Santa Monica City Council
November 11, 2024

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
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The following property and historical information identified below must be provided in order for your application to be determined complete by the City Planning Division.

You may provide information on additional sheets of paper.

PROPERTY INFORMATION
Description of site or structure, note any major alterations & dates of alterations:

Statement of architectural significance:

Statement of historic importance:

NOTES TO

APPLICANT
For more information
on designation
procedures, refer to
SMMC Section 9.56.

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Person(s) of historic importance:

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Statement of other significance:

Documents and publications that relate directly to proposed improvement (bibliography):

Factual Estimated
Present Use of Structure(s):

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Is/Are structure(s) on original site:

Is/Are structure(s) threatened with destruction:

If yes, state reason: Pavement Removal
Wilma Fritschey
Air marking/Navigational Aid
Air marking/Navigational Aid
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FOR STRUCTURES ONLY:

Date of construction: Original
Source: Aerial photographs
Architect/Designer/Engineer:

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location circa 1947, current
location 1988
Ninety-Nines International Association of Women Pilots

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APPLICATOIN REQUIREMENTS
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS – all items must be provided
Completed Application.

Payment of Fee, if applicable.

Payment of Fee is WAIVED for Non-Profit Organizations. Documentation demonstrating Tax-Exempt Status must be included with this application and at the time of filing to be eligible for a Landmark/Structure of Merit Designation Application fee waiver.

Staff will confirm non-profit organization status prior to deeming this application complete.

Eight (8) sets of labeled Color Photographs of the building elevations or improvement on 8½" x 11" paper (Color photocopies are acceptable).

Any information you feel would be of assistance in reviewing the application, such as original plans, old photos, or other historical information.

For structures only: if applicant is requesting approval of modifications, please submit all materials requested for a Certificate of Appropriateness Application.

I hereby certify that the information contained in this application is correct to the best of my knowledge. ____________________________________________________
Applicant’s Name (PRINT)
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Robert Chattel
05/30/2019

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ADDITIONAL CONTACT PERSONS
This designation application is being filed by Chattel, Inc. and The 99s of the Los Angeles Area, Inc., (a chapter of The Ninety-Nines International Association of Women Pilots).

Name: Eve Lopez, Compass Rose Chair, The 99s of the Los Angeles Area, Inc.

Address: 3025 Airport Avenue #2, Santa Monica, CA 90405 Email: [email protected]

PROPERTY INFORMATION
Description of site or structure, note any major alterations & dates of alterations:

The Compass Rose is a painting of a compass rose on concrete paving (Compass Rose) located to the north of and adjacent to Runway 3 at the Santa Monica Municipal Airport (Santa Monica Airport).

The Compass Rose is circular, with a diameter of approximately 50 feet and a circumference of approximately 160 feet. In the center of the Compass Rose are two blue interlocking numeral “9”s within a white circle. Twelve triangular points surround the central circle. Four points face the cardinal directions (cardinal points). These cardinal points are 15 feet from central circle to point.

Two shorter points are located between each of the cardinal points (eight shorter points total). These shorter points are eight feet from central circle to point.

A Compass Rose is noted to have existed at an unknown location at the Santa Monica Airport in 1929, though no physical evidence has been discovered. A Compass Rose was painted on the northeast side of the Santa Monica Airport from circa 1947 to circa 1987 adjacent to Runways 21 and 22. The Compass Rose was relocated and first painted at its current location circa 1988. The Compass Rose is maintained by The 99s of the Los Angeles Area, Inc. (LA 99s), a chapter of The Ninety-Nines International Association of Women Pilots (Ninety-Nines), who are based at the Santa Monica Airport. It was most recently repainted in its current location in 2010.

Statement of historic importance:

The Compass Rose is the trademark logo of The Ninety-Nines. The Ninety-Nines were founded in November 1929 by women pilots following the first Women’s Transcontinental Air Derby (Derby) which took off from the Santa Monica Airport on August 18, 1929. The eight day long, 2,800-mile Derby was the first sanctioned air race for women in the country. The Compass Rose is emblematic of over 90 years of the history of women in aviation. While the history of aviation in Santa Monica is commemorated through sites such as the interpretive display for aviation innovator Waldo Waterman at 1550 5th Street, the Museum of Flying at 3100 Airport Avenue, the Aero Theater at 1328 Montana Avenue, and Douglas Park at 2439 Wilshire Boulevard (the earliest location of Douglas Aircraft), the history of women in aviation in Santa Monica is not documented or represented through designated Landmarks, Structures of Merit, or otherwise. The Rotating Beacon Tower built circa 1928 and moved to the Santa Monica Airport in 1952, was designated a City Landmark in 1988 in part because it represents an early aviation navigational tool. The Compass Rose is similarly an early navigational tool which continues to function as both a form of air marking and as a symbol of the traditions of women in aviation, and their important contributions. The Compass Rose is significant for representing the important and underrepresented history of women in aviation both locally and nationally. The first Compass Rose is believed to have existed at the Santa Monica Airport as early as 1929 though no physical evidence exists. Physical evidence of a Compass Rose at the original site location adjacent to runways 21 and 22 dates to circa 1947. Its present location, adjacent to runway 3, dates to circa 1988, which is sufficiently in our past to interpret and preserve. On March 26, 2019, Santa Monica City Council awarded contracts for an approved excess pavement removal

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project adjacent to the runways, which directly threatens demolition of both the original and current location of the Compass Rose.
1 The following descriptions provide contexts by which to understand the Compass Rose as a significant historic site in Santa Monica.

The Ninety-Nines International Association of Women Pilots The history of the Ninety-Nines is directly linked to the National Women’s Air Derby (Derby) of 1929 which began at the Santa Monica Airport. The first National Air Race took place in 1920 and early air races were restricted to male pilots. Mary Myers was one of the first documented women balloon aeronauts, completing over 500 ascents beginning in 1880.2 Early American female aviators include Bessica Raiche, Blanche Stuart Scott, Harriet Quimby, Ruth Law, and Katherine Stinson. In 1921, Bessie Coleman became the first licensed African-American pilot in the world.3 By 1929, there were approximately 60 women pilots in the United States, and potentially up to 117 worldwide. A total of 20 women pilots were registered to participate in the Derby, which was organized in part by the Santa Monica Bay Exchange Club.4 The night before the Derby there was a party at the La Monica Ballroom on the Santa Monica Pier.5 The Derby began at what had recently been renamed the Santa Monica Municipal Airport, but was still commonly referred to as Clover Field. It was the first sanctioned air race for women, and it attracted women pilots locally, nationally and abroad. The airplanes in the Derby were divided into two classes based on size and horsepower. Class A airplanes were between 510 and 800 horsepower (heavyweight), and Class B airplanes were between 275 to 510 horsepower (lightweight).6
The participants in the Derby who took off from Clover Field were:

1. Marvel Crosson

2. Florence (“Poncho”) Lowe Barnes

3. Blanche W. Noyes

4. Louise M. Thaden

5. Mary E. Von Mach

6. Amelia Earhart

7. Phoebe Omlie

8. Margaret Perry

9. Ruth Nichols

10. Opal Logan Kunz

11. Jessie “Chubby” Keith Miller

12. Claire Fahy

13. Thea Rasche

14. Ruth Elder

15. Mary “Me” Maizlip (who started one day late)
1“Staff Report 3418 Award Construction and Construction Management Contracts for the Santa Monica Airport-Reuse of Excessive Airfield Pavement Projects,” City of Santa Monica, http://santamonicacityca.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_LegiFile.aspx?Frame=&MeetingID=1178&MediaPosition=&ID=341 8&CssClass=. 2 Gene Nora Jessen, Powder Puff Derby of 1929, Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2002, p. xi. 3 Ibid., xiv. 4 Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon, Amelia: The Centennial Biography of an Aviation Pioneer, Washington DC: Brassey’s, Inc., 1997. 5 “Women Fliers, Famous Throughout World; Gather at Airport for Final Plans For Contest; at Ballroom Tonight,” Santa Monica Evening Outlook, August 17, 1929. 6 “Clover Field Ready for Air Races,” Santa Monica Evening Outlook, August 17, 1929.

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16. Evelyn “Bobbi” Trout

17. Gladys O’Donnell7

18. Vera Dawn Walker

19. Edith Foltz

20. Neva Finley Paris8
The Derby was a grueling 2,800 miles over eight days, encompassing brutal terrain, extreme heat, and little ground support.
9 The schedule of the Derby was as follows:
• Sunday, August 18: Santa Monica to San Bernardino, overnight stop • Monday, August 19: San Bernardino to Phoenix, overnight stop • Tuesday, August 20: Phoenix to Douglas, Arizona; Douglas to Columbus, New Mexico, Columbus to El Paso, overnight stop
• Wednesday, August 21: El Paso to Pecos, Texas, Pecos to Midland, Texas, overnight stop • Thursday, August 22: Midland to Fort Worth, overnight stop • Friday, August 23: Fort Worth to Tulsa, Tulsa to Wichita, Kansas, overnight stop • Saturday, August 24: Wichita to Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City to East St. Louis, Illinois, overnight stop
• Sunday, August 25: East St. Louis to Terre Haute, Indiana, Terre Haute to Cincinnati, Cincinnati to Columbus, overnight stop.
• Monday, August 26: Columbus to Cleveland, end of race.10 Louise Thaden won first place in the Derby, in the heavyweight aircraft class. She was followed by Gladys O’Donnell in second, and Amelia Earhart in third. In the lightweight class, Phoebe Omlie won first place, followed by Edith Folz in second, and Chubby Keith Miller in third11.

In a Cleveland hotel room following the Derby, Amelia Earhart and others met to discuss starting a women pilot’s organization.12 Amelia Earhart had the idea of starting an organization of women pilots even before the Derby, and the first documentation of this is in a September 15, 1927 letter to Ruth Nichols.
13 The success of the Derby was the impetus to start such an organization. In the months following the Derby, four women pilots—Margery Brown, Fay Gillis, Frances Harrell, and Neva Paris—wrote to all licensed women pilots in the United States about the idea to form an organization. On November 2, 1929, 26 women pilots from around the country met at Curtiss Field in Long Island, New York (no longer extant) to start the organization.14 A suggestion by Amelia Earhart that a number rather than a name for the organization be chosen and that the number coincide with the total number of charter members was met with unanimous approval15. Between November 1929 and February 1930, the name changed from the 86s to the 97s and eventually to The Ninety-Nines 7 “Clover Field Ready for Air Races,” Santa Monica Evening Outlook, August 17, 1929. 8 D.D. Hatfield, Los Angeles Aeronautics 1920-1929, Hatfield History of Aeronautics, Northrop Institute of Technology, 1973, 188. 9 Terry Von Thaden, Amelia Earhart Fellow Presentation, https://web.archive.org/web/20060813221706/http://www.zontafrederick.org/Terry_von_Thaden_speech_July_2004.p df. 10 Ibid. 11 D.D. Hatfield, Los Angeles Aeronautics 1920-1929, Hatfield History of Aeronautics, Northrop Institute of Technology, 1973, 188-189. 12 Kathleen C. Winters, Amelia Earhart: The Turbulent Life of an American Icon, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 51. 13 Amelia Earhart, Letter to Ruth Nichols, September 15,1927, Purdue University Libraries, http://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/earhart/id/3195/rec/2. 14 Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon, Amelia: The Centennial Biography of an Aviation Pioneer, Washington DC: Brassey’s, Inc., 1997, 74. 15 Margaret Cooper, Canadian Aviation, December 1933.

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based on the total number of charter members16. In 1929, there were 117 licensed women pilots at the time, and 99 agreed to membership.
17 The organization was first chaired by Louise Thaden, and in 1931, Amelia Earhart was elected the Ninety-Nines’ first president.18 The Ninety-Nines were formed to create an organization where women pilots could form relationships with other women pilots, network for jobs, and share their love of flying. Women pilots faced significant discrimination, were discouraged from flying, and were often negatively compared to their male counterparts. In covering the Derby, Will Rogers was quoted saying “It looks like the Powder Puff Derby to me.”19 Though derogatory, the Ninety-Nines quickly came to adopt the moniker “Powder Puff Derby” and used it as a name for an annual air race for a number of years.

Women pilots were frequently referred to as “petticoat pilots,” “ladybirds,” “flying flappers,” and “sweethearts of the air.”20 There was some speculation among the press that none of the women pilots would even show up to the Derby, and reportedly someone told Amelia Earhart that they had dustpans ready to sweep up the wreckage from the Derby they believed would inevitably be scattered across the country.21 Before the Derby, the National Aeronautical Association attempted to require that a male navigator accompany each female pilot, and that the Derby begin east of the Rocky Mountains because they believed it would be too dangerous for women to fly across them.

The Derby entrants successfully fought back against both of these provisions. The discrimination and derogatory commentary went beyond flying; when Margaret (Perry) Cooper succeeded Amelia Earhart as president of the Ninety-Nines in 1933, she was described as being “much too young and pretty” to be the organization’s president.22
By the early 1930s, the Ninety-Nines were divided into regional chapters. As described in the Los Angeles Times in 1933:

The Ninety-Nines grew out of that 1929 air derby and is the only organization of licensed women pilots in the land. The organization aids women in many ways and stimulates interest in flying on the part of the fair sex. The United States has been divided by the club into sections, each of which sponsors some activity furthering feminine flying and aviation in general. The southwestern section has a loan fund at the disposal of members in good standing who find it financially impossible to maintain the required number of flying hours to hold their tickets.23
There are currently 155 chapters of the Ninety-Nines in 44 countries with over 6,000 members. The mission of the Ninety-Nines is to “promote[s] advancement of aviation through education, scholarships, and mutual support while honoring our unique history and sharing our passion for flight.”24
The Ninety-Nines were first headquartered in Washington, D.C. In 1955 they moved to Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in order to be more centrally located in the United States. At their headquarters they support both the 99s Museum of Women Pilots and the Aviation 16 “Charter Members,” Ninety-Nines International Organization of Women Pilots, https://www.ninetynines.org/charter-members.htm. 17 Doris L. Rich, Amelia Earhart: A Biography, Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989, 95. 18 Kathleen C. Winters, Amelia Earhart: The Turbulent Life of an American Icon, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 100. 19 Gene Nora Jessen, Powder Puff Derby of 1929, Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2002, 66. 20 Ibid., 59. 21 Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon, Amelia: The Centennial Biography of an Aviation Pioneer, Washington DC: Brassey’s, Inc., 1997, 72. 22 “Much Too Pretty,” Los Angeles Times, November 15, 1933. 23 Jean Bosquet, “Skyways,” Los Angeles Times, December 3, 1933. 24 “About the organization,” Ninety-Nines International Organization of Women Pilots, https://www.ninetynines.org/who-we-are.htm.

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Research Library.25 The Ninety-Nines also own and manage the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum (Museum) in Atchison, Kansas. The house was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The interior of the Museum was designed by Cheryl Jolene (CJ) Strawn, a longstanding, active member and former Chair of the Los Angeles-Palms Chapter based out of Santa Monica Airport. Strawn was a costumer and theater crafts artist as well as a certified flight instructor. She helped coordinate the Palms to Pines yearly air race and used funds raised from the air race to help fund the Museum.
26 Although Amelia Earhart is remembered for many of her achievements including setting numerous aviation records, and as a pioneer for women in aviation, the most impactful and enduring aspect of her legacy is The Ninety-Nines because the organization continues to support and encourage women pilots throughout the world over 90 years since its founding.

The 99s of the Los Angeles Area, Inc.

On March 2, 1932, three years after the founding of The Ninety-Nines, the Los Angeles Chapter, based out of Santa Monica airport, became one of the original two chapters of the Southwest Section. The Chapter was founded at a banquet at the Old Venice Noodle Company. By 1951, the Chapter had grown and voted to split into three chapters; Los Angeles, Long Beach, and San Fernando. A Santa Monica Bay Chapter also existed briefly at the Santa Monica Airport from 1974- 1984. In 1978, Claire L. Walters formed a Palms Chapter. She also founded the annual Palms to Pines Air Race Classic in 1969, which took off from Santa Monica Airport each year and ran consecutively for 40 years, making it the longest running all-female air race in history. Together with CJ Strawn, Claire ran the final Palms to Pines air race in 2009 before her passing in January of 2010. Both the Los Angeles and Palms Chapters operated at the Santa Monica Airport until they merged in Spring of 2001 and became known as the Los Angeles-Palms Chapter (the first merger of two chapters in Ninety-Nines history).27
By 1933, the number of licensed women pilots had grown to 607. Of those 607, 97 lived in southern California.28 By 1986, California had over 800 members of The Ninety-Nines, more than any other state.29
Today the Los Angeles Chapter of The Ninety-Nines, based at the Santa Monica Airport, continue the mission of The Ninety-Nines. They host chapter meetings, participate in air derbies, and promote air marking through the Compass Rose initiative.

Early Navigational Tools/History of Air Marking
In the earliest days of aviation, pilots could easily become lost and confused looking for landmarks to tell them where they were. Pilots often followed railroad tracks and roads to get from town to town30.

By 1924 the Postal Service developed a system of ground-based navigation beacons to help pilots fly across the country at night.
31 The beacons featured a 50-foot tower with 5,000 candlepower 25 “International Headquarters,” Ninety-Nines International Association of Women Pilots, https://www.ninetynines.org/headquarters.htm. 26 Claire L. Walters and Betty McMillen Loufek, This Flying Life, AirWoman Press Publication, 1999, 203. 27 “Compass Rose History,” The Ninety-Nines Inc., Los Angeles Chapter Southwest Section, 2019, 2. 28 Jean Bosquet, “Skyways,” Los Angeles Times, December 3, 1933. 29 Charles Hillinger, “Amelia Earhart’s Legacies Fly High,” Los Angeles Times, October 12, 1986. 30 Jacqline Barnes, “Early Earhart Rival Leaves Legacy of Safety: Blanche Noyes Guides Pilots Home.” Journal of Air Traffic Control, Fall 2013,
https://www.atca.org/uploads/Blanches%20Noyes%20ATCA%20Journal%20Fall.pdf. 31 “Concrete Arrows and the U.S. Airmail Beacon System,” Sometimes Interesting, https://sometimesinteresting.com/2013/12/04/concrete-arrows-and-the-u-s-airmail-beacon-system.

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rotating lights that would flash every ten seconds. The airmail beacon program continued to operate full-scale until 1933, when technology advancements and the higher cost of operation during the Great Depression rendered it obsolete. The Department of Commerce decommissioned and disassembled the towers for their steel, a resource in short supply and desperately needed to support the war effort.

Air Marking
Air Marking is known as a program of painting or other otherwise marking the roofs of buildings and ground area at and around airports to make the location of airports identifiable to pilots from an airplane. Its history signifies the emergence of women in aviation and the valuable role they play to the aviation community both locally and internationally. The following indented text is taken from “Air Marking” by Ellen Noble-Harris, International Airmarking Chair, The Ninety-Nines, Inc., published in the 99NEWS Magazine, March/April 2002.

The National Air Marking Program was established by the United States government in 1933 and was a program of the Bureau of Air Commerce. It was the first U.S. government program conceived, planned and directed by a woman with an all-woman staff.

In 1933, Phoebe F. Omlie was appointed Special Assistant for Air Intelligence of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics - NACA (forerunner of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration - NASA.) The following year Phoebe convinced the chief of the Airport Marking and Mapping Section of the Bureau of Air Commerce to institute a program where each state would participate to better identify its towns and cities from the air.

Under the program, a state was divided into sections of 20 square miles. Where possible, a marker with the name of the nearest town was painted on the roof of the most prominent building at each 15-mile interval. If the towns were far apart, white painted ground markers, such as rocks and bricks, were used.

At the time that the program was established, few pilots were flying on established airways or had the benefit of radios. Pilots often followed railroad tracks and known roads to get from town to town but could become easily lost on their way to their destination without landmarks. With the aid of markers, pilots of all skill levels could determine where they were.

The program was funded as a system of state grants from the Works Progress Administration. Not only was this the first appropriation of funds specifically set up to aid private pilots, but it was also hoped that the program would provide jobs for the unemployed and would establish valuable permanent airway aids. By the middle of 1936, 30 states were actively involved in the program, with approvals given for 16,000 markers at a cost of about one million dollars.

In 1935, Phoebe chose five leading women pilots as field representatives for the program; Louise Thaden, Helen Richey, Blanche Noyes, Nancy Harkness and Helen McCloskey.

Noyes was responsible for travelling and training others to paint town and airport names, directional arrows, mileage, and eventually latitude and longitude on rooftops and on open land where a pilot could see the air markings. Noyes and her colleagues helped aid in the painting of 13,000 air markers before World War II.32
32 Jacqline Barnes, “Early Earhart Rival Leaves Legacy of Safety: Blanche Noyes Guides Pilots Home.” Journal of Air Traffic Control, Fall 2013,
https://www.atca.org/uploads/Blanches%20Noyes%20ATCA%20Journal%20Fall.pdf.

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During World War II the Civil Aeronautics Administration was concerned that air markings could aid enemy pilots and mandated that all air markings within defense zones were covered up. Following the war Noyes was selected to head the air marking division for the CAA. She served as President of the Ninety-Nines from 1948 to 1950.33 In Fly Girls, Keith O’Brien’s 2018 New York Bestseller, he discusses how air marking helped women pilots defy the odds and make aviation history:

In 1935, aviators could still easily get lost flying across the country, especially in bad weather, and they crashed and sometimes died as a result. Air-marking pilots helped to prevent that by identifying barns or factories with roofs at least a hundred feet long and twenty feet wide on which the government could paint large letters spelling out the name of the nearest town to help confused aviators determine their location and land safely. It wasn’t glamorous work; there were no cheering crowds. But it was important. More to the point, it was almost the only job a female aviator could get in 1935. 34 As Noyes noted in an address at the Seventh Annual Convention of the National Association of State Aviation Officials in 1937, “our sky-ways should be as completely marked as the highways.”35 She described the importance of air marking to keep pilots safe, and expressed that it is the responsibility of the government to make flying safer. She wrote in Southwest Aviation “Air route markers are more important than highway markers, because a pilot can’t stop at every crossroads and shout to ask ‘Which way to where.’”36
Chapters of The Ninety-Nines continue the tradition of air marking at airports across the country by painting Compass Roses and other forms of air markings.

The Compass Rose – A Part of Air Marking History
The Compass Rose is the trademark logo of The Ninety-Nines, and it was designed by Wilma Fritschey, a member of what was then known as the Los Angeles Chapter, in 1939. According to Census records, Fritschey was born in Kansas in 1897. In the September 1936 Ninety-Nines Newsletter, Fritschey is listed as a new member of the Los Angeles Chapter. The newsletter describes that Fritschey flew out of Dycer Airport, which was located in Inglewood at 94th Street and Western Avenue. The Compass Rose logo features two interwoven blue number 9s in the center of a white circle with a blue and white Compass Rose surrounding. Guidelines for air marking a Compass Rose were first published by The Ninety-Nines in 1985 (Attachment F).

The Compass Rose serves three distinct purposes. As a form of air marking, the Compass Rose provides a visual feature on the ground to help pilots find airports. Another function of the Compass Rose is to calibrate airplane compasses by taxing an airplane onto a Compass Rose and turning the airplane in a circle beginning at what the Compass Rose notes as the North magnetic reference and calibrating the airplane’s compass according to the markings noted on the Compass Rose. Before the invent of modern avionics, the compass served as a primary and critical navigational aid for pilots. Using a Compass Rose is necessary to ensure compass accuracy. Importantly, it functions as a visual symbol of the mission and traditions of The Ninety-Nines. At airports across the country, the Compass Rose symbolizes the important history of women in aviation.

At the Santa Monica Airport, there is evidence that some form of a Compass Rose existed even before air marking became standardized and before the logo of The Ninety-Nines was designed. In 33 Roger A. Mola, “Show Me the Way to Go Home,” Air & Space Magazine, September 2006. 34 Keith O’Brien, Fly Girls, An Eamon Dolan Book, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2018), 207. 35 Blanche Noyes, “Airport Marking in the States,” Journal of Air Law and Commerce, Vol 9 Issue 1, 1938. 36 Roger A. Mola, “Show Me the Way to Go Home,” Air & Space Magazine, September 2006.

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her memoirs of the Derby, Evelyn “Bobbi” Trout recounts her memory experienced around the Compass Rose at the start of the 1929 Derby:

Girl pilots from all over wanted to fly in this derby. There was approximately 50 to 75 women coming to the Santa Monica Airport with hopes of borrowing, renting, or acquiring an airplane with which to enter the derby…The early morning of August 18 found me full of excitement. I rushed to the airport to see my 100HP Golden Eagle Chief, which had been delivered about midnight the night before. It was so beautiful. I am sure it was just waiting for us to hurry there and admire it. After some loving pats, we pushed it over to the compass rose to start work.
37 In 1929, the Compass Rose was the primary if not exclusive navigation aid in existence available to assist in compass calibrations. Today there are five acceptable procedures that may be used.
38 In 1936, another founding member of The Ninety-Nines, Blanche Noyes, took a job with the federal Bureau of Air commerce’s National Air Marking Program.39 Noyes’ government job was to travel and train others to paint town and airport names, directional arrows, mileage, and, later, latitude and longitude on rooftops and anywhere else a pilot could see the air markings. She and her colleagues saw to the painting of 13,000 air markers between 1936 and before the Japanese aerial attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. The Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) feared air makings could potentially aid enemy pilots and on January 17, 1942, the CAA mandated the obliteration of all air markings the enemy could plausibly use to their advantage and specifically directed that air markers on the east and west coasts be removed. What had taken Omlie and Noyes over six years to air mark, was obliterated in approximately six weeks.

Santa Monica’s Compass Rose
Because of the War Department’s January 17, 1942, directive to obliterate air markings and the central role Douglas Aircraft played in air defense during World War II, it is unlikely that physical or photographic evidence of the Compass Rose that existed at Santa Monica Airport just prior to the war and 1947 will be revealed.

The first aerial photographs of the Santa Monica Airport where the Compass Rose is visible is in 1947. At this time, it was depicted in thin lines, and did not bear the logo design of the current Compass Rose. From 1947 until about 1987, a Compass Rose was located in the northeast portion of the Airport, adjacent to Runways 21 and 22. Initially it was surrounded by a semi-circle lighting system and subsequently that semi-circular was erected to form a sound wall. The sound wall remains but the Compass Rose was relocated circa 1988 because of the new airport layout plan approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 1986. The Compass Rose was one of several airport improvement projects completed between 1986 and 1989. Aerial photographs indicate that the Compass Rose has been in its current location adjacent to Runway 3 since circa 1988 following its relocation and it was last repainted in this location by the LA 99s in 2010.

While Chapters of the Ninety-Nines maintain Compass Roses and participate in air marking at other airports across the country, this Compass Rose is of singular importance because it is the only physical representation of the 1929 Derby at the Santa Monica Airport. The 37 Jill Rutan Hoffman, First Flights: Stories to Inspire From Those Who Fly, iUniverse 2009, 206. 38 U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal aviation Administration, Advisory Circular No. 43-215, August 7, 2017.
39 Jacqline Barnes, FFA, The Journal of Air Traffic Control, Fall 2013, https://www.atca.org/from-thearchives-early-earhart-rival-leaves-legacy-of-safety.

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Derby, which was the precipice for the founding of The Ninety-Nines, was a pioneering achievement of early women aviators. The Compass Rose is a transcendent symbol of the pioneering contribution women pilots have made in aviation history.

Douglas Aircraft Company (Douglas Aircraft)
Indented text below is taken from the 2017 City of Santa Monica Historic Resources Inventory Update Historic Context Statement:

The War Effort in Santa Monica
With the advent of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for an air force of 50,000 planes in 1940. Santa Monica rose to that challenge. In 1941, the Los Angeles Times described Santa Monica as “the nerve center of the defense aviation industry. All over the world the city is known for its Douglas warplanes and civil transports.” As a result of the presence of Douglas Aircraft, Santa Monica was also headquarters for one of the seven divisions of the United States Civil Aeronautics Administration and for the United States Army Air Corps Procurement Division of the west. In addition to Douglas, numerous small industries sprang up in Santa Monica for the making of airplane parts, tools, dies, jigs, and precision instruments. They were located all over the city, including Central Aircraft and Engines Company at 2000 Colorado Avenue (demolished), Federal Screw Products Company at 1748 Berkeley Street, J.H. Engle (machinist) at 800 4th Street (demolished), and GMC Tool and Die at 2731 Lincoln Boulevard.

Douglas Aircraft Company (1940-1944)
After moving its operations from Wilshire Boulevard to 3000 Ocean Park Boulevard in 1929, Douglas Aircraft Company grew significantly with the awarding of defense contracts. Along with Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Hughes Aircraft Company, North American Aviation, Vultee Aircraft Corporation, and Northrop Corporation, it was one of the premiere defense contractors of World War II. The company’s main plant was located adjacent to Clover Field at the Santa Monica Airport; Sanborn maps from 1942 show the company operated the Shipping and Receiving Plant No. 7 directly adjacent on the south side of the railroad tracks on Exposition Boulevard between Stewart Street and Dorchester Avenue. In 1942, the company moved the hiring office for its Santa Monica plant to Pico and Lincoln Boulevards.40 During the war, Douglas rented storage space in other buildings, such as 1552 5th Street in downtown Santa Monica. The Employee Transportation and Housing Bureau was located at 2639 Ocean Park Boulevard, and the Douglas Employee Welfare Office was located at 2907 Ocean Park Boulevard.

The Douglas Aircraft Company occupied a 124-acre site bordered by Ocean Park Boulevard to the north, the runway to the south, Centinela Avenue to the east, and 25th Street to the west. Sanborn Maps from December 1945 indicate that by the end of World War II, some forty distinct “units” occupied the site with functions ranging from manufacturing, tooling, metal working, assembly, research and development, storage, shipping and receiving, auto repair, cafeteria, executive’s club, and engineering.

During World War II, the federal government leased the Santa Monica Airport from the City in order to provide security for Douglas Aircraft, which had become a major contributor to the 40 City of Santa Monica Historic Resources Inventory Update Historic Context Statement, 251.

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war effort. The airport was expanded during this period, and the runway was reconfigured from the original “X” pattern to a single east-west runway.

The Douglas plant was the site of production of the C-47 (Gooney Bird) and C-54 for the Army Air Force, and the R-4D and R-5D for the Navy for missions ranging from cargo transport to parachute drops to medical evacuation. The A-20 and the A-26 were also developed there. The best-known plane developed at the plant was the B-19 bomber, the largest plane in the world at the time, known as “The Guardian of the Hemisphere.” 41 During the early 1940s the Santa Monica plant employed some 32,000 workers. 12,000 employees worked the day shift. Given the shortage of men in the labor force, Douglas turned to training and hiring women for production jobs – a wave of “Rosie the Riveters” who helped pave the way for integrating women into the national workforce. Douglas Aircraft was known for hiring more women than many of the other firms — and the Santa Monica plant’s use of women as pre-flight mechanics was widely publicized.

Due to the importance of the Santa Monica plant to the war effort and the fear of a Japanese attack on the west coast, a sophisticated camouflage structure was erected to shield the plant during the war. Designed by Edward Huntsman-Trout (1889-1974)42 and architect H. Roy Kelley (1893-1989), 43 and supplemented with the work of set designers from Warner Brothers, the camouflage consisted of a tension compression structure with a burlap cover that extended the entire length of the mile-long plant. A residential neighborhood was depicted on the burlap, and an adjacent dummy aircraft plant was erected. The camouflage structure was erected circa 1942 and remained until July 1945.

Douglas Aircraft Company was the single most important employer in the history of Santa Monica, and a significant contributor to the United States’ victory in World War II.

Clover Field/Santa Monica Municipal Airport
Indented text below is taken from the 2017 City of Santa Monica Historic Resources Inventory Update Historic Context Statement:

The Santa Monica Airport, originally called Clover Field, dates to 1919, when it was a local landing strip. In 1923, Santa Monica’s airport was formally dedicated by the U.S. Army Air Corps, and named Clover Field for Lieutenant Greayer Clover, a World War I flyer who was killed in France. It was one of the first airports in the Los Angeles area, well used by early aviators for barnstorming and flight testing. In 1926, the City of Santa Monica held a special election to approve a bond for the purchase of 165 acres comprising most of Clover Field.

The property was acquired in July 1926, and in 1927 the name was changed to the Santa Monica Airport.44
Originally a grass field, a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project included paving 85,000 square yards at the Santa Monica Airport in 1937.45
41 City of Santa Monica Historic Resources Inventory Update Historic Context Statement, 254. 42 Ibid, 255. 43 Ibid. 44 City of Santa Monica Historic Resources Inventory Update Historic Context Statement, 249. 45 American Aviation, July 15, 1937.

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During World War II, the federal government leased the Santa Monica Airport from the City in order to provide security for Douglas Aircraft which had become a major contributor to the war effort. The airport was expanded during this period, and the runway was reconfigured from the original “X” pattern to a single east-west runway. In 1948, the federal government relinquished its lease on the property and control was transferred back to the City.46 In the late 1960s interest in general aviation peaked nationwide. Take-offs and landings at the Santa Monica Airport reached an all-time high of over 356,000 a year, or 975 per day.47 In 1978, there were 20,000 take-offs from Santa Monica Airport, 700 per day.48 In 1983 the City of Santa Monica adopted a new Airport Master Plan, followed by the Santa Monica Airport Agreement in 1984, conducted between the City of Santa Monica and the Federal Aviation Administration.49 Between 1986 and 1989, a number of airport improvement projects are completed, including the relocation of the Compass Rose in its new location.

Conclusion
The Compass Rose is eligible as a Santa Monica Landmark under Criterion 1 because it is associated with The Ninety-Nines, an organization of women pilots founded as a result of the 1929 Derby which took off from the Santa Monica Airport. The Compass Rose is a historic site emblematic of the history of women in aviation in Santa Monica, which has deep connections to its location at the Santa Monica Airport. It symbolizes the important contributions of women in aviation, which is an important cultural history in the City. The Compass Rose is also eligible under Criterion 3 because it is associated with an event important to local, state, and national history; the first Women’s Air Derby of 1929, which began at the Santa Monica Airport, was the first sanctioned air race for women in the world, and was the precipice for the founding of The Ninety-Nines. The Compass Rose is a symbol of this event which remains one of the most important events in the history of women in aviation internationally. The Compass Rose is an important historic site threatened with demolition which should be protected with Landmark status.

Attachments:

Attachment A: Contemporary Photographs
Attachment B: Historic Images and Aerials
Attachment C: Newspaper Articles
Attachment D: Ninety-Nines Historic Newsletters
Attachment E: Trademark Registration Compass Rose
Attachment F: “Compass Rose…The Easy Way” From the 1985 Newsletter of the 99s By Claire Drenowatz
46 City of Santa Monica Historic Context Statement, 256. 47 Rod Merl, Marsha Jones Moutrie, and Bob Trimborn, “A Partial History of the Santa Monica Airport,” September 26, 2011, 3. 48 “Santa Monica Airport rich in aviation history,” Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1978. 49 Rod Merl, Marsha Jones Moutrie, and Bob Trimborn, “A Partial History of the Santa Monica Airport,” September 26, 2011, 4-5.

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American Aviation, July 15, 1937.

Barnes, Jacqline. “Early Earhart Rival Leaves Legacy of Safety: Blanche Noyes Guides Pilots Home.” Journal of Air Traffic Control, Fall 2013,
https://www.atca.org/uploads/Blanches%20Noyes%20ATCA%20Journal%20Fall.pdf.

Barnes, Jacqline. The Journal of Air Traffic Control, Fall 2013, https://www.atca.org/from-thearchives-early-earhart-rival-leaves-legacy-of-safety Bosquet, Jean. “Skyways.” Los Angeles Times, December 3, 1933. “Charter Members.” Ninety-Nines International Organization of Women Pilots. https://www.ninetynines.org/charter-members.htm.

City of Santa Monica Historic Resources Inventory Update Historic Context Statement. “Clover Field Ready for Air Races.” Santa Monica Evening Outlook, August 17, 1929. “Compass Rose History.” The Ninety-Nines Inc., Los Angeles Chapter Southwest Section, 2019. “Concrete Arrows and the U.S. Airmail Beacon System.” Sometimes Interesting, https://sometimesinteresting.com/2013/12/04/concrete-arrows-and-the-u-s-airmail-beacon-system.

Cooper, Margaret. Canadian Aviation, December 1933.

Earhart, Amelia. Letter to Ruth Nichols, September 15,1927, Purdue University Libraries, http://earchives.lib.purdue.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/earhart/id/3195/rec/2.

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Hatfield, D.D. Los Angeles Aeronautics 1920-1929, Hatfield History of Aeronautics. Northrop Institute of Technology, 1973.

Hillinger, Charles. “Amelia Earhart’s Legacies Fly High.” Los Angeles Times, October 12, 1986.

Hoffman, Jill Rutan. First Flights: Stories to Inspire From Those Who Fly, iUniverse 2009. “International Headquarters,” Ninety-Nines, https://www.ninety-nines.org/headquarters.htm.

Jessen, Gene Nora. Powder Puff Derby of 1929. Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2002.

Merl, Rod, Marsha Jones Moutrie, and Bob Trimborn, “A Partial History of the Santa Monica Airport,” September 26, 2011.

Mola, Roger A. “Show Me the Way to Go Home,” Air & Space Magazine, September “Santa Monica Airport rich in aviation history,” Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1978.

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“Much Too Pretty,” Los Angeles Times, November 15, 1933.

Noyes, Blanche. “Airport Marking in the States.” Journal of Air Law and Commerce, Vol 9 Issue 1, 1938.

O’Brien, Keith. Fly Girls, An Eamon Dolan Book, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2018).

Rich, Doris L. Amelia Earhart: A Biography. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. “Santa Monica Airport rich in aviation history,” Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1978. “Staff Report 3418 Award Construction and Construction Management Contracts for the Santa Monica Airport-Reuse of Excessive Airfield Pavement Projects,” City of Santa Monica, http://santamonicacityca.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_LegiFile.aspx?Frame=&MeetingID=1178 &MediaPosition=&ID=3418&CssClass=.

Thaden, Terry Von. “Amelia Earhart Fellow Presentation.” https://web.archive.org/web/20060813221706/http://www.zontafrederick.org/Terry_von_Thad en_speech_July_2004.pdf.

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Winters, Kathleen C. Amelia Earhart: The Turbulent Life of an American Icon, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 51.
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Image 2: View of Compass Rose (Google Maps, 2019)
Image 1: Santa Monica Airport, location of Compass Rose identified in red (Google Maps, 2019)

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Image 3: Compass Rose, view east (Chattel, 2019)
Image 4: Compass Rose, view southeast (Chattel, 2019)

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Image 5: Compass Rose, view southeast (Chattel, 2019)
Image 6: Compass Rose, view southeast, airplane to show relative size (Chattel, 2019)

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Image 7: Center of Compass Rose with interlocking 9’s (Chattel, 2019) Image 8: Detail interlocking 99s of the Ninety-Nines logo in the center of the Compass Rose (Chattel, 2019)

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Image 9: Interlocking 9’s of then Ninety-Nines logo with the date in the center of the Compass Rose (Chattel, 2019)
Image 10: Detail of 99’s signature and date (Chattel, 2019)

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Image 1: Clover Field, view northwest, 1922, view northwest (The Benjamin and Gladys Thomas Spence Air Photo Archives)
Image 2: Clover Field, view northeast, 1924, view northeast (USC Libraries Special Collections)

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Image 3: Clover Field, view east, 1929, view west (Santa Monica Airport website)

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Image 4: Women’s Air Derby at Clover Field, 1929 (Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection)
Image 5: Women’s Air Derby at Clover Field, 1929 (Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection)

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Image 6: Women’s Air Derby at Clover Field, 1929 (Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection)
Image 7: Women’s Air Derby at Clover Field, 1929 (Santa Monica Image Archive)

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Image 8: Women’s Air Derby at Clover Field, 1929 (Santa Monica Image Archive) Image 9: Women’s Air Derby at Clover Field, 1929 (Santa Monica Image Archive)

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Image 10: Santa Monica Airport, circa 1931, view northeast (The Benjamin and Gladys Air Photo Archives)
Image 11: Amelia Earhart at Santa Monica Airport (Santa Monica History Museum, 1936)

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Image 12: Santa Monica Airport, circa 1936, view southwest (Santa Monica History Museum)
Image 13: X-runway plan, circa 1930s (cloverfield.org)

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Image 14: Santa Monica Airport, late 1930s, view east (Santa Monica History Museum)
Image 15: Santa Monica Airport, circa 1930s, view southwest (Santa Monica History Museum)

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Image 16: Advertisement for the California Flyers at the Santa Monica Airport, 1939 (Popular Aviation)
Image 17: Hangars at the Santa Monica Airport, circa 1930s (Santa Monica Airport Association)

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Image 19: Santa Monica Airport, 1947, former location of Compass Rose identified in yellow, view north (historicaerials.com)
Image 18: Douglas Aircraft Plant and Santa Monica Airport beyond, 1940, view southeast (The Benjamin and Gladys Air Photo Archives)

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Image 20: Santa Monica Airport Building, 1953 (Santa Monica Airport Association) Image 21: Santa Monica Aiport, 1950, view east (The Benjamin and Gladys Air Photo Archives)

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Image 22: Santa Monica Airport, Compass Rose in background, 1953 (courtesy of Mike Machet)
Image 23: Santa Monica Aiport, 1954, former location of Compass Rose identified in yellow, view northeast (The Benjamin and Gladys Air Photo Archives)

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Image 24: Santa Monica Aiport, 1965, former location of Compass Rose identified in yellow, view north (The Benjamin and Gladys Air Photo Archives) Image 26: Santa Monica Aiport, 1958, former location of Compass Rose identified in yellow, view west (The Benjamin and Gladys Air Photo Archives)

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Image 28: Santa Monica Aiport, 1965, former location of Compass Rose identified in yellow, view west (Benjamin and Gladys Air Photo Archives) Image 29: Santa Monica Aiport, 1969, former location of Compass Rose identified in yellow (The Benjamin and Gladys Air Photo Archives)

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Image 30: Members of the Ninety-Nines at Santa Monica Airport for an air race, 1969 (Santa Monica History Museum)
Image 31: Members of the Ninety-Nines at Santa Monica Airport for an air race, 1969 (Santa Monica History Museum)

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Image 32: Santa Monica Aiport, 1970, former location of a compass rose identified in yellow (UCSB Aerial Photograph Archives)
Image 33: Santa Monica Aiport, 1980, former location of a compass rose identified in yellow (UCSB Aerial Photograph Archives)

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Image 34: Santa Monica Aiport, 1989, current Compass Rose identified in red (historicaerials.com)
Image 35: Santa Monica Aiport, 1994, current Compass Rose identified in red (historicaerials.com)

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Image 1: “Clover Field Ready for Air Races,” Santa Monica Evening Outlook, August 17, 1929

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Image 2: “Clover Field Ready for Air Races,” Santa Monica Evening Outlook, August 17, 1929

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Image 3: “Girl Air Derby To Start Today” Los Angeles Times, August 18, 1929

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Image 4: “Queens of Sky Race Today For Gold and Glory,” Los Angeles Times, August 18, 1929

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Image 5: “Feminine Air Racers Ready for Start,” Santa Monica Morning Outlook, August 18, 1929

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Image 6: “Feminine Air Racers Ready for Start,” Santa Monica Morning Outlook, August 18, 1929

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Image 7: “Southern California Women Greatly Interested in Aviation Affairs,” Los Angeles Times, November 3, 1929

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Image 8: “Feminine Rights in Air Demanded,” Los Angeles Times, August 30, 1930

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Image 9: “Aviation’s History Given at Meeting of Santa Monica Bay Women’s Club,” Los Angeles Times, October 24, 1934

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Image 10: “Ninety Nines Club Meets,” Los Angeles Times, December 11, 1931

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Image 11: “Aviation’s History Given at Meeting of Santa Monica Bay Women’s Club,” Los Angeles Times, October 24, 1934

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NEWS I r -t_l n_.'. __ , .µ._ L - LETT'ER
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September 1936
NINETY-NINES ANNUAL MEETING will be held Sunday morning, September 6th, at 10 o 1clock sharp, at the HOTEL CLARK, Los Angeles. Every member is welcome to attend this meeting and to tako pa.rt in the discussion, but only bona fide delegates may vote on such ma,tters ..
as may come be.fore the meeting. It is important tba t every NinetyNine register at headquarters, 99 booth, Lobby, Hotel Clark, immediately upon arrival. If you_ cannot come in personally, please oall the Clark Hotel, Michigan 4121.

COMING EVENTS: National Air Races, Los Angel es, September 4-7.

Women I s Race, Sa,turday, September 5 - Handicap Race open to O 11- cerised ships with motors of 800-oub!o-inch displa.cement or less, maximum speed not to exceed 175 m. p . h. - Puree, $1500 .

Michigan Aix Races will be held September 19-20 at the Wayne County Airport at Detroit, Michigan,. under the auspices of the Detroit Times.

A Women 1a Race will take place on one of these dates for ATC ships of 800 cu. - in. displacement or less, sponsored by the Michigan Chapter of the Ninety-Nines. It will be a 20 mile handicap raceJ 4- laps around a 5 mile courseJ with a total of $6:)o.oo in prize money, to be divided as fol low.a: ls t - . 270 . 00; 2nd - $150. 00 ;. 3rd - $90 .QQ; 4-th - 6o.oo; 5th - $30,00. All licensed women pilots are invite:! to paxtioipate, and those interested in racing ehould write to Mr. H. s. Walesby, The Detroit Times, Detroit, Michigan, for further information and entry blanks. Thie is an N .A. A. sanctioned meet.

American Legion Corrvantion, Cleveland, September 20-21+. Eddie Rickenbacker is interested in having as many of the women flyers of the country attend as possible. 99ers interested in participating, please contact Alma Arlene Davie, 134-10 La.ke Avenue, Cleveland, Chairman for the 99 1s in this project.

Paris-Saigon-Hanoi Air Race, October 25th. If any American women flyers plan to enter this race, please let us know .

LICENSE ,RATINGS: Florence Boswell, Clevelan.d, LC to Transport.

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ELERGE ;cy A DIWGS:

I was hopping passengers as usual one Sunday afternoon, using my iaco F. On the floor of the front cockpit is a metal plate that covers the soace where the controls are fastened when the due.ls are in. A young boy I knew came over and asked to go up for some acrobatics. I agreed, so he climbed in and e took off •. hen I had reached 3()00 ft., I 'id a split S, and then started into a loop. dllt when I tried to level the ship out, I found to my horror that the controls were apparently jammed, ith a hard pull, I managed miraculously to level out, and hurriedly started for terra firma.

Upon landing, I told II arsh11 0' Teil, the instructor at the field, that something was rang with the controls,--that I had had trouble in bringing the ship out of the loop. n aybe my foot wa in the way, 11 said the boy. 1 .here was a hole in the floor of the plane, and I put my foot in there to brace myself. 11
abel -ilaon
My first forced landing was under rather embarrassing circumstances.

I was to be given my first chance at navigating cross country. The a 0 reement was that I auld be given no assistance unless I ot too far off my course . I was flying an Aeronca from the factory at Cincinnati to Detroit. · y plane had just had an engine overhaul, and my husband was ferrying a new one and was to follow me. I broke a tail skid taking off. Ray noticed it so he fle, alon side me and motioned me back to the airport and proceeded to land. I mistook the signal as a correction to the east of my course, pulled over a little to the east and kept on. It as quite hazy and we soon lost sight of each other, but I wasn't ·orried. I was sure that if I were very far off the course, the little yellow Aeronca would overtake me. Incidentally, I was not at all pleased at beinu corrected so soon after talcing off.

After flyin .... about an oux, and not being able to find any landmark correspo ding to my map, I be n to 0 et worried. I circled a few times, but couldn 1 t see my escort, so I started out in the direction I thought was right. I had no compass. Being genuinely fri ened by now, and the gas upply being low, I decided to follo the ne t railroad east, to Dayton. I was already east of Dayton but I followed my plan, and the railroad, on and on i th never a ai of an -2-

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Packet Pg. 608 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) airport. When finally I came to a 1 i ttle town of fairly good size, and had enough gas to circle the town twice, I landed in a little field close ta a gas station. The boy from the filling station took a 1 i ttl e instruct ion on how to crank a prop, ( I knew how it should be done but never was able to this day to make it work) , and though it took a lot of trying, he finally got the motor started. I was about 90 miles east of my destination in a little town called Washington Courthouse. I didn I t get 1 os t again , after getting my bearin s, and arrived about three hours late at Troy, Ohio. I hadn I t missed the tail skid at all--juet thought the field was a little rough.
--1 ina Lucille Baker
The words forced landing no doubt bring back many amusing and terrified memories. I recall one myself which happened on a beautiful a.fternoon--one of those perfect flying days, visibility unlimited, etc., eto. Had taken the little red Waco over to Alhambra and visited a while. Then took off for arab Field at Riverside, but remembered all my friends there were out flying Unole Sam's mail, so turned back. When just sou th and west of Los Angeles I beautiful city hell, my motor quit col d--wi thou t a cough or warning. ell 1 I nosed her down very gently, and noted I had 3500 ft. of precious El.l titude. I glided, and glided, ever so gently and finally landed in the field at Western Avenue and 94th Street •• , That morning one of the gas tanks had bean welded, and upon taking off was told one tank. was filled and the other was partially full. The me ohani c who was in charge neglected to open the main gas jet to the full tank, Unfortunately no one noticed this 11 slight 11 error, until after I had landed and investigated ..•• Never knew there were so many blocks of houses and that the high tension wires at the field where I landed were so high! Had inches to spare, thank Heaven! - - Hilda .Ja.xmu th

HE SEO IONS
SOUTH CE TRAL SE CTI ON - Dorothy McB irne y , Governor , stopped in to call on Jean LaRene at Dallas recently on her return from a vacation in California. , . ;Jorothy Preealer has served as temporary mana er of Oklahoma City Airport. for several months I pending the appointment of a permanent manager. . . Loretta eonard, the only woman pilot in Enid, Oklahoma, is secretary of the flying club there, which boasts of ten members and a new aylor Oub1
- - Dorothy McBirney, Governor
S OUTRE. STERN SECT I ON - The Sou the astern Section wel com ea two new members this rnonth 1 Nell Foster Behr and Barbara Uills, I ell is a member of Anders,on I s Sou th Carolina u Flying Famil yn. Her husband is Lieutenant Howard s. Behr and they have a young eon who is already airminded 1 but as yet has not been trusted with the controls. Youn g Billy, who is seven months old, has had thirty-five hours in the air , weighs 22 poun de and s its al one • He has be en on a eras a country trip with his parents. He usually goes to sleep when the motor starts and has a fine time on his air jaunts.
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Packet Pg. 609 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) Barbara is the bride of ·.:ilson .. ill , prominent Charlotte , l orth Carolina, ransport Pilot who is chief instru.c~or for the Cannon- Nelson Aircraft corporation . The romance culminated at Roll ins College, Winter Park , Florida, were both attended college . r . Mills was an instructor in avia~ion at Rollins Colle e and taught Barbara to fly .

Zoe Harley , Au sta, Georgia, received her Private License the last \'leek in July, and from all reports she passed the fl yin est in a superb way d putt at little ship of hers in a left spin, som - thing none of the ot er five that ere up for a test \ ae able to do . To make it complete the du s were taken out and she took Inspector Jimmy all for a ride. Congratulations to our ull-fled ed inety- liner} A group from Hickory, art Caro1·na, bought a Taylor Cub. ary icholaon tlew it from the factory an landed at Florence, South Carolina, durin t e Oarolina ero Olub ir Sha , u st 9th. ary has twenty students and alon,:; ?.'ith passenger hopping and her secretarial duties at the Hospital and at the Carolina era lub, i kept mighty busy these days .

The next meetin of the 99 1 a in th' section ill be held during the Carolina Aero e ting at ilmin ton , orth Carolin , La~or !)3.y, Sp tember 7. ~e have been cordially invited by the Carolina Aero Club to be their ests on that day. A opecial event s been planned for the irls. It is hoped that as many as can ill attend.

Ruth tilson, Junior member, who is spending her vacation at her home in Providence, Rhode Island, is orking tis summer to help ild up her flyin time and in the air e ery day. Ruth dll return in S~p ember to resume her studies at Guilford allege, Guilford , orth Carolina. - - Clayton Patterson, Governor .

