SEPTEMBER, 1966

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SEPTEMBER, 1956

Official Publication of THE NINETY-NINES, Inc.

Headquarters, Term inal Bldg. Will R ogers World Airport

P. O. Box 99 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73101

Headquarters Secretary DARLA BULLARD

E ditorPEG ONG

2900 Rockbrook Drive Plano, T exas 75074

IN TER N A TIO N A L O F F IC E R S P resid en t

ALICE ROBERTS 719 Orchid Lane

Phoenix, Arizona 85021

V ice-P resid en t DONNA T. MYERS 11603 E . 6th P lace

Denver, Colorado 80010

S ecreta ry GENE NORA JESSEN

741 E astridge Dr've Wichita, K ansas 67207

Treasurer RUTH RUECKERT 2037 R ivera Street

San Francisco, Calif. 94116

E xecutive Retard LYDIELLEN “ LYGIE” HAGAN

South 1907 Oneida P lace Spokane, Washington 99203

BETTY W. McNABB 926 Third Avenue Albany, Georgia

DORIS RENNINGER 10-01 163rd Street

Beechhurst, N. Y. 11357

DEADLINE FOR NEWS — The 20th of the Month

Send Copy to:PEG ONG

2900 Rockbrook Drive Plano, T exas 75074

P re s id e n ts C olu runThis is the first New s of our new

year, 1966-67, shall we look ahead (with our past year as a guideline) and set som e goals for ourselves?

My them e, a s President, has been COMMUNICATION. I am sure you will all agree, without COMMUNICA­TION, we are nothing, so how best can we com m unicate? For the next several New s I am going to pinpoint com m unication and its results.

With a backward glance le t’s think about ACCOMPLISHMENT THROUGH COMMUNICATION.

Last year w e grew to number over 2800; we chartered 10 new chapters; while there w as no record kept, I am sure w e added m any new ratings; participated in varied flying activities; created interest in flying by taking m any for their first plane ride, through our Penny-a-Pound projects; gave three deserving and lucky 99s the Am elia Earhart Scholarship with which they will upgrade the flying; gained new friends through the Powder Puff Derby; review ed our acom plishm ents by giving and receiving our yea r’s ac­tivity at convention in Seattle.

Without the ability to com m unicate, none of those activ ities would have been accom plished. So now with a

rew year ready for our use let’s think of other things we might accom plish through good com munications . . . to nam e a few; New Horizons, Growth, Im provem ent, Strength, Smooth F ly­ing . . . all this, through com m unica­tion! Let each one of us use our time w isely for the betterm ent of the Ninety - Nines.

Sum m er is such a lazy, let-down tim e of year. We let things get relaxed and unhurried . . . bul com es the day of reckoning! Fall arrives and we are in the hustle o f activ ities . . . and it is no different for m e. I have a very busy schedule outlined for Septem ber and October . . . Section M eetings and v is­iting with Chapters are the main point of m y schedule. So I am looking for­ward to seeing YOU soon.

Be sure your Chapter sends in it's report each month . . . others enjoy reading of your activities. P lan to participate in all your Chapter and Section functions . . . you will gain from it. And of course, it is never too soon to start your plans for attending the International Convention . . . W ashington, D.C., la st w eek of June, 1967.

H ave a happy (991 New Y ea r!!Sincerely,Alice Roberts

MEMO FROM THE EDITORWith a m ixture of relief and regret

I pass on the E ditor’s letter opener, m arking pens, scotch tape, paper clips, staples, typing paper, files, SOP Man­uel, reporting chart, budget records and the following ode:

Som etim e when you feel real important

And your E ditor’s ego’s on fire, When you take the E d ’s job for

grantedCause you know you’re the “ best

they can hire” .Som etim e when you feel that your

quittingWould leave an unfillable hole,Just follow this sim ple instruction And see how it hum bles your soul. Take a bucket and fill it with water; Put your hand in it up to the wrist: Pull it out; and the hole that’s

rem aining

Is a m easure of (how you’ll be m issed. You m ay splash all you please when

you enter,You can stir up the water galore, But stop, and you’ll find in a minute It looks quite the sam e a s before.

The moral of this quaint exam ple Is “edit” lor all that you’re worth, Be proud if you m ust, but rem em ber

There’s no indispensable berth.

Sincere thanks to all the news re­porters and contributors these past two years — for a wonderful job, with your ream s of copy, in m aking m e look good and an extra special thanks to The Star Publishing Co. for t' e m any helpful things they have done in printing the NEWS, that polished the im age.

Doittie Young

PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT19(55-66

S eattle , W ashington , Ju n e 30

This past year our activ ities have been based on the thought of a flight. We take flights for several different reasons . . . to relax, to get aw ay from it all, to m eet with friends, fly m ercy journeys . . . but m ost important, to get som ewhere, to reach a goal or destination.

The Flight 99 for 1965-66 is now on the ground and we are at the desti­nation. Conversation directly follow­ing a trip usually goes som ething like this: “What w as our fuel consum p­tion?” , “ what w as our ground sp eed ?” , or w e talk about one particularly beau­tifu l site over which w e flew . In other words, we rem inisce. So, le t’s re­m inisce ju^t a bit.

The facts and figures of this flight are m ost interesting. I flew m y Bonan­za 5865J 1 9 9 hours, traveled 27,814 m iles, attended 7 Section m eetings and presented 7 Charters. Our m em ber­ship totals just over 2800, representing 93 Charters, 11 Sections and 21 Coun­tries.

Our m em bers ihave flown over both oceans, circled the world, set altitude records, conducted races and served on the Federal Aviation Advisory Com­m ittee.

Som e of the m ore pleasant aspects of F light 99 for me, personally, includ­ed the opportunities to present char­ters to new, enthusiastic Chapters, m eet new m em bers, attend Section M eetings and greeting Sheila Scott when she m ade Phoenix one of her stops on her Round-the-World flight. B eing the recipient of m any thoughtful gestures, lovely corsages, the sapphire setting for m y 99 ring, your gracious hospitality, kind thank you notes, pic­tures of events . . . has m ade this year a m em orable experience.

The goal of our F light 99 has been “ Communication” , without which we could not exist. Communication m akes the difference between su ccess and failure. The ability to com m unicate has m ade our world a m uch sm aller place in Which to live and has given us a greater understanding of our fel­low m an. The inability to com m uni­cate has brought disaster, m isunder­standing and failure.

Communication m eans m ore than being able to “talk” . We com m unicate Constantly In our appearance, our walk, our attitudes, our actions. What

kind of im pressions are we m aking as Ninety-Nines?

Are we noisy when w e Should be quiet . . . are we talking when we should be listening . . . are w e com ­plaining when we should be helping . . . are w e criticising when we should be carrying the load? When things go wrong, do w e do what we can to get the problem straightened out . . . or do w e let it go down the drain and then blam e som eone e lse? R em em ber, all this is com m unication in one form or another. H ave we at­tained our goal . . . have w e really com m unicated ?

Most o f m y com m unications have been very enjoyable, but a ll was not smooth . . . a s with m any flights, this one ran into rough air early in June when we w ere informed, with­out notice, that our H eadquaters Sec­retary had resigned in favor of m atri­m ony. So an unplanned trip to Okla­hom a City w as on m y agenda. With the help of Arlene Walkup, Jane Ab­bot and Susie Sewell, w e got the tapes and letters out that should have been out three w eeks sooner. Then Dottie Young, your N ew s Editor, held down the fort until the 23rd, at which tim e D arla Bullard becam e our new Sec­retary.

You, a s N inety N ines, opened up a new experience for m e . . . new friendships, travel, challenge and help­ed m e to grow, personally, by e lect­ing m e to an office which has dem and­ed se lf discipline, thought and action. There w ere decisions to m ake which w ere not alw ays 'easy, but with the resolving of each one, found m e a little better for the wear.

This past year, while it has been work, h as really been m y pleasure and I Ithank you for the privilege of serving you a s your President.

—Alice Roberts

Com ing Events

S ep tem b er 9, 10, 19(56Northwest Section F a ll M eeting

Spokane, W ashington

S ep tem b er 9-11, 1966

Southeast Section F all M eeting Atlanta, Georgia

S ep tem b er , 1966

NorSh Central Section Fall M eeting M ilwaukee, W isconsin

S ep tem b er 23, 24, 25, 1966

Southwest Section F all M eeting Newport Beach, Calif.

Septem ber 30, O ct. 1, 2, 1966

South Central Section Fall M eeting Shreveport, Louisiana

S ep tem b er 3(1, O ct. 1, 2, 1966

11th Annual Sm all R ace Alpena, M ichigan

O ctober 14, 15, 196(5

Fairladies Annual Indiana R ace E vansville, Indiana

O ctober 15, 19(56

N.Y.-N .J. Section Fall M eeting N ew York City

J u n e 28-July 2, 1967

International Convention W ashington, D.C.

J u ly 8, 1967

AWTAR Atlantic City, N. J. to

Torrance, Calif.

N O T A M SATTENTION ALL NEW S CON­

TRIBUTORS. P eg Ong, D allas Chap­ter, has consented to be N ew s Edi­tor for 1966-67. Send your copy for the October N ew s—and future is­sues — to her at 2900 Rockbrook Drive, Plano, T exas 75074.

N ancy Walton of Australia has in­augurated an Appreciation Fund so Sheila Scott m ay keep G-ATOY, her Round-the-World 260 Comanche. All

donations w ill b e welcom ed and should be sent to the “Sheila Scott Apprecia­tion Fund” , c /o National Bank of Australia, 11a Albem arle, London, W .l, England.

The Septem ber 1966 TRUE M aga­zine has a condensation of F red Goer- ner’s book “M y Search F or Am elia E arhart” . E very Ninety-Nine should read it—and possibly ask our Congress­men for answ ers.

ALICER O BE R TSP resid en t

When I w as asked Ho write this, I w as told it should be sim ilar to the history sent out with each candidates nomination, but it could be m ore per­sonal . . . so am going to be m ore personal.

Chas, m y 49%‘er, and I will be cele­brating our 30th wedding anniversary next month. We are b lessed with two children (hardly seem s right to call them children, since they are both grown and m arried), and w e have five grandchildren.

Chas and I have an a ir conditioning business and tor the past five years our son has also been associated with us.

M usic is a very important part of m y life as I served as Choir Director of Palm croft Baptist Church for six years and now act as substitute or­ganist (when I ’m hom e).

Am a m em ber of Epsilon Sigm a Alpha and held tde office of Treasurer of the Alpha Sigm a Chapter. Found I couldn’t do justice Ito two organiza­tions, and since the Ninety-Nines is m y first love, have not held a sorority office for three years.

I started fly in g at the prodding of my husband, February, 1953. Got m y P rivate license in June, 1953, after a solo cross country from Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, to Phoenix.

W as invited to a 99 m eeting that sam e month (good com m unication and good m em bership chairm an) and be­cam e a m em ber in July, 1953. Entered m y first air race, with Claire W alters as Co-pilot. Whalt a n experien ce!! I have flown all blit two TAR’s since then land m ust adm it that the thrill of placing 2nd in 1955 w as greater than the thrill of winning in 1957.

Had 'the fun of winning the first M ichigan SMALL R ace which follow­ed the TAR Term inus in 1956.

I have held the office of Treasurer, Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the Phoenix Chapter; Treasurer, Vice-

Governor of the Southwest Section; Treasurer, V ice-President and P resi­dent of International. A lso served three years a s W ays and M eans Com m ittee Chairman.

The Nindty-Nines and flying have done m ore for m e than any other or­ganization or association. Perhaps I feel about flying a little differently than you . . . but to m e it has opened up a new appreciation of m y surrounding, given m e new friendships, and I hope to be able to rtiare th is experience.

D O N N A T. M Y E R S

V ice-P resid en t

Personal history: Beicaue a 99 Mem- be-r-at-Large in 1939. Helped start the Colorado Chapter in 1941. D ates m e— but w as first wom an in Colorado to hold a license. Worked as a secretary at a D enver flight school to earn flight tim e where I m et Johnny M eyers, an aerial photographer for the Forestry Service, and m arried him in 1939. John­ny m eanw hile acquired his com m ercial and instructor ratings, gave up the aer­ial photography job to instruct for Ray Wilson, Inc. Our boss m oved his flight fam ily to Chickasha, Oklahoma, dur­ing the War to operate an Arm y P ri­m ary F light School — later w e re­turned to D enver where the boss in­augurated an airline — now known as Frontier Airlines.

49% er Johnny and I were with the airline when it started — he is now Director of F light Operations. I retired in 1951 to becom e a housew ife—which is a bit of a joke am ong friends and F rontier’s Personnel Office, who say I a m the m ost perm anent tem porary em ployed secretary they have—seem s I am called back to fill in for vaca­tions and as extra help.

Since I “retired” , m y husband states he can ’t keep m e hom e — I fly any­where, anytim e I can.

Hobbies: We are avid autom obilerace fans, Will attend our 12th “500” race in Indianapolis this year, go to the Phoenix races tw ice a year and

enjoy a little photography on the side. I enjoy writing a bit — and have the rejection slips to prove it!

I ’v e been fortunate enough to hold som e very fine offices 'in our organiza­tion — Chapter Chairman, Secretary, etc., and Governor of the South Central Section; International Secretary, Mem­bership Chairman, AE Scholarship Trustee and co-Chairman, N ew s Editor and a m honored, at the present to be your V ice-President.

G E N ENORA

J E S S E NS ecre ta ry

An enduring rom ance w as innocently sparked for m e by an older brother with a yen to fly. He dragged m e to a Civil Air Patrol m eeting in the Chi­cago suburbs and I w a s hooked. Throughout m y last two years in high school, I becam e an “airport bum ” every weekend anxiously aw aiting a 10-minute ride ’round the patch.

The offer o f an aviation program by tthe Univ. of Oklahoma set the course tor further education. My par­ents provided $280 for a private license a t the U niversity flight school. Honest, that’s w hat a 35-hour course in an Aeronca cost in 1956!

With the private accom plished, the decision had to be m ade whether it would be aviation or further college as there w eren’t funds for both. There rea lly w as no question. I raced through approved flight courses and had a com ­m ercial and flight instructor’s rating ait 160 hours. I then began teaching im m ediately to “reverse flow ” the bal­ance of paym ents.

The D irector of the OU flight de­partm ent stuck his neck w ay out to hire m e a s the U niversity’s first fe ­m ale and youngest flight instructor— all in one package. He also urged m e to continue m y education, so I work­ed m y w ay through college teaching flying, and 6 Yz years after I started, earned m y degree.

About this tim e, there w as much talk of the astronaut research pro­gram involving wom en, and a s a re­

suit of wanting to participate I be­cam e the 25th and last wom an to take the astronaut physical. The 13 who passed were invited to P ensacola for further testing and when I w as not a l­lowed tim e off from m y job, I quit to participate in 'the research program . History records that le s s than a week before m y departure date, the tests w ere cancelled perm anently.

My instructing continued in Okla­hom a after the “astronaut ep isode” , but I m oved to Oklahoma State Univ. 1 w as beginning to grow restless with the realization m y 1,500 hours flying tim e were practically all confined to the 'traffic pattern. I knew every blade of grass in the area — and, a little w ater to, a s I acquired a seaplane rating at Stillwater, Okla.

My application arrived at Beech Aircraft Corp. just a s they w ere in­troducing the M usketeer. I reasoned their one girl pilot had been so well accepted, they m ight just take ,a chance on another. So, Joyce Case Funsch and I w ere the two girls participating in the 3 M usketeers Tour in 1962. We covered 40,000 m iles in 90 days and could write a whole book about the trip. I spent the following year Travel­ling around the country dem onstrating the Musketeer, getting checked out in the rest of the Beech line, and acquir­ing m y instrum ent and m ulti - engine ratings.

Then Cupid shot his arrow — hard! Bob Jessen, who has been at Beech ten years in various capacities in the sa les departm ent, and I w ere m arried in 1964 just as he w as assigned m an­ager of the M usketeer program . It w as decided that I should not work directly for m y husband so I am no longer assigned to a specific airplane, though I do m anage to work w ith Bob “on loan” Occasionally. My duties in­clude handling flight school m aterial for our distributor organization; gath­ering and dispensing flying club in­formation; a n d investigating new areas for Beeohcraft participation in aerospace education. On the road, m y activ ities include participation in m any la d ies’ program s (m ostly through speaking engagem ents); g iving sales dem onstrations; flying photo m issions for our advertising dept ; attending National aviation organization pro­gram s and conventions; and represent­ing Beech in local flying promotions. I also serve on the FAA W om en’s

Advisory Com m ittee and, in m y spare tim e, am leader for the W ichita Wing Scouts,

My flying has taken m e to each sta te m any tim es with the exception of A laska (which I begrudge terribly) and H awaii, plus a sm attering of the Islands, M exico .and Canada. Bob and I anxiously look forwrd to seeing m any m ore p laces from the air and continue m eeting m any wonderful p e o p l e through flying. W e’re convinced that aviation offers the happiest, fullest, and m ost rewarding w ay of life pos­sible.

