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MICHAEL A. GITT
99 CLENT ROAD, B-106, GREAT NECK, NY 11021

March 22, 1996

Mr. Floyd Bingham
47-48,245th Street
Douglaston, New York 11362

Mr, Arthur Schiller
15 Luquer Road
Manhasset, New York 11030

Gentlemen:

Enclosed please find my letter which I am sure you will find self explanatory.

I believe that Arthur new about it but I am not so sure that Floyd new.

Here I am back again with an often repeated story of my life.  It seems I can't hold a job.  How ever I do not have a real complaint, and you can't fault me for lack of trying.

In those good old days when I started to earn my bread in the flying business I had as many as five jobs a year.  They were short lived and never got above twenty five dollars a week.  The flying jobs were few and far between.  That was in the mid thirties.  I finally reach my first plateau in the airlines in 1940 That was a good one and it lasted until my 60th birthday and by that time Uncle Sam decided that I and the others like me were to old for the safety of the industry and so I started again looking for a permanent job.  I latched on to a feeder airline just starting out and that look promising.   It lasted for about six months they ran out of money and I ran out of a job again.

Then the Great Neck Park District gave me a job to set up there [[their]] Marina at Steppingstone Park right in my back yard, so to speak.  That was one that I really like It lasted and I reached the number seventy years and again I was declared superannuated.  Then I did little things like flying back and forth to the Pennsylvania oil fields and the Arabs got together and put us out of Business.  So along came you all with 55/ALIVE and you were kind enough to give me a good job "A LIFE TIME OPPORTUNITY.'  Along came a situation called.  " MYASTHENIA GRAVIS, and that is it.

I am not really worried.  AFter all what do I really have to complain about?  Something will come along.  IT always has.

And so guys, that is the story of my life.  It was and still is good.  In looking back I found it interesting, exciting and never dull.  It was GREAT except where do we go from here?