SOUTID SER ION - Bay Cities Chapter - Mr . Gorge yers, irector of Flying at Boeing Aeronautical School , -as the est peaker at t e re lar m eting, Au st 4-th , his subject being on blind flyi g and finding the beam . The members were 1 surprised to learn that rriot Isaacson has already amassed eom 15 hours in the art of blind flying under the direction of· . yers. On u 0 st 24t she will leave wit five other Boein students and Mr. yers on o e of the Boeing tri-motored So I for a trip to C icago and back, on which they will all receive µraotical trainin and experience in ying the beam and i strument flying.

Our July wingin party to San Jose was J?c~rtioipated ·n by Harriet Isaacson, who few a Waco F, Dolores Gu1nth rand Pat Kendall in a Tr velair, Marjorie Hook and Anna Cort yer i Fleet, Ruth Ru.eckert and laude iller in a Fleet, and Bee iadon, arion race and Ruth , akeman in the latter' s Fairchild. ~ orm Breeden d his wife, our enial host and hontess, served us a delicious breakf st ·n the airport cabin .

Au st 9th, Ruth and Fred Rueckert , Delore Guinther and Afton Lewis, and arjorie Hook, aude iller nd Ruth akeman flew to Sacramento -4-

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Janet Knight returned recently from Hagerstown,_ d., where she ferried out a. new Fairchild 24 for the coast representatives. She ran into some pretty tough eather en route, itnessed by several newspaper headlines, 11 Storm Kills Three Persons", etc. The Fairchild, which is equipped ith parachute seats, flares, landing lights, radio, and all bl ind flying instruments, was delivered to Mxs. Adrienne Clark, 99er from Sa..ri Diego.

The Bay Ci ties Chapter is happy to welcome t o new members-- rs.

Avis E. Bielefeld, of Olarkeburg, California, who holds an mateur license, and iss Evelyn Noble, of Chicago, a Junior, who has been traveling about the country for the Interstate Service Corporation, and flying a bit wherever she goes. - - Ruth K. ·akeman., Chapter Chairman.

Los An~eles Chapter - Los Angeles Chapter has t10 new members with Private Licenses. Virginia' offatt who flies with Bob Blair at ines Field is a real aviation enthusiast, working both a day-time and also an evening job. This little lady is determined to go places. The other new member is ilma F:ritschey, who flies at Dycer Airport.

At the August meeting, delegates ere elected for the iational _eet- ing of n99 11 and plans discussed for entertainments, dinner dance, etc., dllring the period of the ational Air Races, when we hope many of our eastern members will be out ith us.

Arrangements were al so made for the nual Sect ion .:eet ir..g to be held after break.fast on Saturday morning, September 5th, when Section Officers will be elected.

Hilda Jarmuth, Reporter. '
orthern Ohio Chapter - met for a lovely luncheon at the home of Sue Grant in Columbus, Auzust 1st, with sixteen members and ests, five of whom flew in for the occasion.

Florence Bos ell flew her Stinson, with Anne Barille among her passengers, from Cleveland; El'zabeth eyer flew her Porterfield from Cincinnati; rs. Mary King fle from Cleveland in a new Stinson; Jeannette Lempke came dmm from Bay City, ichigan, in her 1 i ttle Davis; and Abbie 111 flew from ansfield in a a lor CUb, Others w· o were there ,ere Edith Lackner, incinnati; anila Davis Talley, edra E. Lewellen, and Ione Coppedge, yton. edra is a new member we welcome at this time.
he Torthern hio Chapter plans to old its reoutar meetin s these - ond Saturday of each onth at 1:00 o'clock, and the two Chapters to -5-

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have two combined hleetings a year. The next meeting will be at the home of 1!rs. Mary King, Mentor, Ohio, on October l 7th, and any 99ers who happen to be around Cleveland on that date will be moat welcome. - - Abbie Dill, Chapter Reporter.

Southern Ohio Chapter, a brand ne\v Chapter, was organized at the home of Suzanne Grant in Columbus August 1st. Edi th Lackner was elected Chairman, and the Chapter decided to hold regular meetings on the first Saturday of each month at 1:00 o'clock,
Illinois Chapter - Everyone is eagerly anticipating the ROD-AIR-0 1 to be Sunday, August 23rd, at Curtiss Airport, Chicago . A crosscoun try from Curtiss to Joliet and return, for Rearwins only, will open the program.. Lat er in the pro gram , a second croa s- country is scheduled, open to all classes of ships, from Curtiss to Naperville and return. Spot landings, a rela.y rnce, bomb dropping, acrobo.ti cs by ·ae Wilson and Dot Ring, and an exhibition of a typical Dept. of Co:nmerce flight test by the sarne two, are other highlights of the day. Eleanor :ior:nack did the beautiful posters, and cover des igna for the programs . Jane Ray, Chapter Chairman, is largely responsi- ble for the ROD-AIR-0, - - Jane Meyer, Chapter Reporter.

Michigan Ohapter - The August meeting was held on the elt:i at Yp.silan ti Airport, with Mabel Britton as hostess . Gladys Ha1·tung arrived in her Bird1 Al ice and John Hmilmond in an Ae1·onca, Jeannette Lempke and liar garet Horton in the former Is Dav is, Dorothy Carpenter in a Great Lakes. Mary Von 'ach, Leila Baker and Faye Davies Kirk with her Chow, drove in . A short business meeting foll owed a delioious luncheon at the Owl Club, on the Airport.. The i:1formal 11 airmeet11 then got under way, most efficiently conducted by the able committee of judges; namely, Harry Britton, John Hruumond and Milo Oliphant, owner of the airport . There we1'e very attractive and useful prizes I such as Section Haps, wnte1·-proaf cosmetic bar:s, neck:- k:erchiefs, protractors, log books, eta., for the first four places in each event. Final results were : Bomb dropping - lat , Leila Baker; 2nd, Faye Davies Kirk; 3rd, Alice Hammond; 4th, norothy Carpenter. Ribbon cutting: 1st,. nozothy Carpenter; 2nd, !abel Britton; 3rd, Jeannette Lempke; 4th, Alice Hammond. Spot Landing: let,. Al ice Hammond; 2nd, M.a.bel Britton; 3Id, Dorothy Carpenter; 4th Gladys Hartung. All came into tmrn for supper at the Brittan's be- fore taking off for home ports.

The next meeting of the Michigan Chapter will be held in oonneotion with the Michis,-an Air Races, September l9-20, when the Chapter is sponsoring the race for women.. We will be glad to welcome all 99 1 o coming to the Races, so please let us know whether or not you participate. abel and Harry Britton in their , aco, and Jearmette Lempke in her Davia, plan to fly to Los Angel es for the Annual eet ing and Races. • , Mary van · ach expects to drive out for the eeting .• , Dorothy Carpenter flew to New York Oity recently in a onocoupe to spend a few days visiting her parents.

Dorothy Carpenter, Chapter Reporter.

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inety-Nines Newsletter
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Packet Pg. 614 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) NINETY
NINE
June
Editor,
Jimmie Kolp
NEWS
LETTER
1939
Box 326
Electra, Texas
To Daisy and Dorothy: $
Just a word of acknowledgment and appreciation for your splendid services— we rejoice in your successes, although your triumphs render the tasks of your successors all the harder. We will have to "go some" if we keep the pace that you have set.

From every member of the Ninety-Nine Club you have our hearty and sincere thanks.
- - Editor.

The Compass Rose and 99 monogram on the News Letter heading was done by Wilma Faritschey, Los Angeles Ninety-Nine. Wilma is a specialist on humorous sketches and contributes to Spur and other national magazines•
Welcome to Nancy Bird, our Australian member, who is here in America to pay us a visit. She is making a world tour to study the development of Civil Aviation, and plans to produce an International Aviation Exhibition on her return to Australia. She is not only pretty and charming, but she has done and is doing so many worthwhile things. Here are a few of her accomplishments:

Nancy Bird - Aviatrix
Coronation Medal
Record of Flying Experience
1933 - Obtained "A" license at age of 17 years; also Advanced "A", 1934 - Obtained "B" Commercial license at 19 years, which is the age limit.
1935 - Organized the First Ladies’ Flying Tour in Australia and flew approximately 22,000 miles accompanied by Miss Peggy McKillop. Carried approximately 900 passengers. 1935- Stationed at Bourke, New South Wales, as owner pilot to the 1936 Far West Children’s Health Scheme, flying their clinic sister on regular trips; also doing aerial ambulance and private character work. 275 patients and passengers. Flew approximately 20,000 miles.
1936 - Won Ladies’ Trophy, Brisbane to Adelaide Air Race. Won fastest time of all 31 starters oh Melbourne to Adelaide Section. Distance - 1,500 miles* 1937 - Stationed at Cunnamulla, Queensland, to operate private charter and aerial ambulance service; flew approximately 14,000 miles, carried 182 passengers. Also worked in the interests of the Queensland Bush Children's Health Scheme in an honorary capacity.

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Packet Pg. 615 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) Flown 70,000 miles entirely free from any accidents or mishaps • Erected hangars at Cunnamulla and Bourke.

Carried out considerable work in the improving and promotion of aerodromes, and the inspection of possible sites.

Certificates - St. John Ambulance First Aid and Nursing Home.

Clubs: Member the Royal Aero Club of New South Wales.

Honorary Life Member, Narromine Aero Club.

Member Ninety-Nines, International Organization Licensed Women Pilots Member, Women’s National Association of Aeronautics of
America
Honorary Member Aerial Nurse Corps of America
Royal Aeronautical Society of Great Britain
Los Vuilles Tiger of France
Lyceum Club
1938 - 1939 - Making world tour to study development of Civil Aviation SUGGESTION - Girls’ cruise from New York to Cleveland for National Air Races. Leave New York about Thursday morning--assemble at Albany for lunch--spond night at Buffalo--arrive Cleveland Saturday noon. The proposed hops are quite short, and the difference in speed of the ships will not count much.

No competition’. The flight is just for fun.

Everyone interested write Betty Gillies, Syosset, New York.

THE NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER announces a publisher has asked for a book outlining the flying histories of all 99’s with licensed private or better. Melva Doyle will compile it, and plans to arrange it in an interesting and dignified manner. A form will be sent each member to be filled out and returned with a picture. Suggestions for compilation, name of tho book, drawing for cover, and any criticisms should bo sent to Melva Doyle, 1109 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, Massachusetts.

CORRECTION - Pins (with movable props)
Bracelets (without-props)
Bracolets (with movable props)
SOUTHWEST SECTION - LOS ANGELES CHAPTER - This chapter is happy to announce another Super-Super production this spring. The starlette is Eleanor Mao Brown, date of release May first. Mamma and Papa Brown are duly proud, and we congratulate Baby Eleanor on her splendid choice of parents. Still going Hollywood--during the recent L03 Angeles showing of the picture Tail Spin, tho 20th Century-Fox Studio requested the KMTR broadcasting station to have four girls make an

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Packet Pg. 616 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) electrical transcription, which was played three times daily for three days. ’Twas fun to sit in the "parlor" and hear ourselves being interviewed on personal flying experiences, with the sound of airplanes taking off in the background. The two records were made at the airport for "local" color. The girls participating were: Helen McCandless, Frances Dudrey, Lucille Orman, and Hilda Jarmuth. Cur Bessie Owen is back from her latest flying venture into South America.

Her experiences and thrills were varied and anyone desiring information on jungles or long water hop3 can got it first hand. We heard only a few minutes’ resumed at the Palm Springs’ Aviation Breakfast last Sunday, and are looking forward with great pleasure to having Bessie tell us more soon.

Our Governor, Ruth Rueckert, made us a surprise visit at the May meeting. Possibilities of a 99-Day at the San Francisco World’s Fair were discussed. Harriet Isaacson, our Bay Cities’ member, who has a Milk Bar for children at the Exposition, will look into this further.

Hasta la Vistal
- - Hilda Jarmuth
NEW YORK - NEW JERSEY SECTION - Jackie Cochran entertained seventy of the Ninety-Nines at a delightful dinner at Michels in honor of the new National President, Betty Gillies. The guest 99 meeting was held this month at Hotel Pennsylvania, with dinner in the Cafe-Rouge. Mr.

William Brinckerhoff explained what the Private Flyers’ Association and the N. A. A. are doing to simplify C. A. R. for Private pilots.

The Kenyons showed us color movies of their Florida trip and also Teddy’s California trip when she was a guest of 20th Century-Fox.

Our president, Margo Tanner, Barbara Southgate, Betty Gillies, and H. Lucille Boudreau flew over to Providence to attend a 99 meeting at the airport.

Amy Andrews received her Commercial license; Patricia Thomas has an Instructor's rating; Ruth Nichols will receive an honorary degree June 6th at Beaver College, Jenkintown, Pa,; Magda Tisza is very active with an Aero Club which she organized at the Okland Airport, New Jersey. Jackie Cochran will present a plaque from the Airlines to Mrs, Eleanor Roosevelt, outstanding air traveler of 1938, at 10:30 a. m., Tuesday, May 23rd, Women’s Day in the Aviation Building, World’s Fair. Ethel Fedders is keeping her Fairchild warmed up. She flew to Miami for the week-end, flying home to Boston in one day.

Next day she flew to Rochester and back, then to Niagara Falls to visit friends, to Hagerstown, Md., and home again. Ethel also flew to New York to attend Jackie Cochran’s dinner for Betty. H • Lucille Boudreau flew to Grand Rapids, Michigan, by the way of Buffalo, Erie, Sandusky, Toledo, and Detroit City Airport. The return trip to Ford Airport in Detroit, through Canada, over Niagara Falls to Rochester, New York, and on to Suffolk Airport at Riverhead, Long Island. The following week end she flew to Concord, N. H., and Boston, Massachusetts, and on to Portland, Maine.

We have reserved the STARLIGHT ROOF at the Waldorf, New York City, and guaranteed five hundred dinners for the evening of November 4, 1939 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Ninety-Nine Club.

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- - H, Lucille Boudreau
MIDDLE EASTERN SECTION - WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER - The month of May seems to have been "Honor Month" for this Chapter. First, the Aero Club of Pittsburgh. . . a strictly male organization. . • gave a luncheon for the "gals", with Louise Thaden and Helen Richey as guest speakers and the 99*s as guests of honor. Another highlight of the month was a testimonial dinner given by our Chapter to Chairman Marge McCormick who is leaving us for the bright lights of New York City. Marge has promised to come back for our meetings, so we feel that we are merely "lending" her to New York, for the present at least.

A model of the Monocoupe she flew while in Pittsburgh was autographed by the attending members and presented to her. Marge looked very lovely indeed with her gardenia corsage, a gift from the girls. It was voted the best party we have ever had. And here are some aviation honors attained by two of our members--these ambitious "gals"1.1 Miss Irene Crum of Huntington, West Virginia, has acquired the distinction of being the first in our Chapter to hold the rating of Ground Instructor, and taught her first class at Marshall College this month. Miss Teresa James of Wilkinsburg. after a beautiful flight test, was presented with a Commercial "ticket", but she’s still not content and has started to study for her next goal--Instructor’s rating, Helen Richey and your reporter had a bit of cold water dashed on their proposed trip to Washington, D, C., for the Air Derby, Bags were packed in, gas and oil okay, all set to flip the prop, when the eagle eye of the field mechanic spotted a crack in the crankcase of my pride-and-joy. . . Life at Its Lowest Ebb’.

We have a new Junior member to welcome into our Chapter this month--Mrs. Grace Carroll of Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Carroll holds a Solo license, and her husband, C, B,, is manager of the now Latrobe Municipal Airport. We are glad to have Grace with us as her close association with aviation will make her a valuable member and one of the most active in this district. Ellen Smith had a lot of fun on a Breakfast Flight to Erie recently. There were five planes and twelve people, including the whole Smith family--father, mother and son. She says, "We left Meadville at six-thirty, circling town first, and made quite a few local citizens love us no end for waking them up at such an unearthly hour, then on to Port Erie for ham and eggs. We got quite a laugh out of ’Papa Stinson, Mamma Waco, and three yellow Cubs.’"
Our next meeting will be held late this month in Huntington, West Virginia. This is our first sojourn into Huntington in a group, and from reports of the preparations being made, it will be a longremembered visit. - - Francos L. Allen
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Packet Pg. 618 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) NORTH CENTRAL SECTION - During the week end of May 6-7, the North Central Section gathered at the Hyde Park Hotel in Chicago for the first time since the annual meeting in Cleveland during the Races.

Everything, even including fair skies, combined to make it a successful and happy reunion. Twenty-two members from seven out of our nine states made a splendid representation. Our governor, Florence Boswell, flew her Cessna up from Lafayette, Indiana, where she had given a talk on Instrument Flying to the Purdue Flying Club, and brought Jane Templeton, one of the Lafayette Ninety-Nines with her. Bernice Eno, one of our new members, flew her Warner-Fairchild in from Fort Dodge, Iowa. Patricia Dickinson flew her Cub Trainer from Lafayette, Indiana, stopping at South Bend on the way to pick up Betty Folsom, whose Fairchild 24 is being re-covered. From Michigan came Jeannette Lempke, flying her Warner-Davis over from Bay City, while Mabel Britton brought Faye Davies Kirk and Alice Hammond from Ypsilanti in her Fairchild. Leora Stroup drove from Kalamazoo, where she had attended a nurses’ meeting en route from Detroit, Alma Arlene Davis flew in from Cleveland in her Beechcraft, and also from Cleveland came Helen Curtiss in a Fleet. Ruth Kuntz took the Airlines down from Minneapolis, and Belle Hetzel came from Omaha via the ”iron horse.” Mabel Wilson, Loucillo Young, Alice Adamec DeWitt, Jane Ray, Helen Budwash, Helen Wolch, Francos Anderson, and Dot Ring were the Illinois girls who acted as hostesses.

On Saturday evening the Illinois Chapter entertained all the guests most royally at a party at the Hyde Park Hotel, topping off the evening with a delectable buffet supper at midnight. To Mabel Wilson and Loucille Young go the laurels for arranging this entertainment I At breakfast on Sunday morning, the places were marked with pretty boutonnieres of shell-pink carnations, gifts of the Illinois Chapter. After the business meeting, which followed breakfast, we had the pleasure of hearing the recording of Mabel Wilson’s appearance on a recent Edgar Guest "It Can be Done” program. One of the most interesting accomplishments of this particular Sectional meeting was the formation of the fifth chapter in the North Central Section— the new INDIANA CHAPTER. The charter members are Marjory Jan Stables, private pilot of South Bend; Betty Folsom, private, also of South Bend, and Jane Templeton, Lois Hollingsworth and Patricia Dickinson, all privates from Lafayette. They plan to meet shortly and elect officers, etc. The sixth chapter in this section Is not-far off, with ten Ninety-Nines in Minneapolis busily flying toward their certificates so they will have the necessary five active members to form their chapter. Already Edith Campbell and Frances Lennon have their Limited Commercials, and Virginia Marter has her Private. Junior members— Ruth Kuntz, Rose Dale, Ella Stone, Dorothy Collins, Janet Wakefield, Vida Shaffer and Emily Cikanek— are taking advantage of the spring weather to log up more hours toward their certificates.

A group of Michigan Ninety-Nines are meeting with the Women’s Aeronautical Association of Detroit for luncheon at the Book-Cadillac Hotel on May 20th honoring Laura Ingalls, who is scheduled to do acrobatics at an Air Meet at Erin Airport May 20-21 -under the auspices of the Detroit Junior Chamber of Commerce.
- - Alice H. Hammond

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Packet Pg. 619 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) SOUTHEASTERN SECTION - Our May sectional meeting was held in Augusta, Georgia, on'the 16th with a luncheon at the Hotel Richmond. The enthusiastic efforts of our two new members of Augusta--Ann Johnson and Peggy Hagopian, made the luncheon a huge success. Our business meeting took the form of an old-fashioned housecleaning covering everything in the past, present and future. Those present were: Nell Behr, Anderson, S, C.; Maxine Bennett, Atlanta, Ga.; Peggy Hagopian and Ann Johnson, Augusta, Ga.; Charlotte Frye, Griffin, Ga.; Clayton Patterson and Jessie Woods, Charlotte, N, C. Nell came zipping in in her Beechcraft and Clayton Patterson and Jessie Woods aired down in Clayton's Fairchild. We learned from the last News Letter that Ruth Wakeman is in Atlanta. We made every effort to locate her and have her present at our meeting. So far we have not been successful but we do send her a hearty welcome to our section. Ruth Stilson, a former member of our section, who transferred to the New England Section last year, returned to Greensboro, N. C., several weeks ago.

Welcome home, Ruth'.

Nell Behr has invited our Section, plus our husbands and sweethearts, to a big pow-wow at her lovely home, Behr Port, Anderson, S. C., for the last Sunday in June, The affair will be sponsored by the Business and Professional Women's Club of that city, and a trophy will be awarded to the girl who makes the best "on-to" flight. Our entire Section pledged its whole-hearted support to our new president, Betty Gillies, and we wish her every succossl - - Jessie Woods
NORTH CENTRAL SECTION - MICHIGAN CHAPTER - Since there was no local Chapter meeting in May because of the Sectional meeting held in Chicago this month, few contacts have been made with the girls by ye reporter. However, a few bits of news have been picked up. Those from this Chapter who attended the Chicago meeting report a nice time. The dinner dance at the Lee Plaza Hotel in Detroit was lots of fun, and everyone had an enjoyable time. The dance was given jointly by the Women's Aeronautical Association and the Ninety-Nines.

Our Chapter Chairman, Leila Baker, recently made a trip to Texas and back with a friend in a Beechcraft. Accompanying her were husband Ray, and son, Dale. They were away a week, and that was long enough reports Leila, for her two youngest sons were left at home and were greatly missed by their mother. We have had some very nice flying weather recently. In fact, some days could be tagged "Clear and Unlimited", Most of the girls have felt the urge to dust off the old crate and log a few hours. The "Dawn Patrol", composed of local pilots who like to get up early on Sunday mornings and fly to some outlying airport for breakfast, has claimed the interest of some of our girls. Alice Hammond and husband, John, winged their way in the Fairchild 24 to Jackson for breakfast last Sunday. Next Sunday, Fay Kirk and husband,Bob, plan to do the same in the direction of Saginaw. This proves to bo an enjoyable and popular way of getting cross country experience, and it's always fun to "cruise" in the company of other ships. Ye reporter has been batting around in her Aeronca C-3 and also flying gliders, her favorite being the "Wolf", a German sailplano, In which she has just made some thermal soaring flights.
- - Helen Montgomery
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Packet Pg. 620 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) SOUTH CENTRAL SECTION - Alma Martin, Jimmie Kolp, Edna Gardner and Fanny Leonpacher participated in the Louisiana State Air Tour in April. Alma and Fanny had some hostess duties when the Tour stopped at their home ports of Shreveport and Lafayette. Jimmie became so enamoured of touring about that she has been on the wing off and on ever since, dropping into Oklahoma City on April 23 for a Sunday Air Show, and a few days later flying her husband into Tulsa for a few hours’ visit. One of our flying sisters, Sally Duncan, took herself on a X-C from her home port at Coffeyville to Oklahoma City in April.

Our Governor, Una Goodwin, flew up to Guthrie, Oklahoma, on April 22 to the 99er celebration held there that day.

Two section governors had a grand visit together the middle of May when Florence Boswell, of the North Central Section, was forced to stop at Oklahoma City due to weather, while enroute from Ohio to Santa Barbara to visit Bessie Owens, Una was pleased with this opportunity of getting better acquainted with this distant member.

Our Section gives a hearty welcome to new member, Hellon Gandy, of Oklahoma City. Hellon has recently acquired her Private rating, and there are a lot of interesting things about her which will appear soon. We read in the local press that Dorothy McBirney, accompanied by her father, are at the Now York World’s Fair. Gaylo Horrall is recovering from hor broken arm in a surprisingly short time and is already able to drive about in the maroon Mercury car which friend husband presented just after the accident. Gaylo is rushing about getting her private rating ronewed, it having expired soon after the accident, and is finding she has to comply with a lot of regulations.

Dorothy Morgan recently took a day's leave of absence from hor adorable eight-month-old Sharon, and with her pilot husband flew from Tulsa to Baton Rouge, La,, and return, with a stop at Shreveport and on out to Barksdalo Field to purchase some special sun glasses at the Post Exchange, At Baton Rougo they onjoyed sightseeing at the beautiful capitol building, .'in item from Dorothy’s daily routine divulges that wee daughter’s noontime outing usually consists of a drive to the Tulsa City Airport, whore mother eats a sandwich in the coffee shop and little Sharon is the center of attraction. We’ll wager that Sharon has for her age, a rocord'number of pilots and aviation fraternity among hor acquaintances.
- - Frances H. Brown
NORTH CENTRAL SECTION - ALL-OHIO CHAPTER - Bad weather conditions in the Vfest forced Florence Boswell to follow the Southern route to the Coast instead of a Northern route, as she had originally planned.

And another member, who is having fun with the weather right horo at home, is Marion Poaso. who in order to pile up ton hours a few Sundays ago had to play "hido-and-go-soek" with the rain clouds. Of what we hoar, she would sit on torra-firma only until the toasing rain storms blow over; then up she would go until another rain spell would sot hor down again. This kept up tho ontire day. Some fun, oh?
What are we going to do with Grace Birge until sho receives her license? That "gal1* is so wrapped up in hor spins, turns, figure

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Packet Pg. 621 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) eights, rigging, meteorology, navigation, etc., that she has had to pay two horrible sums because of speeding and not heeding the "No Parking" signs. To top it off she couldn't even eat her spinach the other night because of worry, worry, WORRYl She is due for her Private Test almost any day now. Helen Curtiss, our untiring chairman, logged some cross country flying when she flew up to attend the Sectional meeting in Chicago. She played navigator and co-pilot on the trip taken in Ray Oster's Great Lakes Trainer.

It is tulip time at the Davis's and Arlene is going to use her beautiful garden as a sotting for a tea and meeting of the Akron Chapter of the N. A. A., to which the Ninety-Nine "gals" have been invited. It will take place the afternoon of May 21st. At the completion of a very succossful and Interesting lecture program thru the winter months, Mary King, our program chairman, has some very elegant plans for the summer. So far, she has kept her plans secret, but we are hoping to get wind of them shortly, and we will pass them on. Last minute trade-winds bring these nev/s bits— Mary Winstanloy, our Lone Eaglet, bought a new car and is thrilled over it. Frances Drenik is tho happy recipient of seven hundrod and fifty dollars which she won at a raffle, and she is going to spend it on flyingl (Good girl, Fran.'. Abbio Dill Haddaway, former member of ova* group, joined Florence Boswell in Oklahoma, so two Ohio Ninety-Niners will be "Fairing" it together. Marion Coddington is doing a grand job of stirring up aviation interest among the women in Akron. Because of this, we havo added Sue Mostenic to our membership list. And now, Switch Off, 'til next time.
- - Ann Barille
NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER - The April meeting held at the State Airport in Providence, R. I., with Louise Sisson as hostess, was one of the most successful this year. Many of the members flew in, as did several of the guests. We were so pleased to meet and have the opportunity to entertain Betty Gillies, our new National President, who flew in her Fairchild from New York. Lucille Boudreau of Westhampton, Long Island, also flew a Fairchild, and Margo Tanner, Governor of the Metropolitan-Tri-State Section flew here with Barbara Southgate in a Waco. Dorothy Monro and Jean Adams came in a Rearwin; Ruth Granger, Moya Mitchell, Blanche Gates and Carolyn Moran in a Fairchild; Marion Tibbetts, Melva Doyle and Gertrude Meserve in Cubs.

The speaker of the afternoon was Captain Joe Dawson of the U.

A, A. Flying Service. He gave us some amusing incidents of his career which dates back to the war, and spoke some GOOD words for women in aviation. Ruth Stilson of Providence has gone to Greensboro, N. C., where she is hopping passengers, lecturing, bringing in prospective students, etc. We hope she will send us some real information soon. Lillian Holmes and Melva Doyle were the hostesses for tho May meeting. Thoy gave us an excellent lunch and an instructive afternoon. Mr. Charles Hamilton, husband of Ruth Hamilton, the Chapter's secretary, explainod tho aims and needs of tho "Massachusetts Board of Aviation", of which ho is president. Tho membership was increased by most of tho girls joining. Mr. Charles Fisher of Aerial Enterprises also spoke, using "Aorial Advertising" for his topic. Gortrude Mesorvo has hor L. C. Ruth Hamilton, Jean Adams,

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- - Louise Howard

SKETCH ON FANNY LEONPACHER
When it comes to biographies, your reporter feels lucky that she can tell you about Fanny Leonpacher, our Sectional Treasurer. From one brief meeting we were left with the impression of a slender, blond woman, with a friendly, stimulating personality, of unbounded energy and efficiency; a woman interested in living and in people.

She lives at Lafayette, Louisiana, in a highly masculine atmosphere consisting of husband, Dr. Louis Leonpacher, and four— yes— four sons, Erwin 11, Walter 9, Alfred 8 and Robert 5. The camera shot which we have of these four lads, seated on a log in what is undoubtedly a typical Louisiana woods setting, shows that Fanny and the doctor have a progeny to be proud of. Fanny was b o m in London, England, of German parents, who brought her to the United States, via Canada, at the age of 2\ years. (Ah, that accounts for that slight, indefinable accent--it is a composite’.) She reads, speaks and writes German fluently. During school years she lived in New Jersey, Florida and Indiana, graduating from high school at Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Having a preference for business life, she took a secretarial course at the Business University at Bowling Green, Kentucky, and thereafter had an interesting variety of work with the Standard Oil Company, Louisiana State University, and the Farm Bureau Federation in Baton Rouge; also at Houston, Texas doing German and English stenography for an oil explorer firm.

Fanny shamelessly admits that she had her husband-to-be earmarked since her pig-tail days. They were married at the end of her year at Houston. Dr. Leonpacher is a veterinarian, a graduate of the University of Munich and, just as Fanny did, came to this country by way of Canada. Her husband's profession enabled Fanny to continue her business activity by doing his office work, which included even such chores as collecting bad debts for him. Due to the extent of his practice and the terrain in Louisiana, the doctor felt the airplane to be a necessity in his work, and it was then that Fanny had the desire to learn to fly. She started her instruction on the Lafayette Airport in 1932 in a Waco F under Glynne M. Jones, who is now C.A.A. inspector at Boston. Don't tell this gentleman, but Fanny relates that he used the "Army method”, and--tragic then, but funny now--the very day before she soloed he got her so mad that she left the field in tears. She built up time on a Rearwin, Jr., an Ox P. T., and a Fleet, and then the Leonpachers bought their first ship, a Fairchild "21” which they used for a year and a half. Flying these types, Fanny attained her Limited Commercial rating. In an interim, Fanny and her husband made a trip to Germany, and then little Robert, the youngest, was born. Then they bought the Bird ship which they now have, and which, with its stability and slow landing characteristics, is so well adapted for their type of flying. Fanny's liking for office work has led her into such jobs as secretary-treasurer for the Evangeline Chapter, N. A. A., on which she is serving her second year, and it no doubt accounts for the efficient manner in which she serves our section as treasurer. Going feminine— in her own household she likes best to do the marketing and meal planning, - - Frances H. Brown, Reporter n .
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PRESIDENT'S COLUMN
NINETYNINES
IV

N E W S
LETTER
April 15, 1948

DEADLINE
5th OF EACH MONTH

NINETY-NINES
1025 Connecticut Ave., N. W.

Washington 6, D® C®

NATIONAL OFFICERS
Belle Hetzel..........Pres.
126 Drake Court
Omaha, Nebraska
Helen W. Anderson...’/.Pres.
4740 John R, Apt. 106
Detroit, Michigan
Melba G® Beard..,Secretary
1981 Meadowbrook Road
Altadena, California
Marjorie B. Davis....Treas.
118 W. 11th, Apt, 10
New York, New York
Helen Anderson, our Vice President, is in Chicago this week representing 99*s at the American Association of Airport Executives convention® We were invited to make suggestions to the airport managers for the betterment of airport operation from a woman pilot’s point of view® If you have any suggestions on the subject, why not pass them on to Helen at her home address - she may 'want to follow up with some written suggestions from the membership at large®
I received a letter tonight from the director of the
Colorado state aeronautics commission® I believe many of you who do considerable cross country flying will be interested in his idea, so here it is in brief: ’The plan as proposed to Western Union is similar to the "Travelgram" system which was discontinued during the war® For a nominal sum, a cross country pilot would wire only the word "Arrived" and his name back to the point of departure. Such action would not only save needless anxiety by relatives and
friends, but also serve to expedite search and rescue in case the plane is forced down® In order that a concensus of nation-wide opinions might be mailed to the directors of Western Union, it would be appreciated if all state aeronautics directors and pilots would write this office (State Aeronautics Commission, State House, Denver, Colorado) and give their views on the proposed plan.’ If you are interested, why not drop him a card to than effect® The rest of my column I would like to devote to information on the Miami Air Races®
Belle Hetzel
Your President
The second Annual All Woman Air Show of the World which has national and international significance, is the only show of its kind in the world and will be held the first week in June this year on Amelia Earhart Field, Miami,
Florida, marking the 11th anniversary of Miss Earhart’s take-off from this airport on her last flight. The field was dedicated in her honor last fall with the Federation of Women’s Clubs as co-sponsors with the Ninety-Nines®
The purpose of the All Woman Air Show of the World is to raise funds for the Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Fund which each year sponsors deserving women pilots to further training in aviation. (Miss Earhart founded the Ninety-Nines, international organization of licensed women pilots, in 1929 and became their first and most beloved president.) The show will be presented in such a manner as to cause the Mrs. Average American Housewife to become more air-conscious and realize the importance of the aviation industry to our national economy and security and that they have a place in the air world®
A Bill was introduced in Congress requesting and authorizing President Truman to proclaim the first week of June 1948 as National Air-Women’s Week - calling attention to the All Woman Air Show of the YTorld to be held in Miami as an outstanding example of women’s participation in aviation.

National Air-Women’s Week will be officially observed all over the country. Official opening of the week will take place in Miami on Amelia Earhart Field with a ceremony
attended by dignitaries. In Los Angeles, California the

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Fanwise across the United States five air derbies will take to the air at Dallas, Wichita, St* Louis, Detroit, and
Nevr York City and point the nose of their ships toward Miami as their participation in National Air-Woraen’s Week* Also, along -the routes that these flights will follow it is planned that women’s clubs will be dedicating air raarking projects which they have erected prior to the event in recognition of the importance of aviation to their local business and to the nation as the volume of personal plane travel increases* The project will be of a memorial nature to their native sons and daughters who contributed to the preservation of our American way of life through their
service in the Air Forces* National Air-Woraen’s Week
citations will be awarded by the 99*s to all persons entered in the air derbies and to the women’s clubs participating in the air marking program* The flight in the Derbies with the largest number of planes entered will be awarded a
Trophy and the State Women’s Club erecting the most standard Air markers will be presented a beautiful Trophy* In Miami on Amelia Earhart Field the girls will take further part in the week’s calendar of events by participating in All Woman Air Show of the World on June 5 and 6* It is
planned there will be demonstrations of precision flying by the country’s outstanding women performers and beautiful sailplane exhibitions by champions* Also, scheduled are two light plane races of 65HP and 125 HP classes in addition to a Midget Race honoring the late Marge Hurlburt, world speed flier and builder of midget planes at the time of her death* Novelty and comedy demonstrations will
thrill the crowds and girl jumpers will be popping their chutes to everyone’s satisfaction*
Climax of the week of celebration will be the light plane cruise to Havana, Cuba on June 7* Everyone who wants to brave the overwater hop into a bit of the old country will be entertained in such a manner that will long be remembered for its pleasant and interesting experiences*

NINETY-NINES

SECOND ANNUAL ALL WOMAN AIR SHOW OF THE WORLD
(sponsored by Florida 99s)

AMELIA EARHART FIELD - MIAMI, FLORIDA
June 1-6, 1948

GENERAL INFORMATION ON EVENTS & RACES
TRANSCONTINENTAL RACE: Limited to NC’d manufacturer’s
stock model personal type of airplanes of up to and including 250 HP* Race will start June 1st at Los Angeles, California and be handicapped according to manufacturer’s advertised cruising speed - elapsed time to be figured on arrival at Amelia Earhart Field, Miami, Florida* Entry
and $10*00 fee must be filed and approved by Air Show
officials in this race before noon of May 30, 1948*
Winner of this event will receive a beautiful trophy and a $1500*00 purse will be broken down as follows: First
place $500*00; second place $450*00; third place $350*00; and fourth place $200*00*
MARGE HURLBURT MEMORIAL TROPHY RACE: A closed course race to be run on June 6 at Amelia Earhart Field* This will
be a Midget Plane Race if enough entries are assured*
Otherwise, plans are to make it an AT-6 race - definite announcement on this will be made at an early date in
order that girls can get ships to fly* Entry and fee of $5*00 must be filed and approved by officials in this
race before noon of June 4, 1948* Winner of this event
will receive a beautiful trophy and a $1000*00 purse will be broken down as fo'llows: First place $500*00; second place $300*00; and third place $200*00*
65 HP LIGHT PLANE RACE: (Method of start to be decided by Contest Committee)* A closed course race to be run on
June 5 at Amelia Earhart Field* Entry and fee of $2*50
must be filed and approved by Air Show officials in this race before noon of June 4, 1948* Winner of this event
will receive a trophy and a possible purse of $300*00 will be broken down as follows: First place $150*00; second
place $100*00; and third place $50*00*
125 HP LIGHT PLANE RACE: (Method of start to be decided by the Contest Committee)* A closed course race to be run
on June 6 at Amelia Earhart Field* Entry and fee of $2*50 must be filed and approved by Air Show officials before noon of June 4, 1948* Winner of this event will receive a beautiful trophy and a possible purse of $500*00 will be broken down as follows: First place $250*00; second
place $150*00; third place $100*00*
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NOTE: Pilot Eligibility - Pilot must have CAA Private
license or better and have at least 25 hours in type of ship entered in race by pilot* CAA Physical must be current* Persons planning to participate in the light plane cruise to Havana, Cuba on June 7th following the show must submit notice NOT LATER THAN MAY 1ST in order that arrangements for clearing Customs and Immigration of ships and personnel may be expedited* No entry fees in this cruise* Men as well as women are invited to go on this tour which promises to be an interesting and delightful experience* All kinds of entertainment is being arranged to make this show the most unforgettable ever*

FLORIDA CHAPTER
By Gladys Pennington
456 N*E* 29th St*, Miami, Florida
By this time every 99er should have received information about the second annual All Woman Air Show. The show on June 5 and 6 will feature such well known pilots as Betty Skelton, Kaddy Landry, Caro Bayley and Beverly Whitfield in demonstrations of precision flying and there will be special novelty acts that will add humor to the show*
Vivian Boyer Ropes, General Chairman of the show is certainly doing a grand job of arranging the show and we know that this is going to be one of, if not the most outstanding events ever presented to an air show audience* And everyone feels sure that through our show we are going to interest a lot more women in the aviation industry*
We are running five air derbies from Dallas, Wichita, St* Louis, Detroit and New York City* Contact has been made with girls in Chapters covering these areas* Since we had not planned cash purses for these Derbies, some of the girls at these starting points are arranging to get sponsors of a small purse for their individual derby and others are getting sponsorship of gasoline for the ships entered in their Derby* So, this should give some of you an idea to work on for5your Derby* By the way, these Derbies are being staged to publicize ’’National Air Women’s Week” -which is the first week in June* Many will be interested to learn that there is a
Bill in Congress requesting the President to proclaim this period as National Air Women’s Week and invite women everywhere to participate -whether they attend the show or not* Also, in this connection the women’s clubs are being invited to erect standard airmarkers as their part in this program# In this way our show will have benefited not only our members but result in saving the lives of many of our pilots for a long time to come* Mrs* Blanche Noyes, Chief, of Air
Marking for the CAA is giving us her full cooperation* A special effort will be made to see that these markers are put up along the routes that the Air Derbies will fly* All Derbies will take off on June 1st*
At our last regular meeting a motion made by Vivian Ropes was passed unanimously that the proceeds from this All Woman Air Show would be used to establish a Foundation for women pilots similar to the Actors Guild* Vivian stated that
while we do intend to contritute to the Amelia Earhart
Memorial Scholarship Fund she feels that ty starting a Foundation of this kind a greater number of our girls will have an opportunity to receive benefits, and that she feels she has been repaid for all the hard work entailed in staging a snow of this kind when this program is established* The Florida Chapter would like the national organization'to consider participating in this program which has already been started by taking out Group Insurance for flying activities of our Florida members* Eventually with the proceeds from the Show a building will be erected where 99»s can come to Miami and stay if they are in need of rest* Full details will be available on this program as soon as

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The Alcauar Hotel, Biscayne Blvd., at 5th Street has been selected as Hotel Headquarters for the Show and arrangements have been made for special rates. Any persons wanting hotel reservations should write directly to the Hotel and mention that they are All Woman Air Show visitors and they will confirm them immediately.

The Aviation’s "Man of Distinction" Contest is again included on our program with an Aviation Ball, Saturday evening June 5. The flight to Havana, Cuba will take off on June 7 and return June 8.

We are looking forward to seeing many 99*s down and assure them that they are going to have lots of fun during the show and entertainment which is being planned for them.

Let us be hearing from you and send in your hotel reservations. Remember, no men are allowed to fly in the show, races, or derbies. Women passengers are O.K.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: We feel sure that House Joint Resolution No. 292 which was introduced in Congress making the first week in June "NATIONAL AIR WOMEN’S WEEK” will pass without any difficulties, however, it would be appreciated if every member would write to your Congressman and urge them to pass this Bill when it comes up for consideration. Through
passage of this Bill women pilots have an opportunity to make the nation conscious of the important part played by women in aviation. Let’s be prepared to establish our
position in the event we have another opportunity to serve our country in a "flying capacity". We’d be very unhappy if we found ourselves grounded to a desk and chair.

Dear Section Governors and Chapter Chairmen:

Hope you are all busy talking things over
with your Section and your Chapter members,
as to vhom you would like to nominate for
the National Offices, remember the deadline
is - MAY 15, 1948.

As suggestions have reached me, to have a
write up about each candidate in the July
News Letter, I would appreciate it if you
would send me a sketch about each of your
candidates. Suggestions for this write up
might be along these lines:

Length of time as a member of the 99*s
Offices previously held in -the 99’s
Approximate flying time & ratings held
Ownership of plane and any other flying
history
Also I wonder, if it would be possible to
receive the consent of your nominees for
the office nominated, especially if she is
from your Section or Chapter; and enclosing this consent with your nomination blank. I believe this would help things
along when time is short.

Thank you all for your co-operation.

Remember the DEADLINE IS MAY 15, 1948.

Elsie V. Peters, Chairman
1948 Nominating Committee

ALL INQUIRIES AND REQUEST FOR ENTRY
BLANKS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO MRS.

VIVIAN BOYER ROPES, GENERAL CHAIRMAN,
ALL WOMAN AIR SHOW OF THE WORLD HEADQUARTERS, 456 N.E. 29TH STREET, MIAMI, FLORIDA.
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NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY SECTION
By Kay A. Brick
"Brickaero", Norwood, N.J.

The recent spring weather brought out our members like the jonquils - close to 50 at our Easter Dinner Meeting.

MR. LOUIS L. DE JEAN read from his book of aviation verse.

His "Tribute to the Ninety-Nines" delighted all the girls.

Thanks Blanche, for introducing us.

VIOLA GENTRY CAMERON followed a detailed announcement of the Miami All-Woman Air Show plans with an appeal for ALL of us to get busy getting advertising for the program and to find sponsors for some of the races. LET’S GET BEHIND AND FUSHJ Contact her at: Town & Country, Park Avenue,
New York City, N.Y. Volunteer 5-5641.

We were delighted to have our invalids back with us - FLEUR LOESCH with a leg all mended; SELMA CRONAN minus an unnecessary part; and MARY REIFSCHNEIDER with a cured throat.

MARGIE WHITE is back from a trip west in a twin-engined Beech. 49A’er Lowell is recovering from an illness and all our sincere wishes go to both for his rapid recovery. TTNY GODDARD is still "wintering" in California. And ALMA HARWOOD is enjoying California and Phoenix. By now she is toting Charlie around those mountains in their Stinson 150. MURRAY HAKE has been flying with Colonial Airlines on business to Canada and Bermuda. ANN TINGLEY PIGGOTT is back in Jersey with daughter Sue. JIHI FOSTER was with us from the Miami 99*s and FRANCES SCHLOSS is transferring from Des Moines. A hearty welcome to you-all 1
Please note: One Kay Menges is now Mrs. Frank R. Brick and lives at "Brickaero", Norwood, N.J. Governor "K" and her new 49^’er want to thank their many 99 friends for their kind wishes and wonderful gifts. They look forward to entertaining you at "Brickaero", Norwood, N.J. after they get settled.
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WASHINGTON D. C. CHAPTER
By Margaret E. Vaughan
1026 15th St., N. W., Washington, D.C.

On February 15th, the Washington Chapter gave a Tea in
honor of the Civilian Air Patrol Cadets, Wing and Air
Scouts in the President’s Room of the Administration Bldg. at National Airport..

After the groups were received, Jean Wadlington of the
Wing Scouts and George Ackerman of the C.A.P. Cadets presided in cutting the cakes decorated by Eleanor Davis in their respective colors.

Chairman Jean Howard introduced Mrs. Blanche Noyes, who addressed the group on their air-marking projects and encouraged them of the need for these markers.

The film "The Bell Helicopter" was shown by Margaret
Vaughan. Many of the later uses of this machine were pictured and greatly lauded by the audience.

SPRING IS HEREIi
Visited several of the local airports and the pilots are really "eager beavers" for the airlJ
Our last meeting, March 10th, met with our Chairman Jean

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Packet Pg. 629 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) Howard. A short business session was held and a letter of appreciation was read from the Civil Air Patrol Cadets, Wing and Air Scouts for the enjoyable tea held in their honor. The Cocktail Party to be in April was postponed
until a later date. Margaret Vaughan-Chairman, Jan Warren and Jeanne Hunt were named as a committee to determine the time, place and make a survey of the number of people for such a dance.

Congressman Claire Engle was the guest speaker on the
social agenda. Following an introduction by the chairman, Congressman Engle spoke informally to the group on experiences he has encountered as a private flyer. We practically lived his flight across the Rockies and were highly amused with the 1 turbulent weather* flown enroute to Washington via Skyway Number One. He strongly advocates the air marking system and Skyways for private pilots. Later he touched on the Congressional Air Policy Report and what representation of the private pilot is made in Congress.

After hearing his talk as one of the light plane pilots, the chapter unanimously selected him as 49>r,erl
Off with a breezy startI The "Hanger Flying" Program started last Wednesday. These meetings are being sponsored by the Ninety Nines Organization, Civil Aeronautics Club, WASP*S and Women Flyers of America.

Charles Planck, Director of Current Information Service in the Civil Aeronautics Administration, started the hanger flying with some swell stories but Mr. Paul E. Garber, curator of the Aircraft Exhibit in the Smithsonian Institution followed with some mighty interesting stories and movies on Man*s Desire to Fly, Early Birds and other famous aircraft and historic flights.

Later Mr. Planck presented door prizes, a model F9F and a water painting of the "Sky Streak."
This week Mr. Garber is opening the Smithsonian Institution and the groups will see these famous planes, as he relates incidents of interest about the flights. The following
meetings will deal in modern Navigation and Meterology and will be conducted by the Science of Aeronautical Navigation and the United States Weather Bureau.

The next Ninety Nines meeting will be an invitation to the other aviation groups to meet in the Department of Commerce Auditorium April 22nd, for the showing of "Flight to the Sun," a colored travelogue movie. Further plans are being made.

Margaret Vaughan and Tom Huff (Civil Aeronautics Representative) were guest speakers on Jean Howard*s radio program "Aviation Forum*" The Hangar Flying Program was under discussion.

EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER
By Jessie Jones Eckhart
819 Ocean Ave., Lancaster, Pa.

We heard wedding bells in the slip stream at Baltimore, Md. on March 9th when Mary "Sandy" Saunders married Thomas
Wilson. 30th the bride and the groom are flight instructors for Pan Maryland Flying Service at Baltimore, Municipal Airport.

At long last we are going to see Dot Leh of Allentown, Pa., who is a charter member of our 99*s. Rumor has it that
Dot will be the auctioneer for our "Sight unseen auction" to swell our chapter treasury a bit, at our next meeting April 18th at Patco Airport. Should be fun. Be there Dot, don*t disappoint us.

Our much traveling chairman, Francis Nolde of Reading, Pa. is planning a very interesting trip. She is flying a Beech Bonanza to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - and all alone - She*11 leave from Kansas and hit Miami, Fla., down the Keys and over to Cuba, Virgin Islands, and so on. Frannie is leaving this spring — Have a good.tripll Bettie Townson and 49^*er George are now in the Helicopter business. The Helicopter Engineering Research Corp. at
Boulevard Airport,. Philadelphia 14, Penna. George is
treasurer and test pilot - Bettie is "girl Friday." Bettie says if you want any information or pictures write to the above address. Also any 99ers who hold a helicopter rating or have time in any, get in touch with her. She would also like information on any 99ers holding an Aeronautical Engineering Degree..

The nice weather has us all shaking the frost and snow
from our wings and like fledglings trying our luck at defying the laws of gravity. Ain*t it grand!! Saw Vi Delp in her Navion Sunday, the Richards* in their Luscombe, Helen Jones in her L-5, the Eckharts* in their Taylorcraft.

Leona McElroy and Catherine Slocum have sent out 116
notices of invitation to join the 99ers, to different Airport managers to post on their bulletin boards for all women pilots to see. We are really having an "ALL OUT
CAMPAIGN" for members this spring.

Where are you 99ers from Delaware - please write or show up or something.
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NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER
By Alma Gallagher
16 Messer St., Laconia, N.H.

Christian Born, president of Air Markings, Inc. of Boston came to our March 8 meeting at the 99 club, 99 State St., Boston to tell us about the national skyways and show pictures of roof top markers which his company is doing in enamel in New England. Skyway 1, according to Mr. Born, will soon continue from Washington through Boston to
Caribou, Maine.

Governor Judy Short has appointed Rose Abbott as chairman of a dance committee to look into the feasibility of having a 99 dance in May.

Judy promises fly-in meetings if it ever stops snowing. In the meantime sectional meetings are held the second Monday1 of each month at six at the 99 Club in Boston. Secretary Mildred Morey writes that memberships in the club are still available.

The Northern Chapter invited private and student pilots, feminine gender, to a first guest night at the Rumford
Coffee house in Concord, N.H. March 23 Julie and John
Williams, Manchester, N.H., radio and husband-wife flying team, gave their impressions of their recent 48-state air tour in their Piper cruiser, the Starduster. Special
guests were State Aeronautics Director Russ Hilliard and Mrs. Hilliard.

Betty Condict who did much in planning the party told the visiting petticoat fliers the whys and wherefores of the 99* s.

Next chapter meeting will be April 27 at the Weirs Hotel, Weirs, N.H., at 6:30 with Bill Champlin of Skyhaven,
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CHICAGO CHAPTER
By Patricia L. Hitchcock
1415 Lake St., Evanston, 111.

Chicago Ninety-Niners are looking forward to the sectional

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Packet Pg. 630 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) meeting here at the Edgewater Beach Hotel on Memorial Day ■weekend* We hope to see a lot of the gals who don’t get up this way very often*
Cards will be sent to Ninety-Niners which they will fill out and mail directly to the hotel for reservations* Transportation is being arranged for those flying in* Further information on tie-downs and hangar space at Douglas Airport will be forthcoming* The assemblage promises to be an interesting one if the zeal and enthusiasm displayed at our March 24 business meeting are any indication*
Chicago members are planning to attend a benefit party
sponsored by the Women Flyers of America and the Chicago Pilots Association for Winifred Jung who was critically injured in a plane crash some months ago* The party will take place at the Edgebrook Country Club on Friday, April 9th, at 8P.M.

The Chicago chapter is sponsoring a rummage sale on May 1st to swell the chapter coffers* Further planning of this will take place at the April 15th meeting at 19 S* LaSalle*
We are proud to report the addition of new members Irene Leverton, Sally Dolke, Leotta Cook, Mrs* Ellen Mayo Hill, and Kay Ferris.

