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MAY, 1964O ffic ia l P u b lic a tio n of T he N in e ty -N in es, In c .

H e a d q u a r te r s , T e rm in a l B u ild ing W ill R o g e rs F ie ld

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Headquarters Secretary,C aro l C ra ig

EditorDON NA T . M Y E R S 11603 E . 6 th P la c e

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INTERNATIONAL OFFICERSPresident

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President's ColumnThough it is said, “There is nothing

new under the sun ,” Something has been added to our International Ninety-Nine Convention to be held in Cincinnati, Ohio, August 14-16 . . . “A CHAIRMAN’S C O FFE E ” . . . for chapter chairm en.

The im portance of the chapter chair­m an and the responsibility she faces in leading her Chapter cannot be stressed too greatly . She is the one who is ulti­m ately responsible for new m em bers, for retaining old m em bers, for keeping peace in her chapter, for presenting interesting and inform ative meetings, for keeping her com m unity informed about Ninety- Nines, and a m yriad of other details. H er responsibilities a re endless, and she probably very often feels that she is alone with her problems.

The “ CHAIRMAN’S C O FFE E ” is de­signed to dispel any such feeling. It is here that new friendships will be m ade and old ones cemented. There will be a sharing of ideas, problem s and their solutions. The chairm an’s scope will be widened. Not only will she be able to take back to her chapter the ideas of other chairm en in her section, she will gain ideas from chairm en through­out the whole Ninety-Nine organization.

As the Ninety-Nines m em bership grows in num bers, it becomes increasingly m ore difficult to m aintain the closeness and unity that a sm aller organization can offer. It is vitally im portant that we continue our growth, but as we grow in num bers let us retain the close­ness and unify our ambitions for the Ninety-Nines. I believe that the “ CHAIR­MAN’S C O FFE E ” scheduled at the In­ternational Convention m ay be a Step in attaining this goal.

I hope tha t each Chapter will recog­nize the im portance of their chairm an attending the convention and insist that she attend the “ CHAIRMAN’S C O FFE E ” because it is alm ost impossible to attend a Section Meeting or the In tcm at'onal Convention without a certain am ount of enthusiasm rubbing off on everyone. E n­thusiasm is contagious. E very cup of coffee served is going to be laced with enthusiasm . E very chan te r chairm an who attends will become so infected tha t she will infect her chap ter m em bers, too.

I am hoping that the “CHAIRMAN’S C O FFE E ” will prove to be one of the outstanding events of the convert ion b e ­cause of the good that will come from such a meeting.

Sincerely,

Ruth Deorman, President

Coming EventsM ay 16, 1964: New England’s All Wom­

en ’s A ir R ace, W estfield-Barnes Airport, Springfield, Mass.

M ay 22-23, 1964: Southeastern Sectional Spring Meeting, Memphis, Tennessee.

June 6, 1964: New England Spring Sec­tional, Northern New England, hostesses, a t Nashau, New Hampshire.

June 18, 196-1: 13th Skylady Derby,WNAA sponsored, Tulsa International Air­port, triangular course beginning and end­ing a t Tulsa.

June 20, 1961: Howard Fisher-Truckee Tahoe Air Race, San Diego Chapter P ro ­ject.

June 30 - July 10, 1964: AWTAR.July 4, 196-1: AWTAR start, Fresno,

California.July 5 - July 10, 1964: AWTAR Term i­

nus, Atlantic City, New Jersey.July 10, 1964: Ninety-Nine Day at the

New York W orld’s Fair.August 14-16, 1964: International Nine­

ty-Nine Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio, North Central Section, hostesses.

August 28-29, 1964: Northwest Sectional Fall M eeting (tentative only).

Septem ber, 1964: Southwest Sectional, Redwood E m pire Chapter, hostesses, IIol- b e rt’s Resort.

Septem ber 12, 1964: Chicago AreaChapter Annual Air Meet.

Septem ber 25-20, 1961: South CentralSectional Fall Meeting, Dallas Chapter, hostesses.

October 2-4, 1961: Michigan SMALLRace.

Circle These Dates

On Your Calendar(Aug. 13, 14, 15, 16)

As Ed Sullivan would say . . . “ I t ’s going to be a REEE-ALY BIG SHOW in Cincinnati and you won’t DARE m iss it! ” Flam boyant aviation pioneer ROSCOE TURNER will recap tu re the past in the flying world . . . NASA’s X-15 pilot JOE WALKER will bring us up to the m inute on developm ents today and those projected for the future . . . a relaxing four-hour paddle wheel BOAT T R IP on the Ohio River with dinner served aboard . . . North Central Section’s 30th An­niversary luncheon honoring past governors . . . WASP reunion (20 years deactivation from service). . . MONTE CARLO night . . . etc., etc., etc.

P lan to enjoy the festivities of your “99’s” 35th A nniversary Con­vention! !!

The Ninety-Nines, Inc.

Charles W. Webb, Deputy Chief of S t a f f , Aerospace Education and Training, H eadquarters, Civil Air Patrol, E llington Air F orce Base, Texas.

George G. H ughes, M anager, Avia­tion Sales Central Area, Shell Oil Company, New York, New York.

—Shell Oil Company photograph.

Jam es D. R am sey, Director, M ichi­gan Departm ent of Aeronautics, Lansing, M ichigan.

Honorary Judges for 1964 Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Awards

The 1964 Amelia E a rh a rt M em orial Scholarships Awards H onorary Judges are as distinguished and a s exceptionally qualified a s have been their predecessors, among whom a re personages such as Jam es Doolittle, E . V. R ickenbacker, Jam es Stewart, Olive Ann Beech, Robert Cummings, Gill Robb Wilson, Dr. Werh- ner von Braun and General Carl Spaatz to nam e just a few.

Pictured above a re our th ree Honorary Judges who have so graciously and efficiently functioned this y ear in the final selections for the two Amelia E a r­hart Memorial Scholarship Awards. They a re Mr. Jam es D. R am sey, Director,

Michigan D epartm ent of Aeronautics; Mr. Charles W. Webb, Deputy Chief of Staff, Aerospace Education and Training, N a­tional H eadquarters, Civil Air Patro l; and Mr. George G. Hughes, M anager, Avia­tion Sales Central Area, Shell Oil Com­pany.

It is no easy task to evaluate the m erits of 17 very wonderful and very deserving Scholarship nominees. The Judges are unanimously of the opinion that 17 Schol­arships should have been available. In this judgm ent your Board of Trustees heartily concurs. It can be said however that progress is being m ade. With the continuing support of every Ninety-Nine,

especially in the sale of the remaining Amelia E a rh a rt Comm emorative Stamp F irs t Day Covers, it is not unrealistic to hope tha t three Scholarship Awards might be available for 1965.

We salute and commend our three fine 1964 H onorary Judges and the two Award selectees.

To those splendid 15 nominee runners- up we say God bless, with sincere wishes for attainm ent of expressed desires mind­ful th a t “where there is a will, there is a w ay.” With a rem inder that 1965 is available for another try for a Scholar­ship if all else fails during the interim.

A IR MEET

COLUM NCHICAGO AREA CHAPTER

Septem ber 12, 1964, Chicago A rea Chap­te r Annual Air Meet. All Ninety-Nines invited. 49V2er’s can be co-pilots. Ban­quet and aw arding of trophys Saturday night a t St. Andrews Country Club. R ace being held a t Du Page County Airport, West Chicago, Illinois.

Louise Kokesh, Chairm an

MICHIGAN SMALL RACE

Announcement has just been m ade that the 1964 Women’s SMALL R ace will be held a t Mt. P leasant, Michigan, October

2nd th ru the 4th. Opening date for entry applications is July 15th and closes Sep­tem ber 15th. W atch each publication for additional information but right now re ­serve those dates and reserve your STRENGTH for a really EXCITING weekend!

Toni Kent Publicity Chairm an M ichigan Small R ace Board

HOWARD FISH ER TRUCKEE-TAHOE AIR RACE

San Diego C hapter has a new project— planning the Howard F isher Truckee-Ta- hoe Air Race, which has been set for Saturday, June 20, 1964. The one-day race, open to all women pilots with private license or better, prom ises lively compe­tition and a fun filled exciting weekend

for all participants.Take-off will be at 9 a.m . from Lindberg

Field, San Diego, with a fly-by finish line a t the Truckee-Tahoe Airport, lo­cated a t the north end of Lake Tahoe. F es­tivities continue through Sunday with the dedication of the new Truckee-Tahoe Air­port, which is operated by F isher Air­craft of San Diego.

Trophies and prize money, totaling $350 is being offered with $200 going to first place w inner and $100 and $50 to second and third place winners re sp e c ­tively.

Impound deadline is 12 noon, Friday, June 19. E ntries open May 5 with a fee of $15 and close June 5. F or details and en­try kit, write to Ruby Keaveny, 1141 Van Nuys Street, San Diego 9, Calif.

All - Woman Transcontinental

Air RacePowder Puff Derby

From : Alice H. Hammond1203 G ilbert Road Meadowbrook, Pa. 19046 Phone: (215) TU 7-7428

REM INDER: Entries, now o|h-ii for the 1964 Powder Puff Derby, m ust be postm arked not later than June 5, 1964, to qualify!If you a re unable to race, you

will find it exciting to be a t the S tart in Fresno, June 30-July 4, the Term inus a t A tlantic City, July 5-10, OR a t any of the en route stops to cheer the girls on as they clock in! B etter still, if you'd like to volunteer your services a t any of these spots, do contact the local chairm an as follows: Fresno, DOT KENT; Las Vegas, MARGARET MOORE; Winslow, PAT LAM­BERT (Phoenix C hapter Chair­m an); Albuquerque, M A R I E GROSSETETE (C hapter C h a i r ­m an); Amarillo, CHARLOTTE HUNTER; Oklahoma City, RITA EVANS; Fayetteville, LOIS MAR­TIN; Cape G irardeau, ALICE GOD­WIN; Lexington, CLARA TH A R PE; Morgantown, GEORGETTA DIX; A tlantic City, IRENE KEITH. All of their addresses a re listed in the Ninety-Nines Directory.

Chapters wishing to order Offi­cial P rogram s a t 75c each, to sell for $1.00 (m aking 25c a copy for the chapter), should send their re­quirem ents to AWTAR, Teterboro Airport, Teterboro, N .J., by June 1st, accom panied by a check to cover their orders.

And now for some frosting! As we go to press, position num bers are being drawn for those entries bearing the April 15th postm ark. By special arrangem ent with some je t propelled ca rr ie r pigeons, the list is being “ rocketed” to the Ninety-Nine News to be induded in this issue!

Rules Governing The Use Of

Aeronautical ApparatusInstructions Issued With The 1911

Glen Curtis “Curtis Pusher” :1. The aeronaut should seat himself in

the apparatus, and secure himself firmly to the chair by m eans of the s trap pro­vided. On the attendarit crying “ contact” the aeronaut Should dose the switch which supplies electrical current to the motor, thus enabling the attendant to set the sam e in motion.

OPENING DAY “POWDER PUFF" ENTRIES RECEIVE TA K E -O FF POSITIONS

The coveted NUMBER ONE position for take-off in the 1964 Pow der Puff Derby, AWTAR, w as won today by CAROL KENNEDY of San Andreas, Calif., 7,000 hour pilot sponsored by the C alaveras County F a ir and Jum ping F rog Jubilee and M arlin W. Miller, R eal E sta te . H er co-pilot will be R uth Nitzen of T orrance, Calif. They will fly a Cessna Skylane.

SECOND in the line-up for take-off will be BETTY MILLER, Los Angeles, Calif., renowned for her recen t solo flight to A ustralia. She will fly a P iper Comanche 250 solo under sponsorship of Pacific P iper of Santa Monica, Calif.

THIRD to be flagged off will be JUDY WAGNER, Palos Verdes E states, Calif., soloing a Beech Bonanza K35 in her 8th race.

N ineteen entries, postm arked the opening date, April 15, w ere draw n in Washington a t Federal Aviation Agency H eadquarters. No. 1 selected for take-off w as drawn by MR. N AJEEB HALABY, FAA A dm inistrator; No. 2 by GEN. LEE WADE (Maj. Gen. USAF, re t.) whose records include his piloting “The Boston,” Douglas Cruiser biplane in the U. S. A rm y’s first round-the-world flight in 1924; No. 3 by MRS. FAY GILLIS WELLS, ch a rte r Ninety-Nine and first woman to qualify for m em bership in the Cater- piller Club; No. 4 by MR. LINTON WELLS, D irector of S torer Broadcasting and WWI pilot who, as an AP correspondent, accom panied G eneral Wade in 1924 as the only civilian to participate in the group flight. Rem aining entries w ere drawn successively.

An estim ated field of 75 com peting planes will s ta rt on Ju ly 4th at Fresno, Calif., following a 2,573 m ile course to an A tlantic City ocean front finish line opposite The Ritz-Carlton. P ilots will continue their flight off-shore from the fam ous “ Boardwalk” to land a t the F ederal Aviation Agency’s National Aviation Facilities Experim ental Center (NAFEC), the FAA’s System R esearch and Development Service test cen ter n ear A tlantic City.

S tart H eadquarters is the F resno H acienda and Term ius H eadquarters, the Hotel Dennis Dennis, Atlantic City.

The women will be com peting for an over-all purse of $3,000, plus additional monies in special categories. E ach plane will be flying against its own assigned handicap as entries are accepted from stock a irc ra ft of 145 to 400 horsepower.

E ntries d o se June 5, 1964.Simplex clocks will be used en route to record take-off and landing tim es. Honey­

well will compute the running and final scores.

2. Opening the control valve of the motor, the aeronaut should a t the sam e tim e firm ly grasp the vertical stick or control pole which is to be found directly before me chair. The power from the m otor will cause the device to roll gently forw ard, and the aeronaut should govern its direction of motion by use of the rud­der bars.

3. When the m echanism is facing into the wind, the aeronaut should open the control valve of the motor to its fullest extend, a t the sam e tim e pulling the con­trol pole gently tow ard his (the aero ­nau t’s) middle anatom y.

4. When sufficient speed has been a t­tained, the device will leave the ground and assum e the position of aeronautical ascent.

5. Should the aeronaut decide to re ­turn to te rra firm a, he shound close the control valve of the motor. This will cause the apparatus to assum e what is known as the “gliding position,” except in the case of those flying malchines which a re in- he"ev’tly unstable. These la tte r will a s­sum e the position known as “ involuntary snin” and will return to earth without further action on the p a rt of the aeronaut.

6. On approaching closely to the chosen field or terrain , the aeronaut should move the control pole gently tow ard himself, thus causing the m echanism to alight more or less gently on te rra firm a.

(Sent in by Orange County Chapter)

Roster ChangesE aste rn New England Chapter,

page 16, Lois Auehterlonie, Tele­phone No. 263-5165.

G reater New York Chapter, page 20, M arian Lopez, Active.

All-Ohio Chapter, page 34, Caro­line N. Jones, Telephone No. 357- 6420.

South Dakota Chapter, page 73, add: Mabel G race Anesi, P.O. Box 278, Lander, Wyo.

E astern Pennsylvania C h a p t e r , pages 22-24:

B arringer, A lberta N. has been Changed to Peterson, A lberta N. (George). Same address for the tim e being.

Bareus, K ate C. (W. H erm an), 112 Mansion Drive, Media, Pa.

Fleisher, R uth S. (M aurice T .), 7501 R am ey Circle, Biggs A ir Force Base, E l Paso, Texas.

Pfatteicher, Ann C., College Town Club Apts., B-10, 163 Elkton Rd., Newark, Del.

Sacchi, Louise (1-717-748-5511), P. O. Box 54, F e rry Service Co., Inc., Lock Haven, Pa.

Shields, Anne M. (VI 4-3585), 43 W. Ashmead PI. N., Germantown, Philadelphia 44, Pa.

Sturtevant, Elizabeth A. (Clyde).

FIRST OFFICIAL CONTESTANTS IN THE 1964 ALL-W O M AN TRANSCO NT INEN TAL A IR RACE

A W TAR Contribution Contest

(Num ber designates Official R ace Num ber and Take-off1. Carol Kennedy, P . O. Box 845, San A ndreas, Calif.

Ruth Nitzen, 3030 M errill Dr., Apt. 19, Torrance, Calif.2. Betty Miller, 3316 Inglewood Blvd., Los Angeles 66, Calif.

3. Judy G. W agner, 2516 Via La Selva, Palos Verdes E sta tes, Calif.

4. F rances S. B era, 4284 Pepperwood Ave., Long Beach 8, Calif. Dorothy Van Zante, M.D., 4064 Via Valmonte,Palos Verdes E states, Calif.

5. Jewel Y. vom Saal, 1010 North Broadw ay, Yonkers 3, N. Y. E leanor McCullough, 3 Wilow Brook Ave., Apt. 4-B,Bay Shore, L. I., N. Y.

6. Hazel McKendrick, 8536 M editerranean D r., D allas, Texas Phyllis Jane E m m ert, 9244 Meadowglen D r., Dallas, Texas

7. Caroline Huntington, Box 2263 Bostonia Sta., E l Cajon, Calif. Elsie Watson, 3485 Unida PL, San Diego, Calif.

8. M argaret Ringenberg, 9900 Hosier Rd., Grabi'll, Ind.Yvonne Davis, 209 S. Superior St., Angola, Ind.

9. Alice H. Hammond, 1203 Gilbert Rd., Meadowbrook, Pa.Jean H. Pearson, 1319 Three Mile Dr.,Grosse Pointe P a rk 30, Mich.