R U THR U E C K E R T

T rea su rer

Transcribers, Inc. Our group’s chief accom plishm ent w as getting the blind children out of “ isolated institutions” into the City “sighted schools” . The San Francisco unified school district then directed the group to braille the text - books for these blind students. From first grade to junior high school, w e supply m ath, m usic, foreign lan­guage and E nglish brailled books. One printed text-book transcribes into from one to tw enty-five volum es of braille. We also shellac and bind these books.

F or security in our old age, Fred and I invented in an apartm ent house in the B ay area. It aged us consider­ably in renovating it! But w e have becom e expert plasterers, painters, tile- setters, plumbers, carpet layers and carpenters. Otherwise, I work a t tem ­porary jobs; telephone and PBX oper­ator, dictaphone transcribing, filing, etc., and thanks to Susie Sewell, am becom ing a double entry bookkeeper.

M y private license flight test was taken on Novem ber 2, 1929. (Note the date — too la te to be a Charter M em ­b er!). P ilot’s license No. 10211 has been a proud possession ever since and m em bership in The N inety-Nines, from April 1930 to date, has been a personal, pleasurable satisfaction. H o w e v e r President A lice Roberts requested the m em bers of the E xecu tive Board to te ll about one’s activ ities odtside The Ninety-N ines and aviation fields.

My fam ily consists of 49%er Fred, an autom obile m an all his life, except for his service in the Air Force; our daughter, M arsha, a student at Sacra­m ento State College, w ith a teacher’s credential in mind; and one sa ssy Sia­m ese cat, Frosty, eight pounds of dlainty fem ininity.

Our hom e in San F rancisco, w est of Twin P eaks, 10 blocks e a st of the P acific Ocean, 10 blocks North df the Zoo, 10 blocks South of Golden Gate Park, is on the northern and western flight patterns of SFO. From the pic­ture windows we see Farralone Is­lands and traffic on land, sea and in the air.

Hobbies; Collect wild gam e recipes, as F red loves to hunt but w ill not kill unless I can cook the gam e . . . and brailling. This is a m ost rewarding hobby. Since 1954 I have been a cer­tified volunteer braille transcriber and a m em ber of the Golden Gate B raille

R Y D IE L L E N“ L Y G IE ”HAGAN

E x e c u tiv eBoard

M em b er

B eing m arried to a doctor (Erst nam e “ Cornie” ) who seem ed to practice m edicine so he might fly, found m e flying with him if I did not w ish to be left behind. In 1953, after years of gentle hints, the pressure w as brought to bear—“ I m ust at least learn to land the airplane.” I vowed this w as all I would do; but prodded every step of the w ay by m y husband, m y instructor and friends around the airport, finally in self defense I took the flight test in 1954 and earned a P rivate lic e n se .

Then the fun really began. The sky w a s our highway. The horizon always beckoned. B ursts of work at home w ere interludes to planning how to get aw ay and where to go. The log book b ecam e filled with strange letters, som e m ore frequent than others -— PDX, PDT, ALW, BOI, COS, MDW, PHX (and it did not rain every single lim e, A licee), TUS', LAX, SFO, MZT, MZL, MEX, etc. F ive winters in a row w e left the plane behind and cam e hom e on airlines or trains. But I w as

flying, seeing the United States, Can­ada, M exico, Cuba, tlhe B aham as and Puerto Rico from and by air.

With this a w ay of life it w as natural that The Ninety-Nines should also be a part of m y life. I joined ir, 1954 and becam e 1a Charter M em ber of the E ast­ern W ashington Chapter when it w as organized in 1955.

Last October we took a Chartered Airliner to the International Congress of Otolaryngology m eeting ir. Tokyo. I had a fascinating v isit while there, with two of our International 99s, Y a e Nozo- ki, D irector of W om en’s Aeronautic Association of Japan, and Hideko Yoko- yam a, chief pilot for an Aviation busi­n ess she operates with her husband. Both of these g irls speak English and the afternoon with them w as the high­light o f the trip for me.

During the past eleven years we la v e logged several thousand hours in various planes — Stinson, T ri-Pacer and Comanches. Other hobbies such as golf, bridge and knitting seem to have suffered BUT — F ly in g is much m ore fun with the interesting people and far aw ay places. Our latest long jun­ket w as in April when we went to Puerto Rico, Southbound out of Ft. Lauderdale w e RON’d at South Cai­cos, an experience we would not have m issed for anything. The next day a tantalizing glim pse of the Dom inican Republic and on to San Juan.

Home again I settled down to w el­com e all of you to the P acific North­w est for the International Convention and the Start of the Powder Puff D er­by.

B E T T Y W. M cN A B B E x e c u tiv e

B oard M em b er

I had never been inside a hospital when the chairm an of our w om an’s league inform ed m e that I would ob­tain m y serv ice hours by working three hours a w eek at Phoebe Putney M emorial Hospital in Albany, Ga. The year w as 1935. Now, 30 years late", I ’m consulting on m edical records for

so m any clients that I have to fly to see a ll of them .

After taking the Phoebe Putney a s­signm ent — in due tim e the hospital superintendent offered m e a job. For the next seven years I did the m edical record work. Then cam e the war and we went to Jacksonville, F la ., where m y husband w as to be stationed as a Coast Guard officer.

I took a job teaching school. True to form I w as m iserable. It w asn’t m y first try a t it. A nurse who lived in the sam e house with us encouraged m e to take a job at St. V incent’s. Alice Christian, RRL at St. V incent’s, said one day, “Why don’t you get reg istered?” For seven years I had been busy with m edical records but had never heard of the AAMRL! So I studied, and with A lice’s long hours of coaching - I passed the exam ination. The acquisition of two college degrees sim ply didn’t rank with m y pride and delight in the RRL that I earned.

Two years as surgical secretary at St. V incent’s w as topped by a year in the W omen’s Arm y Corp a s a non­com m issioned officer in charge of m edical records at Camp Butner Arm y General Hospital, Durham, N. C.

When the war ended, I returned to find Phoebe w asn’t the sam e 25-bed hospital. Over the yea rs it has ex­panded to som e 290 beds and now were building a new hospital. Con­cepts and m ethods changed in m edical records and the AAMRL grew in scope. I went to workshops and con­ferences, including the F irst Interna­tional Congress in London. I becam e secretary and then a vice-president in the AAMRL.

In 1948, when m atching F ederal funds produced a rash Pf sm all hospitals all over the South, I took to the highway to teach the Staffs m edical record procedures. My schedule called for five days a w eek at Phoebe and a weekend of 500 to 600 m iles traveling to other hospitals. B esides hating to drive, som e two years of this and m y husband w as threatening to sw ap m e in on a new m odel.

In 1951 1 decided flying m ight be a solution. A tall, thin, sad m an under­took to teach m e. When we parted com pany, he had quite a lot of gray hair and I had a private license. And I had a new love that has proved to be an enduring one. The combination

—of m edical records, with its de­m ands; and flying—which dem ands another type of alertness and profici­ency and develops another set of skills —has kept m e on m y toes.

M edical records-cum -flying a lso op­ened another rewarding vocation to m e —Civil Air Patrol and Aerospace Edu­cation. N ever an intrepid pilot, I sought any m eans availab le to upgrade m y flying proficiency. Onie such m eans w as an “aviation” workshop at the U niversity of Colorado. It turned out to be an aviation education’ work­shop sponsored by the CAP. I re­turned with a new interest which is still very m uch a part o f m y life. I now vary m y m edical record work­shops and speaking engagem ents with talks to c iv ic clubs and college-level areospace workshops and som etim es instruct in these workshops.

The past 13 years flying hais becom e so m uch of an asset to m e that I have found it valuable to be checked out in som e 15 aircraft, to get single and m ulti-engine ratings, a com m ercial license and flight instructor rating plus an a ir taxi certificate. I have just com pleted an FA A /C A P Flight In­structor Orientation Course at Okla­hom a City.

I had the good fortune of being the first wom an to com plete the USAF War College non-resident course in connection with m y CAP interests. It took about four years. Prior to com ­pleting the course, I had taken the officer candidate extension course of the Air Force Institute and also the USAF squadron officer course (m y rank is now Lt. Colonel) and had at­tended the Command and Staff School. M any phases oif m y Air F orce aca­dem ic work have contributed greatly to m y know-how in m edical record sc i­ence.

B etw een the two activities, m edical records and flying, I have garnered an incredible number of rewards. Very important is the deep satisfaction I feel in being a part of the young m ed­ical record profession a s it has grown into a recognized part of 'the Am erican m edical scene. I ’m continually en­joying taking off in the little airplanes to v isit new airports and hospitals, to m ake new friends and feel that per­

haps I have given m y beloved m edical record profession a helping hand along

the way.

DORISR E N N IN G E R

E x e c u tiv eB oard

M em ber

I began m y flying in 1955 at Fort M yers, Florida. My first lesson w as on January 10th. I soloed on January 20, 1955 and have been “flying” ever since. R eceived m y P rivate license in M ay 1955 and joined the 99s one year later. Have been Secretary and Vice-Governor of the N ew York-New Jersey Section and just com pleted m y second 'term as Governor. W as co- chairm an of the term inus for the Pow­der Puff Derby, Atlantic City, in 1961 \and Chairman of the International Flying A ctivities Com m ittee 1963-64.

A s c o -c h a ir m a n of the “ Colt for K im ” project, assisted in obtaining three m illion S & H Green Stam ps to purchase a P iper Colt for Captain Kyung O. Kim of Seoul, Korea.

During the Aviation Space W riters Association Convention in M ay of 1963, learned 'to fly a Bell Helicopter, soloed in seven hours within 2% days. Two months later becam e first wom an to rece iv e a FAA rotorcraft-helicopter license in N ew York state. Am No. 59 in the worldwide organization of li­censed wom en helicopter pilots, The Whirly-Girls.

W as honored to be awarded the co­veted Lady G race H ay Drummond- H ay Trophy in 1963 by the W omen’s International Association of Aero­nautics and to be the first wom an to fly the Lockheed Jet Star. Was award­ed the “W inged Victory Trophy” by B ell H elicopter Company, the W om en’s Winged Victory Achievem ent Trophy at the 1963 Annual IOC Aerospace

Sym posium and the coveted Am elia Earhart M edal awarded by the Long Island E arly F lyers Association.

My husband, Henry, w as one of the founders of Seaboard World Airlines. He served as V ice-President of Engi­neering and Director of M aterials and is now retained a s a consultant to the airline. Daughter Charlene (27) has soloed and our 21 year old son, Ren­nie, a student at the University of Florida, is w ell on his w ay to acquir­ing a private license.

I just recently accepted a job as Sales (Brantly & H ushes) for Hel-Aire Copters, Ltd., Midtown Heliport, New York City. As this goes to press, should be enroute from Frederick, Okla. to New York City in a Brantly 305 — the first to be delivered for operation in the N ew York M etropolitan area.

I am honored to be a m em ber of your E xecutive Board and feel that January day in 1955 opened up a whole new wonderful world and a wealth of friends and acquaintances.

DORIS MULLEN WHIRLY-GIRLS SCHOLARSHIPED: I quote from Jean R oss How­

ard’s letter to President A lice Roberts . . . “I am enclosing a copy of m y special M emo to The W hirly-Girls out­lining our plans to establish a Doris Mullen Whirly-Girls Scholarship Fund. As you know, Doris w as a very active and enthusiastic m em ber of The N ine­ty-Nines. Therefore, I wondered if you and Dottie Young m ight think it ap­propriate to carry an item on the Scholarship in a n up-com ing issue of the Newsletter. I feel sure Doris would not want to detract in any w ay from the Am elia Earhart Scholarship Fund, but a s she w as a highly qualified heli­copter pilot, a s are m any of the 99s, you m ay concur that this is a new s­worthy item for our m em b ers.”

President A lice’s reply . . . “I am sure all 99s would be interested to know of your thoughts and I will be anxious to know of their reaction s.”

SPE C IA L M EM O TO W H IR LY -G IR I.S

July 29, 1966 B y now you have read of the tragic

death of our m em ber Doris Mullen, Whirly-Girl No. 84, her co-pilot Dr. G eorge Bard and her passengers Tony and Betty Lem a on Sunday, July 24th when her plane crashed on a force

landing on a golf course. One observ­er said: “The Pilot w as a hero. The plane sw erved to the 'left—‘if it didn’t a lot of people would have been hurt.”

Doris started flying in 1961 and held single and m ulti-engine, m ulti-engine sea , instrum ent and glider ratings. Af­ter m ore than 1300 hours in fixed- wing, she got her com m ercial helicop­ter rating on February 2, 1965. She and her flying physician husband—W ylie— becam e our 12th husband-wife heli­copter team . On February 14, 1966, Doris qualified for her helicopter in­structor’s rating. In M ay of this year, she received her Glider instructor rat­ing.

In iher com paratively short career a s a com m ercial helicopter pilot, Doris did a lot of flying for her husband’s fixed-base operation at Joliet Airport. Som e of the highlights were Santa Clause drops, piloting the Sheriff in a hunting-shooting round-up of elks loose in the area, on cam era for Chi­cago color TV and promotional work with World Book Encyclopedia.

Doris talked helicopters before Ro­tary and science clubs, w as interview­ed in several national m agazines, worked to establish hopsital heliports in her com m unity—all this—and a

wonderful hom em aker and m other to her four teen agers—Denny (20) pri­vate pilot and pre-med student at Uni­versity of W isconsin — Barbara (19) college freshm an and Nancy (17) and Suzie (15) in high school.

Many of The Whirly-Girls m et Doris and W ylie when she cam e to Wash­ington for our 10th Anniversary “Hov­ering” and again this year during The Am erican H elicopter Society Forum. Others m ay have m et her when she flew solo in the 1965 Powder Puff Derby.

When we heard the news, Danna Henderson (Whirly-Girl No. 31) and I discussed what we might do as Whirly- Girls and decided a flight scholarship would be the kind of a m em orial Doris would like. W ylie concurred so, with­out tim e to get your approval, the fol­lowing telegram w as sent:

DR. WYLIE M ULLEN, MAINLINE AVIATION, INC., JOLIET MUNI­CIPAL AIRPORT, JOLIET, ILLI­NOIS.IN MEMORY OF WHIRLY-GIRL DORIS MULLEN, THE WHIRLY- GIRLS (INTERNATIONAL WOM­EN HELICOPTER PILOTS ( ARE ESTABLISHING T H E D O R I S M ULLEN WHIRLY-GIRLS SCH-

LARSHIP FUND. THIS FUND , TO WHICH INITIAL CONTRIBU­TIONS WILL BE MADE IN LIEU O F FLORAL TRIBUTES T O DORIS, WILL BE USED TO PRO­VIDE AN ANNUAL AWARD TO A DESERVING WOMAN FOR USE IN FINANCING H ER HELI­COPTER FLIGHT TRAINING. IT IS H O P E D THAT THE DORIS MULLEN WHIRLY-GIRLS SCH­OLARSHIP FUND WILL SERVE TO PERPETUATE THE HIGH STANDARD OF WOMEN IN AVI­ATION T Y PIFIE D BY DORIS MULLEN. CONTRIBUTIONS MAY BE SENT TO THE DORIS MUL­LEN WHIRLY-GIRLS SCHOLAR­SHIP FUND, SUITE 700, 1725 DE SALES STREET, N.W., WASHING­TON, D.C. 20036

J e a n R o ss H ow ard and D anna H endersonF o r th e W hirly-G irls

We will open a special account for the Doris M ullen W hirly-Girls Scholar­ship fund at the Union Trust Com­pany here in Washington. Danna Hen­derson and I w ill serve as the co­signers.

Next, w e m ust nam e a Committee of The Whirly-Girls to determ ine the “ground ru les” for the adm inistration of the Scholarship. The initial thought would be to pattern it com ewhat after the long-established 99s A m elia E ar­hart Scholarship Fund. If this is done, a separate non-Whirly-Girls com m it­tee would be nam ed annually (with representatives Pf industry, helicopter operators for exam ple) to se lect the scholarship winner.

