Word: arango
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Club President Javier Arango '85, also responsible for the club's inception, oversees "ground activities." Meetings, movies, speakers and informal gatherings to familiarize members of the Harvard community with the joys of flying are planned, Arango said...
...Both Arango and Russell saw a need for a flying club when they arrived in Cambridge last year, but the club has really taken off with the aid of their faculty advisor, Edmund N. Goodhue, instructor in business administration...
...While Arango controls the ground life, above the campus Russell serves as the club's chief pilot. Russell, a certified flight instructor for both commercial and instrument instruction, says he intends to provide a wide range of flight training for private commercial and instructor licenses...
These pilots are a mere fraction of the number of people who have responded to club announcements. "Sixty members is more than we ever dreamed of," says Arango. "We were shooting for 20-25, advertising mostly by word of mouth, and 60 people responded in the first two weeks...
...process of forming the club, Arango says, the organizers made a surprising discovery. In 1929, the Harvard Flying Club had been one of the original members of the National Intercollegiate Flying Association. And in an impressive display of consistency and excellence, Harvard's club won the association's Loening Trophy for its first three consecutive years...