10. Gay D. M aher, Taunton Blvd., R. D., Marlton, N. ,T.Helen A. Ellis, 101 Winding Way, Haddonfield, N. J.

11. Shirley Gilmore, 1844 Highland Oaks Dr., A rcadia, Calif. Dorothy Geddes, 10 O ntare Rd., A rcadia, Calif.

12. P at McEwen, 16206 E . Central, Wichita, Kan. ' j

13. Yvette J . H ortm an, Brick Y ard Rd., Titusville, N. J .Mary June Loch, 214 Penn Valley T errace, M orrisville, Pa.

14. Audrey M. Shutte, 8626 Keokuk Ave., Canoga P ark , Calif.Ellen R. Trindle, 3777 D eervale Dr., Sherm an Oaks, Calif.

15. Jacquelyn R. M arkham , Rt. 7, Box 150-A, Battle Creek, Mich. M ary (Muff) English, 150 F rances Dr., B attle Creek, Mich.

16. Myrtle Amelia Wright. 2627 Henry Ave., Pinole, Calif.Anita J . Conley, 1041 W estern Ave., Vallejo, Calif.

17. Kay M. Stewart, 421 Ocean Blvd., A tlantic Highlands, N. J .

18. Jackie Petty , 1015 Solana Dr., Mountain View, Calif.Ardell Hauk, 105 Orange Dr., Salinas, Calif.

19. Pauline Glasson, 9858 Redbud, Corpus Christi, Texas Patti Kennelly, 4217 Cambridge, Corpus Christi, Texas

Position)Cessna 182 Skylane P iper PA-24 Comanche 250 Beech K35 Bonanza Beech 23 M usketeer

Cessna 182A

Cessna 182

P iper PA-22 T ri-Pacer 150 Beech 23 M usketeer Cessna 180

P iper PA-28 Cherokee 180 Cessna 182 Skylane Beech B95A T ravelair P iper PA-28 Cherokee 180 P iper PA-24 Comanche 250 Cessna 182G

Beech 95 T ravelair P iper PA-28 Cherokee 235 P iper PA-28 Cherokee 235 Cherokee 235 Cessna 175

AW TAR Terminusby Irene B. Keith

Just a quick rem inder tha t the T erm i­nus is getting better as it goes along. Our guest speaker is Mr. Jam es Pyle, vice-president of G eneral Precision, Inc. In 1956, Mr. Pyle becam e the deputy ad­m inistrator of CAA and was appointed adm inistrator in 1958. He becam e depu­ty adm inistrator of FAA in 1959. P res­ently he is vice president of G eneral P re ­cision, Inc. Mr. Pyle began his active

NOTICEA request has been received for

clippings of Joan M erriam ’s flight. Will you please m ail them to: Joan M erriam, 719 E ast Wardlow Rd., Long Beach, Calif.

flying career with Pan American World Airways in 1935. He was assistan t vice- president when he left the company in 1946. He keeps his pilot certificate cur­rent, holds an ATR rating and has logged m ore than 12,000 hours.

Have you heard the complete story of the first race women pilots ever flew? It was called an “Air D erby.’’ It had two classes df equipment. Know who won this race? Come to the Term inus and find out. Will have a list of the pilots and their airplanes flown in this race. I can say this race was the fore­runner of the idea to form the Ninety- Nines, Inc.

See you a t the Dennis Hotel on the Boardwalk of Atlantic City in July — Ju ly 4th thru 8th the AWTAR — July 9th the Banquet — and Ju ly 10th NINE­TY-NINES “DAY” AT THE WORLD’S FAIR. M ake reservation by contacting Mrs. Clarence Whims — Dennis Hotel, Michigan Avenue, Atlantic, New Jersey.

Ways and Means

Many chapters have already sent in those lovely checks representing the full $5 per m em ber goal and are helping to win the AWTAR CONTRIBUTION TRO­PHY for their Section. The contest will close as of midnight Ju ly 31, 1964. While contributions for AWTAR 1965 will still be credited to your chapter as la te as August 31, 1964, we will have to close the contest on the ea rlie r date to have the results ready for convention in Aug­ust. Don’t let your Section lose a chance a t the trophy just because you have delayed putting the check in the mail. Get that check off TODAY.

As you know, entries opened for the 1964 Pow der Puff Derby on April 15th. This m eans that women pilots all over the world will be thinking, talking, plug­ging the 99’s and the Derby in the news­papers, over radio, and on TV. All of us who have participated in any way know the interest that is aroused along the route and the g reat spurt in 99 m em ­bership that is a result of the race.

AWTAR gives so much to all 99’s in publicity, prestige, and the Challenge to upgrade thaJt the goal of $5 per m em ­ber really seem s quite sm all in com par­ison. This is actually less than 50c per month for which you as a m em ber of the 99’s receive national and international recognition tha t few pilots could achieve individually.

If you a re having a problem raising funds for AWTAR, contact your Section­al Ways and Means Chairm an. She will have good ideas to suggest. Two quick and easy ways to ex tract money from the public, to gain publicity for your chapter, and to fill your chapter treasury as well as m eet the $5 per m em ber goal for the AWTAR Contribution Contest are to have a Penny-a-Pound flight or an air show with chance on a flight.

LCt’s go, Go, GO on the AWTAR 1965 Contribution Contest, m ake your check payable to AWTAR and send it to me, Geri M. Hill, Chairm an Ways and Means, 500 Avenue G (No. 10), Redondo Beach, California.

Four New Chapters!Welcome and congratulations to

the following chapters:

Fallon, N evada Chapter

N orthern Arizona Chapter

Top of Texas C hapter

Southern Oregon Chapter

Anchorage 99 Reports on Alaskan DisasterBelow is a portion of a le tte r received

by Mrs. Charlie (Ruth) D eerm an, In ter­national P resident of The Ninety-Nines, Inc., an international organization of licensed women pilots, from Mrs. Wesley (Helen) Stoddard, who w ith h e r husband owns the Stoddard Aero Service in Anchor­age, Alaska. Helen Stoddard is an active m em ber of the Alaska C hapter of the Ninety-Nines.

“ Wesley left for the ‘south 48’ on the morning of M arch 14 so he w as in No­gales, Ariz., a t the tim e of the diseaster. The day w as calm and snowy and I had left the shop early as I had been invited out to dinner with som e friends in spen- ard (a p art of Anchorage to the south­west). I stopped in a departm ent store in Spenard, took an escalator to the sec­ond floor and made a purchase there. I was waiting for my, change when the first trem or was felt but thought nothing of it as slight trem ors occur quite frequently and a re m erely a topic of conversation for a day or two.

“When lam ps and dishes Started fall­ing off the Shelves, I decided th a t it was time to leave and took off down the esca­lator without even waiting for my change. The escalator stopped when I was about half way down and I nearly fell the reSt of the way as I was even running down the moving stairs . At the foot of the esca­lator I stum bled over a child and fell, at the door, two bicycles had fallen in front of me and I went down again.

“ It was alm ost impossible to stand up, the ground was shaking so. I lost my purchase and my bill fold and so fa r as I know, they have not been found yet. After what seem ed an age of try ing to get to the door, with all the light fixtures and m erchandise falling all around, I found myself outside the door alm ost unable to Stand. Everyone was holding on to the cars in order to keep on their feet. Large plate glass windows w ere falling out and the manikins were falling into the street.

“There seem ed to be no panic as people stood around waiting for the trem or to Stop. They seem ed to be too stunned at what was happening. Everyone got out of the store but I saw one woman with a gash on her head.

“A fter it was over I went to see what dam age had been done to our home and hangar. If there is any, it is very slight, and only a few things were thrown to the floor. Across the stree t from our hangar was the new F ifth Avenue Chrysler Building (just completed a t a cost of over $200,000) constructed of cem ent block and pre - stressed reinforced concrete beams. This building was a total loss and

the beam s fell on several new cars. A hangar ju s t east of ours went down and ruined a la rge helicopter, and a brand new cem ent block hangar ju s t across the runw ay from us w as left in a heap. I t seem s th a t buildings m ade form wood or Stebl stood the shaking m uch b e tte r than those of m asonry construction.

“ In the exclusive residential section of Turnagain-By-The-Sea w as where the m ajo r dam age occurred. Many of the fine homes slid off into the ocean, and those tha t w ere left were reduced to rubble. The loss of life in this a rea is noit yet known and m ay not be known for a long tim e. I flew over the a rea and it looked as if a huge plow had just turned every­thing under.

“ In the downtown a rea , some of the buildings settled irtto the ground two or three stories, and all of the buildings that a re m ore than two stories high have been condemned as unsafe, even though some of them show little dam age from the out­side. Many of the buildings were designed to w ithstand severe earthquakes but this one even exceeded the intensity of the San F rancisco earthquake of 1906.

“ It w as a m iracle and a blessing that few fires w ere started , as no w ater was available from the moment of the first im pact, and an am azingly few lives were lost.

“The cities of Seward, Valdez (Valdeez), Cordova, and Kodiak suffered loss also. I flew to Seward a few days after the quake and found it to be completely wiped out. There is no industry left. The tidal wave w as the main cause of their dam ­age. The city of Valdez was totally de­stroyed also as was most of Cordova. Kodiak suffered extensive and terrible dam age.

“E xcept for a few m iles of track near Fairbanks, the A laska railroad has been wiped out a s was m ost of the highway between here and Seward. The bridge across the Kenai R iver was destroyed which prevents any surface travel to the Kenai Peninsula.

“The runw ay a t the International Air­port was destroyed a s was the adm inis­tration building. The control tower toppled to the ground taking the life of one of the tow er operators and injuring two more. The Elm endorf Air Force field suffered some dam age but is being used as a com m ercial term inal pending the rebuild­ing of Inlterantional. Luckily M errill field escaped dam age and planes a re flying in and out regularly.

“ Mountains in the a rea show great land and snow slides. Many boulders rolled

from the sides and peaks of the rugged terra in . Several years ago a tunnel was dug through th e m ountain to E klutna Lake and a power p lan t w as put in to furnish pow er for the Anchorage area . Now, even the lake is gone and will probably never re tu rn so it seem s th a t the entire plant is a to tal loss.

“The earth opened up in m any places and entire buildings w ere swallowed. One m an saw the earth open up, swallow his two children and the the crack closed again.

“ Schools have been closed for several days now and no one seem s to know when they will reopen. West Anchorage High was demolished, even the roof of the auditorium fell in. They will have to double Shift the schools for the rest of the te rm in order to have school a t all.

“ The Denali T heater, tha t w as three stories high, now comes up just a little above the surrounding ground. The force of the quake w as estim ated to be one hundred million tim es the energy of the atom ic bom bs that leveled Hiroshima.

“ In view of the huge property loss and terrific dam age surrounding us, we feel extrem ely fortunate to have been only "shaken up a b it” with no real serious loss and receiving no injuries.

“Wesley w as in Nogales a t the tim e he received nws of the disaster, which was but a couple of hours a fte r it happened. He im m ediately headed back to Alaska, driving the 1,106 m iles to Burley, Idaho, in 23 hours to w here he had parked his plane, due to the bad storm that was Stationary throughout Nevada and Utah. F rom there he flew the rem ainder of the way home in two and a half days which covered an additional 3,500 miles. He a r­rived in Anchorage W ednesday afternoon just five days a fter the earthquake, and found us in much better circum stances than he had anticipated.

“We had been without lights for a few nights and had slept in the shop one night as it was the onliy place tha t had heat. Our w ater is still off a t the house because the m ains froze up during (he period just following the quake and though the m ains a re now open, we haven’t been able to find anyone with the tim e to thaw out our line from the main to the house, so we will do our best until we can find someone with an electric m achine and the tim e to get to us.

Helen”

Mr. and Mrs. D eerm an flew to Ancho - age, Alaska last Septem ber and were the guests of the Alaska C hapter of Ninety- Nines at their fall meeting.

SECTION

COLUM NTHE STORY OF WOMEN PILOTS

•‘DOW N-UNDER”

By Irene Keith

This story printed in the June, 1963 Monthly M agazine of the A ircraft Own­e rs’ and P ilo ts’ Association of A ustralia, was so in teresting th a t I requested per­mission from Mr. P e te r Kelly to reprin t it in the N ewsletter. Received a very pleasant yes.

“ Quote:

AMERICA’S BETTY MILLER CHARMS WHOOPS

By P eter Kelly, Senior V ice President (Australia AOPA)

A m erica’s famous first-ever solo Pacific flier, Mrs. Betty Miller, conquered an ocean and won the hearts of all Aus­tralians when her P iper Apache touched down in B risbane a fter her magnificent four-hop ferry flight from California last month.

W armest, proudest and loudest heart­beats in the land naturally pounded the feminine ribs of the national 230 WHOOPs -^snazzy personal nicknam e for them ­selves of A ustralia’s Women Pilots.

All of them pilots o r ex-pilots without exception, the ladies of A.W.P. Ass’n wel­comed Betty as a new fem ale flying sta r and as yet another ace am ong the in­trepid band of the w orld's g rea t women pilots.

And deservedly so—for, in 1963, Betty has chalked up one of the few rem aining FIRSTS in world aviation. F o r hers was the honour and the glory, th is unassuming, attractive, nonchalent and quietly confi­dent American house wifo-cum-business- woman, of being the first woman pilot ever to lick the 7,000 m iles of the Pacific solo. Longest leg w as California to Hono­lulu of 17% hours. All the lasses, to say nothing of the men, are intrigued as to how she coped in the personal comfort departm ent—som ething to do with milk­shake carton, it seems.

Betty coaxed top perform ance from her Apache with the skill bom of 14 years and 6500 hours a s a pilot, as She charm ed 'her hosts with her personality. A fter the Piper people, these were the WOOPs or Women Pilots who first welcomed Betty in Brisbane, and those who repeated the welcome as she passed through Sydney.

230 in A.W.A.P.—C harm ers all in their own right, and nOt without their own s 'i l ls and honour and glory, A ustralia’s WOOPs are a sm all band of 230 women proud indeed of their universal right to w ear the cherished insignia of a pilot’s wings.

Probably the charm er-in-chief of the WOOPs is their effervescent, pixie-ish founder, Nancy Bird Walton, A.R.Ae.S., a private pilot a t 17, a com m ercial pilot at

19, organizer of A ustralia’s early lad ies’ flying tours, w inner of the Ladies Trophy in the 1936 Brisbane-Adelaide a ir race, w artim e com m andant of the A ustralia Women’s Air Training Corps, founder of the A ustralian Women P ilo ts’ Associa­tion in 1950, and a gentile suffragette for the righ ts and recognition of women pilots for nigh on three decades.

Among their ranks a re a handful of pre-w ar pinoeer women pilots, lasses still young in heart like chief WOOP, their F edera l President, Maud G ardiner, and other fam ous m em bers like B arbara Sel­by-Brown, M argaret Davis, Dolores Bon- ney, P a t R edm an, Evelyn Follett, F reda Thompson, Bobbie T erry and others Of their proud like who in the long ago flew quaint ilttle aeroplanes stuck together with dope and hope—in the days when the g rass in the paddock that is now Mascot, for example, was kept cropped by horses and cows.

PETROL FO R BLOOD? Like their m ale colleagues of the cockpit, the WOOPs as a band have little in comm on except their sex, their individuality and the ir love of flying. Scratch them (if you dare) and you could well sm ell petrol ra th er than blood. They abound in personalities who mix business with pleasure and who have invaded m an’s one-time domain in the a ir with im pressive success.

Shirley Anderson and Olga Tarling are A ustralia’s only two women Air Traffic Controllers.

South A ustralia’s Helen B lackburn and N.S.W.’s Senja Robey and P a t R uther­ford a re past o r present aerobatic cham ps against all-comers.

Carm el Brown (N.S.W.), Jean Hack­m an (Tas.), E lizabeth Lower (S.A.), Bron- wen Arner (Vic.) and Jocelyn Priebe (Qld) a re five comm onwealth Scholar­ship winners pursuing their instructor’s ratings. (Can you best Joselyn’s perform ­ance for motivation! each weekend she travels 200 miles there and 200 miles hack, between Bundaberg and Brisbane, for her part-tim e instructing a t R.Q.A.C. Keen!)

Christine Davy (Asst. C.F.I. at Goul- burn, N.S.W.), Beth G arre tt (Assis. C.F.I. a t R.V.A.C., and the only woman in A ustralia to have held her A .T.P.L.), Jan e Virtue (Qld), and E ileen Steenson (Vic.) a re current instructors. South Aus­tra lia ’s Timrnie Cornell and W.A.’s Wini­fred Wells a re Sales D em onstration pilots for Cessna.

M argaret Clarke (S.A.) is a crop-duster. Peggy K elm an and Hazel R oberts (both of Qld.) and N.S.W.’s Joan Russ from the D arling are countrywomen who fly and use their aeroplanes like other folk use the ir cars.

JE T PILOT—V ersatile and widely-ex­perienced Nancy Leebold was A ustralia’s first woman pilot to hold a first-class Radio operator’s ticket, was a winner of an AMELIA EARHART SCHOLAR­SHIP, an ex-flying instructor, ex-second dickie on Lodestars, has a U.S.A. je t in

her log-book and is com m ercial pilot to whom flying and navigation are second nature.

Lady Casey, P atron of the A.W.P.A., is a Life Honorary M em ber of the Asso­ciation, and a m em ber in her own right. Lady Casey flew the fam ily 180 to the Association’s annual m eeting in Adelaide in April, with Lord Casey in the right- hand sea t a s second-dickle. And—Beryl Young, a C.P., has twice ferried Tiger MOths from Perth to M elbourne town.

And so they fly on and on, these flying school m a ’am s, housewives, nurses, sec­retaries, engineers, doctors, accountants, com pany directors, graziers, a garage proprietress, com m ercial a rtis ts , an a ir­line public relations officer, social work­ers, hair-dressers, a ir hosties, and what- have-you.