P lease send m e any suggestions or recom m endations you m ay have — and let us know if you’d like to serve on the Scholarship Committee.

As soon as the details for the ad­ministration of the scholarship are de­term ined, a press release announcing the scholarship can be distributed. It is fe lt the resulting annual competition and selection of the winner w ill gen­erate national interest and publicity.

You m ay recall, in 1955, two of the organizing objectives of The Whirly- Girls w ere to interest wom en in heli­copters and to establish a helicopter flight scholarship. Therefore, Danna and I felt that the m em bers would agree that the Doris Mullen Whirly- Girls Scholarship would aid in achiev­ing these objectives.

Again, let us hear from you.

Am elia Earhart

Commemorative Stam pF a y G illis W ells, C oordinator

TH E ST A M P O F F R IE N D S H IP

Thank you for your com plim ents about the film . It is a com pilation of real 99 togetherness, on a national sca le and the true sum m ation of Am el­ia ’s definition of “ satisfaction—the joy of a share, how ever sm all, in a great adventure.”

Now that the film is availab le, le t’s put it into circulation and sw ell our coffers for other cooperative endeav­ors, like entertaining our International m em bers inext year.

Appeal to your local flying clubs, the AOPA, FAA, CAB, CAP, Wing Scouts, F ly ing farm ers, doctors, law ­yers, OX5ers, E arly Birds, film li­braries and aircraft industry m anu­facturers, to nam e a few. Work with the philatelic groups in your areas. It shows what can be done with a very special postage stam p. Get a fast talk­ing auctioneer to sell our rare F irst Day covers. We now have two more —Sheila Scott’s Round-the-World cov­ers and our Mount A m elia Earhart covers. There are only 23 of Sheila’s num bered covers (No. 1 went to Sheila and No. 9 is in the 99 perm anent col­lection) so they are being distributed on a “highest donation” basis for spe­cia l occasions. Let us know about your special events.

Our latest are the 100 consecutively num bered Mount A m elia Earhart Cov­ers cancelled in Y osem ite National Park, July 2, 1966, thanks to our two intrepid mountain clim bers, Lois M iles and M ary Kem per. Like our other special covers, these are $10.00 each, (ax deductible.

Sell chances or donations on the film . Surely m any people would chance a dollar to get their own print of the Stam p lof Friendship. You could take advantage of the sam e publicity by arran gin g several show ings in the sam e general areas, m aybe one night to a philatelic group, another to a junior flying group and another to a group of old tim ers, or m ix them all up at all three.

We are hoping to got enough orders so w e can bring the price of the prints down from the $150.00 announced at the Convention, to $125.00. Checks should be m ade out to m e so I can re­im burse the film com pany, handle the shipping and keep the books straight.

See you at the movies'.

AIR MEETSF A IR L A D IE S ANNUA L

IN D IA N A RACE J ill M cC orm ick , C hairm an

1966 is a Sesquicentennial Y ear for the State o f Indiana. Due to this, the State would like the Indiana Chapter 99s to tie their F .A .I.R . (Fairladies Annual R ace) in with the sesquicen­tennial. Heretofore the race has been lim ited to Indiana residents. But this one—and from now on—w e would like open to ALL 99s.

After m any m eetings with State and local officials, w e have obtained sup­port both m onetarily and m anually and, even though it is a rush order, are planning to have a proficiency race on October 15th.

Come join the Indiana Ninety-Nines to celebrate the 150th Birthday of their State.

P la ce — E vansville, Ind. (D ress M em orial Airport)

Date — October 15, 1966E vent — Proficiency R ace. Awards

and trophies.Impound D ate — October 14, Sun­

set, local tim e.Rain D ate — October 16E ntry — $15.00. Checks payable to

Indiana Chapter 99s, Inc. Send to: MRS. WM. RIDGWAY, RR 7, Box 266U, Nebo Road, Muncie, Indiana.

E vansville is planning an open house at the airport. The Airlines, F ixed B a se Operators and associated In­dustries w ill have displays. It should draw a terrific crowd and could be a wonderful build-up for The Ninety- N ines and wom en pilots.

BIG SK Y R A C E N O . 3 B e v . L edb etter , R eporter

The Montana Chapter of the 99s, Inc., chose Sat., Aug. 6, a s the date for the B ig Sky R ace No. 3. The type of race selected by the race com ­m ittee w as a N avigational Skill and General F lying knowledge race rather than speed. All 17 airplanes entered in the race w ere in G lasgow and had been checked by DON WRIGHT from the Billings FFA by early afternoon.

A banquet w as held Friday nite where prizes w ere given to the pilot with the m ost hours, PU D LOVELACE who had logged 1500. GRACE NESS, a student with the least hours, 25. The pilot com ing the greatest distance ithat day, MARY STEVENSON, and to the pilot m aking the longest trip the past year, DOTTIE PAYNE, for her

M on tana’s B ig Sky R a c e N o. 3. L eft to right: B E V E R L Y L E D B E T T E R , H avre, C o-C hairm an; H E L E N D U N L O P, H elen a , 1st P la c e C o-Pilot; E L SIE CHILDS, H elen a , 1st P la c e P ilot; P E A R L M AG ILL, G lasgow , C o-C hairm an.

trip to Acupulco and points south in M exico.

R ace Packets with instructions for the first leg of the 450 m ile trip were distributed at the airport briefing by co-chairm en of the race, PEARL MA­GILL and BEV. LEDBETTER, on Sat­urday morning. Takeoff position w as according to aircraft speed and at 7:30, 17 airplanes lined up in a light shower of rain ready to race.

The following is a list of pilots and co-pilots in the order in which they landed at Lewistown after com ole- tion of the race route which included stops at Jordon, Malta, Roundup and Lewistown.

PilotPAT ROEMER _ _ M issoulaCAROL FRASER LewistownKAY WIDMER Bozem anANN HAFER _____ ____ BillingsMARY JORDON __ W ilsallLAULETTE HANSEN H avreJOAN ORLEY LewistownMADONNA SMITH LewistownBETTY NUNN Gt. F allsKARIN RIBI HamiltonELSIE CHILDS ____ . HelenaPEGGY KRUEGER Cut BankMARGARET TUXILL RexfordMARGARET “N iki”

WEAVER ________ Worland, Wyo.MARY STEVENSON M issoulaPATTY ECTON _ M anhattanRHODA JOHNSON _ Malta

Co-pilotOLIVE SICKLES _ M issoulaERMA STANLEY . _ ___ LewistownW INIFRED LOVELACE Bozem an DOROTHY CRAIG . _ B illingsMARY FLEMING __________ W ilsallPAT JOHNSON _______ HelenaFLO MAJERUS _ _ LewistownBETTY TINDALL . . . . . . Lewistown DOTTIE PAYNE Gt. F a llsJERRY ARTHUN . . . ___ LivingstonH ELEN DUNLOP H elenaPAT SPILLMAN . Cut BankBETTY ADAMS . Worland, Wyo.GRACE NESS RudyardJEANNE MATTSON ManhattanJULIA CEBULSKI __________ Malta

At the Jordon stop, VIV SCHRANK, who w as unable to race, w as in charge of having each pilot pre-flight an air­plane which w as on display with 10 possible item s for correction. The winners of this test — it ended 'in a tie between BETTY NUNN and RHODA JOHNSON — flipped a coin for the engraved plaque presented to the win­ners by ithe M ontana Aeronautics Com­

m ission at each stop. BETTY won the plaque and RHODA received a travel .alarm clock.

The 2nd leg of the flight w as from Jordon to Mjalta where each air­plane w as graded on their traffic pat­tern at a field w ith no radio com m uni­cation. H ere a lso they took a written test where tim e w as a factor in the grading. The over-all winner at Malta w as MARY STEVENSON who received a MAC plaque and a m iniature wind­sock which seem ed quite appropriate since the windsock w as the only m e­thod ctf knowing the way to land at this (airport.

The third leg from M alta to Round­up included check points along the proper heading, ETA on approaching Roundup and a written test on E m er­gency Ground to Air Signals. This test proved to be quite a stickler to rnlany. There w as one test with 100 percent on it. ELSIE CHILDS had no doubt been studying. The MAC plaque w as awarded to her. The ETA w as won by MARY JORDON who tim ed it exactly.

A spdt landing w as the finish of the race at Lewistown. A direct hit “on the spot” gave NIKI W EAVER from Worland, Wyo., a MAC plaque.

At the Awards Banquet Saturday night where the plaques w ere presented other prizes given were:

A copy of Frank W ylie’is book, “Mon­tana and the Sky,” to the youngest licensed pilot (in years of age), PAT JOHNSON.

The oldest licensed pilot (in years

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of age) MARGARET TUXILL, $10 gas cards sealed in envelopes and picked up at each stop — a pair of sunglasses, MARY STEVENSON.

A three band radio which chanceshad been cold on for raising money,LAULETTE HANSEN.

A Lucky H orseshoe plaque for Bet­ter Luck in B ig Sky No. 4 went toPEGGY KRUEGER. Fourth P lace win­ner for total points in the over-all race went to KARIN RIBI which was .a $10 g as certificate.

Trophy tim e arrived and third place lorphy winners w ere RHODA JOHN­SON and JULIA CEBULSKI from Mal­ta.

Second place trophy went to PAT ROEM ER and OLIVE SICKLES from M issoula. Then the Grand prize win­ner . . . the team with the m ost points for the entire test . . . ELSIE CHILDS and H ELEN DUNLOP received the beautiful F irst P lace Trophy.

Congratulations to all w h o won prizes. You earned them! And a Thank You to everyone who entered and help m ake up B ig Sky R ace No. 3.

ST . LO U IS A ER O CLU B RACE A m y L aw s, R eporter

The St. Louis Aero Club race, post­poned Saturday, Aug. 20th, because of IFR weather, w as held Sunday morn­ing with 32 planes still entered. The day w as beautiful and the racers were eager to fly the course. R esults were gratifying to the entrants who were 99's. F irst place went to the lady who is m aking a career of gathering 1st

M ILLIE K R U E G E R , Lon*; B ea ch C hapter; R ITA E A V E S , O kla. C hapter, and LILY SANDOVAL, A lbuquerque C hapter, during th e recen t E x p er im en ta l A ir­cra ft A ssocia tion m eet a t R ockford, Illin o is.

place bouquets — ALICE GODWIN — of Cape Girardeau, who flew a Ces­sna 172 with her 4914er, JOHN.

She also went hom e with the 99 tro­phy for the first wom an pilot to win, which w as donated by our St. Louis Chapter. B esides that, she belatedly received a lovely trophy, “M ost Pro­ficient Woman Pilot of the Y ear,” which should have been given to her at the Aero C lassic in Palm Springs, Calif., but which som ehow ended up in St. Louis with STERLING K EN­NEDY, well-known NPA race official.

Another Cape Girardeau m em ber, MARY ELDERS, from Cuba, Mo., and her 49%er, FRANK, won third place honors in a C-172. Our own DOROTHY

HAUPT and KIT HEACOCK captured fourth place. DOROTHY WARREN and CINDY MORRIS of the D allas Chapter won fifth place. They were all flying Cessna 172s which is an interesting fact for those who hope to fly in races using the particular proficiency form ula which w as origi­nated by STERLING KENNEDY of St. Louis Aero Club.

Other participants w ere MARY ABLE land LOUISE BICKFORD of the Houston, Tex. Chapter, CATHERINE MARSH and her 49%er, N ebraska Chapter, and GINNY CHANDLER and her 49'her from Orange County, Calif., Chapter. AH in all, a great, exciting race day. Congratulations, winners!

AWTARPowder Puff Derby

M arion L opez, R ep orter

Another Powder Puff Derby has gone down in history. WCBS-TV, who are now in the process of com piling and editing the docum entary film taken of our 20th Anniversary Air Race, w ere so p leased with their unofficial entry No. 92 and with the cooperation of the racers enroute that they have donated $500.00 to the AE Fund in appreciation of the Powder Puff Derby and the 99s.

There w as m uch favorable response to the greatest change in this year’s race — the fly-by.

AWTAR w ishes to thank heartily the g irls in the W estern Washington Chapter rnd assisting Chapters for the w ay they handled the start of the race and those from the Suncoast and as­sisting Chapters working on the term ­inus in Clearwater. Their jobs were compounded by the delayed start of the race resulting in the necessary changes in plans and program ming. This unforseen turn of events caused all concerned to work against odds and obstacles beyond the call of duty.

Dr. Warren Brown from the Clear­water area wanted to give a n icely fram ed picture of A m elia Earhart to AWTAR. However, it w as felt by the board m em bers that this should be in 99 Headquarters for all to enjoy. The picture w as presented to A lice Rob­erts, President, who accepted it for the 99s, and it w as delivered to Head­quarters by Joyce Funsch, K ansas Chapter.

Don’t forget to send those clippings for our scrapbook to:AWTAR Headquarters, Teterboro Air­port, Teterboro, New Jersey 07608.

(Ed NOTE: I failed to include the above report in last News. I apologize —and M arion’s Sept. report follows.)

While talk of the 20th Anniversary P P D subsides and before that of the 21st g e ts started, I ’ll take this oppor­tunity to catch up on the new s of the side lines. The Anniversary cacheted envelopes were a com plete sell out. A m ost successfu l venture. Our thanks go to E velyn Zirkind of Teaneck, N .J., who is a professional at this sort of thing. The covers w ere advertised in philatelic m agazines and in June she arranged for a Powder Puff Derby booth at the F irst Aeropex Interna­tional Airm al and Aerospace Exhibi­tion held in Albert H all of the Ameri-

cana Hotel in N ew York City, June 10- 12. There were unique exhibits of aero- mautica, telling the story of aviation from the balloon to the rocket of to­day in displays on loan from som e of the leading European m useum s. We are m ost grateful to Herbert R os­en, Director of this aerophilatelic ex­hibition for his cooperation. Ruth Du- breScu manned our booth with the a s ­sistance of M artha Morrison, Kay Brick and daughter “Bunny” . Ruth m ade a huge m ap showing the route of the P PD and a poster depicting wom en in aviation. Barbara B oem er, Susan Verdi and Donna F lam , three 66s from Long Island also helped m an the booth. All this w as whipped up on two days notice.

The first showing of the CBS docu­mentary of the 20th Anniversary Pow ­der Puff Derby in the N ew York area will be a half hour P art 1 on Channel 2, Sun., Septem ber 25, a t 6:30 p.m. This w ill be repeated on the follow­ing Sat. a t 3:30 p.m. P art 2, at this tim e, is scheduled for October 2nd. This episode w ill be repeated the fol­lowing Sat., October 8th, at 3:30 p.m . This is expected to be syndicated so check your local TV program s for showings in your area.

Compliments lhave been com ing in from the control tow ers along the race roulte on the w ay the Powder Puffers handled their radio procedures and pattern work. H ere is a quote typ­ical of those from the FAA personnel. “We found the new tim ing method highly superior to the old. A t a busy field such a s Fairfax, the race could be worked in without too m uch dis­ruption to other traffic. Ground con­trol didn’t have to have everybody ‘hit the dirt’ so a race plane could taxi by. The High Speed P a sse s did not interfere as much with traffic as the Mad Dash Landings. Tower and FAA personnel repeatedly voiced the opinion that they much preferred the r.ew m ethod”.

The start of the 1967 R ace w ill be from Bader F ield in Atlantic City handled by the Garden State Chapter, Gay Mayer, Chapter Chairman. Long Beach Chapter with Judy W agner, Chairman, will handle the finish at Tor­rance, California, just in ca se an y of you are already m aking plans to buck those head winds.

There are m ore of the 20th Anni­versary Certificates available from headquarters at $1.00 each for spon­sors or duplicates. P ersonal or cor­porate nam es—no addresses please.

COMPLETED COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS FOR 1966-67

Aerospace Education J essie M iller M ississippi

Air Marfdng M ary Able, CHM Autrie Lehr Jerry Roberts

Houston All-Ohio Garden State

A. E . Scholarship D eedo H eise, CHM B etty Gillies, Treas.Pat GladneyBroneta E vans, Pm t. Trste. A lice Hammond, P m t. Trste.

W isconsin San Diego Santa Clara V alley Oklahoma Chicago Area

Auditing Com m ittee M argaret Gerhardt, Chm. M iriam Brugh Caroline Schutt

B ay Cities B ay Cities B ay Cities

Budget Committee Ruth Rueckert, Chm. Alice Taylor B etty B bggess

B a y Cities Santa Clara V alley Sacram ento Valley

Contest Com m ittee Sylvia Roth, Chm.Sarah Gorelick (2 yrs.) M arion B etzler (3 yrs.)

