101 & ARMEN A. DILDILIAN, 86 Retired Pam Am
CARES & CONCERNS
I wish to thank Lou Fielack and Don Cooper for sharing the sad news
about these former PanAm standouts, Roger Wolen and Armen Dildilian.
Note the services and addresses are contained within the message.
Mark
I received this from fellow PAA 'Berliner" Captain Don Cooper.
Although neither Roger Wolen nor Armen Dildilian were ever with Delta,
they both were well known among Pan Am Pilots.
If you think it appropriate, would you please post their obituaries on
PCN.
Thanks,
Lou Fielack
F/O- FEO
DAL-PAA
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
S. ROGER WOLIN, 101 Retired Pam Am
vice president was journalist
BY ELINOR J. BRECHER
ebre...@MiamiHerald.com
S. Roger Wolin went to work for Pan American
World Airways in 1935, retired as vice president for communications
in 1973, mourned the legendary carrier's demise in 1991, and died
Thursday (Dec 3rd) of
natural causes at 101.
He outlived his wife of 64 years, Dorothy
Gilber Wolin, by 10 months and son John by five years.
Wolin ``saw aviation go from the Wright
Brothers to space travel,'' said his daughter, Melissa, and was
``very
saddened'' when his beloved Pan Am flew into oblivion.
Part of the Pan Am staff that opened the
airline's ``flying boat'' terminal at Dinner Key in the 1940s, Wolin
spent much of his career as spokesman for the airline's Latin
American and
Caribbean operations.
He spoke for Pan Am in the 1950s, when it
established one of Miami International Airport's founding terminals,
aggressively defending the airline's good name when Miami's Port
Authority director tried to blame the airlines for construction
delays.
``We won't be patsy or the fall guy for
something [George] McSherry has promised the people and can't
deliver,'' he declared in 1959.
Active in regional tourism promotion, Wolin
won one of Haiti's highest honors in 1965 for helping develop
tourism in the island nation. He also served on the Miami Beach
Tourist Development
Authority in the early 1970s.
Born Samuel Roger Wolin in Rochester, N.Y.,
on Sept. 23, 1908, he was the youngest of a Russian Jewish immigrant
couple's eight children, and the only one born in the United States,
according to his daughter.
Realizing that anti-Semitism would limit his
options, he decided to use his middle name, she said. He and his
wife raised their three children as Catholics, their mother's faith.
MARRIED IN 1946
They met in Mexico City, where she'd grown
up as the daughter of a U.S. diplomat and he represented Pan Am. They
married in 1946 and settled in High Pines, an upscale neighborhood
edging Coral Gables and South Miami.
Wolin attended Union College in Schenectady,
N.Y., then worked several years as a wire-service stringer. In that
capacity, he met Pan Am executives and was offered a job in Miami as
a
``shipboard reporter.''
In autobiographical notes left to his
granddaughter, Lindsay, Wolin wrote that he'd interview ``important
passengers going through Miami [and] get Pan Am's name in the
paper.''
In early 1941, he became public relations
manager for Pan Am's Western division, based in Mexico, and became
involved in operations with the military.
He collaborated with the U.S. Navy as ``an
intelligence agent . . . analyzing passenger lists, picking out
Japanese going through Miami,'' he wrote -- and helped break up a
ring of
Italian spies based in Havana.
He wrote that he was involved in a secret
deal between Pan Am's founder, Juan Trippe, and the U.S. government
to build strategic airfields in Latin America.
``The U.S. could not go into any sovereign
country . . . and build an airport,'' he wrote. ``But Pan Am, as a
commercial airline could and did . . . Pan Am built many airports in
Mexico [under] a secret agreement between Mexican President Manuel
Avila
Camacho and [U.S. President Franklin] Roosevelt, an agreement not
known to
some members of the Mexican cabinet.''
Daughter Melissa said he was also involved in the post-World War II
Berlin Airlift, during which Pan Am pilots flew hundreds of
humanitarian missions into Soviet-blockaded West Berlin.
