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Article: Flight Attendant Historian's Last Flight; S.F.-based Author, Historian Georgia Panter Nielsen Retires After 42 Years as Flight Attendant.
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- March 26, 2002
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The foremost authority on flight attendant history and the International Historian for the Association of Flight Attendants, AFL-CIO, Georgia Panter Nielsen concludes her career as a working United Airlines flight attendant on Tuesday, March 26, after 42 years of flying.
Nielsen's last trip, United flight 862 from Sydney, arrives in San Francisco at 9:35 a.m., Tuesday.
Nielsen began researching the history of her union as a university project in the 1970s. In 1980, AFA's Board of Directors chose her to be the union's International Historian and in 1982, Nielsen authored "From Sky Girl to Flight Attendant: Women and the Making of a ...