There a re the Senior WOOPs withm em ories of flying as fa r back as 1927, when C anberra was but a babe being christened, and there are the 17-year- olds, the teenagers of 1963 with their careers all in front of them . . . the young­est, Pam West, Who is but three days younger than Anne C arter, both off solo:and Chrtsltine Henderson, who won, herP .P .L . While still a t school and whopicked up the prize a s w inner of the Novice Section of the Women’s Air Re­liability T rial to Adelaide in April. And then there is Susan Williams, R.A.C.S.A.’s entry for the 1960 A.O.P.A. Pilot-of-the- Y ear Trophy, being contested at Banks- town this month.

THE EXECUTIVES—Offsiders to Fed­eral President Maud G ardiner are Vice- President Shirley H arris, Federal Secre­ta ry Alix Newbigen and Federal T rea­su rer Stephanie Day; N.S.W. State P resi­dent is Gwen Caldwell (a good type, ex R.A.A.F., or W.A.A.A.F., to be correct, of course), with S tate Secretary Beverly Shaw and S tate T reasu rer Lyn Clancy. In the Banana State a re President Olga T arling and Secretary Lorraine Bradley. V ictoria has P resident E sther M ather ond Secretary Annette Murphy. In W.A. are President Robin Miller and Secretary Judith Rayner. Down south in the Apple Isle of T asm ania a re P resident Mary Atkinson and Secretary Jean H ackman; and in S.A. there a re President Helen Blackburn and Secretary Alexa McAuley.

N.S.W. has 85 women pilots as m em ­bers of A.W.P.A., Victoria 35, S.A. 39, Queensland 40, W.A. 14, Tasm ania 7, and there are four in N.Z. and six resident overseas.

Gone are the days (if they ever existed) when A.C.T. shuddered, D.C.A. E xam i­ners took their long service leave, C .F .I.’s locked their hangars and m ere m ales m ade them selves scarce a t the mention of woman pilot.” Today, the ladies are an integral part of A ustralia’s expanding Aviation, to which they bring not only their talerits and enthusiasm , but which they adom with their charm and wel­come feminity. Unquote”

I believe you have read a good cross

section of A ustralia and a complete in­troduction to the women pilots down- under. L et’s m ake them Ninety-Nines.

By Irene B. Keith

MIDDLE EAST SECTION B y Virginia Thompson, Governor

Pre-sectional festivities began with the arrival of our International President, Ruth Deerm an, and International Vice President, Alice Roberts, a t Dulles In ter­national Airport on F riday, April 17. They and all sectional officers and chapter chairm en had been invited as my guest for dinner a t the F ort Lesley J . M cNair Officers Club in Washington, D. C.

That evening, open house was held at my home for m em bers of the Washington, D. C. Chapter.

The following day, “ spring was burst­ing out all over”—the birds w ere singing, the trees were dressed in their new green foliage, and even the sun added its bless­ing to our day. It w as tru ly heaven sent w eather for our spring sectional meeting a t the Arsenal-on-the-Green, New Castle, Del. Ninety-Nine m em bers and guests registered for the m eeting and festivities, our largest attendance to date.

It was a g rea t pleasure to welcome such distinguished guests as: Ruth Deerm an, International President; Alice Roberts, International Vice President; Captain Kyung O. Kim of Seoul, Korea; and a num ber of girls from the G reater New York Chapter.

One of the highlights of our meeting was the welcoming of our New M aryland Chapter with an original poem by Kate Macario, Vice Governor, and the p re ­sentation of the ch arte r by Ruth D eer­man, International President. As she called the m em bers forward, each was presented with a white carnation corsage tied with a bow of blue ribbon, the 99 colors. Ruth spoke of our pleasure in having them as a part of our organization and outlined their duties and responsibili­ties as mem bers.

During the business meeting, all were asked to write to their Congressmen and R epresentatives urging the continuation, perhaps on a part-tim e basis, of the 42 Flight Service Stations which the FAA plans to discontinue in the near future. These provide air-ground comm unications for en route a ircraft which are so helpful in general aviation flying.

Upon adjournm ent, a delicious luncheon was served in the Amstel Room. This was followed with a leisurely tour of historic buildings and homes on or near the Green. It was such fun but hard on the f e 't to trod the old cobble stone streets and tu'-e a peek into life as lived several hundred years ago.

We owe a deep vote df ao irec ia tion to the E astern Pennsylvania Chapter, our hostess; B arbara Bonnett, General Chair­m an; Mr. Stradley Jr . and Mr. Johns of the Arsenal-on-the-Green, the transporta­tion and registration com m ittees and the many companies who contributed door prizes and favors.

SOUTHWEST SECTION

BAY CITIES CHAPTER By Ruth Magi 11

The F eb ruary m eeting of the Bay Cities C hapter began with a visit to E leanor and Glenn Wilson’s new plane. I t looks very professional—smooth skin m ade of eeconite, much easier to put on than cloth. The radio is unique—a microphone on eadh door and they can be used for e ither inter-com or radio transm ission. The ribs for the wings hange in neat rows, ready for covering when 'the fuse­lage is finished. They report it won’t be much longer.

The reports on our booth a t the Sports and Boat Show a t the Cow P alace in San F rancisco w ere interesting. About 60 women signed as interested in learning to fly. Most people went by with a glassy eye—and when any of us would address one with, “Wouldn’t you like to learn to f ly ?” the answ er would be a quick and p o s i t i v e "N o!” Some m ilitary fliers brought their wives to us for flying sales talks. The response by the m em bers was excellent, all who could were on hand for their stints in the booth. The booth w as sponsored by P iper Sales and manned by 99’s. A P iper Cherokee w as flown in to the Cow P alace parking lot by Dave M cElhatton, 49 t i e r of Jeanne, Santa C lara Chapter.

Before the beginning of the Sports Show some of the girls had lunch with Mr. P iper, founder of P iper A ircraft Cor­poration. He feels strongly that private pilots need to be m ore active in trying to save sm all airports and in establishing new ones.

Caroline Schutt, ou r new m em ber, and her 'husband arrived a t the m eeting in their brand new Volkswagon cam per. It had been driven just fa r enough to be loaded for a fishing trip to S ierra Pines. They w ere going directly to the mountains from the meeting.

Ruth Jacquot has returned from El Centro and M artinez is now her home. We are glad to have h e r back.

The w eather has been good for hanpy flying this month. The Reilichs, Cobbs and Jones flew to Columbia and took the stagecoach (yes, really) into town for a look at an authentic M other Lode Town. It is a California S tate P ark and has been reconstructed as it was in the gold m in­ing days. In repairing the old Wells Fargo building, enough gold dust was rec la im el from the d irt under the floor to pay for the expenses on the building. The airport is a good one.

E laine Loening has a Skylane and has been flying with her sm all fry for week­end trips. She is also working on the 140 again. Elly Jones has been a irport hoo­ping over northern California as a ir taxi

for her husband, Roy. She has m et sev­era l prospective 99’s this way. Gladys Cobb, E lly Jones, H ialeah Reilich, Kenny, and Cindy (G ladys’ pom eranian) flew in­to C arm el Valley for lunch in Gladys' Cherokee. M ary Devaul and 'her family had a fabulous trip to the lower end of B aja, Calif. Their Stinson Voyager per­formed nobly.

About ten of the Bay Cities 99's joined the Santa C lara C hapter M arch 6. All w ere very enthusiastic about the Central and South American trip of Jack and Pat Gladney, M ary Standish and P atty Sher­wood. They went down to visit M ayeita B ehringer who now lives in Chile.

M ary Fielding had a progressive auction of vases donated by Elly Jones. The fun was fast and furious before they finally found an owner.

EL CAJON VALLEY CHAPTER By Doris Ritchey

Judy B achm an was the hostess for our M arch 25th m eeting and we all enjoyed m eeting Judy ’s new baby daughter. Guests present a t 'the m eeting w ere Dottie Daub from the San Diego Chapter, G race Paige, who recently moved here from Las Vegas and is transferring to our chapter from the Tucson Chapter, B etty Wharton, a prospective new m em ber, and Dottie McGann, a new roadrunner. P lans were discussed about the next two cents per pound flight to be held M ay 24th to raise m ore money for the 1965 AWTAR. Ida G ay showed movies taken a t our first two cents per pound flight Dec. 29th.

Mr. Filby, m anager of the Grossmont Shopping Center, donated a helicopter for six hours on April 4th and we earned over $250 by charging two cents per pound for helicopter rides. We also had a 99’s display and a Spage Age display from the Aerospace Museum in the Mall of the Shopping Center. The girls Who helped weigh in and collect money and sdt up the display w ere H arriett Allen, Jean Bussey, B arbara Hill, Isabelle Mc- Crae, Dottie Sanders, B arbara Tucker,K aren Whited, and roadrunners Dottie McGann and M arilyn Gerhrke. All gotfree helicopter rides for working. The w eather w as cold but everyone still felt it was a big success and the Shopping Cen­te r m ay do it again.

The Aerospace Museum Auxiliary held th e ir second m eeting April 8th in theGeorgian Room a t the U. S. G rant Hotel. Our chap te r w as represented by seven m em bers. A banquet will be held in May to install officers. The Auxiliary will be hostesses for special functions a t tecM useum and help with the M em bership Campaign.

Aileen Saunders’ son, Frank, is now in P aris , F rance Studying medicine. He is a second year pre-med student.

B arbara Hill is excited about getting to fly to Sacram ento and San Francisco for the P-TA Convention. B arbara is P-TA president a t Cleveland School. This will be her first trip on the airlines.

Dottie Sanders and Isabelle McCrae

Claire W alters giving Joan A. M erriam Smith the Am elia Earhart covers that she is taking around the world with her, as Betty Faux, I,eng Beach Chapter Chairman, looks on.

plan to fly to E l Paso for the South Cen­tral Section m eeting in D ottie 's 140.

Dottie D avis will be the hostess for our April 22 meeting.

LONG BEACH CHAPTER By Carole B. Dunn

March found us all congregated around Joan M erriam Smith, captivated as she told about her planned Amelia E a rh a rt route round the world flight. The trip seems just as dangerous and exciting in this day and age, with all our m odem equipment. She is flying her own twin- engine P iper Aztec nam ed “ City of Long Beach” for one of her sponsors; and her plane is equipped with o ther sponsors’ products, i.e., ARC radio, Brelonix of Seattle, Reilly R ajay turbo-chargers, AC soark plugs, Goodyear tires, Mitchell auto pilot, Jeppesen charts, to nam e a few. In fact it is so fully equipped and gassed (300 gallons), there ’s hardly room for Joan and she is only 5’ 3” , 106 lbs. For those of you that have not yet had the pleasure of m eeting her; she is a very attractive, unassuming, vivacious and knowledgeable girl.

A pilots do—we had to ask her w hat instrum ents she intended to use. She has two compasses, two ADF and one VOR and a sexitent to navigate by if all else fails. Joan said she doesn’t know how to shoot the s ta rs very well, but she can come within seven m iles of her location by taking a sunline shdt, but then she won’t need the s ta rs so m uch as she in­tends to fly mostly DVFR for 27,000 miles in 30 days. N aturally we want her back safe and we were reassured as she told us she has an inflatable ra ft and survival

kit and a granger beacon that can tran s­mit for 80 hours, also w e’d like to think that the Whole U. S. 7th F leet would look for her too. The wives of her husband’s shipm ates on the USS Endurance gave Joan a silver sham rock engraged “E ndur­ing Luck." She’s also w earing a St.C.iristopher m edal given to her by F ran Bera, and a solid gold carved medal, St. Christopher on one side and the S tar of David on the other, and the Pilots Saint m edal lent to h e r by Mrs. Wally Shirra, the sam e one he wore around the world—in orbit. Joan is also carry ing 100 AE covers to postm ark a t each slop and will be signed by her and given back to HQ to be sold for the AE Fund.

Joan took off from Long Beach Airport M arch 16, at 12:30 n.m. M em bers of the Long Beach and Orange Co. and San Diego C hapters w ere there to see her off. She took off am idst our cheers and happy tears and the Long Beadh city band play­ing “ California, Here I Come” and flew the pattern to m ake a low pass down the runw ay for a farewell. It w as a windy day here—guSts 30 to 80 knots and only airlines flying. She plans to land at Oakland Airport on April 14th. I think it would be very fitting that as m any 99’s tha t can be there—should be—to welcome her back.

O ther News: Dr. Van Zante is flying co-pilOt with F ran B era in this y e a r’s AWTAR and Lee Title and 49% er a re off for a flying vacation to the B aham as. Betty M iller and Joan discussed flying over the w ater and some possible prob­lems. Betty said she’d be off to Canada soon for another speaking engagem ent. We had another guest—Mohammed Hori

of Somali, Africa, he and three others are here in this country to learn to fly as they will be flying policemen for their new country. He and Joan talked about his country as she will be flying through there.

LOS ANGELES CHAPTER By Vivian Thompson

Many m em bers of the chapter have been really working hard on the plans for the Spring Sectional. Because we a re the hosts this spring we have had many busi­ness m eetings in the last few weeks. On M arch 19th m any of us m et a t world fam ous O lvera Street in Los Angeles where we enjoyed a m arvelous dinner and entertainm ent. Our trip there was in search of favors and decorations for the Fly-esta which is the them e of our Spring Sectional.

Our April m eeting was held a t Sally L aForge’s home Where final plans were set in order for the sectional. Sure do hope to see m any of our fellow 99’s there.

Elsie and Norm Smith and Tillie E lem ­ents enjoyed a flight to Bakersfield on E aste r Sunday weekend which was a joining of the Claire W alters Flight Academy group of 35 pilots and student pilots.

The Heaneys and Duports flew to Phoe­nix for a weekend of dog races, ca r races and an evening a t Playboy Club. Due to bad w eather they had to leave the Apache in P alm Springs and drive home in a rented car.

Beulah and Bill Kee, Imogene and Bob Sawdon flew to Columbia, Calif., Saturday, April 11, and returned on Sun­day. Had quite a trip, fought head winds going and sailed home on the push of ever loving tail winds.

Dee Kluppel reports she was a guest of Guy Van Alstyne’s at his installation as president of the Icarins. Had a great flight in his new Mooney.

ORANGE COUNTY CHAPTER By Evelyn Sherwood

O range County C hapter h as inaugurated a “ fly-in” breakfast m eeting on one Saturday morning each month a t the Orange County Airport.

The m em bers a re also aw arding a trophy to be presented to the “Woman Pilot of the Y ear.”

This will be an annual event and the winner will be decided on a point system.

The chapter will announce their en­tran ts in the Powder Puff Derby ait I he next meeting. A plane pool will be in operation every day to and from Fresno in aiding and cheering the chapier con­testan ts on.

M em bers of the chap ter a re busy with m ailings—income tax and flight time papers for the contest to see who is Pilot of the Year.

Compliments w ere paid, during the m eeting held in the old tower a t Orange County Airport, from the m em bers to m em ber E dna Stennett who helps with

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Luncheon at the H otel Monte V ista, F lagstaff, Arizona, March 21, to organize the Northern Arizona Chapter. From left to right: Fat Lam bart, Phoenix Chapter Chairman; H elen Lawrence, F lagstaff, proposed Northern Arizona Chapter Vice Chairman; Jean Black, Winslow, proposed Northern Arizona Chapter Chairman; June E ly, W illiam s, prospective m em ber for Northern Arizona Chapter; and Virginia Edwards, Tucson Chapter Chairman.

the newspaper, P lane Tales, while helping her clients with their tax problems.

The next money m aking project will be a “ penny a pound’’ flight around Orange County that will have all 99 pilots and planes taxiing for the turn-around in the flight pa tterns to give anxious custom ers a glimpse of the territory .

M em bers wilt be taking part in the Powder Puff Derby s ta rt and there will be some who will be in on the finish line and it is hopeful a t least two will join the cross country tour en route the route.

Last Flight: Flo Tracy, O range Coun­ty Ninety-Nine.

PHOENIX CHAPTER By M ary Vial

Wilma Bland was our gracious hostess on April 9th and we were alm ost out­numbered by guests — Tye N akagawa, Marie E nglem an who is a 99 from Kansas, student pilots Beverly Powell and Bernie Hall, prospective pilot M ary Lee Cornell, and Gail F lem ing who recently earned her private ticket. We were also honored to have with us F rank Shipman, a fixed base operator at Litchfield P a rk and OAPA Clinic m anager for the Southwest. F rank told us in interesting detail about the three AOPA four hour courses being offered in the clinic and asked our help for a clinic to be held in P resco tt s ta r t­ing Sept. 10, which we will be delighted to help plan and sponsor.

A special welcome to brand new m em ­ber Jane Lockwood of Cleveland and Phoenix. Jane spends several months a year here in our valley of the sun, and we’re proud that she has chosen Phoenix as her home base 99 affiliation.

Our exciting news this month is that the International Executive Board has ap­proved the new N orthern Arizona Chap­ter and they will receive the ir charter on July 4th a t Winslow, an AWTAR stop! A grand group of Arizona 99’s from Phoe­nix and Tucson lunched in F lagstaff on March 21 with the Northern Arizona gals for an organizational m eeting. Jean Black of Winslow was proposed as Chairm an of the new chapter, Helen Lawrence of Flagstaff a s the vice chairm an, and Dot Ward as secretary-treasurer. These three in particular have done such a g rea t job of organizing and contacting prospective mem bers that when they receive their Charter on July 4th, they m ay well be the largest chapter in Arizona! Congratu­lations, gals!

The sad story of our March fly-in was so well told by P a t L am bart that I now quote her verbatim : On M arch 22nd, dis­appointed Phoenix m em bers and guests gathered glum ly in the W eather Bureau. Bev Perim an went home to relieve her sitter. Alice and ChaS R oberts and the Yinglings settled for b reakfast a t the Sky Cove. Virginia Hash took one look at her anem om eter and decided to sleep in. Louise and Doug Boyd, T rudy Murphy, June Kaiser, P a t and Ric L am bert and

guests battled 30 40 knot surface w ;nds ju s t to reach Tucson. Of all things, three E l Paso C hapter planeloads got in ahead of the storm to enjoy our m ariachis at the Columbus, N. M., Las Palom as, Chi­huahua fly-in that was so well arranged by June K aiser.

