Message From the President

from Va Vol 47 no 4 Jul Aug 2019

The Vintage Mechanic

SUSAN DUSENBURY, VAA PRESIDENT

S e e yo u in Oshko sh!

A S YOU R E A D T HI S , your o cers, directors, and volunteers are completing the final tasks in preparation for EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2019. And, trust me, we are busy at Vintage Village with all of the preparations and are really excited with the fresh new look of our flagship building, the VAA Red Barn, now that renovations are complete. Vintage will again be operating the merchandise sales after contracting it out to EAA for the past four years. Many thanks to Red Barn Chairman Mary Knutson, Vintage Aircraft Association Maintenance Chairman Mike Blombach, EAA Director of Facilities Steve Taylor, and their teams for the hard work and planning that was necessary to get this project completed for AirVenture 2019. Mary and her team have done a fabulous job in the selection of both the high quality and the variety of merchandise. The Red Barn Store is not just a clothing store! Be there on Monday, July 22, at 9 a.m. for the grand opening ribbon-cutting ceremony and to place your name in the hat for door prizes. This, by the way, follows the VAA welcome with coffee and doughnuts as well as the Vintage Open Town Hall. (We start serving co ee and doughnuts in the Vintage Hangar at 7:30 a.m. The Town Hall begins around 8 a.m.) If any of you have a question or something to discuss with your o cers and directors, this is a great time to get that done! Your o cers and directors will be there to hear what you have to say.

For those of you who find your way to the Tall Pines Café for breakfast, you will be pleased to know that Tall Pines Chairman Steve Neese has been working on an expanded breakfast menu. Being a native South Carolinian, I suggested cheese grits. Let’s see what he comes up with. Check it out — I plan to!

Several years ago, Vintage opened a bookstore knowing that so many sought-after aviation books are either thrown away in the local landfill or given to charities that are unrelated to aviation. We felt (and feel!) that those books should be in the hands of aviators and aviation enthusiasts and collectors such as yourselves. Basically, VAA accepts donated books and sells them at a reasonable price to our members and guests at the bookstore. The proceeds are used to enhance everyone’s experience at AirVenture during the week. This has proven to be a winwin for all of us. We keep these books in circulation, and the donor gets a tax write-o . (Remember, we are a nonprofit organization under the IRS code.) And, the proceeds support our e orts at Vintage during convention week. If you have any books to donate, please send them to: Vintage Aircraft Association Bookstore, Attn.: Amy Lemke, P.O. Box 3086, 3000 Poberezny Rd., Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086. All book donations are appreciated — no matter how many or how few.

Some may not be aware that Vintage operates a charging station for your phone and other electronic

IF YOU HAVE F OND MEMOR IE S

and old photos of Jimmy Younkin please share them with me for a future tribute to Jim. Please send to JBUSHA@E AA .ORG

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