The newly formed AHS held its First Annual Dinner in the Trianon Room of the Ambassador Hotel, on 51st Street and Park Avenue in New York City, on the evening of October 7, 1944. Read the Dinner Program to see who were the early leaders of the Society. (Click on the photo for a high resolution close-up.)
Some of the attendees have been identified in this photo by a former Sikorsky employee. (Click on the photo for a high resolution close-up.) See below for the names.
No. | Name | Title | Organization |
1 | Igor I. Sikorsky | Engineering Manager | Sikorsky Aircraft |
2 | C. Les Morris | Flight Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
3 | Ralph P. Alex | Project Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
4 | Major Frank Gregory | Wright-Patterson AFB | U.S. Army Air Forces |
5 | Igor A. “Prof” Sikorsky | Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
6 | Clint Strong | Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
7 | Michael Buivid | Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
8 | Bill Hunt | Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
9 | Al Kettle | Technical Publications | Sikorsky Aircraft |
10 | Vern Short | Photographer | Sikorsky Aircraft |
11 | Jay Erdman | Sikorsky Plant Representative | U.S. Army Air Forces |
12 | Cdr Frank Erickson | Commander, Training Unit | U.S. Coast Guard, Floyd Bennett Field |
13 | Bernard Whelan | General Manager | Sikorsky Aircraft |
14 | E.E. "Skip" Eveleth | Sales Department | Sikorsky Aircraft |
15 | C. M. Aument | Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
16 | Emil Galke | Foreman - Manufacturing | Sikorsky Aircraft |
17 | Dom Plumb | Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
18 | Walt Lysak | Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
19 | Patricia Handy | Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
20 | Boris P. Labensky | Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
21 | Michael Gluhareff | Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
22 | Serge Gluhareff | Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
23 | Nikolai I. Sikorsky | Son of Igor I. Sikorsky | Sikorsky Family Member |
24 | William Kostuk | Engineering (Active Duty) | U.S. Army Air Forces |
25 | Augusta Orlowski | Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
26 | name unknown | Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
27 | Miller Wachs | Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
28 | Dimitry "Jimmy" Viner | Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
29 | Galina Sikorsky Viner | (spouse) | Sikorsky Family Member |
30 | Steve Garday | Manufacturing | Sikorsky Aircraft |
31 | Edward Ortwell | Manufacturing | Sikorsky Aircraft |
32 | Dan Carboni | Manufacturing | Sikorsky Aircraft |
33 | Julius Sobanski | Quality Control | Sikorsky Aircraft |
34 | Robert Kee | Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
35 | Raymond Holland | Material Control | Sikorsky Aircraft |
36 | Charles Anderson | Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
37 | Alice Anderson | (spouse) | (spouse) |
38 | Edward Katzenberger | Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
39 | Charles Zimmerman | Vought Engineering | Chance Vought, a division of UAC * |
40 | Edward Nesbitt | Sales Department | Sikorsky Aircraft |
41 | Warren Holland | Engineering | Sikorsky Aircraft |
42 | Edward Mansfield | Shipping Department | Sikorsky Aircraft |
43 | W. Laurence LePage | President | Platt-LePage Aircraft Co. |
44 | Reggie Brie | Pilot | Cierva Autogiro Company |
45 | Haviland Platt | Partner | Platt-LePage Aircraft Co. |
46 | Jim Ray | Pilot | Platt-LePage Aircraft Co. |
47 | Alan Price | Platt-LePage Aircraft Co. | |
48 | George "Buck" Miller | Chief Test Pilot | Autogiro Company |
49 | name unknown | Sikorsky Aircraft |
* Vought and Sikorsky were both divisions of United Aircraft Corporation, now United Technologies Corporation.