INTERNATIONAL AIR BAHAMA
Flight Attendant Training Graduations


Welcome to the Bahamas,
Caribbean Paradise!




Dublin, Ireland June-July 1968



Graduations at Aer Lingus, Dublin, Ireland, 1968.

Photo taken across the road from training 
classes location close to Dublin Airport.

Air Bahama Chief Hostess Nettie Miller and 
Aer Lingus Training Class Supervisor 
Marian McCreery not present in photo.
F/A wing celebration ball
at Castletown House July 1968


Castletown House, County Kildare
Left to right

Sophia vantHof-v den Heuvel Daisy Leenart Helen Falk Brownson Thelma Otto Anna Eriksson, Gunilla Kaye (Kuylenstierna) Crawford Elisabeth G-son Karlson Anette Englund Martins Gun Vidal Nicole Krettels Burnett Claudine Hastert Ferron Liliane Steinmetz Gudrun Johansson Federico Eva Thelning Marco Lucy Timmermann Justiliano Mia McCreery Topping Sylvia King Carin Bergquist Skoglund Lena Granquist Wright Betty Marie-Berthe Frieders Kuntziger Viveca Hanngren Gunilla Hammar Safstrom and Anneke Hoffmann Placide


Same class as above. Newly recruited airline hostesses to be
arrive in Dublin, Ireland, 1968.
Photo shot in front of Dublin International
Airport Departure Building.



Top left to right Gunilla Kuylenstierna - Kaye - Crawford,
Eva Thelning Marco, Anneke Hoffmann Placide,
Viveca Hanngren, Anna Eriksson, Gudrun Johansson Federico,
Nicole Krettels Burnett, Anette Englund Martins,
Elisabeth Gustavsson Karlson, unknown from Sweden?
and Daisy Leenart.
Middle row left to right Sophia vantHof - van den Heuvel,
Helene Falk Brownson, Gunilla Hammar Safstrom, Sylvia King,
Liliane Steinmetz, Conny surname, Betty Marie Berthe
Frieders Kuntziger, Claudine Hastert Ferron.
Front row from left to right Margie Ave Torres, Gun Vidal,
Thelma Otto, Carin Bergquist Skoglund, Lucy Timmermann
Justiliano and Mabel Desmet.


Fligh attendant training in Dublin, Ireland 1969



Adela Adderley Osterloh,
Karen Fawkes Fox Lunn,
Maddie Johnson Ledard and
Vernica Ferguson, all of
Nassau, Bahamas, at training
in Dublin, Ireland


Emergency evacuation slides
at flight training in Dublin.
Is it Karen Fawkes hollering
to the pax to get out in less
than 80 seconds ...







Luxembourg, February 1970

Exited girls on their way to flight
attendant training with Eastern Airlines
in Miami in spring of 1970.

From left to right:
1. Rosina Breuer
2. Margret Snorrdottir Johnson, Iceland
3. Arlette Fabry - Hutchinson
4. Cosette (surname missing), Holland
5. Viviane Theis Cedergren
6. Daničle Mayer Rousseaux
7. Georgette Frisch Kohn
8. Liliane Hebeler
9. Mireille Frey, France



Photo courtesy Georgette Kohn Frisch
and Vivianne Theis Cedergren




Nassau Bahamas, May 1970


Standing from left to right:
as the persons appear, regardless
whether front row or back row!






no 1 - Fifi Labine, Chief Flight Attendant
no 2 - Rosemarie Althea Bodie
no 3 - Beverly Petrina Lightbourne
no 4 - Joan Armaly
no 5 - Frances Ballard
no 6 - Rose Christie 
no 7 - Nancy Armstrong, Course instructor
no 8 - Frances Clarkson
no 9 - Vivica Watkins
no 10 - Sandra Gibson
no 11 - Ev Terry, Chief Pilot


Sitting diagonally from back going forward:
no 12 - no 13- no 14 - Donna Fernander no 15-




Miami, June 1971




Eva Thiberg Jacobs at
graduation with Chief
Stewardess Fifi Labine.
Left to right
no 1 - Pia Tervaniemi
no 2 - Cecilia Wetterholm
no 3 - Unknown
no 4 - Pia Cedvin
no 5 - Eva Thiberg Jacobs
no 6 - Carina Kjellstrom
no 7 - Unknown
no 8 - Evelyn Grant Potier
no 9 - Unknown
no 10 - Unknown
no 11 - Unknown
no 12 - Fifi Labine
no 13 - Gun Vidal
no 14 - Vernica Ferguson and 
no 15 - Captain Ev Terry




Miami, Florida 1972



BEVERLY MCKINNEY
Graduation 1972 was in Miami, when chief stewardess
Fife LaBine was with the company.
It was on 21st april 1972, my birthday!


Chief Stewardess Fifi LaBine
presenting flight attendant
graduation award to Carnetha Carew.
Left to right
No 1 - Captain Ev Terry, Chief pilot No 2 - Daphne Kerr No 3 - Beverly surname No 4 - Ruthie Lightbourne No 5 - Carnetha Carew No 6 - Esterletta Adderley-Allen No 7 - Denise ? No 8 - Jacintha Fox - Blake No 9 - Beverley McKinney No 10 - No 11 - No 12 - Vernica Ferguson No 13 - Gun Vidal No 14 - Ed Little




Graduation class of 1973



Photo courtesy Yvonne Shaw, Nassau, Bahamas



Left to Right

1. Unidentified

2. Theresa King

3. Diane Grant - Wildgoose

4. Unidentified

5. Unidentified

6. Esterletta Adderley - Allen

7. Mary Sinclair - Profilo

8. Pamela Isaacs

9. Pandora Storr




Graduating Class of Flight Attendants 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





Graduation class of 1976


Hello Air Bahama!

IAB training class 1976 , photo taken at
the Ambassador Beach Hotel in Nassau.

From left to right Romaine Scharry-Vandeloo,
Martine Linster, Judith, Dominique Poubeau,
Valerie Mechanik, Marie, Sylvie Weber,
Yvette Moos-Pauletto, Chantal Stephany-Matuszewski
and Robert. Maybe someone could fill in
missing surnames


Photo courtesy Chantal Stephany Matuszewski, Luxembourg


Ambassador Beach Hotel
now Breezees Hotel