CarolinasGtr. K ansas CityAll-Ohio

F lying A ctivities Lois Grange Iowa

49% er Records B ecky Thatcher M ichigan

Headquarters Com m ittee Susie Sewell, Chm. Arlene Walkup Dottie Young

OklahomaOklahomaOklahoma

Historian Irene W irtschafter E . Penn

Incorporation Resident B arbara Bonnett E . Penn

M em bership

N .I.F .A . Lois Feigenbaum , Chm. Cape Girardeau

N inety-Nine N ew s Editor P eg Ong D allas

N om inating Com m ittee Lois M iles, Chm. Winifred Lovelace M ary Clark Fredda Turrill Jeanne H arley

San Fernando ValleMontanaM ichiganColoradoCarolinas

Parliam entarian Alice D avis M ichigan

P ublic Relations

R ead and Approve M inutes Jean Bonar, Chm. Pat Collier Clara Tharpe

All-OhioAll-OhioAll-Ohio

R esolutions Com m ittee Joan Hrubec, Chm. All-Ohio

Scrapbook Juanita H alstead A labam a

AWTAR, Inc. Kay Brick, Chm.L ois Fairbank B arbara E vans A lice Hammond M arian Banks, V. Chm. Terry Vasquez Ruby K eaveny, W est Coast

Rep.P at Wilson Marion Lopez

G reater N ew York G reater N ew York Long Island Chicago Area San D iego San D iego San D iego

G reater New York G reater New York

AWTAR-99 Fund R aising

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MEW YORK ( N .Y .- N .J . SECTION/ J /

A ir m ark ing th e V oln ey G. B em iett L u m b er C om pany roof w ith “ C am den, N . J .” , Ju n e 4th, a r e G arden S ta te C hapter m e m b e r s (le ft to r igh t) M ARY J U N E LOCH, J U D Y M E L T S N E R , J E R R Y R O B E R T S, A ir M arking C hairm an, and G A Y M A H E R , C hapter C hairm an.

G R E A T E R NEW YO RK C H A P T E RC harlotte H. M cC ollum , R ep orter

Shelter Island w as a busy place on Saturday, August 6th. Twenty-three airplanes and ninety-four people de­scended on AGNES and AMBROSE HAVEY for our sum m er fly-in. The food w as delicious, everybody had a m arvelous tim e, and our gratitude goes to the HAVEY’S for once again opening their airstrip and their sum ­m er home to us.

We were pleased to have as a guest a t the fly-in NANCY BIRD WALTON, an Australian m em ber on her way back from England. NANCY just re ­ceived The Most Excellerit Order of the British Em pire, OBE. Another Australian m em ber, RHONDA STE­WART, is arriving in the N ew York area Septem ber 28th and w e’re all looking forward to m eeting her.

We’re proud that DORIS RENNIN- GER is now a m em ber of the Iriter- national E xecutive B o a r d. On her w ay back from Seattle DORIS stopped a t Edwards Air Force B ase, Lock­heed and North Am erican and got a good look at all the new planes being developed.

KAY BRICK ferried a Cherokee 140 up from Vero Beadh, and RUTH BLISS brought up a Cherokee C. RUTH w as home from her ferrying trip all of four hours before she left on a charter flight 'to Chicago.

BETTY PATTON has earned her glider rating. She has 21 hours flight tim e, one flight lasting an hour and 10 minutes. DORIS M ADDEN is the proud owner of a new Cessna 150. DORIS flies out of Red Bank Airport. I t’s alw ays nice to report new ratings and new aircraft. Congratulations to both BETTY and DORIS.

MINA E'LSCHNER and MARGARET LAUDENSLAGER flew M INA’S "Tim ­othy” up to Kobelt Airport for lunch. IRENE KEITH is Vice President of the N ew York State Air Force A ssocia­tion. BETTY SU FFER N is happy that her son is ready to 'take the written and flight test for his Private P ilo t’s License.

KAM and TED VASS are taking their fam ily to California for a week. CHAR­LOTTE and JIM McCOLLUM went down to Beach H aven to see TOM and BARBARA BROTHERTON. B y the tim e this is printed, BARBARA

and her fam ily will be firm ly ensconc­ed in Canada.

And thank you, PAT WILSON, for gathering the news for m e. I t’s a bit difficult when the reporter >is m ostly 500 m iles aw ay on the M aine Coast.

LONG ISL A N D C H A PT E R H oney K ate T rattler , R ep orter

F irst som e im portant dates for the Fall. On Saturday, Septem ber 10th, w e’ll have a fly-in brunch from 10 un­til 12 a t Bobelt airport (273° radial out of Kingston VOR). Rain date, Sun­day the 11th — and our Penny-a-Pound is set for Long Island-M acArthur air­port on Saturday, October 29th (rain date Sunday the 30th) from 11 a.m . until 5 p.m. Along with the airlift there will be parachute jumping; a static display including antique airplanes and parachute packing; and souvenir pho­tos and “first ride” certificates. It prom ises to be a lot iolf fun and we hope to see a s m any of you there as possible.

M issed AGNES HAVEY'S Shelter Island fly-in, but quite a few Long Islanders were there and reported a wonderful tim e . . . Enjoying them ­se lves enorm ously were ELLIE MC­CULLOUGH, MARGE GRAY, RITA GIBSON and her 49y2er, PAUL, DOT-

TIE JULICH, ANNA DIETRICH and THELMA BAKER (one of our newest 99 s).

T here’s not much m ore this month, but h ere’s som ething fit to end a re­port — DOTTIE JULICH, after 8,000 hours, finally took her husband, JACK, up for his very first ride in a light plane. Seem s he liked it too!

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Chapter Chairman HAZEL BARTO- LET and husband BILL flew to Seat­tle, Washington, in their Comanche to attend the Ninety-Nine Convention. HAZEL gave a very interesting re­port on the Convention activ ities and com m ended the people responsible for a job so well done.

Another of our Chapter m em bers who w as a lso fortunate to have been able to attend the Seattle Convention w as NAOMI STAHLNECKER. I have­n ’t had a report directly from NAOMI pertaining to her trip but I under­stand from other sources that she a­

greed with HAZEL that it w as a won­derful Convention.

CAROLYN HARROLIS with husband ■SOTER and daughter SUZANNE m ade a tour of several of the B aham a Is­lands in their own plane. They landed a t Freeport from there w ent to the Eleu'thera Islands and on to N assau spending several days at each place. T hey logged twenty-five hours flying tim e with approxim ately five hours IFR. CAROLYN reported a wonder­ful tim e had by all.

Saturday, August 13, the Chapter m eeting w as held a t the Harrisburg- York State Airport. Guest speaker w as JOHN McFARLANE of the Penn­sylvania Aeronautics Com m ission who spoke about the State of Pennsylvania’s air marking plans. MARTY POOL from Harrisburg was w elcom ed into our Chapter as a new m em ber. IR ENE WIRTSCHAFTER from E astern Penn­sylvania Chapter gave a very inter­esting report on this years Powder Puff Derby.deep in study and working hard! We held at W illiamsport to plan the F all Sectional.

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The Florida Space Port group are deep in study and working hard- We are all studying together for our in­strum ent rating! Our m ost capable teacher is our own MARY BLACK- WELL — flight instructor and holder of m any ratings.

At our August 10th m eeting in Or­lando w e w elcom ed a new m em ber JOAN DAVIS from Vero B each and pinned MARY BLACKWELL. ESTHER GRUPENHAGEN received her pin in July in addition to earning her Com­m ercial License. Then she m oved to Atlanta! SUE VAN DU YNE is now a web-footed pilot with a new sea-plane rating.

In spite of scattered rainshowers and vacation days our attendance was good. Our chairm an CY B E E R S count­ed a quorum: with 13 lucky m em bers: BETTY TRACY, JOAN DAVIS, MAR- DA SALISBURY, ANNE CONWAY, BETTY SHERMAN, CAROLYN BASE­MAN, BARBARA HAZARD, DOTTIE MACNAMERA, MARY BLACKWELL,

C HARLOTTE CO RBIN (M rs. C h arles K . Corbin) of J a ck so n v ille is a rece n t m e m b e r of the F lor id a S p a ce P ort C hapter. CHARLOTTE b eg a n fly in g le s so n s in 1958, so loed , m a rr ied , s ta r t­ed a fa m ily and d id n ’t g e t b ack to f ly in g u ntil 1982 in w h ich y e a r sh e r e c e iv e d her p r iv a te lic e n se . H er husband is not a pilot but In- and the ir tw o so n s a r e freq u en t p a ssen g ers . She a tten d s A ero Club and “ G rassh op ­p e r ” fly -in s.

CHARLOTTE CORBIN, OLGA WILK­INSON and SHIRLEY PAGE.

Two guests, KAY RILEY and MARY MOSER, enjoyed the lesson with us.

A s soon as the weather becom es cooler look for signs of air-m arking. Our first project will be Ormond Beach Airport.

F ly our w ay and join us. Our next m eeting and instrum ent lesson w ill be Septem ber 14th at Skyways in Or­lando.

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The north Georgia 99s m et in July at the hom e of BETTY BENNETT, of Doraville, for further discussion of plans for the Southeast Section M eet­ing to be held at Atlanta Septem ber 10th. JEAN VOYLES, Vice-Chairman

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of the Chapter and Chairman of the conducted the m eeting. Also present w ere MARY L EE NIX, LOIS LACY and FRANCES PEACOCK.

South G eorgia 99s m et in August at the hom e of CAROLYN K ENNEDY, of Parrott, for regular monthly m eeting of the Chapter. Unfortunately the north Georgia m em bers w ere pre­vented from attending due to weather. The business m eeting w as conducted by Chapter Chairman, CAROLYN K ENNEDY. A l s o attending were CAROL LOWERY, Chapter Secretary; HOLLY SMITH, of Albany, and DO- LORESE LOWE, of Conyers. ELLEN CASWELL, of Griffin, a prospective m em ber, and her husband were guests.

We are sorry to learn that we will soon be losing DOLORES LOWE to Houston, T exas. DOLORESE’S hus­band has transferred to Houston and DOLORESE and the children plan to follow soon.

BETTY McNABB continues to be our busiest m em ber. BETTY flew her Bo­nanza the 5,600 m ile round trip to Convention an June. She has m ade aerospace lectures at the University of Alabam a, U niversity of South Caro­lina, G eorgia Southern College and Middle T ennessee State University. She w as the featured speaker at Ten­n essee and also spoke at the annual m eeting of the faculty of the Nursing H om e Records Institute in Chicago. She conducted one-day workshops in Eldorado, Arkansas, and Macon, Geor­gia.

We are proud to report that BETTY now has her CFL. She attended a ten- day T-34 course in Oklahoma City in August.

HOLLY SMITH, of Albany, is now working for Aero Commander. BETTY M cNABB has spent the sum m er — between 'trips — at her Panam a City hom e. The K ENNEDYS, HOWARD and CAROLYN, attended the Florida Aero Club Convention at Clearwater in August. Undaunted by IFR weather, they went as far as they could by Comanche and the rest of the w ay by rented auto.

FRANCES and JACK PEACOCK m ade a two w eeks trip here and yon in August, including Freeport, Grand Baham a, where they v isit friends fre­quently. M any of our m em bers have m ade flying vacation trips th is sum ­m er.

This issue reports the conclusion of the Chapter year. Septem ber 1st starts a new year with new goals. The Geor­g ia Chapter is proud of a successful

year and reelected the sam e officers to carry on through next year.

There w ill be a new New s Reporter, so th is will be the last report by the writer. It has been a pleasure and thanks are in order for the m em bers who assisted in creating the news and supplying the information.

M ISSISSIP PI C H A P T E R L u cille W olfe, R eporter

E veryone had a m ost enjoyable tim e a t the July m eeting in H attiesburg, on the 31st. We w ere m et at the airport by JESSIE MILLER, KITTY BISHOP and GEORGIA McMULLEN, who took us to the hom e of SAMMIE DANIELS. SAMMIE and her 49y2er, JACK, treat­ed us to a delicious bar-b-que chicken lunch prepared by JACK. All 49%ers should cook so good a s JACK! A big thanks to him and SAMMIE.

Those others attending the m eeting were MARGARET SHIPLEY and 49>/2er LESTER; GEORGIA’S 49y>er, PAUL; JANET G REEN and her two sons, TRAVIS and COLIN and their friend, DREW ADAM; DOT ETH E­RIDGE and 49y2er BOB; a n d , of course, your reporter and 49% er BOB and daughter WAVA DIANE. We were happy to see the 49% ers out and m iss­ed JE SSIE ’S 49%er, Leo, who is a l­m ost a regular — LEO w as baby sitting.

JESSIE is back hom e again after having served as an instructor in the Aerospace Education Workshop June 13-July 10 at Middle Tennessee State University. DR. BELAR SMOTHER- MAN w as the D irector of the work­shop.

Congratulations were really in order at this m eeting! PEGGY McCORMICK could not attend but w e saw her pic­ture sporting a brand new Com m er­cial license. DOT ETHERIDGE, rac­ing in a Cessna Skylane in the Pow ­der Puff Derby, finished 11th (the highest scoring Cessna) and also pick­ed up two leg awards along the way. The first and last of the 1966 Skylady Derby cam e to our Chapter—LUCILLE WOLFE, Pilot, with PEGGY McKIE, Co-Pilot, won 1st place in the Derby flying LUCILLE’S Cherokee 180C, and ESTHER HALL, Pilot, and JANET G REEN, Co-Pilot, “ won” the Tail End Tony award in EST H ER’S Cessna 182.

Our Chapter plans to be w ell rep­resented at the Section M eeting in Atlanta in Septem ber. Section M eet­ings are valuable to a Chapter and its m em bers.

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A good showing for the July m eet­ing in Painesville — CONNIE JONES, JANET GIBBS, JEAN KING hostes­sing. This w as the m eeting to catch up with all the IAR, TAR and Con­vention news. Quite a num ber of 99s, 49% ers and guests took in the Sat­urday night Skylark F lying Club’s hangar dance as well. What a perfect night flight hom e — extrem e clear, with a m yriad of sparkling city lights below. I truly enjoyed the smooth 30-miles across town with RUTH and MERRILL LOVE in their new Sky­lane.

First-tim e racers in the IAR JO­ANN STYPE and MILLIE KLAYMAN placed best of all the Ohio team s and were awarded beautiful pilot and co­pilot trophies by SOHIO (Standard Oil Company of Ohio) a t the banquet. A rewarding experience.

It w as a great pleasure to have had a phone conversation with British 99 JOAN HUGHES, recently, when she w as in Cleveland to prom ote the film, “The B lue M ax” . M any of the sam e pilots, JOAN included, who did the flying for the “ M agnificent Men in their F ly ing M achines” again flew in “The Blue M ax” .

All-Ohio just lost two m em bers, PAT HUDGENS and SKIP GUMBERT, both of Lexington, Kentucky, becam e Charter M em ber of the new Kentucky B luegrass Chapter. July 23rd w as the long-awaited for occasion — the Char­ter presentation, and truly it w as m ost gratifying and a great honor for EDY MAXIM, on behalf of The Ninety- Nines, Inc., to present the Charter to NORMA WORLAND, Chapter Chair­m an. The Chapter is starting off with 20 Charter M em bers. M any prospec- tives, too, as there is a great deal of student training in the area.

Over 50 at the banquet, with quite a num ber of good-w ishers from out- of-town. E veryone pleased that PR E S­IDENT ALICE ROBERTS and CHAS. could be there, as we all know how m uch ALICE has been zigging and zagging across 'the U.S. this year, attending a s m any 99 activ ities a s pos­sible. Attending, too, were SARAH GORELICK, North Central Section

Governor; JANICE KUECHENMEIS- TER, N.C. Section M embership Chair­man; JOAN HRUBEC, M em ber of the International E xecutive Board; LOIS FEIGENBAUM , Cape Girardeau Area Chapter Chairman; MARGIE HALL, NADINE H EUER, M ILDRED LIM- BAUGH .also from the Cape; MID CASSIDAY and ESTHER BERNER from the Indiana Chapter; and from All - Ohio, MARILYN COLLETTE, MARY SCHEAFER, VIRGINIA SCH­UMACHER, CLARA THARPE, LEE and JIM ROCK. M any thanks to NOR­MA, NANCY CRAIG, VIVI ANDER­SON and all the dther Kentucky Blue­grass 99s for m aking our Louisville weekend so pleasant. We w ere happy to be 'there for your clearance for T.O.