Wolin considered himself no less a journalist as a public-relations
man than he had been as a wire- service reporter. He headed Florida's
chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, The
Society for Professional Journalists, and in 1957 was honored by the
Aviation
Writers Association. He wrote in his notes that he considered his
Pan Am
office ``a straight news operation. ``We didn't fudge, We didn't
`press agent .
. .' When we had bad news like an accident we covered it [for the
wires] as
they would have covered it for themselves . . . my philosophy was to
get
information as quickly as possible and distribute it as quickly as
possible.''
Son John followed his father into journalism, and was a longtime
Miami Herald reporter and editor. Wolin became part of the news in
August 1961 when he, his wife and three children were aboard a Panama
City-bound Pan Am flight hijacked out of Mexico City by a wild-
haired Algerian gunman demanding passage to Havana.
`A TERRIFIC JOB'
A Chrysler executive on the plane later wrote, in a first-person
recap for The Miami Herald, that Wolin ``did a terrific job of
keeping everybody quiet.''
Melissa, 10 at the time, recalls how her father ``opened the bar''
so that passengers could calm their nerves with a drink.
After eight hours on the ground -- and a plane-side speech by Fidel
Castro -- all 80 passengers and crew landed safely in Miami. Cuban
police captured the gunman.
He was saddened by Pan Am's demise and blamed government
deregulation, his daughter said.
``He believed that you don't let a name like Pan Am die,'' Melissa
said. ``It's like Coke. You don't take that name away from this
world.''
In addition to Melissa, Roger Wolin is survived by son Greg, of
Miami.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday at Stanfill Funeral
Home, 10545 S. Dixie Hwy., Miami-Dade.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1367716.html
http://www.stanfillfh.com/obituaries.htm
______________________________________________________________________
Armen A. Dildilian, 86, of Port Washington,
NY, died on December 1, 2009 at the Hospice Inn in Melville, NY. He
was the husband of Margaret A. Dildilian for over 61 years.
Mr. Dildilian was born on January 28, 1923 in Athens, Greece, where
his parents Aram and Christine Dildilian had fled as refugees from
the Armenian genocide taking place in Anatolian Turkey.
Mr. Dildilian arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area with his parents
directly from Ellis Island at the age of 5 months, and called himself
a native San Franciscan. He was a resident of Port Washington for
the past 40 years.
From 1942 until his retirement in 1983, Mr. Dildilian's career was
with Pan American World Airways, where his livelihood mirrored the
evolution of the airline industry, from mechanic on Pan Am's Clipper
Ships to Director of Pilot Training in the era of jumbo
jets. He started by servicing the flying boats in San Francisco
Bay. When the United
States entered WWII, he served with Pan Am as part of the Naval Air
Transport Service, transporting the wounded from the battlefields of
Tinian, Saipan and the Philippines. After the war, he became a
trainer S. of pilots for Pan Am flight crews stationed in the
Pacific, traveling frequently to Hong Kong and Tokyo in the 1950s
and 1960s. In 1969, with the advent of the Boeing 747 aircraft, his
career brought him to JFK Int'l Airport in New York, where he
eventually became Director of Training Programs. In 1978, Mr.
Dildilian helped plan and operate Pan Am's Flight Training
Academy in Miami.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by his daughter, Karen
Dildilian Tartell and son-in-law Ross Tartell; his son Grant Armen
Dildilian and daughter-in-law Lynn Dildilian; and two beloved
grandsons, Michael Armen Tartell and Reef Colter Dildilian.
A memorial service will take place on Saturday, December 12 at 11
a.m. at the Congregational Church of Manhasset, 1845 Northern Blvd.,
Manhasset, NY. Memorial contributions may be made to the
Congregational Church of Manhasset or the Armenian Missionary Assn.
of America, 31 W. Century Road, Paramus, NJ 07652-1409.
