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Jannet Tricarico - President |
 .Jannet Tricarico was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. After completing university with a Business degree, she ventured to Paris, France to study at University of Sorbonne. After graduation she completed her language education in Denmark as correspondent in German, English and French.
Worked for ten years as Manager for the Danish Exhibition of Art & Craft under the patronage of her Royal Majesty the Queen of Denmark then returned to France to work in Sales and Promotion for Orlane Cosmetics.
A few years later was offered to work in Customer Service for Exhibition Automobile in Paris & Brussels and travelled extensively until becoming a Public Relation Manager for an American company based in Copenhagen. Simultaneously during those years became a Facilitator/Instructor for both Leadership Dynamics Institute in Europe and Advanced Business Management Inc. Worldwide.
After being hired by Air Canada in Customer Sales & Services in Vancouver she became the Airport Training Instructor. – During her time with AC was selected to work at EXPO86 and proud to have received an Excellence Reward AC/United Way, 3 nominations for Reward of Excellence and a Recognition for Tourism by Premier Bennett.
On behalf of the Star Alliance was sent to Copenhagen to help facilitate the opening of YYZ-CPH Route with SAS and later to Bangkok from there transferred to TPE to participate and train the staff in the opening of the YVR-TPE Route with EVA Airlines.
After nearly 30 years Jannet retired from AC in 2001.
After her retirement she is today also involved in several other associations:
- President for The Danish Sisterhood of America in Canada’s Lodge 179
- Trustee for the DS Pacific North West Conventions
- Director on the Executive Board of Dania Home Society for 7 years
- Member of the Emergency Assistance Team (SAT) for Air Canada
Jannet and her husband, Thomas live in North Burnaby, BC and has been married for 25 years. Her husband is still working - but enjoy their busy lives together with their longhaired miniature dachshund (as their 4-legged kid ) and their lovebird. Many other hobbies includes gardening, photography, reading, hiking and traveling - especially to various Formula ONE auto racing circuits around the World.
Pionairs
Jannet joined the Air Canada Pionairs in 2001. She became membership chair (3 years), Assistant District Director (1 year) and served as District Director and brought the YVR District membership to second highest of all 15 of Pionairs Districts Worldwide during her 3 years term.
In 2009 Jannet was elected Air Canada Pionairs National President.
President
(as provided for under the Bylaws, Article 4, paragraph 4)
- Responsible for the administration of Air Canada Pionairs.
- Responsible to the membership for the management and operation of the organization.
- Functions as the official liaison between the organization and Air Canada;
- Approves disbursement of organization funds;
- Along with the Treasurer has primary signing authority on all Bank Accounts
- Calls and presides over all official meetings of the Executive Board and the organization;
- Appoints all Directors-at-Large and define their duties as necessary
- Appoints all Committees and define their duties as necessary;
- Serves as an ex-officio member of all Committees
- Shall exercise the powers and perform the duties which are normally the responsibility of the chief administrator.
- Report to the membership on the activities of the organization and on future plans at least once each calendar year at the Annual General Meeting.
- Acts as the presiding officer at the Annual General Meeting.
- Signs all Membership Cards
- Responsible for the activities of the Director-at-Large, Publicity & Liaison.
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Norma Dawson - Immediate Past President |
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 Norma Dawson was hired by Air Canada on July 28, 1976 as a collector in the en/Route Credit Card department. Over the years she worked in Disbursements, Commercial Credit, and the Panda Project for Interline Payables. While on that project, she was responsible for the co-ordination of the manual method to an automated system and for the Y2K changeover. From there, Norma went on to the Sales Audit department as a collector for Quebec, Asia & Pacific regions. She retired in April 2003 and became involved with the Pionairs as a District Director for the Manitoba and Saskatchewan Region.
Norma married Bruce on May 3, 1969 and has one daughter, Kristin Leigh-Anne Rauser and 2 grandchildren, Meghan age 9, and Connor Age 5. In addition to her involvement in Pionairs, she is on the social committee of Christ the King R.C. Church, volunteers for various organizations, and works as a Marriage Commissioner for the Province of Manitoba.
