Our Chapter of 10 active members get together monthly for dinner and chit-chat. We volunteer for NOISA during "Fiesta Week".

This supports the Historical Conservation Society and the Starving Artists Show. Their proceeds benefit the Little Church of

1973 - 1974 BI hosted the club with a Mexican theme luncheon, with Dallas Kiwis as participants. Our membership was now

250 members. BI's Sloan Simpson presented Acapulco fashions with members as models. Irving TARS, a teenage group,

benefited from contributions to buy needed equipment. Needy families were helped at Christmas with food and clothing.

1974 - 1975 Clipped Bs were guests of BI at an Alaskan theme luncheon in celebration of new BI routes. A cookbook

compiled by Clipped Bs which contained favorite recipes of members sold 2,000 copies. It was edited by Julie Smithwick

Kidd, and enabled us to donate $5,450 to The Granville C. Morton Research Hospital. The money provided an Isco-Gradient

Synthesizer and Analysis System to be used by the Department of Microbiology. In April, 100 members participated in a day

long "Plant-In" at DFW, beautifying the grounds around the BI terminal. Marianne Gwinn, Eve Henger and Ann Ruff kept us

digging. We had 250 members this year!!

1975 - 1976 The annual luncheon was hosted by BI in the Venetian Room at the Fairmont Hotel, presenting "The Texas

Way". Braniff gave each attendee a copy of the Alexander Calder bicentennial poster. Members worked with the U.S. State

Department to assist Vietnamese refugees and guide them through DFW as they made connections to other airlines. The

second printing of the Clipped B cookbook "Stirring Moments" was a sellout and provided $7,000 for the Thelma Boston

Home. Our Bicentennial party netted $5,000 for the Pilot Home for Girls. Our membership topped out at 269!

1976 - 1977 For fond memories, you couldn't beat our summer party in the Love Field Rotunda. Ah, nostalgia! Also, during

the summer we provided funds to send the Collin County retarded children to the Texas Special Olympics in Austin. Braniff

hosted our Fall luncheon for 271 members at the Registry Hotel, and displayed Alexander Calder's Bicentennial models. In

December we helped the Flight Attendant Community Action program by preparing Christmas boxes for the needy. In

February we housed and entertained 19 students from Argentina for a week. Our charity was Proyecto Huesteco ("Happy

Smile"). Dr. Valentine Garcia, founder, takes medical teams to Xalapa, Mexico to perform cleft lip and palate operations on

children. Dolores Olson, Nancy Crinnion, and Linda Stegall assisted the doctors. We raised $8,000 at our night of "Bach,

Pop and Barbershop", which was held at the Great Hall in the Apparel Mart, chaired by Nancy Crinnion.

1977 - 1978 For the first time Braniff brought members from all chapters together for a luncheon at the BrookHollow Golf

Club. It was a very special day. Our Spring style show/luncheon netted $2,800, which paid for construction work and

furnishings for a teenage room at Children's Medical Center. This project was chaired by Merle Ireland. As an extra project,

we gave $1,500 for a stained glass window at the Interfaith Chapel at DFW.

1978 - 1979 Braniff again included all chapters of the Clipped Bs for our Fall luncheon at the Marriott Hotel. President

Russell Thayer announced the exciting new routes to Europe and the Far East. The Clipped Bs selected the American

Diabetes Association as their charity and raised over $7,000 through the 3rd printing of the "Stirring Moments" cookbook

under the leadership of Kaye Albright.

1979 - 1980 Our year included such diversified activities as a chili luncheon at Texas historian Frank X. Tolbert's Chili

Parlor, a Christmas party at Elan, and a general luncheon hosted by Braniff for all chapters at Holiday Inn North DFW.

Russell Thayer was again the principal speaker at this luncheon with a Far Eastern theme. We were happy to work closely

with our sponsor, Tom King, in his newly formed Executive Assistant's program. We recorded an all-time high in charitable

contributions to both the American Diabetes Association and the Jeanne Braniff Terrell Scholarship Fund, under project

chair Gail Schwartz.

1980 - DEN The Rocky Mountain Chapter joined other Bs in 1980 with Paula Jamison Prentup as first president. We know we

live in a wonderful area so it isn't surprising that we hosted two reunions. The one hosted January 1983 was the first annual

Clipped B reunion - lots of snow in Vail that year and a good time had by all. Our second reunion in 1991 was also in Vail at

the Sonnealp Inn where we had individual Alpine rooms. Shannon Roe Fox hosted a dinner at her lovely home. We offered

hot air balloon rides, roller bladeing and LOTS of shopping! Even though it was September, we had SNOW! (Contributed by

Cherry Hunt Fennell).

1980 - 1981 Our 268 members had a good time while involving themselves in such diverse projects as the charity bazaar

and garage sale and the Spring "shape up" with the former staff of "The Greenhouse". Proceeds from the garage sale were

donated to the Jeanne Braniff Terrell Scholarship Fund. This project was headed by Teresa Kinkaid. Gift contributions were

also made to "The Family Place". The pace for the year began in September with a "tacky dress salad luncheon", continued

through our Christmas party at the Belo Mansion, and concluded with our spring luncheon at the Dallas Country Club.

1981 - 1982 Early in the year we were assisted by the Braniff Auxiliary in a highly successful garage sale at the Braniff

Maintenance Base. Our Project Chairman was Marge Williams. Other activities were donations of needed items to "The

Family Place", a Sherry party honoring Braniff flight attendants who had flown over 25 years, and a Christmas party at the

Belo Mansion. Presidents of other chapters were our guests at the Spring luncheon and style show. Mr. Howard Putnam,

President, was the featured speaker. Exactly one week later Braniff filed for bankruptcy and ceased operations on May 12,

1982.

1982 - 1983 We were happy to welcome as members a number of flight attendants who had become "exes" when Braniff

ceased operation in May. Our two fund-raisers, a garage sale in the Fall and a wine tasting in the Spring, provided funding

for Jeanne Braniff Terrell Scholarships. Projects were chaired by Susan Allen. We also prepared Christmas trees, dinners

and gifts for five families from "The Family Place". Tom King, our BI sponsor, and Margaret Kincaid, Flight Attendant

Instructor, were invited to be honorary members.