SUPERVISOR OF STEWARDESSES

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28938, 4 July 1959, Page 2

SUPERVISOR OF STEWARDESSES

Miss Tess Curtin, | Of BDAC Tse girls wh© took after ato-; Ito® aftea make sews.' Less vften to tit* arethe girls whe look after the stewardeffies. One of toe bussert ■of toese is Miss Tea Cwtito wlsa, after years of flytag the air routes ttf toe world, has recently ukera sp one of toe mast toteresttog j<sfes to 8.0.A.C. As stspervisrar ef Aston: stewardesses, based to Hang ■ Kong, tod" sas charge af toe SB

i Japanese. Chinese, Indian and - Pakistani girls who help take i .earq of passengers on trunk (routes between Beirut and Tokyo She not only has charge of their work and training, but keeps an ey«. on their welfare, too. She brings to the job toe experience gained to nearly 10 years to the ■ airline business plus three years iin the British Women’s Royal Naval Service—the “Wrens”— ; which she left to IMO to join 8.0.A.C. In toe years that followed, she flew to Argonauts. 'Constellations. Stratocruisers and i DC-7Cs One of her most memorable flights was as a member of the crew of the BO.AjC DC-7C wbicb flew Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on one stage of her journey to New Zealand last year Another special Sight was to Moscow last November, to the Comet 4 jetliner which carried; members of the world famous] Stratford Memorial Theatre Com-! pany to Russia.