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www.bonanza.org<br />
The Sam James ABS Volunteerism Award<br />
recognizes individuals who have contributed large<br />
amounts of valuable time and energy as a volunteer<br />
to ABS/ASF through projects, events, training or service.<br />
This award could be over a period of years and/or within<br />
the last year.<br />
Please send your nominations <strong>for</strong> the above awards<br />
to absmail@bonanza.org, or by mail to ABS Awards,<br />
PO Box 12888, Wichita, KS, 67277.<br />
ABS will also recognize members who have already<br />
earned these awards:<br />
• FAA Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award recognizes<br />
50 years of safe flying.<br />
• FAA Charles Taylor Award recognizes 50 years as a<br />
certificated aircraft or engine mechanic or technician.<br />
• ABS Master Aviator Award recognizes pilots who have<br />
embraced life-long continuing education and training<br />
as a pilot in Beech piston airplanes, as evidenced by<br />
achieving accreditation as an ABS Aviator a total of six<br />
times over at least five years and thereby serving as an<br />
example to pilots everywhere.<br />
ABS to Launch<br />
New Website in 2013<br />
It is imperative <strong>for</strong> a global organization<br />
such as ABS to have a strong<br />
online presence <strong>for</strong> our members.<br />
More and more users are going to the<br />
internet to find valuable in<strong>for</strong>mation,<br />
and ABS is no different.<br />
I am pleased to an nounce that<br />
in 2013 ABS will launch a new online<br />
pre sence with a new website<br />
design. The objective is to provide<br />
our mem bers and guests easy accessibility<br />
and search-ability in design<br />
and lay out, with a safe and secure<br />
environment to access technical<br />
in<strong>for</strong>mation and social interaction<br />
regarding Beech airplanes.<br />
We are now evaluating not only<br />
our present needs, but also what we<br />
think www.bonanza.org should look<br />
like over the next 3-5 years. Our goals:<br />
Make sure that we have preserved<br />
and secured valuable data collected<br />
over the years. Strike the right balance<br />
of what in<strong>for</strong>mation is viewable<br />
by the public, and what requires<br />
members-only access. Determine<br />
what should our online presence should look like,<br />
and how it operates. How much do we leverage that<br />
we already have invested? We must design and build<br />
a website that our membership can be very proud of.<br />
Please stay tuned in the coming months <strong>for</strong> more details<br />
of the ABS website in 2013.<br />
A group of ABS members have generously volunteered<br />
their time, knowledge, and passion <strong>for</strong> assisting ABS to<br />
help make progress on our website. You may have already<br />
noticed some interim changes made with this group’s help,<br />
particularly with the ABS Hangar Flying <strong>for</strong>um. The group<br />
will be meeting over the next several weeks to design<br />
a website that meets the needs of our membership and<br />
potential new ABS members. A special thanks to Paul<br />
Safran, Glenn Olsen, Ron Hensley, Jamey Courtney, and<br />
Derek DeBastos <strong>for</strong> giving your time and talent. — WH<br />
J. Whitney Hickman<br />
Executive Director<br />
whit@bonanza.org<br />
Volume 13 • Number 1 AMERICAN BONANZA SOCIETY 5
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