Betty Sharm an of Sedona was hos­pitalized for several days in Phoenix last month but is now recuperating and en­joying their new Bonanza. Ra'ce stop coordinator P a t L am bart, chief tim er T rudy Murphy and Jean Black m et with route d irector M arian Jepsen in Winslow- early in April. Jesse W im mers has achieved her com m ercial ticket and is r.ow busy working on her in structor’s rating. She recently ferried a C-150 from Wichita back to Phoenix for M ercury Aviation. M ary flew her daughter to D enver and then retu rned to Phoenix in one day. Ten hours in the plane, and tha t was enough! Whirly-Girl M arge Crowl dined with AWTAR Board mem- her T erry Vasques, and Ruth Reinhold is supervising the installation of a tran s­ponder and new dual 360 channel Collins radio in h e r G oldwater twin Bonanza. Melba Beard is busy nursing a new calf that was born without hair. Many thanks, Melba, for doing last m onth’s new sletter while M ary was busy with out of town guests. Juan ita Newell reports that she is now flying ch a rte r and am bulance ser­

vice for Sky H arbor Air Service in a C-195, Beech Bonanza and a C-310H. She and husband, Elgin, will fly to California laite in April for a high school reunion and to see her mother. And Betty Condon will soon sta rt brushing up her techniques in their C-175.

Trudy Murphy will host our May m eet­ing and June will find us at Alice Rob­erts '. Welcome to all!

REDWOOD EM PIRE CHAPTER By Bette Smith

M yrtle Wright, our chairm an, has a new granddaughter born in M a r c h , who weighed in a t five and one-half pounds and was nam ed Denise Elaine. Mert is g randm a twice and loves it.

Our April m eeting was held in Santa Cruz and the group enjoyed lunch at Gordon’s Chuck House who provided the transportation from the airport. Mem­bers present were M yrtle Wright, Lynn Leva, Anita Conley, Phyllis Cantrell and Becky Lightfoot, Betty Shunn, Coral Bloom and B arbara G raber. Our newest m em ber, P atric ia Sprague, and husband, Je rry , flew down in their Cessna 175. M ert’s guest was Bessie Roberts of Pinole.

I was unable to attend the Santa Cruz m eeting as my husband and I were scheduled to go along on a pilot training flight aboard a Pan American Boeing 707

jet, compliments of P an A m erican a t the San Francisco International Airport. The flight lasted th ree hours and w as most interesting to us a s they did stalls, dutch roll, etc., and em ergency procedures. I t takes a pilot about 18 hours of training in the je t before he takes his check-ride. P an American is having their largest tra in ­ing program in their transition from prop to je t planes, and in upgrading their pilots.

June O’Donnell and P atric ia Stouffer flew to Porterville recently in their club ship, a Cessna Skylark, to visit friends there.

R epresentatives from the M a i n i c h i Broadcasting System, Inc. of Japan were visitors a t our N apa County Airport. For six months they will be traveling across th e U. S. doing half hour TV shows: to be shown in Japan . They w ere interetsed in a sequence of a typical American house­wife learning to fly. Suzanne Jam ison, Who has had about three hours of light instruction, and C aesar B ertagna, our FAA check pilot, dem onstrated the dif­ferent phases of learning to fly.

Geraldine Mock and Joan M erriam stand to be congratulated on a good job well done. May we hear m ore good news on their accom plishments.

SACRAMENTO VALLEY CHAPTER B y Joyce E vans

T ’was a happy St. P a t’s D ay for women pilots in our a rea—Florence Breen invited us for a delicious lunCh featuring Irish Stew. We had a chance to visit with H ia­leah Reilich from Bay Cities Chapter, B arbara G raber from Concord (SAC Oh.) and the ir guests. B arb a ra was fly­ing her completely rebuilt pink and white Navion away from home for the first time. She’s just returned from a week in Hawaii where she acquired a beautiful tan. H ia­leah has both com m ercial and instrum ent ratings. B arbara has the com m ercial rating and is starting the instrum ent ground school now. Ruth W agner and June Devine finished the instrum ent ground school last week and raced over to take the written. June and Jim Devine had a fabulous tim e on their trip to G uate­m ala with the Skylarks. They met Sky­larks Dorothy Geddes and Shirley Gil­m ore (San Gabriel Valley Ch.). June re ­ports Dorothy received special treatm ent being greeted with “ nice landing, honey” from the tower at Acapulco and they sere­naded her with “G uadala jara” as she de­parted for GDL. June and Jim m et Mr. Jeppeson at Palm Springs last month at the Beech Show. He was So interested in June’s instrum ent course. When she arrived home from her trip, she found h e ’d sent her his whole course to helo her study for the w ritten exam . We arc all enjoying looking through it.

In March we were guests of Cartwright Aer-ial Surveys for our program and m eet­ing. Mr. Vern Cartw right showed us the steps involved in aerial surveys and dem onstrated the very expensive and

com plicated equipm ent. He also has a new Hughes 300 helicopter which we in­spected thoroughly and he showed us a color film about helicopters called “Up, Over and Around.” In two weeks we are all invited to come back on a Saturday morning for aride. Our 15 m em bers en­joying this m em orable evening were: Em ily Sederholm, Carol Sutliff, Beryl E issinger, June Devine, Joyce Evans, Veja B erry, D arlene M arch, Helen Mace, Ruth W agner, LaRue Brown, T rish Marks, G erry Mickelson, Betty Boyd, Ruth Lum- m is and Juan ita Bigler. Our two guests w ere Dorothy Huntley, who recently re­ceived her pilot’s license, and L aura Hale a form er m em ber of 99’s.

E as te r vacationing a re Lillian and Dave G ray who ldft today for a ten day trip to M azatlan, returning home via Alamos. Carol and A1 Ham m ond and son, Russell, leave tom orrow by je t for nine days in Hawaii. Helen Malce and com m ittee Ruth Lummis and Ruth W agner are planning a fam ily fly-in to Quincy on May 31.

Florence and Jack Breen have just returned from a vacation trip to the Phoenix area , w here they attended a G iants baseball gam e.

Claire R aley flew Ruth and Bonnie Lumm is to the Nut Tree recently, a fter they’ve slugged several buckets of golf balls. Claire is in Phoenix now for a few days.

Beltty and W arren Boggess have recent­ly moved their Pacific Aviation facilities to beautiful new quarte rs a t Concord.

LaRue Brown is spending happy hours checking out in the Comanche. She and Norman have flown to Fall R iver Mills for a tour of the new PG & E dredge, to San Carlos for a delightful evening at H yatt House, to Novato for a steak break­fast a t the new Tom ahawk Inn on a fly-in for the Solano Sheriff Air Squadron.

Many of our group see Juan ita Bigler weekly a t her “Aloha” B eauty Shoo, and i t ’s where I read the 99 News each month.

The evening m eeting in April was a t­tended by 15 m em bers who drove to the E lk Grove home of Ed'iltih Brewer. Our fam ily fly-in will be Sunday, May 31, so D arlene M arsh and Claire Raley flew to Quincy last weekend to check the facilities'. A flight for couples to go to Napa for dinner is planned for Sunday, May 3. Ruth W agner, D arlene Marsh, G erry Mickelson, Lillian G ray and Veja B erry a re planning to attend Spring Sec­tional. June and Jim Devine left a wed- dig in Oakland a t 3:00, and a rr 'v ed in Fullerton a t 6:30 in tim e to attend a re ­union of the Skylarks tha t winged to G uatem ala in F ebruary . Flying IS the only way to travel.

The most recent Lady Bug flight was to M onterrey. This perfect flying day was enjoyed by June Devine, Claire Raley, Edith Brewer, Florence Breen, LaRue Brown. E sther Phioos and ' he’r guests. T rish M arks flew into MTY that sam e day.

M arianne McDonald recently piloted a

C-120 to Concord, bringing a C-206 back on the re tu rn trip.

E dith and Jim Brew er a re the new ow ners of an Aeronca—Carol Hammond is eagerly aw aiting her first ride in it.

LaRue and N orm an Brown are on a tr ip east. They will retu rn next week wiith the Bob Watts, flying their new twin Comanche.

Dorothy Huntley, our newest mem ber, has checked out in the Cherokee 235. Helen Mace has her recent tim e in a Culver Cadet. Joyce and Hugh Evans o.i a business trip , inspected property in the Salinas a rea recently from their C- 182.

Florence Breen flew to Las Vegas with friends, and while there visited the D inosaur Caverns on Highway 66 near Seligman, Ariz. She highly recom mends this fascinating view inside the earth, the res tauran t, motel, and good airfield. They went to Phoenix to see the S.F. G iants play—saw Willie McCovey’s first home run of (he season a t Tucson and Willie M ay’s first home run in the new Phoenix ball park on Dedication Day.

G randm a flew the grandchildren to the Nut T ree on F riday before E aste r to see the big live bunny, and have lunch, then m et Jack for a flight to Boise for E asier. Nice arrangem ents—Jack flies the twin Bonanza one way and Florence flies it the return trip. She tried the new twin Comanche and was checked out last week.

SAN DIEGO CHAPTER B y Stella Hardin

The M arch m eeting was held on Mon­day, the 16th, a t the home of Betty Lam ­bert. Guest Dottie Klotz was present.

H ere is the opportunity for the women who have wanted a one-day race on the West Coast. The biggest project our chapter is undertaking this year is the Howard F isher Truckee-Tahoe Air Race. A one-day, all-woman, 500 mile (approx.) speed race from Lindberg Field, San Diego to Truckee-Tahoe Airport with a gas stop at Porterville. The race will in­clude a wide range of aircraft, open to women pilots with private license o r bet­ter, co-pilot need not be rated . Mr. Fisher, a San Diego a irc ra ft operator at Lindberg Field and Truckee-Tahoe Air­port, sponsor of the race, donating a ■trophy and cash prizes. Contestants will race on Saturday, June 20, attend the aw ards banquet that evening, and be present for the official dedication on June 21 of the Truckee-Tahoe Airport. E n tries open May 5 and close June 5. Contact Ruby Keavney, 1141 Van Nuys St., San Diego 9, Calif., for information kits. We would be very happy to accept entries from all sections.

Mirian Jepsen and Lois B artling attend­ed the Aero Space Museum supper-m eet­ing a t the G rant Hotel on March 12. De­tails for the Aero Space M useum Auxiliary w ere discussed.

M em bers planning to attend the SW Sectional at Hawthorne a re Ruby Keav-

ney, M irian Jepsen, T erry Vasques, Betty Lam bert and Stella Hardin.

At the conclusion of the business m eet­ing, a white elephant auction netted our treasury $31.10.

The chapter is very busy these days working on the Truckee-Tahoe Air Race.

On April 1, Betty Lam bert, M arian Jep ­sen, Stella Hardin, Dottie Sanders and Leah Liersch (El Cajon Chapter) m et at M ichael’s in Lemon Grove for a birthday luncheon for Ruby Keavney. Ruby de­lighted us with the reading of the appro­priate birthday cards. With lights dimmed, the w aitress brought in a dish of ice cream with one lighted candle to Ruby, while Bing Crosby (on record) sang “ Happy B irthday to You.’’

Thelma Bishop and Mirian Jepsen are both planning to race in the International Air Race.

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHAPTER By Trixle-Ann Schubert

Our woman pilolt of the y ea r 1964 is chapter chairm an Lois Miles who topped the list of endeavors this y ear with her multi-engine rating, several w rittens pass­ed, flight instructing, ground school teach­ing—all adding up points to m erit her the '64 chapter trophy. Next in line were Florence D ittm ar, Audrey Schuttte, Ellen Trindle and L auretta Fby. Southwest sec­tion governor Dottie Sanders, other 99’s, aviation industry represen tatives filled the dining hall a t Sportsm an 's Lodge, San Fernando Valley, and though the food was superb, the pieces de resistance went by the nam es of Scott Crossfield and Dr. W alter W iliams of NASA. Crossfield, X-15 pilot who flew m ach 2-plus in 1953 and made aviation history, hobbled in on crutches (did it driving, not flying), spoke briefly and then introduced Dr. Williams. “The NASA program has put 22,000 pounds of payload into orbit, so fa r as we know, g rea te r than anything R ussia has orbited," said Williams, “ and i t ’s only a token of w hat's coming in space cap- abilitiy.” He emphasized the defense role we’re searching for in space and said we’d find it if, as the late President Kennedy put it. we learn by doing and rrobing and “ sailing this new sea ,” space. Williams tagged the Glenn, Shirra, Cooper space flights in ’61, ’62 and ’63 as “ ancient history” and spoke of the im minence of two-week orbits, rendezvousing and coup­ling two vehicles in orbit. He emphasized too, the role of women in space, physicits, biologists, etc., but nary a word about women astronauts (astronettes?).

And one final note before we drop the Wichita ferry flight rem iniscenses—until next time. Florence D ittm ar held a dinner party to surprise M ary Kem per, our fly­away organizer, and we presented her with a thank you trophy.

Our February fly-in resolved itself into a tie-down fest, trying to anchor planes against the destructive high winds. Lola Pdcci m ade it to D es~’t Air, however. She drove. Visibility nil, and the wind

blasting sand and debris against her windshield. And now the rains have come, which m ay put the dam per on our M arch flight to Santa M aria. M artha Silva joined us a t the M arch banquet; first tim e a t a 99 m eet since her baby arrived. Millie Ow, Jeanine Ceccio, Bette Malone, Lois M auer report local figh ts. Ardie Tren- holrn is closer to her instructor rating.

Lois Miles, Florence D ittm ar, and Audrey Schulte have Powder Puff sponsors. A few of the res t of us are planning to fly it preferably with, but possibly without, sponsors. And a t the moment, without an airplane. ,

Jan Hardin, flight fly-in chairm an, is playing bunny this month and hiding eggs for the E as te r fly-in egg hunt. We’re

Lois M iles, Woman Pilot of the Y ear of Sail Fernando V alley Chapter, with W alter W illiam s, Deputy Adm inistrator of NASA.

all vicariously with Joan M erriam Smith and Je rrie Mock these days hoping they’ll girdle the globe and fulfill the E a rh a rt attem pt finally.

M ary K em per is setting som ething of a record in bringing out planes and pilots for the Skyways flyaways, both north to the snowline and south of the border to the sun.

Three new m em bers w ere pinned 99’s at the April m eet adding Loreli Cangiani, Libby Svenson and M ary Johnson to our rapidly growing chapter. Jean ie Ceccio, Jan Hardin, Lola Riccie, M ary Johnson, Audrey Sehutte, F lorence D ittm ar, and Trixie attended the Santa M arie fly-in and E aste r egg roll in April. The egg roll was one of fly-in chairm an Jan H ardin’s incentives to m ake the monthly luncheon m eets more than just a fly-in and out. Lola, who won the egg roll tropuy (won’t tell you w hat’s engraved on it), b.ought three ex-Wasps a s guests, Vega Johnson Sogg, Vivian Cadman Eddy, and Lana Cusack Bocsberger. M ary Johnson brought guest Millie Kappa, who husband, Joe, operates a flight school.

Ardie Trenholm h as passed her instruc­to r written exam and concurrently is husy with spins, loops, Cuban eights. She checked out in a 210, flew to B erm uda Dunes, Santa Paula, and Nut Tree, Colum­bia, and Apple Valley airports. She and Mary K em per talked to the Conejo Valley Optimist Club about women in aviation. M ary flew this last month to Apple Valley, Columbia, Death Valley, Las Vegas, Nut Tree. Most of ‘these a re Skyways F ly­aways which M ary arranges, organizes and supervises.

Lois Miles flew to Las Vegas and Site G. Jeanine Ceccio is working on a book for pilots, collaborating with her husband. It sounds like it will be a boon to fly­ing, and we'll keep you posted on w hat’s in it and when it’s coming out a s it gets a little closer to publication date. Eilen Trindle flew to Havasu City.

Audrey Sehutte flew to Oxnard, prac ticed ILS approadh en route back with her new instrum ent rating. M arilyn Arn­old flew a glider a t Tehaohapi and got a Comanche ride. Bette Malone flew in a Hughes helicopter and in the G ulfstream . Mary Johnson checked out in t’’e Coman­che; Loreli Cangiani flew to San F ran ­cisco, and Libby Svenson is just back from Hawaii.

Florence D ittm ar is off to Europe for three weeks, an im portant wedding anni­versary celebration. Any day now E rl'ne Peeple’s little dog will be getting his pilot’s license, or should have. Where Erline goes, he goes along. Other new and prospective pilots at the April m eet w e ’e Beverly Woodward, Libby Kirk and Isa ­bel Owens.

SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CHAPTER By Jean Murray

The San Joaquin Valley Chapter held their April m eeting on a beautiful spring day. Viola Labruchere and I flew in to

Modesto A irport from Stockton about noon, followed soon by L avem e Gudgel and T erri Holm from Merced. M arie McDowell and Dorothy Koebel from Gus- tine taxied in right behind them and we w ere quickly driven to nearby Legion P a rk by E v Hendley. M argaret Andrews and E lva Victorino w ere waiting there and we all enjoyed a lovely picnic lunch.

We had an ann iversary dinner dance in M arch. Our scheduled speaker, F red G oerner, w as unfortunately unable to appear, but we have re-scheduled him for the evening of M ay 2, 1964. He speaks on th e “ Investigations Into The D isappear­ance of Amelia E a rh a r t .” We are looking forward to his lecture. Anyone interested is welcome, no charge. Contact m em bers for details.