President Betty Morgan is in Florida for five or six weeks at the prescription of her doctor* We hope to see her back hale and hearty* at our May meeting in the Cloud Room at the Municipal Airport*

INDIANA CHAPTER
By Charlotte Darlington
R*R. $4 Box 99, Anderson, Ind*
The March meeting was held at Purdue Airport, Lafayette, on March 21* Future meetings are as follows:

April 11 - Bunker Hill, Indiana
May - Night Meeting LaRues, Indianapolis, Ind*
June 20 - Mt* Vernon, Indiana
August - Rochester, Indiana
Got a card from Loretta F. Teeple of Ft* Wayne and she
hopes to get to our meetings soon*
Virginia Voyles flew to Miami in their Bonanza in January for the air show. She is from Petersburg, Indiana* which is down around Vincennes so we will probably see her at the meeting at Mt* Vernon in June, but ive hope she will be able to get to some of the meetings before then*
The Anderson Ninety-Nines got quite a write up in the
Anderson Herald on March 26, with front page picture and a long article about the history of the Ninety-Nines and about each of the six Anderson girls, Dorotha Hendricks, Fern Rinker, Irmyl Retherford, Joan Ferguson, Martha Hunter, and myself*
Our next meeting at Bunker Hill will be most interesting if the weather is favorable as the Flying Farmers are also going to be there that day* We will all go swimming in the United States* largest indoor swimming pool*

UPPER IOWA CHAPTER
By Virginia Vinsand
23J- South 8th St*, Fort Dodge, Iowa
Our March meeting was held in Fort Dodge with Win Eno and Beulah Frotscher as hostesses* A delicious dinner was enjoyed at the Fort Dodge Room of the Hotel Warden* Mrs* Elsie Williams of Spencer, was with us as a guest, also our 99*er from Spencer, Mrs* Fern McKinnon* All members of
our chapter were present with the exception of Inez
McAllister of Decorah and Verna Mae Prohaska of Waterloo* We were sorry to hear that Inez has undergone a major operation and will not be with us for the next few meetings* To clear the way for our April meeting (to be strictly a social one as guests of tne Standard Oil Co* in Mason City) we completed all necessary business* Our list of candidates for the election of National Officers was prepared. As our chapter is growing now, we elected Buelah Frotscher to the membership chairman post. Our secretary, Millie' Burt, is rather busy with her night club in Storm Lake, and I have taken over the job of reporter for her*
Mr* H* C* Kirkberg of Kirkberg Jewelers of Fort Dodge presented our chairman, Bernie Eno, with a beautiful silver tray with our 99 insignia engraved on it* This tray will be a trophy earned by the furthering of our flying time, air marking project* increasing our membership, etc* We have appointed Betty Barton as chairman of our contest
committee. She will be assisted by our other Spencer girls* During each meeting the tray will be awarded to the girl who has earned the most points during the proceeding month* Her name will be engraved on the tray* At the end of a six month period, the member who has achieved the most points will take possession of the tray for the remainder of the year* We think it’s a wonderful goal and the girls are anxious to begin rolling up their points* Cards and letterheads with our 99 insignia were donated by Bernie Eno. We are ordering some of those clever 99 match books also* All proceeds from these sales will go to our savings for the Amelia Earhart Fund*
Our next meeting, dated for April 18th, will be held in Mason City as guests of the Standard Oil Company. We are undoubtedly in for a very pleasant time* The following
meeting will be back in Fort Dodge on the third Sunday of May.

MICHIGAN CHAPTER
By Helen Pelto
4997 Grand Court, Rt* 9, Pontiac, Mich*
The Wayne County Airport Control Tower deserves a citation for the courteous service they gave our pilots and guests who arrived thero to attend the March breakfast and the meeting at Ray Baker’s Restaurant* Not only that, they are a witty group tool When Martin Wagner reported his plane to the tower, the tower operator commented coyly, "Myl What a low voice you have for a 99erl"
To all flyers who patronize airport where excellent food is available, it’s the Wayne County Airport for you*
Alice Hammond was hostess at this meeting* Gloria Lynch arranged through "Beauty Counseleur" to have for each member and guest as a favor a container of hand lotion*.

The Michigan Chapter each year seems to devise different methods of building up that Amelia Earhart Scholarship Fund* This year girls in different towns are contacting the responsible person in the Sears store offering them the service of a courtesy shopper* Y/hatever salary is paid to the 99er for this service will be thrown in Michigan’s quota for the AESF. If you Michigan members did not attend either the March or April meeting, please notify Barbara Cradit and Alice Hammond* They can tell you what Sears stores have been contacted* In this way perhaps Michigan can again be among the top Chapters donating to the AESF.

Don’t forget to send Eloise Smith for her personnel file a photograph (full face) approximately 4x5 or 5x7 that
could be reproduced in newspapers and also that history form she requested*
JEAN PRINS has her Commercial Pilots license now and is working on her Instructors Rating— BETTY GROHMAN is in Florida vacationing-— — MARY CREASON and her Wing Scouts took a trip to Milwaukee— --BECKY TIIATCHER certainly has a "turnover" of automobiles. She rolled over a Buick Roadmaster* Now she has a 1948 Buick Convertible* LEAH-HIGGINS took the airlines down to New Orleans for the Easter Holidays BETSY ORR
took a train to New Orleans* From there she took the Great White Fleet to Cuba and Guatemala* Betsy says that Cuba is the spot but go to Guatemala because it makes the trip longer and is scads of fun— — THELMA LINDZAY extends a courtesy to your reporter that is appreciated* Any time she hears of news, she jots it down on a postcard and sends it to me*

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Packet Pg. 631 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) Here is a list of a few of the books that we have in our library. Should you wish to borrow one, write to Bernice Trimble and she will see that you receive it as soon as possible. You may keep the book for one month#
Last Flight - By Amelia Earhart
Listen, The Wing - By Anne Lindbergh
High, Wide and Frightened - By LouiseThaden
Thru the Overcast - By Assen Jordanoff
Heroines of the Sky - Adams and Kimball
Airmans* Odyssey - Antoine DeSaint
Schedule of meetings:

Saginaw (also Sectional
May - meeting in Chicago)
June 13 - Belding
July 11 - Alpena
August 8 - Kalamazoo

ALL-OHIO CHAPTER
By Dorothy Morris
66 S# Cassingham Rd., Columbus 9, Ohio
Most of the Ohio girls flew in Saturday for the March 21 meeting which was held at Vandalia# That evening we had a deluxe dinner and an open house which was very successful# Our thanks to Louise Clark for showing us a grand time# Sunday morning some of the girls were up with the birds to fly a (you won't believe it) bounce-proof Cub# The gear on this airplane is experimental, but it must be the thing from all reports# Those who went to the field tried all sorts of landings and the ship clung to the runway each time# Hope all the men won’t say, "Here’s proof of
success#" However, it is heartily endorsed by this chapter# We had two prospective members besides our own 20, Betty Detwiler, and Jerry Recknagel of Toledo# After the meeting Ann Heisler showed movies of her trip to Key West in her Bonanza last month which certainly were entertaining# Marge Newcomer and Lillian Kokas went with Ann and their descriptions and experiences had us all with big ears# Very exciting# Plans were made for our next three meetings# I wish to
apologize for and correct my error in the last News Letter# The April meeting will not be held at Columbus, but at
Springfield on April 25# The 24th is dedication of Skyway No# 1 at Vandalia so we expect to be there Saturday and fly on to Springfield the next morning# All 99’s are invited and this promises to be a very interesting week-end# The May meeting will be at Cleveland Municipal Airport, and in June we shall have an overnight meeting in Columbus# Definite date will be in next month# See you then!11 ST. LOIJIS CHAPTER
By June Walsh
7341 Delraar Blvd#, University City, Mo#
New airplanes take the spotlight this month in St# Louis# Lucy Fletcher has a radio equipped Cub at Meramec Airport# June Appell has a new blue Stinson hangared at Ross Airport.

Mary Jeffords is casting an eager eye at the new Piper Vagabond# Del Scharr and Burnette McNameee has temporarily forsaken Mac’s Stinson for Gurda Petty’s Seabee. And we’ll have to mention that Del finally got her new Ford. It won’t fly but it does help her get to the airport. Mary Jeffords
took Tarzan, her twelve year old "sheep-poodle" for an
airplane ride last Sunday. Evidently Tarzan doesn’t share all of Mary’s enthusiasm for flying, he was just plain
scared# Rae Sullivan is back at the old stand for Universal Flight after a spring vacation# Mary Jeffords and June
Walsh are planning to attend engine classes at Brayton
School of Aeronautics the latter part of May# They don't expect to become A&E experts but they do hope they’ll know what makes the darn things run*
the other chapters in this area# The St. Louis Ninety-i'Jines are making plans to attend the sectional at Chicago in May# We are very pleased to have the National at Kansas City since most of us will be able to attend#
Meetings: April 5 - Forest Park Hotel 8 P.M.

May 3 - Forest Park Hotel 8 P.M#

WISCONSIN CHAPTER
By Elsie V# Peters
2735 N# Murray Ave., Apt# 4
Milwaukee 11, Wisconsin
Our March monthly meeting was held a week earlier due to the East Holidays, but our next month’s meeting will be held the 3rd Sunday in the month again, which will be April 18th and which will be held at the home of our Chairman, Caroline Foiling# Any Ninety-Niner near Milwaukee at the time, be sure and phone Caroline, as I know she and all of us would be hapoy to see you#
We are all happy to welcome Mrs# Certrude Faust as our
newest member. Congratulations Jeanette# We are proud to announce that Jeanette Kapus has passed her written tests for her Instructor’s Rating# Dorothy Christenson has been trying to get the group to fly to Minneapolis to help form a chapter there# Just how many will be able to go, I can’t say#
The whole chapter is planning to go to the North Central Sectional Spring Meeting# Hope to hear definite plans as to when it will be# We are also talking about the National Meeting, and making our plans for then# See you all soon# * **************
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OKLAHOMA CITY UNIT
By Yvonne B# Warfield
624 N.E. 17th St., Okla# City, Okla.

The Unit convened at Municipal Airport on Sunday, March 14 for breakfast and regular meeting#
We had as our guest from Tulsa, Mrs• Ruth Banfield# We are very happy to have her with us again since her illness in January#
Irby Keen, Chairman, returned from a vacation in Honolula with her husband, Dr# Keen, just in time to be with us at the meeting# Irby had many things of interest to tell us about her trip. She did contact some women pilots but none of them wore Ninety-Nines# Perhaps someone should sell the idea of a chapter in Honolula#
The State Wide meeting will be held in the home of Yvonne Warfield with Delrose Sieber and Hazel Raines as co-hostesses, on Sunday April 4th# Luncheon will be served at 11:30 followed by a business meeting#
Your correspondent and Mrs. Velma Woodward struck a bit of bad luck on March 11# The Hangar in which our airplanes were kept caught fire about 2 A.M. and destroyed 31 aircraft#

COLORADO CHAPTER
By Marilyn Nordstrom
and
Donna Myers
Well, Yipee, Ki. YilJ We’re kinda busy rounding up odds and ends for the W.N.A.A. 99 dance Friday night, April 9th# We’re a gonna be cowboys that night#
The chapter is planning to fly to scne of the meetings of Here’s a orief resume of the happenings of the Colorado:

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Packet Pg. 632 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) Pat Urling presented us with a new 24 3/4'er, Harry Fisher Urling II, on March 12, two days before Pat’s own birthday.

Consequently she did not attend the last meeting at the Tiffin Dining Room* Among the guests that night was Lt* Goins, WAC officer*
Ed Jones, 49^-’er of Margaret Scribner Jones, and manager of the Snow King Valley Ski Area at Hot Sulphur Springs, has just wrapped up a couple more ski trophies* Scrib is recuperating from an appendectomy* Marilyn and Harold Nordstrom attended the Ice Hockey Finals at the Broadmoor at Colorado Springs, a couple of weeks ago*
Dot Young has been substitute instructing at the Akron, Colorado airport until a few days ago, when she underwent an operation* We have it on good authority that she is on the road to recovery.

Jennie Tscheop and prospective 99*er Margo Condon flew to Kansas this week to visit Jennie*s family, and Dorothy
Thompson was about to take off for Glenwood Springs with two passengers the other day when we met her at lunch*
Marion Wurster is taking off from work to fly down to
Tucumcari, New Mexico to pick up Kati Kelly and bring her Dacic for the dance*
Colorado has a new local aviation magazine, called the
Colorado Aviation News, and we are proud to announce that the feature article was written by Bobbie Taflinger, and a picture of Bobbie, Maxine Rediess and Phil Bjornby graced the cover - and inside the pages we found Dot Thompson
and the above gals gathered around a motor - in a picture • not the real gal si
That about wraps it up for this time - more and better
report next month*

MISSOURI VALLEY CHAPTER
By Helen Bass
Malvern, Iowa
Our March meeting was strickly a Drive-In-Affair* We had postponed it a week trying to find better weather but the weather man just wouldn*t cooperate*
We met at the Acknini strati on Building at the Omaha Airport and were served a very enticing .buffet luncheon in the offices of the Airport Manager* After the business meeting (and after Belle had sold as many tickets to the Kansas City Dance, which several of us intend to attend) we were taken over to the Weather Bureau where we became acquainted with several new pieces of equipment* One operator gave us a very interesting explanation on the Ceiloraeter, its Pressure Calebration Chart etc* also took a Radio-Sonde apart for us and even though I’d hate to try to explain it, we all enjoyed trying to understand it* Then on up to the
Control Tower for a session with the Operators and a listen to the Big Boys, who were the only ones flying that day* Belle gave a glowing report on her trip to Kansas City and of the nice time had by all at the Bill Ong Airport.

Another very personal announcement was made but "me and Winchell" will have to keep it secret for a few months* (Taint me) Thanks to Laura and Jane for planning a nice day. We fly to Sioux City April 11*
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CAROLINAS CHAPTER
By Sara E* Payne
915 Elizabeth Ave., Charlotte, N*C*
The next meeting of the Carolina’s Chapter, scheduled for April, has been postponed until May* Inasmuch as this
April meeting has been postponed, Mrs* Lucille Greenwood, 129 Alabama Ave*, Asheville, N.C*, requests that any
Carolina’s member send any name she wished to propose to the Nominating Committee for National Officers to her by MAY 1ST*
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BAY CITIES CHAPTER
By Jan Moffat
562-|- 27th St., Oakland, California
The Bay Cities Chapter of the 99*s met at the Hotel Leamington, Oakland, Friday 27 February for dinner and the monthly business meeting* The guest of the evening was Lt* Cass, U.S. Army, who gave a brief speech on what the peace time Army has to offer the young people of today* He and his assistant presented the movie, "The Memphis Belle," which was enjoyed by everyone. Prospective members, Helen Dozier, Helen Johnson, Elinor Wagner and Grayee K. Daddino, attended and were welcomed*
A letter has been received stating that our first food
package had been received by Haryse Bastie in France* Each member of our chapter is contributing food, clothing, or incidentals for other packages to be sent to Maryse in the future*
On February 15, several members of the 99’s and their
friends put on their old clothes and weilded paint brushes to paint our first air marker. The words "Morgan Hill," in ten foot letters, the direction and number of miles to the airport, and the latitude and longitude were painted on the roof of the Clara-Val Packing Co* Eldg* This is the first air marker of our project to complete many more for the year* Reports have been received from those who viewed it from the air and it appears to be very successful* On February 8, members met at Sherman Field, Walnut Creek, to view a recent air marker on a hangar* A1 Hart operated his Culver as a means of observing the marker, and several girls had the pleasure of flying in Al’s plane*
For information to any 99’s visiting this area and who
might like to attend our meetings or parties, it has been suggested they contact Kuth Rueckert, LQmbard 6-6356*

LOS ANGELES CHAPTER
By Dodie Aspell
1820 poinsettia, Manhattan Beach, Calif.

March has strictly been a business month for our group* I guess it must be the lull before the storm, for April is chock full of social events* March turned out a lot of
work though* Our meeting was called to order at 2000 on the 8th at the Hollywood Roosevelt* (You should have seen our Chairman, Helen Hooper blush when the letter was read about how the arrangements were made for that room* You, who
know her must ask her about it sometime* We all got a big charge out of it) The minutes and correspondence were read by our secretary Helen Thoraure* Yfe were sorry to hear of Grace Poew’s resignation* However Martha Lundy wrote and asked about joining. We would‘like to have her with us.

The Air Policy Conference extended an invitation to us to join their group* The Conference is being held the 13th, 14th and 15th of April* On Tuesday night there will be a room set aside for the Women’s Aviation Groups of Los
Angeles on the night of the 13th* Hardo Crane is on one of the panels for the Conference* There is a gal that is
really going places in this aviation business* Grace
Stevenson of the Bakersfield Chapter wrote and thanked us for entertaining them in January and extended us an invitation to the Spring Sectional up there being held on April 17th and 18th rather than the 3rd and 4th as originally planned*

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National Skyways Association invited all of us to their weekend flight to Del Mar on the 10th and 11th of April* The American Legion is also sponsoring a flight to Bakersfield on the 17th and 18th of April and wanted to recruit pilots to fly their disabled members to it*
Pictures were shown of the flight to Diana Cyrus ranch last year* Incidentally where have you been Diana?
Our air-marking project has finally started* On the 3rd of April, in conjunction with the Boy Scout Group at El Segundo, we are putting up a marker at the we stern terminal of Skyway Number one* It will be placed on the roof of the Airesearch Aviation Service Hangar at the Los Angeles Municipal Airport* We believe it is the largest of it’s kind with the letter being 35 feet high* On Air-marking, Mardo Crane and Helen Hooper had lunch with Blanche Noyes, who is in charge of this air-marking project* The question was raised why the longitude and latitude should be put on each marking* Miss Noyes replied that these markings were being put up not only for us or in the United States but were being
planned to cover the earth. Longitude and latitude was universal in establishing position* A very good thought I might add*
It was nice to see Pinky Brier again* I do believe this is her first meeting in a year or so* With her was Susan Hickman Wagner of the Michigan Chapter. Claire McMillan informed us that she is now at East Los Angeles Airport instructing on the G.I* program there* Helen Thomure is stopping work for a little gardening at her new house.

Besides she hasn’t had time to enjoy the new car either* Helen Hooper is flying the Stinson available to her to the Aviation Breakfast Club’s flight to Palm Springs on the 14tl:
of April* The Chairman of the three active Women’s Aviation groups held a conference with the head of the ’Ting Scouts, Mrs* Cardoso on sponsoring 7/ing Scout groups and acting as leaders* Everyone is quite enthused about the project.
’Nuff for this time*

SACRAMENTO VALLEY CHAPTER
By Coral Bloom
2255 Placer Ave., Oroville, Calif.

The Sacramento Valley Chapter of Ninety Nines took advantage of a beautiful spring day on Saturday, March 20th with 14 girls and five 49-|ers attending the luncheon at the Commissioned Officers Club in Stockton* Leah Johnson, ViceChairman, was hostess and is to be complimented for an outstanding meeting* , For those "flying-in" West Lane Airport was headquarters and Dorothy Krovoza, one of our newest members, operates this field* Vivian and Bob Dalton of Williams and Leila and Dick Pittman of Upper Lake flew down in the Dalton’s Stinson* Ruth Price, prospective member, and her husband flew their Aeronca Champion from Williams* Geraldine Mickelsen came in her Bellanca* Marjorie Fauth came over from San Francisco and Eleanor Verkuyl from Lodi in their Cessna* Coral and Art Bloom and their 24 3/4er drove down from Oroville* We were very pleased to have the following guests and prospective members from Stockton present: Mrs* Val Wright, Mrs* Frances Coolidge, Grace Gruo, Leona Herceg, Betty Bevilacqua and Beverly Wilson*
After a delicious luncheon and informal "getting acquainted and hangar flying session", a short business meeting was held* A permanent "Meeting Committee" was appointed to
determine dates and locations of future meetings* Those appointed were Eleanor Verkuyl, Vivian Dalton, and Louise Benna* It was also decided to hold a special election at the April meeting for a Vice-Chairman and Treasurer*
Our next meeting will be "Brunch" at Red Bluff with Louise Benna as hostess on Sunday April 11th* This should prove to be a big day as it will be the scene of the All Western Air Show* Any visiting or prospective members in the
vicinity are welcome*

SAN DIEGO CHAPTER
By Mirriam Edelman
3175 Dwight St*, San Diego 4, Calif*
Working clothes, mops, scrub buckets and brooms were the order of the day when the San Diego Chapter met in the
Lounge of Gillespie Inn at Gillespie Field, March 14*
Business of the day: to do a job of spring cleaning on our new "Headquarters", which consists of three Dallas Huts (Navy buildings) vhich have been joined to form one large room* Cliff Adams (A&E at Gillespie) has promised to paint the outside, and we are going to apply the "woman’s touch" to the interior* We hope that by Summer, it will have all the comforts of home, so if you are out San Diego way this s\imner, drop in (no pun intended, honest) and say hello* Guest at the business meeting was Mr* A1 Miller of the La Mesa Lions Club, who announced a County Fair and Air Show, to be held at Gillespie Field, June 4th 5th and 6th* Many interesting exhibits and events are being planned; climax will be a Breakfast flight Sunday morning June 6th, sponsored by San Diego 99*s* There will be a prize for the person flying in from the fartherest point*.Should be a lot of fun, and all 99’s are invited.

Secretary-Treasurer, Julie Hale announced that we are substantially on the black side of the ledger, as a result of the Dance, held February 28, in the Gym at Gillespie*
Evelyn Briggs, T7NAA Chairman, reported on a new money making idea — very handy little return address stickers, 250 of them in a plastic container for vl»00, and a nice profit goes into the treasury.

The business meeting was adjourned, and we were off to our headquarters and work!
NAMES IN THE NEWS: Betty Lambert, and Edna Steidley were ’sketched* in Ruth Elder’s Aviation column in the San Diego Daily Journal last week. Betty is busy filling orders for her book "Meteorology Practice Problems for Pilot Certificates". Edna, who is a former WAVE, will soon receive her Commercial Pilots License at Gibbs Field*
DAITGER— WOLEN AT WORK: Armed with paint, brushes, and
scrapers, the "work committee" Julie Hale, Evalyn Briggs, Amelia Changnon, and Mirriam Edelman and 49^er Bob Changnon started work on our new Headquarters* Painting is fun,
but we’ve decided that the painter’s union needn’t stay up nights worrying about competition*
To the NINETY-NINE
They were girls who could not sit beside
The hearth and let go by
All the joy and prido and thrills that ride
With rovers of the sky*
They were girls who dared to pioneer
New Heights on heaven’s tide:

As men made records year by year,
They matched them, stride for stride*
So we drink a toast to those whose name
Will blaze within the shrine
Of Aviation’s Hall of FameVe drink to the NINETY-NINE! Louis DeJean
November 10, 1947

YOUR EDITORS ARE SORRY NOT TO HAVE BEEN

ABLE TO PUBLISH ALL THE NEWS LETTER COPY
RECEIVED THIS MONTH. WE KNOW YOU WERE

ALL INTERESTED IN THE MIAMI AIR SHOW SO

HAVE SACRIFICED LOCAL NEWS ITEMS FOR THIS
OUTSTANDING EVENT.

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INTERNATIONAL ORGANI ZATI ON OF WOMEN PILOTS
News letter
WILL ROGERS FIELD, P.O.BOX 1 4 4 4 , OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. ______________________ AUGUST i s s u e __________________________________

FRAN SERA FIRST
IN 1355 AWTAR!
ALICE ROBERTS SECOND!

SCHOLARSHIP WINNER
Affectionately called " S u s ie ” by her
close friends and assocaites, Lucille
L. Cheetham, a member of the Kansas
Chapter, has been named winner of the
1955 AMELIA EARHART MEMORIAL
SCHOLARSHIP with its cash Award
of $300 which she will use to obtain
an INSTRUMENT Rating.

Lucille’s experience in flying has
been varied and colorful. For the past
four years she has made aerial-drop
deliveries of the Winfield Daily Courier to eight twons over a 125-mile circuit to Newsboys waiting for her in
each town as she comes in at about
100* altitude over the ballfield, vacant
lot or back yard. Sometimes th e weather gets pretty thick, but knowing her trusty Luscombe 8A to the la s t rivet
and her route to the last fense post,
the subscribers get their evening papers daily with perhaps ten or fifteen exceptions during the year. Sometimes they get the paper b (fore the citizens in Winfield itself.

Lucille knows how every penny was
earned which has gone into her flying. Part of it came from parachute jumps, fourteen of them. Not only can
she jump, but she can service her
chute, too, under her rigger’s license.

Her ground instructor’s rating in CAR,
Navigation, Meteorology, and Aircraft &
Engines accounts for some of it, also.

And in the meantime she has p a ss e d
the written e s t for an A&E mechanics
rating and for a Flight Instructor’s
and has acquired her Commercial Rating.

For vacations in 1951, 1952, 1953 she
flew the AWTAR solo, placing sixth
in two of them.

With such a background of tenacity
and accomplishments, it is a foregone
conclusion that Susie Cheetham, rehaired and blue-eyed, will do well by the NINETY-NINES with th e 1955

AMELIA EARHART MEMORIAL
SCHOLARSHIPJeannette L. Soveriegn
Chairman
Board of Trustees
The Ninth Annual All-Woman Transcontinental Air Race started from Long Beach, Calif., and terminated in gpringfiejd, Mass. from July 2 to 6th. There were 56 aircraft entered but 8 withdrew
before take-off and one ship failed to
pas inspection.Of the 47 aircraft which
started from Long Beach 42 crossed the
finish line at Springfield before the
deadline. Three ships were disqualified because of mechanical difficulties, one ship made an illegal RON and one
ship failed to arrive at the finish line
before the deadline.

Xhe race followed a course that was
nearly 2800 miles through Blythe, Cal.,
Phoenix, Ariz., Tucson, Ariz., El Paso
Texas, Midland, Texas, Wichita Falls,
T exas, Tulsa, Okla., Springfield, Mo.,
St. Louis, Mo., Terre Haute, Indiana,
Dayton, Ohio, Wheeling, West Va., and
Reading, Pa. Midland, Texas and
Reading, Pa. were both Must Stops on
the route.

The route Survey for the 1955 TAR was
done very expertly this year by two
members of the Michigan Chapter, Alice
Hammond and Jean Pearson. They flew
the entire route prior to the race setting
up the time clocks and the operations
for the race.

The official timers for the race were
Irma Story, San Fernando Valley Chapt.
at the start; and Frances Dias, Chm. of
the timers, San Joaquin Valley, Chapt.,
Anna Brenner, Redwood Empire Chapt.,
Rachael Williams, New England Section
and Teddy Kenyon, New York-New
Jersey Section, at the finish line.

A total of $2750 was divided among the
winners. There was also a large number
of trophies, luggage and three chronographs to the winners. Ther e were many new faces this year among the winners
and the first five places were taken by
five different types of aircraft. First
place: Frances Bera and her sister
Edna Bower flying a C essna 180. Second
place: Alice Roberts and Iris Critchell
flying a Beechcraft Bonanza 205.

Third place: Esther Gardiner and Clari s s a Holcomb flying a Bellanca Cruisair. Fourth place: Margaret Callaway and Lindy Boyes flying a C essna 140.

Fifth place: Marian Burke flying solo in
a Piper Super Cub. All of these winners
did an expert job of flying. They made
no mistakes and got no bad breaks - but
we feel that all the gals that finished
the race were also "winners” .

We wish to thank the Ninety-Nines, Inc.
for their support for the 1955 AWTAR,
who gave us financial help through
voluntary contributions to the TAR fund.

Even much more, we wish to thank the
Ninety-Nine members who gave so generously of their time and efforts that the race could be such a success, j h e
the race could be such a success. The
committee at the start did an excellent
job at getting the race on its way. These
girls were: Acting Chairman: Mayetta
Behringer, Registration: Hilda Heafsnyder. Operations: Rita Gibson, Inspection: Donna Chilcote and Jean Elliott, Publicity: Doris Phillips. At the finish
the very wonderful committee consisted
of: Chairman: Barbara Evans, Registration: Rose Abbott, Operations: Louise Hyde, Inspection: Constance Hahn,
Publicity: Charlotte Kelley assiste d by
Novita Davenport.

In addition to these committee members
we wish to pay special thanks to those
members of the chapter enroute who
made th e trip so easy for us all. The
following chapters did outstanding service for the 1955 TAR: Long Beach, Coachella, Valley, Saguaro, Tucson,
Texas, Tulsa, Greater St. Louis, Indiana
Ohio, West Virginia, Eastern Pennsylvania, New York-New Jersey Sect., New England Sect.

The pufse of flying competition was
evident across the country - with the
various industries, communities and

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ELECTED PRESIDENT
businesses represented as sponsors of
the various contestants as well as those
companies who made direct contributions
to the operation of the race itself. To
these people we owe a great debt, for
they by their support, have made the
AWTAR a competition held in high esteem by all.

The TAR is fun - we fly it for fun - it
gets us in the air and keeps us flying.

And now another year is just a memory.

AWTAR Board of Directors: Betty H.

Gillies, Chairman; Kay M. Brick; Barbara E. London; Beatrice A. T. Medes; Betty M. Loufek; L ouise Smith; Joyce
Failing; Claire Hale; and Iris Critchell.

CIVIL DEFENSE
Does your State have an approved Civil
Defense Aviation Disaster plan? If it
does not, all light planes (civilian) in
the State would be grounded in a warcaused emergency. Small planes and civilian pilots would play a vitally
important role in the recovery operations
after a disaster and it is up to the 99’s
and other aviation groups to see that
we are allowed to do so. Check with
your State and Local DC Directors and
if there are no State and local plans,
approved and operating,put on the pressure until the mission is accomplished.

Did you know that Ground Observer
Corps volunteers are assisting in the
prevention of peacetime disasters as
well as guarding against enemy attack?
The New York World Telegram and Sun
reports: "F o r more than a year GOC
has practiced reporting and tracking of
severe weather with great su c c e s s....

Observers do not have to be weather
experts. They report any severe storms
to their filter center through an aircraft
flash call. Many times these storms
form in remote areas not covered by the
other agencies.” §o if you are a GOC
volunteer, you may be doing your good
deed for other pilots through your weather reporting.

You all read about the disastrous crash
at the auto races in France recently.

Did you take note of the effect of the
exploding automobile and the dying and
injured on the crowd? Quoting from the
new release: "At the crash, the crowd
panicked. Police and ambulance attendants fought hysterical mobs to reach the injured. They found many of them
paralyzed with horror. It took authorities almost a quarter of an hour ^to calm the crowd and restore order . ^ e(j
Cross and Civil Defense training and
education not only enables you to help
at the scene of a disaster but it also
prepares you mentally so that you are
not so likely to panic and can assist
rather than hinder.

I was very pleased and encouraged by
the Civil Defense Activity reports that
were sent in to me. Thanks loads to all
of you Civil Defense Chairman, Chapter
Chairmen, and Sectional Govern ors for
your promptness and cooperations
Bonnie Fugitt, Chairman
International Civil Defense Committee
THE NINETY-NINES, INC.

We are proud to announce Edna Gardner Whyte as your new p re s id e n t! Just as proudly we acclaim Boneta Davis,
Vice-President; Eugenia Heise to
serve her second term as secretary;
and welcome Jimmie Kolp as Treasurer. Nominating Chairman: Catherine Hiller, with Virginia Richardson. P at
Gladney, Nancy Hopkins Tier, and
Ama Lee Jameson on the committee.

AE Scholarship Trustee, Cora McDonald. Congratulations to all.

After a silent prayer for those lo st to
us during the past year, President
Mickelsen asked for the yearly reports.

Each permanent committee was called
upon and as Alice Hammond stated
during the meeting, they were most
clear, concise and interesting. It is
impossible to give you the highlights
of each report but you will get them
in the condensed minutes of the meeting. Incidentally, it was voted that the secretary and the coiumittee to approve
the minutes and complete them by
November 1, that the membership may
digest them before they are too "c o ld ” .

Secretary Heise reported on the business of the Executive Board during the year. After due consideration of
all the fine offers for a new headquarters (since our present contract with Alice Klutas has been terminated)
the Board voted to move to Oklahoma
City. Elizabeth Sewell then gave a
resume of the advantagds of moving
to Will Rogers Field. We will have 2
rooms, 300 sq. ft., for $25.00 per
month. P ossib ly share expenses of a
secretary with the airport engineer for
a half-day’s work. No decision on that
but it will probably run from $125 to
$150 per month.

T ’will be a central location - you can
have a cup of coffee with die gals
when you fly thru - relax in the lounge
we will be able to display Amelia’s
pictures, her p o ssessio n s Mother Earhart has given us - and eventually have pictures of all past presidents
on the walls.

Treasurer Broneta Davis reported a
balance of $9r 998.38 which includes
checking and savings accounts. Receipts, May 3 1 - $5,145.90 - Disbursements - $5,822.01.

Jeanette Sovereign, announced the AE
Fund award for this year and had been
increased to $300, and awarded to
Lucille L. Cheetham (Kansas Chapter),
Arkansas City, Kansas
Motion was passed to sponsor and
contributions for 1957 AWTAR thru
AWTAR Ways and Means Committee.

Proposed amendements: To raise dues
to $10.00 - with hopes to raising enough money to plan on a permanent headquarters, provide added refunds
to individual chapters. Defeated by 2
votes.

To raise initiation fee from $1.00 to
$5.00, covering cost of processing
new members and also including 99
pin - defeated by 1 vote.

Resolution to have a Ways and Means
Committee Chairman for sections and
chapters to direct activities and assist chapters to make money for contributions for AWTAR - defeated.

Resolution - to rotate among sections
the site of annual convention - passed.

Michigan chapter - North Central Section will have the 1956 convention).

Three members were then elected to
the Board - Geraldine Mickelsen,
Donna Myers, and Louise Smith.

President Mickelsen gave a short farewell speech, presented President - elect Whyte with her presidential pin
and gavel - Edna replied with an informal speech of acceptance.

Meeting Adjourned.

Luncheon, the day of the meeting was
sponsored by the Stanley Products Coeach member received two clothes brushes; Catherine Hiller, chairman
of the convention and Governor of the
New England Section introduced those
at the head table - new and past officers and board members and all past presidents present. Jeanette Sovereign presented the AE Award - Anne Waddell accepting for Lucille Cheetham who was unable to attend.

Upon adjournment new and past officers and board members received the members at a lovely tea.

That night a picnic was held on top of
a cool mountain at a local TV station.

Saturday - responsibilities behind - we
clutched a bathing suit in one hand -
" b u s s e d ” or drove to Hiller Airport
north of Springfield, near Barre, Mass.

Arrived at 1: p.m. - after winding
through lovely green hills on the old
P o s t Road - came upon the most perfect set up for aviation minded people.

Catherine has a fine air strip - how
rolling hills surrounding it, making
a jewel-like setting. A snack bar,
hangers, swimming pool, dressing
rooms, refreshment bar-lounge chairs,
umbrellas. On a hill behind this is her
home and her motel - converted from
an old silo. Most unique. Several members flew in and spent the night there to take off for home directly from Hiller, airport.

Swam-Sunbathed, relaxed. Trooped to
watch tehm ready the 3 hour old fire.

We ate clam chowder,i clams, lobsters,
cold beer - food for the gods and especially for the mid-U.S.*ers.

Full, tired and happy - many returned
to sit by the pool - maybe one more
dip - then lazily watching the New
England fireflies turn on their beacons.

A fine convention - thanks from all of
us to the New England Section -
Catherine Hiller and all her gals.

Donna Myers

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PRESIOSNTS
COLUMN
Dear Ninety Nines:

Notice our new address in the Mast
Head. This is the most important thing
that is happening right now, our move
pf Headquarters to Oklahoma City. We
have started moving operations and the
move should be completed soon after
the 1st of September. Our Headquarters
of tw) rooms, will now be located in a
very modem and up to date Terminal
Building, on one of the most centrally
located airports in the United States,
Will Rogers Field. After we are located
in our office we will be able to have a
99 display in the downstairs lobby for
all to view. You realize, of course, it
will take time to organize the many
things that are NOW possible for us to
do; From many possibilities of lo c a ­
tions offered to us, Oklahoma was the
most ideal: centrally located; financially accessable; with the best opportunity for a permanent building (if at some time in the future it is feasible
for us to undertake such a venture)
The Executive Board feels that this
move was most necessary and is another step forward for the Ninety-Nines.

We hope that all of you will stop at our
Headquarters (once we are settled)
whenever your cross country’s take you
anywhere near Oklahoma. Notice all
the facilities that are offered to you
at Will Rogers Field.

The newsletter that should have
reached you the middle of July has had
to be combined with the July news and
will reach you in August. This was
necessary due to the move from N.Y.
to Oklahoma, as we were unable to get
the addressograph plates for the
addressing of the envelopes. Your Sept.

Issue of the newsletter will reach you
on schedule so PLEASE SEND NEWS -
DEADLINE 1ST (FIRST) DAY OF
MONTH. SEPTEMBER 1STYour Renewal notice will soon be
in the mail. P le a s e return IMMEDIATELY TO NEW HEADQUARTERS ADDRESS, your yearly dues. The form must be completely filled put. We are
trying to get the Roster to you before
Christmas this year. This is not possible if you wait until October to send in your dues. ALL DUES MUST BE AT
HEADQUARTERS BY NOVEMBER 1STAs per our Constitution, any member who does not send in her dues by Octtober 31st will be considered a nonrenewal. After this date an application blank must be completed and the $1.00
iniation fee added to the dues of
Forms will be sent to all the present
Secretaries for reporting of your Chapter and Sectional Officers. These forms are in triplicate and should be sent in
triplicate
as soon as possible. DEADLINE NOVEMBER 15TH.We MUST have your officers in order to print the Roster.

This is my la s t column to you as
your president. I do want to say that I
have enjoyed my two years serving in
this capacity. It has been work, time
c cnsuming, expensive, but I have no
regrets. It has been a most gratifying
experience to have had the opportunity
to v isit and meet so many Ninety-Nines.

During the two years, I was able to
meet with 45 of our 55 active chapters,
and was able to attend at least one
sectional meeting in each of our sections, except for Northwest. (Weather kept me home that week end.) All in all,
I traveled over 60,000 airmiles on 99
business during the two years.

Your support and cooperation has
been wonderful. It will never be possible to repay each and everyone of you for all your hospitality. But I do thank
you. If you are ever in Sacramento,
please call me. I will be most disappoi
p lease call me. I will be most disappointed if you don’t as this will be my only chance to try and reciprocate
for the wonderful times I have had with
the Ninety-Nines everywhere.

When September rolls around (and it
won’t be long now) I ’ll be very happy
to turn the office over to Edna Gardner Whyte, our newly elected president.

Edna will make us a good Executive
and I know she will represent us well.

We are all back of you, Edna, and if
there is anything I can do personally to
help make your job a little easier,
please call on me.

Words cannot express my thanks to
the officers who served with me: Edna,
Donna & Deedo as secretaries, Broneta, and the Executive Board members, Alice Hammond, Kay Brick, Jean Howard, of 1953-54; Barbara London, Donna Myers, Kaddy Landry, 1954-55. They
always kept Ninety-Nine’s welfare
uppermost in their minds. By our working so close on the many problems that arose during the many years, I feel
that we have become the best of friends.

To me this friendship is the highest
form of reward one can receive. I do
appreciate all the work and all your
h e *P> Many, many times, i thank you,
Sincerely your friend,

VEW HEADQUA

CENTRALLY LOCATED
D is t. fr. Okla. C ity By Air By Rail Highway
Atlanta, Ga 757 90 7 9 1 2
C h i c a g o , 111. 692 794 846
Detroit, Mich. 910 1, 0 3 1 1,067
Los A ngeles, Cal.. 1,181 1, 490 1 ,34 8
New York, NY 1,328 1,592 1,517
San Francisco,CaL 1,388 1,811 1,691
Washington, DC 1,153 1,424 1,373
Ft Worth, T e x a s 188 204 215

WILL ROGERS FIELD
OKLAHOMA CITY MUNICIPAL AIRPORT NO. 1
Description of F acilities
LOCATION 6.5 miles (air line distance
due S o u th w est from Municipal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.

HIGHWAYS U.S. 6 2 - U .S . 277 - State 41
SERVING all leading into Oklahoma
City.

ELEVATION 1,283 ft. above sea level.

AREA
SIZE

GRADIENT

RUNWAYS
1,860 acres.

Maximum E-W d im e n s io n . .

V/i miles. Maximum N-S dimension.
2 1 /5 m il e s .

Practically flat, with near-flat
a p p r o a ch es from all d ire ctio n s.

All runways 150 feet wide; concrete construction throughout except South 2300 feet of N-S
runway which is asphaltic concr ete.

L e n g h t s : N-S R unway - 7 ,4 0 0 ft.

NW-SE Runw ay - 5 ,65 2 ft.

NE-SW R unw ay - 5 ,4 9 7 ft.

E-W R unway - 3 ,8 0 1 ft.

Taxiways: 12,600 lin. ft. interconnecting all runways and aprons. All 75-foot
widths.

APRONS Large aprons totaling 194,500 sq.
yds. are located at the w est and
north- s id e s fo the field serving
h a ng a rs and at the e a s t s i d e serving the terminal building and other hangars.

L OA D IN G 5 p a s s e n g e r g a t e s . 5 primary and F A C IL I T I E S 5 s e c o n d a r y lo a d in g p o s i t i o n s on terminal apron.

Pow er equipment for loading mail,
express and freight.

FIELD Modern, recently enlarged air
FACILITIES terminal, housing control tower,
air line ticket offices, field
management offices, Sky Chef
restaurant, lounge, well-equipped
rest rooms, etc. Terminal air conditioned, winter and summer.

Separate building for handling mail,
express and freight.

U.S. Weather Bureau offices and
fa cilities in separate building.

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By: Ruby Sadder
Our June meeting took place at the
home of Alice -Jean Starr where everyone had a thoroughly enjoyable time at the barbeque party.

Attending the Women’s International
Aviation Association tea at the Officer’s Club at Floyd Bennett Field, on June 5th, were Selma Cronan, Barbara
Evans,Marjorie Davis and Gloria Heath.

We were particularly pleased that Gloria
was given the W.I.A.A. Lady DrummondHay trophy this year. They make one award each year and last year it went
to Viola Gentry’. Jackie Cochran received it the year before. Gloria, who is now executive assistn at to the director of the Flight Safety’ Foundation, Jerome Lederer, has been appointed to
flying safety’ officer for the Civil Air
P atro l’s northeast region.

It is hard to get down to earth after the
exciting time at the Springfield spectacular! What a thrill it was to see the girls fly in, looking so beautifully
groomed and happy of course, seeing
that cfute Marion Burke of Crystal City,
Texas, come in with Pop-Eye, made
us forget the 99 degree temperature
and all our worries.

Our c onnie Hahn, who is a Math professor in New Jersey, was the ideal girl to be in charge of inspection of
planes. She spent three days in the
boiling sun without getting sunstroke!
She reports that the Clambake at Catherine Hiller’s unique airport at Barre, was a huge success! The lobster was
super delicious and cooked the old
fashioned way! It was steamed in real
Maine seaweed on hot stones. Itwould
seem that Connie is interested in more
than mathmatics.

In the AWTAR, our Chapter was represented by Pilot Florence Knight and Co-Pilot Kay Brick who came in eleventh and got an award,too.

Wouldn’t we all love to go in next year?
Well, we can dream, c a n ’t we? Be seeing you!
..MIDDLE EAST

SECTION

WEST VIRGINIA CHAPTER
By: Lee Patteson
Orchids to Mary Ann Wetherby for
her untiring work and ultimate success
in effecting our "working sta tu s”
again. We met at the Municipal Airport
in Elkins June 18th and have already
started the ball rolling toward increasing our membership. Everyone was so relaxed, and enthusiastic, as we sat
around on the curb of the airport
"p orch” . Only sad note was the deep
regret as all expressed their appreciation for Mary N esbitt’s efforts in aviation in general, and her untimely
last flight, June 1954. She was our
Ac ting-Chairman which office has been
filled by Mary Ann since last year.

Our new official family now comprises:

Mary Ann Wetherby, Chairman, Edna
Tephabock, Treasurer and Lee Patteson, Secretary-Reporter. Mary Ann is Assistant-Manager and Instructor at
P ence Airways, P ence Springs, W. Va.

Edna manages the Million-dollar Municipal Airport at Martinsburg, has Commercial and Instructor’s Ratings.

L ee is a private pilot from Mt. Hope,
flies as a hobby, married - has two
daughters. Araxie Ervin, private pilot,
flew in from Parkersburg - lives just
across the river at Marietta, Ohio,
where she works for the Marietta
Public Library. Her husband taught
her to fly - they have two sons and the
nineteen-year-old one has his private
license.

Our next meeting is scheduled for
July 23rd which will give me time to
forward our news. Capt. Pat Pateman
(Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita
Falls, Texas) plans to enter the TARhope I shall be able to give further new of the rece, you know, a "personal touch” type.
(Mrs.) Lee H. P a tteson
Box 631
Mt. Hope, W. Va.

WEST VIRGINIA CHAPTER
By: Lee Patteson
The meeting scheduled for July 23rd
at Martinsburg Municipal Airport culmunited in a three-three affair. Edna Tephabock, Martinsburg, Betty Ashton, Martinsburg and Araxie Ervis, Marietta, Ohio were present at Martinsburg, Mary Ann Wetherby, Pence Springs, Lee Patteson, Mt. Hope and
new member, Marjorie Pace, Charleston, had a session at the Waynesboro, Va. airport where they had landed to
waiting out a thunderstorm. Mr. Harold Faber, the manager, showed us every courtesy.

Mary Ann and Edna "co n n ecte d ” the
meeting by telephone and all agreed
that "new members” is the number
one project.

Mrs. Pearl Bragg La ska, of Fairbanks, Alaska, dropped by P e nce Airways for a "to know you” meeting and Mary Ann reports they had a wonderful
visit together. Pearl was on her way
home for a v isit following the AWTAR
in which she was a participant.

Next meeting Elkins, W. Va., August
20th.

ALABAMA CHAPTER
By: Jo Durdin
The Alabama Ninety-Nines enjoyed a
glorious Fourth in Florida at 'Wade
Inn” , the summer home of Charles and
and Minnie Wate. The Wades are p ast
master at the art of entertainment. The
weekend was spent swimming and playing in the surf, daytime rides in the Jeep over the dunes, nighttime rides in
the 195 along the beach, and dancing to
the Juke Box which is a standard piece
of furniture at "Wade Inn’!. Sunbathing
was indulged in by all: the result -
some beautiful tans, some beautiful
burn s. Bridge games were in session
at all hours. A water show and a play
were attended by some. Eating was the
most popular sport and the kitchen was
presided over by most capable cooks.

A few members gained distressing
pounds with the rapid disappearance of
the delicious food. Many thanks to
Charles and Minnie and their daughter,
Elizabeth, for a most memorable weekend.

CAROLINAS CHAPTER
By: Dorothy Shackelford
Such excitement this month among
those lucky girls who could enter the
races! A card from Amalie Stone, flying co-pilot with Louise Smith in the International, enthusiastically listed
the good points of being weathered in
on St. Simon’s Island, Georgia. T h at’s
what I call carefully selecting a deluxe spot to be forced down. A note just arrived from Louise telling of the
wonderful time they had on the flight
to Havana in spite of terrific weather.
49% Herman Smith met them there to
help celebrate winning fifth place in
the race j Congratulations girls, that
was really fine. Louise also tells of
flying Miss North Carolina, Betty Jo
Ring, to Raleigh; and of pinning wings
on three of her Wing Scouts last month.

What a shame the Sky lady Derby
unintentionally fell on the same date
as the International. Sara Shonk,
formerly of Arkansas but now of the
Carolina Chapter, writes all in super -
latives, of the glorious time she had
in that race winning second place in a
Bonanza; Ann Waddell of Garden City,
Kansas, taking first place also in a
Bonanza. Sara is going to give a full
account at our next meeting. Know
you’ll alk be there when I tell you that
in addition to her cash award she also
won an indian squaw outfit for a
special event prize, and we demand
that she come wearing it complete
with war paint.

We are really proud of our Carolinas
Chapter members for their showing in
these races and hope to have a winner
in the Transcontinental close at hand.

Stopped in to see Frances Miller at
Columbia Airport the other day and
found her off on a taxi trip to Buffalo,
N.Y.. That gal sure keeps the airlanes
hot.

The Carolinas Chapter was represented
at the Annual meeting in Springfield by
Burnette Spencer and Louise Smith. And
from all reports, those who missed the
meeting really missed something, especially the New England Clam Bake.

Caroline Hembel and family have been
vacationing in Florida. Caroline is
feeling just fine again, and is ready to
take active part in 99*s.

Everyone will be glad to hear that Bird
and P aul Eaton are in circulation again
and have been spending most of the
summer at their cottage at Mytle Beach,
S.C.

Do send in news - all of us want to
know what the rest of us are doing,
so write to : Dorothy Shackleford.

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CHICAGO AREA CHAPTER
By: Harriette Magee
Well, they are off; Chicago Area’s entrants for the 1955 TAR. As I wrote before we have nine girls on heit way
right now for California including Lucy
Kalla who was a last minute entrant,
serving as Co-pilot with Helen O’Hara.

Special mention should be made of Nell
Brown’s untiring efforts in the publicity
department. In addition to -newspaper
coverage by the Chicago Tribune and
the Chicago Herald American, two TV
Channels carried news items showing
the girls taking off from Meigs Field on
Chicago’s lake front.

In addition to the reporters the well
wishers includes Mr. Merril C. Meigs
for whom Meigs Field was named, Mr.

Summers, Asst. Director of Aeronautics
for Illinois and Deane Carroll who h,as
her own FM Radio program. And as usual
we received wonderful cooperation from
Mr. O’Brien Manager of Meigs Field and
Betty Archibald, a 99 as well as Control
Tower Operator for Meigs.

Our girls were all presented with Orchid
corsages given them by the Chicago
Aero Club. Here’s wishing lots of luck
to them all.

Another % made the front page of the
Chicago Tribune as well as a television
appearance. She is Virginia R'abung and
it was in connection with her participation in the International race to Cuba.

There can’t be many more people who
get as much enjoyment out of their airplane or their flying as Virginia.

Our joint meeting with Indiana Chap.
in Terre Haute was most successful. As
I ipentioned last month we "ra c e d ” to
Terre Haute with TAR handicaps. 1st
place was Irene Leverton and Gene Burson; 2nd place Lois Cassidy and Nina Price; 3rd Donna Giles and Helen Budwash; 4th Evelyn Martin and 5th Bea Siemon and Florence Lacy. Now it just
so happens that the first and second
place teams are also team entrants in the
TAR. The shadow of thing to come
perhaps.

The winners earned a trophy from our
chapter as well as a gift from the Indiana girls. Following a discussion of the new constitution resolutions the meeting
broke up due to approaching thunderSTOrms
Irene Leverton prior to leaving for the
TAR flew three days of search missions
for C.A.P. in a BT-13 and USAF L-13
concerning ANG F80 Jet.

Understand Pat Herzeg has obtained
her Commercial Pilot Certificate.congratulations Pat.

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CHICAGO AREA CHAPTER
By Harriette Magee
We couldn’t have had better weather
for our July meeting held at pool side
at Mitchell Field. As far as I know,
this is the only airport in our vicinity
with a swimming pool, and after a wonderful lunch which was prepared by hostess Nina Price we took advantage
of it.

A real esta te company, working in conjunction with Mitchell Field is selling home lots along with area set aside
for private landing stripes. All in all
i t ’s an up-and-coming airport ‘ and I
personally hope we will be invited
again.

Nina as usual had 100% cooperation
from 49%er, Leonard, who with two
judges waited out on the runway to
identify and judge the spot landing
contestants. First, Second, and 'Third
place prizes were won by Hazel Hackwith, Irene Leverton, and Lois C assidy. P rizes donated by George and Renita Snyder, operators of the field.

We are real proud of our TAR entries.

Syl Roth and Helen Sailer; 8th place
Irene Leverton and Gene Burson; 14th
place; Lois Cassidy and Nina Price;
25th place; Helen O’Hara and Lucy
Kalla, 26th place; Doris Langher and
Gladys Muter, 36th place.

