Rosmary Grow Transition Information - 5/13/2006

Saturday the 13 they buried Rosemary Grow in San Rafael.  The services were at 7 pm at the Church of the Latter Day Saints.  She was my first Senior Flight Attendant in 1962.  A long time friend to many of us.After she left WOA she started a family and her daughter Penna is now living in Mill Valley and will probably assume the business. Rosemary was a very successful business woman.  She owned a dress shop in San Francisco and then started a optical business in Strawberry, Tiburon.  At one time she was also part owner of a pet shop and  part owner of another dress shop in Mill Valley. She was an avid skier, hiker, and marathon runner. She  traveled Europe on annual buying trips for the latest fashion in optical wear.  Penna said Rosemary was diagnosed with cancer last November.  She didn't say anything because she was sure she was going to beat it.  I shall miss our Mexican lunches when I come to town....

Jeannie Wagers-Wiseman

Annick Steele went to her heavenly home on May 8, 2006, after a courageous 17-year battle with breast cancer. She was 61. She experienced life in the same way she made her leave, surrounded by loved ones and celebrating life.

Born and raised in Lyon, France, Annick was the daughter of the late Eugene Comte and Gabrielle Cottet du Moulin. She was the devoted wife of Gregory Woods and the proud, loving mother of Derek Steele, 25. She was also a loving stepmother to Brandis and Scott Roundy, Gary Steele II, Jeff and Lina Woods, Darrin Woods, and the joyful grandmother of C. Jay and Nicole Roundy and Karina Woods. Her first husband was the late Gary Steele.

Long before becoming a U.S. citizen in 2003, Annick was inspired to move from France to the U.S. after seeing Peggy Fleming in the 1968 Olympic games where she was working as a hostess. Annick's first career was as a flight attendant, traveling worldwide for 17 years. In 1973 she married Gary Steele, and upon his death in 1989, Annick became the sole provider and parent to their 10-year-old son, Derek. In order to be close to her son, she became an optician at the Los Gatos "Site for Sore Eyes." Eventually, she found her niche in an entrepreneurial role, owning the Palo Alto franchise between 1992 and 2004.

Annick was a familiar face to the members of Calvary Church, Los Gatos, where she was admired and loved. Her faith in God was an important part of her life and the primary source of her indomitable strength and courage.

In the year 2000 Annick married her second husband, Greg Woods, with whom she enjoyed numerous trips here and abroad. Immediately the two would be outwitting Annick's cancer together, searching and trying various therapies. Those of us who knew Annick could not help but admire and be inspired by her enormous will to live, her optimism, fortitude, sweetness and humility. We all shared in her amazing generosity as she blessed others with what was given to her by the Lord.

Men and women alike were captivated by Annick's European glamour, intelligence, and joie de vivre. She was the quintessential French woman, the epitome of elegance, charm, and good taste. She was the consummate hostess who shared her love of life with others. She showed us how to live gracefully and well, no matter the odds.

Though we deeply miss Annick, we know she is in the care of our Heavenly Father.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, May 13, 3:00 p.m. at Calvary Church of Los Gatos, 16330 Los Gatos Blvd.Los Gatos, Calif.  95032.  Telephone:  408  356- 5126.

Arrangements by DARLING-FISCHER Chapel of the Hills.

Dick Kalman

By STEPHEN LABATON and MATTHEW L. WALD Published: March 15, 2006
WASHINGTON, March 14 — In a city of lawyers, Carla J. Martin has  become the most talked-about lawyer in town. Shawn Thew/European Pressphoto Agency A judge said Carla J. Martin improperly gave parts of trial  proceedings to witnesses yet to testify. Judge Penalizes Moussaoui Prosecutors by Barring Major Witnesses   (March 15, 2006) Ms. Martin, an obscure official in the counsel's office at the  Transportation Security Administration, now appears to bear  responsibility for undercutting the government's long-running effort  to execute the only man tried in an American courtroom for   involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks. Known among her peers as an aggressive, largely behind-the-scenes  courtroom strategist, she is said by the judge in the case to have  committed a potentially devastating blunder of the sort that law students are routinely warned about: coaching witnesses. Dealing a major setback to the government's prosecution of Zacarias  Moussaoui, Judge Leonie M. Brinkema ruled on Tuesday that because of  three significant instances of misbehavior by government lawyers  during the trial, most notably the missteps by Ms. Martin, she was  barring the prosecutors from using any testimony or evidence from a  handful of government aviation officials. Ms. Martin has declined to explain her actions in court or to  reporters, and Judge Brinkema said Ms. Martin's lawyer expected his client to invoke her right against self-incrimination. But e-mail  messages made public in the Moussaoui case this week, along with  accounts from colleagues and supervisors, paint a picture of a lawyer  who was often well regarded but also had a reputation for sometimes  pushing too hard. Ms. Martin, 51, is a former flight attendant at World Airways, where  she often flew between the United States and Germany because she  spoke German. She began working at the Federal Aviation  Administration before she completed law school at American  University's Washington College of Law in 1989. Ms. Martin has almost no experience in criminal prosecutions because  most of her work has involved defending the government in civil  lawsuits. She moved to the Transportation Security Administration  when it was created in 2002. Some lawyers who have worked with Ms. Martin in other cases said they  were stunned by the events in the Moussaoui case. She's articulate and forceful and aggressive and smart," said Thomas  J. Whalen, an aviation lawyer at Condon & Forsyth who has worked on  her side in some cases and against her in others. "I'm really  surprised about what's happened. It's more than being tough and  aggressive."In the Moussaoui case, her communications with witnesses, and new  evidence that surfaced Tuesday that she told some witnesses not to  cooperate with defense lawyers, puts the prosecution in the position  of having to investigate and sharply criticize a government lawyer  who has worked on the case. In a different case, in which Ms. Martin tried to keep vital evidence  out of the hands of a lawyer on the ground that he had been  associated with a civil rights group, she was accused by the other  side of overstepping court boundaries and running roughshod over standard courtroom procedure in a zeal to protect national security. Ms. Martin's mother, Jean Martin Lay, said she spoke to her daughter  Monday night."She was so devastated," Ms. Lay said in a telephone interview from  her home in Knoxville, Tenn. "She said she just didn't hear the judge."Ms. Lay said her daughter was in the courtroom when Judge Brinkema  issued the order on handling witnesses, but was probably  concentrating on something else "instead of being mindful."The judge's written order was issued last month, and Ms. Martin's  contact with the witnesses occurred last week, according to e-mail  messages made public by the court. The order was meant to sequester  witnesses so their testimony would not be corrupted. It barred the  witnesses from receiving the testimony of other witnesses or  receiving any news accounts of the trial. The e-mail messages and the  recent testimony show that Ms. Martin provided testimony and advice  to seven witnesses. Ms. Martin's mother said her impression was that her daughter found  her work at the Transportation Security Administration "not the most  satisfying or rewarding type job" because it did not involve any big  cases. Her current salary, according to a government employee database, is about $120,000 a year. Others, some speaking for attribution and others not, said they could  see why Ms. Martin would find herself in trouble.Claudio Manno, who at the time of the Sept. 11 attack was the  assistant administrator for security at the F.A.A., testified Tuesday  that Ms. Martin had taken up too much time second-guessing him and  bombarding him with e-mail messages and requests."She tended to go off target and wasted our time," Mr. Manno said.  "We didn't think it was pertinent."A. P. Pishevar, a Maryland lawyer who tangled with Ms. Martin in  another case, said her conduct in that case "sticks out like a sore thumb."