All-Ohio’s August “99 d a y ” w ill take off a different pattern—no m eeting, but a “49t ie r R ace” . (The gals can be co-pilots, of course.) MARILYN MIL­LER advises it will be a proficiency race, but the details o f the course, etc. will be secret until the morning of the race.

FLO and DOC BOND packed in a lot of air m iles on a recent weekend — Cleveland to B iloxi and return. This accom plished in spite of numerous thunderstorm s and extrem e haze, which set over all of eastern U.S.

A sim ilarity with our two newest m em bers — MARY WHELAN (Cleve­land) and KAREN TROFIMOV (Chag­rin F alls). In both cases, flying les­sons becam e a fam ily affair, and w ives and husbands earned those pri­vate licenses about the sam e tim e. KAREN and IVAN now have their own “150” and w ere off on their long­est cross-country recently. This an 8- day vacation to Cape Cod, and the first one m inus the children. From the July m eeting, MARY and ROD WHELAN flew a M ooney on to Dulles to pick up their duaghter from Be- thesda, Maryland.

PAULINE EK has been logging a great deal o f tim e since she and ART acquired their “172” . PAULINE just earned her instrum ent ticket and is now working for her com m ercial. ART is alm ost ready for his instrument. Both received their private license last Decem ber. F or them , a recent flying vaction included a trip to Arkansas.

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C A P E G IR A R D E A U A R E A C H A PT E R M arge H all, R eporter

It’s been along, hot, busy sum m er for the g irls at CGI, but what a ball we

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had at our last m eeting.We did nothing but play. MARY

ELDERS and her 4914 er, FRANK, in­vited the Chapter to their lovely coun­try home for a wonderful, wonderful picnic. We had so m uch fun we didn’t want to leave. It w as a joy just to sit and relax and not have anything to do but eat, drink and v isit with friends.

Our 4914 ers surely enjoyed them ­selves. MILLIE LIMBAUGH’s 4914 er, RUSH, w as there with a ll his cam ­era equipment to record it all on film . He seem ed to have a ball, especia lly when the sw im suit parade m ade the scene.

BOB EVANS, M ARY’S 49!4er, w as the croquet king for the day, altho w e’re still wondering why he didn’t play on the croquet court. E ach tim e w e looked up, som e sw eet soul would send his ball flying, but not in the proper direction. — Lessons anyone?

NADINE H E U E R ’S 49!4er, ELM ER, w as there putting on a show at the pool. H e’s quite im pressive with his diving and Olympic style sw im m ing, and pretty good with the Poloroid too.

BOB FEIGENBAUM , LOIS’ 49!4er, put on an exhibition at the badminton court, and I ’d say that Bob falls very gracefully, Tennis anyone ?

And m y dear 49!4er, FRANK, is really a whirlwind with the horseshoes, by this I m ean that when he whirls them, goodness only knows where the wind will take them but, som e prac­tice, we feel sure h e ’ll be able to throw them to the stake.

MARY ELDERS and her 49y2er, FRANK, and their wonderful children, were really the “H osts with the Most- est” . Thanks for having us.

After a delicious picnic lunch and with our 4914 ers w ell fed and com ­fortably situated, w e had our final m eeting of this year.

Your reporter w as given the honor of installing our officers for the com ing year.

Last year w as our m ost successfu l year, under the leadership of LOIS FEIGENBAUM, who is a lw ays ready willing and able to help in any capac­ity lo promote W omen in Aviation and Aviation in general. She has consent­ed to be our Chairman for another year.

WILLIE LIMBAUGH, who is an a s­set to any group, w ill again be our Vice-Chairman.

NADINE H EUER, who w as suberb as 'the Powder Puff Stop Chairman this year, w ill be our Secretary.

EVELYN BRAESE, who w a s the

guardian of treasury last year, has graciously accepted the post again this year.

With this sla te of o fficers, our Chap­ter can look forward to another year of P rogress and Fun.

MARY EVANS, MARY ELDERS, MILLIE LIMBAUGH and MARGE HALL flew with LOIS in her Apache to Louisville, Ky., for the Kentucky B luegrass Chapter Charter P resenta­tion. We of the CGI Chapter w elcom e them to the N inety-N ines and our North Central Section. If you haven’t been to a Charter Presentation lately, do so, i t ’s quite a treat.

LOIS FEIG ENBAUM has been quite busy lately, she just returned from a F light Instructor R efresher Sem i­nar at Purdue U niversity. She also will instruct a t the OAPA Clinics at Mun- cie, Ind., August 18-19-20th. We don’t cedi her a t hom e anym ore, w e just call F light Service and find out where she is and what her ETA will be.

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Som e people w ill do anything to get out of housework. This little girl real­ly se lls Aviation, to anyone who will listen. We need m ore like her.

Again, m ay w e say that w e’ve en­joyed our la st year, we w ere quite busy, but loved ev ery m inute of it, now w e’re looking forward to the F all Section M eeting at M ilwaukee.

When you’re flying this way, give us a ring, w e love com pany.

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CHICAGO A R E A C H A PT E R M ary S h u m w a y , R ep orter

Sally Stem pel and her 491/4er, ERV, just returned from a two w eek v aca­

tion at their lake home in W isconsin. They bagged a 9 lb. Catfish and a 12 lb. M uskie. They w ere fortunate when the tornado hit Palw aukee Airport, with SALLY’S F lying School loosing only 2 planes, other w ere much less fortunate.

GERI and FR E D HALTON flew to D ale Hollow Lake, Ky., for a week­end of cam ping and fishing over Me­m orial Day. F ish w ere scarce but at lea st the w eather cooperated. JOHN and VIRGINIA ROTH flew to the O- zarks M em orial weekend, along with a wonderful group from D uPage Air­port. A good tim e w as had by all — the scenery and w eather were de­lightful.

HAROLD a n d EVA WHITE flew their new Debonair to Peoria, June 18th. They attended a wedding there. P assenger for the flight w as EVA’S 82 year old m other who enjoyed the flight very much. Debbie really per­formed, 42 rninues down and 39 com ­ing back. JOAN SCHOGER had the m isfortune of having all the radios stolen from her 172, back to the old point to point on the m ap flying.

TRACY PILARS, ALICE HAM­MOND and yours truly flew to Galt Airport and treated several wounded veterans from Viet Nam to an air tour of the Northern Illinois, Southern Wis­consin lake area . H ELEN SAILER served as Chief NAA jud ge/tim er in Seattle at the start of AWTAR, then went on to Escondido, Calif., to v a ­cation with 99 HAZEL PETERSON and 49y2er GROVER.

RICK COOLEY and husband DICK, are starting to m ake plans for a hunt­ing and m ovie m aking trip to Alaska in the near future in their Skym aster. The m aps have already been decorat­ing their floor, and dining room table for the trip. It w ill be a little more en­joyable in the Skym aster than in the 182. In the m eantim e they are busy flying back and forth to their archery Mfg. plant in Oconto F alls, Wisconsin. VIRGINIA and GEORGE COFFEEN flew to Cape Giardeau on July 3rd to m eet the “ Powder Puff G irls” , how­ever, they had not left Seattle and the COFFEENS w ere the only transient pilots at Cape Giardeau.

G erry K rause didn’t have enough flying after the Powder Puff Derby, w ent on to the B aham as for a visit, then to M iam i for a day. GERRY is proud of getting tier instrum ent ticket. P ut it to use on the w ay hom e from Chattanooga three w eeks to the day after receiv ing it. Yours truly and her

49 tier , JOHN, and five children also continued on to the B aham as after com pleting the derby in our trusty 206, N2151F, a s TAR No. 50. It w as a rea l w elcom e sight to see dad and the kids after ten days.

We in the Chicago Area are stunned from the shock of losing one of our dearest fellow 99s, DORIS MULLEN. She had been very busy flying char­ter during the airline strike — to Ror- chester with patients, Carbondale with educators, Sturgeon B ay with va ca ­tioners; had practied for and passed her six-m onth hood cheek in a D-18 Twin Beech, in 100 degree weather.

LOUISE and RAY KOKESH flew to Galt Airport on a progressive dinner but due to tornado warings no one showed up. LOUISE and RAY along with JOHN and VIRGINIA ROTH and MARIE and MIKE CRONIN spent two days working parking airplanes for the Antique Airplane Assoc, show at D uPage Airport. TONI TIEBER, BARBARA PENCE, GEN BOWMAN and ELEANOR PARK ER a lso helped out at the show.

MARGE and ART ANDERSON suf­fered loss of m ost o f their household effects and personal belongings in a tornado that struck Arlington H eights in June.

G R E A T E R ST . LO UIS C H A PT E R A m y L aw s, R ep orter

The July m eeting of our Chapter w as held at Alton Civic M em orial Airport, Alton, 111., with DOROTHY HAUPT as hostess. Most of the girls flew in for a delightful luncheon in th e very fine restaurant on the field. LOIS SHAFER, who has been m aking good use of her new Com m ercial license, brought as guests, FANNIE JENNINGS and JULIE CLUTES. When ROSE JOLY’S C172 woudn’t start, she and JANE NOYES and IR EN E RAWLINGS hitch­ed a ride from Spirit of St. Louis air­port with DR. KOMMS in h is plane, and cam e back in RUTH TAKSEL’S C-210. IR ENE RAWLINGS reports that her guest w as a m em ber from our San Antonio Chapter, an Arm y Nurse Counselor, attached now to the St. Louis Office — M ain Recruiting — a CAPTAIN LINDA L EE P. . . . Can’t read IR E N E ’S writing — can ’t find ft in roster — sorry about that C h ief!) This reporter m issed this m eeting, but a ll said they had a great tim e visiting and going up in Alton’s new tower which is mow in operation.

P lans are going along beautifully for our Silver Anniversary Dinner-

Dance, Septem ber 17. MoSt of you in the North Central Section w ill re­ceive invitation, but anyone e lse in our area then, please try to attend. We plan a ga la evening — cocktail party, dinner, good m usic — and JERR IE MOCK, as our guest speaker. Who could want m ore. C o n t a c t ROSE JOLY for tickets.

Our August m eeting, a t the 'home of EDITH OLOVITCH w as dedicated to arrangem ents for th is 25th Anni­versary of ours. SUE MATHIAS and MARY McKILLIP, the decorating com m ittee, prom ise that the decor will be worthy of us and the lovely E xecu­tive International Inn near St. Louis Lam bert Field, where the dinner is to be held.

MARY ANDERSON, who flies from W eiss airport in her own Cessna 120, (two-piece, tail-w heel) w as pinned as cur new est m em ber. I ’v e lost count of our m em bers, but there are at least nine new ones who didn’t m ake this y ea r ’s roster. We are so happy with our Chapter, and our wonderful girls.

Gues'ts were: JOAN LAMB, who just got her P rivate license; GEORGIA KNOWLTON, private pilot and poten­tial m em ber who just cam e to St. Louis from Fullerton, California; and M ERILYN HOFFMAN, a private pilot from St. Clair who cam e with VAL JOHNSON.

Our hostess EDITH OLOVITCH, proudly announced she has passed her Com m ercial written. K eep up the good work, EDITH. It seem s that this year, particularly, our girls have been work­ing hard on new ratings, and this m akes for a great Chapter. Our new ly­w eds — LOIS and LLOYD BARTLET, both got their Instrum ent Ratings. Did ft the hard w ay — flying every day at a school in Chicago — or is it the easy w ay? One of these days I ’d like to find out.

KIT HEACOCK, after getting her Com m ercial rating and still working on her F light Instructor’s and Instruc­tor’s Instrum ent ratings, has sw itched to acrobatic lessons. Her instructor, PINKY O PP who g iv es lessons at G am bill’s airport, has entered her in a show at Ottumwa, Iowa, Septem ber 3rd. W e’ll be routing for her.

JUNE EVER S who has been ill for too long is out of the hospital and happily cleared to fly again by her doctor. JUN E, we hope 'to see m ore of you.

SYLVIA BLOOM went to M ilwaukee over the Fourth of July with her fam ­

ily, and reports that it should be a great place for the fall Sectional. SYL­VIA’S 49 % er, LACK, has been honored by being awarded a scholarship to the U niversity of Colorado’s National Col­lege for State Trial Judges at Boulder, Colorado. He lis spending the month of August there—one of the thirty judges in the country to be so chosen.

M ERLE FRAM E flew her fam ily in a Cessna 310 to N assau, v ia Pom ­pano B each, F la.

LOIS SH AFER h as ben m aking quite a few charter trips to such spots as Ft. Smith, Ark., F t. Forth, Tex., and Jackson, M ich., in a Cherokee.

Quite a few of our g irls have en­tered the August 20th, St. Louis Aero Club race at St. Charles Airport which a t this very m om ent is on the ground waiting out IFR weather. Seen at the briefing la st night were JEAN LENN- ERTSON and 49V2er RICH, RUTH TAKSEL and VAL JOHNSON, DORO­THY HAUPT and KIT HEACOCK, RUTH LAKE and FRAN HENKE, ALICE and JOHN GODWIN, from Cape Girardeau, and M A R Y and FRANK ELDERS, from Cuba, Mo. ,

Standby for race results. I ’m on m y w ay there now, pencil in hand.(E D NOTE: R ace results just before press tim e — See “Air M eets” .

IOWA C H A PT E R M ary Lou B a llen sk y , R eporter

On August 14th, we flew to Lake Okoboji for a beautiful Sunday Smor­gasbord and sw im m ing and boating at the new Inn. Sum m er Lake resi­dents, HARRIET OSTERMANN, LOIS GRANGE and DINNY PH IPPS hosted the affair, and w e had one of our better turn-outs, thanks to a kinder Old Man Weather.

Following dinner, PHYLLIS BAR­B E R and HAZEL SIGAFOOSE enter­tained us with slides and a running com m entary on their participation in the Pow der Puff Derby. BEA JOBE then presided over a short business m eeting held on the beach of beautiful Lake Okoboji.

P lans w ere m ade to hold our an­nual election of officers at the Sep­tem ber m eeting with B etty Johnston heading-up the nom inating com m ittee. KITTY HACH will host that m eeting in Am es. We a lso hope to get togther for dinner a t the Red Lion in Ottumwa, Iowa, the evening of Septem ber 3rd. This w ill be during the convention Of the Antique Airplane Association at Ottumwa, so w e hope to see m any 99s.

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T ak en a t the K en tucky B lu eg ra ss C harter B anquet, Ju ly 23rd. F ron t row (I to r): E D Y M A X IM , JO A N H R U B E C , P R E S ID E N T 4 LICE R O B E R T S, SARAH G O R EL IC K and LOIS F E IG E N B A U M . M idd le row (1 to r ): SK IP H U M B E R T , NORM A W O RLAN D, R U T H SO LL EY , B E T T Y T H O R N B E R R Y , JO A N N KIN- N ISO N and JA N IC E K U E C H E N M E IST E R . B a ck row (1 to r): DO RIS SH A K E , PA T H U D G E N S, V IR G IN IA C H A M B ER LA IN , M A R IE R E ISS, BO BBY KLET- T E R , N A N C Y CRAIG, J E N N IE L E E V A N D E R T O L L , B E V E R L Y G IB SO N , M A R Y A N N B R A N G E R S , A IJC E SA L K E L D an d V1VI A N D E R SO N .

K EN T U C K Y B L U E G R A SS C H A PTER V irgin ia C h am berla in , R eporter

High hopes and aspirations, a feel­ing of belonging, and a sen se of dedi­cation to Ninety-Nines — in addition to our shiny new pins — were am ong the things we brand-new Ninety-Nines of the Kentucky B luegrass Chapter car­ried away from our Charter Banquet. Held July 23, 1966, at the H oliday Inn Northeast in Louisvile, the banquet lived up to its advance publicity and w as truly the social event of our sum m er flying season.