Our whole chapter congratulates Olive
McCormich on winning our Novice Prize
and acknowledges her thanks.

Chicago Television presented a wonderful skit on Betty Archibald, sole female Control Tower Operator At Meigs
Field.

Hazel Hackwith had her first ride in a
helicopter piloted by an employee of
Armour’s meat packing company. Hazel
was once again on hand at Long Beach
to flag our gals off at die start of the
TAR.

Elsie Wahrer and her husband have
exchanged their Tri-Pacer for a Bonanza.

Du P age County Airport will be the
site of this y ear’s airmeet. More infor.
mation will follow. I hope we can see
more of you this year.

CENTRAL ILLINOIS CHAPTER
By: Florence Musser
The ole weather man sure w asn’t looking favorably on Illinois in June - 15 straight days of rain and very, very low
ceilings. Today was around 95 with the
humidity around 75. Only thing we can
say it sure is good for the corn. These
kind of nights you can hear the corn
grow.

Dora Dougherty wrote she has returned
to the Aviation Psychology Lab at the
University of Illinois as Research Associate and had received her Ph. D frotn New York University School of Education.

She also adds that she is glad to be
back on this flat country with all its
forced landing fields. Glad to have her
back.

Barbara Jeninson wrote she had logged
38 hours. How? - Most of the time it
rained in June.

Yours Truly flew to Chicago to take in
a Ball game, and took part in the annual
Air Lift of Logan county Farmers. Well
over 300 corn growers were given rides
to see their farms. This whole deal was
free to the farmers through the efforts of
The Soil Conservation, CAP, Farm Bureau and Chamber of Commerce. The P ilo ts donated time and airplanes, I
would like to see more of this over the
country. It gives us city people a better
understanding of Farm problem.

Leah Warren skipped between showers
in Wisconsin and Indiana for a fast trip
with her 49%er in June.

MICHIGAN CHAPTER
By: Velta C. Skutt
On June 19th our regular meeting was
held at the home of Margaret Crane,
Fenton, with 16 members and 13 guests
present. What a breakfast-fried chicken
and corn fritters! We were all very
happy to be able to offer our "Congratulations” to Bernice Trimble and her co-pilot, Joan Hrubic, Ohio Chapter,
who flew a C essna 180 in the recent
International Air Race and brought home
the Rickenbacker, President Batista
and Washington Capitol Trophies. Addie
Binsfield travelled via airliner to Washington to see them off and do some sights seeing.
13 Michigan members attended the Sectional to Kansas City and reported a fine time. Janie Hart and Babe Ruth
took part in the recent State Defense
Alert; Janie is C.O. of All Women’s
Squadron 637-4 Lansing and Babe
Operations Officer. Margaret Windfuhr,
Lansing, will begin using her new
swimming pool.

Congratulations to Mary Cresson - a
baby boy - and Lee Hammerlee - a.baby
girl. Want to make a switch, girls?
The July meeting will be an all-day
picnic at Austin Lake and August at
Barbara Lowden’s, Pleasant Lake,
Rives Junction.

IOWA CHAPTER
By: B. Barton
Sorry to have missed the last news
letter but guess my summer work got to
of my attention.

The July meeting was held at Bunnie
Wilson’s in Waterloo, Iowa. The sky was
a little heavy. Some of the girls that
had to fly in were unable to make it.

This was also the day of the Mason City
flight breakfast, so Bernie Hugelin had
her hands full.

Buelah Smith again won the traveling
trophy for our point contest. She is
running way ahead of the rest of us with
just one more month to go.

Those present at the meeting were Ruth
and Albert Shimon, Verna Mae and Pro
Prohaska and family, Esther Niederhauser and family, Helen Flaberty, Mr. and Mrs. Schleusner and the host and
h ostess Bunnie and Jack Wilson and
guests. Helen Flaherty was the only one
to fly in.

The group gathered at Bunnie’s home
and later had dinner at the airport dining
room.

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ALL OHIO CHAPTER
By: Meg Berning
Virginia Ashelford and Joan Hrubec
took part in the International Race.

Joan was with Bernice Trimble in the
winning plane.

Marcy Crawley and her 49% flew to
Cleveland June 19th and to Chicago
June 25th.

Mary F ecser has accepted the scholarship sponsored by the Greater Cincinnati Airmen’s Club and is now attending the Aviation Workshop at Miami University.
99’s attending the premier of the CAP
film "Modern Minute Men In Action”
and the regular monthly meeting in
Cincinnati were Marcy Crawley,
Marilyn Collette, Edythe Maxim, Mary
Fecser, Janice Kuechenmeister. Betty
Wertz, Alice Schlott, Rosalie Brocht,
Jean Bonor, Edith Harmon and Meg
Berning. Joan Bonar (vice chairman)
was in charee of the, meeting. Guests
at the breakfast were Ivan Kasnik,
Jack Wertz, Scott and Evelyn Bostioich, Ormonde Merz, Ernie Friedrich and Howard Berning. One prospective
99 Miss Nancy Sitler.

Ann Ash visited in Mansfield the
weekend of June 11 and 12 Ann now
lives in Washington.

Jean Hixson made a visit to Illinois
for a week before leaving for Europe
by boat.

Alice Schlott has a new 170. The new
aircraft wasn’t ready in time for the
June meeting so Doctor and Alice took
the airliner down.

Edythe Maxim and her 49% vacationed
in Memphis, Tennessee and Alabama.

They visited an army base in Alabama.

Edythe is a charter member of the
"Coper Hop ter Club” in Cleveland.

It’s made up of the first 800 people
who used the heliocopter service from
Cle-Hopkins airport to the lakefront
airport.

Your regular reporter will be on leave
for the next 4 months, enjoying a
honey-moon and furnishing a new home.

Edith Harmon and Ernie Friedrich
were married June 18 and flew to
Wyoming to visit Yellow Stone National Park.

Yours truly will gather your news for
the letter so drop your items off to:

Meg Berning, 6414Mayflower Avenue,
Cincinnati 13, Ohio.

The next meeting will be in Akron,
Ohio.

MINNESOTA CHAPTER
By: Rita Orr
Our June meeting was held at the
Winona Hotel, Winona, Minn. - Rita
Zyblicki, hostess. A lovely luncheon
was served to 9 members and three
49%ers. Plans for a weekendat Gull
Lake, July 15,16 & 17 were discussed
to take the place of the Annual Safari.

Marilyn Kvalheim is in charge of reservations.

One of our newest .members 9 Jean
Schiefley and her husband Dr. Schiefley have just purchased a new 170 - happy flying folks.

News of other members - Laura Black
is now enjoying a flight to Hawaii.

Dorothy Anderson is on her way to San
Francisco for a couple of weeks. Jane
White and her husbank have just
adopted a baby girl. Jane is formerly
of Chicago, now living in Wayzata,
Minn.

Soon we hope to have another new
member, Shirley Iverson of Lanberton.

Future plans - Margaret Manuel is in
charge of our Air Marking Project for
the fall Season. Don’t forget the
August Meeting at Virginia Shaws
home and begin now collecting items
for the auction in September.

MINNESOTA CHAPTER
By: Rita Orr
July and a wonderful weekend at Grindstone Lake Resort in Wisconsin. Thank you Marilyn for the wonderful accomodations made possible by your research.

On hand were Helen Masterton, Marion
Radke, Marietta Sonnenberg, Dorothy
Anderson, Rita Zyblicki, Florence
Scriver, Margaret Manuel & husband
Malcolm, Rita & Burt Orr, Marilyn Kvalheim arid guest, Drex Henderson, Dr. & Jean Scheifley and two children, Dr.

Betty Clements and last but not least
a much misses member since her move
to Hibbing, P e te Boone & husband
Wiley. We were happy to see you P ete,
hope you can make it more often.

Sorry Audrey Baird was not able to be
with us but hope your Dakota was a
success. And to all the rest of our
wandering group - hope you will all
return from your vacations soon and be
on hand for the August meeting at Vir*
ginia Shaw’s in Wayzata. Our July
weekend was purely a social one and
so we must get down to business in
August - le t’s make it a big one - and
a reminder - an effort by all members
to arrive on time will be most appreciated, especially by our future hostesses. See you soon.

INDIANA CHAPTER
By: Rae Cawdell
We felt much honored that Mayor
Tucker came to the airport to personally welcome us to Terre Haute when We met there at Hulman Field, June 5.

It was a joint meeting of the Indiana
and Illinois chapters and it was grand
to have the Illinois girls with us.

Congratulations to Irene Leverton of
Chicago who won the handicap race to
Terre Haute; and to Fern Rinker who
arrived nearest to the predetermined
but secret time.

After our separate business meetings
we were much photographed by the
local newspaper photographer-reporter.

Then the showing of the film "Cleared
for Takeoff” which was tremendously
interesting and made you wish more
than ever that you might "get in the
ra c e ” . Because of storm warnings in
the Chicago area it was necessary for
the Illinois girls to leave early and so
lunch was a rather hurried affair. But
w e’re glad they came even though the
time was brief.

Our next meeting, July 10, will be at
" T h e P u d d le” , Mildred Hurt’s summer
home.

Meantime activities are brewing. Of
course we’ll be on hand 'at Terre
Haute, July 2 to 5, to offer our
services to the TAR girls stopping
there. And on schedule for air-marking,
July 16, is Amo and Brazil.

Vacation reports - Mary Sprenger just
back from six weeks in California.

Betty and Ted Nicholas leaving July 1
in their 140 for a trip to Canada and
New York state.

We’ve really been before the public
during the p ast week. On Thursday,
June 24, Tane Ackors was on WIRE
radio on 'Breakfast at the 500’’, a
program conducted by Mrs. Wilbur
Shaw. And on Sunday, June 26, Mildred
Hurt and Tannie Schlundt appeared on
WFBM-TV. Also, Virginia Rabun g,
Chicago, was in Indianapolis for radio
and TV engagements. Virginia who
was sponsored by Dictaphone in the
Washington-Havana air race, had some
very interesting experiences to relate.

And now for our final report on the
Snack Bar. To Delia Sanders, who
served as chairman, a thousand thanks
for doing such a grand job. All in all
it was a successful fund raising venture for the AWTAR. We look forward Jo next year’s " 5 0 0 ” when we again
expect to " s e t up shop’’ at Shank’s
Airport and serve sandwiches and soft
drinks to pilots and passengers.

INDIANA CHAPTER
By: Rae Cawdell
Hurrah! We made it - to the convention
and back (else this column would not be
appearing in the News Letter). Esther
Berner and I arrived at Municipal Airport
at 6 a.m. on Thursday, July 7. Her Bananza was already straining at the tiedowns but the weather man was holding her back pretty firmly. How ever, at
10:09 she gave him a kick right in the
middle of his groundfog and off we flew.

Our decision to attend the convention
had been made at the last minute and so
S o p h ia P ay ton (husband Neal being Capt.
on Lake Central Airlines) had already
arranged for a round trip pass to Springfield. Coming home we took off at 9:20. \ The Bananza held her nose in the airshe seemed to know that we were going to set down in Indianapolis at 3:01 p.m.
and that poor Sophia was to be bumped
i and would not arrive until 10:30 that
night. Sophia has been wondering how
Donna Myers, another airlines non-rev
passenger, made out.

This, your reporters first convention,
left nothing to be desired. We take off
our 99’s caps to all who had part in
making it such a success. And I’d like
to say right now - See you next year!
From the unfortunates .(those Indiana
99’s unable to attend the convention
learned that the meeting held Ttily 10th
brought out a goodly crew of 30, including Olive McCormick who was there, trophies and all, to tell the girls some
of her experiences in the AWTAR. Since
we saw Olive only briefly on banquet
night we should like to have heard her
account. B usiness was held to a minimum - uppermost in the minds of those present being swimming. We can think
of no better place for a summer meeting
than Mildred Hurt’s "P u d d le” .

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crew at Terre Haute, spent three days
there and did a bang-up job. A very
special thanks to Mr. Griffith, airport
manager at Hulman Field, and to his
other personnel for their wonderful cooperation.

We’re planning a get-to-gether with
Mildred’s daughter Doris (Dodie) Powers
who is visiting here from El P a so , and
from whom we expect to hear concerning
the doings of the 99*s "down thar” .

CENTRAL WISCONSIN CHAPTER
By: Lois L. Joyce
Our chapter met in Neenah on June
26th, a beautiful flying day; four
fly-ins at Valley Airport, the balance
by car, After luncheon at the Valley
Inn, a discussion and business meeting on coming events.

Our members voted an "in harmony’’
with the National Air Marking project.

We check as we fly and report to the
proper authorities.

Avis Peterson was appointed "Flying
Activities Chairman” .

Eugenia Heise was appointed delegate
for our chapter at the annual Inter*
national meeting to be held in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Our July meeting is a joint meeting at
East Troy with the Wisconsin Chapterhope many can attend.

Our August meeting is on the third
Sunday at Baraboo. All surrounding
99’s are invited. Fly in at B ell’s Airport, Baraboo, Wisconsin. A picnic luncheon will be served at a nominal
fee - to be held at D eviPs Lake State
Park, Transportation will be furnished
from the Airport to the Park and other
points of interest at the Dells. Come
one, come all - le t’s have fun! Any 99
who can attend drop a postcard to
Avis Peterson, Route 3, Baraboo, Wis.,
just so that she can have enough food
on hand.

GREATER KANSAS CITY CHAPTER
By: Betty Siggs
Our June meeting was an evening of
fun at ex-member, Dorothy Jardan’s
lovely home, Terrace Lake FarmsMembers and guest enjoyed the beautiful setting and, of course, the delicious food served on the terrace. Dorothy is flying again and we hope she will be
back in the Chapter soon.

KC had a good representation at the
St. Louis swim party - Marie and Orville
Kuhlman, Neva Rae, Clarence Davis,
Mildred Verdeber and family all flew
in. Dee Southard and room mate Evelyn
Shippy drove down. (Pardon me, the
girls are house mates now, having just
moved into a nice home they bought in
suburban KC.) Aol! report a good time
at the pool and at Loretta’s home after.

Understand Helen and Roy Simmon?
flew in, also Eloise Smith and co-pilot
Dorothy enroute to the West Coast.

Your reporter b e g s sp a c e to an n ou nce
the arrival o f three b ea u tifu l p u p p ies
o my D an d ie Dinm ont T errier, J e a n ie
Thus I start a career as a breeder of
fine Dandies. Dee Southard will soon
join the breeder catagory when her
Yorkshire Terrier, "Lindy” produces.

Wonder how many dog breeders we have
in the 99’s - any one know?

WISCONSIN CHAPTER
By: Ruth C. Lembke
All Ninety-nines are cordially invited
to attend the $3,200,000 Air Terminal,
Mitchell Field, during the special
ceremonies it has scheduled for July
22-23-24. There will be many escourted tours and special programs planned.

The June meeting, held at the home of
your reporter, found Mary Lou Thompson with us once again, a real treat to all. Isabel Kress and 49%er Fred have
just returned from the Minneapolis
State Bowling Proprietors meeting
where Fred spoke. Isabel will be hostess to the National Bowling Proprietors, the women’s group, when it meets here soon.

Toney, our chairman, has been having
and giving fascinating experiences to
youngsters. She has been taking youngsters friends of hers for their first airplane rides. L a st month she took up fifteen -four were from the same family.

Deedo and Herm Heise are off on the
Jr. Chamber of Commerce Efficiency
race which is between Palm Springs
and Philadelphia. She will arrive home
only long enough to change baggage
and Herm for Dora Fritzke who will be
her co-pilot in the International Transcontinental Race for the 99’s. Both Dora and Deedo were featured in the
"Milwaukee Journal” June 20th, pictures and all. Good luck, girls!!!! FLASH! NEWS!
Eugenia R. Heise, International secretary of the 99’s won the third annual transcontinental air cruise sponsored
by the Philadelphia Junior Chamber
of Commerce! With a lap se time of
13,63 hours and a per centage of 152.9
she finished the 2,579 mile course
from Palm Springs, California, in her
C essna 180.

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KANSAS CHAPTER
By: Lois Dobbin
Winner of the Sky Lady Derby - ANNE
WADDELL of Garden City, and a well
deserving winner too. She flew a mighty
fine race, knew her Beech like a book
and was the firstest with the mostest.

Congratulations Anne. Other winners
from K ansas were 3rd place - L ucile
Dienst and Lois Dobbin in a Tripacer,
and 4th place - Margaret Anr. Yourdon
in a Tripacer. The Sky Lady Derby is
an economy cruise race.

Margaret Yourdon received a lovely
plaque from the WNAA for her award
as "Woman of the Year in Aviation’’ at
Raton WNAA convention. Upon arrival
home, Margaret’s son Lon awarded her
with a case of mumps, the third member
of her family to get the mumps in the
last five weeks.

K ansas Chapter had a fly-in to Atchison
on June 19th. Marge P aris provided the
transportation, and we airmarked Nortonville and Troy. Then returned to Atchison for a chicken dinner at their
airport. Helen Chandler, Airmarking
Chairman, and puby Mathis airmarked
EL Dorado. They had planned to do
Potwin too - but El Dorado proved such
a hazzle that Potwin went to pot.

Ama Lee Jameson flew to Washington
D.C. on the Flying Farmer tour, and
leaves for Calgory, Canada in July to
attend the big rodeo. Ama Lee and Lois
Dobbin flew down to El Paso over
Memorial Day to visit with Ruth Deerman and attend a Flying Farmer fly-in breakfast at Dell City.

Phila Knitig of Rexford, Kansas is
being inactive on the pilot line for
awhile. While gathering eggs, she
" s p u n ” in from a ladder and sprained
an ankle.

Lucile D ienst’ ranch at Lakin was
visited by a thunderstorm which gave
them lots of rain - plus too much hail
with it. That took care of most of the
wheat crop - and the hail broke out windows in the house - which took care of rugs and drapes. At that they were
lucky - a town 27 miles northeast of
of them had 12 inches of hail! T hat’s
a hail of a lot of hail! (Texas - move
over)

KANSAS CHAFJTER
By: Lois Dobbin
July meeting was held at Augusta Municipal Airport, with Hazel Guy providing the sumptuous feed. En route to Augusta
Airmarking Chairman Helen Chandler
and 49%’erBuddy, and Ama Lee Jameson
flew a Tripacer to Toronto to airmark ,
while Margaret Yourdon and Dorothy
Speer flew paint to Emporia for an airmark er. A thunderstorm boiled over during the meeting and everyone sweated out probable hail. Those attending were
Margaret Yourdon, Chairman, Mary Howard, Ama Lee Jameson, Helen Chandler, Dorothy- Speer, Ruby Mathis, and Pat
Ripper.

Anne Waddell and Lois Dobbin attended
the convention at Springfield. The clambake at Hiller’s Airport proved to be a highlight, and was super - swim pool,
clams and lobster - what a combination.

New England’s humidity made this hot
dry air of Kansas a welcome relief. Both
gals managed to drip off a few pounds
trying to get acclimated.

Kansas chapter has painted 18 airmarkers so far this year, and hope to hit the usual 50 for the year. Wing Scouts(Bobbe
Slade Troop) of Wichita under guidance
of Margaret Yourdon have painted seven
airmarkers this summer, and seem to
enjoy this project.

Lake Wabunsee was an RON for Kansas
99’s and guests in July. The lake is
near Topeka, Kansas, and affords nice
fishing, boating and swimming. "C A P ”
MacKenzie runs the lodge and is known
for his "bar-b-'que ribs and fried chicken” , and may I say they are wonderful There are some big fish in that lake
and they’re still there - we just caught
the little ones. Phila Knitig of Rexford

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to see her back on both feet again after
nursing a sprained ankle.

Susie Cheetham of Arkansas City received the Amelia Earhart Scholarship award this year, and will use it to get
an instrument rating. The scholarship
could not have gone to a more deserving girl.

Ama Lee Jameson flew to Calgory, Canada, in July, and thence to Bracketville, Texas, for a short vacation at the ranch,
thence to Detroit for the National Flying Farmer Convention. She does Stop in Wichita occasionally and helps paint an
airmarker.

EL PASO UNIT, TEXAS CHAPTER
By^Lois Hailey
We all enjoyed participating in the
TAR even though it was only from a
ground position. We were happy that
El P aso could be on the race route
again.

Being the early birds we are, we have
already held our election of officers
for next year. "D odie” Powers,(Mrs.

Pat Powers)will serve another year as
chairman, Ruth Muller is our new vicechairman, and Mary Margaret McDonald is secretary-treasurer.

We are now making plans for our fall
sectional me eting which will be in j£j
Paso, and we also have our big air
show coming up at about the same time.

Ft. Bliss and Biggs AFB always give
us a big hand in the air show. This
will be some Sunday in October depending now oneone of our military participants.

Ruby Hayes has returned from her
round the world tour which she enjoyed
tremendously.

Ruth Deerman is busy with the Flying
Farmers. She has been elected Texas
queen, and will soon go to Lansing,
Michigan to compete for national queen.

Dorothy and Jack Blackham were the
proud par ents of a prospective NinetyNine.Her name is Katheryn Ann.

MISSOURI VALLEY CHAPTER
By: Jan Munkres
Helen Moore, our Chairman,was hostess for the June meeting which was held at Falls City. We flew into the
Airport there then drove to Rulo for an
excellant Fish Dinner, which Helen
had made arrangements for ahead of
time. Helen had made a lot of plans and
invited the Kansas girls up. From
Kansas, Helen and Roy Simmons of
Abline, flew in their 170 C essna. Hadf
a very nice visit with them, it was too
bad when we had guests from Kansas
that more of our own girls were not
there to greet them. Those present were:

Helen Moore and her cousin Miss Moore
of Beatrice, who flew over in Helen’s
Crusier. Jan and Neil Munkres of Weeping Water, and our guests from Kansas Helen and Roy Simmons. So very glad
to have you with us Helen and Roy,
please do it again. Helen asked to have
a card sent them for our meetings and
donated 50 cents for postage so to be
sure and receive one. The weather was
perfect for flying and Helen and Roy
took off for Kansas City where they
attended an Air Show.

Pauline Hawks is back home again.

She just underwent Surgery at May os
and I’m sure she would appreciate cards
from all of us.

Dr. Betty Clements was home visiting
her family at Elmwood, and left Sunday
for Mayos where she is connected with
the Clinic.

Hope more will be out to our next
meeting.

COLORADO CHAPTER
By: Donna Myers
Summer is a busy time - people coming
and going on vacation sprees - working
like made ontheir yards - getting a little
more flying in - trying to find something
for the kids to do since they are out of
school.

Swede and Jane Nettleblad and their
three - Bob, Christine, and Bill, are in
Washington D.C. - Swede on business
for the airline, and jane and children
trekked along to have a short vacation
and take-in the sights while Swede was
busy and then doing some family sightseeing when he completed his meetings.

Jane hoped to contact some of the gals
if they returned from the International
Colorado has gained another member -
Alice Fuchs - former chairman of the
Tucson Chapter, who has transferred to
Denver - our GAIN.

Lucia Jolliff has been real busy with
CAP meetings, etc. - she met Alice
Hammond and some of the other 99*s
in Colorado Springs the latter part of
May at a CAP meeting.

Mary Wenholz flew an emergency trip
to her home in Toledo early in June. On
her way home she attempted to contact
Sara Gorelick in Kansas City, but no
luck on finding Sara at home.

Dottie and Paul Young and P a u l’s brother have gone into a new business here in Denver-Helicopter’s, Inc. Took
delivery on their first Bell last week,
and it was here in time for the Stapleton
Airfield new terminal dedication. They
flew passengers all day long - and what
a long day! They are engaged in transportation throughout the state of Colorado, dusting, photographic missions, etc. They have another ’copter on order
and we all wish them the very best of
luck. They have an office in the terminal building and also a counter - don’t fail to contact Dottie when you come
through Denver.

Your reporter and 49’er, Johnnie had
more fun helping out at the dedication
ceremonies - felt like we were back in
barnstorming days - sold tickets for
'copter rides, and loaded passengers,
etc. all day. It was hard to realize that
people still like to take rides in aircraft. If they couldn’t get a ride in the helicopter - they bought fdes in airliners, from private operators! Imagine your reporters surprise when she sild
a ticket to a mighty attractive eal whn
paid her with a traveler’s check-guessing that the passinger was from out of town, took a better look at her - and
who should it be, but Constance Ohlinger, T ennessee Chapter, who is here for University of Denver workshop this
summer! We had a fine visit - she got
to visit with Dottie - and we will be
most happy to have her with us at our
July meeting. We have always felt a
warm spot for her - our membership
chairman, a few years ago - who was
contacted her here in Denver when she
she was attending the University and
felt she was sorta responsible for talking her into joining Ninety-Nines.

Your reporter is in a dither getting
ready to leave for Springfield - see you
th ere.

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BAY CITIES CHAPTER
By: Maxine Carlson
On June 17 we enjoyed a bountiful and
delicious patio barbecue supper at Mar*
freda and Frank Coffin’s nice ranch
home near Pleasanton. Maxine Carlson,
John and Margaret Gerhardt, Fred and
Ruth and Marsha Reuchert, Geri and
Frank Hill, Miriam Brugh, Rosemarie
Gehling, Mabel Zehr and her little dog,
Skeeter, Eleanor Bjorkman and her
fiance, Glenn Wilson, Ona Gist, and
guests Fred and Hazel Miles, and Mrs.

Ina Kimberling, who, with her husband
operates the now-busy and improved
Livermore Sky Ranch.

After entertaining the Bay Cities Chapter in such grand style,Frank and Marfreda left for Anchor Bay, where they are building a home.

We have news from A to Z this month.

Ena Ayers recently visited Los Angeles,
went to her home in Coalinga, and then
came to S an Francisco with her mother.

Lillian Anderson plans to stay in Minnesota through the coming winter. She continues to write; we are wishing her
luck with her work. She has several
things out to publishers at the present
time.

Lindy Boyes won second prize in the
Hayward to Tuscon race in spite of
terrific winds. At Tuscon the DeHaviland people, who make the Beaver, the Otter, and Chipmunk, had Lindy use
their Chipmunk to fly from there to
Toronto to attend the Aviation Writers
meeting which was taking place at the
International Air Fair at that time. An
interesting sidelight: USSR had been
invited to have an exhibit at the Fair.

They excused themselves with the explanation that they hadL been notified too late, but sent six men. These men
rushed around taking pictures, as closely as they could, of all the different jet engines and planes. They also declared
loudly and long that they had superior
this and superior that; when Lindy and
some other reporters asked their inter*
preter why they were so avidly taking
pictures if all their things were S®
superior, they had no answer.

Ona Gist attended the Porterville Moonlight Flight. Later she had a minor accident with her Swift.

Mabel and Otto Zehr have had company.

Their "new ” Funk was wrecked on the
ground. The man whose plane was tied
down next to them made a perfect 180
when taxiing and smashed their plane.

Our Chapter was well represented in the
AWTAR. Four members took part. Geri
Hill and Ruth Rueckert flew for their
sponsor, Love Real Estate, located on
El Camino Real in Redwood City; Margaret Gerhardt flew with our international president Gerry Mickelsen, and Lindy Boyes flew the race with Margaret
Callahan,

REDWOOD EMPIRE CHAPTER
By: Nellie Palmer
Sunday June 5th, was a very happy meeting for the Redwood Chapter, as our President Geraldine Mickelsen visited
us with a group of the members from the
Sacramento chapter. Late Brunch was
enjoyed at Joneses at the Napa County
Airport. For some it was a drive in
rather than a fly in - for several of the
girls were having their planes overhauled in anticipation for the TWAR.

It was purely a social meeting, with
plenty of hanger talk. The Salinas Sectional meeting and how and when we got our planes home was one of the topics.

That was one time the weather man
really called foul weather on us.

Our own member, Anna Brenner is leaving for Springfield, Mas., to be ther as a timer when the race birds come flying
in.

Good Luck to all you gals in the race,
wish I could be with you.

SAN DIEGO CHAPTER
By: Edna Penners
Our meetings for July, August and September are as follows: July 23 - Helen Dicks, beach party, 735% Jamiaca Ct.

August 19 • 7:30 business meeting at
Lynn Briggs brothers home, 4256 Ridgeway Drive, San Diego: September 12 - 7:30 business meeting at Dottie Sanders,
1526 Koe Street, L emon Grove, Cal.

The San Diego Junior Chamber of Commerce a very interesting"Flight Clinic” with the cooperation of the San Diego
Coast Guard, Weather Bureau, and CAA.

It included discussions, questions and
answers on flight plans, weather information, radio procedures and plane inspections, which pointed out the fact
that many routine checks miss vital
worn parts. Several of our top local
flight instructors flew with pilots to
observe aquired bad flying habits, and
point out correct pattern flying if needed.

A link trainer was available for demonstrations. It made us all think about those easily forgotten things important
to safe flying.

Congratulations! Ruby Potter for your
recently earned Commercial. Margaret
Lang flew commercial to Monmouth,
Illinois and spent her vacation visiting
her husbands relatives, including his
six sisters.

At our June meeting we welcomed Ann
E. Howe as our newest member. Dottie
Sanders moved into her lovely new home
May 27, and the new curtains, guests
dropping in for a few days, and getting
ready for the race, she had quite a busy
month, not mentioningthe fact she works
too.

Amy Chagnon is flying low in her new
Ford station wagon and is happily ant
nouncing a new daughter, Robin Lyn,
born May 28. Congratulations Amy and
Robert Chagnon for three lovely little
girls. We are happy to have Ruth Gamber
back with us. S^e ^as been a civilian
employee at an air force base in French
Morrocco for two years. Before returning
she visited France, Germany, and the
Medeterranian Countrys.

Dottie Sctiultz took off for Fairbanks,
Alaska, June 25, ferrying a Piper to
Cecelia Hunter. Suds Stortz went as cqpilot, Betty Gillies tells us Pat* her her daughter, is studying in Europe at
the University of Vienna for. six weeks
and then at the University of Paris. Pat
has seen a great deal of the world this
last year, traveling where ever her heart
dictated. She h a sn ’t given up flying
though, Betty says she flys a great deal
when home. And is coming home next
March to finish school and graduate
from Stanford in June.

Lois Bartling in her Swift and Thelma
Bishop and her sister Edna Laubenstein,
in their Tri-Pacer flew in the Hayward
to Tuscon race and report a wonderful
time was had by all. Thelma also tells
us her pretty daughter, Joan, eloped to
Yuma, Arizona the first part of the year
and is now Mrs.*D. R. Sowder.

We are very proud of Mac Huntington
for passing the written ATR exam.

Jackie Trenfel is recovering nicely
from recent surgery and is looking forward to getting out of the house and doing some flying again.

SAN DIEGO CHAPTER
By: Dottie Sanders
When your reporter inquired of what had
been going on in the San Diego Chapter
during July, her reply was that everyone
here had just been trying to keep track
of the whereabouts of the AWTAR entrants. They all had a dinner meeting and pooled their bits of information about
the contestants.

Lois Bartling was a time at Blythe,
California the first day of the race, and
then she and Harry proceeded to Phoenix
for a nice stay at the Sky riders Motel,
who hosted the AWTAR contestants so
well.

Until other chapters across the country
are written personally, the San Diego
contestants surely do thank you for the
excellent manner in which each of you
at the start and finish and all along the
route took care of us.

After the race each contestant had a
little visiting to do. The ALSYNITE
Special with Dottie Sanders and Dottie
Davis was the first to arrive home, having spent three and a half days in New York City and two days in Sioux City,
Iowa visiting with Dottie Sanders’ mothet
They arrived on Saturday the 16 th of
July.

Isabelle McCrae and Betty McNeil arrived the same day, after having visited in Ithica, New York, Niagara Falls, and
in Nebraska.

The PALOMAR FOODS Special arrived
the following Monday, after having
attended the convention and visiting
Ruby Potter’s relatives in Nebraska with
Claire Hale.

The last to arrive home was partially
sponsored by the San Diego Chapter of
99*s, and really took the grand tour of
the U.S. - Maxine Smith. She visited in
New York City, St. Louis, Tulsa, then
met 49%* er, Gordon at Monte Vista,
Colorado where she took her two nephews for their first plane ride. They toured Colorado by car, which Gordon
had driven up. From there she went to

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her niece and nephew to bring home for
a visit with her. She finally arrived home
on the 25th.

An unscheduled dinner meeting was held
on the 21st at the Harbor House to welcome all the gals home. In addition, a beach party was held at the home of
Helen Dick on the 23rd, with a total
count of 25 there to enjoy delicious hot
dogs, potato salad, marshmallow, etc.

Dottie Davis and 49%* er, Roy, took a
weekend fishing trip to Montague, California, which is nearly to the Oregon border the weekend of the 23rd.

SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CHAPTER
By: Billie Wyatt
August 14 is the date for the Annual
Peach Fly-in of the Modesto Airmen’s
Association to be held at the Modesto
Airport. The Ninety-Nines will be in
charge of registration. Free peaches
and cream and peaches to take home.

Bring a picnic lunch and the family and
enjoy the day with other flyers a Legion
Park.

Our June meeting was held at the home
of Hazel Zimmerman and was strictly a
business session with Frances Dias
presiding. Frances was appointed to be
our delegate of the Annual Convention.

A contribution to the Amelia Earhart
Fund was made and our chapter’s quota
for the TAR was sent in. Those attend*
ing were j aura May Crawford, Ev Hendley, Jean Vincent, Frances Dias, Billie Wyatt and Hazel.

The TAR quota was raised by our chapter by holding a rummage sale which netted $94. Just eight girls collected
enough rummage for the sale and five
of us worked at the actual sale, which
proves that where there is a will there
is a way.

I want to thank the various chapters,
whom I have visited in the p a st year,
for their generous hospitality and the
courtesies extended to me.

Frances Dias left for Springfield, Mass.
on June 27, to serve as official timer
for the TAR.

Billie and Ed Wyatt flew to the breakfast flight at the Reid-Hillview Airport, in San Jose on June 26. The fog was
low so we flew the highway at 1500 ft.
through the Altamont P ass and then on
the iron beam through the Niles Canyon
to San Jose. Anything to get out of
cooking breakfast!

SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CHAPTER
By: Billie Wyatt
A pot-luck luncheon and swimming party
was the high light of our July meeting
which was held at the home of Ev Hendley. Frances Dias reported on the convention held at Springfield, Mass. and the TAR. Members attending the meeting: Marie Serpa, Irmyl Fitzgearl and Clark, Kay Dray and family, Laura May
Crawford, Hazel Zimmerman, Billie
Wyatt, Frances Dias, Ev Hendley and
family, and prospective member Helen
Squires and family.

While on a recent cross-country flight
Irmyl Fitzgearl noticed a large crowd
at the Los Banos Airport and she de*
cided to land a little farther up the runway so that she wouldn’t have to taxi so far and lo and behold she very innocently hit the spot and won a spot landing contest which was being held and came
home with a few quarts of oil and an
electric iron. Irmyl is now known around
Porterville as Lucky Fitzgearl.

Laura May Crawford and 49%’er, Gene,
are planning a flight to Seatde, Washington, for the Gold Cup Races. They will be met by the Zimmermans in Seattle
who are vacationing in Vancouver, B.C.

Billie Wyatt and 49/4’er Ed took a flying
vacation in their Piper P acer to Canada
They flew via Klameth Falls, Oregon,
and Yakima, Washington, where they
cleared customs for Cranbrook, Canada.

They cleared Canadian customs at Cranbrook and spent the night there after putting in a hot eight hours of flying.

The next day they flew over the Canadian Rockies to Calgary where they attended the world famous Calgary Stampede and it is the name implies. The Canadian hospitality^was great and on
Friday morning they said a very reluctant Goodbye and cleared customs for Cutbank, Montana. After an uneventful
flight back to the U.S. it was fun to
pick a spot to land on the 8600 foot runway to Cutbank where they again cleared customs. They were amazed at the ease
and lack of redtape involved in clearing customs on both sides of the borde (a subject that we have questioned about
many time by a number of pilots). After
a good nights rest at Helena, Montana
they flew to Yellowstone National Park
where they joined a group flight of Modesto area residents. Namely Laura May Crawford and 491/4’er Gene and daughter
Laura Lee and Jean and Anthony Vincent. The Crawfords and Vincents flew in to see Don Crawford and Bob Vincent who were on a tour of the U.S. with a group of students. After two days and
nights of fun and sight seeing at Yellowstone we joined five airplanes in aa m ass flight back to Modesto. Thus ended a
flyer’s dream of a perfect vacation with
clear weather all the way and wonderful
cooperation from CAA and all airports
where they stopped.

Ethel and Bob Heiland and two daughters are enjoying a flying vacation to Oregon in their Fairchild 24.

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHAPTER
By: Trixie-Ann G. Schubert
Chairman Clara Davis held a June dinner
party at her home for chapter 99s Lauretta Foy, Katherine Wagner, Jeanne Strahl, Louise Robertson, Lee Scoville,
Renee Brown, Norma Wilson, Jane Mor.
ales, Elsie Ringer, Jean Parker, Babe
Story, yours truly, and several 4954ers.

Lauretta Foy, air eduction chairman, is
taking each of the Girl Wing Scouts she
has been instructing, for a ride in her
plane this month. In addition she’s flying a Luscombe for the Ralph M. Parsons Co. of Pasadena on their guided miis^ile program. Lauretta hopes to
attend the reunion of the WASP ferry
command pilots being called by Nancy
Love at Martha’s Vineyard, New England.

The yellow clover aphis may have
California ranchers in a dither. But it s
a boon to Babe Story whose crop dusting
business is thriving. She gets up at
4 a.m.; and still manages to come into
L.A. from Lancaster 65 miles away for
the monthlo 99 meets.

Jean and John Strahl will be spending
part of July at Lake Tahoe, their favored
resort spot for several years.

To Jean Parker, veteran racer, go more
kudos for her recent participation in the
Hay ward,Cali fo mi a, to Tucson, Arizona
race. There were 55 entered in the race
and Jean came in 6th.

Bonnie Meacham, troop leader of the
Studio City and No. Hollywood Girl
Wing Scouts, troop 1179, has asked
Clara if our chapter will sponsor them
this fall. This will make two groups
w e’ll sponsor simultaneously.

We’re skipping our July meeting but
planning tentatively to meet with L.A.
99s for a dinnerparty the second Monday
of August.

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHAPTER
By: Trixie Ann G. Schubert
We held no meeting in TAR month of
July, but Chairman Clara Davis and
other chapter members were on hand to
wave off our sole entry in the race,
Lauretta Foy. Lauretta, a winner of the
TAR in 1949, flew her fourth TAR this
year. She’s working as an instructor,
charter pilot, and flying on tracking
missions for guided m issiles. Sftie was
sponsored by Apple Valley Inn of Apple
Valley, California.

It was like old-home week for seven of
us who are ex-members or current members of the WisconsinNinety Nines. The other six were Dora Fritzke, Deedo
Reise, and Sally Lathfop who were
lere to fly in the race; Caroline Feiling Mathison who flew out to vacation in California; Mayetta Behringer who
worked many hours on the race, and
Jean Van Dyke Reimer who is a transfer to the San Fernando Valley chapter.

Also to the "reunion” came a letter
from Rosemarie Sponner who has been
making a name for herself as foreign
correspondent in Germany where she
flies her own plane. She announces her
engagement to Associated Press Correspondent Dick Yahraes.

Jean Reimer, North-A meric an airline
hostess, gets to our meeting between
her hops to Frankfurt, Germany. Not
satisified with exploring the sea above
land and currently is the first woman
in the U.S. to take the instructor’s
course in skin diving. She has been
doing much skin diving in L.A. and in
Florida. There’s a photographic display in pictures in a Burbank, California, store that Jean has made under water with her Marine Roloflex camera.

We’re planning to meet with the Los
Angeles Ninety Nines for a dinner meeting this August.

SAGUARQ CHAPTER
By: Juanita Newell
We may not have done much flying this
month of lune with temperatures over
110 degrees but have we ever been
working on a big reception for the racing
women when they stop here!
The business meeting at the home of
Betty Knier was almost all taken up by
race committee reports. It was announced
that the Coca Cola Bottling Co. would
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to the first 2 airplanes that RON here
and require such service. Anderson
Aviation will give free gas to the first
P iper to land - (Jimmy Lou Shelton’s
Company). Mercury Flying Service (Ruth
Reinhold’s employer), free gas to the
first Bonanza and Frances Wood of gun
Valley Air a load of gas to the first
Cessna to hit the deck. The first Navion to arrive will have its tanks topped by Marsh for free. Loudermilk Aviation
of Buckeye has contributed a nice sum
to our chapter for us to use as needed.

All of the mechanics at the local maintenance shops at Sky Harbor will be standing by for any repairs that may be
necessary. The Phoenix Junior Chamber
of Commerce are giving us unlimited
assistance. The airport operators will
have a cocktail party and the Kiwanis
Club a buffet dinner around the swimming pool of the Sky Riders Motel. The motel manager, Mr. Webber, will have
rooms available, without charge, for all
those that RON.

Doris Glina’s husband recently ferried
an F84 to Turkey. Doris flew by airline
to Emmaus, Penn, and met John when
he returned to the U.S. by commercial
airline.

The "Route Surveyors” Alice Hammond
and Jean Pearson stopped in to see us.

Wilma Bland picked them up a t the airport and they were our honored guests at a patio party at the home of Frances
Wood. Alice and Jean seemed more than
pleased with the work our chapter had
toward welcoming and entertaining proposals for the coming race entrants.

By the time this is published the Big
Race will be run and won. Right now it
is anybody’s guess!

SAGUARO CHAPTER
By: Juanita Newell
As you all know our "Rheem Dream”
girl came through with second place
honors in the race. Alice was ably
assisted by Iris Critchell of P alo s Verdes. We hope to see them next year taking "top honors” .

Alice held the business meeting at her
home this month. She was just surrounded with trophies', prizes, gifts, telegrams, newspaper and magazine
clippings. She showed us color slides
of the race from start to finish. Those
attending and offering congratulations
were Bonnie Fuggit, Wimal Bland, Melba Beard, Jimmy Lou Shelton, Betty Knier, Mary McNeil, guest and prospective member, and Juanita Newell.

Ruth Reinhold missed the meeting
since she was in Wichita picking up a
new Beech Bonanza for a customer.

American Airlines was carrying as passenger to New York this month, Melba Beard. Melba flew back to pick up her
daughter who has been visiting there.

Doris Glina and Carol Lowery did a
fine job on the time clock for the race.

Camille Shapley recently spent ten
days in Long Beach playing in a duplicate bridge tournament. She tells me she "lucked out” this time and has no
trophies to show us.

Lucille Crosby and husband accompanied by friends flew in the Crosby Tri-Pacer to a big weekend in "L o st
Wages” .

SANTA CLARA VALLEY CHAPTER
By: Ardell Hauk
On June 9th we met at Jackie P e tty ’s
home in Mountain View. We were glad
to welcome Margaret Standish from
San Fernando Valley Chapter, and
Diane Gibson, a frequent guest at our
meetings.

After our social meetings in April and
May we had lots of business to accomplish - and we did! Caught up on our treasury report - d iscusses going to
the Fall Sectional in Los ^ngeles
(le t’s all go, huh?) - learned that we
now have our won chapter’s NinetyNine stationery. Thanks to Billie Wyatt for loaning us her cut of the 99
compass rose. It was agreed to donate
$25 to the AE Scholarship Fund, and
$50 to your delighted reporter to pay
for gas and oil consumed on the TAR.

Thanks a million girls!
Natalie Bossio took her father for
his first airplane ride recently and he
is eagerly looking forward to his second, third, fourth, etc.

We were glad to have Clara Lou Cathy
with us again after several month’s
absence, during which time little Caren Lynn Cathey put in her appearance.

Caren was born on April 16th, and her
birth announcement was in the shape
of a little airplane.

On June 12th P at Gladney, Patty
Sherwood and Marg Standish flew down
to San Jose Airport to help Dell and
Carol Hauk wash and wax the Cessna
140 (well, supervise anyway). They
also checked us out on the quickest
and most efficient method of leaving
a plane when running the the time
clock. Marg advised it w asn’t the one
who could run the fastest, but the one
who had the fewest bruises on her
knees. Ha - we don’t scare easily.

SANTA CLARA VALLEY CHAPTER
By: Ardell Hauk
On July 17th twenty-two members and
friends of the Santa Clara Valley Chapter 99*s flew to Salinas for lunch^with Salinas 99*s Mary Jane Oberg, A Hie
Guest and Dell Hauk. Of t h e s e / P a t
Gladney and daughter Gale, Patty Sherwood, Dorothy Monahan and daughter Pat, Jackie and Lloyd Petty and Dell
and Carol Hauk attended the Salinas
Rodeo. We had the sun at our backs,
but there wasn’T much we could do
about the hard seats. However, the
beautiful horses and expert riders more
than made up for our discomfort.

Those not attending the Rodeo were
Aimee and Fred Gerlack, Dianne Gibson, Clara and Ray Schneider and son John, Alice and Ray Shannon, Mary
Jane and Harold Oberg, and Allie and
Murdic Guest.

P at Gladney’s aunt and uncle from
Quebec, Canada spent their vacation
at P a t’s home in Los Altos this month.

P at took them on several short flying
trips to Pandora, and to Los Angeles
where Marg Standish drove them around
the Los Angeles area on a sight-seeing
trip.

The highlight of the month - for the
year for that matter^ for your reporter,
was of course, the AWTAR. We enjoyed
every minute of it, and are planning
and looking forward eagerly to next
year’s race.

COACHELLA VALLEY CHAPTER
By: Faye Douthitt
Maybe now that the races are over for
this year, we can get our flying Grandmother - Zaddie and (yours truly ) to settle down, so that we may hold a meeting.

I haven’t talked to Zaddie since she
returned from her Havana trip, but I know
she has lots to tell.

My 49%r, his sister Edna Shull from
Long Beach, Calif, and myself just returned home from the Philadelphia Air cruise. We are happy to say we placed
3rd. Congratulations to Deedo H eise,
our 99 National Secretary from Wisconsin, who with her husband and daughter placed first in the same race
After leaving Philadelphia we took a
short vacation - v is it d North Carolina -
naturally first stop was the Kitty Hawk
Memorial, then to Florida - Love that
place - The New Orleans mosquitos
evidently didn’t approve of us Californian’s so we headed for home. A really a wonderful trip.

One close call - our oil cap was left off
in Tuscon ( is that pilot or co -p ilo t
trouble). We didn’t lose our oil pressure
(thanks to down draft cooling) but we
had one dirty airplane -when we landed
in El P a so - a 2 hour clean-up job.

We give our sincere thanks to our Chapter chairman Eleanor Wagner for working so hard for two days at Desert Air. She
w as the official time keeper on take-off
day. The day before she worked with the
CAA officials to see that all planes
were checked and fully gased. I guess
you all know that Eleanor is now in the
Real E state bu siness - but never to busy
not to help where flying is concerned.

Good luck to her in her new job.
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MONTANA CHAPTER
By: Jimmie Kuhn
Our June meeting was held June 11 with
a luncheon at the Officers * Club at the
Great Falls Air Base. Members present:

Marge Roole, Eslie Hartley, Gladys
Krieder, Audrey Jordan, Mary Jo Janey,
Dorothy Sabo, Eva Schwarzrock, Inza
Riedelsel, Ernestine Gore, Jimme Kuhn
and two prospective members, Phyllis
Wallston and Donna Anderson.

After the luncheon and meeting we were
taken on a conducted tour of the Air
base, where we learned all about
"Scramble” , jets and radar. It was all
so very interesting that when the time
came to return to our planes and home
we decided to stay an extra hour and
hated to leave even then.

At our business meeting we made plans
for an air marking program and appointed
Elsie Childs as Air Marker Chairman. A
plan was also discussed to appoint two
members in each town to give talks on
aviation at the schools and civic clubs.

Vivienne Schrank has been selected as
our delegate to our National lucky
Vivienne.

G la d y s K reider won the ra ffle - our fund
r a is in g p r o je c t.

ALASKA CHAPTER
By: Emorene (Randy) Briggs
We were thrilled to hear via the newspapefyhat Pearl La ska from Fairbanks, Alaska had entered the AWTAR. Since
we have been unable to contact her
we have no other details.

Laurine Nielsen of Palmer just returned from a flight to the States. She flew out and back via the Alaska Highway. She was gone just three weeks, and although she was held up for
ewathers ome, encountered no other
weather some, encountered no other
difficulties.

Lois Wise just returned from Lockhaven, Pa. ferrying a Piper Super Cruiser for Safeway Airways of Anchorage, Lois covered 3890 miles in 53% hours
flying time. She encountered some bad
weather in South Dakota and was
grounded for two days in Lemmon, S.D.
but didn’t mind her stay because everyone was so nice to her. She suggests' that anyone thinking of flying to Alaska in a"small plane by-pass Great and go to Cut Bank, Montana, j h e y
have a nice little airport there with all
necessary facilities. It only took Lois
two days to pass through Canada.
§he entered Canada Saturday morning
and left Monday morning. Altogether
Lois was gone just 4 weeks as she
visited relatives in Michigan and Ohio.

Betty Loomis flew down from Fairbanks in her tri-pacer on Sunday about a month ago and brought her daughter
Kay and husband for a few hours visit
on the field. Betty is now working for
Fairbanks Air Service.

Helen Snyder has a new job with
P acific Northern Airlines operating a
teretype. Helen and her 49%er have
just finished getting their tri-pacer
all in ship-shape and expect to get in
a lot of flying time this summer.

Randy Briggs is anticipating getting
their newly purchased Vagabond in
tip-top shape for flying. She and her
husband are doing a recover job under
the watchful eye of Helen Stoddard’s
49%er.

Dorthy Burns and husband have left
Alaska and are now in Albuquerque,
New Mexico.

Our May meeting was held at P a t McG ee’s home with Lois Wise, Helen Stoddard and Randy Briggs present.

Since there were so few of us present
no major plans were made.

Our Tune Meeting was held at Helen
Stoddard’s home. Lois Wise, Helen
Snyder, P at McGee and Randy Briggs
were present. T ditative plans were
made for a family picnic but no date
was set. We also talked over the p o ssibilities of having an aerial picture ibilities of having an aerial picture
treasure hunt.

INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS

GERALDINE MICKELSEN PRESIDENT
1809 Wentworth Ave., Sacramento, California

EDNA GARDNER WHYTE VICE-PRESIDENT
Dalton Airport, 6367 Pierson Rd, Flushing, Mich
EUGENIA R. HEISE___________________SECRETARY
5019 N. Cumberland Blvd., Milwaukee 17, Wis.

BRONETA DAVIS ___________TREASURER
Minco, Oklahoma

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

DONNA TRACY MYERS
3310 Milwaukee Street, Denver 5, Colo.

BARBARA LONDON
624 Armando Drive, Long Beach 7, Calif.

KATHERINE LANDRY
Box 94, Eagle Lake, Florida

NEWS LETTER EDITOR
RUTH "TONI" JACOBSON
413 Sixth Street, Marysville, California
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MAY, 1967
THE NINETY-NINES, Inc.

International Headquarters
Will Rogers World Airport
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73159
Headquarters Secretary

DARLA BULLARD
Editor

PEG ONG
2900 Rockbrook Drive
Plano, Texas 75074

INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS
President

ALICE ROBERTS
9828 North 19 Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona 85021
Vice-President
DONNA T. MYERS
Aurora, Colorado 80010
Secretary

GENE NORA JESSEN
2814 Cassia
Boise, Idaho 83705
Treasurer

RUTH RUECKERT
2037 Rivera Street
San Francisco, Calif. 94116
Executive Board
LYDIELLEN “LYGIE” HAGAN
South 1907 Oneida Place
Spokane, Washington 99203
BETTY W. McNABB
926 Third Avenue
Albany, Georgia

DORIS RENNINGER
10-01 162nd Street
Beechhurst, N. Y. 11357
DEADLINE FOR NEWS —
The 20th of the Month
Send Copy to:

PEG ONG
2900 Rockbrook Drive
Plano, Texas 75074
All of the members of the Ninety
Nine Executive Board met at my
home for the Spring Board Meeting.

Fortunately the weather was beautiful. The last time we had the meeting in PHX, it rained all the time they were here. So the sunshine was
a welcome addition to the meet.