M arie McDowell and her 4914 e r have recently returned from 10 days south of the border, visiting San Bias, P orta Val- la rta , G uadalahara, and Alamos.

Lavem e, Terri, M arie and Jean M. plan to attend the Spring Sectional in Los Angeles w ith their respective hus­bands.

Viola Labruchere recently received her multi-engine rating, we a re very proud of her. She and A1 are planning to attend the Gloudbusters Roundup in E l Paso and la te r go on to Dallas and possibly to the W orld's Fair! Sound like a fabulous trip!

Ev Hendley reports Walt home from the hospital on an outpatient basis. He must re tu rn every fifth day for therapy and is only home because it is possible to make the trip by air. She is proud to announce youngest son Steven has just received his private license. That m akes four in the Hendley fam ily Who are pilots! Also Ev reports she is m om entarily “expecting” to become a grandm other again. She was very nervous I might add!

L aura Mae Crawford a rriv ed a little late. Gene is sltill recovering from his accident and has just re turned from San Francisco where he underwent m ore tests and therapy. We are sorry to report he m ay never recover the use of his arm , but m ay have lim ited use of his hand. We wish him the best and a speedy recov­ery. Guess th a t’s all.

TUCSON CHAPTER B y Laura Bohanan

Having m issed the last two issues be­cause of a poor m em ory of deadline dates I dare not use that excuse again. Now the d ate is firm ly circled on the calendar. In January we had a well attended lu n ­cheon fly-out to F t. Huscihuca. Our hostess was Ma.ior Meg Guggolz, ANC, who has since retired Rom the service and moved to Santa Fe. We sure m iss M eg’s pop-in visits to Tucson.

A tour of the Sim ulators a t Davis-Mon- ithan A irbase was held in lieu of the reg ­u la r F eb ruary m eeting. They a re a lot different than our little puddle jnmme’T, but everyone had fun “ try ing” to fly the Links.

Shirley M arshall flew to P aris in Feb-

b ruary as a delegate to Federation Aero- nautique International. Three weeks in P aris, London and New York—Wow!

Virginia E dw ards passed her com­m ercial flight te s t in M arch and to the m any friends who listened, instructed, encouraged, sym pathized, advised she says thanks 99 tim es. After th a t fateful day, V irginia refused to fly for a Whole week! So, now w hatta you gona do with your spare tim e?

P a t and Truly Nolen took a flying vaca­tion south of the border, down the west coast of Mexico and into Central America visiting exotic places such as British Hon­duras, G uatem ala, Y ucatan and El Salva­dor.

Patsy and Bob Brooks tarded their Travel-Air for a brand new Baron and P atsy prom ptly latched onto her multi- engine rating. Now P atsy is buckling down to the precision stuff for the com­m ercial flight test.

N orm a Romisch passed her comm ercial w ritten. When did you find tim e to study, take care of the three little lively ones and work too?

Thirty-seven licensed and student pilots arrived in F lastaff on March 21 for lun­cheon and the founding of the new North­ern Arizona Chapter. P a t Lam bart, South­west vice governor, was there, as were several m em bers from both the Tucson and Phoenix chapters. With such en­thusiasm our new sister chapter is bound to be a success.

P a t Nolen, Shirley M arshall and Vir­ginia E dw ards flew to Wilcox to inter­view the teacher of the aviation class in the Wilcox High School. They witnessed the class using the Air Age M aterial that the Tucson Chapter furnishes their school for our penny-a-pound proceeds.

UTAH CHAPTER By Sally Wells

We have had some very interesting speakers a t our m eetings this year. A very inform ative ta lk on helicopters by J e rry Bills a t the home of Lyle Beck- strand. Next a t the home of June Rey- bould, F rank Kelsey, a famed soaring expert, brought a very interesting talk. He really seem ed to inspire all the m em ­bers who heard him. Our la test meetings was a (our of the Airway T raffic Control Center. The escort w as Glen Carter, son of our chairm an, Jessie Carter. About 20 m em bers and guests enjoyed the trip very much. Hostesses w ere Bonnie York and Virginia Riedel.

Our m em bers have been quite active in spite of the w eather. Nancy Reuling, Al­berta Nicholson, Lyle Beckstrand and M arge M ackey a re attending an instru­m ent ground school .

Eunice Naylor has been very busy fly­ing all around the s ta te on CAP business. She sponsored a workshop a t the College of Southern Utah with about 150 elem ent­a ry school teachers participating. Then she flew again to Cedar City to talk to an assem bly of 500 junior high school stu­

dents. In M arch, E unice received a tele­g ram from Janey H art to be a m em ber of a 30 woman com m ittee known as Na­tional Women’s Advisory Committee on aviation. We a re happy to say Eunice accepted and we feel she is quite an asset to aviation and our chapter.

Nancy Reuling has recently been elect­ed president of the Jun ior League. Its quite amazing, she has th ree sm all sons, alctivities in civic organizations, a ttends ground school, and also recently received her multi-engine rating.

Virginia Riedel has become editor of the H eadquarters Squadron CAP monthly publication “Downwind.” This publication has gained national recognition, so Vir­ginia will have a rea l challence.

Lucille Ohrisltopberson and 49% er, M er­rill, will attend the National School Board Conference in Houston. While on the trip she plans to attend the South Central Spring Sectional in E l Paso then on to McAllen to check on the ir c itrus farm s there.

Sally and A rt Wells have recently pur­chased Cedar Flying Service in Cedar City. Also she has flown to Los Angeles to attend the lectureship a t Pepperdine College.

New m em ber Lois F redericks has bought a new 180 Cherokee but she broke 'her foot in F ebruary so she’s not back flying yet.

Flossie Mae Nipko has recently flown to Los Angeles and also to Las Vegas. Louise Anderson has been m aking frequent trips to Los Mochis, Mexico. M arge M ackey flew to Los Angeles this weekend. Lyle Beckstrand and husband Don have gone to Chicago for a few days.

Maurine Shurtliff’s P iper P acer is being recovered, with M aurine assisting. She is now sole owner and will again use the very feminine colors of white and laven­der.

Jane Anderson has forsaken the sky for skiing th is winter. The beautiful slopes around Salt Lake a re just too inviting.

A Flying Safety sem inar was conducted by local and regional FAA officials at the University of U tah on April 1. Utah 99’s attending w ere Virginia Riedel, Bon­nie York, A lberta Nicholson, Eunice N ay­lor, Jane Anderson, June Raybould and Louise Morrison.

At last the flying w eather is be tter and we hope to have all our m em bers up in t ie a ir this month.

EASTERN IDAHO CHAPTER By Mary Kilbourne

Monthly m eeting of the E astern Idaho 99’s was held Saturday, M arch 21, 11 a.m .,

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a t the Idaho Falls Airport term inal build­ing. In spite of snow, fog and generally poor w eather, all but two of the m em bers attended. Two “ little s iste rs” now work­ing to get their flying license, also attend­ed. They w ere Mrs. B arbara Hoge from Blackfoot and Mrs. Jan e Hoff from Idaho Falls. Mrs. Charles (Betty) Storrs, Idaho Falls, president of the group, presided over the business meeting. Information on the International R ace w as passed around, and nominations for the International Offices and Sectional Offices m ade. Mem­bers and guests stayed for a no-host lun­cheon a t the term inal.

MONTANA CHAPTER B y B etty Nunn

Six planes took advantage of perfect flying w eather on April 18th, and flew in to Butte, Mont. This w as the first m eeting held in the mining city, but we hope not the last. Hospitality w as the or­der of the day, as we w ere fed coffee and donults a s we arrived. At noon, sky- divers gave a dem onstration; then we w ere transported to R aym ond’s for lun­cheon.

After lunch, Mr. Bill E lderkin of Butte Aero Sales showed movies and gave a lecture on the U-18. Then a short busi­ness meeting, with ten m em bers and five guests attending.

Welcome to two new m em bers, Carol Swartz of Anaconda and Carol Overman of Butte. Prospective m em bers present w ere Jaun ita Hubber, Butte; P a t Roe- m er and Olive Sickels, Missoula, and Carol Gibbons, Eureka.

M argaret Tuxill has purchased a 1946 Swift. She found it in Redding, Calif., and flew it home. Congratulations a re in or­der for M ary Stevenson who got her com­m ercial license on M arch 25. Congratula­tions to N orm a Rowland who recently had a baby girl, future 99. Jim m ie Kuhn is on vacation, Portland, Oregon, and points south. She plans on taking heli­copter lessons along the way.

An afterm ath of the windy M arch m eet­ing: only one plane m ade it home that evening, the B utcher’s from Winifred. Vivienne Schrank, Jordan, had an acci­dent a t the hangar in H avre and ended in the hospital overnight. She suffered a bi’oken w rist, but we hope she will soon be flying.

OREGON CHAPTER By Rivka A. Pratt

The very first thing I m ust do in this new sletter is to offer my hum blest aeology to Jeannette Good—I know she has only one husband, and his nam e is not “Bob” but Dave. My notes were at homte and I wrote the new sleler from the office, and wouldn’t you know? there w asn’t a single 99 at home to verify the nam e. Also, N orm a Cassidy has moved to Phoenix, Ariz., (instead of Denver) and Jane Capezzi to Y akim a (instead of Spokane).

Our meeting, April 18, a t the Zodiak

Room a t the Portland International Air­port w as unusually successful — we ex­pected 40 and we had approxim ately 70 99’s, 49% ers and guests. Juan ita Elling- son and Ruth Doland were co-hostesses. Besides a very delicious luncheon we w ere treated to a Jan tzen Style Show of sportsw ear; Jan is Greutzke, Ricki Lewis, C arrie George, Sharilee J. Ellingson, and E laine Purcell w ere models and Jackie Patterson helped them with the ir changes. The girls w ere all from Hi-Y.

Our speaker of the day was Gini Rich­ardson who showed us a film on a form er Pow der Puff Derby and not only told us about the serious things that happen in an affair of this kind and what one should do to enter, but also told us of some of the humorous incidents th a t have happened through the years. To show you that un­expected things can even happen to the best of us, Gini’s transm itter went out shortly before reaching Portland so we had to pick her up a t P earson’s Flying Field in Vancouver, Wash. Although She circled the field for about 20 minutes, there were so m any 99’s flying in that she went unnoticed. Thanks, Gini for a won­derful talk.

Some of the 49%ers attending were Allen Bradford, Roy P. Stolsig, Dr. John Anderson, Don Groves, J. Gordon Prak- ken. They, together with the guests were given a tour of Portland International Airport which included the tow er and the rad a r room, and m any of them were heard to say, “When a re you going lo invite us again? This was fun.”

Peg and George Morgan have pur­chased a Mooney Mite (pure fun, they say) last month. Some of these days Peg hopes to be able to fly it to a 99 m eeting— that is as soon as they get a new prop. Guess who scraped it in—the guy who w as so certain his wife would forget the wheels.

C harm ian Byers-Jones was the navi­gator on the tr ip to Kerrville, Texas, to the Mooney convention in early October. They went in Jean Shaw’s Mooney with Jean a s pilot, Bernadine Benning as co­pilot and radio operator flying via Bur­bank, Phoenix, E l Paso and return. Four days of fun and wonderful experiences. Rose M arie Stolsig also m ade the trio to Kerrville and flew a Mooney M aster back to Riverside, Cailf., the longest cross­country (solo) she had ever made.

Joanie .and Don Bueerm an put Joan ’s new instrum ent rating to work. A week­end jaun t to the San F rancisco a rea—and a weekend in Elko, Nev., where they sold t’-eir 1961 Sky lane—now replaced by a 1962 Skylane.

B ernadine Benning of G rants Pass brought two prospective m em bers and th e ir husbands a s guests: Gene and Jane W hittier and Jim e and Bernice Row—to the Portland meeting. Bernadine just re ­cently got her instrum ent ticket and will shortly be taking her com m ercial check ride. She has really been busy doing a lot of flying. She received a le tte r of

congratulations from Ruth D eerm an con­gratulating us on the Southern Oregon Chapter.

The Andersons, M arilyn, John and E ric (5 yrs.) went to Puerto V allarta, Jal., Mexico over E aste r vacation and ren ­dezvoused with Nancy Edw ards and her husband, Tom', and family, while down there. They returned via Tucson, Palm Springs and the Nut Tree F arm . They m ade the trip in their Comanche 250.

Marion Busby has her order in for a BD-1. It also is interesting to learn that she has an adopted K orean orphan in Pusan whom she has sponsored for three years. She lives in an orphanage and is so excited about her A m erican m other’s flying. Kim Ok Soon w rites often and ex­presses her g rea t desire to fly in the a ir­plane. Marion hopes to contact Captain Kim in Seoul and perhaps if she is ever in Pusan she m ay consider taking her up. In the event any of you 99’s or chap­te rs would like to sponsor a child (there a re hundreds who need sponsors and someone to care), contact “ Compassion,” Chicago, Illinois, or Marion a t 3317 N.E. Pacific, Portland, Oregon 97212 and she will be happy to tell you more.

One of our busiest m em bers has been Althea Adams these past few months. She was instrum ental in setting up the Aero­space Education Workshop for the G res­ham district; set up for one day to be de­voted to aerospace during Outdoor Edu­cation Worship; assisting with the Civil Air Patrol Cadet Workshop held a t the Oregon Air National G uard, will a c t as consultant at sum m er Aerospace Work­shop a t the Portland Air Base; will par ticipate as a consultant for ane day at the Ellensburg, Wash., Aerospace E duca­tion Workshop. She is the sta te m em ber­ship chairm an for the National Aerospace Education Council. In addition to this she addressed the Kiwanis Club a t the F lam e on the 99’s, and the BPW group of esatern Multnomah County on “Women in the Aerospace Age.” She invited the 99’s to attend the next m eeting of the G resham group on May 23 (Saturday) Which she says will be the most inter­esting one in this group on Aerospace Education. During the workshops m en­tioned above she has m ade arrangem ents for the teachers to have a flight ex­perience and so far well over 250 children have also been able to have this oppor­tunity.

Ilovene Potter, 99 of Seattle, flew down for the meeting bringing her aunt from Sookane as her guest. T err e Becker, 99 of Southwestern Washington Chapter, flew in with Minnie Boyd and her grandson, Otto Eggers, in her P iper Cherokee. Min­nie flew down to attend the Flying F a rm ­ers Convention a t the Sheraton Motor Hotel this past week. Jo Ann Nelson, 99 from Seattle, flew down for our meeting via West Coast (her 49%er, Bill, flies for them ).

Leave it to our Ruth W ikander to do the unusual—on April 17 she was happy to

solo Mrs. Merle McLaughlin, a polio vic­tim who despaired of ever being able to achieve this accom plishm ent, but she was not half as happy as Mr. McLaughlin. He just about burst all his buttons, and had to come out the next day to witness the sam e feat again. Mrs, McLaughlin sounds like a prospective 99. R uth also reports they have a w eather Station in connection with Wik’s Air Service and m ust m ake reports to the Portland Weath­e r Bureau every two hours on the Hills­boro w eather.

Ruth checked out in a T-28 the otlher day. In case you don’t know the ship, it is an overgrown AT-6.

Want to go fishing? If so, contact Rugh —she says she has found several more good lakes in British Columbia that have plenty of fish for all. She also reports 'finding a good strip a t Jack Pot, Nev., a sm all town?—at least she found the post office.

Ruth Doland and her 49% er, Floyd, left Sunday morning, April 19, for San Bruno to visit their daughter, Deanna, and husband, then on south to Ontario .o visit their son and his wife. Floyd Jr . is instructing a t Chino, Calif. They plan to fly to all the most in tcres ing places :iea ■ San Bruno and Pasadena, Calif , and will be gone a week or ten days. She and Juan ita Ellingson are to be congrat date i on such a successful meeting; the w rite.’ liked it because She was able to attend. Several of us would like m ore weekend meetings.

T hat’s 30 for tonight.

SOUTH DAKOTA CHAPTER By Mabel Anesi

The M arch m eeting of the South Dakota 99’s was held on the 21st in Rapid City. There were eight m em bers and two guests present. We enjoyed a luncheon a t the Holliday Inn, and hope we succeeded in im pressing our two student pilot guests, Mrs. Lennette Macy and Mrs. Betty Davis, a s to the m any advantages as well as prestige to be gained by m em bership in this progressive group.

C hairm an M axanna Carlson conducted an informal m eeting a t the luncheon, then we adjourned to the home of Jean Tough for the rem ainder of the session. Jean is alw ays the gracious hostess; though she was in bed with a bad cold and hadn’t anticipated attending the meeting, showed no signs of displeasure a t our bringing it to her. Wanda Busfield was the ever efficient secretary , never wincing a t the additional duties of much correspondence heaped upon her.

Our very busy m em bership chairm an, Dorothy Lee, announced signing a new m em ber from Devils Lake, N. D., Mrs. Lois Jean Lange.

K atherine Taffee of Sioux Falls regrets that she will soon be leaving South Dakota, and transferring her m em ber­ship. Our- loss will certain ly be som e­one’s gain, as K atherine will alw ays be rem em bered for her tireless work in

helping to organize the South Dakota Chapter.

A most interesting le tter was received from our college student m em ber a t Brookings. Going to school and studying as well as flight instructing five and six days a week a re keeping her well occu­pied.

Lois Chisholm had been spending more tim e in the a ir than on the ground this month, until her 49!4er become ill with the flu and changed her sta tus from pilot to nurse. Other m em bers present at the m eeting were Jo Ann Thomas and Olive Jacobs from Rapid City, Wilma Jacob­son from Hot Springs, and Mabel Anesi from Lander, Wyo. The next meeting is planned for the evening of April 18 in Rapid, with a ll 49% ers welcome.