Hobbies include gardening, traveling, has a Maltese/Shitz Tzu Dog and 2 resident Himalayan Cats. Spending time with her daughter, son-in-law and the grandchildren occupy her time.
Pionairs
Norma joined Air Pionairs organization and became the District Director for Winnipeg, MB and later served as President from 2007-2009 where she initiated the FREE one year membership trial which resulted in nearly 3000 new members. She will continue as Past President on the Pionairs Executive Board for 2 more years.
Immediate Past President
(as provided for under the Bylaws, Article 4, paragraph 9)
- Provides continuity in the conduct of the affairs of the Executive Board to the incumbent President and the Executive Board,
- In a consultative capacity, provides advice and counsel to the President and the Executive Board as required.
- Responsible for liaison with Air Canada People Department on all Benefits issues.
- Responsible for Executive Board liaison with all Sporting sub-committees of Pionairs.
- Responsible for ordering, stocking and sales of Pionairs boutique items.
- Performs other duties to assist the President as may be assigned to the position by the President.
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Trevor Baron - 1st Vice President & Sporting Events |
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 Trevor Baron started in 1974 with CP Air in Vancouver, where he worked in Payload Control. This was the department responsible for overbooking the flights and collecting all information regarding flights such as no-shows/overbookings/oversales. Trevor worked in this department for approximately one year until the computers were introduced and manual positions reduced. He was laid off for about six months and worked in accounting until he was recalled as an agent. He stayed in Payload until 1981 and then transferred to reservations. While in reservations in March of 1986 Pacific Western Airlines purchased CP Air. In 1988 he then transferred to Cargo and stayed there for one year prior to going to Vancouver airport. While in Cargo, Canadian Airlines purchased Wardair. In 1991 Trevor worked at the Victoria City Ticket office and while there the company became part of Air Canada. At the closing of the Air Canada Ticket Office Trevor chose early retirement rather than go back to Vancouver and retired in 2004.
Pionairs
Trevor joined the Pionairs upon his retirement and became the District Director for Victoria, BC in 2008 and he was very actively involved with advertising and sponsorship and in charge of the National Golf tournament held in YYJ in April 2009.
Trevor was elected 1st Vice President on Air Canada Pionairs National Executive Board in 2009.
First Vice-President
(as provided for under the Bylaws, Article 4, paragraph 5)
- Functions in place of the President whenever the President is absent or unable to perform the duties of office.
- In the absence of the President presides over all official meetings of the organization, including, without limitation, the Executive Board, the Board of Directors meetings and the Annual General Meeting.
- Acts as first back-up signing authority on all Bank Accounts in the event the President or Treasurer is absent or unable to perform the duties of office.
- Provides advice and counsel to the President and the Executive Board at all meetings.
- Responsible for research and preparation of Air Canada Pionairs newsletters and other information to members to be distributed through electronic or other approved channels as authorized by the President, (At least three news or information releases will be prepared and distributed to the membership each year)
- Responsible for the relationship and liaison with all electronic service providers including e-mail software providers (Constant Contact, EventBrite, etc.) and the Webmaster who maintains the Pionairs web page. Works closely with the Director, Publicity & Liaison on their contractual matters.
- Responsible for the activities of the Director, Memberships.
- In conjunction with the Director, Memberships, responsible for the maintenance of e-mail membership lists.
- Responsible for the activities of the Director, Web & E-Mail Services.
- Primarily responsible for responding to Members Emails on Pionairs and Travel related matters, with the support of the Director, Web & E-Mail Services.
- Performs other duties to assist the President as may be assigned to the position by the President.
Director, Sporting Events
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Val Conley - 2nd Vice President |
 Val Conley joined Air Canada on April 21, 1969 starting her career in the cargo department of Winnipeg Finance. Through transfers to various departments she gained experience in areas such as credit cards, credit granting, sales agents debit memos and third party collections. In Commercial Credit, she was promoted to Lead Clerk for the collection group.