F lying in from far and near w ere our honored guests — ALICE ROB­ERTS, International President, with 49%er CHAS. from Phoenix; JOAN HRUBEC, International Resolutions Committee Chairman, from Cleveland; SARAH GORELICK, North Central Section Governor, from K ansas City; JANICE KUECHENM EISTER, All- Ohio M embership Chairman, from Cincinnati. Other All-Ohio m em bers present w ere MARILYN COLLETTE, E D Y MAXIM, LEE ROCK, MARY SCHAEFER, VIRGINIA SCHUMACH­E R and CLARA THARPE. R epresent­ing the Cape Girardeau A rea Chap­ter were Chairman LOIS FEIG EN ­BAUM, MARY ELDERS, MARGIE HALL, NADINE H EUER and MILLIE LIMBAUGH. From the Indiana Chap­ter cam e MID CASSIDY and ESTHER BERNER. MAJ. MARY ARMSTRONG, stationed at Fort Knox, w as w ith us to represent the Tucson Chapter. Oth­er honored guests were1 PAUL AN- DREE of the local FAA and Gwen and BILL CALDWELL of Sydney, Aus­tralia.

NORMA WORLAND, our tem porary Chairman, presided and accepted our new Charter from ED Y MAXIM. EDY, without whose help and assistance K.B. Chapter would never have been born, “pinned” each new m em ber.

There are twenty Charter M em bers in our Chapter, sixteen of whom are brand-new 99s: VIVI ANDERSEN(form erly from Louisville and now living in Beaum ont, Texas, cam e up to help us celebrate-, VIRGINIA CHAM­BERLAIN, JEAN COVERT, NANCY CRAIG, BEVERLY GIBSON, JO ANN KINNISON, BOBBIE KLETTER, RITA LE NEAVE, BERTA MILES, MARIE REISS, ALICE SALKELD, DORIS SHAKE, RUTH SOLLEY, BETTY THORNBERRY, JE N N IE LEE VAN­DERTOLL and NORMA WORLAND. Transfers to our Chapter are SKIP GUM BERT and PAT HUDGENS (both from Lexington, Ky., and transfers from All-Ohio, MARY ANN BRANG­ER S (Tennessee) and H ELEN O’­HARA (Chicago A rea Chapter). W e’re glad to have their experience and know-how.

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election of 1966-67 officers, and we started our first big year a s Ninety- N ines by being hostesses for the In­ternational F lying F arm ers, Ju ly 30- 31, as they flew into Bowm an Field, Louisville, for their annual convention.

M ICHIGAN C H A P T E R P a t Clark, R ep orter

The w eather did not co-operate for our August m eeting. Those of us that drove to the L enaw ee Country Club at Adrain were warm ly greeted by HAZEL JACOB and the gals from Jacobs F lying Service. All six stu­dents and two former studerits, who a re now P rivate pilots, w ere dressed in m atching costum es m ade of antique airplane m aterial. 66 JEAN DUN- MORE m ade blue and white decora­tions for our tables that were beauti­ful. E ach of us received a blue and white net scouring puff to take home.

MARY PELTO is teaching ground school for Howard Flight Service at M ettetal Airport. She also passed her instrum ent flight instructor written. W INNIE DUPEROW passed her in­strum ent written 2 months ago. JEAN REYNOLDS now has her multi-engine rating.

LYDIA HEATHSCOTT will testify

M AJO R M A R IA N T A N K E R SL E Y , D ep u ty for M ain ten an ce in the Colorado

W ing o f th e C ivil A ir P a tro l, and C ad ets E V A SE A R C Y , RO BE R TA SEAR-

C E Y and D O RO TH Y BA N A S. M A R IA N flew th e D en v er b ased C essn a 182 to

G rand Ju n ction , C olo., in order to b ring the g ir ls to D en v er for an en ca m p m en t.

that tiie m ost dangerous part of fly- irg is the trip to and from the airport by car. She broke her ankle in a car accident on the w ay hom e from the airport.

ETA RENATE KIESLE from Karl­sruhe Durlach, Germ any, m ade our Michigan Chapter an honorary m em ­ber of the D eutscher Aero Club EV. This national flying club w as one of ETA’S sponsor in the Powder Puff Derby. ETA presented a Deutscher Aero Club b a n n e r to our Chapter Chairman, ALICE DAVIS.

JULIE AUERBACH spent the w eek­end in Chicago. That w as the longest cross country up to date but vacation tim e is near and she plans to pick up her Dad in Chattanooga and fly to M ontgomery, Ala.

H ave you heard of the Cherokee 8? MARY PELTO and 49%e r BOB m ade a trip out W est with their six children, two boys, a g es 4 and 6, and four girls, ages 8, 11, 12, and 13. Problem One: finding an aircraft large enough to accom odate the whole crew. If neces­sary, they would have taken two planes. But, P iper’s Cherokee Six proved to be the answer.

A line boy in Amarillo, T exas, greet- td them with, “Is this a scheduled or r.on-scheduled a irline?’’ And a fellow in the Redmond, Ore., FSS, a F light Watch Station, shrieked, “That’s a C herokee???” , when he noted that there were 8 people on board. Other­wise, they created hardly a stir as they breezed through the West.

Highlights of the trip were: Grand Canyon, Disneyland, Knott’s Berry Farm , Busch Gardens in Van Nuys, Yosem ite National Yark, Crater Lake, and an unexpected bonus — a chance to handle the controls of a diesel en­gine in Great F alls, Montana. E ven if the kids forget all about their fly­ing trip out West, we know they’ll never forget the day they drove the diesel engine.

W eather throughout the 5,000 m ile trio w as better than thy’d dared to hope for. Gone twenty three days, they left in haze and cam e back to M ichi­gan only to find it still hazy. Sure m ade them wonder if it had been that way the whole while they were gone.

R em em ber the 11th Annual SMALL Race at Alpena, M;c’.iigan, Sept. 30, Oct. 1 and 2. Contact LEAH HIG­GINS, 1880 Rochester Road, Apt. G, R oyal Oak, M ichigan 48073 for infor­mation.

COLORADO C H A P T E R

M arion C. T an k ersley , R eporter

Colorado Chapter is looking forward to a DRIVE-IN Chuck Wagon Dinner, 7:30 P.M ., August 19th, at the “F ly ­ing W” Ranch in Colorado Springs. This is a sw itch, but we just might have better attendance than at our last Colorado Springs fly-in. Only JO1 D E N ­NIS and her son arrived for this one.

A VFR-on-top flyan to Cheyenne, W yoming, for breakfast with ALICE HAMMOND, (who flew in from K ear­ney, Nebraska) w as the highlight of our R ace Stop planning. The “best laid p lans,” of course, turned into a waiting gam e over the 4th of July weekend. The w ait w as w ell worth it with the roar of the first TAR flying by the Cheyenne Tower. Bed-check re­vealed 22 overnight TARs in Chey­enne. By Tuesday, 57 operations were

recorded and JO DENNIS. MARGE BLUE, PAT LUTHER, MARY FREN- ZEL, H ELEN CHOUN, CAROL TIL- FORD, MARTHA KENT, JEAN F E R ­RELL, RONNIE JOHNSON and GWEN CRAVEN had recorded m any pleas­ant m em ories o f a wonderful race and fabulous cooperation from all of Chey­enne, W yoming.

Due to m e m b e r s h i p chairm an CAROL TILFORD’S m any m any hours of hard work, we are now the proud possessors of 55 Chapter m em bers. Hats off to CAROL!! Wish she were twins.

MARGE BLUE is finally recover­ing from her job on our “ride of your life” Sectional. V ery well done, and really fun, even if we do say so ourselves.

We are all pleased lo count DORIS LANGHER am ong our very own while congratulating her on her appoint­ment to the FAA W oman’s Advisory Board.

EULALIA NICHOLS is efferviscent over her son, STEVE, soloing in Sch­w eitzer 2-22 glider on his 14th birth­day. Wouldn’t we all b e !! The NICHOLS, in their Bellanca, flew into

Flam ing Gorge, Utah, returning with the greatest praise of the airport, and better yet, the fish catching.

MARION TANKERSLEY really fe lt a very privileged character in being fortunate enough to spend 2 w eeks at the FAA A cadem y in Oklahoma City, attending the FAA-CAP Pilot Orienta­tion Program . This program is aim ed at all around up-grading of “already” pilots, and utilized the Civil Air P a­trol’s T-34s a s training p lanes in con­junction with F ederal Aviation A gency instructors, who proved to be not only excellent, but extrem ely patient, as well.

(Note: Our last new sletter told of MARILYN NORDSTROM’S trip to N.H. and her job a s M aintenance Officer for Colorado Wing. CAP, air­craft. This w as A-OK except it w as MARION TANKERSLEY, not MARI­LYN. Sorry about that!)

DALLAS C H A PT E RH azel H . M cK endrick , R ep orter

PAT JETTON, Airhaven, Redbird Airport, opened and closed their In­ternational Operations all in one nightm arish weekend. They rented an airplane to a student for a w eek’s vacation in N assau. All is w ell. The airplane starts hom e and is lost and presum ed down at sea. No word for two days. PAT alert’s her insurance co. and also checks with IRS about depreciating airplane in one year. Monday 'finds the airplane, and pilots, in Cuba—a ll fine but a little off course. PAT contacts everyone she can think of to get airplane back. Several days later, airplane lands in M iam i. PAT realerts insurance co. and IRS, takes two “ happy pills” and closes out Air­haven International. Don’t know what sh e’s done la tely for kicks.

Aero Sorority, D allas announces the D allas Doll Derby will be October 22nd and will be a rally like last year. NEW RULES: Airpane m ust have co- piot. Co-pilot can either be boy or girl type, m ust ave soloed, but not necessary to have license. Applica­tions and further inform ation write MARGE BUNCH, 406 T exas Bank Bldg., Dallas, T exas. Last year w as a real blast, so y ’all come!

The D allas Chapter is happy to an­nounce that they have ordered the Am elia Earhart film to be used local­ly for schools, clubs, etc. This is a real great film and those of us who saw it in Seattle still have goose bumps.

Our last m eeting w as held at HAZEL

CORRY’s house. B etw een the com ­ings and goings of the Chapter, w e had a pretty good group. We learned that: JOSEPHINE ALLISON and MAR­THA ANN READING had just return­ed from a six w eeks cam p out in the northwest, com plete with children; DORIS FE L L E R w as doing the Holy Lands and had been detained due to airplane problem s in Athens, Tel-Aviv and A m sterdam (if it had been m e, I would have been stuck in Bug-Tus- sel, T ex.); LUCILLE CONNELL had just returned from H awaii and w as enroute to Europe; H ELEN WILKE, with co-pilot Susie w as off enjoying the cool of Minnesota: (Incidentally Susie is a Scottie.) PHYLLIS EM MERT and fam ily had one foot in the air on the way to San Francisco; CHARLOTTE BRANUM and husband JACK are just back from “Los W ages” and m anaged to get hom e with the airplane still be­longing to them . They said it w as a business trip.

PEG ONG has been in all four di­rections and is still running. I guess she is getting in practice to take over the Editor’s job for the N ew sletter. This is a m ighty big job and DOTTIE’S

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shoes will be hard to fill, but w e are sure our gal PEG is the gal that can do it; DOROTHY W ARREN and CIN­DY MORRIS are getting ready to fly the St. Louis Aero Club race this weekend; and NITA SHUHART has been doing the horse shows with her stable of horses. (I ca n ’t spell the kind ther are). HAZEL M cKEND- RICK w as to show her slides of the race, but her projector disintergrated cn the spot.

R eserve the last weekend in Sep­tem ber for the Sectional in Shrev- port and rserv the next to last week­end in Septem ber for another phy­siological sem inar sponsored by the D alals Chapter. It w ill be the 23rd and 24th in the evening and your Chapter Chairman will have a letter cn this esoon. We have been promised that DR. GIBBONS will be there.

E L PA SO C H A PT E R M ary O lm stead , R eporter

Little did w e realize last month when w e wrote about our ELLEN JANE ANDERSON being Queen of Colorado F ly ing F arm ers and Ranch­ers that we w ere writing about the new Queen of the International F lying Farm ers. Congratulations, ELLEN JANE, on this new est honor. You have m ade our Chapter the proudest in all the 99s. And to your 49'/2er, RONALD, go our congratulations a s 1966-67 P resi­dent of Ihe Colorado F lying Farm ers and Ranchers. B etw een you two, your 210 is going to be a m ighty busy bird for the next tw elve months.

W e’re glad to report that, after a long month of being bed-bound be­cause of leg inflam m ation caused by a 'falling rock, RUTH DEERM AN is w ell enough to go flying. She took WIN G RIFFIN for a short flight—their first in over seven weeks. MYRNA SHANFIELD of Long Beach, Calif., RON’D with RUTH when returning from her flying vacation.

MARY FRAN SEIDL spent six w eeks at Houston U niversity and when not in the classroom , she w as enter­tained right royally by m em bers of the Houston Chapter. A flight to Hill­top Resort with Chairman M A R Y N E E S ABLE and her 49%er; a w eek­end with ORA MAE BOSWELL and her 49% er on their farm com plete with its 4,000 ft. sod runway; sw im m ing and dinner with MARY JANE NOR­RIS and her 49%er; to the Houston Air Tour m eeting w ith LOUISE BICK­FORD and her 49%er; to see The Sound of M usic with ALICE SEABORN followed by barbeque supper at ALICE’S sister’s home; sw im m ing in a g lass enclosed pool followed by bar­beque supper m eeting at CAROL MOORE’S hom e. In MARY FR A N ’S letter o f Aug. 10th, she said: “What a nice wonderful feeling to be in­cluded and rem em bered by the Hous­ton Chapter. I owe m uch gratitude to them and their wonderful 49%ers for m aking m y leisure hours pass so p leas­antly far from home. This warm heart­ed hospitality really reflects the won­derful relationship of the 99s a s an out­standing organization” HANK, MARY FR A N ’S 49%er, w ill m eet her at Hous­ton and together they will go to Joliet, 111., to pick up their children, then back to E l P aso in tim e for school.

Chairman JUANITA BURDICK had a w eek in Colorado — fis iin g and en- tertainging. E arlier this sum m er, JUANITA and 49V2er TEX went to the

T exas State Aviation Assoc, m eeting — attended a ball gam e in the Astro­dom e, had a lovely visit with Vice- Chairman MARILYN STONEBURG, after enjoying a hangar dance put on by the Houston Chapter.

RUBY TATMAN flew her Bonanza to Seattle for a three w eek v isit with one of her sons. She took the fam ily on a cross-country trip of their State to Idaho — returning along the Ca­nadian border. On her return, she flew down the P acific coast to Van Nuys— to v isit her sister.

BETTY R O G E R S accom panied RUBY on several trips to Phoenix to visit RUBY'S other son who has since been transferred to the Dom inican R e­public with his w ife and three sm all daughters. It wouldn’t surprise us if next winter w e hear that RUBY is island-hopping in her Bonanza!

LELA CARWARDINE of Las Cru­ces, N ew M exico, is not one to for­get flying even when she is on the ground. E ach year she invites school children who a re studying transporta­tion, on a field trip to the airport. There she explains a ll about the air­plane using her Cessna 120 for the model, letting the Children take turns at sitting in the pilot’s seat and ope­rating the controls. She h as been doing this One-Woman Project for the past three years and has four or five groups of children each year.

As this goes to press, our new of­ficers are about to be elected. Con­gratulations to them and best w ishes to our successors. W e’v e enjoyed bringing our new s to you this past year and thanks to those wonderful flying m achines that carry airm ail- we alw ays m anaged to m ake the E di­tors deadline. Adios and Happy Flights.

HOUSTON C H A PT E R L ou ise B ickford , R ep orter

Our August m eeting w as a barbeque and sw im m ing p a r t y with CAROL MOORE and LOUISE BICKFORD the hostesses. It w as held at CAROL’S beautiful new home with an indoor- outdoor sw im m ing pool.

Those attending were: MARY and CONNIE ABLE, MARY BURKE, MAY- BELLE FLETCHER, DELLE and GENE HIGHTOWER, RUTH and TOMMY HILDEBRAND, M A B E L EDITH OLIVER, MARY JANE and BOB NORRIS, MARILYN STONE- BERG, D E D E and PERK Y PERKINS, MARY FRAN SEIDL, MR. and MRS. BILL COTTON [from the FAA, pros­pective 99s BETTY FRITZ and MON­

TY MAE M YLANDER and CAROL’S and LOUISE’S 491/4ers.

After the m eeting MR. COTTON showed tw o film s: “D ensity A ltitude” (in color) and “Fools, D aredevils and G eniuses.” If your Chapter has not seen “D ensity A ltitude,” by all m eans contact your nearest FAA office and have them arrange a showing. Not only is it very inform ative, but the scenery is m agnificent.

Congratulations are in order to MARY ABLE for passing the instruc­tor written exam and her appoint­m ent as National Air M arking Chair­man.