Members of the board represent five
different sections . . . New YorkNew Jersey, Southeast, South Central, Northwest and Southwest, and it
seems most of the country is covered with snow or rain. How nice to meet in the Valley of the Sun!
The Southwest Section meeting was
held at the end of the board meeting
and for the first time (at least that I
can remember) all the board members

AIR MEETS
Get ready for the SKY LADY
DERBY, starting and ending at Fort
Worth, Texas, June 23rd.

Impound Date: Thursday, June 22nd
Race Day: Friday, June 23rd
Banquet: Saturday, June 24th
Contact DOROTHY HAUPT, 4153
West 157th Street, Cleveland, Ohio,
or KIT HEACOCK, 600 Ostle, Collinsville, Illinois.

PYLON RACE
The first appearance of the National
Woman’s Pylon Racing Association
will be during the “Texas First” Pylon Air Races, May 12, 13, and 14.

The races will be held at Luck Field
just south of Ft. Worth.

The newly formed and NAA affiliate organization has a roster of 13 members at present. All except one
are 99s. Their next appearance is
scheduled for Chicago, July 1, 2, 3,
and 4. Then they will fly at the Washington, DC meet, August 4, 5, and 6; Cleveland Sept. 1, 2, 3, and 4; and
Los Angeles, Oct. 13, 14 and 15.

The 1967 Roster includes MRS.

JUDY WAGNER, Press.; MRS. EDNA
G. WYTHE, V. Pres.; MRS. PAT
ARNOLD, Sec.; MRS. VIRGINIA
GRIGGS, Treas., MRS. DOROTHY

J U L I C H, DOROTHY ANDERSON,
ELAINE LOENING, MRS. D O T
ETHERIDGE, JILL McCORMICK,
MRS. HAZEL SIGAFOOSE, DR.

SUE ROSCOE, MRS. GINI RICHARDSON, and CHERYL BARRETT.

C o lu m n
were at the same section meeting.

The Phoenix chapter entertained
the board with a Pot luck supper at
the home of Mary Vial. Edith Denny,
Governor of the Canadian Section,
was in the Valley for a visit and attended. So nice to see her. She tells us the Canadian Section is really
growing and we are pleased to have
them active again.

The Phoenix Chapter was really excited when their advance reservations exceeded 200. That is almost like a
convention!
By the time you read this there
will be another chapter added to our
rolls. The Mt. Diablo Chapter (in the
Sacramento area) received their chapter on May 6th.

Three of the Board Members came
to PHX directly from Tulsa, where
the South Central Section held their
meeting.

I am sure you will have all your
convention plans made by the time
you receive this. Don’t froget to mark
your ballots and mail them in. We
will be trying a new method of counting this year which will prove most interesting. Instead of having the
Teller’s Committee work from twelve
to twenty four hours counting each
ballot we will be computerized! Our
count will be run through an IBM
Computer in a matter of only a few
hours. Be sure you vote . . . give that
machine a big job to handle.

Don’t forget your contributions to
the AE Scholarship Fund, a n d
AWTAR, Inc. I still think it would be
a record to be able to name all the
contributions at convention.

I would like to thank all the Governors and Committee Chairmen, who sent informal progress reports to the
Board Meeting. It makes it so nice
to know the committees are working
and getting things done.

Am looking forward to Washington, D. C. and the Convention. To meeting the Overseas members who
are planning to attend. Will YOU be
there ?
As of April 1, we had 2947 members. Let’s make it 3000 by convention time. As of May 6th, we have 98 Chapters . . . who will be 99?
Happy flying ....

ALICE ROBERTS

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In Memory Of Amelia Earhart
By Lt. James R. Ward
WASHINGTON, D. C. — 10 April
1967 — On Saturday July 1, 1967, the
U. S. Coast Guard will electronically
span some 6,600 miles in commemoration of AMELIA EARHART. The Coast Guard will attempt to contact
members of the Ninety-Nines, an international organization of women pilots, at their International Convention at Washington, D. C., from Howland Island in the Mid-Pacific, in memory of the last flight of the world
famous flyer AMELIA EARHART.

The July 1st date marks the 30th
anniversary of MISS EARHART'S
disappearance in the Pacific. Howland Island was the intended set-down

STATEMENT BY

VICE PRESIDENT
site for AMLIA EARHART’S longest
over-water stretch, some 2,500 miles,
in her attempt to fly around the
world.

The Coast Guard Cutter BLACKHAW will try to contact the women’s group from tiny Howland Island using
radio communications from the ship
to a Coast Guard radio station in
Honolulu and relayed on commercial
telephone lines from Hawaii to the
Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
D. C. The 99s will hold a special ceremony at the Smithsonian beginning at 11 a.m. EDST In July 1st. The ceremony is part of a five-day International Fly-In sponsored by the 99s from June 28 to July 2, focusing attention on the progress of women in aviation, and the theme “Friendship
through Flying.”
Coming Events
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY

ON THE NINETY-NINES

INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION
JUNE 28—JULY 2, 1967
In 1967, more than ever before,
America extends the welcome mat to
visitors from all over the world. This
is historic International Tourist Year,
as proclaimed by the United Nations.

Few groups better exemplify the
spirit, tht zest, the adventure of travel
than the famed Ninety-Nines, the international organization for licensed women pilots. Their friendship-in-flying unites their skills and interests across
space and time, over boundaries and
barriers.

The smooth hum of the airplane
engines which bring so many foreign
women pilots to our skies will be
“music” in airports throughout America.

Our nation’s capital all over
America will be so very pleased to
greet their winged visitors.

As Chairman of President Johnson’s
Special Cabinet Task Force on Travel
USA. I am delighted to note the
Ninety-Nines’ imaginative program of
dramatizing their International Fly-In.

As they enjoy the DISCOVER AMERICA Program, the Nnety-Nines’ will be far more than passive spectators;
they will “bring many parts of
the world with them” ; they will
strengthen friendship and understanding; they will lift our spirits high in “ceiling unlimited” for peace and
good will.

May 5, 6, and 7
Southeast Sectional
Natchez, Mississippi
May 5, 6, and 7
North Central Spring Sectional
Peoria, Illinois
May 11, 12, 13
NIFA
Carbondale, Illinois
May 12, 13, and 14
Pylon Air Races
Luek Field
Ft. Worth, Tex.

May 24, 25, 26
All Women’s International Air Race
“Angel Derby”
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
to Miami, Florida, USA
June 3 (Note NEW date)
N. Y. - N. J. Spring Sectional
Buffalo, N. Y.

June 10
San Diego-Reno Fun Race
June 23
Sky Lady Derby
Ft. Worth, Texas
June 28 - July 2
International Convention
Washington, D. C.

July 1, 2, 3, and 4
National Air Races
Chicago, 111.

A light tower was built on Howland
Island a few months after the disappearance of AMELIA EARHART as a memorial to her pioneering contribution to aviation history. The plaque read, “Earhart Light, 1937.”
At the outbreak of World War II,
the Japanese bombed Howland Island
damaging the tower and extinguishing the light. Until 1963, when the tower was rebuilt, the light remained
dark and the structure was known as
the Howland Island Daybeacon.

When rebuilt in 1963, the tower was
officially renamed EARHART LIGHT.

The tower, painted in red and white
stripes, has a 140 candlepower light
supplied by long-life batteries that are
replenished each year during the
Coast Guard’s annual visit. Each year
the Coast Guard lands at Howland
Island to re-establish United States
sovereignty.

July 8
AWTAR
Altantic City, N. J. to
Torrance, Calif.

Aug. 4, 5, and 6
National Air Races
Washington, D. C.

August 28 and 29
Northwest Section Race
Sept. 1, 2, 3, and 4
National Air Races
Cleveland, Ohio
Sept. 15, 16 and 17
North Central Fall Sectional
Pheasant Run Inn
(adjacent to DuPage Airport, 111.)
Sept. 15, 16, and 17
Southwest Sectional
Holiday Inn
Stockton, Calif.

Sept. 29, 30, and Oct. 1
South Central Fall Section
Albuquerque, N. Mex.

October 7 (note NEW date)
AWNEAR
Norwood, Mass.

October 7
Michigan SMALL Race
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Oct. 13, 14, and 15
National Air Races
Los Angeles, Calif.

October 21
Fairladies Annual
Indiana Race
Bloomington, Indiana

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INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION
The enthusiasm and ingenuity of our
foreign girls is boundless. ANESIA
MACHADO from Brazil, plans to fly
a plane across the Americas to our
capital. By the time the twelve girls
from Australia arrive, many will have
seen most of the world. MARGARET
KENTLEY is traveling via India and
Europe with a visit to the Paris Air
Show and Montreal Trade Fair before returning home via Honolulu.

BOZINA KRAJCA is going to see
South Africa. Europe and Canada
before arriving in Washington, D. C.

She, too, plans to return via Honolulu.

BARBARA SHELBY-BROWN thinks
that Mexico and Dallas, Texas, would
be interesting places to visit before
Convention time. ROSEMARY DE
PIERRES and husband may meet
later in San Francisco before going
on a tour of South America. Others
planning to attend the convention
from Australia are: NANCY BIRD

WALTON, MARIE RICHARDSON,

EDITH COPPER, CORINNE DRUCE,
CHRISTINE HENDERSON, KATHERINE HENDERSON, BRENA ANDERS and FREDA THOMPSON.

We have already received a number of reservations from our Australian girls as well as SHEILA SCOTT, Governor of the British Section, and
EDITH DENNY, Governor of the
Canadian Section.

MYRIAM ZIEL of Parabaribo, Suriname, plans to be in Europe in May and America in June. ALI SHUKRIAT
from Pakistan is eagerly looking forward to seeing her friend ADELAIDE TINKER and America. DOROTHY
BANZHOF in Addis Ababa, hopes to be
here and has written to SABINA GOKCEN in Turkey in hope that she, too, can come. SISTER THERESA from
Kenya is returning to the States after
being replaced by another flying nun
who is also a Ninety-Nine. FIORENZA
DE BERNARDI and GRAZIA SARTORI want so much to be with us.

CHANDA SAWANT from India is looking forward to seeing our country first-hand. The South African girls are
leaving no stones unturned in their
efforts to get here for the gala affair.

FAY WELLS has been in touch with
many overseas girls including LUCIE
WYMANS of the Netherlands who
expects to be here. Upon FAY’S return from the Latin American Conference in Punta del Este in Urguary, we will try to make a complete list
of those coming from abroad for the
convention for the next issue of the
Ninety-Nine NEWS. However, this will
give you some idea of the effort they
are putting forth to be with you during our International Convention.

This is a copy of the letter from
FARRIS BRYANT, Director of the
Office of Emergency Planning and
member of the President’s Cabinet
Level Task for C. E. on Travel to all
of the fifty state governors.

Dear Governor:

I’m pleased to call your attention
to a national tourism project that
could develop some tourism revenue
for your state while it attracts new
travel from abroad. VICE PRESIDENT HUMPHREY chairs the president’s cabinet task force on travel.

I am pleased to be a member of this
group which explores means of encouraging tourism in America both foreign and domestic.

This summer, during International
Tourist Year, Washington, D. C. will
host an International Convention of the
Ninety-Nines, Inc. This is a world-wide
organization of over 3,000 women
pilots, whose first president was
AMELIA EARHART. The lady flyers
will gather at the Shoreham Hotel,
June 28th.

The Ninety-Nines have devised interesting promotions — including a national contest for aerial photographs of state tourist attractions — to draw attention to their efforts on behalf of aviation, understanding and tourism. An enclosed fact sheet outlines programs which should be of interest to your state.

Members of the Ninety-Nines from
your state will contact your people
to explain the program further.

I urge you to lend assistance to this
worthwhile program.

Sincerely,
Farris Bryant
Director
We tried, but in case some gremlins crept in and we missed you, please detach and mail in the following reservation card.

THE N IN ETY-N IN ES IN T E R N A T IO N A L CO NVENTIO N June 28 - July 2, 1967
Name__________________________________________________ Chapter _ Address________________________________________________ Section__________________ Attending ’67 Convention: Yes________ No_________ 49%’er_________ 24%’s_____ ETA: June__________ Plane______Airline_______ Train______ Bus______ Car_____ Registration $25.00: Advance__________________ On Arrival_________________ Delegate: Yes No Check Interests & No. People for Each:

Dulles Airport Tour_________ Get Acq. Buffet________ Embassy Coffee________ Award Luncheon_____________Eve. Sightseeing Tour Banquet________ White House Tour Smithsonian Reception Sunday Breakfast________ Beauty Shop Appointment____________
Departure Date____________________________________________________________ Remarks:__________________________________________________________________ Return as Soon as Possible — No Later than June 14, 1967, to Mrs. Donald M. Thompson
3803 Hillcrest Lane
Annandale, Virginia 33003
— 4 — May, 1967

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THE N IN ET Y -N IN ES INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION
JUNE 28 - JU LY 2, 1967
SH O R EH A M HOTEL A N D MOTOR INN, W ASH ING TO N, D. C. 2:30 P.M.

Tuesday, June 27
*** Tour of Dulles Int. Airport Tower & Radar Room Gate 14 3:00 *** Tour of Dulles Terminal, Mobile Lounges, & Fire House ” 14 4:00 *** Tour of Dulles Int. Airport Tower & Radar Room ” 14 8:00 A.M. - 7 P.M.

Wednesday, June 28
Registration
9:00 Chairman’s Coffee
10:00 *** Tour of Dulles International Airport Facilities Gate 14 12:00 Governor’s Luncheon
2:30 *** Tour of Dulles Int. Airport Tower & Radar Room ” 14 3:00 *** Tour of Dulles Terminal, Mobile Lounges, & Fire House ” 14 4:00 *** Tour of Dulles Int. Airport Tower & Radar Room ” 14 6:00 * Get Acquainted Party
8:00 A.M. - 7 P.M.

Thursday, June 29
Registration
9:30 ** Embassy Visit & Coffee
12:00 * Award Luncheon
2:00 Convention Meeting
Evening No Host Dinner (List of suggested restaurants provided.) 7:30 P.M. 3 Hour Eve. Sightseeing Tour of Washington — $3.00 Adults

2.00 Children under
9:00 A.M.
14 Years
Friday, June 30
Convention Meeting (Continued)
Afternoon Free for Sightseeing, Shopping, etc.
7:00 P.M. Cocktail Hour
7:30 P.M. * International Banquet honoring Overseas Members and their 9:00 A.M.

Ambassadors — Regency Room
Saturday, July 1
** White House Tour
11:30 * Smithsonian Institution
Evening

1. First two-way broadcast between Howland Island and
Washington, D. C.

2. Presentation of Global Histories of Women in Aviation.

3. Showing of Amelia Earhart’s record breaking Vega,
Lindberg’s Spirit of St. Louis and Wright Brothers’
first airplane.

Free Evening (Data provided regarding possibilities.)
Time
Sunday, July 2
** Leave for Dulles Int. Airport — Busses at Front Entrance of Hotel Specified ** Early Bird Breakfast
Later ** International Tree Planting Ceremony at Dulles Int. Airport ** Gala Send - Off to our overseas “99s” on their coast-too-coast tour and to the girls heading to Atlantic City and the start of the Powder Puff Derby, July 8th.
* and ** Included in Registration Fee of $25.00
** Included in Partial Registration Fee of $3.50 — Guests must be registered to participate.
*** No Fee or Registration required for Dulles International Airport Tour.

May, 1967 — 5 —

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NO TIE-DOWN FEES at Dulles International Airport -for Ninety-Nines during our International Convention.

They have been waived by J. E.

HANRETTA, Vice President and General Manager for Page Airways, Inc. and R. DAN MAHNEY, Airport Manager of Dulles International Airport.

For VFR Arrival:

1. Contact Dulles Approach Control
on 119.2 (preferred) or 126.1 me
when approximately 20 miles from
Dulles International Airport. Aircraft not equipped for two-way communication on 126.1 me should
transmit on 122.7 me and listen on
126.1 me.

2. State aircraft identification, type,
relative position, destination and if
equipped with radar beacon transponder.

3. Remain in communication with
Dulles Approach Control until adHow 'bout flyin' a RACE with an

IN T E R N A T IO N A L M E M B ER
as Co-Pilot ? ? ? ?
vised to change to tower frequepcy.

I

4. Dulles Approach Control will advise
the runway to be used, wind direction and velocity, and traffic information. To establish the landing sequence, pilots may be given holding instruction and/or specific routes or headings to fly. When a
pilot reports he has the aircraft he
is to follow in sight, he will be
directed to follow it. Radar Service will be terminated when you are told to contact the tower on 120.1
me. The tower will assign the
landing sequence number. Dulles
ground control is 121.9 me.

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AWTAR WAYS AND MEANS
It’s that time again! ! Every Year
about this time, those who have undertaken the responsibility of running the annual race start to worry about financial backing for the next year’s Powder Puff Derby. They know that
you want the race to go on, but do
you know how much they need your
support ?
Possibly you feel no urgency about
the 1968 race. It sounds so far away.

Plans must be made far in advance
in order to complete the innumerable
details on time and your financial help
must be assured before those plans
can be put into action. Don’t delay—
Send your donation today!
Chapters please note: Please send
your contributions or pledges for same
to reach me by June 15th so that your
chapter name can be included in the
annual report given at convention.

Thanking you in advance for what
I hope will be your overwhelming response and cooperation.

PAULINE GLASSON, AWTAR-99 Fund
Raising Chairman, International Airport, Route 2, Box 894, Corpus Christi, Texas 78408
p o w d e r p u f f d e r b y
Marion Andrews Lopez, Reporter
Wish I could tell you who will be
No. 1 in the race this year but the
drawing with all its fanfare, will take
place next week. Twenty entries came
in on the first day of arrivals postmarked April 15th and there will be more from outlying areas.

Although individual contributions,
for which we are most grateful, are
running higher this year than heretofore, the chapter contributions are lagging. We would like to hear about
your chapter fund raising projects.

You may have a unique idea that other
chapters could use because a group
can raise money for a cause far easier
than an individual.

Of the monies used for the 1966 race,
approximately one-quarter came from
the 99s. For the 1967 race, there was a
drop of 25% in 99 contributions given
in 1966 even though the entries increased more than 10%. We estimate the percentage of 99 contributions for
the 1967 race will be less than onefifth of the total. Need I say more? Let us know how you raised the money
when you send in your contribution.

We have received contributions from
the following industries since the last
report: Champion Spark Plug, Shell
Oil, Humble Oil, Piper, Beech and
Cessna Aircraft Companies.

Correction of the Correction that appeared last Month! On the annual Treasurer’s Report, Charleston should
read SAVANNAH for the 1968 Terminus. Oh Savannah, don’t you cry.

Please forgive us. We’ll have our
course straight by sixty-eight!
Send requests for entry kits and
entries to AWTAR Headquarters,
Teterboro Airport, Teterboro, New
Jersey.

Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship
Many of you may not know that
contributions to the Amelia Earhart
Scholarship Fund are tax deductible.

The Internal Revenue Service publishes a list of organizations to which contributions qualify for tax deduction and the following listing is there:
“Ninety-Nines, Inc. when designated
solely for Amelia Earhart Memorial
Scholarship Fund’’ (Be sure to make
check payable to the Amelia Earhart
Memorial Scholarship Fund so the
check can be deposited directly into
the AEMSF account). Our thought is
that the chapters and sections might
be able to increase your contributions
to the AEMSF by having members
who are inclined to make personal
contributions do so by writing their
checks to “Ninety-Nines, Inc. for
Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship
Fund” This could be credited to
chapter or section, if so desired, in
our annual report.

We hope each chapter and section
will make a special effort to bring the
amount of their contribution up to or
above that of last year, and that we
will hear from the new chapters and
those who missed last year completely.

The Scholarships given by the
Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship
Fund have helped many of our members to become accomplished pilots by giving them their advanced ratings. Let us keep up this good work in memory of AMELIA.

BETTY GILLIES, Treasurer
Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship
The twenty-eight applications selected by the sections for presentation to the Trustees have been processed and
the top six are now (April 15) in the
hands of the Honorary Judges for
final determination of the winners.

We should be able to notify each
winner by June 1st of her selection.

Elimination was particularly difficult
this year so many excellent applications were submitted. We wish you might all have been winners!
EUGENIA HEISE, Chairman
AEMS

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Dear Ninety-Nines:

Cup your h a n d s..................................
close your eyes ..................................
blow softly into your h a n d s.................................. now, open your hands and see what you are holding
HANDSFULL OF DAYDREAMS......................................

Dreams which are YOURS, MINE, EVERY WOMAN P IL O T S!.........................

Dreams of flying (and winning) the Powder Puff D e r b y ..................................

I wonder how many of you have thought of the way some of our members-at-large are feeling right now? Many of them are coming to the Ninety-Nines International Convention in Washington this year, from all around the World, and some would LOVE TO FLY THE RACE . . . . “if there is only a way’’ ............
.................. and there are ways, if only YOU would h e l p ........................

Had you planned to go solo? OFFER THE RIG H T SEAT ! I ! Have you a plane but not the rating? OFFER THE LEFT SEA T ! ! I ! Think selfishly about the benefits you’ll receive .... experiences you’ll never forget . . . . a wide range of new, interesting friends for life .... a chance to show our American image in a new warm w a y enrich your life through this relationship with another country . . . . gain favorable publicity for the Ninety-Nines, the AWTAR, your city or town, (Germany now knows about the 99’s, the AWTAR, and a great deal about Americans as a result of all the TV, radio and magazine articles that UTA KIENLE wrote on last year’s r a c e ).......... and BEST OF A L L UNITE the International Organization of Women Pilots (I.E. 99’s) in an unbeatable way by TOUCHING WINGTIPS AROUND THE W O R LD.............

Australia, Holland, Korea, South Africa, Brazil, Germany and other countries have women pilots who would like to fly this twenty-first birthday Powder Puff D e r b y quote, YOU CAN MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO SHARE A DREAM, to be part of an often relived memory, and help promote women in aviation around the world.

Please write me immediately (stamp costs cheerfully refu n d ed ) I will help you find a “I am all the time dreaming about seeing the USA, getting to know many 99’s, and now too, about the AWTAR.”
pilot or co-pilot, someone you’ll e n jo y This is stuff dreams are made of, THIS IS YOUR DREAM T O O to fly this year in the All Woman Transcontinental Air R a c e and we can help make it R E A L............

Let’s get to g e th e r and in the meantime
FLY W E L L.............

FLY WITH SOMEONE THIS YEAR
Sincerely yours,

AWTAR LIAISON

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WHAT IS IT?
An annual event sponsored by the Michigan Chapter of the Ninety-Nines (International organization of licensed women pilots), conducted in cooperation with the Michigan Aeronautics Commission. Local arragnements under the sponsorship of the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce and Local Aviation Groups.

The 1967 Race is the Twelfth Annual.

A cross-country proficiency aviation event for stock model, unsupercharged fixed wing, single or multi aircraft of not more than 420 horsepower. Flown during daylight hours under VFR (Visual Flight Rules) conditions; conducted on a handicap system.

A round-robin event of approximately 200 miles starting and ending at Grand Rapids, Michigan with two or more check points.

Exact course of the Race is not given to the contestants until each plane is impounded for the night before the Race.

Members of the Michigan Amateur Radio Operators organization and 99s are located at the check points to be sure pilots are properly logged in as they fly by each check point.

A Race for women pilots but who may fly solo or have a male or female copilot or passenger.

DATE AND PLACE
October 6, 7 and 8, 1967 — Kent County Airport — Grand Rapids, Michigan.

HISTORY
The name SMALL RACE was given this race the first year (1956) when the AWTAR (All Women’s Transcontinental Air Race) terminated in Flint, Michigan. The SMALL RACE was flown from Flint to Harbor Springs, Michigan, where the International Convention of the Ninety-Nines was taking place.

Aircraft taking part over the past eleven years have ranged from a single engine 65 horsepower to twin-engine 300 horsepower. This year the horse-power has been extended to 420. Contestants have flown every conceivable type of aircraft allowed and have come from distances over 2,000 miles.

The number of aircraft in the past races have averaged over 50 planes. There have been as many as 114 contestants including pilots and co-pilots.

ENTRY DATES
The entries this year will not exceed 60 airplanes. The opening entry date is July 10, 1967. Closing date is September 18, 1967 — 2400 EST. The first 60 applicants will be the contestants for the Michigan SMALL RACE of 1967.

MISCELLANEOUS
All inquiries regarding Michigan SMALL RACE should be sent to:

Mrs. Winifred DuPerow, 478 St. Clair, Grosse Pointe, Michigan 48230 NOTAMS

KENTUCKY BLUEGRASS CHAPTER

PRESENTS
“SKY BLUE LITE”
Beautiful, annodized Sky Blue, Lady’s
Lighter. Compass Rose Design on
front in silver. Top is plain (not
gridded as shown) perfect for engraving. Carries lifetime manufacturer’s guarantee. Perfect to own, or give to
your favorite Ninety-Nine. Send $3.75
to: “BOBBIE” KLETTER, 1208 Park
Hills Court, Louisville, Ky. 40207.

NOTAMS
Please read the Connecticut Chapter in regard to the RUTH NICHOLS material. Can YOU help them ? ? ?

FOR SALE
(4”x6”), black vinyl case, with gold
embossed 99 Compass Rose and “International Organization of Women Pilots.” Has room to write in appointments each day. Order from Santa Clara Valley Chapter, PHYLLIS A. PIERCE, 2159 Edgewood Dr., Palo Alto, Calif., 94303. It is 75c postpaid.

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FOR SALE
CIGARETTE LIGHTER for sale by
Northern Arizona Chapter. This is
the one originally approved by the
Executive Board and differs from
the Roster description as the order
had to be changed after the directtory went to press. Instead of blue, case is silver with a blue Compass
Rose. Can be engraved with your
name, rating, dates, etc. Lighter
is American made and has an unconditional lifetime guarantee. Gift boxed. Price is $5.95, postpaid.

Order from
Jean Deck
P. O. Box 29
Winslow, Arizona 86047

FILM AVAILABLE
The Carolinas Chapter of the NinetyNines has a copy of the film about the fly away of the Amelia Earhart
first day cover.

We would like to rent it to YOU!
It would make an excellent program
for one of your meetings.

Write or Call:

LOUISE SMITH (MRS. H. H.)
421 EDGEDALE DRIVE

HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA
919-888-4931
Next NEW S Deadline
May 20th

COMMITTEE REPORTS

AIR MARKING REPORT
The following report is intended to
give recognition to the chapters that
are engaged in active Air Marking
programs and are reporting their activities to the Committee. If any of you have been busy and have not
notified MARY ABLE, please mail in
a report so your accomplishments can
be included in the Annual Report.

It is with great pride that we congratulate the South-Central Section for their efforts. The following is a list of
the markings completed during 1966
and 1967.

ALBUQUERQUE CHAPTER
Moriarity
Santa Fe
Albuquerque

COLORADO CHAPTER
Broomfield

DALLAS CHAPTER
Addison
Garland
Gainsville

HOUSTON CHAPTER
Clover Field
Andrau Airpark
Texas City
Galveston
Jasper
Chambers County
Spaceland
Lakeside Airport
Lane Airpark

KANSAS CHAPTER
Harrison Field
Augustaa

TIP-O-TEXAS CHAPTER
36 completed

TULSA CHAPTER
2 completed
The All Ohio Chapter working with
the Ohio Jaycees and the C. P. A.
made an outstanding showing. Their
completed Air Marks are:

Alliance
Bellefontaine
Bluffton Airport
Greenfield
Hammersville
Newcomberstoown
Oxford
Urbana
West Lafayette
Wooster
Versailles
Xenia
Akron
Albany
West Carrollton
To the following chapters — keep
up the good work.

UTAH CHAPTER
St. George
Cedar City
Richfield
Fillmore
NO. ARIZONA CHAPTER
Winslow
Holbrook

CHICAGO CHAPTER
Oswego

GARDEN STATE CHAPTER
Camden

CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA
Center Air Park

EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
Kutziown

SPACEPORT CHAPTER
Ormond Beach

WYOMING CHAPTER
Lander

MICHIGAN & WISCONSIN

CHAPTERS
Assist the State Aero. Comm.

Interested Chapters
Suncoast, Greater Kansas City &
Canadian Section
The Ninety-Nines and most especially the Air Marking Committee would like to express our sincere
sympathy to the family of AUTRIE
VELL LEHR. The loss of her tireless efforts in Ohio and the entire Air Marking program will be long
felt by all.

MARY ABLE

JERRY ROBERTS

SCRAPBOOK MATERIAL NEEDED
I have been so pleased with the
response to by letters to all Chapter
Chairman in reference to scrapbook
material for our National Scrapbook.

However we need more news. I feel
sure that much more is being printed and want to urge all you Chapter Chairman to send it to me.

I have requested duplicate copies
and had several inquiries as to why.

As is customary, my plans are to
complete one for headquarters and
one for our National President. So
whenever possible do send two.

Thanks to all of you who have
started sending in material and let
me hear from more chapters.

Juanita Halstead
National Scrapbook Chairman
4307 South Court Street
Montgomery, Alabama 36105

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FOR SALE
BOOK MATCHES arc white with
name and Compass Rose in blue.

Box of 50 books is $1.75; two boxes,
$2.95 including- packaging and postage. Northern Arizona Chapter.

Order From:

Jean Deck
P. O. Box 29
Winslow, Arizona 86047
Section Meetings

MIDDLE EAST

SECTIONAL MEETING
Kate Macario
The spring meeting of the Middle
East Section was held Saturday, April
15, 1967 at Schrafft’s Colony 7 on the
Washington-Baltimore Parkway. Transportation from Friendship Airport was provided by the Maryland Chapter, the
host for this affair. The business meeting was begun immediately following on excellent lunch. The first item on
the agenda, and the highlight of the
day, was the presentation of the Charter to our newest addition, the Virginia Chapter. Gov. KATE MACARIO thanked RUTH FRECKLETON for her untiring efforts in bringing this group into the Ninety-Nines. RUTH, in turn, introduced our Dean of Women Pilots,
BLANCHE NOYES, who graciously
welcomed the new Chapter and turned the Charter over to ESTHER GOBLE, Chairman of the Virginia
Chapter. KATE and Vice-Gov., HAZEL
BARTOLET proudly pinned corsages
and Ninety-Nine pins on the girls. We
are fortunate in adding this group to
our Section; they will be an asset to
us and to the organization as a whole.

Starting out with five transfers and
ten new members plus the State of
Virginia behind them, should mean a
bright and active future for this Chapter.

Following a Treasurer’s report by
HAZEL DWIGGINS and dispensing of
the minutes by Secretary, BARBARA
FARQUHARSON, Committee reports,
and Chapter reports by the following
chairmen; NANCY LYNAM, JOYCE
ROGGIO, HAZEL BARTOLET and
LEAH STINCHCOMB, the rest of the
meeting was spent on Convention business. FAY WELLS explained the $250.00 tables for the State and/or
Ambassadors, and how to go about obtaining these. Much has been accomplished already and this Convention sounds like one not to be missed.

Thanks to the efforts of the Maryland
Chapter, LEAH STINCHCOMB for
making the arrangements, and the
services of the 49%ers, the Middle East
Sectional was most successful and enjoyable.

SOUTH CENTRAL

SECTIONAL REPORT
Hazel H. McKendrick, Reporter
The drawbridge was over the boat
and the banners atop the castle were
gently fluttering against a Ninety-Nine
“blue” sky as the Spring Sectional get
underway at the Camelot Inn in Tulsa,
Oklahoma.

At the “Bierfest” in the Great Hall
on Friday night, it was great fun
seeing everyone especially three International Past Presidents, EDNA G.

WHYTE, RUTH DEERMAN, and
BRONETA EVANS. DONNA MYERS,
International Vice-President, was there
standing in for ALICE ROBERTS.

DORIS RENNINGER, Board Member,
stopped off in Tulsa for the meeting on her way to the Board meeting GENE NORA JESSEN, International Secretary, flew in from the meeting in Washington and HERB FISHER, Port of Authority helicopter king, was
also there. These special guests plus
all the members getting together, is
one of the great parts of a Sectional
meeting.

Saturday was our business meeting.

We are now 20 chapters and our beloved “GUV” announced TOPEKA was our newest chapter. Incidentally they
had 100% membership representation
at this meeting. GUV also announced
that we have 587 members and are
shooting for 600. So all you Membership Chairmen, who have done such a great job, keep up the good work.

Of our twenty chapters, only 5 were
not represented at the meeting and of
the five, only 2 did not send in a report. All together there were 86 members in attendance.

After the opening prayer, which was
written by MILDRED EARLY’S daughter, we had a letter from MARTHA TOBEY inviting us to their Spring
Sectional in Natchez, Mississippi on
May 5-7. We had a telegram from
ALICE ROBERTS, and also one from
PAT WARD, So. La. Chapter Chairman, saying that due to innundating rains, it was impossible to get out of
Baton Rouge except by boat.

The Treasurer’s report was read and
we have $877.4 in the treasury and
$575.61 in the Convention Fund.

The Air Marking is going great guns
with 8 chapters active and 57 air marks
completed with 13 pending. This made
our International Air Marking Chairman, MARY ABLE, sorta puddled up with joy. Think she would just “come
a flood” if all our chapters had their
air marking program underway. Incidentally LOUISE BICKFORD, Houston Chapter, announced they have a set of
air marking templates for sale cheap
and if any chapter is interested contact
her for a “Real gen-u-wine bargain.”
HELEN HEWITT, Shreveport Chapter and A. E. Scholarship Committee Member, announced that we had eleven applications for the Amelia Earhart Scholarship. Of these, our quota was 5 and they were selected. The
names of the gals who survived the
first cut, were not given. Since I happen to be one of the applicants, I was in no position to press for the information so I guess we will all have to “sweat” a little longer.

BRONETA EVANS reported on the
activities of the Nominating Committee,
but most of all urged EVERYONE TO
VOTE when the time comes.

CAROL WADDELL submitted the Annual Proficiency Test (APT) for a vote and it was passed as an official
effort of the South Central Section.

Each Chapter Chairman has at least
one pamphlet for each member and
if more are needed, contact CAROL.

Not only is this a worthwhile program, it is also a point getter in the GUV’s Chapter Award, so get busy.

Speaking of the GUV’s Chapter Award, our beloved GUV would like

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some suggestions as to what type award
would be good. If anyone has any ideas
please contact her BEFORE AUGUST
1ST.

GENE NORA JESSEN reported on
the activities in Washington in preparation for the International Convention. She reported that as of right now, there will be at last 15 Ninety-Nines
from overseas at the Convention and
one of the highlights will be the Coast
Guard ship Black Hawk contacting the
Smithsonian Institution on July 1 at
11:00 a.m. from Howland Island. It
just gave you “goosebumps” thinking
about it. She also read a letter from
VICE-PRESIDENT HUMPHREY about
the Convention.

Ed Note—See International Convention material elsewhere in issue.

Albuquerque Chapter won the bid
for the Fall Sectional on Sept. 29-30
and Oct. 1. STOP RIGHT NOW AND
MARK YOUR CALENDAR and plan to
attend. Houston came on with a wild
skit bid for the Spring 1968 Sectional
and will host us on May 3-4-5, 1968.

This has got to be another must.

The one sad note of the meeting was
saying farewell to GENE NORA JESSEN who with 49%er BOB, is going to Boise, Idaho. We wish them well
as the new Beech Distributors, but we
sure will miss her.

As to fun and games, there was a
great tour to the Gilcrease Museum
where they have a fantastic number of
paintings and some articles that date
back some 3000 years. Your Reporter
“chickened out” and according to DONNA MYERS, we goofed by not going.

Saturday night was the banquet and
the Sectional Attendance Award went
to Houston. The trophy donated by the
Kansas Chapter, goes to the chapter
with the highest percent in attendance
and seat miles traveled. They were 13
strong, held open house nightly and
served “border buttermilk,” invited
us to Houston, and really added to
the meeting. After the banquet, we were
“sung” to by members of the Tulsa
Chapter who resurrected vaudeville for
the night. At least now we know why
it died. From PEACHES LA TOUR
to the KLUNK SISTERS, to ROSE LA
ROSE, to LOOSIANA LIL to the grand
finale Salvation Army Band, it was a
riot!!
If we were Cub Scouts, we could give
the Tulsa Chapter a “four square
how” for a job well done, or possibly
a “4.0 grade” Navy style. Since we
are neither, we can only say it was
a wonderful weekend, a grand time
by all, and this just is about the best
one ever. Of course it always seems the
“best ever.” We are lucky to have
such a great bunch of gals in our Section and anytime they get together it is just great.

For those of you who have never
attended a Sectional meeting or have
not attended one in a long time, you
are truly missing out. Plan now to
go to Albuquerque. Work on the Governor’s Award, Airmark, Educate, and then come to the meeting and let us
hear about it. See old friends and make
new ones. Have fun-fun-fun. See You
there!!!
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Australian
Section
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Margaret Kentley, Reporter
The Autumn Sectional Meeting of
the Australian Ninety Nines was held
at Coolangatta, Queensland, April 7-9,
during the Annual General Meeting
Week-end of the A.W.P.A. Over 90
members of the Australian Women Pilots Asso. came from all over Australia for the meeting and 22 were members of 99s. A wonderful week-end was had by all at the Broadbeach Hotel
where the meetings and Banquet were
held. We are greatly indebted to HAZEL
KENNINGTON for inviting us all to
a maganificent barbeque at her very
lovely home, on the Sunday. The weather was wonderful for 3 days, between a cyclone before it and an anti-cyclone
after it, which marooned girls and their
aircraft for days, all up and down the
East Australian Coast!
A feature of the Convention was a
Navigation Trail, over a 130 nm course.

Contestants were given the three check
points only one hour before take-off and
had to land to a mark within an area
of 50 ft. on the runway on return
to the base aerodrome. Enormous fun
was had by all the 30 pilots who took
part, or went along as passengers in
the 13 participating aircraft. MARGARET KENTLEY and ALISON HOL12.A.c Packet Pg. 663 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) LAND as pilot and navigator, were surprised lo come in third, against some very stiff competition. SONJA ROBEY
came in first and PAM MILLS was
second. This was the first time women pilots have flown twin aircraft in a race in Ausiralia. BERYL YOUNG
and OLGA TARLING flew a Twin
Aztec and SUE FOLKS and ROBIN
MILLER flew a Beech Baron.

The Nancy Bird Trophy for the woman pilot who has made the most outstanding contribution to Aviation in
Australia during 1966, was awarded
to BERYL YOUNG, for her outstanding
flying for the United Nations Geophysical Survey in the Solomon Islands, the C.S.I.R.O. Ocean Survey, 200 nm
out over the Pacific Ocean, and for
being the first woman in Australia to
obtain a 1st class Instrument rating.

A.W.P.A. Member, SUE FOLKS
again attempted the trans-Australia
Solo Flight from Sydney to Perth, nonstop, and this time easily broke the record by several hours, making the flight in 10 hours, 40 minutes, at an average
speed of 204 mph.

We warmly welcome 5 new members
this month — BERYL EDMONDS,
RONETTE WILLIAMS, BOZINA KRAJCA, FRANCES DELAHUNTY, and THYRA CUMING. We offer our very
hearty congratulations to MARGARET
LEE on obtaining her Instructor’s Rating and to ROSEMARY ARNOLD on her Commercial license, thus becoming
the 1st Australian Woman with a commercial Helicopter License.

Fifteen of us feel we are sure to
meet you all in Washington for the
Convention, come 28th June, and 7
of us hope to fly in the Powder Puff
Derby, which we are greatly looking
forward to!
Until next month, Cheerio.

Here are details on the two girls who
are in the process of joining us.

BEATRICE BICKERTON has Commercial, Instrument rating, Instructor’s rating and has recently been working
towards her Airline Transport Pilot’s
License. She was brought up in an
aviation atmosphere as her family has
owned Denham Aerodrome for many
years. This is an attractive little grass
field about 20 miles outside London
which has developed into a very active
executive and training senter BEATRICE has instructed there and flown charter, but she is currently turning
her attention to other matters—namely,
her marriage this month to IAN PAUL.

Our best wishes to them and we look
forward to welcoming IAN as a new
49y2er.

LETTICE CURTIS is an extremely
experienced pilot with a wide variety of aircraft types and aviation jobs to her credit, as well as a degree in
Mathematics. LETTICE had a B license before the war (this was the forerunner of the Commercial) and
flew for an air survey company. She
was flying in the Air Transport Auxiliary all through the war and ferried just about every type of combat aircraft there was - four - engine bombers including Fortresses and Lancasters,
fighters including Spitfires and Mustang, and “odd jobs’’ like the Airocobre and the Walrus. Since the war, LETTICE has worked as a flight test obserHave YOU Returned Y O U R ballot for
International Officers????
DO IT NOW ! !
ver on experimental flying at Boscombe
Down and as flight development engineer for Fairey Aviation. She is currently working for the Ministry of Technology on the new automatic Air Traffic Control Centre, and flies Ministry Aircraft to keep in touch with current flying practices and on duty visits.

LETTICE did a lot of air racing after
the war and won an Open Handicap
Race in 1948 flying no less than a
Spitfire!
Exciting news from ELIZABETH
OVERBURY. She has been selected by
her company to join their EAC-lll fleet
when it enters service early next year.

Looks like ELIZABETH will be the
first girl to fly jets for an airline
and she’s understandably very thrilled about it. She will be taking a course on the One Eleven later this year and
we look forward to hearing her reactions to flying this top-selling British jet.

We were sorry to hear that SUE
PHILLIPS had been flat on her back
for the last 2% months due to her
forthcoming baby misbehaving. Everything seems to be OK now though, and SUE reports the baby is “still on
board.”
GILLIAN CAZALET reports that she
is enjoying flying for Skyways Coach
Air and is on their regular crosschannel route between Lympne, Kent and Beauvais, France. After two or
three consecutive round trips in one
day, GILLIAN admits that she sometimes forgets which way she is going! Finally, two bits of news passed on
to me by BETTY CONES. ANN
WELCH has been interviewing applicants for a nation-wide flying scholarship scheme, organized by a tobacco company; and PAMELA HUNTLY,
and her daughter LEMINA GORDON
went to a “hover-in” where LEMINA
had a flight in a helicopter.

That’s all for now — the busy flying
season is rapidly approaching and
we all expect to be pretty hectic.
f

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CONNECTICUT CHAPTER
The Connecticut Chapter has a special
project upon which it has been working
all winter and we would like the advice and counsel of any other 99s (especially early members) who might be able to help us better fit our puzzle
together. Many of the personal papers, scrapbooks, and assorted memorabilia of the late RUTH NICHOLS were in a building to be razed and a
gentleman pilot, who discovered this
fact by accident, brought it to the
99s attention. We located a storage
area and, with the help of several
strong 49%ers and a couple of EAA
men plus a borrowed truck, we rescued all these effects, many of them dealing with early aviation days.

MARY HORTON has done a monumental job in organizing the rescue effort and tracking down MISS NICHOLS’ family for their permission. There is
a wealth of memorabilia concerning
RUTH NICHOLS and we have to collate these things to see which would be valuable to aviation history. With all
this original source material, the Chapter has been meeting from 2 to 4 times a month in addition to monthly
meetings. We have been systemically
sorting and filing photos, scrapbooks,
and old newspapers armed with MISS
NICHOLS’ autobiography "Wings For
Life.” A recent month, we held our

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Janet Ferguson, Reporter

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business meeting and lunch in the
storeroom — a sheet spread on a pingpong table can look very festive when everyone has been working hard—and
they had!
Is there anyone who might know
where RUTH NICHOLS’ trophies are?
Have you seen them in any museum
or collection? We know they exist—but
neither her family, nor the 99 museum
nor the Smithsonian have them. If
they are in good hands — wonderful!
But if, like these other things, they
are not — we would like to track them
down and combine them with the things
we have to be presented in due time to
the Smithsonian and 99 headquarters.

RUTH NICHOLS did a great deal for
aviation — history must not lose track
of her! We’d love your help — come
see us — or write to MARY HORTON!
MR. WILLIAM NICHOLS, RUTH’S
brother, has accepted our invitation to
the New England Sectional on April
15th; — he has given us a good deal
of help long-distance, and we are so
pleased that everyone will have a
chance now to meet and talk with
him personally.

JUDY “Derby Start” MELTSNER
present to enlist all hands to help at
Powder Puff Derby send-off in July.

LOIS FAIRBANKS and MARION LOPEZ just in from Tulsa, having attended an AWTAR Board Meeting.

DORIS RENNINGER finally appeared, March 19th on “What’s My Line” after a frustrating wait. She
signed in as a helicopter pilot for IlelAire Copter, Ltd. at Midtown HeliWorking with the newly found RUTH NICHOLS materials are: 1. to r. Several EAA-Norwalk Chapter members, 99s CYNTHIA KEMPER, MARY HORTON, holding picture, RUTH BUCKLEY, kneeling, and JO MASSEY.

N.Y. - MJ.

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Don't Miss Your
Spring Sectional
Buffalo, N. Y.

New Date
June 3

GREATER NEW YORK CHAPTER
Dolores M. Madden, Reporter
Bits and Pieces garnered at Meeting in Ferdi’s Restaurant on March 21st.

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port, in Manhattan. Her comment:
“was fun!!!”
And doing her bit for the advancement of Aviation, BETTY PATTON presented an all-aviation assembly in
March for the students of Dwight Morrow High School, Englewood, N. J.

She is presently head of the Art Department there.

JULIE VOM SAAL spending three
weeks touring Spain with her husband.

RUTH BLISS is also in Spain recovering from a bout with pneumonia.

RUTH’S picture (full page) appeared in the Wall Street Journal on March 27th. It was a very eyecatching advertisement by Lycoming and the caption read, “If she can fly her own plane, what are you doing on the
ground.”
MARJORIE DAVIS left for Rome the
end of April, and will go to Finland
from there to spend the summer, working. She is presently Professor of Anthropology at Pratt Institute.

Our New York - New Jersey Spring
Section meeting, which is to be held in
the Buffalo area, has been switched
to June 3rd. The original date has
been changed to avoid conflict with
All-Women’s New England Air Race.

The Greater New York Chapter has
donated $355.00 to the AWTAR 1960
fund to help defray expenses of the
Powder iPuff Derby.

Meet new members:

GLORIA PAOBELLA (MRS. JOHN)
lives in Manhattan — is an art Teacher. Husband is also a teacher and a pilot. Prior to GLORIA’S entrance
into Education. She was a professional
concert singer (mezzo soprano). Besides flying and traveling, her hobbies are painting in oils, the electric organ,
sewing, and knitting.

DORIS FITZGERALD )iMRS. EDMUND) lives in Troy, N. Y. but is in her office as an insurance agent so
much she lists her address as Waterford. (That is just a wee bit north of Albany). Her husband is also a pilot
and they have three children. Other
hobbies are skiing (natch), golfing,
and swimming.

MARIE HAZEN — also from Manhatten, is a registered nurse. MARIE finds time from her nursing job to not
only fly, but to pursue her other hobbies which include skiing, skating, swimming, riding, and painting.

HELEN JOST (MRS. ROBERT) of
Bardonia, N. Y. Owns a Cessna 150,
has two children, husband an engineer
surveyor but a non-pilot. HELEN member of the CAP with diversified hobbies as well as flying. Her occupation is
receptionist. Just recently moved from
Montvale, N. Y. to Bardonia.

HELEN makes our 10th new member this season and with HARRIET MILLER transferring to us from Western New York, our membership list has swollen eleven members since the
roster was printed.

Next N EW S Deadline
May 20th

LONG ISLAND CHAPTER
Honey Kate Trattler, Reporter
April will be a month of changes
for Long Island Chapter. Chairman
RITA GIBSON is leaving us — moving to Long Beach, California (where husband PAUL, an engineering test pilot with the FAA will be stationed).

RITA has managed to be our very
competent Chairman, a fifth grade
school teacher, and mother to six
(ranging in age from ten to twenty
one.) She has built up her flying hours
to 425, and maintains an active interest
in music and dancing, as well. Well
miss RITA very much; consoling oursleves with the thought that Long Beach will gain from our loss, and
we now have one more reason to
visit California.

I shall be filling in for RITA the
remainder of this year, and HELEN
MOXIM will be taking over as Reporter, the only pilot in her family, flies husband and children about on
business and pleasure trips. She began flying in 1965 and has about 180 hours to her credit, mostly in Cessna
150s and 172s. Right now HELEN is
working toward her Commercial ticket.

She is a recent member of our Chapter and we are delighted to have her with us.

Other Ninety Nines have had a busy
April — ELLIE McCULLOUGH spoke
at the West Islip Lion's on “Women
in Aviation” and “Sport Parachute
Jumping,” and at the N. Y. Academy
of Science on the film” Stamp of
Friendship.” She was guest speaker
also at both the Long Island and
South Suffolk Chapters of Zonta.

Congregations due MARGE GRAY,
who has a newly revalidated flight Instructor’s certificate; and ANNA DIETRICH, who will fly a brand new Cherokee 140 home from Vero Beach soon.

One more note before closing —
last night, April 10th, we had a little
farewell party for RITA at my home.

Most of us were able to come; and
all of us wanted to thank RITA for
this past year — and wish her Good
Luck and Good Flying!
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CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA

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Marion Dimlap, Reporters
The Central Pennsylvania Chapter
has been very busy these winter months
with three major projects—the Convention — the Photographic Contest— the Martinsburg, W. Va., stop for the
Powder Puff Derby.

In January we had our meeting in
Lock Haven, Pa. — the home of Piper
Aircraft - with ALICE FUCHS as our
hostess. We saw the new Piper Film
“Alaska” and also the “Stamp of
Friendship.” ALICE has been instrucing all winter and ferrying aircraft all over the United States.

In February, we had a business meeting at the “Farm Store” in Lewisburg, Pa., with HELEN SHEFFER as hostess. HELEN has been instructing and flew to Florida for a vacation.

Our March meeting was held in Harrisburg, Pa., with DR. MARJORIE POOL, as hostess. We had a tour of
(he radar room, the tower, and the
weather bureau. Most interesting!
MARY HULL and ELEANOR STILLI, Co-Chairmen, have been working very hard on the Photographic Contest
The prize for the best photograph of
Pennsylvania will be a week-end far
two at the Holiday Inn Town, Harrisburg, Pa., with meals at the best restaurants and two tickets for a
play at the Allenberry playhouse.

NAOMI STAHLNNEGKER, very
generously gave us the money to purchase the film “Stamp of Friendship.” Our members have been doing a lot
of flying. MARION DUNLAP and her
family are flying to Florida in their
Comanche for the Easter vacation. DR.

MARJORIE POOL and her Doctor husband flew to California in their Comanche and stopped off to ski at Aspen. COL. SELMA BRANDES, DR.

BRANDES, and daughter LISA, flew
to Denver, Col. via Hollywood, Fla., in
(heir Twin Comanche to attend an optometry convention. HAZEL BARTOLET, flew to Martinsburg, W. V., to set up the stop for the Powder Puff
Derby.

We have a new member, BETTY
SHAFFER, from Williamsport, who has
her Commercial and Instructor ratings.

Welcome aboard!
We have a prospective member, KAY
TALLMAN, who has her Commercial
and Instructor ratings and is using her
talents instructing at Hershey, Pa.

We are planing our Penny-a-Pound
for May 14, at the University Park
Airport, State College, Penna.

Marjorie Pool, Reporter
Over central Pennsylvania on one
of those rare fine March days, our
little-but-growing Chapter winged into Harrisburg for a monthly meeting.

This meeting especially honored MR.

EUGENE ZIMMERMAN and MRS.

ZIMMERMAN who are donating a large
part of the Pennsylvania prize for
best Pennsylvania aerial color photograph. Airports and photographers’ studios all over central Pennsylvania
are sporting the beautiful contest posters made by MARY HULL and ELEANOR STTLLI.

On that day, our “best friends,”
the FAA Controllers treated us to the
real “five dollar” tour of the Radar
Room and Control Tower at Harrisburg-York State Airport. MR. CAPP, who was Chief controller that day led
the way and MR. O. D. WHITE, chief
of the U. S. Weather Bureau at Harrisburg, piloted us around his forecasting station. Even some 49%ers (old pros)
learned something.

CAROL SMITH, Chapter Treasurer,
was crowned QUEEN of the Pennsylvania Flying Farmers Association on March 17, and will reign for one
year until the next Penna. Flying Farmers Convention.

We are full of plans for our PennyA-Pound Day on May 14 at University Park Airfield near Pennsylvania State
University and where we held our very
successful project last year.