Val was on the development team to create DARS II, the system that tracks bad debt for Air Canada. Val retired in September 2004 with 35 years of service. Born in Winnipeg, Val has always resided there. She and husband Dave, have been married for 33 years and have two children, Jennifer and Andrew and a grandson, Logan. She is a lifetime member of the woman’s organization (Beta Sigma Phi) and has held all executive offices within her chapter.Val is enjoying retired life and the opportunity to pursue new interests.
Travel has always been a wonderful experience and on retiring Val and Dave vacationed in Australia and New Zealand. They discovered the luxury of cruise travel and lhave enjoyed cruises to the Greek Islands., the Caribbean and Hawaii.
Pionairs
Val joined the Winnipeg group upon retirement. She served as 2nd Vice President, under President Norma Dawson from 2007 to 2009 and was responsible for planning social functions. Val was offered and accepted to continue in that capacity for her second term on the Executive Board.
Second Vice-President
(as provided for under the Bylaws, Article 4, paragraph 6)
- In conjunction with the President and the Executive Board, responsible for research and preparation for the Annual General Meeting of Air Canada Pionairs including the AGM material and packages, site preparations, registration and publicity.
- In conjunction with the President and the Director-at-Large, Publicity & Liaison, responsible for research and preparation of Air Canada Pionairs publicity and other information to be distributed through electronic or other approved channels as authorized by the President.
- Acts as second back-up signing authority on all Bank Accounts in the event the President or Treasurer is absent or unable to perform the duties of office.
- Performs other duties to assist the President as may be assigned to the position by the President.
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Rochelle Zucker - Treasurer |
 Rochelle Zucker was born in Winnipeg and has lived there all her life.
Rochelle graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and spent the next year traveling in Europe and Israel. She joined Air Canada on September 8, 1975 in the Interline Accounting area of Winnipeg Finance.
Rochelle jokes that she is the “accidental accountant”. She took the job at Air Canada more because of her love of travel than anything. She began taking accounting courses after she joined the company. In 1996, she earned the designation of Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
Through her years in Air Canada, Rochelle worked in various areas including Interline, Cargo and Agency Accounting, the EnRoute Credit Card office and the Systems Administration group. She was part of Air Canada’s team for the first Interline Electronic Ticketing Agreement with United Airlines. She was also part of a Star Alliance Paperless Billing working group. When she retired from Air Canada on March 30, 2006, after 30 ½ years of service, she held the position of Interline Controls Manager.
Rochelle has been married to Joe Eskow since 1987.
Rochelle volunteers with the Air Canada Group at Winnipeg Harvest – a local food bank. She was also a volunteer for the Pan Am Games when they were held in Winnipeg in 1999.One of her hobbies is studying Spanish. She has attended classes in Guatemala and Argentina. She is a member of The Group for Yiddish Heritage and hosts a weekly half hour Yiddish Radio program on a local station. She has also volunteered in many Federal, Provincial and Civic Elections.
Pionairs
Rochelle joined Pionairs in August 2006. She has been attending the local meetings and luncheons since then. She attended her first AGM in Victoria, and the Train the Trainer session in Calgary in April 2007. She was asked to serve as National Treasurer from 2007 – 2009 under President Norma Dawson and was honoured to be asked to serve a second term as Treasurer on the Executive Board.
Treasurer
(as provided for under the Bylaws, Article 4, paragraph 8)
- Responsible for the financial affairs of Air Canada Pionairs.
- Maintains the Bank account(s) for the organization, budget and financial records as required.
- Along with the President has signing authority on all bank accounts.
- Receives and deposits all funds due to the organization (including fees for Annual General Meeting social activities).
- In conjunction with First Vice President responsible for the activities of the Director, Membership specifically with regard to the receipt and deposit of Membership Dues.
- Pays all obligations on approval of the President, or 1st Vice President in the President’s absence.
- Prepares a Monthly Financial Statement for submission to the Executive Board and reports all financial transactions to all Executive Board meetings.
- Prepares an Annual Financial Statement for the fiscal year (from September 1 through August 31 of the following year) for audit and for submission to the Executive Board, the Board of Directors and the membership at the Annual General Meeting .