M ABEL EDITH and JIM OLIVER took in the E xperim ental Aircraft Assn. fly-in at Rockford. They w ere there for the entire event and MABEL EDITH worked in the EAA conces­sion.

Houston 49y2ers BE N BOSWELL and MYRL BICKFORD and another friend flew to Rockford the last w eek end of the show and visited with the OLI­VERS and took lots of pictures. MYRL has som e very good pictures and has been in great demand to show them at different aviation m eetings.

We have enjoyed entertaining MARY FRAN SEIDL, 99 from E l Paso, MARY FRAN is taking a 6-w eeks’ course at the University of Houston so has had an opportunity to attend our m eeting and other activities.

TRAVEL BRIEFS: SALLY COXdrove to O klahom a City on her va ­cation and visited H eadquarters. M ARY and GEORGE COALE are fly ­ing to aVncouver, B.C., for a yacht trip. RUTH and TOMMY HILDE­BRAND attended the International F ly ­ing to Vancouver, B.C., for a yacht MARTHA and BILL AKINS flew to D enver for a few days for the second tim e this sum m er. They really like that town.

MARY ABLE and your correspond­ent are leaving this w eek end for St. Louis. We are going to try our luck in the St. Louis Aero Club R ace, and we are certain ly looking forward to it.

We take great pleasure in announc­ing our new officers for the com ing year: MARILYN STONEBERG, Chair­man; MARY BURKE, Vice-Chairman; M ABEL EDITH OLIVER, Secretary; DELLE HIGHTOWER, Treasurer.

M any thanks to the out-going officers for their tim e and efforts.

N E B R A SK A C H A P T E R F lo r e n c e B oring, R ep orter

Johnson Lake, Lexington, Nebraska,

was the target for eleven Ninety- Nines, six 49y2ers and four guests for their August m eeting. Perfect weather, delicious pot-luck picnic food, the chal­lenge of com ing in over the high bank at the end of the runway and the en­joym ent of getting together again add­ed up to a fun-filled day.

E lection of officers for the com ing year resulted in the following slate: Chairman — FLORENCE BORING, V ice Chairman — LEAH SNART, Re­cording Secretary — LOIS DURHAM, Corresponding Secretary — MARTHA PURDY, Treasurer — JEAN GIVE .. M em bership Chairman — MILDRED BARRETT and N ew s Reporter—LEAH SNART.

We w ere very happy to w elcom e two new m em bers to the Nebraska Ninety- Nines: MRS. MIRIAM (MIMI) HA­WORTH by transfer from Stillwater, Oklahoma, whose husband DONALD has com e to Lincoln to head the Me­chanical E ngineering Departm ent at the University of Nebraska; and brand- new m em ber DONNA LEE BRUMMER of Lincoln, whose husband is the MR. B of MR. B ’S IGA.

Under the heading of other new ac­com plishm ents, congratulations to EVELYN SEDIVY on her Commer­c ia l license and her B.A. D egree from the University of Nebraska, both in the sam e week, and to JEAN GIVEN on receiv ing her Com m ercial. We were a ll interested to hear that Ninety-Nine CAROL MICHNICK is spending her sum m er a s line-girl at the Sidney Air­port, which m ust be a pleasant surprise to transient pilots.

M em bers with 491/4ers present were CATHERINE and DR. FR E D MARSH, MARTHA and BUD PURDY, MARIAN and HAROLD LARMON, JEAN and JEROME GIVEN, VERDAYNE and WALT M ENZE, LEAH and BILL SNART, M ILDRED BARRETT, FLOR­ENCE BORING, EVELYN SEDIVY, MIMI HAWORTH and DONNA BRUM­M ER com pleted the roster of m em ­bers, w ith PEGGY STROMER, AG­NES HINKELMAN, JEANNE GIVEN and RONALD SNART as guests.

So ends your news reporter’s year of trying to> m eet the deadlines while wondering desperately how to inject a little spark of originality into the usual lis t of “am ong those present . . . ” B etter luck to your new re­porter, LEAH SNART. After the won­derful job she did a s chairm an of the Powder Puff Derby stop at Kearney, this w ill be a sm all task.

OKLAHOMA C H A P T E R Nem si M asonh all, R ep orter

Many thanks to m y good buddies for filling in the gaps in last m onth’s Chapter report — m iss one m eeting and you reallv get behind cn the news.

Congratulations to two of our form ­er 99s: SALLY (BROYLES) POLLOCK w as m arried July 23rd and TRISH SMITH is the new International F ly ­ing Farm er D uchess (understand both the IFF Queen and, o f course, TRISH are 99s. Also, to POLLY and TOM RUBLE’S son in winning the IF F Archer Award of $500.00. 99s attend­ing the Oklahoma F lying F arm er pic­nic were: MARIE KETCHUM, AR­LENE WALKUP, JANE ABBOTT and MARY CORNELSON. Those attend­ing the IF F Convention in Louisville, Ky., were: JANE, MARY, ARLENE, POLLY RUBLE and CAROL WAD­DELL. MARCIA (JONES) SMOKE. Bronze Medal winner in the 1964 Olymp­ics and daughter of Oklahoma 99 MARY FRANCIS, gave the U .S. its first victory in the 12 Nation W est B er­lin canoeing regatta, a warm-up for the World m eet in E ast Berlin the last of August.

So sorry to hear of the passing of DOROTHY MORGAN’S m other and FERN YOUNT’S father.

Had quite a turnout for our m eet­ing at Cation Aviation the 14th, espe­cially in the guest and prospective NABB, International Secretary, here for a 10 day FA A /C A P Course; LOIS BARTLING (San Diego) and husband— tho’ they couldn’t stay . Prospective m em bers PAT MORGAN, W atonga; ARELINE GIBSON, Lawton; NANCY ORCUTT and ANN CATLIN, OKC. Other guests CLAIRE CALLAGAN, form er WASP and 99; ANN GRISSOM, OKC; WANDA DURNIL, Tonkawa; JUDYE COX and ANN PARRISH of Lawton. F ly-ins w ere WAYNA LEE DU FFE R in her Cherokee from Al- tus and Chairman SHARON FISH ER and Governor ARLENE WALKUP in “Old Faithful 26B” . U s earth-bound creatures attending were: BETTYBLACK and F E R N YOUNT, Duncan; REGINA PANNELL, Guthrie; LOU SKILLERN, Ponca City; MARY COR­NELSON, Fairview ; M ARIE HALL, SUSIE SEWELL, DOTTIE YOUNG, RITA EAVES and JANE ABBOTT, OKC; BRONETA EVANS and I, Minco.

B less our transferees, w e’re going to m iss them and hope they com e back to see us — we love them , just the sam e.

Our “I'd Rather be F ly in g’’ car tags

are $1.25 each plus 25c postage. 10 P ostage on 10 tags runs 75c. Order tags from RUBY KNIGHT, Box 513, Woodward, Okla. 73801. See you-all the 11th o f Septem ber in Watonga.

SAN ANTONIO C H A PT E R M arian B u rk e, R ep orter

The San Antonio Chapter enjoyed a luncheon m eeting at International Air­port August 13, 1966. We had a nice turn-out and KAY BAKER drove clear in from Laredo for the “get-to-gether.” She liv es there now and she said driv­ing up w as a good excuse to put som e m ileage on the new car that she and her husband now have. H er husband m ust go to A labam a for tem porary duty w hile going to school. H ave a good trip, KAY, and be sure and check in with the A labam a gals. They are a great gang. You’ll like Montgo­m ery. It’s been an air race stop sev ­eral tim es and loads of fun. We will be looking forward toward your re­turn in January.

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We certain ly hope som e of the San Antonio Chapter are able to go to the Sectional at Shreveport. It sounds like fun. I ’m sure everyone w ill be praying that “ old m an w eather’’ will be kind to us because w e have order­ed lots of sunshine for that whole weekend.

NORMA M cELVAIN has returned from her long trip by auto that took her through m any states. She said she enjoyed every m inute of it.

MEG GUGGOLZ recently visited MARIAN BURKE. MEG used to be in the San Antonio Chapter but now is in Santa F e , N ew M exico. She w as in San Antonio on other business and MARIAN enjoyed her quick visit. P lea se do it again, MEG, and maybe you can join us at one of our m eet­ings.

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SOUTH LO U ISIA N A C H A PT E R P a t W ard, R eporter-C hairm an

Our m eeting in L afayette on July 23 w as delightful; hostess JAN PHIL­LIPS. There w ere 9 m em bers present, 2 Sixty-Sixes, 2 prospective m em bers, and 7 guests, totaling 20 warm souls. A hearty w elcom e to VIRGINIA SMITH, transfer from the Houston Chapter who is now living in Lafay- ete.

Following a productive business m eeting, w e had a coffee-cookie break and then film s, courtesy of the FAA, on the F light Service Station and on D ensity Altitude. Both w ere highly in­form ative, but the one entitled “Dens­ity A ltitude” w as very enjoyable. The dry title indicates a dry subject, but a s usual, you can’t judge a book by its cover. This is a 30 minute sound story and we highly recom m end it to anyone who is fortunate enough to be able to get it for showing at m eet­ings. MR. CHARLES LOVING of the FAA in L afayette w as kind enough to operate the projector (a lso provide by the FAA) and hand out cards to every­one for ordering a density altitude com ­puter from the FAA, free of charge. These film s that are availab le from the FAA are rea lly worthwhile to stu­dent and licensed pilot alike. We intend to take full advantage of this service and recom m end that other Chapters do likew ise. They are a compliment to any m eeting. At our next m eet­ing, in Baton Rouge, the Chief Con­troller a t Ryan Airport (MR. JOE CARROLL) has arranged to show us another film entitled “Wake Turbul­ence” which is equally a s interesting and inform ative a s w as “D ensity Alti­tude” . Keep in mind that these are story-type film s and not at all like a classroom lecture.

Your reporter, PAT WARD, had the pleasure of obtaining a single-engine seaplane rating in July. Sort of went along for the ride w hile another pilot w as getting his, and decided to try it m yself. N ever have I had so much real fun with an airplane. I enjoyed getting a m ulti-engine rating, but I just plain had fun with the floatplane. We have endless runway in our part of the country for seaplane work and it w as delightful. Am anxious to get m y hands on the newly certified Cessna 150 on straight floats. I couldn’t see how it would work, either, but Cessna has figured out all the goodies and they prom ise a real little jewel. Will be an excellent, inexpensive w ay for

pilots to obtain a sea rating. I got m ine in a Cessna 185 on amphib floats. Now there’s a hunk of airplane!

MARY JEAN FRESTRIDGE and her 49%ers are on their w ay to the w est coast v ia Bonanza with another cou­ple from T exas. Their plans as they left sounded glorious. Hope they don’t get too spoiled on the unbelievable-to- us v isibility out west. If w e get over 15 m iles visibility down here it is un­usual. Happy flying to the Prestridges.

DE E COMEAUX and her 49% er will be on a weekend trip to D allas and Shreveport on August 20-21 in a Ces- na Super Skylane. Their trip, like the Prestridges, w ill m ix business with pleasure. Will want to hear about both trips when they return.

One of our 66s, WEEZIE OGDEN, has had to adm it senority to her hus­band, GUY, who got h is P rivate license early in August. WEEZIE w as about 8 hours behind him in her tim e log­ged, and GUY h as her doing all the dirty work for him —checking the oil, clim bing around on the struts to check the fuel and doing the pre-flight. T hey’­ve been taking lessons at the sam e tim e and I understand that WEEZIE did her fa ir share of back-seat-driving the first tim e they w ere airborne to­gether without an instructor in the airplane.

Heard YVONNE RY DER on the ra­dio not long ago com ing into Baton Rouge in her little Cessna 150. Now there’s a busy gal! M anager of three stores in three different towns.

Our August 27 m eeting is scheduled at DE E COMEAUX’s hom e — a sw im ­m ing party and barbeque. We w ill take nom ination for new officers and dis­cuss plans to attend the South Cen­tral Section m eeting in Shreveport October 1-2.

Am sure that PATSY JONES and H ELEN HOOKS and FOY WEST, JEAN DE JARNETTE and ALICE CAGLE have been keeping the air­ways hot, but haven’t heard too much from them lately. GLORIA WARD has been doing som e ferrying, and is busy getting ready fo r her vacation to Florida and entering college a t South­eastern La. College in Hammond. Hope to see all of them at the August m eet­ing.

E R , BETTY NATION, COLLEEN WHITE, LOIS MARTIN and NANCY CAIN, and of course all the stray 49% crs that wandered in.

Our August m eeting w as for the purpose of election of officers. Those present a t LEA BAK ER’S for ayes and nays w ere COLLEEN WHITE, JAN MAURITSON, BETTY PLUM­M ER, LOIS MARTIN, AGNES HELL- MAN, LEA and me. TRISH SMITH called in from the ranch to tell us she w as just in from Kentucky and that she w as elected D uchess of F lying Farm ers. That deserves a couple of toots.

Our new officers are: Chairman,COLLEEN WHITE; Vice-Chairman, NANCY CAIN; Secretary, MARY STURGIS; Treasurer, MARY SHAD­DOCK.

JUDY HELLMAN cam e hom e from San D iego for brother GUS’ wedding. AGNES is just back from G alveston where she had a ball surfing. Most of us have our vacations out of the way, so lets get to the m eetings and on tim e.

We are m ost grateful to LEA for being such a dandy Chairman and w e are delighted that COLLEEN is stepping in. With her energy we m ay get to the moon. L et's all pitch in and try to keep up with her. See you next month.

NORTHWEST SECTION

TU L SA C H A PT E R J ea n E n g ler , R ep orter

Chalk up to a ir m arkings: Airman Acres and Pryor M unicipal, for which w e will have to thank LYDIA GUTIER­REZ, JAN MAURITSON, LEA BAK-

ALASKA C H A P T E R K athryn W ills W ayer, R ep orter

Our Chapter m et August 10, at the hom e of PAT GILDA. We are so glad to have her back with us. You see, she m oved to P rince George, B.C., in M arch but m oved back to Anchorage in June. (P eople do return!) She at­tended the Spring Sectional in E verett in April.

Speaking of the activ ities of our busy m em bers — MARION ZAEGEL spent M arch and April in Florida. Rented a 27-foot sailboat and sailed the Florida K eys for one week. Also spent three w eeks in Grand Canyon Island, which is south Of Cuba. She had fun skin d iving and cycling. She and her husband spent the sum m er building a new hom e on Campbell Lake where they keep their plane in their

front yard. She a lso has spent a good deal of tim e sailing at B ig Lake.

LAVELLE BETZ is another float en­thusiast. She spent m any sum m er w eekends flying to new cabin on Shu- lin Lake and playing host to other pilots and their fam ilies, entertain­ing at num erous sw im m ing parties and sour dough breakfasts (alw ays served at 8:30 to 9:00 on Sunday mornings) for which she is quite fam ous. Her cabin is very unique a s it is one con­structed by a trapper. It is com pletely constructed of logs — even window sills, door facings, doors and floor.

RUTH O’BUCK, a well-known in­structor in the Anchorage area, spent part of the sum m er com m ercial fish­ing. She also found -time to be check­ed out in a Civil Air Patrol Beaver. She brought guest, KARIS RICKETTS, to the m eeting.

H ELEN STODDARD found that she w as too busy covering airplanes to do m uch flying but will m ake up for it at an early date.

KATHRYN WAYER m ade several trips to B ig Lake, her favorite lake for beauty and size — lots of room for landings and takeoffs!

RUSTY HINYUB has b e e n busy chauffeuring her daughter to the Rid­ing Academ y. But her aviation activ­ities have not been curtained never­theless.

PAT M cG EE w as asked to put on a TV show for the W ater Safety Club. The subject w as “F loat F ly ing’’. A panel discussion w as held with offi­c ia ls of the FAA and Alaska State Fish and G am e in which they discussed what float pilots depend on for water safety and the new FAA regulations concerning sam e. Different types of life preservers w ere discussed and a m ovie on flying floats to the Katmai fishing areas w as shown.

RUTH HURST w as chairm an of the jointly sponsored R ally by the Ninety- N ines and A laska A irm en’s A ssocia­tion. A gencies participating w ere the F ederal Aviation Agency, Alaska Dept, of F ish and G am e, A laska Division of Aviation, Environm ental Sciences Wea­ther Bureau, the CAP, and the Air R escue Coordination Center. RUTH spent m any hours on the clinics and w as on TV. (How she found tim e to take the Instructor R efresher course — but she d id !)