Dick:
I am Don Fraim's son, I got your email from Dad's email mail box.  Don was a Navigator at World Airways for 22 years prior to retiring in 1983.  I remember when he used to have to take Mr. Daly's private plane hopping across the Pacific or over to London. Dad became ill on January 28, and after 2 weeks in the hospital and 3 stints, pneumonia, and kidney failure, he was able to go to a rehabilitation center.  After 10 days he developed further shortness of breath, and back into the hospital.  Last week they removed 1.5 liters of fluid from each lung and the next day his lungs failed.  The doctors could not explain why this happened and what caused the failure of his lungs.  One probable cause was all the years in a pressurized airplane cabin with second hand smoke, Dad was not a smoker himself.  An autopsy is being performed to try and identify the lung failure.
Please let all his colleagues at World know of his peaceful passing, and Celebration of Life on March 10 at 7PM.  The following is the planned obiturary.
Les Fraim and Larry Fraim
Don's Twin Sons
_______________________
Donald Grange Fraim, 88
…Loving Father and Flight Navigator
Donald G. Fraim, a resident of Fremont for over 35 years passed away on March 5, 2006 at the Washington Hospital.   After a short illness he died peacefully from pulmonary failure. Don was born in Kingfisher Oklahoma, the second son of John and Viola Fraim, on July 12, 1917.  He met his late wife Jeanne Tappan, when they were 6 and 5 respectively. After parting when their families moved they re-united in 1935 and later married on September 1, 1940; spending over 64 years together prior to Jeanne’s passing in December 2004. After completion of his Naval Service as a Navigation Instructor at Alameda Naval Air Station, he worked for Transocean Airlines for 14 years followed by 22 years at World Airways as a Flight Navigator.  Both airlines were located at Oakland International Airport and pioneered the non-scheduled airline industry.  His identical twin sons, Lester and Lawrence, survive Don.  Lester, his wife Cherryl, and two children Jonathan and Caryn live in Virginia.  Don became a Great Grandfather with the birth of Jonathan and his wife Christine’s daughter Kylie Regina in 2004, and again in 2005 with the birth of Liam Donald Fraim.  Lawrence, his wife Rhonda and two children Jarrod and Narelle live in Australia.  Jarrod and his wife Corinne’s daughter Ruby Mae was born in May 2005. Don was active in the Fremont Elks Club 2121 where for years he was the golf club handicapper. He also participated in World Airways Alumni Association, and was an active member of the Niles Congregational Church. A Celebration of Life Memorial Service will be held at Niles Congregational Church, Fremont on Friday March 10, 2006 at 7 PM.  Internment will be at the Chapel of the Chimes in Hayward.

Alumnus - Received the following email from Captain Warren Vest today - 2/21/2006

Received from Joan North on 2/20/2006

It is with great sadness that I advise that Tom Hughes, former VP Europe, Africa & Middle East, based at Gatwick Airport in 1970, has died after a short illness.  Our commiserations are sent to Sheila and his beloved daughters.

Wanted to advise folks over there that Tom Hughes, Vice President Europe, Africa and the Middle East 1969 through the 70s, passed away last week, after a very short illness.  Sympathies to Sheila and the girls.

From Gene Haldas 2/7/2006

Dick,

I have learned that ex World pilot Sol Uffe (1921-2005) passed away last July. Sol left World many years ago after loosing his medical. I'm sure many of the old timers will remember him.