- Performs other duties to assist the President as may be assigned to the position by the President
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Gail Morlock - National Secretary |
 Gail Morlock was hired by Air Canada in April 1980 as a Secretary in Computer & Systems Service. While an employee in IT she worked on many projects, most notably, the Bull project and PANDA project. In 1990 Gail was assigned the position of Instructor and in that role taught Basic DOS, WordPerfect and Lotus to Management, ATS and Data Entry staff.
In September of 2000 Gail was offered the position of Administrative Assistant to the General Manager, Finance who oversaw a staff of plus 600 Finance employees. In 2004 she was promoted to Management as Executive Assistant to J.G. McLean, Controller of Air Canada.
During CCAA Gail was asked to participate as the Winnipeg representative in the bi-weekly teleconferencing meetings to disseminate important and timely information to Air Canada staff re developments in the CCAA process.
While employed with Air Canada Gail was very active in the Winnipeg Interline Club and through the years served as Secretary, Vice-President and President and ultimately became a member on the Board of Directors. She was the Recording Secretary for many years with the World Airlines Clubs Association and recorded the minutes at many Annual General Meetings around the world.
Gail’s husband Jerry, was the owner of Henderson Insurance in Winnipeg and retired from the insurance world in 2003. Gail and Jerry’s son Jay is aFirst Officer with Emirates Airlines and they are the proud grandparents of two granddaughters, Emily and Sarah. Gail enjoys golfing, skiing, traveling, reading, biking and walking.
Some of her accomplishments during her career include:
1987 Award of Excellence Recipient and a nominee for the award in 2005
(Air Canada’s most prestigious employee award).
Pionairs
Gail joined Pionairs in the spring of 2005 and in 2007 to 2009 enjoyed the challenging role of National Secretary under President Norman Dawson and was offered and accepted a second term on the Executive Board.
Secretary
(as provided for under the Bylaws, Article 4, paragraph 7)
- In conjunction with the President, responsible for preparation of all meeting notices and agendas for all meetings as called or required by the President.
- Records the minutes and maintains formal records of all Executive Board meetings, the Annual General Meeting and other meetings as called or required by the President.
- Confirms quorums and tabulates votes at all meetings.
- Distributes copies of minutes to all members of the Executive Board and the Board of Directors as applicable.
- Retains custody of the Corporate Seal.
- Responsible for all annual filing required by Industry Canada.
- Responsible for booking space for monthly executive meetings.
- Performs other duties to assist the President as may be assigned to the position by the President
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Carol-Ann Montgomery - Director, Publicity & Liaison |
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 Carol-Ann Montgomery was born in Victoria B.C. She attended U.B.C. where she graduated with a B.A. in May 1971. She was hired by Air Canada in January 1972 and worked in in-flight, reservation and at the Vancouver airport both full and part time.
She has also done volunteer work for the city of Vancouver. Carol-Ann has been married to David Herbert for thirty-five years and has one daughter. Carol is bilingual and enjoys languages as well as sailing, hiking, and reading.
Pionairs:
Carol-Ann joined Pionairs when she retired in February 2002 and has worked as Secretary for the Vancouver Pionairs Executive Committee for the last three years.
In 2009 she was elected as Director, Publicity & Liaison on the Air Canada Pionairs National Board.
Directors-at-large
(as provided for under the Bylaws, Article 4, paragraph 8)
Director, Publicity & Liaison
- Reports to the President and works closely with the First Vice President
- Responsible for negotiating with and maintaining corporate partnerships with Johnson Insurance and other travel related sponsors.
- Works closely with the President and the First Vice President in negotiating with and maintaining contractual relationship with Web page host and e-mail software supplier
- Works closely with the President and the Second Vice President in negotiating with and maintaining contractual relationship with venue hotels and restaurants for Semi Annual Directors’ Meeting and Annual General Meeting
- Performs other duties to assist the President as may be assigned to the position by the President.