HELEN SHEFFER and MARY HULL
are planning to enter the Powder Puff
Derby while the rest of us man our
assigned first-Stop post at Martinsburg, W. Va. on July 8th.

Chairman HAZEL BARTOLET has
been busy with flying visits to Martinsburg, and to Washington for convention planning. She keeps our enthusiasm high for the coming convention and AWTAR.

We welcome ELEANOR STILLI as
a new member of our Chapter and
KAY TALDMAN, a new young career
pilot, as a prospective member.

It was a thrill to fly into Baltimore
for the Middle East Section Spring
meeting and taxi for tie-down into
“MRS. MAC” MacNamar’s very nice
Piper fixed-base operation, the Friendship Flying Service. Because your Reporter is still sort of recuperating
from surgery, KAY TALLMAN flew us
down in her Dad’s Cherokee 180; a
nice flight with this 18 year old instructor and Commercial pilot, who made this her second meeting attended.

Lots of friends to greet and business
to hear about and discuss at the
luncheon at Schrafft’s. Thanks to the
Maryland and Washington Chapters for
their fine hospitality. And welcome to
the new Virginia Chapter just chartered. Now we are no longer the youngest, and have 14 members!

EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA

CHAPTER
Kate Macario, Reporter
Following New Jersey’s example, we
tried a box-lunch auction for our March
meeting. It was held in the pilot’s club
house at the North Phila. Airport, an
attractive and informal place, an ideal
setting for this affair. No other food
was available so we had to provide our
own lunch. Since ANNE SHIELDS
works at N. Phila. Airport, she was
elected to arrange for the use of the
club house, and HELEN ZUBROW provided the necessary items to make coffee. With such novel boxes decorated as an Omni Station by HELEN PRICE, and a dog house complete with
“Snoopy” in helmet and goggles by
RACHEL HOPKINSON, the auction got
under way, creating much fun and a
profit of $38.00. GINNY SWISHER
flew in from Towanda, Pa., bringing
her sister, MARILYN, a friend, SKIP
SENA and student pilot, DORIS VANDERPOOL. BETH STURTEVANT flew in with ALICE MEISENHEIMER;
KATE MACARIO brought ANNA SPIVEY to her thii'd meeting, and SALLY HULL joined us for her second.

RACHEL HOPKINSON fascinated us
with her skiing experiences in Gstaad,
Switzerland, when she and her 49% er
flew over to visit their daughter, ANN,
a student in a Swiss school . . .

HELEN PRICE earned her APT rating
in the FFA, which consists of a thorough three hour check flight . . .

MERLE CHALOW graduates from
Bucknell University in June and will
start working for IBM; no AWTAR this
year for MERLE . . . BARBARA FARQUHARSON and ELAINE McGARRY flew in from Burlington Co., Airport
and DR. DOROTHY FLINT, a neurosurgeon in a Phila. hospital and who flies a Cessna 182 out of Phila. Int.

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ELYSE CHAPMAN joined us later
in the day for her second meeting and
was busily discussing plans for entering the IAR with ALICE MEISENHEIMER. ANNA SHIELDS was happy to inform us that we made over $100.
on our twin-bill feature at Wings Field
in Feb.

The Middle East Sectional was held
by the Maryland Chapter on Saturday, April 15th and those who flew in were picked up at Friendship Airport.

The weather was favorable and many
did fly in. Those from our Chapter
who attended were: BARBARA FARQUAHARSON, ELAINE McGARRY, JOYCE ROGGIO, MARIE D’ALTERIO,

HELEN ZUBROW, MERLE CHALOW,

KATE MACARIO, ANNE SHIELDS,
and IRENE WIRTSCHAFTER. We
thank the Maryland Chapter for their
hospitality and all the services they
provided.

At this date, we have two crews
definitely entering the IAR; for
flying Cherokees HELEN ZUBROW
with ANNA SHIELDS and LIBBY DUVAL with NANCY DIEMAND. LIBBY is the “piggy bank” idea, sent out to
all chapter members to raise money
for the convention. This method appealed to almost everyone and is being used by the Washington Chapter, Also
. . . next month, May 13th should find
us air marking Perkimen Valley Airport.

JANICE MUNTZHAS returned from
her six-month sojourn in Colorado and
is setting up this meeting. While she
and her 49,er PHIL, were in Boulder,
their Cessna 172 which they and their
baby flew out in, was badly damaged
by high winds while tied down. The
repairs are being paid by insurance
and PHIL plans to fly the plane East
when finished.

WELCOME
and
Congratulations
to the newly formed
Virginia Chapter
(We're anxious to
hear from you)
WASHINGTON, I). C. CHAPTER
Rutli Freckleton, Reporter
Sometimes it is just a spark that
lights a fire — and so it was with
MARY ANN JESSUP — who took the
“bull by the horns” and started the
match. The Washington Chapter penney-a-pound ride turned out to be 2c a pound. The reason for this is unknown
1o us. MARY ANN did most of the
work, helped by the Marines. After the
Marines delivered, the Civil Air Patrol pitched the tents and scrumptious food was served therein. This saved
the day — for it was not good flying
weather. All-in-all we had four planes,
including one of our new prospective
member DURETTE HUCK (an Aztek
flown by her husband). Others were
supplied by Mrs. Thelma McNemar
(from her Flight Operation at Friendship Airport), NELLIE and BILL JACKSON’S Beech, and our pilots

LAURA ZERENER, VELTA BENN,
and NANCY LYNAM to fly passengers. May we take this opportunity to thank all those who were on hand
to help, and this included: JOSIE
COOK. JOSIE has been making many
trips to England to visit her folks,
and we are glad to hear she is now
here. The service of food in the tent
was quite luxurious, including oyster
stew, and everyone pitched in with the
cooking and serving. We wish to take
this opportunity of thanking those Civil
Air Patrol Cadets and Seniors who
helped make the flights a success. The
weather was marginal, but we
were able to get enough flights in to
make some money for our Convention
fund.

ADA MITCHELL and this writer attended the Civil Air Patrol Regional Conference at Myrtle Beach, where we
met with ROWENA SLUSHER, who
recently transferred from Washington
to the new Virginia Chapter. It was
a fruitful week-end, educationally and
socially, although we were sorry to
miss the 2-cent-a-lb-rides at the new
Arthur Godfrey Airport in Leesburg,
Virginia. Lest we forget to mention
someone by name, may we take this
opportunity of thanking the Management at Leesburg Airport and all those responsible for the success of our
flights.

This reporter, who sponsored the Virginia Chapter, is happy to announce the Charter is now in their possession.

The nucleus are: MRS. ESTHER D.

L. GOBLE, Chairman; AMY MORRIS,
Vice-Chairman; IMARIAN HELMS, Secretary; MAXINE WALKER, Treasurer; VIRGINIA RILEY, Membership Chairman. Other members are: NANCY
KINDLUND; BETTE WEST; LT. COLr
ONEL FLORENCE F. FINTAC; ROWENA SLUSHER; ANNE CUTLER;
SANDRA CUMMINGS; MARIANNE
BURHANS; MARY HOLLOWAY; BERTHA CONDREY; and MAUREEN
LEHMAN. And, new transferee is;
BRUNHILDE K. BRADLEY from
Phoenix. So — you see, they are already on the way to growing. The State of Virginia is having a big presentation of the Charter and welcoming-in on May 12th, and no doubt the next
magazine will tell of this. When this
writer, spoke to COL. PERKINS on the
Wing Commander of the Virginia Civil
Air Patrol, and KEN ROWE, Asst.

Director of Virginia Aviation, at the recent CAP Conference, they felt very proud of all the girls in Virginia who
made the new Chapter possible. There
are many more pilots and with the
Commission of Virginia backing them,
they should grow. They will have their
own News Reporter at the next publication of this magazine.

When KATE MARCARIO, our Sectional Governor, and this writer talked it over, we discovered we were both
members of the Women Flyers of
America during World War II. This
was the organization who helped 8,000
women get their pilots licenses and
fly for the U. S. In cdmmemoration of
this activity, which has since disbanded,
this writer gave to the new Virginia
Chapter an engraved gavel which had
been used during World War II when
she was a supervisor and organizing
the WFA in and around New York and
New Jersey. This sentimental gift was
presented at the Sectional Meetings
to the Virginia Chapter. Good luck and
keep up the good work Virginia!
Next meeting — American Newspaper Women’s Club. This reporter will be at the Aviation Writers’ Convention in
Las Vegas. See you there!

ALABAMA CHAPTER
Donna Willard, Reporter
Pell City, Alabama put out the red
carpet for the Alabama 99s in April.

Not only did MR. KYLE VERS of

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with a rod carpet, but all Ihe businessmen of Pell City paid for a lovely Buffet luncheon at the Pine Harbor
Marina. 99 JERRY CHASE did a great
job as hostess.

BILL JEFFERS and RICHARD FULLER, from Flight Service showed us a movie on weather called The Unchained Goddess.”
MINNIE WADE will be our delegate
to the Spring Sectional Meeting in
Natchez, Missishsippi.

Our slate of officers are — Governor, JANET GREENE; Vice-Governor, BENNIE PETERS; Secretary, BETTY
FERRELL; Treasurer, ANN ROSS;
Nominating Committee, DONNA WILLARD.

Our ETA Trophy has given all of us
the incentive to become proficient in
figuring our flying time in seconds
and our gas consumption in tenths of
gallons. LOIS BATES and BETTY
ROWE jut their talents together and
won the trophy this time. The Flying
Petticoats of Huntsville, also have an
ETA Trophy and it’s encouraging our
student pilots as well as the old pros.

LAVINIA SPILMAN, a 99 and a Petticoat, won the trophy at the last flyin.

I’d like to introduce our newest member JUDY HUCK. JUDY is from Birmingham orginially, but now lives
in Mobile. She has been flying for
three years, has her Single and Multiengine rating and is working on her Instrument rating. JUDY flew up from
Mobile in an Artec. She works for
Gulf Electric as a general office worker and sometimes flies for the company on business. JUDY’S hobbies are fishing, scuba diving, and go’f. She
was telling us of the times she has
flown out over the Gulf to spot schools
of fish and then directs fishing boats.

If fishing is your spoF, give JUDY
a call, maybe she can direct you to
that Marlin you’ve been wanting to
mount on your rec room wall.

LOIS BATES casually mentioned the
fact that she had gotten a ride in a
Lear Jet. We promptly all turned
green.

NANCY REELAND is working toward her Commercial. She flew the plane she and JUANITA HALSTEAD
are planning to fly in the IAR. NANCY
said that she climbed into a Cessna
140 the other day and promptly flew
it all over the runway.

JUDY HUCK flew a recent trip from
Homosassa, Fla., to Washington Nat’l.

LAVINIA SPILMAN and 49% er JIM
flew to Eaglesville, Tennessee for sailplane flights with GARLAND PACK.

She reports that there is a lot of interest in this kind of flying now.

This pilot is very disappointed. After many months of negotiating for a sponsor for the Powder Puff Derby,
cur plane didn’t qualify.

You all come to the Convention now,
ya heah?

CAROLINAS CHAPTER
Kay Nisbet, Reporter
On Saturday, April 1, twelve NinetyNines from the two Carolinas flew into the Southern Pines - Pinehurst airport to see what PAGE SHAMBURGEK had planned for that goregous spring
day, and no one was disappointed!

LOUISE SMITH, EMILY KELLEY,

KATHY DAVIS, MARGIE BROWN,

PAT BARBER, BEBE RAGAZ, NITA
.JEAN LANE, left, a Alabama Chapter 99 as well as the Flying Petticoat President, awarding the Petticoat ETA Trophy to winner LAVINIA SPILLMAN.

Alabama Chapter members LOIS BATES, left, and BETTY ROWE, right, team up to win the ETA Trophy.

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MELVIN, NANCY WRENN, CAMILE
MARTIN, KAY NISLET, BETTY HAMILTON and grandson JIMMY (another promising Hamilton pilot), BARBARA
SCHIEBEL with guest and long-missing ESTELLE BRADSHAW with her 49y2er.

EMILY KELLEY arrived proudly in
her Easter present, a 150 . . . the KELLEYS are a two-plane family now! MR. and MRS. BOB FARRINGTON
were special guests who delighted
everyone. MR. FARRINGTON is a
pilot who is News Director of WPTF
in Raleigh and presently covering the
North Carolina State Legislature, so
we were brought up to date on pending airport legislation in N. C. and trea'ed to hilarious tales of politics
and aviation.

The Carolinians will be hostesses
to the IAR pilots stopping in WinstonSalem in May with EIMILY KELLY as head greeter.

LOUISE SMITH and PAGE SHAMBURGER were in Washington the second week in April for a meeting of the Women’s Advisory Committee on
Aviation.

The SMITH family had a flying vacation in Florida and the Bahamas in March.

Using her new Multi-engine rating on
their new Baron, KAY NISEET flew
her children to San Francisco for their
spring holiday.

BECKY McKENZIE, now a student
at East Carolina College, will be married in June.

The many Carolinians who knew AllOhio AUTRIE LEHR, were greatly saddened by her death on April 7 th.

The Carolinas Chapter has six more
new members: BUZZ TAYLOR, KATKY DAVIS, NANCY WRENN, PAT BARBER, EVELYN HYMAN, and
CAMILE MARTIN.

FLORIDA SPACE FORT CHAPTER
Shirley Page, Reporter
March 8th dawned clear on most
of Florida for the birthday celebrations
of the Florida Space Port Chapter and
the Sun Coast Chapter. Even a few
late arrivals from the far south Gold
Coast Chapter came to join us in
Orlando for a meeting and luncheon
bullet at the Skyline Restaurant at
Herndon Airport.

To celebrate with us was our Southeast Section Governor from Memphis.

MARTHA TOBEY; representing Space
Port were: Jacksonville - KAY RILEY
and CHARLOTTE CORBIN; Ormond
Beach - ANN CONWAY, BETTY SHERNew member of Florida Space Port is BOBBI STEEN, shown in Hie
STEEN Comanche 250. BOBBI received her Private license in January 1966. She has approximately 60 hours in Cessna 150 and 172s. She
is hard at work getting those necessary hours to fly the Comanche.

When that happens, GERALD will
have to make an appointment with
BOBBI to fly their plane. BOBBI
has two children MELANIE, 10 and
BUDDY, 5, Besides flying, her hobbies are horseback riding, ranching, skiing, skating and instructing
swimming. BOBBI is from Orlando.

MAN, and CY BEERS; Daytona
Beach - RICKY CUNNINGHAM; Deland - SHIRLEY PAGE; Orlando - DOT MACNAMARA, MARGARET STANNAH, BOBBY STEEN, MARDA SALISBURG, and MARY BLACKWELL.

From Gold Coast Chapter came LOIS
PORTER and HEIDI BOOTH.

Most of the meeting was taken up
with the International Convention and
Florida’s part in it. So far we have
come up with a photo prize of a 4-night
vacation in Daytona complete with tickets to nearby attractions, dinners, London Symphony tickets, and even two 6-week ground school courses at Embry Riddle School of Aviation. Through the cooperation of our three 99 chapters, we are planning an outstanding Florida table at the convention.

Our Chairman, CY BEERS, discussed with us the Florida State Aviation Council and our representation to it.

The aim of the council is:

1. To advise legislation on growth
of aviation in the state.

2. To promote tourists.

3. To promote aviation education in
schools.

4. To promote safety.

5. To promote the aviation industry.

6. To attract industry through aviation.

It is interesting to note that although Florida has only 242 airports (Texas has 812), we have the greatest
number of pilots in the US, second only to Texas! Come on Florida! Our Spaceport Chapter is certainly
fortunate to have MARY BLACKWELL
of Orlando among our ranks. Not only is she giving us instrument ground school (And she says we’ll be ready
for the written soon!) but also she
has recently been designated as Multiengine examiner for Cessna 310s and Champion Lancers. Congratulations,
MARY!
It looks as if we’ll be well represented at the Southeast Sectional in May in Natchez. About six of us have
plans to fly-in. SHIRLEY PAGE, (DeLand), and CHARLOTTE CORBIN (Jax) have been elected delegates.

CAROLYN BASEMAN (DeLand) is alternate.

President CY BEERS and 49% er
DON, flew in an Aero Commander to
Georgetown in the Exumas last month.

They had so much fun they are going
back again taking four teenagers!
Many Florida 90s went to the Grasshopper fly-in at St. Petersburg. We toured the National Aviation Academy.

Former Spaceport member ESTHER
GRUPENHAGAN arrived from Atlanta
and won the prize (tanks topped) for
the Grasshopper coming the furthest.

She is moving to Stockholm, Sweden in
May and we hear she already has plans
to form a 99 chapter there.

Our president CY BEERS announced that the Chamber of Commerce of Florida is helping greatly with publicity on the Aerial Photo Contest. We voted 825.00 to the Amelia Earhart
Scholarship Fund.

We were pleased to have two visitors
meet with us—JUANITA DIESBOURG
from Orlando and LUCILLE THOMPSON from Winter Prak. Members present at our April meeting were CY,

KAY RILEY, MARY, CHARLOTTE,
CAROLYN, SHIRLEY, DOT MACNAMARA, BARBARA HAZARD, BETTY TRACY BOBBY STEEN, and RICKY
CUNNINGHAM. Our next meeting will
be May 10th at Ormond each Airport
—a stopover for the Angel Derby. Do
fly-in!

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GEORGIA CHAPTER
Betty W. MeNabb, Reporter
Your reporter tried to be smart in
April, but was suitably put down.

Having twice won the handsome ETAFuel consumption trophy donated by BIFF and CAROLYN — she decided
to win it again. Fortunately, she was
in Panama City for the April meeting in Albany, which all the rest of the girls said was on purpose so
she could fly in — but Georgia’s newest member, JANET MASSEE, won the trophy anyway!
The meeting was held in the grounds
of CAROL LOWERY’S lovely country
home and the long picnic tables were
spread under pecan trees. There were
Ninety Nines, 49%ers, children, friends,
cats, and dogs present and everybody
had a delightful time.

Next to Natchez and the Section
meeting, then tentatively to BETTY
McNABB’S Florida place for June.

CAROL and CAROLYN KENNEDY,
Georgia Chairman, presented the 1967
Georgia Chapter Yearbook, extremely
handsome, and full of information we
need — even plane numbers.

ESTHER GRUPENHAGEN sang her
song — she is off for Sweden in only a few days, still says Ninety Nines will be most welcome at Falsterbovagen, No. 10 (5 tr) Johanneshov.

Guests and members present were
JOYCE SOX and her guest JEANETTE
HEBERT, Cessna 140; BETTY JO ALISON, 49% er Skip, children KAY and BILL, Cessna 172; Chairman CAROLYN
KENNEDY and 49% er BIFF who drove
in to provide some more transportation
out to CAROL’S (Parrott is only 37
miles from Albany) — ELLEN CASWELL of Griffin; MYRTLE CAGLE, Macon, her 49% er WALT and young
JOY CAGLE who came in their converted Cessna 170 bringing with them two young friends; JANICE MASSEE and ESTHER GRUPENHAGEN, JEAN VOYLES in her 210, and two
prospectives, FAY McCRARY, a student and Registered Nurse from Americus, her husband WALTER and son COLLIN; and ELLA REYNOLDS of
Macon with her husband and a friend.

And of course HOLLY SMITH,
CAROL LOWERY, and BETTY McNABB, Albanians.

MEMPHIS CHAPTER
Ann Hatten, Reporter
The April meeting convened in the
newly redecorated Memphis Aero upper room and what a pleasant change in decor. Business was the order of
the day, however, and following all
the cerebration, the group retreated
to the Admiral Benbow for nourishment.

The racing season is eminent and
three of our 99s are going to pursue
the trophies. INA WALKER and VIRGINIA PROCTOR are ploting the East-West course of the AWTAR and
will be flying a Mooney sponsored by
Brewer Air Sales. POLLY DUNCAN
will be barreling down from Montreal
to Miami in the IAR also flying a
Mooney. INA and VIRGINIA logged
sometime on a recent trip to Kerrville, Texas. INA in a Mark 21 and VIRGINIA in a Executive. Incidently
INA and yours truly now have Multiengine ratings.

April the 4th, a contingent from
(Memphis (LOYCE O’NEAL, ROSEMARY WILLIAMS, VIRGINIA PROCTOR, INA WALKER, MARTHA TOBEY, POLLY DUNCAN, JUNE KUYKENDALL, MARY STANLEY, and TRIS BUCHANAN and her husband)
flew to Little Rock for a combined
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gathering of the Shreveport, Arkansas, and Memphis Chapters. Despite an 18 knot crosswind, JERRY BAKER
with poise and proficiency took first
place in the spot landing contest. Second and third places went to Shreveport and I understand almost everyone from Memphis came home with a
door prize from the luncheon at the
Top of the Rock.

JERRY BAKER, we hear, is home
convalescing from surgery and soon
will be giving us all lessons in spot
standings.

MARY STANLEY tells us they are
practicing taxiing the Curtis Pusher
around the field. Someone flew over
their field the other day and thought
it was a wheat thresher trying to
get air borne.

MISSISSIPPI CHAPTER
Margaret Shipley, Pinch-hitting
We are pleased that plans for the
Southeast Sectional meeting in Natchez,
Miss., May 4, 5, and 6 are flying along.

MIRIAM LOE, Chairman for local
arrangements, reports excellent cooperation from the community of Natchez, especially the Chamber of Commerce.

On February 26th, we toured the
Jackson Municipal Tower (Thompson
Field), accepting the usual good-natured jibes and cordial hospitality of the FAA Crews. Over lunch in the
terminal restaurant, plans for the
sectional meeting were crystalized.

The upcoming tour of the Aerodynamic Lab at Mississippi State University at Starkville, Miss., was set for Sunday, April 30th. Thanks to LUCILLE WOLFE for making the arrangements.

We goofed and had this meeting
(Feb. 26) on the same day as the
Louisiana Chapter had their exciting
“Poker Race.” Those attending the
5-step race were LUCILLE WOLFE
and PEGGY McKIE in PEGGY’S
Tri Pacer; Congratulations to PEGGY
on receiving her Private Feb. 25th)
JANET GREEN in her Aero Commander; and EMILY KELLY in her 172.

Next year more of us will enter, PAT.

Not much X-C flying to report, but
the SE at the Jackson meeting were:

BERNICE KELLY and ETHEL RADZEWICZ, PEGGY McCORMICK,
49%er FRANK, and JEAN and HANK
HODGES in their mutually-owned Skyplane, DOT ETHRIDGE and CORKY GREENLEA in a Cherokee 180, MIRIAM LOE in her Bonanza bringing LUCILLE and LEON WEAVER, MARGARET SHIPLEY in her Cherokee 140 bringing guest BETTY GREENSHAW,
and JO ANDREWS. DOT ETHRIDGE
has just about completed the clipped
wing Cub she is building, for use in
air shows. Husband BOB has devoted
many long hours in the tedious job.

Look for DOT around the country and
catch her act if you have a chance.

Lucille Wolfe, Reporter
My how time flies. Seems that someone has taken the O off the 30 days in a month. The Southeast Spring Section meeting is upon us and will be over by the time this article is printed. We held our meeting the first Sunday in April in Natchez to complete plans for this meeting. The ole weatherman finally cooperated with us on the weather. MARGARET SHIPLEY and
49% er LESTER, MARION LOWE and
JUSTIN, NITA STAHLMAN and BILL,
ETHEL RADZEWIC and PAUL, BERNIECE KELLEY, LUCILLE WEAVER, and LUCILLE WOLFE attended. We
again welcomed PEGGY McKIE, with
her brand new Private License, and
she will soon be one of us officially.

We missed JANET GREEN, who was
unable to attend due to recent surgery. Talked with JANET after the

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Since the Sectional will be over in
time for us to make the deadline of
the next i-;uc, we will have all the
news for you then about the meeting
and the winners : 1 the race. This meeting was all bu ' less so I really don't have much to say this bme. OH YES!
We agreed to purchase 10 programs
of the 1967 Powder Puff Derby. This is
not many we know, but if every chapter orders 10 this will help! We will have another meeting this
month, April 30th. We will tour the
Mississippi State University campus,
the Aero Physics Laboratory, wind
tunnel, leam how the aeropace program is financed, see the experimental aircraft, and view the gliders belonging to the Glider Club. Will tell you more about this in next issue, too.

So long for now — time has flown
away!

ALL OHIO CHAPTER
Edy Maxim, Reporter
Many thanks to JOAN MACE and
CAROL CONAWAY, who hostessed our
our fine meeting in March at Ohio
University Airport at Athens. Little
old Ohio University Airport was crowded on 99 day. A count totaled 26 airplanes.

LEE and JIM ROCK iMooneyed to
Florida for a week.

LEE is scheduled to speak on the
99s to a chapter of the B.P.W. in
Fairborn.

JOAN MACE recently appeared on
WOUB television to explain Ohio University Airport operations. JOAN ins'ructs both civilian and R.O.T.C. students for Private and commercial licenses.

PAT FAIRBANKS received her Instrument rating in February and has been recommended for the CFI-1.

CONNIE JONES is still keeping busy
with her speaking engagements. She
has given seven talks during February
and March. CONNIE, too, has been
selected to serve as one of the judges
at the N.I.F.A. meet at Carbondale,
Illinois, in May, and will also present
the ALL-Ohio Chapter’s ARLENE DAVIS trophy to the high-point girl at the flying meet.

MARILYN COLLETTE had the pleasure of a legal buss job at the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport recently, per tower instructions. Guess we will have to check with her on
the details.

LESLIE BOYD of the Garden State
Chapter is presently a Clevelander,
and we do look forward to having her
join our Chapter. LESLIE is a parttime Flight Instructor. NANCYLEE MALM is back home, after a 3-week stay in the balmy Florida climate. EDY and JOHN MAXIM back from a quickie vacation to the Islands
of Sint Maarten and Saba in the
Netheriand Antilles. The highlight of
the trip was the landing and takeoff at
Saba. The landing strip has been carved out of the side of the volcanic mountain — 1,000 feet long, with 900
feet usable. The approach gives one
the sensation that the wing tip just
might scrape the side of the mountain.

This exciting landing — downhill — in
a turbo-prop DeHavilland Otter. Thank
goodness for reverse pitch and “STOL”.

The takeoff was not nearly so alarming. EDY had the opportunity to set in the copilot’s seat on T. O. The
Otter literally leaped off the runway
in far less than 100 feet. That was
nice, as there was a shear cliff on
each end of the runway.

Some of our Ohio 99s are preparing
their entiy forms, readying their airplanes, etc., for the Montreal to Miami I.A.R. Ohia expects to be well represented in the race again this year.

Entrants: MARILYN COLLETTE and
copilot MARY SCHEAFER; MARION
BETZLER; JOANN STYPE; CONNIE
JONES and copilot CLARA THARPE:

MARION STACKS. And possibly: JANICE KUECHENMEISTER; MILLIE KLAYMAN; JOAN HRUBEC and copilot EDY MAXIM.

The All-Ohio Chapter is saddened
by its loss of AUTRIE LEHR. AUTRIE
lost her life in her Bonanza, Friday,
April 7th, near Cleveland, Ohio. AUTRIE was a real “flying” 99—lots of cross-country, logged much time, had
her Commercial and Multi-engine, competed in many races. She was always so very active in all our Chapter projects, and, especially, has been most instrumental in reactivating Ohio’s airmarking program — a combination 99 and Jaycee project. AUTRIE, also,
was serving as a member of the International Air marking Committee.

The Ohio 99s deeply appreciate the
kindness of so many out-of-state 99s for
their expressions of sympathy to us
and to KARL.

CAPE GIRARDEAU AREA CHAPTER
Margie Hall, Reporter
The girls from GGI have really been
in a whirl lately. Plans are progressing
fast and furiously for the NIFA, meet
at Carbondale, III., May 11, 12, and
13th. We will be further honored by
the presence of the 1966 Powder Puff
Derby Winner, MRS. EEATRICE
STEADMAN. Such a charming lady!
We’ve had the pleasure of knowing
BEA for several years, and are looking forward to having her in our mist again.

On a cold, sunny, windy St. Pat’s
Day, who should blow in but 3 leprechaun’s, the Trail-Blazer ALICE HAMMOND and her crew, KAY BRICK
and BARBARA EVANS. We met these
lovely ladies for the very 1st time at
our very 1st. P.P.D. Stop in 1964.

Little did we realize that in 1967,
we would be manning our 3rd PPD
Stop. It’s lots of work, but we sure
do have fun doing it. It gives us all
a chance to visit with 99s from all over
the world.

For our March meeting, we flew in
somewhat marginal weather to Dyersburg, Tenn. There, we met our hard working Pilot of the Year, EVELYN
ERAESE and her 49% er BILL. Since
EVELYN didn’t have enough chores to
do, what with running an airport and
a family, she has now taken over
the management of the local Airport
Restaurant. If you are in the area,
do drop in, the food is delicious and
1he Hospitality is really Southern.

We had a marvelous turn out for
this meeting, was so good seeing POLLY FREYTAG and 49% er ART and NELL RICE again. LOIS FEIGENBAUiM flew over with her 49% er BOB and son KEITH while your Reporter and her 49% er FRANK, flew

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Day. Left to right. LOIS FEIGENBAUM, Chairman CGI Chapter; ALICE HAMMOND, Trailblazer 1967; KAY BRICK, Chairman Powder Puff Derby Board; BARBARA EVANS, Treasurer Powder Puff Derby; MARGIE HALL, Local Publicity Chairman.
with MILLIE and RUSH LIMBAUGH.

Since MILLIE and I had been partying the nite before, we let the men do the flying. We had several guests
from the local Dyersburg Pilots dub.

We were delighted to have them as
our guests.

We are so proud of our very newest
member, MARY BOYD. MARY has
her Private pilots license. Her 49V2er
JOE, who is a local attorney in Dyersburg, has his Private and is working on his Instrument. MARY has been
on our prospective list for several
years, but she took time out from
flying lessons to have a little one, a
future pilot we hope. MARY has her
Masters Degree in Chemistry and
teaches Physics and Chemistry at the
local High School. She also writes a
column for the Dyersburg Newspaper
and has been instrumental in marvelous publicity for the 99s in her area. Needless to say we’re delighted
and honored to have her as a member
of our Chapter.

Plans for the Derby Stop in Carbondale have all been finalized and we can assure you that it is a Stop
that you can’t afford to miss, so start
now planning your flight for a definite stop at Carbondale.

Spring has arrived in these parts with
tulips, red-buds, and the dogwoods
all in bloom, and the girls of CGI
Chapter are all packed and ready for
take off time to Peoria, 111., and
the North Central Spring Section meeting. We can hardly wait to see and visit with our old friends. Happiness
is belonging to the North Central
Section, and going to Spring Sectional.

See you at the Ramada Inn.

Despite sand-blowing and winds gusting up to 35 knots, directly crosswind, the girls of CGI Chapter met in Kenneth, Missouri, with POLLY FREYTAG and NELL RICE as our hostesses.

MILLIE LIMBAUGH beat us all to
the meeting. She motored to Kenneth,
but then she started 3 days before
we did.

Your Reporter was fortunate to hitch
a ride with CAROLYN and BILL HAYES in their new Skymaster. CAROLYN is a new pilot and we hope a future
member of our Chapter.

Our busy Chairman, LOIS FEIGENBAUM has been running all 4 ways at once lately, but she always manages to arrive at the right place at the correct time. LOIS is International
Chairman of the NIFA and reports that
so far 29 schools with approximately
500 students will be represented at
the meet in Carbondale.

The girls from CGI were indeed saddened to learn of the untimely death of AUTRIE LEHR. We extend to her
family and many friends our sincere
condolences. The Chapter voted to
send a check to the Amelia Earhart
Scholarship Fund in memory of AUTRIE.

Following our meeting, we were
especially fortunate to have MR. DICK
RICE, 49% er of NELL, as our speaker. We all stand in awe of DICK and his ability to build airplanes. DICK
spoke to our group on “How to Build
a Airplane for Certification.”
To date, DICK has built 3 Pitts
Specials. Number 1 was sold to BOB
HERENDEEN of Santa Monica, Calif.

Since acquiring the Pitts, BOB' has
gone out and become U. S. Aerobatic
Champion, as well as placing 26th
in the World Competition in Russia in
1966. He will be flying N66Y in various
events around the U. S. this summer,
so watch for him.

After selling the first one, DICK
decided to make a few changes when
he built the second one. He increased the engine power to a 180 h.p. Lycoming and lengthened the fuselage one foot and increased the wingspan
about 2 feet 8 inches. After NELL learned to fly this one, N182 R, he thought if he wanted any time in the Pitts,
he had better build himself one, which
he has done. This one is N183N, and
it is identical to N182R. DICK has
been generous enough to give our
Chapter an exhibition of the beauty of
the airplane in flight. If you see a
pair of them flying together, it is
just NELL and DICK out for a spin.

If you recall from a previous newsletter, I wrote a short article about DICK and his Stinson Tri-Motor. After
he bought this airplane that no one
else wanted, he proceeded to completely renovate it and when he was finished, it was a beauty to behold. But the frosting on the cake was when
he invited the entire Chapter aboard
for a sightseeing tour of the area. It
was quite a treat, especially since
none of us had ever seen a Stinson
Tri-Motor before.

As you know, I’m always bragging
about the members in our Chapter, and
99s in particular. But where else could
you meet and get to know such vital,
interesting people like NELL and
DICK? 99s are people who are going places and doing interesting things.

HAPPINESS IS BEING A 99, and a
member of the CGI Chapter.

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CENTRAL ILLINOIS CHAPTER
Leah Warren, Reporter
Communication — I’M all for it but
am sure each Reporter is like PEG—
never knew how short a month was
till they tried to make that 20th
deadline. Chins up—just a few more
months to go.

Our April meeting was at the Ramaada in Peoria. The Peoria girls have had meeting in their own area for so
long, they will be glad of a change
of location from here on. But attendance has been good. Fifteen members, five 49%ers, 1 grandson, 1 prospective member, and several interested guests made up our table for lunch and the tour of the building. We have
done about all we can for Sectional except bribe the weatherman.

MARTY KELLEY is back from Philadelphia. So nice to see her again.

They are not really settled but hope
to make a trip West this month and
when we will see them in May.
'MARJORIE KELLY making use of
her 182 and JANE SCHMIDT using
her club Cherokee for some local trips.

Hope the rest of us can get airborne
soon. BETTY COMMON got off the
ground for the first time is seven
months with a Bell helicopter. Made
her all the more anxious to have ohe
available.

THEO SOMMER back from another
trip to California and still has reason to make at least one more. Daughter is back in Illinois now though, so that reason is lost.

IRENE SMITH busy enjoying her
three year old grandson who is with
her for an indefinite stay. Gave him
his first trip at five weeks but not
sure he wants one at the age of three.

Guess I’ll loan her this six year old
grand-daughter. She can’t get up
enough.

EULA SCHMIDT and hubby are on
world-wide trip of several weeks. With
such a full schedule, not sure they will
have time to even check on flying in
other lands.

CHICAGO AREA CHAPTER
Virginia Roth, Reporter
Our Achievement Award Dinner
was held at Moran & Calvin, Hillside, 111., March 18th. An outastanding dinner and evening was planned by Committee Chairman LOUISE
KOKESH and Co-Chairman TONI TEIBER and VIRGINIA COFFEEN. It was well organized, good food, and
the decorating & flowers were lovely.

A real good turn-out and know everyone was most appreciative. Thanks girls

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started the program witli a welcome
to the Chicago Area Chapter girls and
49%ers. DR. ANNE ROETHKE of
Milwaukee, Mis., Governor of the North
Central Section, Presented “99” pins to
15 new members and officially welcomed in 9 49l% ers. LOUISE KOKESH was presented a Past Chairman Pin
by EVA WHITE. Selected for outstanding achievement in aviation during 1966, eight top contestants received trophies from LOfS SEKETA of Lombard, former Governor of the North Central
Section. First place winner MARY
SHUMWAY, a close second GERRY
•KRAUSE, third ALICE HAMMOND
(who has moved to Millville, N. J.),
fourth SUE ROSCOE, fifth JOAN
SCHOGER, sixth VIRGINIA COFFEEN, seventh MARY PANCZYSYN, and eighth EVA WHITE. Congratulations to you all! Following the awards, RICK and DICK COOLEY showed
a movie on their Alaskan Trip. The
film was spectacular (many shots taken from their Skymaster with RICK at the controls), and several of RICK
hunting with bow and arrow with
targets such as moose and caribou.

What a shot! How can anyone person be so talented? Being a fishing enthusiast myself, was awed at RICK’S
casting ability (a salmon with every
cast). A great thrill and thanks for
sharing with us your great film on
Alaska.

Really think WILLIE DYE acquired
the most ratings this past year. A
lot of hours and concentration went
into achieving her Private — March,
1966, Instrument — August, Instrument
Ground Instructor — September, Commercial—November, Instrument Flight Instructor — February, 1967, and working on 2 more ratings. That a gal! She’s instructing at Roselle now and
loving every minute of it.

GINNY KRAFT and her 49%er
DUTCH celebrated their 25th Wedding
Anniversary with a well deserved
month’s vacation in Hawaii. Blew their
plane to San Francisco and embarked
from there by ship to the islands.

They had a wonderful time and DUTCH
took several rolls of movies. NONA
and SKIP GUSTAFSON were there
also at the same time and were disappointed they couldn’t locate the KRAFTS. Understand that NONA took
a picture of a tree planted by Amelia
Earhart.

We’re finally getting a break in the
weather (after a long bitter winter)
much to the delight of our gals. So
much talk of coming events. Spring
has sprung!

GREATER KANSAS CITY CHAPTER
Nita Irwin, Reporter
It was lunch at TUL for the March
fly-out with 11 members and guests.

After a foggy beginning, it turned out
to be a beautiful day. MARILYN DICKSON plus 3 departed Kansas City Suburban and KAY CAIN plus 3 left from Olathe, LAURIE MONK had the
longest trip, driving from Atchison to
Leavenworth for a plane, then stopping at Olathe for a passenger before heading to TUL. Haven’t heard from
her or MARJE PARIS but assume they
made it back to Atchison the same day.

A good per cent of Greater K. C.
99s came to the dedication of the Leavenworth Airport on Sunday, April 16, when it was officially changed from
Sherman Army Air Field to a civilianmilitary field. After a feast of delicious fried chicken at CHARLIE CRAIG’S
operation, the ceremonies began. RibVOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE (then M A IL it!)
bons were cut, plaques were given,
and cake was eaten. In the crowd was
MISS LEAVENWORTH, the Mayor,
airport board members, and air force
officials.

While there, ALEAH COMBS (who,
by the way, has had her Instrument
rating since Easter day) presided at
a short meeting. Definite plans were
made for air-marking at Paola-Osawatomie the second Saturday in May.

Dress is optional (with or with-out
paintbrush, i.e.) There will be a May
meeting after all on Thursday, May
4 at the Prom 1-6:00 p.m. (We had
previously reported no May meeting).

We're happy to report PAT KEENEY off the sick list after a week in the hospital and bed rest at home.

BETTY McNABB hitched a ride with
SARAH GORELICK in her new Comanche when she was passing through MKC and having airline reservation
trouble. On the way to SGF they pickup up JOAN REINDL at Leavenworth, to meet with the Ozark Chapter and
the AWTAR Beard to set up the timing 1-at SGF.

SARAH GORELICK was one of 500
who attended a Narce Radio Seminar at
the Hotel Muchlbach. She was asked
to pick the winner for the door prize
and, you guessed it, drew her own
name. SARAH assures us it wasn’t a
fix.

Antique airplanes were on display
at the April Fool’s Chuck Wagon held
at BILL KING’S Olathe hanger. The
buffet and dance was sponsored by the
Kansas Aero Club. 99s attending were
KAY CAIN, ALEAH COMBS, COLEEN GORDON, JOY MORRISON,

ROSAMOND OLIVER, MARGARET
REID and JOAN REINDL.

MARY ANN NOAH and ALEAH
COMBS attended the Missouri Pilots
Association all-day seminar at U. M.
of K. C. Density altitude, radio, WX,
and lots of other territory was covered.

It’s almost time to pack for the Sectional at Peoria. In the meantime, let’s hope for CAVU weather for the next
fly-out which is planned for SGF.

P.S. You can support the Powder
Puff Derby by buying the gummed
s'amps we’ve told you about. Write
to ALEAH COMBS, 4726 Skyline Drive,
Mission, Kansas, 66205, and send one
dollar for each sheet you need.

GREATER ST. LOUIS CHAPTER
Amy Laws, Reporter
We in St. Louis have growing pains
for sure but these are the kind that
feel good! Our membership is increasing by leaps and bounds, and as a former Membership Chairman, who
used to know EVERYONE, we find
it had to remember all the new
names. Three new girls were voted in
at our March meeting, held at LORETTA SLAVICK’S home; — MARY LOWE, JEAN REUSSOW, and LORNA
JAMES. Since previously welcomed
LORNA in April, may we extend a
hearty welcome now to MARY and
JEAN?
LORNA JAMES is our young pilot,
who so impressed VIOLA GENTRY
at our installation luncheon last Fall,
that she (VIOLA) sent a 99 pin as
a gift. VIOLA is a 99 Charter Member
and she said she wanted to do this as
her little bit to show admiration and encouragement to our newer members.” So when Chairman VAL JOHNSON
pinned LORNA, it was with VIOLA’S
present.

LAURA SELLINGER was co-hostess
at the meeting which feathered an interesting program by DON MILLER, St. Louis policeman who is the trafficop’ for local radio station KSD. DON flies in a helicopter daily, checking,
and reporting traffic to listeners. Also attending that night was guest HELEN POOLER, from Pacific, Mo.

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Chapter, shown loading rummage
into Bonanza prior to (lying it to
St. Clair, Mo. Annual 99 rummage
Sale held at St. Clair, Mo. on March
30, 31, and April 1.
who flies from both Pacific and St.

Clair, Mo., airports. HELEN is a
potential member.

Our April meeting scheduled for
April 22nd at Highland, 111., hostesses,
BETTY WILLISTON and MERLE
FRAME, who will see that our group
learns all about soaring. Demonstrations rides will be given in their Soaring Club’s gliders.

KIT HEACOCK is really caught up
with her new love-aerobatics. Grounded for a spell because of an operation, KIT is at it again with her 49Mier, GENE. They were out at
Carrollton, 111. this past Sunday with
a few other enthusiasts, putting their
planes through the paces. During the
week, KIT can be found at Lambert
Field, where she has added Link Trainer Instructor to her Instrument teaching.

Another busy member is MILDRED
JAMES, who reports she recently
checked out in, and flew a 206 Super
Skywagon to Anderson, Ind. Turns
out the plane was delivered for use
as an ambulance plane there.

Can’t keep a Californian away from
there — GEORGIA KNOWLTON recently flew out with her family and went flying at her old stamping
grounds, Fullerton. They even flew in
a Fairchild FT 22- a 1932 model. We
are sure it was all fun, but we are glad
she is back with our Chapter.

RUTH LAKE and 49% er, ED, no
sooner came back from a (rip in a
Cessna 310 to the Bahamas in February, than they took off again for a fast week-end in Las Vegas, Nevada!
RUTH TAKSEL’S picture and an article on her 0/0 flight in the Wren were featured in, of all magazines,
“GOLF and TRAVEL.’’ Ever busy,
RUTH, is knee deep in plans for an
exciting new adventure. She and 49%'er,
NATE, will be dealers for the Aero
Commander Company in the St. Louis
area. Last week RUTH went down to
Albany, Ga., and flew home the first
demonstrator—a brand new Aero Commander 200. Congratulations to the TAKSELS in their new venture.

Our annual Rummage Sale held at
VAL JOHNSON’S in St. Clair, Mo., was
an unprecedented success — receipts
were double last year’s. There was
so much rummage donated by the local Chapter and their friends that the sale lasted three days, and involved
a lot of ferrying, both in planes and
by car. Members who helped work the
sale were MARY JANE McKILLIP,
SUE MAT'HEIS, JANE NOYES, NORMA BRAUCH, GRACE COVYEAU,

JEAN LENNERTSON, RUTH TAKSEL,

MARGARET WALSH, LORNA JAMES,

JAN POCOCK, MARILYN HOFFMAN,
and AMY LAWS. VAL went ‘beyond
the call of duty’ and fixed fabulous
meals for the workers — things like
beef Strogonoff and turkey, no less.

So far, only entrants in this year’s
Powder Puff Derby are RUTH TAKSEL
and VAL JOHNSON — they plan to
fly VAL’S Bonanza.

KIT HEACOCK’S still taking applications for the Sky Lady Derby (Ft.

Worth, Texas — June 22nd impound.)
See you all in Peoria at the N. Central Sectional, May 5th.

INDIANA CHAPTER
Delia Sanders, Reporter
On February 14th at the monthly
dinner of the Indianapolis Aero Club,
the Dee Nicholas Trophy was presented by DOROTHY SMITH, our current Chapter Chairman and last year’s winner of the award, to MILDRED (MID) CASSIDY as outstanding pilot of the
year 1966 MID, Secretary of the Indiana
Ninety-Nines and also of the Aero Club,
received the trophy for her various activities in aviation not only in improving her skill and knowledge of aviation but as one who has helped in so
many ways, day by day, to champion
the fact that there is always an active
place in aviation for women.

The Indiana FAIR' Race Board met
at the Bloomington Airport in March
with the Chamber of Commerce and the
Monroe County Pilots Association to
start the ball rolling for next October’s
race. Ninety-nines who attended were:

MURIEL DYKEMA, NOLA KEIL, BILLY SMITH, ROENA MILAN, and PAULINE GENUNG, from the Aeronautics Commission - LARRY CREEKBAIIM. The Board was enthusiastically MID CASSIDY receiving Dee Nicholas Trophy from DOROTHY SMITH. —25—

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Packet Pg. 676 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) Members of the Iowa Chapter flew in from all over the state to welcome television and movie star SUSAN OLIVER, when she arrived in Des Moines on a nation-wide flying tour for the Easter Seal campaign. The Iowa Chapter hosted a luncheon in honoor of SUSAN, who is a member of the Santa Monica Chapter and presented her with an official Ninety-Nine flight hag. Those appearing in picture above are left to right, front row: KITTY HACH, LOIS GRANGE, LEN HUNT, MARY JO PETERSON, SUSAN, — Back row BERNICE MALLOY, LINDA ALBERTY, SHIRLEY HARTMAN, BEA JOBE, IRENE GRIFFITH, BERT JOHNSON, BETTY JOHNSTON. welcomed to the chili-supper-meeting
and found that this group is really
excited about the October 21, race and
the accompanying airport dedication.

DORIS (DODIE) POWERS, daughter of MILDRED HURT, recently received a Private pilot license from the French Aviation Office in Paris,
France. She has held a Private and an
Instructor’s rating in the U. S. for
quite some time and she will be wellremembered by the Indiana and El Paso Ninety-Nine Chapters.

VIRGINIA BROWN and husband,
BROWNIE, were thrilled when the bill,
he originated to get tax-free all public-privately owned airports in Indiana, was passed this year in the legislature. Action was started on this bill six years ago and finally passed this
session. Since they own Sky King Airport at Terre Haute, this was quite a help to them.

GARNET IMOGLE and I'Pser, flew
to Waukeegan, Illinois to visit their
daughter and family. The center of
attraction there seems to be an 8
month old grandson, a future pilot we
hope.

A nice note from ESTELLE ADKINS
reports that she, 49V2er, “DOC” and
son CHARLES recently returned from
a Florida vacation. Charles, having
served in the army and then graduated from the University of Kentucky, is now teaching in Indianapolis.

CARL and MURIEL DYKEMA recently flew to Bimini, then to Nassau, San Juan and a little island hopping
to St. Kits, Nevis, and St. Thomas.

They found the islands charming, weather beautiful, Baron performing quietly and efficiently, 5 hour flight nonstop from San Juan to Fort Lauderdale. They found it a challenge to land at Nevis 300 ft. paved (?) and 1000
grass and a stop sign meaning just
that!
FERN RINKER has returned from a
vacation in Florida which she took after her retirement from GMC in Anderson. With a service record of over 33 years, she deserves many happy days
ahead. May you always pick a winner, FERN!!!!
BETTY NICHOLAS and 49% er TED
are taking a flying vacation in their
new Cessna 150 the end of June which
will include a trip to Expo 67 in Montreal.

PEG COULTER'S son, JOHN, returned from service in the Far East on January 9th and was married to
a girl from Missouri on January 15th.

He is now stationed at Antigo, Wisconsin.

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recently returned from a 3 month stay
in West Palm Beach, Florida. They
also spent some time in the Grand
Bahamas. Being the proud owners of
a new custom made house trailer,
they anticipate many more winters
in the south.

BETTY and ELLIOTT KAYE-SMITH
with two friends flew their twin Comanche to St. Louis and Ames, Iowa. It was the first flight for one of their
passengers. After showing of aviation
film sponsored by Utility Airplane
Council at Pierceton High School, four
students are now in ground school, 2
flying and one already soloed. Lets
hope that these boys will, in turn, influence some of their gal friends into the field of aviation.

On Friday, 'March 17, BETTY DE
BAUN, flying a Cessma 172 and MARCIA REYNOLDS, flying a Beech Bonanza went on a strictly fun cross country with rendevous at Seymour, Indiana and Lawrenceville, Illinois. Enroute there was much communication on 122.9 reporting position and weather.

Next scheduled flight - Decatur and
Mattoon, Illinois.

See you at the FAIR in October!

IOWA CHAPTER
Mary Lou Ballensky, Reporter
Well, this has been a busy month
for the Iowa Chapter! On Saturday,
March 18th, thirteen 99s and one guest
flew to Des (Moines Municipal to lunch
with two special guests at Johnny and
Kay’s Lounge. One was DEE MASTELLER, from Oklahoma City. She is project-co-ordinator and writer for
the Aero-Commander Corporation.

The other guest of honor was SUSAN
OLIVER, lovely TV and movie personality, and a 99, as well! Des Moines was one of nine cities on her scheduled trip promoting the sale of Easter Seals.

Our regular monthly meeting was
held on April 9th, at Bloomfield, Iowa,
with SHIRLEY HARTMAN as hostess.

The new concrete strip is lovely, but
currently surrounded by mud, and
allows for no cheating with a nasty
26-knot crosswind. After two unsuccessful attempts to set the Cessna down and a hairy little side-ways flight skimming over the mud, the BALLENSKYS decided to head for home to give our
“guardian angel’’ a well-deserved rest.

Shortly thereafter, the wind made an
abrupt change straight down the runway! Nuts!
Four other 99s did arrive via car
and low-winged planes. Along with
the HARTMANS and several 49%ers,
two guests were in attendance. One
was RUTH SWANSTROM, the new
Iowa Flying Farmer Queen and a licensed pilot, and the other was VIOLA DUFFIELD who is ready for the AllImportant Check-Ride.

Chairman LOIS GRANGE presided
over the meeting and urged all to
make a special effort to hop over to
Peoria for the Spring Sectional. PHYLLIS BARBER presented an invitation from the “CID Section IEEE” to attend their meeting at the Cedar Rapids Town House, April 18. ED HATTENDORF of Collins Radio Company will present a program on current usage
of Category II and Category III landings.

Another invitation was forthcoming
from SHIRLEY HARTMAN who announced that the local Channel 3 TV station wants to do another program
with women flyers and skydivers the
night of April 20th. Gee, fellas, 9:30
p.m. is past our bedtime, or rather,
flying time! Next time, can’t you try
for 9:30 A.M., when we flyers are out
flitting?
Well, that’s it and if we make it
to all those meetings, spring housecleaning will be late again for the “99 couches” in Iowa!

MICHIGAN CHAPTER
Mary I’clto, Reporter
The April showers kept the Michigan
girls on wheels or just plain at home.

Only thirty people, counting the guests,
showed up in Owosso for the meeting.

IOLA PARDONNET was hostess.

GEORGE BORDERS, manager of the
Detroit Willow Run Weather Bureau,
was the guest speaker. His wife,
DORIS, attended the meeting, too.

Strange, how the weather improved
later in the day!
HELEN COOKINGHAM, from Flint,
became a 66.

SALLY FRISCH, guest of ALICE
DAVIS, was at the meeting, too.

We’ve got a few 99s on the move again. ANNE and BILL, her 49% er, STEINHAGEN, are leaving for two or
three years with GM in Australia.