COLORADO CHAPTER By M arilyn Nordstrom

The 451st S trategic M issile Wing, SAC, Lowry Air Force Base, were hosts to the Colorado C hapter on April 3 for a tour of one of their Titan Missile Sites east of Denver. We lunched first a t the Lowry Officers’ Club w here our guide, Col. M ar­tin, showed us a film on the m anufacture of Titan, which is made here in Denver.

We proceded by bus to the m issile site and sperit three fascinating hours under­ground walking through some of the 2000 feet of well lighted, air-conditioned tun­nels (9% feet in diam eter). E ach site is a self-sufficient city in itself, with i t ’s own w ater and power plants.

There a re three Titan Intercontinental Ballistic M issiles a t this site ail aim ed to fire on three different ta rgets in the Soviet Union. Standing a t the base of one of these weapons is indeed a strange sensation.

The Control Launch Officer explained launch procedure to us. After learning of all the steps to be taken we cam e aw ay well assured no m issile will ever be fired in error. The men who m an these sites certain ly have our deepest respect and adm iration. Those on the tour were Helen Choun, M ary Frenzel and her guest Chris Green, Jo Dennis, Helen Maxson, and daughter, M argie, who is working on her private, and H elen’s gues's Nancy Jones and C lara Shumaker, M argaret Dwelle and guest Millie Pons, Nancy Kes- ler and guest Lynn Jones, prospective m em ber M ary Hayden Grace Longbroo1-. P a t Luther, Ruth Mugele, F red a Turrill and M arilyn Nordstrom.

Recant visitors to Denver a re form er m em ber Alice Fuchs, now of Washington,D. C., and Peg and 49% er Jim Ong now of Iowa.

Part of the Abilene, T exas Chapter prepares for a trip to Fort Worth to tour the new Air Traffic Control Center. Shown, left to right, are: Gloria Puckett, Amber Cree, Patty Taliaferro, Audrey Anders and student pilot IVIel Hall.

DALLAS CHAPTER By Sally Brown

We ventured into wild, strange but thrill­ing Mexico in F ebruary . No, we didn’t participate in a “ fly-in” . We journeyed via lecture and movie.

Our monthly m eeting w as held a t the M arriott Hotel (where our F all Sectional meeting will be held). We enjoyed a fabu­lous meal and then settled back to enjoy the trials and tribulations of Mr. Don Schultz, m em ber of the Trinity Aero Club.

Mr. Schultz rela ted to the 99’s, our 49V2ers, and the o ther m em bers of the Aero Club, of his flying trip to Mexico, wlhich began on tha t te rrib le day—Nov.

' 22, 1963. His landing fields w ere old, bumpy roads, some of which were par­tially covered with trees, brush, Stumps, and anything else that the mind can imagine. He had his plane impounded by the police, a s they thought he was the assassin, fleeing from Dallas. He had to use fuel tha t w as old, d irty and even some that was not for a ircraft. But he finally arrived at his goal-^amcient ruins, just filled with all kinds of goodies. He climbed dangerous pyram ids and explored many dank sacrificial cesspools. He told us of a civilization which completely dis­appeared from the earth m any years ago.

Mr. Schultz gave an exciting account of his travels. So exciting that few of us would care to go with him on his next trip, which he assu res us he will take. We would much ra ther have him tell us of h is next adventures via films, while we are sitting down in a com fortable chair, sipping on a nice cup of coffee.

We really had fun at our March m eet­ing. We all tried our hand at eating with chop sticks—little things, too, like bean sprouts. All in all, we had plenty of Japanese food in our tum m ies, as well as on them, served beautifully by our hosts, the Drews.

Sue Andrews, Dorothy W arren and their 49 Vs ers flew to New O rleans for a terrific weekend. They really m ust have lived it up, as I understand one of them slept in the back sea t all the w ay home—w ith a 35 knot headwind.

Elinor Johnson, Lucille Hoffer and Dorothy W arren all have recently got their advanced ground instructor ratings. Dorothy and Lucille a re putting theirs to good use with their new co-pilot course for ladies. E linor says she is going to tutor students who need help.

With all the thunder-bum pers and high winds lately, we a re all getting itchy feet to go aloft. It won't be long now!

EL PASO CHAPTER,B y M ary F rances Seidl

Our convention is bound to be a happy success. Juan ita Burdick, Win Griffin and Ruth D eerm an w ere the m ain central planning comm ittee. They in turn appoint­ed Bonnie Link and Ldis Hailey, chiefs of transportation. No sm all job for 300 people. Budget—Ways and M eans a s well as accomodations for hospitality was

Catherine M agruder. M arge B eard is in charge of “ coffee and" for Sunday’s fly­away. Fellows who are handsome, she’ll even kiss goodbye!

Beware, girls! F rances Slape in Dem- ing, N. M., has worked hard to round up door prizes. W andra Em erson of Las Cruces was responsible for decorations. Billie Callaghan—bless her pointed head— took over reservations and registration. We had much advance registration. Thank goodness. Evelyne W asser besides being chairm an for the day of F riday complete with the tour of Juarez, worked on cock­tail party and banquet for Saturday and entertainm ent.

Saturday’s chairm an w as M argaret Halloran who had the headache of hangar b reakfast which she shared with Brookle Bozarth and scout leader Jock Curry. In addition to this, she had our parade gum m ed up with 100 horses! And in addi­tion to all this, she had lo a rran g e where to put lunch and meeting. “M atch Box” Blackham was the gal who sent the w ritten invitations. This she accom plished with four sick children—two with strep and two with scarlet fever. What would seem uncom plicated a t the s ta r t—tiedown for incoming planes—can get complex when the num ber th reatens to be over 100, is Jolly Peer'ce, sweet little gal. Betty Rogers who works six days a week,, m an­aged to a rran g e a “99” day a t Sunland R ace Track. Lavenne McCauley ably printed our flyer—while our 99 ink was bedded down far awhile. Yours tru ly be­

cam e the most dreaded a t WSMR—so, if m y husband’s neck seem s too long it is because he kept sticking it out to get more people aproved for our range tour day. P ricilla Duncan was tne gal who wrote all our thank you notes in addition to operating radio station KSIL with 49y2er Jim —also a pilot.

Work w asn’t all that went on in March and April. A few m anaged t:> fly. Cath­erine M agruder got her multi-engine in a Skym aster. I flew to Huntsville, Ala., with 49% ers on business. Polly Peerce fe .n ed a Cessna 172 back from Midland to El Paso for Champs. M arge Beard and 49M>er Bob flew to Oklahoma to visit with old A rm y friends. Rulth Deerman, Win Griffin and Lela Carwardine flew to Columbus, N. M., to join Phoenix and Tucson gals. Bob and M arge Beard drove over to the breakfast. Good thing too— high winds with blowing dust forced the Phoenix gals to turn back. El Paso gals had to leave their planes tied at Colum­bus and cam e back another day. M arge and Bob played chauffer to the lot.

As our M arch m eeting adjourned, we m et a California 99 just arrived, so she and her three passengers joined us for lunch. Lunch is a usual practice a fter our m eeting and it was especially necessary this April to ease off convention tensions. See y ’all soon. Good flying.

FORT WORTH CHAPTERMrS. Dora Dougherty and Mrs. Jim m ie

Kolp have been appointed to the newly

form er N ational Women’s Aeronautical Committee, in an advisory capacity to FAA. Thirty women w ere selected for the program , to serve one y ear (without compensation) to advise on m atters con­cerning com m ercial and general aviation, helicopter / heliports, aviation education. Heading the program is Jane H art (Mrs. Philip A.) of Michigan.

(We’re kinda braggin’ to have two chapter m em bers chosen for this honor.)

Our Spring Rally plans a re shaping up. We plan on attending the Sectional m eet­ing in E l Paso which sounds fab, the most.

Edna G. Whyte has been flying one of her two airplanes alm ost constantly, cov­ering little airports for her company, was written up in a West Coast new spaper and has one coming out in a Texas news­paper.

Ann Atkeison is planning our pinataparty for July around her swim ming pool, a custom in Mexico which is looked for­ward to by the children a s a Christm as holiday. Us chillens a re lookin’ forward to July.

Tony Page flew to NYC (com m ercial) to receive one of 27 aw ards presented in the 1963 Sherm an Fairchild International Air Safety Writing Awards, in M arch. It was her second Merit Certificate in the contests.

HOUSTON CHAPTER By F rances Castleberry

Our April m eeting w as a joint dinner meeting with the Petticoat Pilots. Therew ere 20 present and one guest. M ay’s m eeting will include a Hying educational film and will be held at International Airport.

People flying places: Ida Morton Rink- e r and her two children flew to Macon Missouri for E aster. She was flying the fam ily Skyline. Alice Seaborn, Ida Morton and M arilyn Stoneburg a re off to the Sectional in E l Paso in May.

Congratulations a re in order for Ida Morton of Texas City. She passed her written com m ercial with flying colors. We also wish luck to M ary Able and Alice Seaborn in their helicopter course.

KANSAS CHAPTER By Garnett Hustings

The K ansas C hapter got behind the sectional m em bership chairm an, Gene Nora Stumbough, 100 percent in support­ing endeavors to form the Top of Texas Chapter. A fly-in luncheon to Amarillo, Texas, was set up for M arch 7, and despite m arginal w eather, over 30 99’s and guests were present. A nucleus of the new chapter was formed tha t day with five new 99’s and three transferring from the Abilene Chapiter. We hope they’ll have their ch arte r soon and we can include them in the state, sectional and national activities.

Those representing K ansas were Joyce Case Funsch, G arnett H astings and Gene Nora Stumbough and guest, B :b Jessen, who flew in in a Beech Bonanza; and

G race Brown and E sth er Isaacs and their 49t i e r s Joe and E d who flew in in a 235 Apache.

K ansas C hapter m em bers who partici­pated in the fly-in to Oklahoma City re ­cently for women to tour the FAA Aero­nautical Center were: M ary Aikins who flew a Skylane 182 for Cessna; M arilyn Copeland in a Cherokee; G race Brown and E sther Isaacs in a Comanche; Juan ita Hatten, Charlotte P e te rs and M arge Craw­ley who rode in som e of the Cessna planes going; and P a t McSwen who flew a Cess­na 206—six passengers—w ith five women as her passengers who P a t says had never been in a plane before—she told us she w as sure she convinced them that flying w as here to stay.

K ansas C hapter m em bers’ flying activi­ties recently have included Gene Nora Stumbough and her friend Bob Jessen fly­ing via Bonanza over the weekend to her p aren t’s home in Cascade, Colo; Helen Simmons and 49% er Roy to Lake Tex- om a to a ttend a m eeting of the Texas Aero Association; P a t McEwen and 49 % er Owen in their T ravel Air to Phoenix to visit their son who is in school there and to a ttend the A rabian Horse Show; G race Brown and 49% er Joe with trips to N ebraska and K ansas City; Donna Shir­ley and 49% er Tom flying th e ir Cessna 180 from Dodge City to Wichita to bring their new young son to the doctor for check-ups; E arlyne Scholfield and 49%er Gene flying to F lorida for vacation; and E sther Isaacs and 49% er Ed to St. Louis, Mo.

Gene Nora Stumbough and G arnett H astings a re planing a trip to Oklahoma City on M arch 30 with their Wing Scout group to tour the FAA Aeronautical Cen­te r ana Ninety-Nine H eadquarters.

MISSOURI VALLEY CHAPTER By Verdayne Menze

April w eather is not cooperating with the 99’s in this part of the country. We m issed a m eeting in Jan u ary because of w eather but we all got together in some m arginal w eather in F ebruary and then the elem ents threw us a curve again in M arch. On the 12th of April we held a m eeting in Falls City with Ja n Heins as hostess. Everyone drove except our guest, Helen Simmons from Abilene, Kan. The w eatherm an said it was not a good day to fly and he was right. Tiie tornarodes hit all around us.

Aeita Thom as and I drove down from Om aha, the Lincoln girls included Mil­dred B arrett, F lorence Boering and Shir­ley Amen. Catherine M arsh and 49% e r from Council Bluffs w ere in attendance also.

We m ade plans for our participation in the a irport dedication in Lincoln and in the absence of Leah Snart, o ir chairm an announced the finalists in the contest. The essay w inners were: Mrs. Zelba Turn- quist, No. 784, Valentine, Neb.; Miss Virginia Young, No. 237, Ludden Hall, K earney S tate Teachers College, Kearney,

Neb.; M iss Debbie Voorhees, 425 Univer­sity T errace, Lincoln, Neb.; and Miss Judith Waldron, 656 E . 7th, Alliance, Neb.

These four women will take the private pilots exam and the one with th e highest g rade will be the w inner of the flying lessons.

We were very lucky to secure the ser­vices of th ree such fine and able judges from other states. The four finalists were picked by Mr. E a rl Holgate of Chicago,111., Mr. Duane Cole of Fort Wayne, Ind., and Mr. Bob Nolinske from Milwaukee, Wis. Our thanks to these very fine gentle­men for taking tim e from their aviation chores to help the lady fliers.

After the business meeting, Jan took us to the hotel for lunch and everyone decided it was worth driving.

We are looking forward to a good tu rn out for E l Paso. P lease Mr. W eatherm an, cooperate this tim e.

OKLAHOMA CHAPTER By N eina Masonhall

M ary and E dsel Cornelson joined OSU student for a flying tr ip to Mexico and Y ucatan. Sol and Trish Smith took a fly­ing trip to Hot Springs for th e races and OTHER festivities. Jane and Rogers Abbott flew over to Poteau for the dedi­cation of the airport there. Velma ferried a Cherokee back from Vero Beach for Catlin Aviation, sans h e r long-time flying partner, Broneta. Dottie Young’s la test student is M ary Ann Noah, KC C hapter chairm an, and winner of several of last y e a r’s races. Arlene w as one of the judges for the Miss Okeene Contest in connec­tion with th e ir annual ra ttlesnake hunt. M arian Jepson was by OKC cheeking on the Powder Puff R ace facilities en route back to California from Louisiana, Jane, Susie and N em a had lunch with her, She’s a delightful person.

One of the highlights of our y ear is the annual EB m eeting in OKC during which tim e the Oklahoma C hapter has dinner one evening with them ; all the In terna­tional Officers and M em bers of the Executive Com m ittee w ere present a s w ere R ita Eaves, Dorothy Morgan, Skip C arter, R uth Jones, M ary Lester, Broneta Evans, Nema, and Jean and Chuck Thomas, whose m usic and hospitality we all enjoyed.

Our April m eeting will be a t Lake Tex- om a the I9th held in conjunction with the annual Oklahoma Flying F arm ers Convention, so will report on it in the next edition.

See you all in E l Paso.

SAN ANTONIO CHAPTER By M arian Burke

Not m uch news from the San Antonio Chapter, guess we a re all recuperating from our M arch “Hill Country” fly-in. We’ve been spending ithe rest of our free tim e following with interest, the around th e world flights of Je rr ie Mock and Joan M erriam . It w as a real thrill to learn th a t yesterday Je rr ie Mock arrived in Oakland in her single engine Cessna 180.

She really deserves som e credit! We cer­tainly hop tha t Joan M eriam ’s flight is also a safe one and I ’m su re (that both g irls will have a thousand interesting stories to tell us about the ir flights.

Until next month—safe flyin’.

TIP OF TEXAS By Shirly Pagan

Our local chap ter had a pleasant sur­prise this week when Dottie Koltz (who used to live in Corpus) cam e in from San Diego, Calif., for a Visit.

Getting ready for the IAR, Lena Jack ­son, Pauline Glasson, Ada Toland and A rdath M cCreery had ia m eeting in Me Allen and then Ardath, Lena and Lucille Van Tyne flew to M onterrey, Mexico for a m eeting with the city officials. They a re all working hard and we a re hoping for a wonderful program .

Jean Beck went to Austin las t week to attend a tea at the governor’s mansion, given by Mrs. Connally.

Pauline Glasson picked up E laine Need­ham in San Antonio (Where she is teach­ing school this year) and they did five a ir m arkers, drove over 600 m iles and waited for the fog to lift all in two days. Needless to say it w as a rough trip and we in south Texas do appreciate their worthwhile efforts.

Yours tru ly is leaving next week for New York and the World’s F a ir and then on for a week in Rome and a week in Paris.

We a re pleased so fa r with a report on the entries for the IAR race, there are lour signed from California, five from Ohio, and lots more so it Should turn out to be a g rea t s ta rt and finish.

TULSA CHAPTER By Jean Engler

You’ll be cornin’ round the mounatin when you come—to Fayetteville, that is. Actually we haven’t been so worked up since Running Board R em em brance Day just thinking about you Derby girls drop­ping in. There will be lots of prizes and some mighty nice surprises when you arrive.

Jan, Agnes and Coleen rode over wilth Lois and her favorite pilot las t Sunday to complete the necessary dos and don’ts. The Fayetteville Airport staff along with •the local FAA office is certainly doing a g reat job of smoothing out the rough spots.

Agnes was our den m other this month (kept talking about her new Skylane) to Jan Mauritson, M ary Shaddock, Annahlee Jones, Lee Baker, M ary Helen Burke, Coleen White, Lois M artin, Dorothy Rice, Faye Sullenger, Jean Rand, F re ida Guild and me.

Lois has her plane back in the a ir now. Mary Burke went down to Duncan for a short visit. Johnny and I hung a lump of sugar in front of the B aron’s nose and pointed her tow ard Vegas. Vacation a t last. Several of us a re working up an appetitie for that BarBQ in E l Paso, so we’ll be seeing you.

CAPE GIRARDEAU AREA CHAPTER By M illie Limbaugh

O ur airport bond issue w as defeated. We’ll try again someday.

Alice Hammond and K ay Brick were here this week regarding the Pow der Puff Derby. We have m et with our Cham ber of Comm erce and m any plans have been made.