Don Cooper
PO Box 65339
Port Ludlow, WA
360-437-2300
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mark Sztanyo
PCN Dir
de...@pilotcommunication.net
CARES & CONCERNS
I wish to thank Lou Fielack and Don Cooper for sharing the sad news
about these former PanAm standouts, Roger Wolen and Armen Dildilian.
Note the services and addresses are contained within the message.
Mark
I received this from fellow PAA 'Berliner" Captain Don Cooper.
Although neither Roger Wolen nor Armen Dildilian were ever with Delta,
they both were well known among Pan Am Pilots.
If you think it appropriate, would you please post their obituaries on
PCN.
Thanks,
Lou Fielack
F/O- FEO
DAL-PAA
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
S. ROGER WOLIN, 101 Retired Pam Am
vice president was journalist
BY ELINOR J. BRECHER
ebre...@MiamiHerald.com
S. Roger Wolin went to work for Pan American
World Airways in 1935, retired as vice president for communications
in 1973, mourned the legendary carrier's demise in 1991, and died
Thursday (Dec 3rd) of
natural causes at 101.
He outlived his wife of 64 years, Dorothy
Gilber Wolin, by 10 months and son John by five years.
Wolin ``saw aviation go from the Wright
Brothers to space travel,'' said his daughter, Melissa, and was
``very
saddened'' when his beloved Pan Am flew into oblivion.
Part of the Pan Am staff that opened the
airline's ``flying boat'' terminal at Dinner Key in the 1940s, Wolin
spent much of his career as spokesman for the airline's Latin
American and
Caribbean operations.
He spoke for Pan Am in the 1950s, when it
established one of Miami International Airport's founding terminals,
aggressively defending the airline's good name when Miami's Port
Authority director tried to blame the airlines for construction
delays.
``We won't be patsy or the fall guy for
something [George] McSherry has promised the people and can't
deliver,'' he declared in 1959.
Active in regional tourism promotion, Wolin
won one of Haiti's highest honors in 1965 for helping develop
tourism in the island nation. He also served on the Miami Beach
Tourist Development
Authority in the early 1970s.
Born Samuel Roger Wolin in Rochester, N.Y.,
on Sept. 23, 1908, he was the youngest of a Russian Jewish immigrant
couple's eight children, and the only one born in the United States,
according to his daughter.
Realizing that anti-Semitism would limit his
options, he decided to use his middle name, she said. He and his
wife raised their three children as Catholics, their mother's faith.
MARRIED IN 1946
They met in Mexico City, where she'd grown
up as the daughter of a U.S. diplomat and he represented Pan Am. They
married in 1946 and settled in High Pines, an upscale neighborhood
edging Coral Gables and South Miami.
Wolin attended Union College in Schenectady,
N.Y., then worked several years as a wire-service stringer. In that
capacity, he met Pan Am executives and was offered a job in Miami as
a
``shipboard reporter.''
In autobiographical notes left to his
granddaughter, Lindsay, Wolin wrote that he'd interview ``important
passengers going through Miami [and] get Pan Am's name in the
paper.''
In early 1941, he became public relations
manager for Pan Am's Western division, based in Mexico, and became
involved in operations with the military.
He collaborated with the U.S. Navy as ``an
intelligence agent . . . analyzing passenger lists, picking out
Japanese going through Miami,'' he wrote -- and helped break up a
ring of
Italian spies based in Havana.
He wrote that he was involved in a secret
deal between Pan Am's founder, Juan Trippe, and the U.S. government
to build strategic airfields in Latin America.
``The U.S. could not go into any sovereign
country . . . and build an airport,'' he wrote. ``But Pan Am, as a
commercial airline could and did . . . Pan Am built many airports in
Mexico [under] a secret agreement between Mexican President Manuel
Avila
Camacho and [U.S. President Franklin] Roosevelt, an agreement not
known to
some members of the Mexican cabinet.''
Daughter Melissa said he was also involved in the post-World War II
Berlin Airlift, during which Pan Am pilots flew hundreds of
humanitarian missions into Soviet-blockaded West Berlin.
