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AIR BAHAMA HISTORY BY FRED COX

CREW FRIENDSHIP REUNION WEBSITE FIRST PUBLISHED JULY 16, 2000

UP UP AND AWAY WITH AIR BAHAMA!

Marian celebrating her birthday somewhere in the clouds - LUX-NAS or NAS-LUX?

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MARIAN HESSINK GESELL
INTERNATIONAL AIR BAHAMA

On the aft cabin jumpseat Ruthie
Lightbourne, Marian, Joan Armaly,
Georgette Kohn Frisch and Rosina Breuer

Click photos to enlarge!

MARIAN CHECKING THE CABIN - 1973

Somewhere over the ocean.
Mia McCreery - Topping and
Margie Ave-Torres, 1973

BASRA RESCUE - CREW LAYOVER

			Lucy Timmerman, Skip Walton, Larry Swartz 1973, Luxembourg and 'Tex' Davis, 1973, Luxembourg Photo to the left: Class of 73 doing survival training. 1973 Nassau
	Fifi LaBine with Bruce, crew bus driver 1973 Nassau

MARIAN HESSINK GESELL
INTERNATIONAL AIR BAHAMA

	Arlette Fabry, Don ....... (used to be one of the co-pilots) and Ted Vosk, Luxembourg 1975		Richard 'Brownie' Brown, Flight engineer, Luxembourg 1983
	GRADUATION CLASS 1973 Marian, Yvonne, Fifi La Bine and Ed Little, Nassau		GRADUATION CLASS OF 1973 Graduation class of '73. Fifi La Bine with one of the new Flight Attendants, unfortunately unid - Nassau 1973

Graduating Class of Flight Attendants 1973

Front row left to right
1. Course instructor Margie Ave Torres
2. Joyce Varga Petrina
3. unidentified
4. Chief Stewardess Yvonne Shaw
5. unidentified
6. Pandora Clark?
7. Chantal Schlesser
 or Chantal Stephany?

Back row left to right
1. Joan Armaly
2. Beverly McKinney
3. Yvonne´s secretary
4. Astrid Mengen?
5. Chief Pilot Ev Terry
6. unidentified
7. Mika Pizzioli
8. unidentified
9. Barbara Batelaan
10. Nellie Jansen Epstein
11. Barbara Bethel
12. Marian Hessink Gesell

MARIAN HESSINK GESELL
INTERNATIONAL AIR BAHAMA

LAST FLIGHT OUT
OF LUXEMBOURG

From right to left: Capt. Joe Gorrill,
Mrs. "Gus" Bacon, Marian, Gus Bacon,
Jannie van As - Gorrill and Richard
Clark. This was the last flight out of
Luxembourg. I believe there were no
passengers o/b just dead heading crew
and I am not sure of the date.
Can someone help out?

LUXEMBOURG 2000 REUNION AT HOTEL ITALIA!

	Ian Mortimore, Margie Torres, Marian Gesell-Hessink and Don Torres		Betty Zimmer, Gunilla Crawford-Kay, Yvonne Shaw and Georgette Kohn-Frisch
	Marcel Janssens, Gary Cash and Olive Rolle -Schneider		Marian Gesell-Hessink, Anneke Placide- Hofmann and Anna Eriksson.
	From left to right: Icelandair photographer name slip Mia McCreery-Topping, Marian Gesell- Hessink, Henry Hilderman, Vera Hilderman with back to camera and Anneke Placide-Hofmann.		From left to right: Mia McCreery-Topping, Nicole Burnett, Eva Jacobs, Don Torres and Marian Gesell-Hessink

MARIAN HESSINK GESELL
INTERNATIONAL AIR BAHAMA

Georgette, Marian and
colleagues

Left to right Tex Davis, Marian, Donna Fernander,
Vernica Ferguson, Althea Bodie, Gunilla Kay
Crawford and F/O (Later Capt) Will
Rogers (died in Surinam A´ways crash)

LUXEMBOURG LAYOVERS!

So many happy evenings at Leo´s at hotel Italia

Brownie, Georgette and
Marian at this end of table

Photos courtesy Georgette Kohn Frisch

Twiggy, Ruthie and ???

Georgette and Marian deserve a rest after
pax meal service

Twiggy and Marian

Mia McCreery Topping

Joe Gorrill and Skip with Joan Armaly
getting ready to deplane after a
completed trip to Luxembourg

Joe Gorrill and
Skip having fun

Marian at the Air Bahama Crew
Friendship Reunion at Hotel Italia Luxembourg July 2000

Carin Bergquist Skoglund, Mia McCreery Topping, 
Marian Hessink Gesell, Georgette Frisch Kohn, 
Anneke Hoffmann Placide, Gunilla Hammar Safstrom, 
Elisabeth Gustavsson Gyllman, Gun Vidal and 
Eva Thiberg Jacobs

South African Safari with Marian!

MARIAN HESSINK GESELL - SOUTH AFRICA

OCTOBER 21, 2006
Here in South Africa, we are moving into spring, but so far it has been cool and rather wet. In August we had some severe weather conditions, trees uprooted, so much rain with nowhere to go, mud slides, rock falls and serious damage to the infrastructure, roads etc. We came out rather unscathed, with a couple of trees crashing, one missing the house by an inch or two and luckily all the drains, although doing overtime, were running well, so no water damage to the house. In the meantime we have removed the fallen trees and rehabilitated as much as we could. We now need a little sunshine to make a go of it.

I leave you with some elephants, residing in one of the Reserves nearby and a Boomslang baby with lunch which resides in our garden. Although highly poisonous, the chance of being bitten by one of these is rather slim, unless you stick your finger in its mouth, their fangs are facing back rather than forward as is the case of other species. So far I have kept my fingers to myself. Besides, these snakes are so shy, they are long gone before you even notice them. Just as well. :-)

From Africa with love,
Marian