ANNE plans to continue her flying and
will be contacting the Australia Section girls upon arrival. As a result, we needed a new Secretary. NAOMI
WEITZMAN, Lansing, graciously offered to fill in for ANNE.

DOROTHY REAUME, just back from
a year on the S. S. Hope, is leaving for
Malaya to work with Medico.

MARGARET NAPIERALA retired
from Michigan Bell on April 4th. No immediate plans, other than doing the things one can’t do when working.

NORMA ETTER and family took a
vacation and were to go to Evansville,
Ind., Houston, Texas, Florida, and the

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—imayhe they’re still down there, stuck
in the sun and sand.

B and BOB STEADMAN airlined to
Edmontson, Alberta, Canada, for a
speech to the Flying Farmers of Alberta. Met 99 ELEANOR BAILEY and husband BILL. Had a great time.

Incidentally, B! is going to judge
the Intercollegiate Flying (Meet in
Carbondale, 111., May 11 - 13th.

ALICE DAVIS will be leaving April
25 for 8 days in London, a boat trip
down the Rhine, 2 days in Switzerland, back to London and Boston with her husband, LES. They’ll spend some
time there visiting LES’ family and
then back home.

PAT RUSSELL has been commuting
from New Hampshire to Detroit to
supervise the make-up of the models
in a film produced by Henning and
Cheadle for Beauty Counselors.

NAOMI WEITZMAN earned her Commercial rating in January and her Ground Instructor rating in February
of this year.

MARIAN HOFFMAN reports that
grandchild number 7 arrived 2 weeks
ago.

We were saddened to hear of the
death of AUTRIE LEHR just two days
before our meeting, AUTRIE LEHR
was a good friend of the Michigan
Chapter girls and we know a real
active 99 in the All Ohio Chapter. We
extend our heartfelt sympathy to all
who mourn her passing.

Remember to use the Amelia Earhart Film. If you want to use it, contact HELEN WETHERILL, C/o Henning and Cheadle, Inc., 10000 Greenfield Road, Detroit, Michigan, 48227.

The cost is $10.00 for rental, plus cost
of sending by parcel post, special
handling, and insured.

Don’t forget the SMALL race. October 7, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Start planning for it now. MARY CLARK,
Chairman, reports that it’s going to be
a good one. Opening day for entries
will be July 10th and closing, September 19. We’re limited on the number, so get yours in early.

MINNESOTA CHAPTER
Florence Robinson, Reporter
It was an evening of real fun at our
March meeting where we did a lot
of talking about the little flying we
have been able to do this winter. It
seems that several of us have had
to chop the ice away to loosen the
hanger door in order to get winged
chariots into the air.

SALLY SLOAN and her family have
become I he proud owners of a Champion Citabria. She showed us a picture of it with her children at the controls
about to take off in pursuit of the “Red
Baron.” The rest of the family are
as happy and enthusiastic as SALLY
so they are probably headed for a
lot of fun.

MARCI ROYCE and her husband
made a flying trip to Iowa in the
past month and MART has passed
her written test for her Commercial
rating.

Mr. PROKOP from the District Office
of Minneapolis General Aviation returned with the film “Density Altitudes.” (He has been attending so many 99 meetings that he is considering sending in an application for membership.) Besides showing the film which was very interesting, he reviewed how density altitude effects the performance of our airplane engines. In addition, he showed another film from
NASA on the Flight of Gemini VIII in
which we saw the first docking of
two vehicles in outer space.

Six girls from our special project
were guest for our program. They reported that the drapes are finished and they have invited us to hold our next
meeting in their club room, at Holman Field.

As of this month’s meeting, we
have KAREN JUNGQUIST as a member. KAREN holds the following ratings in addition to her private license:

Commercial Instructor, Instrument, and
Instrument Instructor, Single Engine
Land and Sea. She is a flight instructor
at the University of Minnesota at present, but has recently returned from Africa where she had been teaching
flying.

KAREN and SALLY are discussing
the possibilities of finding a qualified
airplane and a sponsor for entering
the Powder Puff Derby. There were
some suggestions from the group so
we are hoping they will be able to
make connections and Minnesota will
have representatives in the race.

OZARK CHAPTER
Velma Hite, Reporter
OZARK CHAPTER continues to rustle the papers trying to make Springfield a “Derby Stop” that none will want to miss. HAZEL MATZ was guest
on a local radio station March 17 as
a prelude to the “Trailblazers” visit
March 18. [MAYME BURTIN, HAZEL
MATZ, and JEAN FULDNER were on
hand to greet KAY BRICK, BARBARA
EVANS, and ALICE HAMMOND. Also
attending were SARAH GORELICK and
MARY JOAN REINDL of the Greater Kansas City Chapter. SARAH and MARY JOAN are official timers for
the Derby stop. Numerous other people
who will assist in the stop were present and a great big thanks to all— we couldn’t make it without you!
MARY ELLEN McCLEENON, the
young one of our group is ready to
take her Commercial check ride. Easter week-end foot surgery han’t halted her flying — good luck MARY ELLEN.

VELMA HITE and 49V2er flew to
visit son DALE at Columbus Missouri
University and are now making plans
to fly to Colorado Springs to visit son
MIKE at the Air Force Academy.

We welcome new member BETTY
LOU WADDELL. BETTY is living in
Springfield with her young son, while
49% er MARION is over seas in Uncle
Sam’s service.

ALBUQUERQUE CHAPTER
Georgia Tillery, Reporter
The Albuquerque Chapter had a
very successful breakfast at the West
Mesa Airport, on the morning of
April 16, with more than a hundred
attending.

Plans are progressing on activities
for the Race Stop this summer with
all looking forward to as much fun
as two years ago!
There were 15 at the last meeting
with RANDI SUTHERLAND, and two
new members were welcomed,
BEVERLY MURPHY and JANICE
BISHOP; MEG GUGGOLZ of Santa
Fe is our next hostess (maybe she
has plans for more work in the
way of air marking like she did the
last time.)
We will be hosts for the Fall Sectional and plans are well under way for it. Remember the dates: September 29-30' and October 1.

MEG GUGGOLZ was our only representative to the Spring Sectional in Tulsa but we believe she enjoyed
it enough for all of us.

SO. CENTRAL

SECTION

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ARKANSAS CHAPTER
Marguerite Nielsen, Reporter
The Arkansas Chapter is most pleased with the job done by our Chairman, DONNA HALE, on our April Fly In
at Adams Field in Little Rock. The
meet was a huge success, with twenty-eight girls flying in from throughout Arkansas, Shreveport, and Memphis. GERRY BAKER of Wynne took the first place spot landing trophy
when she dropped her 172 within ten
feet of the touchdown strip despite
adverse winds. Second place went to
HELEN HEWITT of Shreveport flying a Bellanca. Third place went to HELEN WRAY of Shreveport flying
a Comanche. Arkansas Chapter feted
the pilots at a luncheon at the Top
Of The Rock where trophies were
presented. Among the winners of door
prizes were MARY STANLEY, POLLY
DUNCAN, and CHRIS BROWN, all
members of Memphis Chapter. Our
own RUTH McADAMS flew back from
a wedding just in time for this meet,
“Fairlady Follies.”
Arkansas welcomes two new members; PAM STOW A 1.1, of Little Rock and SHIRLEY BOGGESS of Coy.

DELORES MITCHELL and 49iy2er
have been keeping the airways hot
between Sallisaw and the horse track.

Last weekend, DELORES’ horse won
$295. and BOB’S horse, $6,000. DELORES is getting a little preoccupied lately. I think she’s working on an
airworthy horse trailer to hitch to
her Debonair.

MARGE NIELSON flew to Gore to
spend the day with prospective 99
HILDEGARDE BENNETT. It was a
most enjoyable day, spent in flying
with HILDEGARDE in her brand new
150. They did land at Siloam Springs
just long enough for lunch. HILDEGARDE is working toward a Commercial. She has recently passed the written.

SALLIE SIMMONS and MARGE
NIELSEN have some big plans for
this weekend. That’s right, it’s the
South Central Sectional in Tulsa. Hope
to see you all there.

DALLAS CHAPTER
Hazel H. McKendrick, Reporter
It was paint slinging time again
and the airport was Gainsville, Texas.

The following hale and hearties turned up and according to our Air marking Chairman, EETTY HUNDLEY did a fine job. BEV TAYLOR, DOROTHY
WARREN, MARTHA ANN READING, JO ALLISON, CINDY MORRISS,

PEG ONG, DEE LOWE, LIL TAFEL,

MARY KITCHENS, 'POLLY GIBSO'N,
SUE ANDREWS, and 49%ers POSEY

HUNDLEY, HAROLD TAYLOR, BOB
TAFEL, BOB LOWE, LEE KITCHENS, JOHN GIBSON, and GEORGE ANDREWS. BETTY HUNDLEY awarded with a painter’s party that night. HERB FISHER was in town
and came to the party and a big time
was had by all.

Our last meeting was a dinner meeting followed by a wonderful program.

STU MADISON, Chief Experimental
Test Pilot for LTV was our speaker
and he talked about test flying and
then showed films on the spin program of the F 111. He also had films on the VTOL. All together it was a
wonderfully interesting and informative meeting.

KATHY LONG and MARGE MITCHELL flew the Mobil Gas Economy run in their Bellancas. They also
flew the Midland Air Race with
MARGE taking 1st and Kathy in
2nd spot right behind her. How ’bout
that!
SUE and GEORGE ANDREWS and
EiLINOR flew off to Florida in their
Cessna 170'. EDNA WRIGHT just flew
in from Hawaii, but I believe she used the big silver bird for her flight.

CHARLOTTE BRANUM, DOROTHY
WARREN, CINDY MORRIS, and HAZEL McKENDRICK flew to Oklahoma City for a visit to 99 Headquarters, the FAA Academy, and stores, in CHARLOTTE’S Bonanza. Friday
found the girls in Tulsa for the Sectional meeting. PEG ONG and JIM came in their Mustang 105 PEG
and brought BETTY HUNDLEY. About midnight, PAT JETTON came in via Airlines and we were all in our
seats for the meeting Saturday morning. See the Sectional report.

EL PASO CHAPTER
Mary Olmstead, Reporter
A most cordial welcome to our newest member, MARY BESS CLAYTON.

MARY BESS (MRS. RALPH S.) is
a native of Fort Worth, Texas but lived in Mississippi during her high school and college days. She majored
in Music Theory at Blue Mountain
College and it was there, on June 10th,
that she met DR. RALPH S. CLAYTON, who had returned from military

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that August 27th.

Four boys and two girls later, DK.

RALPH took up flying and had his
ticket by Nov. 1963 and within the
year, he made arrangements for
MARY BESS to start her lessons.

She soloed in October 1964 and fourteen months later, she had her license. MARY BESS said she was
so scared during her flying lessons
that when her instructor told her to
look out the side window — she told
him “No, you look.” On the day she
soloed, she said she found out what
it felt like to have “your blood turn
to icewater.” However the icewater
in her veins did not prevent her from
completing two successful TO’s and
L’s that day, and since then many
cross-country flights are behind her.

She is now checked out in a 182.

Here are the six reasons MARY
BESS has to fit her flying with family duties: STUART, 18, attends University of Texas at Austin, SUZANNE, 16 this month, is ready to solo on her
birthday; THOMAS, 14, attends New
Mexico Military School at Roswell,
JAMES, 13, Williams, 10, and BARBARA, 4. When SUZANNE gets her license, THE CLAYTONS will have the
crew and the passengers to fill a
small-size airliner!
ELLEN JANE ANDERSON, International Flying Farmer Queen, has been winging her way across the
Southwest - attending State Conventions at Goodyear, Arizona; Holdrege, Nebraska and Houston, Texas. On
one of her visits to her home in El
Paso, she entertained four Flying Farmers from Stuttgart, Arkansas including IFF iPresident, JIM OLIVER and his wife.

KAY BOND reports that a member
of the Albuquerque Chapter has moved to Las Cruces. (I goofed—can’t remember her name) Hope KAY
brings her to our next meeting.

LELA CARWARDINE flew to Los
Alamos for a Family Reunion and
an Easter Holiday.

WANDA GARSON’S flight to Columbus, Ga., ended in Dallas, due to unkind weather. She and son, KIRK, flew back home. Her 49%er, JOHN,
flew commercial to Columbus-barely
arriving in time for his meeting with
business associates.

VIRGINIA and 49y2er DAN PETERSON, with some friends as passengers, flew to Corvallis, Oregon, to attend a ballgame at Oregon State College.

MARY FRAN SEIDL flew her family to Cameron County Arpt. for an Easier visit with former El Pasoans
at Los Fresnos. Besides the Border
Patrol School with their hosts, the
ROGER BUSHNERS, they went surfing (both water and sand) on Parde Island.

MARY FRAN just returned from
attending Tulsa’s Sectional meeting.

She said she enjoyed renewing friendships with the wonderful Ninety-Nines from the Houston Chapter who were
so good to her last summer when she
was attending summer school there.

WANDA GARSON occupied MARY
FRAN'S co-pilot seat and attended
her first Sectional. Leaving Tulsa, they
had 47 knot winds-so gassed up at
Oklahoma City and Lubbock. RUTH
DEERMAN and WIN GRIFFIN made
a total of four representing El Paso
at the Sectional. Our Chairman, MARGARET THOMPSON, was unable to go due to the arrival of the first grandchild — a 6 lb. 4 oz. girl. Congratulations, Grandparents! The OLMSTEADS flew to Austin
How 'bout flyin' a RACE
with an

IN T E R N A T IO N A L M E M B ER
as Co-Pilot ? ? ? ?
and spent three very busy days in
the class room and in the sky during
NOEL’S refresher Instrument Course
taught by the TOP instructors of
AOPA, NANCY BRUMLOW of High
Sky, Chapter, was one of these instructors. FRED MORGAN, Retired Colonel USAF, was another. His wife, HELEN is a member of Sacramento
Valley Chapter. ARTHUR ZACCARDI,
a former New Jerseyite, was our
Flight Instructor. Imagine being 22
and having taught over 600 hours of
Instrument Instructions.

Our last meeting was a very successful pot luck supper at the lovely new GARSON home. Besides WANDA,
JOHN and son, KIRK, those attending were Chairman MARGARET and BILL THOMPSON, JUANITA and
TEX BURDICK, JEAN BYARS and
her escort student pilot, R. A. TERRAZAS, RUTH and CHARLIE DEERMAN, WIN GRIFFIN (who was presented a gift for her work with NinetyNines), VIRGINIA and DAN PETERSON, MARY FRAN and HANK SEIDL,

BETTY ROGERS, NOEL OLMSTEAD,
and your reporter.

We understand that JAN BRYANT
of High Sky Chapter now lives in
El Paso. Bui where? The Telephone
Co. tried to help-but both BOB and
ROBERT BRYANT have unlised
phones so, JAN, if you haven’t already called someone in our Chapterplease do—soon!

FORT WORTH CHAPTER
Anita Reilly, Reporter
The April meeting of the Fort Worth
Chapter of 99 was held on Saturday,
April 10, at the Wren Aircraft hanger,
Mecham Field.

Members, husbands, and friends were
the fortunate guests of the President
and Vice-Pdesident of Wren Aircraft,
MR. PICKERING and “DOC” MORRIS. Attending were BRENDA STRICKLER, and 49%er FRANKLIN, EDNA GARDNER WHYTE, (Ceal) ORPHENHEN, BETTY JO PARSONS, and 49%er JOE ED. VIVIAN WHITE and 49% er
DONALD, MARY KAHAK and 49%er
GEORGE, ANITA REILLY and 49%-
er AL, NADINE, WISE, VERNA
STUBBS, RUTH RENTON and guest
SHIRLEY WESTBROOKS from Wichita
Falls, BETTY ALLISON and guests
FRANCES and GILBY GIBSON. 99
hostess HELEN MORRIS and 49%er
“DOC” showed an orientation film
which helped answer the many questions we asked about the Wren, and how it would perform under different
conditions. Next, we were escorted
through the modification areas of the
Wren factory, and the special features
of the aircraft explained.

All members were given a demonstration of the Wren’s short take-off (less than 300 feet) and slow speed
patrolling (45 MPH at 50 ft. altitude)
abilities. Each demonstration included
an approach and landing made with
Wren’s new Beta-control system reversible pitch propeller with landing roll limited to 100 feet. The demonstration concluded with the Wren backing into its parking slot in front of the
plant by using the Beta prop in reverse pitch.

We are inviting everyone to attend
the forthcoming Texas National Air
Races to be held on May 12, 13, 14, at
Luck Field.

HOUSTON CHAPTER
Martha Akins, Reporter
The April meeting was held at the
Continental Houston Hotel. This was
a real fun meeting, lots of business, and
the final touch was the viewing of the
film “The Stamp of Friendship.” This
copy was purchased by MR. AND MRS.

CHARLES HOOKS for $125.00 and will

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Packet Pg. 681 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) Recent visit to the Wren factory by members of the Ft. Worth Chapter. be presented to the University of Texas film library in memory of their son DAVID WAYNE HOOKS. This presentation will be made by BLANCHE NOYES, Charter 99 from the Washington D. C. Chapter, at the David Wayne Hooks Airport dedication May

7. MABLE EDITH OLIVER, Air Marking Chairman, reports the completion of two more Air Markings — Brenham
and Pearland. Two more are scheduled — Center and Liberty. Congratulations go to IMARY JANE NORRIS for her new Instrument rating.

April 2, we had a very successful
“Penny-a-Pound” ride at Spaceland
Airport taking up 457 people. The Petticoat Pilots sold hot dogs during the Penny-a-Pound as well as helping with
various chores.

The Houston Chapter brought home
the attendance trophy from the South
Central Sectional in Tulsa. Everyone
had a wonderful time. These Tulsa
girls really went all out to make us
welcome. We are looking forward to
having everyone in Houston Spring 1968.

KANSAS CHAPTER
Mildred Early, Reporter
Just returned from the Sectional at
Tulsa and our hats off to the Tulsa
99s for a wonderful time! Our Chapter
had 13 Ninety-nines and seven 49%-ers
and one guest there. Our Chairman,
MARILYN COPELAND, presented the
attendance trophy to the Houston Chapters at the banquet. The new Topeka Chapter came in second with 100% attendance, but lost out on the distance traveled. BETTY JEAN STANFORD,
Chairman of the Topeka Chapters, accepted their Charter on March 18th from Vice-President, DONNA MYERS.

Governor ARLENE WALKUP also attended, along with ten Kansas 99s and their husbands and guests. In spite of
the weather, the dinner party was
well attended and we are happy to have
a sister Chapter in our state!
Our April meeting was held at the
new Augusta Municipal Airport with
30 Ninety-Nines and 12 guests, plus
several Wing Scouts present. The
Wing Scouts assisted the 99’s in air
marking a hangar, which proved to be
quite a challenge in 40 knot winds!
Because of the high winds, only one
of our 99’s was brave enough to take
her APT test. Congratulations to our
first “APT Girl”, GRACE CRIST of
Holcomb, Kansas! Plans are under
way to air mark several small towns
in southeastern Kansas next month.

Two of our members are busily making plans to fly the Powder Puff Derby: PAT McEWIN in her Bonanza and JOYCE FUNSCH in a Debonaire. Congratulations are in order for JOYCE, too, as she has been honored by being
nominated by the Beta Sigma Phi Sorority as one of the “Outstanding Young Women of America!” A book is published annually which gives the backgrounds and biographies of the young women for their activities in business
and civic affairs. MARY AIKINS is
also busy planning to participate in
several air shows around the country
this summer.

Please join us in extending a warm
welcome to the following new 99’s in
our Chapter: WILMA ADAMSON, BEA
POLING, BETH HALL, JAN RIORDAN, MARY LEE GEBHART, ELEANOR KNOTT and OLIVE KEMPER, all of Wichita; and, LOUISE ROBINSON of Garden City, and IDA SCIILITTER of Hays! We have eight more girls who are eligible for balloting.

As I mentioned in the last letter, we
regret losing GENE NORA and BOB
JESSEN, but wish them much happiness in their new home and venture as a Beechcraft Dealer in Boise,
Idaho. Their new address is: MR. and
MRS. L. R. JESSEN, 2814 Cassia,
Boise, Idaho 83705.

NEBRASKA CHAPTER
Lois B. Durham, Reporter
Saturday, April 1st, found the 99’s
out in strength participating in
Nebraska Centennial Days at Lincoln.

As usual, the weather played tricks
and the handsome Thunderjets had to
stay on the ground, however, JOHNNY CARSON and several 99's managed to land and the day at the airport was quite a success.

Twenty-one 99’s were on hand, and
although CATHERINE MARSH was in
Des Monies for a church meeting,
she sent the good DOCTOR as a standin. Our new scrapbook was on display, as was the hand that shook the hand
of JOHNNY CARSON (yes, Evelyn!).

Bits and bites — JEANNE GIVEN
passed her flight check and is now a
full-fledged Instructor, and SHIRLEY
AMEN is very close to the 200 hour
Commercial. HELEN ERHLICH has
changed occupations and has talked
her new boss back into the air. HELEN
acted as an assistant hostess for the
Mail Plane Festival (the reenactment
of the night mail flight) and has taken over the Nebraska Civil Air Patrol Public Relations Officer position. One
of our newest 99’s, HELEN SELLENTIN, presented 49% er JERRY with a future 99, and FLORENCE BORING, our Chairman, reports she is feeling fine after surgery at Bryan
Hospital.

JAN MUNKRES has been in Brownsville, Texas on a visit, and JAN HEINS tells us she has been working at
Clarkson Hospital in Omaha in the
surgery section. We also hear that

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Packet Pg. 682 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) VERDAYNE MENZE has been under
(he weather.

Haven’t heard about the Tulsa Sectional, but hope our group got through the weather. Plans are in progress
for several Centennial celebrations —
looks like this summer will be busy.

OKLAHOMA CHAPTER
Comanche Jane Abbott, Reporter
Oklahoma Chapter’s Flight Clinic,
March 12, can be reported as ‘very
successful.’ The weather was in the
best form for practice-flying, that Oklahoma has enjoyed for several weeks — CAVU for the interim. Eighteen
members and three guests signed in,
and broke for lunch at the new Will
Rogers World Airport terminal. They
were served the airlines tray special
(TWA sampling, perhaps?) which had
been arranged by 99 NANCY ORCUTT.

The Annual Proficiency Test — the
first to be held in the South Central
Section — is an upgrading program to
‘help keep women fliers proficient in
their skills and to aid them in recognizing their own limitations.” The clinic provided every one the opportunity
to ride with a qualified instructor.

Seventeen lady pilots were signed off:

NEMA MASONHALL, ERONETA

EVANS, VELMA WOODWARD, MARY
CORNELSEN, ANN CATLIN, MARTHA THOMASON, BILLIE JO KINNARD, WAYNA LEA DUFFER, PAT

MORGAN, AULENA GIBSON, NANCY

ORCUTT, ANN GRISSOM, RUTH
CRAIG JONES, IDA CARTER, and
DOTTIE YOUNG who signed her own
APT. Instructors were LLOYD CATLIN, DAVE BURROUGHS, and DOTTIE YOUNG. ARLENE WALKUP and CAROL WADDELL acquired their APT
the previous month.

SUSIE SEWELL a n d DOTTIE
YOUNG arranged for the use of a
plane and the instructors. LLOYD
CATLIN provided his hangar facilities
to use as headquarters for the clinic.

Governor WALKUP and Chairman
WADDELL are to be commended as
‘parents’ to this successful project.

Others present at the meeting were

RITA EAVES, SAUNDRA NIX, SUSIE
SEWELL, BETH SMITH, and JANE
ABBOTT. RITA, Scrapbook Chairman,
enlisted the help of the members to
sort and paste while they awaited their
turn to check ride. A film, “Short
Field Landings”, was shown also.

ANN GRISSOM is the Chapter’s newest member. WAYNA LEA DUFFER has been appointed Air Marking
Chairman. ARLENE WALKUP and
CAROL WADDELL flew to Amarillo,
Texas, I he week-end of March 4-5 and
met with members of the “Top-OTexas” Chapter. DOTTIE YOUNG will attend the Women’s Advisory Committee meeting in Washington, D.C., April 11-14. DOTTIE has attained another
achievement in the aviation world —
the coveted Gold Seal.

The Chapter sometimes - monthlynewsletter editor, called ‘Anonymous,’ wants a name for this gossip sheet
and has offered a prize to the member
whose suggested title is chosen.

THINK! And act, girls!!
The next Chapter meeting will be
April 16, 10:00 a.m., Camelot Inn,
Tulsa.

SAN ANTONIO CHAPTER
Marian Burke, Reporter
San Antonio Chapter 99’s had their
monthly meeting April 8, 1967 at the
Dobb’s House restaurant at International Airport. We had five prospective new members present. Not all of them have their pilot rating yet but
they are working hard.

Welcome to our two new members;

VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
(then M A IL it!)
MARY CSASZAR and CAROL YOUS.

MARY has a Commercial with Instrument rating and works at Kelly AFB.

She is a member of the Kelly Aero
Club. CAROL is a military nurse at
Lackland AFB and has a Private rating. She is also a member of the Kelly Aero Club. These two girls will
represent Kelly AFB in the 1987
Powder Puff Derby. It will be their
first race and they are real excited.

MARIAN BURKE, who is the civilian
chairman for air race events for the
50th Golden Anniversary for Kelly
AFB, is giving the girls a helping hand
on air race plans. The girls will fly
a Kelly Aero Club plane.

MARIAN BURKE just returned from
an interesting trip from Europe. She
was gone three weeks and traveled
through Germany, France, Luxemburg, Australia, Holland, Eelgium, and Iceland. She enjoyed all of the countries but said Holland and Iceland were favorites. Three weeks just
isn’t enough time to see each country
so it only means that she is planning
another trip at a later date. We will
follow with the next newsletter on a
few interesting things that happened.

Our Chapter Chairman, NORMA
McELVAIN won the Brook’s Officers
Couples Golf Tournament” April 2
. . . Good for you NORMA . . . It
proves that we have people in this
group that do many other things as
well as fly.

BETSY HOGAN is still busy working
as an executive secretary and going
to night school part time. She and
husband BILL are still busy with their
newly acquired property at Lake
Travis. That’s all the news available
for now . . . more next time . . . Happy Flyin’!

SHREVEPORT CHAPTER
Evelyn Snow, Reporter
The March meeting of the Shreveport Chapter was held at JERE SAUR’S lovely home on Cross Lake.

After the business meeting SARAH
HENLEY introduced as our program
a selection of piano music by our hostess. As SARAH so charmingly observed, it is such a pleasure to have so talented a person in our group who
is also so modest . . . none of us
knew that JERE is an accomplished
musician, working on her Master’s Degree in Music!
With open wings, we welcomed our
new member, ALICE (Mrs. Robert A.)
STACY, at our March meeting. ALICE
got into the swing of things in a hurry
when she flew co-pilot for HELEN
WRAY in the twin Piper to Little Rock
for the annual Fair Lady Follies held
by the Arkansas Chapter. BETTY
BIGNER, of the Shreveport Journal,
accompanied them to write up the
event for the Shreveport paper. Also
flying in to the Fair Lady Follies was
HELEN HEWITT' in her Bellanca, accompanied by Navigator - Co-pilots HAZEL NEALEY, JUDY MOORE, and
EVELYN SNOW. Are you ready?'
The Arkansas Gals had done it up
brown
by marking a spot where we had to
touch down.

With a strong crosswind blowing,
It was really no lark
To get on the runway,
Much less hit the mark!
But our two HELENS — WRAY and

HEWITT,
Walked off with two trophies . . .

We knew they could do it!!
HELEN HEWITT won Second Place
With a fine display of skill and grace.

Third place was taken by HELEN
WRAY
A fact that really made her day.

12.A.c
Packet Pg. 683 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) Winners of the spot landing contest at the Fair Lady Follies in Little Kock April 5th. HELEN HEWITT, Shreveport—PEGGY BAKER, Arkansas—HELEN WRAY, Shreveport. (Photo by Betty Bigner, Shreveport Journal).

With their passengers coaching, and
retractable gear
That’s quite a day’s work, wouldn’t
you say, dear?!
Please excuse the bad poetry (?)
gals, but for such an unusual feat
we had to do something different to
tell you about it. We are really proud
of our winners, and want to congratulate the Arkansas Chapter on their fine plans and thank them for a really
fun day. HAZEL NEALEY and ALICE
STACY each came home with a door
prize to make our day complete!
We held our April meeting on April
10 at the home of Chapter Chairman
JOAN CARROLL. Present were MARTHA CHRISTY, PEGGY HARRIS, HELEN HEWITT, JENNY (new Commercial pilot) McWILLIAMS, JUDY

MOORE, HELEN WRAY, JERE
SAUR, and EVELYN SNOW. While
discussing what to do about our air
marking plans for Lucien field, which
are stalled at present, we discovered
more talent in our Chapter . . .

MARTHA CHRISTY earnestly quipped, “What we need is a solution for Lucien!” Ah, well . . .

The Postman finally stopped at
HELEN WRAY’S to deliver news that
she passed her Instrument Written
Examination with the beautiful grade
of 82. We’re so proud of her!
DOTTIE PORTS and 49% BUD arrived at Tulsa for the Sectional on Friday . . . they helped roll out the barrell in the Great Hall of Camelot and collected a prize for being first to
arrive from Louisiana. Saturday morning MARTHA and RAY CHRISTY, HELEN and CHARLEY WRAY, JOAN
and DAVID CARROLL, and HELEN
HEWITT and JERE SAUR all took
off from Shreveport and practically
flew formation to Tulsa. Trailing in
last, not only from Louisiana, but also
the last to arrive from anywhere was
your friendly Reporter and her 49% er
DAN. Henceforth to be dubbed forevermore “Tail End Charlie” we guess! We were presented a bottle of champaign at the luncheon in recognition of this tremendous feat (for which
thoughtfulness we are grateful to the
Tulsa gals). CHARLEY WRAY, Ford
dealer in Shreveport, won the door
prize donated by the Ford dealer in
Tulsa — that’s really keeping it in
the family!
All of us from Shreveport who attended the Sectional want to take this opportunity to thank the Tulsa Chapter
for a wonderful time — you were
marvelous hostesses and we could tell
you really worked hard. We’re still
recuperating from hostessing the Fall
Sectional, so we know . . . and when
our Chairman JOAN CARROLL stood
up to stretch at the business meeting
just when they were asking for volunteers to hostess the next Sectional, the rest of us nearly had a heart attack!
(all in fun). The entertainment proved
that Vaudeville is not dead — EDNA
GARDNER WHYTE was heard lamenting the fact that no Hollywood Talent Scouts were present. And so, thanks
a million for the good cheer, good
friends, good food — not to mention all
the other goodies — we really enjoyed
“cutting a caper at Camelot”!!

SOUTH LOUISIANA CHAPTER
Our March meeting at Fairview
Plantation featured 9 members and
several 49%ers and 66s, all enjoying
lovely weather and a delicious meal
on the upstairs gallery of Fairview.

The members not attending were
plagued by sickness, business trips and
such that prevented their joining us.

We were especially saddened by the
news of the death of JIIM LaFLEUR’S
father two days before the meeting.

However, convening our business
meeting back at Ryan Airport, we
were able to do some soul-searching on
several matters of policy that our relateively new Chapter had failed to take action on previously — our 66
program, requirements for prospective
99s and 66s, etc. It was an excellent
discussion period and a lot was accomplished. We also decided to order name badges for our entire Chapter
and approved a mahogony plaque
available to Charter Members to purchase. We voted on a proposal to buy a lovely new scrapbook and agreed
to put our Minutes Book in order, including a section of memorandas for a matter of record on policies we have
adopted. We discussed the Photo Contest at length and decided on an allout campaign in our individual locations to encourage participants. We are offering, in conjunction with the
SHV Chapter, a weekend for two in
New Orleans as our prize.

Talk about our February 26th Pilots
Poker Run had come to a dead halt.

Nobody is interested in that one anymore — everyone wants to know when the next one will be. TONY PAGE’S
X-Country News gave us a nice writeup.

And, we’ve added a couple more 66s
to our list: LINDA WARD, the sisterin-law of PAT WARD and GLORIA HOLMES, started taking lessons the
day after the Poker Run, soloed in 20
days, with 10 hours dual. That makes
it unanimous in the WARD family
which consists of ROGER, PAT, BOBBY and LINDA, and GLORIA, married to a pilot. With 6 pilots in the family MAMA and PAPA WARD are
never short of pilots to fly them anywhere they want to go in the family

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Packet Pg. 684 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) 170. The other 66 is JUNE KERN,
bookkeeper at I lair Flying Service,
and who soloed early in April. Husband
JACK is also a pilot. Have also heard
from JOANNE HENDERSON and
NORMA CRAIG, both of BTR, new
student pilots who wish to apply for
membership in the 66 program. Understand that CAL 'MEREDITH is flying again, with her mended wrist and that MARGARET RUTH is almost
ready for her written and checkride.

Our next meeting will be April 23rd,
at New Orleans International Airport
(better known as Moissant, MSY) for
an FAA guided tour of the FAA radar,
control and weather facilities. We hope
to see our New Orleans girls there.

MOLLY STOCKWELL reports sales
going great on car tags, while PAT
WARD reports sales on personal
rubber name stamps slow.

DEE and BILL COMEAUX took
their Commercial writtens on the same
day. The story was that if BILL passed and DEE didn’t, he had to sleep on the couch for a month. As it turns
out, they both passed, but he’s on the
couch anyway. Seams he made a few
points higher than she did. Congratulations to them both. Maybe by the next report, we’ll be able to say that
GLORIA HOLMES has passed it, too.

PATSY JONES and DEE are up
against the deadline for entering the
IAR with still no known sponsor. We
all have our fingers crossed for them.

BARBARA TEER reports that her
flying activities will have to be curtailed somewhat in expectation of a new little TEER. Congratulations to
her and DALE.

Ferry trips to the Cessna factory
have been slow, but MOLLY, DEE and
GLORIA did make one on April 4th.

DEE brough back a Skyline, and
GLORIA RON’d in ICT to be with
49% er DAVE who was in “school” at
Beech preparing for delivery of the
new King Air that GOVERNOR McKEITHEN will be sporting soon.

The plans we had to air mark the
Downtown Airport in BTR have had to
be cancelled (our fight for saving the
airport looks bad), but PAT CHRIST
reports that we can air mark the Thangars at Houma Airport on May 13th. This will be our first. I hope they
know what they’re doing, letting us
experiment with their facilities. Should
be fun, though, and we pray for good
weather.

Weather is rather a nasty word in
BTR today (April 15th). Instead of
sitting at home writing a report for
YVONNE RYDER, South Louisiana
Chapter Charter Member, Pharmacist, General Manager of three stores. Got her BS in Pharmacy and
BM in Music at Loyola in New Orleans. Member of Phi Beta Epsilon, Music Sorority, and Kappa Epsilon,
Pharmacy Sorority. Started flying
in 1963 to expedite business trips.

Owns a Cessna 150 (4314U), has logged over 200 hours flight time, holds a Private license. Makes her home
in New Iberia.
the NEWS, we had planned (since last
Sept.) to be in Tulsa at the SC Section
meeting. The Cessna Distributor was
going to send us to ICT in a 310 to pick
up a load of Skyhawks to ferry to
Tulsa for the meeting and then bring
them to BTR afterwards. And then
the rains came .... and more rains
came! Understand we made national
broadcast headlines. It is said that
1-inch of rain is equal to 5 inches of
snow. We don't know much about
snow, but you who do, can figure this
one out: we had 12.56” of rain in a
little less than 12-hours. In our muddled, rainsoaked head, this figures out to something over 5 feet — all at one
time. GLORIA, MOLLY, DEE and
PAT were going to go, stopping in
SHV for JENNY McWILLIAMS. There
was a lull in thunderstorm activity
during the day of Friday, and we were
going to rush to the airport and leave
—which was great, except that the
streets to the airport were under 4’
of water in places. Water was up to

VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
(then M A IL it!)
the bellies of the Cessna 150's on the
west ramp. The whole city was paralyzed, and at this writing, thousands of homes are still flooded. While we
were being drowned, towns 30 miles
southwest were enjoying sunshine. No
rhyme nor reason! The situation is
reminiscent of the aftermath of the
hurricanes. It’s hard to believe it’s
happening. All our 99s were untouched
by the flood waters so far as we
know. Telephone wires are out of order
all over town, so we don’t know for
sure about a couple of them, but feel
that they are alright. Purple heart
goes to DEE COMEAUX’S 49%er,
BILL, who braved 500’ ceilings and
everything else that goes with a squall
line to fly a TV photographer to take
pictures of the floods. BILL says the
Purple Heart should go to the photographer. They’ll do anything to get the lead on a “scoop”, won’t they?
We have a saying down here: “See
you in the gumbo.” Somehow, today,
that’s too near the truth to be amusing!
Come meet with us: May 13 in Houma,
June 10th in Hammond.

TIP OF TEXAS CHAPTER
Elaine Needham, Reporter
Hello fellow flying enthusiasts, as
always, spring brings out the annual
phenomenon of the nest building instinct in our little feathered friends.

Well, I suspect the lowly instinct dogs
even polits, especially female ones.

Have you done your spring house
cleaning yet? Yes? Well, then, your
right in tune. Notice a yin to polish
up your little tin bird in the hangar
and head for the blue yonder. Yep,
it’s the migrating urge. Well, now that
we know that we female pilots are no
better than feathered pilots, we’d better get on with the news:

FRANCES BROWN just put on a
gigantic rummage sale in her garage
to help net more money for air marking. While FRANCES was busy with that, MERLE DUNNAM and VEDA
TENNENT went scouting for rooftops
for air marks. Then the air marking
crew consisting of PAULINE GLASSON and ELAINE NEEDHAM went out on two consecutive weekends and
did nine air marks.

We recently held flight rides in Beeville to help dedicate the new airport.

Not too long ago the local C of C
sponsored a luncheon meeting and had
as guest speaker, MARY DORR from
the Los Angeles Chapter. Six of our
local members were present at this
meeting and were charmed by MARY
DORR’s talents.

12.A.c
Packet Pg. 685 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) A scene at the Charter Presentation Banquet for the newly formed Topeka Chapter.

That’s about it for now except to
say that PAULINE GLASSON has
just installed classy black new seats
covers and safety belts in one of her
two tin birds. Are there biological implications here?? Nope, just necessity says PAULINE. Oh well, it could have made a good story.

Bye now.

TOPEKA CHAPTER
Ginny Maddox, Reporter
Small in number but mighty in spirit,
we five new 99s received our Charter
on March 18th, and were no longer
Topeka’s “Petticoat Pilots.” PettiPilots was the name we chose for our group one year ago when we formed
a “pilot” group to determine whether
we had what it takes to be a 99 chapter. We decided we did.

Were we pleased! To present our
charter came 99 Vice President DONNA MYERS from Colorado. ARLENE Welcome
and
Congratulations
to our newly formed
Topeka Chapter
WALKUP, our section Governor, had
said she would be here if she had to
walk, and she practically did, as the
weather man had blessed Topeka with
solid ice for the banquet-presentation.

Our many many thanks to GENE
NORA JESSEN for her special encouragement and fast expedition of our charter application. Among the fortyfour guests present were no less than ten of our sponsoring Kansas Chapter
from Wichita (plus four 49!4ers) who
presented us with a lovely gavel. Guest
speaker ROGER SWANSON, Travel
Editor of the “Kansas City Star,” gave
an interesting talk on “Vacations in
the Sky.”
We’ve been busy since March!
Present at our April meeting were
two Chamber of Commerce members,
one of whom was the Vice President.

We introduced them to our group and
goals, and are already reaping their
benefits. They assured us of their full
support in our program to make the
Topeka Airport a better gateway to
Topeka and are already having a large
bulletin board made for us for the
Pilots’ Lounge. They also invited us
to join their Aviation Committee on a
trip to Beechcraft in Wichita.

We were told we broke a record this
weekend by having 100 per cent of our

12.A.c
Packet Pg. 686 Attachment: Landmark Application 3223 Donald Douglas Loop additional materials (6747 : Landmark Appeal - Airport Compass Rose) View of the head table during the Topeka Chapter Charter presentation.

Shown in the center of the picture are Kansas Chapter Chairman, MARILYN COPELAND, left, and International Vice-President, DONNA MYERS, right. Topeka Chairman BETTY JEAN STANFORD, standing.

Chapter attend the South Central Sectional meeting in Tulsa. We decided those Sectional meetings are “A-OK.”
Now we have to recuperate.

Please come to our Pilots’ Raid on
May 21st. We have a problem — small
chapter, smaller treasury! It is a
scavenger hunt that should be fun.

Airplanes will be timed out and have
three hours to go to airports of their
choice to look for treasures. Free
food and prizes will follow the Raid.

It’s great to be aboard!
ED. NOTE — Great to have YOU too!
DOONA MYERS, and DORIS RENNINGER. HERB FISHER from New Yorkville shared our goodies too.

Just one more thing. BETTY
NATION has her ATR. How about
that?

NORTHWEST

SECTION

TULSA CHAPTER
Jean Engler, Reporter
Great Day in the morning! We had
such a nice turn out at our Sectional
meeting. Since this was our first attempt, we’re still a little wet behind the ears. Anyhoo we hope all 154 of
you had as much fun as we did.

Ed Note —WE DID!
Seeing past presidents EDNA
GARDNER WHITE, RUTH DEERMAN, and BRONETA EVANS certainly gave us a boost. In fact there were
so many to say thanks for coming to
— especially SOL SMITH, who is so
talented that I personally would like
to kick him, but we wouldn’t have
gotten far without him.

Also, three of our International gals
were here, GENE NORA JESSBH,

EASTERN IDAHO CHAPTER
Diane Jex, Reporter
Our April meeting was at the Pocatello Airport. VIRGINIA FINKELNBURG brought refreshments and met PAT1 DUKICK, LEORA BERGEVIN,
and DIANE JEX. We held no formal
business meeting, but discussed some
of our coming events and did some
hanger flying.

EMMALYN PAYNE has been instructing a ground school in Jackson, Wyoming. She had 10 students (4 of
them women) and they have taken
their Private written exams. We had
hoped to have EMMALYN with us
at our April meeting, but the Tetons
were in the clouds and the weather
didn’t promise to improve, so she
wasn’t ahlt to fly 1o Pocatello.

PAT DUKICH and husband. MICKEY, are planning to attend the Reno Air Races again this year. FRANCES
and KEN CUNNINGTON just returned from a vacation in Hawaii.

LEORA BERGEVIN had added
dressmaking to her list of accomplishments. She has studied diligently and taken many tests to earn her dressmaker's certificate.

We a r e all saddened by ONITA
HOFF’S great loss. In January, the
Hoffs lost their eldest son, Jim.

ONITA’S husband, MARK, passed
away in March. His death was preceded by several years of ill health.

Many of you know ONITA personally,
as she has been a 99 for many years;
first a member of Utah Chapter and
then a Charter member of Eastern
Idaho. MARK and ONITA have always been enthusiastic pilots and have a flying family. They have a
Cessna 120 and their own airstrip at
Rainbow Ranch, which is a few miles
out of Idaho Falls. They have a host
of friends, all of whom have found
flying is contagious when they are
in the presence of the HOFF family.

March also brought ONITA a new
grand daughter.

We have gained another new member this month . . . ELAINE PARTRIDGE. She is a new pilot and teaches school full time. ELAINE and her husband, CLARK, own a Cherokee 180.

We’re very happy to welcome her
into Eastern Idaho Chapter.

EASTERN WASHINGTON CHAPTER
Mary Jane Becker, Reporter
It appears that this column has
been in silent mourning for having
lost HELEN CRUM as Reporter. We
all agreed, at our March meeting
held at the Town and Country Restaurant, Spokane, that she did a wonderful job for many years. Marginal weather forced MINNIE BOYD to
drive up from Pullman bringing TERRIE BECKER. JEAN CARBON, LYGIE HAGAN, MILLIE SHINN and
our new member, RENIE ANDRODE,
kept ANITA HOYLE’S secretarial pen
flying as we caught up on business
transactions.

ALBERTA ANDERSON flew her
Beech back from Phoenix just in time
to attend the February Social Luncheon held at LYGIE HAGAN’S ridgetop home. At this time, MINNIE

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her way (o Mexico Cily on a British
Comet via Mcxicana Airlines stopping at Mazatlan and Puerta Vallarta.

A cheerful Mexican guide drove them
to Cuernavaca, Taxieo, Acapulco, and
Guadalajara. They returned to Palm
Springs after visiting GERTRUDE
LOCKWOOD at Carlsbad. She flew
them over San Diego in her Cessna
175. MINNIE'S Cherokee was vacationing too . . . getting it’s annual tuneup.

JEAN CARBON left her plane in
the hanger at Bellingham and drove
to the March meeting of the Western
Washington Chapter in Seattle, where
she received the red carpet treatment. JEAN’S new permanent address is 1540 Davie Street, Suite No. 51, Vancouver, 5, British Columbia.

JEAN would be glad to hear from
any visiting “99’s”. . . Her phone
number is 681-6570. After viewing the
documentary films taken of the 1966
AWTAR, she visited HELEN DEWEY,
who moved there from Omak. JEAN
braved blizzards to attend the January and February meetings held in PRICE PIPER’S cozy back office at
Felt’s Field, Spokane.

It was so nice to chat with HELEN
ERNSDORFF during our last Fly-In
meeting at Nolan Dakota Flying
Service lounge in Yakima. HELEN
left her busy office where she is instructing full time. ETHEL WICKSTROM and HELEN CRUMM treated us royally even though ETHEL had just flown in from Ellensburg in
her Aztec and HELEN CRUMM was
eager to go back up for her checkout in the twin. LYGIE had flown in NITA HOYLE, MILLIE SHINN, and
BARBARA THISTED in the Commanche while MINNIE had flown in TERRIE BECKER and FRANCI GIBSON. FRANCI searched in vain for a Mooney Mite. FRANCI is looking
for a plane in which she will have
no trouble reaching the rudder pedals.

LYGIE HAGAN got on collision
course with a hawk while driving
home with her mother from her place
in Mexico. Luckily, it was near
“GUS” and FRANCES GUST A VSON’S Flying Service, Fallon, Nevada so her ruffled feathers were soothed
by FRAN whille CORNIE was thousands of feet above happily flying I heir Comanche home. Every weekend finds LYGIE “under the hood” until she takes off for the Spring
Board meeting and Southwest Sectional in Phoenix which members of the Executive Board will attend. Besides winning the Manitoba Country Club Women’s Golf Championship,
GINNY HARPER was flying M. D.’s
into remote Idaho towns and working on Her Instructor’s rating, last summer and Fall.

BONNIE HENSON is home again,
a proud, first time, flying grandmother. Her first grandchild, DOUGLAS HENSON ALLSWORTH arrived in Phoenix to her pilot daughter
CAROLEE. BONNIE and CHET had
been filming the West Coast of South
America and also filming “Mexico’s
Many Faces” from their Cherokee.

They have yet to do the narration
and music for the latter.

KATHLEEN HITCHCOCK got a
beautiful tan flying the Phoenix skies
this past winter while her husband
worked on his ATR down there. ANITA HOYLE got her tan sailing a 21 inch Victory Sailboat which she says
is much like flying . . . with wind
conditions to consider. BARBARA
NETTLESHIP glides her Cessna 310
past BEV PAULSON’S Grandview
home en route to Yakima. BEV flew
her eight year old daughter over to
our February luncheon in the Comanche after holding a wedding reception for her oldest daughter the night before. BOBBOE PRICE doesn’t
let nap time for her four year old
son interfere with her flying; she just
puts him in the back seat of the
Super Cub or one of the Cherokee’s
and takes off. She has encouraged
her mother-in-law MRS. TOM PRICE,
SR., grandmother of seven, to work
on her Private pilot’s license.

GINNY RICHARDSON and RALPH
have been taking turns commuting to
Greece where they are using TBM’s
to spray the forests. She is home
now working seven days a week both
spraying and instructing. The last
time I saw BETTY JANE SEAVEY,
she was doing high flying on the
ground getting her teenagers to meetings on time. That happy smile on MILLIE SHINN’S face is due to a new
membership in a Mooney Club. She
still plans to accompany THAD on
cross country business trips but will
have a plane in which to practice
maneuvers and stay current.

BARBARA THISTED flew their
Pacer down to Pullman to MINNIE
BOYD’S November Fly-In from her
Spirit Lake newly-cleared private
strip. She will be moving to San
Diego, where DALE will be instructing with an old buddy after school is out. Until then, she will move into
Spokane. MYRA ROEHL flew a Cessna 172 around squalls from Yakima to Pullman bringing a guest. She said
it wasn’t bad compared to the trip
she took solo from Yakima too Oakland right after getting her Private.

DR. DAVE RAHM, Professor oof Geology at WSU, showed slides and films of geological formations and mountain peaks which he took at close range from his J-3 Cub and a Cessna 172. Meanwhile the men-folk enjoyed CARL BOYD’S recreation room refreshments and facilities. CONNIE
and LYGIE had to file IFR to make
it bringing MILLIE and THAD while
JEAN drove down with ALBERTA.

RENIE ANDRODE, our new member has passed her Commercial written and is getting ready for her checkride. It’s quite a change from a
65 H. P. Luscombe to a Comanche
250, she says. Our February guest,
MARY JANE APPLING, is writing a
book about women in aviation . . .
she has her Private and believes in
promoting the female in aviation.

Your reporter found herself following the road from Spokane to Pullman after our January meeting when unpredicted snow squalls reduced
visibility. Thank goodness for all that
instruction in slow flight! The Cessna
182 is more stable than the Cessna
172 she discovered, under adverse
conditions.

NORTHWEST OREGON CHAPTER
Kathy Elmore, Reporter
Things are rolling along at their
usual rapid pace with this Chapter.

It seems that most of our members
have their planes in the shop for
overhauls or licensing this time of
year which really reduces the flying.

BOBBIE HAYES led a tour of 15
planes from Hillsboro Aviation to
Mexico, and a good time was had by
all according to the reports.

Our February meeting was held at
Henry Thiele’s Restaurant on the 12th.

This breakfast meeting was most enjoyable, and we were pleased to welcome MARCY and JIM WOLFARD’S guests, GLENN and JO CLARRIDGE
from Santa Cruz, California. GLENN
and JO have recently moved to Oregon City since GLENN, an engineer,

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I he breakfast, Chairman JO-NEAL
briefly went through the various
items to be brought to the members
attention, including a pylon race on
the East Coast in which we positively
expect MARCY WOLFARD and BARBARA DAUFEL to return home with honors, the possibility of supplying
AWTAR with Oregon scenic pictures,
and this Chapter’s support of nominees for the International offices.

This chapter is most proud too submit for nomination, o u r Northwest Section Vice-Governor, MARY KILBOURNE for the International Office of Vice-President, and recognize
MARY’S executive skill and ability.

BILL OWEN of the Portland Tower
climaxed the morning with the showing of three films, each of interest to various members. The first film
was the AOPA 180 degrees which describes and shows the approved method of coping with unexpected
instrument conditions; the second film
showed the role women play in the
testing of aircraft instruments and
navigational aids; and the third was
on the subject of VASI which our instrument pilots found most interesting.

Our March meeting was held on
the 6th in the Pilots Lounge at Hillsboro Aviation. The majority of business was centered about this Chapter’s part in the first Northwest Section Air-Race, BARARA DAUFEL and ARLINE BAKER are Co-Chairmen on this project, and will be working closely with the Montana Chapter. This race will be held in August, with starts in Montana and Oregon
and terminating at Pocatello, Idaho.

And this, girls, is all ANYBODY
knows except the Co-Chairmen. Even
the various committee members are
in the dark as to the actual workings
of the race, and it looks like the
only way to find out, is to enter and
fly it. It sounds like it will be fun
as it will be on a proficiency basis
(I think) and knowing the intricate,
devious minds of BARBARA and ARLINE, we can expect just about anything. This race, as yet unnamed, will be the first all-Section Air Race.

It will be a wonderful opportunity
for the Northwest Section members
to get together and have a good time.

Some of our members were pleased
to attend the showing of the WCBSTV film “A Powder Puff for Joan” sponsored by the Oregon Chapter.