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Bruce Aubin - Chairman Pension and Benefits Sub Committee |
 Bruce Aubin, born in Hamilton, Ontario, is married to Nancy and has three grown daughters and three grandchildren.
Bruce graduated from S, Louis University in Aeronautical Engineering and McGill University in Business Administration, He is a licensed Professional Engineer, has a Commercial Multi Engine Pilot's License, an A & P Mechanic's License and is a qualified Accident Investigator. He has spent over 45 years in the Air Transport Industry - 40 years with Air Canada and 4 with USAirways.
He has held leadership positions in: Engineering, Purchasing, Real Estate and Facilities, Aircraft Acquisition, Maintenance, and Technical Operations.
In 1992, after retirement from Air Canada as Senior Vice President - Technical Operations and Executive Advisor to the Chairman, President and CEO, he joined US Airways as its Senior Vice President, Maintenance Operations, responsible for its Contract workforce of 10,000 Mechanics and the airworthiness, reliability and maintenance of its 440 aircraft fleet.
Pionairs
Bruce has been the Chairman of the Pension & Benefits sub Committee since 2005.
Directors-at-large
(as provided for under the Bylaws, Article 4, paragraph 8)
Director, Chair Pensions & Benefits Sub-committee
Reporting to the President and to the Board of Directors, the duties of the Chair are defined in accordance with the ‘Terms of Reference’ of the Pensions & Benefits Sub-committee ’ as adopted by the Board of Directors at the semi Annual Meeting on October 14, 2004 and revised and approved by the Executive Board Feb. 11, 2009 as follows:
- Represent the Pionairs members in matters relating to the security of the Pension Trust Funds
- Works closely with the elected Pension Plan representatives in monitoring pension fund reports, including actuarial reports and financial statements from AC and makes recommendations for any actions deemed necessary
- On behalf of all retirees broadly monitors corporate activities relating to the pensions and benefits of retirees.
- To the extent possible monitors performance of individual pension plans and contributions from the various diversified companies of ACE.
- Meet with appropriate (Air Canada) Company representatives at least on an annual basis to be informed with regard to pensions and benefits of the retirees and surviving spouses. Such benefits include pensions and basic and supplemental health insurance plans maintained by the Company on behalf of retirees, as deemed necessary by the Chair in discussion with the President,
- In consultation with and/or as delegated by the President, meet with such other organizations including government departments, other Retiree Associations, Unions, Regulators and Agencies as are required to meet the objectives of the Sub-committee,
- Reports to the Executive Board at least on a quarterly basis and to the Semi Annual Board of
Director's meeting and the Annual General Meeting of Air Canada Pionairs.
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Ed Leckett - Director, Benefits/Web & E-mail Services |
 Ed Leckett joined Trans-Canada Air Lines in Winnipeg as a mailroom clerk in 1952. In1955 he transferred to the Metal Shop with Div.5. which was a 5 year contract with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was laid off in 1961 but was re-hired immediately as a temporary employee in Cat.01 (Maintenance) and became permanent 6 months later. In 1970 he transferred to Dorval as part of the Winnipeg Base Phase-out.
Ed retired January 1st 1992 as an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer with almost 40 years service.
Ed and Marsha celebrated their 50th Wedding anniversary in October, 2007. Sons were born to Marsha and Ed, in 1960 and 1961. Both obtained University Degrees, Neil in Electronic Engineering from McGill and Blaine from Concordia and McGill where he attained a PhD in Experimental Medicine.
Neil and his wife Anita, live in Ottawa with Ed & Marsha’s two male grand children. After two years of service in the JET (Japanese Exchange & Teaching) Program in Japan, Blaine, moved to the USA and now runs his business, with a partner, in California and is married to a lovely Japanese lady.
Pionairs:
Ed joined Pionairs just after his retirement in 1992 and has enjoyed his involvement with the Quebec District Pionairs Executive as a photographer of their local events for the past few years. He served as a member of the Pionairs National Executive under President John Rodger from September, 2003 to August 2005 as Benefits Director. Additionally (2003-2007) in an unofficial role as the Web coordinator and Photographer at all National Pionairs’ events. Photos he has taken at the Pionairs Annual General Meetings in 2003, 2004 and 2005 were displayed on the ACFamily Network Web Site Galleries.
