Mary and Kevin Biller hosted the 2004 Christmas Party for the Scioto Valley Chapter of the Ninety Nines. Again this year, the 99s voted to forego the Christmas-gift exchange in favor of donating an equivalent amount of money to the aviation-fuel fund for the International Health Service, to which Jo-Ann and Jim Prater contribute much service in Honduras.
Of course, another purpose of the annual Christmas Party is for the 99s to bring large quantities of home-baked cookies, and to pack them in decorated coffee cans, to be distributed to local Air-Traffic Control facilities and Fixed-Base Operators at the area's airports frequented by members of the Scioto Valley Chapter.
Terri Vrbancic, Amy Yersavich, and Wendy Yost, engaged in a little hangar flying in the dining room, just before the food lines get underway.
Myra Jamison, with her food plate piled high, gives the camera a big grin. Charma Huddy, Marilynn Miller, and others are clustered around the food in the background.
Clockwise around the kitchen table are George and Jann Bowne, Joanne Austin, Glenn Sproat, Tracy Hahn, Terri Vrbancic, Candy and Jerry Eichenberger.
Here's a view of the same kitchen-table group from the opposite side.
Did Charma Huddy think a photograph of her empty plate was that comical? Paula Hook and Wendy Yost pretend that they are indifferent about it, though. They want us to think they'd only had a single glass of punch all evening.
Amy Yersavich, Kevin and Mary Biller ate in the other corner of the living room, opposite the Biller's beautifully decorated Christmas tree.
The kids kept to themselves in the den.