Our April m eeting w as a luncheon a t the Holiday Inn.

We a re losing E asy and Doc E lrod to Pompano, F la ., come July.

Marge and F rank Hall took their boys to Pom pano for E as te r vacation. Polly and Art F rey tag have flown to Denver, Colo., and Wichita, Kan. Alice and John Godwin also have flown to Wichita and Knoxville and Gaitlinburgs, Tenn. Nell and Dick Rice have a Cessna 170 now. Lois Feigenbaum m ade two business flights to Chicago. She’s added another one to her record. She passed the w ritten exam ina­tion for her instructor’s instrum ent ra t­ings. Nadyee and E lm er H euer a re in Bull Shoals, Mo.—trout fishing.

F riday night Alice and I flew with the Feigenbaum s to K ennett for an aviation sem inar. Gene Utz was the m ain sneaker.

CENTRAL ILLINOIS CHAPTER B y Leah H. Warren

Redwood Inn a t M ini Airport, U rbana,111., was the m eeting place for lunch on April 4. The day did not cooperate for m any to fly in so we had ju s t seven m em ­bers in attendance but we w ere happy to have ten guests or prospective m em bers. Our m ain business a t hand was the spending and collecting of money. It was decided to inaugurgate chap ter dues. Then, the am ount of our contributions for the AWTAR and the AE Scholarship Fund w as decided on.

Our May m eeting will be a t Mattoon,111., on May 2. We m ay land a t Coles County Airport and transportation will be furnished to the Mattoon Country Club. Helen McBride and M arjorie Kelly will hostess our luncheon meeting. We hope tha t several of our group will be able to give us information on the g rand tim e had a t the Michigan Sectional.

Dee Adamson is as usual busy with plans for flying the AWTAR. But—now she has pins for flying her Areonca. The whole fram e is to be checked and re ­placed as needed and then recovered and finished with “ like the original” paint job. By fall, she should be able to make heads turn when the Aeronca goes by.

M arjorie Kelly has the plan back from Florida. The w eather seem s to m ake all of us slow down at tim es. She was able to enjoy a leisurely trip northward, and is

now ready for a full sum m er of flying in Illinois.

B etty Common has built up her dual hours in the 310 and is ready to try some on solo. She and Dick m ade a tr ip to Gulf­port and got to enjoy an ex tra th ree days there. W eather again.

Our P eoria girls a re very enthused about the new H eart of Illinois Aero Club. They have organized with over 100 m em bers and, a t the firs t scheduled m eet­ing last week, w ere delighted to see 80 m em bers in attendance. Mr. Paul Rodgers of Ozark Airlines w as the speaker. He has a very enjoyable ta lk on “Speed and Safety of F lying.” Any of your groups who have not heard him might be inter­ested in checking with Ozark. We here in Illinois a re in Ozark territory , and ap­preciate the ir 'help in our community activities.

Wonder if we should s ta rt a listing of where our m em bers have children in school. Think we might find that several of us a re headed for the sam e school and could arrange a cup of coffee a t M other’s Day tim e and such. A note from Theo Som m er of Peoria m ade me think of this. She will have to be flying most of the tim e to m ake her daughter’s graduation from St. M ary’s Academy a t Nauvoo. Then one son will have his bachelor de­g ree from Illinois in June. The next month, the o ther son will be m arried and then return to Washington and Lee Uni­versity for his second y ear of law. This will have to be a late July wedding to give Theo tim e to get home from AWTAR. Oh yes, Mr. Som m er hopes to fly to Canada for a fishing trip. Happy sum m er to the Sommers.

CHICAGO AREA CHAPTER By E v a White

A few of us have been able to get away from the d reary w inter months. Don and Dallas Sutton m et Adam and Irene Ga­briel a t Las Vegas. R ay and Louise Kokesh m ade another quick trip to F lorida. They a re becoming regular com­m uters to the sunny South!

A1 and Ginny Bessette, Kelly and Marge L ittle and Michael and M arie Cronin flew to Davenport, Iowa, for dinner with the Suburban Aviation Association on a Sun­day in February.

T racy P ilurs and Helen Sailer attended a w eather seminar' a t Mitchell Field, Mil­waukee. This was sponsored by the U. S. W eather Bureau, the Wisconsin State Aviation D epartm ent, and the Wisconsin 99’s. They report that it was most inter­esting, and that over 200 pilots registered from southeastern Wisconsin.

Alice DeWItt participated in a second pilot training course under the direction of Chicago Teachers College staff, and with the cooperation of the National Safety Council and FAA. Prim arily , the course is set up for flight instructors to encourage a stabilization of flighlt instruc­tion.

Dr. Sue Roscoe reports that her 49%er,

Winners of the 12th annual Achievem ent Award contest of the Chicago Area Chapter are shown above. Albert F isher, m anager of the Elgin Airport, presented the awards to (left to right): Marie Cronin, second place; Doris Mullen, first place, and Alice DeWitt, second place.

G arth, soloed at the A urora Municipal Airport on F ebruary 1, in a Cessna 182.

The 12th annual Achievement Award dinner was held at the Morton House in Morton Grove, 111., on M arch 14. Five new m em bers w ere pinned. They are Nancy Rutkas, M arge Little, Loretta Sin- cora, Virginia Bessette, and Arlene Ode- gaard. The winners of the top three aw ards were Doris Mullen, first; Alice DeWitt, second; and M arie Cronin, third.

Alice and M arie placed second and third last year. Doris becam e a m em ber last year, and she’s the flyingest 99 we know. Albert F isher, m anager of the Elgin Airport, presented the trophies to the winners, and presented silver charm s to those who participated in this y e a r’s contest. A record turnout of 88 attended the banquet. Irene Gabriel, our chairm an, and her com m ittee planned the very successful event.

Adam and Irene G abriel left for Florida the next day on a well-earned vacation.

"Spring is springing,” and I 'm able to write this out on the patio as I watch a few pilots take off, regard less of the cross- wind.

The day after the Achievement Award banquet, Doris Mullen and 49V2er “Moon” flew to San Diego (via Oklahoma City and El Paso). They drove to E l Mirage, Calif., and picked up Moon's glider, drove to Colorado Springs, and then home. On March 27, the Mullens flew the whole fam ily in their twin Bonanza to Concord, Mass., to visit H arvard for their son, then to New Haven to visit Yale. E as te r Sunday, they took off for Vero Beach, F la., for the school holiday. T hat is really getting around the country!

A group of 99's had a sm all reunion a t the W eather Sem inar a t Pheasant Run. Alice DeWitt and Sue Roscoe report tha t the sem inar w as very interesting and worth attending.

The April m eeting was held on the 16th a t the United Airlines executive dffices. An interesting tour of meteorology, long- range flight planning, and operation plan­ning of United Airlines was made. Then a movie "Office in the Sky” was shown. The program was enjoyed by 50 99’s, 49% ers and guests. Tlhe guests included Wing Scouts from Naperville, Aurora, and Palos Heights. The hostessses were Florence Pickering, Helen Sailer, T racy Pilurs, Ruth Livingston, Sue Roscoe, V ir­ginia Rabung, M arjorie Raglin and Dallas Sutton.

It was good to see Nell Brown out again a t the April meeting. Her 49% e r "Brow­nie” has been ill for some tim e, and she has devoted most of h e r tim e to his care. Two new m em bers w ere welcomed —Carolin H arshberger and Virginia Kraft.

A few D uPage pilots, including Dallas and Don Sutton, and R ay and Louise Kokesh flew to the Wagon Wheel a t Rock- ton for dinner on P alm Sunday. Dallas and Don returned with R ay and Louise, since Don’s Comanche developed engine trouble, and wouldn’t start.

Ted and Corinne Halgren spent the E as te r holidays a t St. P etersburg Beach, F la. Norm a and Art F rie r flew via a ir­line to San F rancisco for a holiday.

Harold and E va White took advantage of the good w eather on Palm Sunday and took the 172 to Mt. Hawley Airport at Peoria, and had dinner a t the Stage Coach Inn. Seems good to be able to get out again after the long winter!

MICHIGAN CHAPTER B y Adele Binsfield

General Aviation B eechcraft dealers were our hosts for the April 12 m eeting a t Capital City Airport, Lansing. We had 23 m em ber, four prospedtives and four guests present. Some last m inute business was transpired by long distance from

Nassau, where our chairm an, Samm y McKay is vacationing. The most im port­an t w ere the last m inute plans Lorraine M cCarty w as m aking on the m eeting a t Shanty Creek Lodge. They sound like g rea t fun.

Our prospectives were most interesting. Jeanne Cross, glider pilot, announced that a new glider club is being established in Lansing. A two place KA7 sailplane will be delivered to them in May. If you a re in terested in trying this beautiful sport, contact Jeanne a t 3423 Oakcliff Lane, Lansing. Naomi W ertzman, a new pilot, flying a Comanche 250, ventured a cross country flight all the way to F lroida this month. F ran Johnson, rated in a Cessna 172, is checking out in a Beechcraft Bonanza. Speaking of Bonanzas, Dorothy Ligon, one of our newest m em bers, has a new one.

We shall have a hard tim e cheering for our most favorite en tran ts in the Inter­national Air Race. We love them all: “B ” S teadm an and M ary Clark, P a t Arnold and Lorraine McCarty, M aretta Simpson and Sam m y McKay and Janey H art and Louise Hyde.

Do m ake plans to participate in Michi­gan Aviation Week, May 17 thru 23.

Now for some news about m em bers: A lberta D arner and husband flew to Phoenix, Ariz., for 10 days in March. Now both a re working on a helicopter rating. F ran Myers and fam ily flew to Phoenix for 10 days and on to Los Angeles for two weeks. She has an exciting stoiy to tell about leaving a most im portant pack­age in Blythe (purse with all her papers) and P atti Owsley, im m ediately shipping it to her. (Oh thanks to these sister Ninety-Nines.)

Winnie and Will Connelley flew to Cleve­land for her m other’s birthday. They hangared their ship a t Cuyohoga County —found it a very a ttrac tive airport. M ary G ardanier rem inded us to reserve the first weekend in October for the Michigan SMALL R ace to be held a t Mt. P leasant.

MINNESOTA CHAPTER B y Ginny M ayer

R egular monthly m eetings were held during the w inter months, which we all welcomed, a t the homes of several of our gracious m em bers: Bernice Johnson,Joyce Johnston (a wonderful Christm as party gathering), Marion Radke (who served us a wonderful dinner a t their "Chick House’’ in St. Paul, and Ruby St. Onge.

Discussion took place regarding our plans for the year: fly-in meetings, vari­ous fund raising functions (to include the Amelia E a rh a rt Fund), chap te r’s m em ­bership increase plans, a ir m arking, and of course the fall sectional to be here in M innesota in 1965. Various interesting aviation film s too w ere shown a t these meetings.

R eports w ere given to m em bers at each m eeting of other chap te rs’ planned functions and fly-in get-togethers.

Our next m eeting will be held a t the

home of Jane Reeves and reports will be given by various com m ittees appointed during the w inter months.

Our March m eeting w as held a t the home of Jane Reeves in Minneapolis, which w as attended by m any m em bers. A vote of acceptance w as m ade for sev­eral new m em bers and we welcome: Mrs. Carol Benfield of Minneapolis, Mrs. Mabel B arr of Onamia, and Mrs. B arbara Stoike, Mrs. Shirley Lichteig, Mrs. Caro­line Olson, all of Austin.

CAROLINAS CHAPTER By E ste lle M. Bradshaw7

I t ’s spring in the Sandhills—the love­liest time of the y ear in this section. On April 15 the Southern Pines G arden Club held its 16th anual House and G arden Tour. E ach y ear the visitors have the ra re trea t of seeing some of P inehurt’s and Southern P ines’ loveliest gardens and outstanding homes; different ones a re shown each y ear so the m em bers of the Garden Clubs and anyone in terested are able to re tu rn y ear a fte r year.

The tour this y ear s ta rts a t Shaw House, one of the oldest houses in this section, which is operated for the benefit of the Historical Association. Then to the George Leonard home noted for its pink dogwood and on to the home of G eneral and Mrs. Robert B. Hill. Of particu lar interest there is the H ill’s collection of m em entos gathered from all over the world together with their lovely inform al gardens. F rom there we go to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hazelhurst where we see g race­ful E arly American antiques against mod­ern architecture. One of the most beauti­ful gardens in the a rea is “Homewood” residence of Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Bullens, which has over 150 varieties of azalea and 50 of holly. Homewood is a reproduction of “W estover” on the Jam es home of the Byrds of Virginia. Of particu lar in­terest is the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Garnier, which has a sta ircase copied a fter one a t “Bohem ian,” 18th Century showplace on M aryland’s E aste rn Shore; no two panels of balustrades a re like. An­tiques and objects d ’a r t enhance the charm of their home am ong them an original R em brant etching and an out­standing portrait of M adam e de Pom pa­dour.

Our April m eeting has been postponed until April 25th, which will be in Marion, N. C. I hope to have some m ore flying activities next tim e you h ear from men. (Gardening is one of my “loves” .)

FLORIDA CHAPTER By Virginia Britt

As our M arch m eeting date fell on E aste r Sunday, the F lorida C hapter again

m et a t the T ursa ir Executive Lounge, Opa Locka, on April 5. We w ere delighted to have new m em ber Dorothy Davidson pres­ent, with guests Anne Ross, F reda Gokey, and Ciel Adler. Jan W agner, our Ohio transfer, was elected as our selection to serve on the Section nom inating com m it­tee.

The evening of April 9, several of us m et a t the home of V era B ratz for coffee and cookies, and to m eet Ruby T atm an of E l Paso. Ruby had been vacationing in Hallandale and was about to return home. We understand Ruby has a little Hallan­dale H ideaway for vacationing and we hope she does ndt hide so well during future vacations.

April 13 and 14, V irginia B ritt attended a Civil Air Patro l and United States Air Force sponsored A erospace Conference in Orlando which represented the first state-wide adventure in offering assistance to educators in presenting our Aerospace age to students. V irginia considered this conference to be a brilliant success—the ideas and m ateria ls offered outstanding —and strongly recom m ends that any 99 having the opportunity to assist in any way in such a program in her a rea do so without hesitation. As w as pointed out by a m em ber of the Civil Air Patrol, this is one project “ in which the CAP is in­terested in som ething other than promot­ing CAP,” and there a re some very cap­able CAP-AF personnel available to help in the various areas. Ninety-Nines can assist by m aking transportation to con­ferences available to educators, and an resource persons (it is felt that women eduactors som etim es gain more coifi dence when introduced to the im m ediate a ir space by another woman). It is also recom m ended that Ninety-Nines, them ­selves, attend these conferences whenever possible.

GEORGIA CHAPTER By Betty W. McNabb

Georgia 99’s have been busy as bees this month. We flew into Griffin, Ga., and w ere from there transported by Civil Air Patro l to the Air Traffic Control Center w here we lunched before touring the facility. It is alw ays fascinating and re­spect-engendering, no m atte r how many tim es you have seen it. It gives you a m arvelously secure feeling to know that these keen, a le rt young men are watching out for your welfare.

Flying in for this m eeting were F rances Peacock and M ary Lou Nix, who is a student, in the Cherokee; Carolyn and Biff Kennedy, with the F letchers from P arro tt, Comanched over in the Kennedy bird, Carol Lowery, our newest m em ber, arrived in their T ravela ir complete with young Jody Lowery and Betty McNabb, who, due to a cracked oil tank in the Bonanza, is bum m ing rides these days. Ruth M iller flew her “ new” E50 Bonanza (and your columnist had the fun df flying back to Albany with her). Jean Voyles drove down from Atlanta.

With F rances and M ary Lou cam e the

Boatwrights, Mrs. B. is secretary to the Aviation Committee Chairm an for the State of Georgia, Mr. John Bennett, who is backing Georgia 99’s to the hilt in their a ir m arking projects.

M yrtle and W alt Cagle drove in from Macon.

Guest of honor a t the April m eeting was Mrs. Thelm a Davis, president of the na­tional association of E lem entary Teach­ers. Mrs. Davis is vitally interested in Aerospace eduaction which she believes is vital to the future of this nation. Her participation in the 99 m eeting was a r ­ranged by Civil Air Patrol.

CAP and 99’s a re working very closely in Georgia a s Jean Voyles and Betty Mc­Nabb a re active in both organizations. B etty taught the aviation unit in a sixth grade class in Albany in April, finishing up the unit with a field trip to the a ir­port. These two m edia a re excellent ways for 99’s to spread the aviation word.

Georgia 99’s a re concerned, as a re all 99’s, with the projected closing of some of the Flight Service Stations, and while investigating the situation, w ere told tha t one of the reasons in addition to theeconomy aspect, is that pilots do not usethe Flight Service enough. The Georgia women pilots pledged them selves to act a s com m ittees of one to spread the word on the safety factor, usefulness, and plain pleasure of fully utilizing the Flight Ser­vices.

SECTION JEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER

B y Jerry Rol>ertsWhen I m et him , just a little over three

years ago, he w as a CAP cadet and had logged th ree hours dual. Sixteen years old, in high school, he played the guitar and had his own six piece dance band (rock and roll, of course). We went through ground school together, and dur­ing spring vacation, in re turn for a ride to the field, ihe would baby-sit for me, while I flew. Because I had my own plane, and husband’s financial assistance and could juggle m y tim e (play hookey from home responsibilities more easily) I was able to earn m y private rating sooner.