This film was taken during the Powder Puff Derby last summer to be shown on the East Coast, and a copy
was presented to the Ninety-Nines,
Inc. to be circulated among the different States. A very pleasant dinner preceded the showing of this documentary at the Officers Club of Portland Airbase.

We are real happy to announce LILLIAN LEWIS has passed her Commercial written test with a very comfortable margin. She is just waiting now for enough clear weather to meet
the requirements for her Flight
Check.

BETTY PRAKKEN, JO-NEAL HARRIS, and BARBARA DAUFEL handled the registration at the recent Flight Instructors Seminar held at the
Airbase in Portland the third week of
February. In addition, several of our
Chapter members attended this three
day seminar and are quite enthusiastic over the great amount of information they were able to acquire. Hopefully this will become an annual event. The Seminar was sponsored by
the State Board of Aeronautics and
conducted by the FAA Academy from
Oklahoma City. The instructors are
all top personnel and know whereof
they speak.

KATHY ELMORE was co-hostess at
a dinner party honoring Oregon’s oldest pilot, JERRY WILDMAN, February 24, at Top O’Scott. This dinner was attended by some fifty guests
many of whom have been active and
prominent in aviation for many years,
as well as regards from some thirty
more guests who were unable to attend. RALPH McGINNIS, Director of our hard-working, women in aviationminded, State Board of Aeronautics MC’d the occasion.

Make plans for attending the Northwest Section’s first Air-Race in August. There will be a good time for all, and you will be hearing more
from us on this subject by mail and
publication.

SOUTHERN OREGON CHAPTER
Hope McKay, Reporter
On March 15 two Roseburg 99s,
ROSE ELLISON, Chairman a n d
HOPE McKAY, News Reporter, traveled to Portland to join other Oregon Chapter members at a dinner meeting at the Officer’s Club at the Air Base. Afterwards they enjoyed the
film ‘‘A Powder Puff for Joan” produced by CBS.

March 20 followed true to form
“ceiling zero” for our regular monthly meeting. ROSE ELLISON had prepared a delicious luncheon but there were only three members present to
enjoy it.

Six members attended our April
meeting held at the Medford Airport.

GLADYS BURRILL and family of
Prospect, made a gallant attempt to
do some skiing at Squaw Valley but
due to heavy snow were unable to
get any further than Reno. FRAN
CAMPBELL of Klamath Falls, recently took a Home Economics judging course in Corvallis. FRAN is our
member who made our 99 attire as
a money making project, proceeds
to go to othe AWTAR. MAXINE PIKE
and 49% er, of Grants Pass, spent
Spring Vacation in Palm Springs via
Los Angeles. All of MAXINE’S spare
time is now being spent polishing up
her plane for July. MRS. H. F. OSMOND of Baldwin Park, California, mother of JEAN SHAW of Grants
Pass was our charming guest.

COACHELLA VALLEY CHAPTER
Garnett Stockton, Reporter
Our most glamorous meeting was
the luncheon held at the beautiful
Desi Arnaz Hotel in Palm Desert.

We were met at the Bermuda Dunes
Airport by GAIL GLASS who was
driving a “Bob Hope Classic” stationwagon. Besides working on the “Classic,” GAIL is flying daily to Montgomery Field to visit her mother who is seriously ill in the Scripps
Hospital.

The food at the DESI ARNEZ was
delicious and believe it or not, LUCILLE BALL sat at the adjoining table!
ILLA MAE had just flown in from
Yuma, Arizona and is very busy with
her ranch, in northern Calif. We
heard that she made enough panning
gold there to have a night on the
town.

ELEANOR WAGNER was wearing
a gorgeous orchid and being very
secretive. We know she is working

SOUTHWEST

SECTION

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about the orchid.

The dedication of the beautiful new
Air Terminal at Palm Springs was
a huge success and our 99s were very
much in evidence.

Yucca Valley has a monthly fly-in
the first Saturday of each month. This
is a dinner meeting and there is always a very interesting program. I have attended four of these meetings
with my 49% er. They have a wonderful turnout and a lot of fun. The Yucca Valley Airport is paved, long,
and well lighted. My telephone number is 714 365-2764. Be seeing YOU!

EL CAJON VALLEY CHAPTER
Dottie Sanders, Reporter
Our feet got wet on our first airmarking project at Borrego — in dry sand? It was a beautiful, warm day
on March 25th. In addition to El Cajon
Valley Chapter members shown in
the accompanying picture, San Diego
Chapter members RUTH EBEY,

BETTY WHARTON, ELEANOR
RICHARDSON and their prospective
member, KITTY SCHIEDING, lent
their much-appreciated helping hands,
as well as FLORENCE FRASER’S
49%er, BOB, and 24%er, RODGER;
IDA GAY’S 49% er, DEL, LYNN
COULTHARD’S 24%ers, JOHN and
KAREN, and ISABELLE McCRAE’S
brother, DON GARRETT. Before we
painted, we fortified ourselves with
a delicious pancake breakfast hosted
by the Borrego Lions Club. After a
job well done, we enjoyed a swim in
the pool of the “Spa” at Borrego
Airport, before departing for home
and lunch at Breise & Johnston Flying Service at Gillespie. (Credit for the picture goes to BETTY WHARTON.)
FREIDA BREISE hostessed our
March meeting at her home. After
necessary business, slides of San Diego’s Mardi Gras in February were shown by DOTTIE SANDERS, and we
enjoyed the Mardi Gras all over again.

The Ninety-Nine Display at the San
Diego Aerospace Museum is shaping
up after another work meeting at the
Museum on April 5th. 49%er, BOB
FRASER was on hand with his tools
and carpentry skill to help attach
pictures to masonite boards. While
BARBARA ALMAND sorted and arranged pictures, FLORENCE FRASER, FREDA BREISE, IDA GAY, and DOTTIE SANDERS took turns
with the screwdrivers to put them in
place.

A fun flying event, an Aerial Picture Hunt, was cosponsored by San Diego and El Cajon Valley Chapters
on Sunday, April 9. Prior to that CoChairmen, LOIS BARTLING, San Diego, and DOTTIE SANDERS spent
all of their spare minutes finding likely objects for which to search and taking pictures with their trusty
“Brownie.” The weather cooperated
to the utmost with clear, “See-forever” skies which encouraged participation by 18 airplanes and 61 people —nine airplanes from San Diego
Chapter, three from El Cajon Valley,
three from San Diego County Sheriff’s Aero Squadron, one from Palomar Chapter (PAM VANDER LINDEN), and two from El Cajon Flyin Service at Gillespie Field.

The secret destination was Borrego
Airport, where we were transported
too the LaCasa del Zorro for a delicious cold-plate lunch — most appropriate for a warm day on the desert. ISABELLE McCRAE and crew
won first-place trophy, donated by
San Diego Chapter; MARGARET
GOODRICH and crew won second
place prize, a “Let’s Fly” Game;
BARBARA TUCKER and crew won
third place prize, a lighted screwdriver; and ELSIE and ED WATSON won the Special Award (Hopeless)
for having the lowest score. (Although
their score was low, perhaps they
were the most honest contestants
since time did not allow them to
physically see some of the pictures,
so they did not mark them on their
map, although they knew what they
were.) Second, third, and the Special
Award prizes were donated by our
Chapter. Everyone had fun, So LOIS
and DOTTIE are already watching
for possible landmarks for next year’s
Hunt — they have as much fun finding the locations as the contestants in looking for them.

With advance notice from ELLEN
TRINDLE, International Public Relations Chairman, your Reporter represented our Chapter by attending a press conference on the forthcoming International Exposition of Flight at Las Vegas April 27-30, where
Los Angeles Chapter’s actress member, SUSAN OLIVER, will be hostess.

SUSAN and ELLEN flew into Lindbergh Field for the occasion, attended by San Diego Chapter members of Ninety-Nines, members of the press
and television, City Councilmen, ALLAN HITCH who presented SUSAN with a key to the City, San Diego

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Chamber of Commerce, and Public
Relations men from various airlines.

Following the meeting they were
taken on a tour of the San Diego
Aerospace Museum in Balbooa Park.

We enjoyed SUSAN’S brief visit, and
hope that she will return for a more
leisurely and sociable occasion.

April 15th was the date and the
San Diego Aerospace Museum was
the place for San Diego Chapter’s
showing of the WCBS Documentary
Film on the 1966 Powder Puff Derby
—autographs of “local talent” were
at a premium by RUBY KEAVENY,
TERRY VASQUES and 49%er, BOB
SANDERS (Official Starter in 1965
and 1966), featured in the film and
by bit-players, GERTRUDE LOCKWOOD and DOTTIE SANDERS'. Seriously, we all enjoyed the film as well as the delicious refreshments fololwing with MARIAN BANKS, hostess. Attending from our Chapter were JUDY and WES BACHMAN, DOTTIE
and DICK CAMPBELL, DOTTIE and
ROY DAVIS, IDA and DELL GAY,
ISABELLE McCRAE, and DOTTIE
BOB SANDERS. It was a full house
with those attending full of enthusiasm, the film spurring thoughts of getting busy to enter this year’s race!

FALLON CHAPTER
Elaine Brown, Reporter
We’re now plunging into our ninth
week of nasty weather, but we optimists are sure that we’ll be snowed, blown, and rained out by June and
have nothing but clear skies for you
gals entering our San Diego to Reno
Fun Race on the 10th of June. And
wait ’till y o u see the magnificent
trophies! And the publicity promises
to be something! The Reno papers
have given us one whole page on
the 21st of May plus many separate
articles in the weeks preceding the
race. Don’t be surprised to land to
the tune of a brass band and half
the citizenry of Reno.

The awards banquet will be at the
Nugget Convention Center in Sparks,
Navada and those kind people have
provided us with their expert photographer plus many other helpful suggestions. Taking the pictures was the primary reason for our monthly meeting on the first of April, followed by a dandiful luncheon at the home of
DOROTHY STAUFF, plus a short
business meeting. Viewing the pictures was the secondary reason for our next “meeting” at the home of
ELAINE and STAN BROWN. This
gathering included the 49%ers and
was one of the most enjoyable pot
luck dinners and evenings we’ve seen
in these parts. FRAN and GUS GUSTAVSON flew in from Fallon, HAZEL and WERNER HOHN drove over from
Carson City, JANE and BILL JANSSEN from Sparks and from Reno came LOIS and MIKE BROWN, LOIS
and DAVE WILLIAMS, JUDY and
BILL HISLE, DORIS and JOHN
EACRET, DEE BAER (her 49% er,
RICK, had just returned to co-pilot
school in Phooenix for Bonanza Airlines), and guests JUDY and DUANE COLE. Do flying people have more
fun? of coursee!
We did miss DOROTHY and CARROL STAUFF who fired up their Cessna 210 and flew Carroll’s 87-year
old mother to Palm Springs with
them for a wonderfull week-end in the
sun. They’re getting to be regular
commuters these days!
All for this month, gals. Here’s
hoping for sunny skies!

MONTEREY BAY CHAPTER
Sue Johnson, Reporter
On April 2, we held another air-
—4 0 -
lift, charging two cents a pound. This
one was held at Hollister Airport in
conjunction with the Hollister Airman’s sail plane display. Bad weather canceled the sail planes, but we still
did very well. Our sincere thanks
to BETTY WORSTELL for organizing this money-raiser, and to ANNA MAE PARK and MARY PAINTER
for helping BETTY.

Our monthly meeting was held in
the Golden Tee Restaurant at the
Monterey Penninsula Airport. A large
turnout witnessed the 49% er initiation
of RAY BRADSHAW, “SCHEFF”
SCHEFFLER, and DICK WORSTELL.

After dinner we viewed the CBS presentation “A Powder Puff for Joan.” W e especially enjoyed glimpsing
many of our members and their
49%ers in the film.

After our unusually wet spring, the
trip to the Sectional in Phoenix is
going to be a welcome treat for several members.

NORTHERN ARIZONA CHAPTER
Ruth Smith, Reporter
For our April meeting at the Americana Motel, six 99s were present and all three of our 66s. MARY ELLEN
LIKEN drove to Winslow and she

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was to have flown their plane home
from Flag, as they were having some
work done on it, but she decided to
come back for it the next day. BETH

WRIGHT, CAROLYN SHOEMAKER,
and RUTH SMITH, 99s and BEVERLY SMITH, JEAN KNOTT, and JESSYE KNOTT, 66s were present.

LOIS WARD probably won’t forget
to close a flight plan again! When
she flew to Flag for our special Powder Puff Derby meeting in January, she had WILLIAM McCART of the
FSS in Prescott with her and forgot
to close her flight plan! Someone asked her about closing it and she did so, but now Prescott asks her if she
is opening or closing her flight plan.

BETH WRIGHT will leave April
17th for Columbus, Ohio by jet again.

She will be there for about two weeks.

Jet flight is such a change from flying in light aircraft, enjoyable though.

CAROLYN SHOEMAKER has had
trips to Gallup and Phoenix recently.

Since 49%er GENE is a Geologist, he
points out the diifferent strata of rock
as they fly along. While on a jet flight
to St. Louis not long ago, Carolyn
said the pilot was a little excited because he came very close to breaking the record time for a flight from Phoenix to St. Louis. He had the help
of a tailwind of 150 miles per hour.

After her exciting trip to Francisco Grande, 66 JEAN KNOTT made a cross country to St. Johns to visit
friends. This time everything went
as planned, no problems at all. JEAN
hasn’t been flying too much since
then, but as soon as her cut hand
(required about 8 stitches) heals she
is going to settle down to serious business and have her license by June.

We’re glad to have JESSYE KNOTT
back with us. She was in Phoenix for
a month. She too, intends to get busy,
and get her license. From what she
said at the meeting, we gathered she
had a little radio trouble, like not
having it tuned in too exactly, on one
of her recent lessons.

MARY ELLEN LIKEN attended the
National Aerospace Education Conference in Tucson on April 1st. SON MARK was the pilot since he wants
to build up hours for his commercial
ticket. They had a strong headwind
and they were about 30 min. behind
ETA’s to check points. MARY called
Phoenix VOR to report; Phoenix in
turn said they would call Tucson.

When she called in at Tucson, they
thanked her profusely for telling them
she would be late and said more
pilots should do the same when they
are running late. Return trip to Holbrook took only 1 hour and 35 min.

HELEN LAWRENCE is home from
the hospital now and walking very
carefully in her back brace. She wanted to come to the meeting very badly, but X-Rays earlier in the week
weren’t favorable enough. HELEN
said she had just about all the problems worked out for entering the Powder Puff Derby . . . maybe next year, HELEN. CAROLYN SHOEMAKER
will fill the position of Air-Age Education Chairman since HELEN’S injuries will force her to be inactive for a while.

ROSEMARY and JOHN KAHLE
have a new (for all intents and purposes) Piper Aztec. Last I heard, How 'bout flyin' a RACE
with an

IN T E R N A T IO N A L M E M B ER
as Co-Pilot ? ? ? ?
they still had their Mooney. Possibly
ROSEMARY will be the first in our
Chapter to obtain a Multi-engine rating.

MARILYN and ELDON BILLS, and
their boys have returned from a vacation in Acapulco and Mexico City, via commercial airlines. Must have
been a lovely trip, though we haven’t
heard from MARILYN yet, as she
was ill with one of the bugs that
seem to be making the rounds this
time of year.

JUNE and LARRY ELY are due
back from a vacation in Yucatan
sometime this week. They first flew
to Pennsylvania to visit LARRY’S
Father; then down the Eastern coast
of the States for a change.

We all enjoyed meeting RUBY
KEAVNEY, BETTY WHARTON, and
MARIAN BANKS when they were
here in Flagstaff. No wonder the Race
goes so smoothly year after year.

With gals like these to lay the ground
work, there’s just no other way! The
AWTAR Board does a terrific job.

We plan to fly in to Kayenta, Ariz.
on May 21st for our monthly meeting,
weather permitting. Breakfast at 9:00
A. M. at the Monument Valley Inn,
just across the highway from the
airstrip. It’s a very good gravel strip
and everyone is welcome to join us.

While there, we plan to check on the
possibilities of doing some air-marking.

LOIS WARD is our Chapter Sec’yTreas. and our newest member. She had her first lesson in August 1963,
soloed on February 24, 1964 and received her license on October 21, 1965. LOIS is Deputy County Assessor
for Yavapai County and enjoys doing
oil paintings of animals. Also likes
to hunt and bagged a 200 lb. mountain lion last fall while she was bear hunting. LOIS collects historical books
about Arizona. DON and LOIS have
three grandchildren ages 4, 2, and 1.

ORANGE COUNTY CHAPTER
Ginny Chandler, Reporter
This month our Chapter is busy
making plans for the opening day
celebration of Orange County Airport’s new facilities. Our group has accepted the responsibility of organizing another Penny-a-Pound. This type of event seems to be a very
good way to interest and educate the
non-flying public. It also helps cement
good relations between them and the
aviation contingent. (A thing needed
so badly these days!)

MADINE PARSEL, MARA CULP,
and ANN CANTILLON have undertaken the task of organizing a Proficiency Race for 99s and other female pilots to be run that same day.

Sounds hectic, but a lot of fun too.

Among newly rated pilots are
MARCOT SMITH - Instrument, MARA
CULP-Ground Instructor, HELEN
HEDGES - Commercial, and yours
truly-Instrument.

MARTY CARRITHERS is the proud
owner of an Aeronca 7AC. Lucky girl!
JOYCE NASH and family have
been getting around quite a bit lately,
good WX or not. First Phoenix, then
Red Bluff, and with the Sectional up
and coming, it will be back to Phoenix
soon.

Speaking of Sectional, it will be
here before we know it, and several
of the gals from Orange County are
planning to attend. The events planned
sound too good to miss, and seeing
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take either.

Next month we should have some
“interesting” stories about the opening day celebrations I mentioned earlier.

Time to call it quits or I’ll miss
the deadline AGAIN!

PALOMAR CHAPTER
Mary M. Moons, Reporter
Due to the huge demand, when we
mentioned having an easy system of
airmarking, an airmarking manual is
being prepared. Information on it will
be forthcoming in the near future.

We were extremely sorry to hear
of the death of DOROTHY COLEMAN’S husband, GEORGE, in an aircraft accident. We have donated to the Amelia Earhart Scholarship Fund
in his name.

On April 15, we were invited by
the San Diego Chapter, to see the
TV film of the 1966 AWTAR at the
Aerospace Museum in San Diego and
enjoyed the film very much.

We are making plans to attend the
Spring Sectional in Phoenix and hope
to have a large representation from
our chapter.

One of the complaints heard at the
last meeting, was that we just don’t
have time to attend all the events
planned in the next few months — especially conflicting events.

Our group plans to attend the Ramona Pageant at Hemet on May 7 and there’s the fly-in to the Avacado
Festival at Fallbrook on May 6. Also
on May 6, is the showing of the Auburn film at Palomar of our Lake Havasu meeting with the Seaplane
Association. These previous plans kept
us from attending the dedication of
the new chapter at Nut Tree.

EOS ANGEEES CHAPTER
Rachel Bon/.on, Reporter
The Los Angeles Chapter held a
two-cents-a-pound airlift in connection with “Santa Monica Airport Pioneer Days,” April 8 and 9. The weather co-operated fully, giving us the best weekend in months, and we lifted 109,100 pounds. Thanks very much to those hard-working members of
neighboring chapters, flying clubs, and
friends, who helped both flying and
on the ground.

On March 28, we held a dinner in
honor of our 49%ers. MARY ANN and
LEON KASLOW administered the
49’ie r ceremony developed by FRAN
and TOM JOHNSON of Las Vegas Valley, and presented 49V4er membership and pledge cards. The speakers were MIRO SLOVAK, who told of his
experiences in Czechoslovakia, his
escape to the West, and his varied
flying in this country, and AL HALL.

Chief of Boeing 707 Flight Training
for American Airlines, who gave us
a glimpse into his long and interesting career. It was a pleasure to have these distinguished pilots with us on
this occasion.

ELOISE BREESE, President and
founder of the UCLA Flying Club, reports they are adding a Soaring Division, and plan an excursion to Tehachapi at the invitation of the Schweitzer Sailplane Company there.

LYNNE OPPER lost a wing tip.

Returning from Fresno, after a beautiful Special VFR landing, it was a different story on the ground. Said
wing tip, labelled “Lynne’s Boo-Boo,”
now occupies a vantage point in the
OPPERS’ trophy room, next to a
cracked wheel fairing marked “Bob’s
Folly.”
Prospective members DOROTHY
LIMBACH had some wing damage
to her C-172, (she was not driving)
Next N EW S Deadline
May 20th
and was unable to have it repaired
in time for the airlift. “It was an
expensive lunch we had at Van Nuys
that day—”
SUSAN OLIVER’S X-C tour as
“Flying Ambassador for Easter Seals
was an exciting experience. She flew
from L. A. to Philadelphia, to ten
cities in ten days, in an Aero-Commander 200, totally donated by AeroCommander, lunched in Pittsburgh with AL ROCKWELL the day of the
merger of Rockwell-Standard with
North American Aviation. In Salt Lake
City, ALBERTA NICHOLSON called
and helped with the best flying route
to Denver. At Des Moines Airport,
she was met by LOIS GRANGE and
eighteen 99s.

AULEEN HALL has had her first
“Multi” time in a C-310 and plans
to continue to her MEL rating.

ANN LODWIG has been flying locally in her C-170, but mostly flying on the ground between Topanga and
Santa Monica Airport, putting in much
time and effort preparing for our
airlift.

RACHEL BONZON received Basic,
Advanced, and Instrument Ground
Instructor ratings.

BETTY and GENE DUPORT are
momentarily expecting twin grandchildren, their firsts.

The KASLOWS flew to Las Vegas,
with KRIS, just turned four, following in the family flying tradition.

They met VIVIAN THOMPSON and
49tier KEN there, where VIVIAN is
hair dresser to DEBBIE REYNOLDS,
now playing at the Riviera. She was
responsible for their seats at DEBBIE’S dinner show, right up on the stage.

JEAN IVANOFF and friends flew
to Palm Desert. Also to Catalina,
where they found the operators would
much rather rent them an automobille
then have them use their own go-cart.

ELOISE BREESE was last heard
from, snowed in at Lake Arrowhead
during our April 11 storm, with her
VW buried under two feet of the white
stuff, and steadily more coming down.

LONG BEACH CHAPTER
Katee Moskow, Reporter
March meeting was held at JUDY
WAGNER’S home, with a very good
turn out, so was able to pick up a
few news items from those there.

We had as guest, BABE LAPP, who
got her Private license March 5th
and in planning on joining our group.

She and EDNA LOUDON went for a
ride in the Goodyear Blimp, Colombia.

It seems ELE PETERSON missed it
by about 100 feet (up). Run faster
ELE.

RUTH NITZEN and 49V2er JOHN
spent an enjoyable weekend with
CAROL and JAY KENNEDY of San
Andreas touring the Sierra's in the
KENNEDY’S “Scout”.

EMMA McGUIRE and CAROLE
DUNN flew to the Fla Bob Airport
to attend a joint Fly-in of the EAA
and ACAA. They thought ACAA was
Aerobatic Club of America with a
misprint of an extra A. But needless
to say, they enjoyed seeing the Experimental and Antique planes. They got together with LIZ CROWLEY of
SFV Chapter and other local members of the Aerobatic Club of America to form the first Chapter. They will meet every 3rd Thursday in Van

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MILDRED KRUEGER’S daughter
made it. Congratulations to SUZI
LORENZ for receiving her Private
license! They too, attended the EAA
fly-in at Fla Bob, and claim it the
biggest ever on an ideal sunny day.

LEE TITLE and GENE FITZPATRICK flew to Giant Rock and
Bermuda Dunes and toured the desert
area hiking at stops. GENE is an
ex-WASP who hasn’t been flying of
late, now maybe she can get back
in the swing of it.

Another ex-WASP attending our
March meeting is NADINE RAMSEY
as guest of one of our new members
GRACE PAGE. NADINE has had an
exciting career in aviation as an exowner of a P-38 and now works for Aztec.

MARY PINKNEY would like friends
to change her phone number in the
roster to 213 FR 5-9829. The other
is her husband’s business number and
BOB is going to kill her, if more calls
come in on it.

Ed. Note—That is the number shown
in the ’66-’67 Roster—do we need further info? Or is that correct?

PHOENIX CHAPTER
Marjy Crowl, Reporter
As MARY VIAL started her breezy,
informative, educational News Notes
from our Chairman: HAPPY HECTIC
APRIL! This was most appropriate
to describe the many activities, moneymaking and otherwise, Fate scheduled for this period. Must be Fate, as (to quote MARY again) “It wasn't
the way we planned it, but this is the
way it worked out”. The WCBS Documentary Film of Powder Puff Derby was presented at KOOL TV studios
Thursday evening, April 6. About
thirty-five people attended on short
notice. Friday, April 7 found SUSAN
STORM accounting for the tickets
being sold for the Gompers Bar-BKue to be held April 16. Failed to mention that April 5, contributions
were made to the club coffers through
attendance at an interesting food
demonstration. Sunday, April 9, official flight of the month, was Air Show at Falcon Field, Mesa, Arizona sponsored by the Desert Sportsman Pilots Association to benefit our U. S. Aerobatie Team. Must have been a couple of committee “work nights” between
then and regular meeting Thursday,
April 13 at Sky Harbor Airport in
FSS Conference Room. April 17, MARION and BOB AUBURN showed their new film “Flying the Western U. S.

A.” at Mercury Aviation Hangar, for
which our members sold tickets. Report of events of 21, 22 and 23rd next issue!
Welcome to our three new members: LELIA REGER, GWYN DARE and NOLA EARL! We particularly appreciate getting enthusiastic workers at a time like this!
JUANITA NEWELL represented our
Chapter on club business when she
flew VIRGINIA COOK, TUS Chapter,
to Las Vegas in her Bonanza. JUANITA and VIRGINIA, along with RUTH REINHOLD and MELBA
BEARD were 99s in evidence at the
OX-5 Club dinner for ART BOEBEL
at Camelback Inn in Phoenix.

When our flight to Prescott for lunch
with members of Northern Arizona
Chapter was cancelled due to Weather Bureau forecast, our International President ALICE ROBERTS drove up. Reports from other pilots
indicated we would have had no problems of the type expected. MARY LOU BROWN flew the Geological
Survey’s DeHaviland Beaver to Santa
Ana on business. While there she consulted ANN CANTILLON, Chairman of the Orange County Chapter about
plans for the Spring Sectional in
Phoenix. GINNY MOSER, with 49%er
BILL and son, JIM, made trip to
Douglas in a 172. JEANNE MORRIS’
4914er, WES, just returned from ferrying a Beechcraft to Australia—would like to repeat soon. EVELYN SASSER
went to San Diego with Flying Farmers. Toured submarine and submarine tender. Later went to Blythe and
Sacaton to see Indian effigies. LELIA
REGER flew to Cottonwood, left her
brother-in-law, there, went on to
Flagstaff and Prescott.

ALICE ROBERTS attended the Falcon Air Show, as did the four LAMBERTS. MARY VIAL and TRUDY MURPHY were judges, yet! RUTH
REINHOLD headed up a group parking arriving aircraft and selling tickets to those people debarking from same:

SUE HARPER, JUNE KAISER, and
MARJY CROWL appreciated all work
done by JOANN WINTERLIN G ’ S
491/4er, who substituted for JOANN
while she studied for her Commercial
written. Probably had to make up for
some of the time she’s taken out from
studies to help form 66 group. She
and SUSAN STORM had six female
student pilots in attendance at first
meeting.

SUT HARPER reports she is a member in good standing of the Blimp Club. She enjoyed sitting in the copilot’s seat of the Goodyear Blimp, even though she said it had no dual
controls. JUANITA NEWELL and
49% er, ELGIN, also joined the club.

Should hear JUANITA tell about flying it!
Just look who attended April business meeting: WILMA BLAND, EVELYN SASSER, PAMELA PETTY, MARY LOUISE BECK, HELEN VENSKUS, MARJY CROWL, ALICE ROBERTS, BEV PERIMAN, JOANN WINTERLING, MARGARET HLAVENKA, MARY LOU BROWN, PAT

LAMBART, SUE HARPER, SUSAN
STORM, MARY VIAL, JEANNE MORRIS, GINNY MOSER, CHRIS ARMSTRONG, ANNE DAVIS, MILLIE DAWE, ERNA BLATT, FREDA TOLIVER, LELIA REGER, MARY FATTY, TRUDY MURPHY, MAUDE ROOT, GEORGIA B. HARPER (guest
from Elkins, W. Va.), JUANITA
NEWELL, JANE WICK, MRS. JIM
BOYCE, LINDA BOYCE and RUBY
SHELDON, who wasn’t as late as
usual since we were meeting close
to her ground school classroom. She
blythely informed me she had no news
—all she had done was to get her
Multi-engine rating! I happen to know,
though, that she also took a glider
flight, her first, with FAA Inspector
MYLES' RUGGENBURG.

Am sure that others in our Chapters are doing interesting things, too.

Hope they will attend a meeting soon
and tell us.

SACRAMENTO VALLEY CHAPTER
Capt. Reece Wants To Fly
SEOUL, Korea—WAC CAPT. JOYCE
REECE, a Commercial Multi-engine
pilot, is trying to enter into one of
the military man’s last domains—
aviation. CAPTAIN REECE explains,
“I want to break down the barrier
that exists against women flying for
the Armed Forces.

When not sending in applications
for flight examinations and reviews
of her background, the Captain works

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Adjutant for the 19 General Support Group currently stationed in Korea. (Frontiersman Photo).
as the Assistant Chief of Personnel
for the 19th General Support Group,
Eighth U. S. Army Support Command,
Korea.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, she
first came in contact with flying when
she was nine years old and was returning by plane from a visit to her grandmother’s home in Portland, Ore.

Intrigued by the glamour of flying,
she set her sights on becoming an airline stewardess. “But then I realized that the pilots’ job was more challenging,” she recalls.

After her first flight, she started
building model airplanes while other
girls her age were still feeding their
dolls. At age 13, she joined the Civil
Air Patrol in her community and
served with them for four years, leaving as a Cadet Lieutenant. “It was a great introduction to the world of
flight,” she says about her first high
flying adventures.

Upon entering Pasadena City College, she started parachute jumping with the American Skydiving Club.

After graduating from college with
a degree in political science, CAPTAIN REECE enlisted in the U. S.

Army because, “The Army offers a
woman more job opportunities and
travel.”
“I was sent to Fort Rucker, Ala.,
to the Air Traffic Control School for
my Advanced Individual Training.

While at the school, I was asked by
my Commanding Officer if I would
be interested in making application
for Officer Candidate School. I chose
to make application and my papers
were processed and accepted.” It
must be noted that CAPTAIN REECE
had the distinction of being one of
the first women to be admitted to the
Army program of training women for
Air Traffic Control since 1945.

SEN D A W T A R
CO N TRIBU TIO N S TO —

PA U LIN E G LASSO N
BY JUNE 15th
After receiving her commission as
a Second Lieutenant, the newly appointed officer was assigned to the WAC Training Battalion, Fort McClellan, Ala. While serving with the Battalion, she submitted her application for flight school. She passed all the Army’s requirements for the
school, but was turned down in 1963,
because there was no need for women
in the program at that time and also
because women could not serve in
combat flying status in Vietnam.

She was reassigned in 1934 to Fori
Knox, Ky., where she joined the Fort
Knox Aero Club. “I acquired all my
flying time, passed my written examination, but had no license. I had soloed in a J-3 Piper Cub and a Cessna 175, but even a Private license was not enough, so I left the service
to pursue my flying education.”
Once back in civilian life she started
working towards her Commercial license and was associated with Al-SOS Aviation located in Chico, Calif.

Through much hard work, money, and
effort she secured her Private, Commercial and Multi-engine licenses.

After receiving her flying permits,
she started ferrying planes for AlSOS and piloted some charter trips for them.

During her stay in Chico, she joined
the Sacramento Valley Chapter. Now
back in the service, CAPTAIN REECE
was asked how she would feel about
going to Vietnam as a pilot. “I would
go anywhere my country sent me.

I see no reason why a person cannot
perform any job they are qualified for
no matter what their sex. Other countries have recognized the potentialls of women pilots, such as Turkey, Israel, and the Soviet Union. Since there is a continuing need for good pilots,
why should not the United States tap
one of its greatest resources, women.

Some 30 years ago a woman, by the
name of AMELIA EARHART, proved
that a pilot’s ability is not based on
sex but on determination and skill.”
The next step for the woman aviator
in trying to become the first female
Army pilot is “to convince the Army
that there are many flying assignments that qualified women officers can perform as part of the Army
team.” From the way she talks and
her experience in aviation, CAPTAIN
REECE' could well be the Army’s first
woman flyer.

Besides her flying accomplishments,

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All-Army Rifle and Pistol Matches at
Fort Benning, Ga., and at the National Rifle Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio. The captain plays a swinging
game of golf and was a top amateur
during her college years. Off-duty the
attractive pilot likes to cook and listen
to her stereo.

SAN GABRIEL CHAPTER
D. Foxon, Reporter
The San Gabriel Chapter had their
third annual 2 penny a pound airlift
April 9th at Brackett Field, La Verne,
California. Approximately 85,000 pounds
were flown with over one thousand
passengers. Luckily, we had one of
the few nice days in the weeks before
and after. Our success was due to the
generous help of BILL STITT, Airport
Manager, Pomona Valley Pilots Association, Civil Air Patrol Squadron No. 64, 49%ers and many friends of
the 99s.

The generous donation of planes and
May, 1967
pilots by Air College of Corona, Corona, California, G & H Aircraft of El Monte, Ginny’s Flying School,
Bracket Air Service, Bracket Field,
BOB ARMSTRONG twin Commander,
AL PRESSLER, LYLE BUSH, ELWOOD COUSINS, DORIS BAILEY of Orange County 99, DR. LITTLE, and
Van Nuys Helicopter, made it possible to fly so many.

ANDREW LECH displayed his tremendous miniature model in the Ad building. CHARLES VERNON procured CAP movie shorts of search and rescue films that were shown in the
pilots lounge. Helped people pass time
while waiting for their rides. Also
a great static display. Hard work by
all, members and others, plus great
publicity made for a very successful
day. Our photos were taken by
DARRYL BENDER.

Welcome to our new members,
CHERYL COLLINS and MARGARET
LAWSON, both new Private pilots.

VIRGINIA WEGENER and MARILYN NORTON are again planning on the Powder Puff Derby.

Our Chapter has purchased a projector with tape recorder. The members interested in working on their Commercial license are getting together once a week. VIRGINIA WEGENER is donating the Ground School slides and tapes of AV Commercial
Pilot for the members to use.

At last
Reporter: Dot Foxon
CHERYL COLLINS unloading passengers at San Gabriel 2 penny a pound. —45—

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SAN FERNANDO VALLEY

CHAPTER
Jeanne Day, Reporter
Many of our members attended and
enjoyed the fly-in to San Diego’s Vacation Village. Rumors are rampant that several girls are planning return
trips soon! All this is a tribute to our
terrific Fly-In Chairman, FLORENCE
DITTMAR, who arranges everything
—even the perfect weather.

LINDA DENSMORE, who has been
turning out those superb quality Aux
Tank News, dismayed us with the
news that she is moving to Wash.,
D. C., where her husband has accepted a position with the DOT. We shall keenly miss her, and we can bet this
Chapter will have many “forced landings’’ in DC from now on. She is taking her Cessna 180 even though
she was spoiled by a ride in a Beech
Baron with all those nice electronic
goodies.

MARGE MORONG a n d NITA
LOVELESS went on a SkyLark fly-in
to Hearst Castle where they had permission to land on the private strip, and then tour the estate.

AUDREY SCHUTTE that tired flight
scenery become fresh and glorious
when covered with fresh-fallen snow.

ELLEN TRINDLE, this year’s Woman Pilot of the Year, reports lots of flying, but most of it was commercial, to New Orleans, Kansas City, and Las Vegas. She does plan to fly
to the Spring Sectional in Phoenix
in her own plane, however.

BETTY STORRS took a friend’s
aunt up for her first ride in a small
airplane—and the aunt is 91 years
young! BETTY is excited about the
chance to fly the Mobil Economy Run.

Yes, FLY. She will parallel the automobile run, and effect a cost comparison.

VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
(then M A IL it!)
JEANNE DAY made a few short
flights, and just passed her Basic and
Advanced Ground Instructor ratings.

LOLA RICCI and her husband are
practicing and preparing to take the
Twin Comanche on a vacation to the
Bahamas!
CATHY BLACK has been busy
aviating; she says that she has only
two more lines to fill to fiinish her
first logbook.

FLORENCE DITTMAR repaired the
bird-hit damage to her wing, and is
leaving for Honolulu—going commercially, of course. Also winging commercially is MARTHA FLAHERTY who is on her way to Europe for a
month, (or until the money runs out,
she says.)
LIZ CROWLEY is working on her
Instrument and on the formation of
an Aerobatic Club for Southern California.

BERNADINE BENNING flew left
seat in a Jetstar, and ARDIE TREN12.A.c
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to Orange Conly, back in a DC 3.

That’s like aviation history in one
short round trip.

VIRGINIA RAINWATER, MARGARET WARD, VESTA MALBY,
FLORA HUTCHINSON, and MARY
HOLLOWAY have been doing local
and lunch flights. AULEEN HALL
and LOIS MILES have been checking
out in various craft.

EDDIE WHITE gets up and away
from Real Estate as often as she
can. We also enjoyed sharing the
experiences of our guests; VIRGINIA

BORG, FLORENCE STANTON, RUTH

MAYLE, SHIRLEE KAY, ESTHER
FLECK, PAULINE FLEMING, and
JOY BAILEY.

SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CHAPTER
Helen McGee, Reporter
A prediction of stormy weather
cancelled our plans for meeting at
the Nut Tree in March. Instead, JEAN
MURRAY whipped up a delicious
lunch at last minute notice and we
met at her home in Stockton. As it
turned out, the storm failed to materialize and two planes flew in:

GEORGE ANN GARMS and DOTTIE
McALLISTER from Palo Alto and
PAULINE CHRISTENSEN and LAVERNE GUDGEL from Merced.

EV HENDLEY, MARGARET ANDREWS, LAURA MAY CRAWFORD,
BILLIE WYATT, EVELYN JOHNSON, MARIE McDOWELL, a n d
HELEN McGEE drove over. In the
future when weather cancels a fly-in,
we’ll reschedule on the following Tuesday.

Main topic of business was our plans
for the Fall Sectional in Stockton,
September 15, 16 and 17. Headquarters will be the new Holiday Inn.

Many of us hope to be in Phoenix in
April to personally invite you.

We’re all supporting the candidacy
of MARIE McDOWELL for Treasurer
of the Southwest Section. In the past,
MARIE has served most capably as
our Vice-Chairman and Chairman and
has attended all Sectional meetings
since becoming a member in 1962.

She is also active in the California
Flying Farmers, serving as Queen.

Presently, she is studying for her
Instrument rating.

Many thanks to CHARLOTTE RYAN
for Chairmaning our successful Charter Day dinner at the Hotel Covell in Modesto. 89 members and guests were
in attendance.

We’d like to welcome our new member, DOROTHY (DOTTIE) McALLISTER of Portola Valley, with a brief sketch. DOTTIE received her Private
Pilot’s on October 11, 1966 and is busy
now checking out in the family Comanche. Her husband is a Flight Instructor for Nystrom Aviation in Palo Alto and she has one son, 14. Like so
many 99s, she started flying with the
idea of being able to land in an emergency, then caught the bug. Result:
a pilot’s license and a new member
for us.

We also want to welcome the new
Mount Diablo Chapter which will hold
its charter festivities May 6. Our former member, MARTIE GRAHAM, has been active in its formation. We hope
to have some of our group attending
the dinner.

Two members missed our March
meeting because they were vacationing. RENE NEALON and her family were in Sun Valley while DOROTHY
and FLOYD KOEBEL were enjoying
the sunny climes of Mexico with the
Flying Farmers. They extended their
tour to include a few days in Acapulco.

LAURA MAY will be flying eomNext NEW S Deadline
May 20th
mercially at the end of March for a
two month or more tour of Europe.

If dates work out, she’ll meet husband GENE in Paris for the Air Show.

GEORGE ANN flew to Santa Barbara the other day for some house hunting. Her husband, MICKIE, will
receive his Ph.D. from Stanford shortly and is considering a teaching position at the University. She plans to fly her two children to Sun Valley
for Easter week.

A weekend visit with her parents
in Bullhead City, Arizona plus a trip
to Orange County were recent destinations of MARIE and 49% er, ALAN.

I guess they borrowed a plane, for
their storm damaged Bonanza is
mostly in Modesto for repairs. One
wing is still in Gustine.

LA VERNE and BOB flew to Eugene,
Oregon for a weekend and also stopped by to enjoy the culinary pleasures of the Nut Tree.

SANTA CLARA VALLEY CHAPTER
Amy Sylvester, Reporter
On March 7, JACKIE SACHEIN spoke
before a group of girls at MenloAtherton High School during their Vocational Orientation. "Women in
Flying and Instructing” was the subject.

JO ANN MARIE "Parachuted” into
the CAROLE & LARRY LUSHBAUGH
household on March 12. Gross weight
—7 lbs. 6% oz. Welcome and Congratulations!
We are most happy to have with
us PATTY SAXTON—a transfer from
Texas.

Outgoing Chairman ALICE TAYLOR
was presented an engraved gavel by
MARG STANDISH at our March 16
meeting. Also, at the same meeting,
SANDY FORREST reported on the
Sea Ranch fly-in which was attended
by 13 members and guests in 5 airplanes. Speaking of fly - ins, the Solving fly-in of April 2nd was cancelled due to the bad weather to the South,
so-o-o the gals who had looked forward
to this trip didn’t give up;—the weather was better north — they went north, to Calistoga Airpark for lunch
and tour of the Behringer Winry.

JEANNE McELHATTON was there
with guests HERMA KAY & IDA
WILLIAMS, PHYL PIERCE with
49%er FRED, CHARLENE TAYLOR
witih 49%er, BOB, MARY SMITH,

NATALIE BOSSIO, PAT GLADNEY
with guests BARBARA PATUCEK and

HELENA & PAUL PARLOW, JACKIE
PETTY, and NOVIS PERCIVAL with
49%er JOHN, son JOHN and guest
SCOTT MOORE. The sun was mixed
with some rain, wind, and even hail
—but a marvelous time was had by
all. Three gals even took glider rides!
Short notes: NOVIS PERCIVAL is
our new Publicity Chairman, appointed unanimously. Fun at CHARLENE TAYLOR’S to view 2 reels of 1966
Powder Puff Derby. There were 27
members, 49%ers and guests.

The following interesting account of
their trip to Finland is from DOROTHY HEIKKILA and 49%er ROY:

We, 99 DOROTHY HEIKKILA, and
my husband, LeROY, left Santa Cruz
late last Fall for a trip to Finland. We
flew from San Francisco to New York
City, where we were met by our
daughter, CARLENE. CARLENE is a
Stewardess with United Airlines and
lives in Miami, Florida. We spent a
couple of days sight-seeing in New

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Helsinki, via Preswick, Scotland, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Stockholm, Sweden. Two flights were delayed due
to weather. The country and ocean
were blanketed with fog except Scotland. Scotland is a beautiful country.

We spent a couple of days in
Helsinki, walking, riding trams, shopping, and sight-seeing. Helsinki is a beautiful city of one-half million
people. It was the cleanest city we
visited anywhere, no slums, and no
litter.

We took a train to Oulu, which is 350
miles north of Helsinki. From Oulu, we
took a bus to Taivalkoski, a small
town which is 150 miles north east of
Oulu. Taivalkoski is the town where
LeROY’S Mom was born and spent
her girlhood. We spent three weeks
in this area visiting LeROY’S relatives
and his sister-in-law’s relatives. The
people there are the most friendly,
hospitable, and happiest that we met
anywhere.

Finland is a rolling country with
many, many forests and 60,000' lakes.

The lakes are large and beautiful. The
altitude of the highest airport in Finland is 600’. The weather was very cold while we were there. We wore about
all the clyothes we could get on. In
this northeastern part of Finland, we
were less than 75 miles from the
Arctic Circle and about 12 miles from
the Soviet Union border. There were
low stratus clouds all of the three
weeks we were in this area, except
about two days. It was only above the
freezing level three times, during this
period. It snowed, rained, and froze.

The sun would come up on one side
of the house and go down on the same
side. The sun doesn’t get very high
in the sky during the winter. In the
summer around June 24th, the sun
never sets in this northern country.

A relative took us to a ski resort
about fifty miles further north. He is
in third place in the Speed and Distance Competition Skiing in Finland.

To keep in practice, late one afternoon
he ran twelve miles. During the
winter when he is skiing in competition, he runs forty-five miles at least one day a week and then runs less
every other day.

CARLENE was able to spend nine
days with us before returning to the
States. She left Taivalkoski rural area
alone by bus. A friend of LEROY’S
Uncle told the bus driver to see that
she made connections with another bus
and then the train. CARLENE could
not speak one word of Finnish and no
one in this area could speak English.

CARLENE made the trip fine. LeROY
had to do all of the talking for us.

We did fly from Oulu to Helsinki
commercially but because of the low
stratus clouds we could not see the
ground. The minimums for instrument
flying are much less there than any
place in the United States.

We spent several more days in
Helsinki visiting, sight-seeing, and getting ready to come home. We met and were able to spend quite a bit of time
with a Glider Instructor in Helsinki.

You have to be Instrument rated to
fly gliders in Finland. There is a lot of
glider flying, but little private flying,
because of the cost.

We left Finland for Stockholm to
spend a couple of days in the old part
of the city. This part of the city was
built in the 18th century and was right
on the water front. It, too, is a beautiful city. We took a tour, did a lot oi sight-seeing on our own, and walked
and walked. The weather was cold
but the sun was shining most of the
time. We saw the warship Wasa, which
was built in 1625-1628. It was sunk in
the Stockholm Harbor in 1628. In 1961,
they raised it up and now are preserving it. From Stockholm, we again stopped in Copenhagen and then direct
to New York City, via SAS.

We left New York and flew to Miami,
Florida — by United Airlines, of
course, to see CARLENE. She took us
to the Everglades National Park and
we drove along the Florida Keyes.

Such a change in climate! We waded
in the warm water of Miami Beach.

From Miami, we flew to Norfolk,
Virginia to visit our oldest daughter’s
family. We visited many historical
and interesting places in and around
Norfolk. After five days there we flew
back to the west coast, home, and our
two children here.

TUCSON CHAPTER
Dorothy Jenkins, Reporter
The National Aerospace Council’s
conference, held here in Tucson, was
a big success, with educators attending
from every comer of this country. We
are almost back to normal, finally,
after the hectic days of helping
SHIRLEY hostess the event.

SHIRLEY, incidentally, is Executive
Officer of Arizona’s Vanguard Squadron of Civil Air Patrol, and is spending week-ends giving orientation flights to C.A.P. cadets.

Several Tucson 99s attended the
aerobatic air show at Falcon Field in
Mesa. MAGGIE SCHOCK flew with
VIRGINIA EDWARDS and two nonpilots as passengers. PATSY and BOB BROOKS, with WANDA (El Paso) and
AARON EMERSON as passengers, attended in their new Beech Baron. The word came third hand that PATSY
would perform in another aerobatic air
meet this last week-end. I mean to
get more on that as soon as I can get
her on the phone. That gal really goes!
MIRZA CLARK says she’s done nothing all month but fly around in 720° power turns. As you undoubtedly have
guessed, MIRZA is nearing her Commercial flight test. We wish her lots of luck.

BYRD GRANGER made up a tour
guide to cover landmarks on the trip
to Kitt Peak, which was a feature of
the N.A.E.C. conference. It was such
a success that she is going to make up
guides for other routes and go into
the business of furnishing them as a
sideline to her U. of A. teaching.

Several from here are planning to
attend t h e Sectional in Phoenix.

Sounds like a winner, according to advance reports. The Phoenix Chapter has been working hard to furnish all
kinds of goodies. Sure should be fun!
A group of Tucson 99s attended a
press conference in the V.I.P. room of
the Tucson International Airport, as
part of the advance publicity for the
International Exposition of Flight,
scheduled to be held in Las Vegas,
Nevada, on April 27, 28, 29, 30. We
were delighted to meet PRIS. ALEXANDER of Las Vegas Chapter, who came along as 99 liaison member. We
all had lunch at La Granada, and discussed the program and asked questions of CAPTAIN FRED AUSTIN, the Executive Director of the Exposition, which promises to be really great (I almost said “fabulous”). We must
go!
VIRGINIA and KEN COOK, in their
Comanche, and SYLVIA and IRVING
BARTZ, in their Mooney, flew to an
N.P.A. get-together at Page, Arizona.

Boat trips on Lake Powell were a
feature of Saturday, and at night, the
usual banquet. The flight to Page involved a contest — estimating the exact amount of fuel to be consumed
on the trip. Awards for the closest
estimates were given at the dinner,
and VIRGINIA was very pleased to
be part of a tie for first place. Her
prize was a silver plated spark plug.

A tour of the dam on Sunday topped
off what seems to have been a very
interesting and enjoyable week-end.

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UTAH CHAPTER
Lucile Ohristopherson, Reporter
A soft springtime gladness is filling
our mountain valleys even though our
ski resorts are reporting between 132
to 100 inches of beautiful skiing snow.

We have had our portion of windy
weather and gentle rains and all the
earth is awakening, to the warmth of
Spring.

Our April meeting was held at the
home of GINI STREETER in Salt Lake
City. A short business meeting was
held and afterward some very fine
films were shown to the group on
“Radio and Navigation.” These were
new films which we obtained through
the State Aeronautics Department.

The following members were in attendance: NANCY REELING, GINI

STREETER, ALBERTA NICHOLSON,

LYLE BECKSTRAND, MAXINE
NIELSON (also her guest, JOYCE

CROW), JOY ROBISON, BARABRA

BARLOW, MARJORIE PETERSON,
KAY BEER, and JANE ANDREASON
CARYL KNOWLTON has not been
with us for the past couple of weeks.

She is in Stockton with her mother,
who is very ill.

LOUISE ANDERSON has been
visiting in Lompoc, California and
Vanderberg Air Force Base with her
daughter who has proudly presented
her with her fourth grandchild. It
seems that the grandmother group in
our club is growing — five of our gals
boast of their new grandchildren.

Severed of the girls are planning for
the Sectional which is to be held in
Phoenix. At the last count, four planeloads were expected to make the flight to Phoenix.

MAXINE NIELSON, our Air marking Chairman, has been making arrangements for future fly-ins to various airports for air marking activities.

These have been successful events and
it also gives the girls a chance to
mark up additional flying hours.

Saturday, April 15th, it was planned
for the group to fly to Provo so that
they could attend the art exhibit at
Springfield.

JOAN WILLIAMS is vacationing in
Puerto Rico and we shall envy her
warm suntan when she returns.

NANCY REULING and ALBERTA
NICHOLSON have been very successful this past winter with the fundamentals of flight they have been teaching to their individual Explorer
Scout posts. Usually these fellows are
at an age of passive interest in most
things but this has caught their
imagination and we sincerely take our
hats off to your two instructors.

MARJ MACKEY has been helping
her father to complete their yearly
benefit performance at the Valley
Music Hall. This year the performance
included such stars as JACK BENNY,
etc. We are so proud that the various
members of our group are actively engaged in civic work for the benefit of others.

BARBARA BARLOW will now have
the opportunity of adding some 182
time to her log with her father’s purchase of a new 182.

Must close — see you next month
and with such wonderful flying weather
in the offing, we hope to report much
activity!!
99 MEMBERSHIP LIST
APRIL 1967

CANADIAN SECTION
Black, Betty (Miss)
2175 Avenue Rd., Apt. No. 120 First
Toronto 12, Ontario, Canada Canadian
489-8470
Eskritt, Bernice Lena (Mrs. Albert)
R. R. 3 First Canadian
Ridgetown, Ontario, Canada
(519)674-3564
Howard, Joyce (Miss)
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
JA 7-0053
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Gibsons, B. C., Canada
886-2370
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(Mrs. Bob)
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Muirkirk, Ontario, Canada
678-3602
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Riviere-Gagnon, St. Jerom e P
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West, Dorothy L.
(Mrs. Charles Kenneth)
Bathhurst St., R. R. No. 2 First Canadian
Maple, Ontario, Canada
889-7497

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