From 2007 -2009 served on the National Board and will continue as Director, Benefits / Web & E-mail Services.
Directors-at-large(as provided for under the Bylaws, Article 4, paragraph 8)
Director, Benefits / Web & E-mail Services
- Reports to the President and Pionairs National Executive Committee
- Liaisons with Air Canada Employee Travel, People and Development, and Global Benefits Departments on benefit issues.
- Acts as National Web Coordinator, working closely with Pionairs’ Webmasters.
- Assist District Web Coordinators and.
- Produces the National Pionairs Newsletter, issues event(s) notices and reminders and occasional obituary announcements.
- Responds to members e-mails queries.
- Acts as Official Photographer for Pionairs when attending Pionairs functions.
- Uploads Pionairs event photographs to the Pionairs website Photo Gallery for membership viewing.
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Ed Storrie - Director, Memberships |
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Ed Storrie joined TCA in 1954 with the Defense Contract in Winnipeg and he joined Winnipeg Finance Computer Section as a Programmer/Analyst in 1962.
Ed accepted the position of Project Manager in the newly formed Computer and System Services Branch, Montreal in 1970 and in 1972 he was promoted to Manager Computer Operations at the Dorval base.
He moved to Toronto in 1979 to manage the Computer Operations for Res II and also managed the Via Rail reservation system. In 1983 Ed accepted the position of Manager System Security (system Wide)
Ed retired from Air Canada January 1985, after 31 years.
He then joined the Ontario Provincial Government as a Security Administrator for the Ministry of Government Services in 1985 and 1990 retired again, this time from the Provincial Government.
Pionairs:
Ed joined Air Canada Pionairs when he retired from Air Canada in 1985. From 2001 to 2003 he served as Second Vice-President on the National Executive with President Fraser O’Shaughnessey. He was primarily responsible for maintaining the Membership database, with Changes, Cancellations, Obits and new Members. He also assisted in hotel negotiations, district visits, Executive Board presentations to the Board of Directors, and duties as assigned.
In 2004 Ed was elected as the District Director for Central Ontario and later in the year once again assumed responsibility for the Membership data base as Membership Coordinator for the National Executive.
From April 2003 Ed assumed the task of Treasurer for the Pensions and Benefits Committee chaired by Bill Rowe during Air Canada's CCAA restructuring period. This included responsibility for accepting, depositing and keeping track of over 5,300 individual donations and from this provided the data base for the individual pro-rata donation refund letters. He was responsible for issuing all necessary cheques for all the expenses of the old P&B Committee, and the pro-rata refund donations as requested by the those donors who have asked for refunds.
Ed also served as Membership Chairman on the Executive Board in 2007 under President Norma Dawson and accepted the 1st V.P. position with the passing of Gord Dalziel. He was offered and accepted the position as Director, Membership for another term on the National Board in 2009.
Chairman, Memberships
- Reports to the First Vice-President, and Works closely with the Treasurer
- Maintains the Membership data base on a current basis
- Receives and processes all Membership Applications and deposits the accompanying dues in a special deposit bank account
- Responsible for mailing Welcoming Letter and laminated Membership Cards to all new Members and their Spouses
- Transfers dues in the deposit account to the Treasurer on a regular basis
- Submits all new members and membership changes to Air Canada Pension & Estates Administration (Dean Verrier) YWG to be added to the Pionairs Master database
- Assigns District codes and reformats data on the new monthly membership data base from YWG
- Reconciles all changes in Pionairs membership data base with Air Canada YWG on a regular basis, and receives Changes and Obituaries from YWG
- Produces monthly Reports of New Members, Obituaries and Changes and provides copies to District Directors and district data base coordinators
- Annually invoices (May/June) the non Pension Payroll members on the YWG database and deposits the membership dues into the Special Bank account
- Maintains a separate data base of the “Associate Members” and Invoice when necessary
- Works closely with 1st Vice President in maintaining e-mail members data base
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