He spent all his free tim e at the field when he was old enough to drive. No job w as too menial o r too large to be ex­changed for flight tim e. He would get up a t four a.m ., work, do homework, and fly for an hour before school. Afternoons, he would be out there working on the line till dark—then work with his band. He had to keep h is grades up or his family wouldn’t let him fly. He earned his pri­vate ticket—and still worked long, la ­borious hours a t the field, chopping trees, cleaning lavatories, cleaning and polish­ing planes and mowing lawns by the acre! The hard work was not without

compensation o r recognition, This spring vacation, he flew a student pilot and his wife to Arizona, and delivered a plane to Florida for the a irport owner. The a ir­port had grown fas te r than the boy, and he now found him self in charge of nine line boys and m ore responsible duties a t the field.

The com m ercial ra ting w as earned last sum m er shortly after high school g radu­ation and full tim e em ploym ent a t the airport. And last week, an excited voice on the phone told m e was now a qualified flight instructor. The story is not unique in this age of youngsters soloing in one day and earning com m ercial and multi- engine ratings combined in 60 days—but I ’m so proud of th is boy I know, I w ant­ed to share ihis enthusiasm and joy of flying with you.

Louise Sacchi’s job of ferrying planes across oceans is envied by so m any of us pilots Who a re restric ted to daytim e flights that will allow us to be home in the neighborhood a t five to put the kettle on! A newsy le tter to Bertie Petersen and Nancy Diemand te lls of the frustrations tha t befall a fe rry pildt as she tries to m eet delivery deadlines—everything from engine problems, to ADF failure, to m iser­able w eather. Coming through such situ­ations with a sm ile and eagerness to plan another flight, and still another, a re the characteristics th a t have earned her the distinctive reputation of being one of our most respected and loved m em bers. And it is her determ ination, experience, knowledge and perception we envy.

Did you see the wonderful article about Yvette Hortm an and her husband inApril’s AOPA m agazine? We m et her for the first tim e a t our chap ter m eeting at M ercer County Airport. She chauffers her husband to and from Kennedy In terna­tional in their Cherokee 180, and m anages their M orrisvilie strip in his absence.(He is an airline pilot.)

Twenty-five m em bers and guests a t­tended our M arch m eeting held a t Mer­cer County, and were khown the Aereon R esearch project engineered by John Fitzpatrick. John told us of the purposes and advantages of the lighter than a ir cargo ship, and the hopes to expediteworld-wide shipping in the future. We saw this experim ental ship in its hangar, and w ere awed and im pressed to say the least. John patiently answ ered questions and left us with the good feeling of hav­ing a glimpse into the fantastic m 'nd of an inventor engineer dedicated to fur­thering progress in aviation for Shipping and industry. John is the 49% er belong­ing to Ruth F itzpatrick of our chapter. It w as a most successful m eeting in spite of the IFR w eather.

We have a flying grandm other! Susan Allison Sepenuk arrived in Bethesda, Md., F ebruary 22 to the delight of her new grandparents, Alice and John Hammond. Our felicitations go out to Susan’s m other and daddy, too.

The mueh-loved Aeronca, “H yacinth,”

belonging to B etty Tracy, recently carried Betty and Beth S turtevant on a fun flight to F redericksburg, Va. Headwinds kept them in the a ir three hours en route from Bridgeport, N. J ., but the re tu rn flight w as a fast 1% hours—a compensation to the “K ettle-Set.” They dutifully filed a flight p lan by phone—Hyacinth does not boast radio sets. Doris Phillips, a m em ­ber from Santa B arbara, Calif., and now from M aryland, m et them a t Anapolis during a fuel stop. A happy coincidence.

We a re looking forw ard to our sectional m eeting a t New Castle, Del., in April and our “ penny-a-pound” day to be held a t Queen City Airport, n ear Allentown, Pa ., in May.

Happy Flying!

WASHINGTON D. C. CHAPTER By Janet R. Hitt

The Washington, D. C. C hapter was honored this month by a visit from In ter­national P resident Ruth D eerm an and International Vice P resident Alice Rob­erts. Our guests were m et a t Dulles Inter- ternatlonal Airport on F riday, April 17 by our Middle E ast Governor Virginia Thompson, who was the hostess a t a din­ner in their honor ait the F t. McNair Officers’ Club. A ttending the dinner were Washington C hapter C hairm an L aura Zerener, M aryland C hapter C hairm an Ada Mitchell and your reporter. Im m ediately following the dinner, V irginia held an open house a t her lovely home in honor of Ruth and Alice, and all of our chapter m em bers from near and fa r g reatly en­joyed m eeting the ir international officers. The prize for g rea test chap ter spirit m ust certainly go by unanim ous consent to G eorgetta Dix who m ade the seven hour drive from Pittsburgh, Pa., in order to a ttend our open house. When Georgette was questioned about this ex traordinary dedication, she told us that, in all her years a s a 99 She had not only never m et an international president but she had never even m et a governor! Our many thanks to Virginia for an evening which was g reatly enjoyed by all.

The following day dawned clear, bright and beautiful for our sectional m eeting at New Castle, Del. Our Washington, D. C. C hapter w as well represented with gals flying in to the meeting. Virginia Thomp­son flew our guests, Ruth and Alice, and your reporter in her Cessna 172. Our other chap te r m em bers attending were Chairm an L aura Zerener, Jane Ralston, Bea Wilder, Hazel Dwiggins, Dottye Reese, Naomi M eeker, Jackie Smith, E ve Mcllwen, Irene Lewis, Nancy Tier, F ay Wells, Ruth Freckleton and Dorothy Faulkner. All the details of the m eeting will he in the governor’s report, so I will say only that it was a day greatly en­joyed by all.

With spring coming a t last, all our gals a re getting back into the a ir again. Irene Lewis reports on her trip to Melbourne, F la ., in her Cessna 175 in F ebruary . She and her 49V2er toured Cape Kennedy and

P atrick Air Force Base and greatly en­joyed the sunshine and the golf.

Nellie and Bill Jackson flew to Indian­apolis in the ir Bonanza >to visit th e ir daughter and son-in-law and four grand­children on the first of April.

E ve M cllwain flew her Bonanza to Orlando, F la ., on April 4 for a short vaca­tion. E ve is the Queen of the M aryland Flying F a rm ers this year. On April 20, Eve and her husband flew to N iagara Falls for a “re tu rn engagem ent” to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary.

Our congratulations to Velta Benn who' has just received her multi-engine ra t­ing. She has been in Newark, Ohio, fly­ing an Aztec and also working on her instrum ent rating. This busy gal was. instructing for the AOPA Flight Clinic a t Fredericksburg, Va., on April 10 and 11 and the AOPA Flight Clinic at Denver, Colo., on April 17 and 18.

Blanche Noyes was the guest speaker a t a banquet in Indianapolis, Ind., on April 18 given in honor of Operation Silent Sentinel which is an a ir m arking program being carried on by the Air T raffic Control Association of the G reater Indianapolis Chapter. Cooperating in th is beneficial program a re the 99’s, State of Indiana, S tate Dept, of A eronautics and the Junior C ham ber of Commerce.

Alice Fuchs has been instructing for the AOPA Flight Clinic in F redericks­burg, Va., on April 10 and 11 and also a t the clinic held the following week a t Denver, Colo., on April 17 and 18.

Doris Phillips had a busy weekend at the F redericksburg AOPA Clinic. Flying both Cessna and 182’s and 150’s, she com­pleted both the 360 course and the Nav Com Course.

CONNESTIOUT CHAPTER By Christine Win/.er

In New England we take our tim e about doing new things, but when we decided to organize we do it in duplicate. New H aven’s Nancy Ghen wanted to know if there w ere any o ther women flying in the state of Connecticut. Letters to all fem inine sounding nam es registered with the State D epartm ent of Aeronautics brought about a m eeting in June of 1963, which w as the forerunner for a m eeting in the fall of ’63 which resulted in the formation of two flying groups in the state: the Connecticut Women’s Flying Club, composed mostly of student pilots, about 25 in all, and a Connecticut C hapter of the 99’s. Four tra n s fe n from E astern New England, th ree from the G reater New York Chapter, and nine brand new 99’s m ade a total of 16 m em bers of the new chapter, which will receive its char­te r Sunday, April 19 from the hands of

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our president, Ruth D eerm an. Herb Fisher will MC, Henry W etherell, d irec­tor, State Dept, of A eronatutics, will speak, and the head tab le will be g ra te d with two charter m em bers: Teddy Ken­yon, Old Lyme, Conn. (who has tran s­ferred to the new chapter), and Viola Gentry, E ast Hampton, L. I.

We were busy while waiting for our Charter, Starting with a Christm as p art a t Chris and Ted Winzer’s home, a t which tim e all the 49 % ers w ere presented with their m em bership card s and asked to make a speech. W hat an enthusiastic group of husbands—w e’re lucky!

January gave us a beautiful day for a luncheon fly-in to the Stockholm R estau­rant a t the airport in W orcester, Mass., with all the airplanes, containing a total of 12 99’s, arriv ing over W orcester a t the sam e tim e. They have a res t hom e for tower personnel who a re exposed to such episodes, I ’m sure.

Our planned fly-in to Pittsfield, M ass., in February for lunch and skiing at Bousquet’s Ski Lodge w as grounded due to lack of sufficient a irc ra ft to ca rry all the 99’s eager to attend, so the group met at our standby headquarters, the lovely Sachem House in Guilford, Conn. Excellent cuisine and charm ing New E ng­land atm osphere a re in abundance here.

March found us walking m iles over a wooden brick floor a t the Sikorsky Air­craft Company in Stratford, Conn. E ver try walking on such flooring with thin, high heels? Another proof of the fact— it’s safer in the air. This was a most informative, interesting tour guided by two very enthusiastic representatives of Sikorsky, and worth every mom ent of back-tracking to pick up lost shoes.

Having learned our lesson, we all wore flats, took our husbands along to lean on, and spent a fascinating day a t the new a ir traffic control center located at M acArthur Field, Long Island. This tour was arranged by Ellen P urdy through a neighbor and friend who spends m any long, hard hours a t the New York Cen­te r guiding us through the air. Are all of us aw are of how much we owe these con­trollers?

Now that we’ve proved we can get around by air, our future plans call for fly-ins to all the airports we can get into in Connecticut, where we hope to find other student and licensed pilots who are wondering if there a re any other women flying in the N utmeg State.

Watch for biographies of m em bers in the next news letter!

ber of 1961. He represented the A ir Force R eserve Officers during this tour and his Stimulating and graphic account of conditions and scenes, including a heli­copter fly-over of the Berlin Wall was beautifully illustrated with the m any colored slides he took a t tha t time.

We had only one objection to his pro­gram —it didn’t las t long enough! We in­tend to take advantage of his good na­tu re and im pose upon him again for an­other speaking engagem ent. We’re so happy he has “ adopted” our chapter and looks a fte r us with such a fond, pro­prie tary attitude.

The w eather m an w asn’t very helpful. We had only one fly-in, Evelyn Cataldo, with three guests, in her Cherokee 54 Whiskey. Those who w ere present were Chris Seaver, Lois Auchterlonie, Shirley Gentile, Beverly Belle, Mildred Doremus, F ran Porter, Evelyn Cataldo, M ary W ar­lord, Isabelle Blodgett, Adelaide Hood, Jan e t Wood, Jan e t Bolles, Phyllis Wells, Rae Tober, Evelyn Dow. We had 17 guests including 49V2ers, in addition to the m em ­bers listed who enjoyed the program .

Our April m eeting was held a t Orange, M ass., the a irport tha t gained renown last y ear when the international p a ra ­chute jum ping m eets w ere held there. It was a very successful fly-in, with everyone arriv ing by plane. Janet Wood and two fledgling student pilots, lady­bird law yers with one hour of flying time each. These two future 99’s a re Joyce Blalock and M argaret Lamb.

After a business m eeting and a lun­cheon Which took place a t the Inn at Orange; transportation w as furnished to the airport and we were given a tour of the facilities. There was a movie, a tr ip to the jum p bowl, a dem onstration of chute packing, etc., and we finally adjourned a t 4 p.m. Those present were Evelyn Dow, Beverly Belle, Adelaide Hood, F rank ie Stutton, Lois Auchterlonie, Janet Wood, Evelyn Cataldo, Mildred Doremus, M ary W arford, Shirley Gentile, Phyllis Wells, Dorothy Pulls, R ae Tober, Chris Seaver.

R ae T ober’s mother-in-law and sister- in-law were present and Steve Morrison, a guest of Beverly Belle.

Don’t forget our race, the AWNEAR, May 16. Everybody’s welcome—come in and join the party and the competition.

EASTERN NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER By M ary Warford

M embers of the E astern New England Chapter and the ir guests gathered a t King’s G rant Inn a t Beverly, Mass., on March 21. After a short business m eeting and a luncheon, our guest speaker, Col. Charles “Chip” Collins intrigued every­one with an account of his inspection tour of the NATO bases in Europe in Decem ­

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M IDDLE EAST SECTIONG RAY , J e a n G ra n t (M rs. G eo rge)R .D . No. 1, Box 358 E a s te rn P en n sy lv a n iaL a m b e rtv ille , N. J . 397-0448 LE W IS, R ich ie I re n e (M rs. A rnold R )6033 H illcro ft PI. S .E . W ash ing ton , D. C.R o se c ro ft P a r kW a sh ing ton 22, D. C. CH 8-6433 M cIL V E E N , E v e ly n Lucille(M rs. A lb ert T .) W ash ing ton , D. C.L o th ian , Md. 867-1385

NORTH CENTRAL SECTION B E L V IL L E , D oro th y M a rg u e r ite (M rs. D onald H .)8643 D riftw ood A ll-OhioT e m p e ra n c e , M ich. V I 7-7850 BOND, F lo re n c e H an n a (M rs. W illiam )239 O ak d a le Rd. All-OhioB era , O hio 234-4074

FA IR B A N K S, N a n cy M arie (M rs. C h a rle s D .)760 F o u r M ile R o ad A ll-OhioC in c in n a ti 30, O hio 231-8120 T O P IE Z , H elen H u rs t (M rs. A ugust)5049 B o o m e r R o ad All-OhioC in c in n a ti 39, O hio 481-8232B E S S E T T E , V irg in ia E v e ly n (M rs. A lverton )213 S outh Y o rk R o ad C h icago A reaB ensenv ille , 111. 766-1621OD EG A A RD , A rlene (M rs. J . A rden )336 L a u re l A ve. C h icago A re aE lm h u rs t, 111. T E 3-8668 P IL S IT Z , D oro thy C aro l38 N o rth Illino is St. In d ia n aH obart, Ind . 942-6090LIG O N, D oro thy E liz a b e th (M r’s. R o b e rt)2485 N. L ake A ngelu s R d . M ichiganP o n tiac , M ich. O R 3-5926 W IN C H E S T E R , N ao m i Jo e115 E a s t Q uincy O zarkP ittsb u rg , K an . AD 1-6816

SOUTH CENTRAL SECTIONA N D E R E G G , J e a n n e C. (M rs. D oyle E .)735 South L a h o m a O klahom aN o rm an , O kla. J E 4-5024 C O R N E L S E N , M ary H elen (M rs. E d se l R .)23 L eg ion D r. O k lahom aF a irv ie w , O kla. BA 7-9965 W ILSON, A lm a D oro th y (M rs. B ill)1757 South W alnu t O k lahom aP au ls V alley , O kla. B E 8-3683

NORTHWEST SECTIONDODSON, J e s s ie L. (M rs. J a m e s M .)2800 W hite B irc h L a n e A laskaS p en ard , A laska FA 2-3875 JO H N SO N , V irg in ia K.6005 M iley A laskaA ncho rage , A lask a F E 3-3639 OLDHAM , M ary le e J . (M rs. K en n e th D .)Box 3-127 A laskaA ncho rage , A la sk a B R 5-8514 LA U D E R , L in d a J e a nR t. 1, Box 187 E a s te rn IdahoO n ta rio , O regon 889-5958 SCHW ARTZ, C arol R a e (M rs. E d g a r G .)1700 O gden M ontanaA naconda, M ont. 563-2200 LA N G E , Lois J e a n (M rs. P au l R .)1105 F if th St. S outh D ako taD evils L ake. N. D. MO 2-2049 C A R T E R , A m elia Ann (M rs. R oy C.)1719 106th P la c e N .E . W e ste rn W ash ing tonB ellevue, W ash. G L 4-8667

SOUTHW EST SECTIONLeM A Y . D oro thy M ae (M rs. E lm e r)300 T ro p ic a n a Ave., S p ace 17 Los A ngelesLas V egas, N ev. 736-4587 LEVA, L in d a B eth2741 F o re s t Ave. R edw ood E m p lr’eB erk e ley , C alif. TH 3-3915H U N T, D oro thy M ae (M rs. C h a rle s O.)1684 C h a rlo tte D riv e S a c ra m e n to V alleyC oncord , Calif. 685-7137 CANGIANO, D olores B . (M rs. P . L.)12125 W oodley Ave. S an F e rn a n d o V alleyG ra n a d a H ills, Calif. 91344 360-2735JOH N SO N , M ary L o rra in e (M rs. T ed)17820 M alden St. S an F e rn an d o V alleyN o rth rid g e , Calif. 345-9295 SVENSO N, E liza b e th F. (M r’s. H aro ld )15341 L e m a c St. San F e rn a n d o V alleyV an N uys, Calif. S T 0-5152 B A E R . D e a n n a D. (M rs. R ic h a rd )P. O. B ox 45 S an Jo aq u in V alleyW in n em u cca , N ev. MA 3-3059 B A R R , M ary U. (M rs. D. E .)S ta r R oute 2, Box 61 S an Jo aq u in V alleyS usanv ille , C alif. 257-3410 H E N N IN G , P a tr ic ia D. (M rs. H ow ard )110 N o rth T a y lo r St. S an Jo aq u in V alleyF a llo n , N ev . 423-32-12L IT T L E , M ary E . (M rs. V irg il C.)70 E a s t W illiam s San Jo a q u in V alleyF allon . N ev . 423-2194

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