Wolin considered himself no less a journalist as a public-relations
man than he had been as a wire- service reporter. He headed Florida's
chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, The
Society for Professional Journalists, and in 1957 was honored by the
Aviation
Writers Association. He wrote in his notes that he considered his
Pan Am
office ``a straight news operation. ``We didn't fudge, We didn't
`press agent .
. .' When we had bad news like an accident we covered it [for the
wires] as
they would have covered it for themselves . . . my philosophy was to
get
information as quickly as possible and distribute it as quickly as
possible.''
Son John followed his father into journalism, and was a longtime
Miami Herald reporter and editor. Wolin became part of the news in
August 1961 when he, his wife and three children were aboard a Panama
City-bound Pan Am flight hijacked out of Mexico City by a wild-
haired Algerian gunman demanding passage to Havana.
`A TERRIFIC JOB'
A Chrysler executive on the plane later wrote, in a first-person
recap for The Miami Herald, that Wolin ``did a terrific job of
keeping everybody quiet.''
Melissa, 10 at the time, recalls how her father ``opened the bar''
so that passengers could calm their nerves with a drink.
After eight hours on the ground -- and a plane-side speech by Fidel
Castro -- all 80 passengers and crew landed safely in Miami. Cuban
police captured the gunman.
He was saddened by Pan Am's demise and blamed government
deregulation, his daughter said.
``He believed that you don't let a name like Pan Am die,'' Melissa
said. ``It's like Coke. You don't take that name away from this
world.''
In addition to Melissa, Roger Wolin is survived by son Greg, of
Miami.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday at Stanfill Funeral
Home, 10545 S. Dixie Hwy., Miami-Dade.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/obituaries/story/1367716.html
http://www.stanfillfh.com/obituaries.htm
______________________________________________________________________
Armen A. Dildilian, 86, of Port Washington,
NY, died on December 1, 2009 at the Hospice Inn in Melville, NY. He
was the husband of Margaret A. Dildilian for over 61 years.
Mr. Dildilian was born on January 28, 1923 in Athens, Greece, where
his parents Aram and Christine Dildilian had fled as refugees from
the Armenian genocide taking place in Anatolian Turkey.
Mr. Dildilian arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area with his parents
directly from Ellis Island at the age of 5 months, and called himself
a native San Franciscan. He was a resident of Port Washington for
the past 40 years.
From 1942 until his retirement in 1983, Mr. Dildilian's career was
with Pan American World Airways, where his livelihood mirrored the
evolution of the airline industry, from mechanic on Pan Am's Clipper
Ships to Director of Pilot Training in the era of jumbo
jets. He started by servicing the flying boats in San Francisco
Bay. When the United
States entered WWII, he served with Pan Am as part of the Naval Air
Transport Service, transporting the wounded from the battlefields of
Tinian, Saipan and the Philippines. After the war, he became a
trainer S. of pilots for Pan Am flight crews stationed in the
Pacific, traveling frequently to Hong Kong and Tokyo in the 1950s
and 1960s. In 1969, with the advent of the Boeing 747 aircraft, his
career brought him to JFK Int'l Airport in New York, where he
eventually became Director of Training Programs. In 1978, Mr.
Dildilian helped plan and operate Pan Am's Flight Training
Academy in Miami.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by his daughter, Karen
Dildilian Tartell and son-in-law Ross Tartell; his son Grant Armen
Dildilian and daughter-in-law Lynn Dildilian; and two beloved
grandsons, Michael Armen Tartell and Reef Colter Dildilian.
A memorial service will take place on Saturday, December 12 at 11
a.m. at the Congregational Church of Manhasset, 1845 Northern Blvd.,
Manhasset, NY. Memorial contributions may be made to the
Congregational Church of Manhasset or the Armenian Missionary Assn.
of America, 31 W. Century Road, Paramus, NJ 07652-1409.
Don Cooper
PO Box 65339
Port Ludlow, WA
360-437-2300
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mark Sztanyo
PCN Dir
de...@pilotcommunication.net
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