[AT] Thanks for your help!

[David Rotigel]

>
Hi George, I'm going to miss you at Portland this year! Sure hope that  
your "health issues" aren't real serious and you will be back  
attending shows real soon!
	Dave

> Hi Harold,
>
> Health issues will keep me away from the Portland show this year for  
> the
> first time in 33 years.  In recent years we've had a special ATIS  
> camp site.
>
> Especially in the earlier years we made it a point to watch the fiddle
> contest.  It seemed almost mandatory for each contestant to play their
> version of "Orange Blossom Special" to great applause.  The last  
> time we
> watched it the winner was Gene Damschroder, the owner of our local
> airport... and the instructor who signed me off for my license check  
> ride in
> 1967.  Unfortunately, he and 5 other people were killed about a  
> month ago in
> his Cessna 206.
>
> George Willer