The Safety Clinic involved static disp lays of em ergency gear, Weather Bureau data, etc. Perform ance dem- onstratioins (light loads, gross loads, cross control, stalls, short field take-

P o ca te llo AW TAR R a c e Stop C h airm an M ARY K IL B O U R N E (cen ter) and her c o m m ittee m em b er s , A R L E N E B A IL E Y (le ft) and D IA N E J E X . A ll m em b er s of the E a ste rn Idaho C hapter.

toffs and landing, etc.) w ere appreciat­ed by many pilots and other onlook­ers.

The Ninety-Nines had a refreshm ent booth. Approxim ately 3,000 attended the Safety Clinic.

MARJORIE FAUTH from San F ran­cisco was a v isitor to our city this summer. She w as once T rustee of the Amelia Earhart Fund and w as Inter- nat'onal Treasurer a t one tim e. RUTH HURST, NANCY KESSLER and PAT GILDA entertained her at lunch at th e Top of the World where she could have a m agnificent v iew of our fair city.

Officers elected for next year in­clude: RUTH HURST, Chairman;RUTH O ’ B U C K, Vice-Chairman; CATHERINE KIPPENHAN, Secretary; MARION ZAEGEL, Treasurer; KATH­RYN WAYER, Newsletter; LAVELLE BETZ, Historian; RUSTY HINYUB, Membership Chairman.

Keep our Centennial in mind.This is all for now. The Alaska

Chapter sighing off.

E A S T E R N IDAHO C H A P T E R O nita H off, R ep orter

New officers for 1966-67 took office August 17th at a luncheon held at the attractive Idaho F a lls Air Term inal Restaurant presided over by out-going Chairman, Onite Hoff. They are:

Chairman, DIANE JEX, Blackfoot; V ice Chairman, JORGA STAPP, Good­ing; Secretary, VIRGINIA FINKELN- BURG, Pocatello; Treasurer, EMMA- LYNE PAYNE, W ilson, W yoming; N ew s Reporter, ARLENE BAILEY, Pocatello; Publicity, ONITA HOFF, Idaho Falls.

Several “Little S isters” w ere in­vited in view of increasing m em ber­ship in our sm all but energetic Chap­ter.

MARY KILBOURNE and ARLENE BAILEY flew to the Northwest Sec­tional at E verett, Washington; also to the International Convention a t Seattle before rushing back to m anage their home-town TAR race stop at Poca­tello where a record stop of 37 planes w as m ade; 31 rem ained over-night—the m ost any city had on the route! F irst to land w as No. 4—BERNICE STEAD­MAN and MARY CLARK, the 1966 winners! ONITA HOFF, Chairman, has received m any “Thank-You’s ” to the E astern Idaho Chapter for ser­v ices and favors rendered at the P oca­tello stop and she w ishes in turn to thank MARY KILBOURNE who so ably organized and supervised the

duties of the stop along with the Com m erce and Civic Aviation Com­m ittee. Gals, Salute MARY!

The two Idaho Chapters w ere thrill­ed to have the TAR m ake stops in our beautiful state for the first tim e. We hope it returns soon. We are proud of our m any air-strips, air facilities and of our State Aeronautics Director, CHET MOULTON, who a c ts a s a con­stant rem inder of safe flying.

July 20th MARY KILBOURNE pilot­ed Chapter m em bers and a guest over the m ountains to Jackson, W yoming. EMMALYNE PAYNE w as hostess to the group. Lunch w as a t the new Te­ton V illage and a business m eeting held at DR. HERSCHEL and MRS. PA Y N E ’S beautiful hill-side hom e a t

Wilson, Wyo. Those enjoying the flight and hospitality were: MARY KIL­BOURNE, VIRGINIA FINKELNBURG and ARLENE BAILEY of Pocatello, DIANE JE X of Blackfoot, and “little sister” FRANCES HOFF of Idaho Falls.

F ly-ins w ere planned to Gooding and to Twin F a lls in Septem ber — one to be a combined m eet with the Idaho Chapter at Boise.

This years R ace Program w as the best yet! Com plim ents to all who work­ed to publish it.

P .S.: Som e tim e back a request was m ade for old issu es of the Newsletter. H as the request been filled? I have m any, dating from 1950, which I will send if needed.

E A ST E R N W ASHINGTON C H A PT E R H elen R . C rum , R ep orter

Only MINNIE BOYD, TERRIE BECKER, BARBARA THISTED, MIL­LIE SHINN and two gueSts m anaged to show up a t F elts F ield in Spokane, August 12th, for a m eeting to discuss arrangem ents for the Sectional to be held in Spokane, Septem ber 9th and 10th. H owever, everything is under control with MINNIE in charge of reg­istration; FRANCIE GIBSON, decora­tions; publicity, BOBBIE PRICE; transportation, GINNY HARPER; fa­vors, TERRIE; tick ets and m eals, MILLIE. The g irls were sorry to learn that Chairman JEAN CARBON is a- gain in a hopsital at Vancouver, and that Vice-Chairman GINNY w as ab­sent due to the illness of her mother.

A letter from LYGIE HAGAN tells of her sum m er in Colorado Springs, of her husband’s IF R flight to pick her up hfter the race banquet and their IF R trip to Pendleton to help with the planes, only to be “ trapped” there for tw o days.

At the July 16th m eeting in Spo­kane it w as announced that BARBARA had been asked to be on the Inter­national Resolutions and the Section Flight Activities com m ittees, and that LYGIE is still on the E xecutive Board. Our Secretary, H ELEN DEW EY, has moved to Seattle from Omak. BE V ­ERLY PAULSON, who w as m arried this sum m er, flew to the m eeting from her new hom e in Grandview. JEAN, TERRIE, BARBARA, MINNIE, FR A N ­CIE and three guests w ere a lso pres­ent. A thank you note w as sent to MARY WENHOLZ of the Long Beach Chapter for her help with the Seattle banquet centerpiece and to the Seattle florist who donated fifteen dozen roses.

M INNIE took her 10 year old grand­daughter to Sacram ento this sum m er in her Cherokee. Not to be outdone HELEN CRUM took two granddaugh­

ters and their two friends in an Az­tec to a cam p near V ictoria in Au­gust. HELEN ERNSDO RFF recent­

ly had a near m iss with a Boeing jet while inslructing an instrum ent. KATH­LEEN HITCHCOCK not only acquired a new son-in-law in June but he will soon be the seventh m em ber of the fam ily to be a pilot. CHERIE YATES now h as both her instrum ent and com ­m ercial ratings, and husband BOB just got bis private. They had a fly­ing vacation in Montana.

M O NTANA C H A P T E R B e v . L edb etter, R ep orter

The Lincoln Airport Dedication and Fly-In w as the location of the July m eeting with 12 m em bers and 3 guests present. PAT ECTON, Chairman of Flight A ctivities for the Chapter urg­ed each one to fill out their activ ity sheets and com pete for the award to be given at the F all Sectional in Spo­kane. LAULETTE HANSEN, ELSIE CHILDS and H ELEN DUNLOP plan to attend the Spokane m eeting. PEARL MAGILL gave a report on B ig Sky R ace No. 3 plans. She and BEV. had flown the race route contacting the operators and MPA hangers in each town where stops would be m ade.

The Septem ber m eeting w ill be held in Billings with the W yoming m em ­bers invited along with DONNA MY­ERS, International Vice - President from Denver.

Big Sky Flying: After flying to the Lincoln m eeting, Chairman ELSIE CHILDS and fam ily drove to Glacier Park where they left the com forts of the busy world behind and hiked to Sperry G lacier where they cam ped for several days. They returned just in tim e for ELSIE to get to G lasgow for the a ir race. MARY STEVENSON with husband JACK and fam ily return­ed from the Oregon coast vacation. They spent their tim e near Rockaway, surfing, digging c lam s and having a wonderful tim e. MARY can g ive in­structions on how to pack the “most- e s t” into a 182 Cessna. A trip to P en­ticton, Alberta, Canada, w as m ade by DOTTIE and JIM PAYNE in their Bonanza. They heartily recom m end this beautiful spot to everyone.

Congratulations go to MARTHA GAUNCE and daughter JANE who placed No. 8 in the International Air R ace which started in Harlingen, T exas, extended into M onterey, M ex­ico, back into U. S. and ended in W. P alm Beach, Florida, for a total of 1609 m iles. MARTHA credits their 8th place position to JANE who she says wouldn’t even hear to going on the wrong side of a tower if it didn’t show that w ay on the m ap.

JOAN ORLEY and husband JOE re­cently flew to Hayden Lake, Idaho. The sam e w eek JOAN took her four children to Glendive to m eet her North Dakota fam ily for a picnic. Husband JOE who w as unable to go along had mo w orries about her ability to take ca re o f herself after her B ig Sky R ace flight. E arly m orning before work and after work until dark are the hours

PEARL MAGILL spends instructing. R eal nice flying when the student has a Cessna 210.

The long aw aited date for their trip to A laska finally arrived for VIVI- ANNE and MILT. SCHRANK. They are m aking their trip in their 1947 Cruiser, loaded with baggage and a “m ascot for MILTON” purchased by VIVIANNE that defies description. They plan to stop at several places along the route to Fairbanks where they w ill v isit PEARL LASKA, who m any will rem em ber from last years B ig Sky R ace. She w as Copilot with VIV.

R ace Item s of Interest; The Glas­gow radio station (Covered the take­off of the airplanes with a colorful description which included a brief his­tory of som e o f the pilots. The announc­er w as especia lly interested in MAR­GARET TUXILL and her distinction of being the oldest grandm other with the m ost grandchildren. While describ­ing her take off in her Swift he re­ferred to her a s Grandma Tuxill from Rexford. Once in his excitem ent it cam e out, Grandma Rexford for Tuxill.

When the question w as asked who had flowin the greatest distance to get to G lasgow that day, MARY STEV­ENSON won easily . She and her fam ­ily had left Tillamook, Oregon, early that morning, stopped in M issoula to unload the fam ily and then flew on to G lasgow by late afternoon. Around 6 hours flying tim e in a 182. Two of the pilots flying the race had new private licenses, less than a month old. PEGGY K RUEG ER from Cut Bank and MADONNA SMITH from Lewistown.

To m e there is nothing nicer than an Air R ace for Women. The m aking of new friends, the fuin and laughs and that special type of companionship you don’t find in anything else you do. Happiness is . . . F ly ing with a friend in a W omans Air Race.

NO RTH W EST O R EG O N C H A PT E R E th e ly n M . O pheim , R ep orter

We w ere delighted, and hope you will be too, with the list of activities and projects our 9 month old North­w est Oregon Chapter has successfully com pleted. BARBARA DAUFEL, Chap­ter Chairman, review ed a few at our August 15th dinner meeting:

— D ecorations Ifor Seattle Interna­tional Convention:

A 4’ x 6’ m osaic portrait of Am elia Earhart, painstakingly handmade with tiny cuts of colored art paper

by MARION BUSBY and her com ­m ittee, BARBARA DAUFEL, MAR­CELLA OTHUS, JO-NEAL HAR­RIS, BETTY PRAKKEN and ETHE- LYN OPHEIM. MARION m ade the fram e, too!— Manning AWTAR stops:1) Fly-by at Portland International: MARION BUSBY and ANN BROWN. DR. VIRGINIA GILLILAND assisted .2) Pendleton stop: BOBBIE HAYES, Stop Chairman, assisted by MAR­CELLA OTHUS, BETTY PRAKKEN, JO-NEAL HARRIS and BARBARA DAUFEL. BETTY JANE SEAVEY, of E astern Washington Chapter, flew in to help, too.3) JO-NEAL HARRIS and BETTY PRAKKEN assisted FE R N LAKE and her group at the B oise stop.— Spring Sectional at E verett, Wash­

ington: A large delegation from North­west Oregon Chapter attended and hostessed the Chairm en’s m eeting.

— The w eek before AWTAR, our Northwest Section Governor (N. W. Oregon Chapter m em ber! MARCELLA OTHUS and BETTY PRAKKEN went to Seattle w here they worked daily with the W estern W ashington Chapter until the convention ended. New Northwest Oregon Chapter m em bers, DR. GILLILAND, KATHY ELMORE and MARGE COLTON, arrived to lend a hand, also.

This is just a sam pling of our "in­fant” Chapter’s doings — but we think w e’re off to a FLYING start!

The next activ ity on our docket is a fly-in Chuck Wagon breakfast, sched­uled for Sunday, Septem ber 25, from 8:00 a.m . to 12 noon, a t Scappoose Airport. P icnic tables and fireplace are available for convenience and com ­fort. The m enu will be sim ply mouth­watering — ham ’in eggs, pancakes, coffee. All our flying plus non-flying friends are in v ited !! JO-NEAL HAR­RIS and MARCY WOLFARD are co- chairm en for the event.

MARCY WOLFARD, now instrum ent­rated, received a Bonanza for her birthday! She and 49% er JIM flew to Johin D ay in E astern Oregon to drop off daughter, WENDY, and friend at a ‘‘horse ranch” (w e don’t call ’em ‘Dude R anches’ no m ore, podner). Then they flew on to the D eschutes River for som e fishing.

KATHY ELM ORE, who is just a breath aw ay from her Com m ercial, broke her neick while—of all things— closing her dangar door. And this, af­ter co-piloting in this yea r’s Powder Puff Derby (TAR No. 78)! D oes this

stop our intrepid K athy? Ha. Each and every weekend, now as a passen­ger of course, KATHY is touring the v ast Northwest. L ast weekend, it was a trip up the Columbia Gorge on a smooth, cloudless day, thence to R ich­land, Washington.

JO-NEAL HARRIS is really getting experience in hairy mountain flying. She just com pleted her second flight to M ackie Bar, Idaho, with her P iper Cherokee 235 loaded to the hilt with supplies for “Bucksin B ill” . JO-NEAL has to negotiate a frightful 7,500’ gorge —just right—to land a B. B ill’s strip.

Our great leader and N.W. Section Governor, MARCELLA OTHUS, ab­hors m y m entioning her — but her iti­nerary these days bears repeating: Portland (FDX)-Seattle-PDX-Coos Bay- PDX-S'eattle-PDX-Pendleton-PDX- Coos B a y — ad finitum . Of course, her 49%- er, “GENERAL JOHN” , is in business in Coos Bay. W e’re extrem ely proud to te ll that MARCELLA just received her B.A. from Lewis & Clark Col-

Renew! Renew!

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lege, Portland, is hard at work on her M aster’s , and will student-teach this F all.

MARION BU SBY ’s great flight plans w ere dashed — her vacation w as spent taking care of your convalescing re­porter, just out of hospital and surgery.

ANN and VAL BROWN flew to Car­m el, California, in their Apache for a recent weekend. Hardly a weekend goes by that th ey don’t fly over the Coast R ange to play golf at Gearhart, a delightful Oregon B each resort.

Speaking of golf, our super-talented ARLENE BAKER, ATR-FAA E xam i- ner-Instructor, has added golf to her va st list of accom plishm ents. She pol­ishes o ff tournam ents in the sam e superb m anner she flies, teaches, and what-have-you.

Am ong our vacationing m em bers who have succum bed to com m ercial flight are — BETTY and GORDON PRAKKEN, attending a Washington, D.C., convention, and LILLIAN LEWIS, who vacationed in Alaska, LILLIAN’S

back, but heaven knows when strike­bound BETTY and GORDY will be able to return.

ANN BROWN and MARION BUSBY urge the AWTAR Com m ittee to con­sider asking all racers to place their TAR num bers on their planes’ tails. ANN and MARION still haven’t re­covered from the busy PDX fly-by— and num bers placed anywhere but on the ta il w ere all but im possible to see on the converging aircraft.

Northwest Oregon Chapter welcom es its new m em bers. We all look forward to a fine, FLYING year.

SO U T H E R N O REG O N C H A PTER G lad ys B u rr ill, R ep orter

The August m eeting of the 99s was held at Prospect a t the h o m e of GLADYS BURRILL. With so many sum m er activities, only five of our num ber w ere present. The girls were beautiful, stepping out of their planes fin their new 99 attire which FRAN CAMPBELL of Klamath F alls had de­signed and m ade so attractively. A big “Thank you” to you, FRAN, for all the to u rs of labor. We proudly w ear our colors.

E lection of officers for the new year w as held. Our new officers are: Chairman, ROSE ELLISON of Rose- burg; Vice-Chairman, FRAN CAMP­BELL; Secretary, JERRY PARKER of Ashland; Treasurer, GLADYS BUR­RILL; M embership, MAXINE PIKE of Grants P ass; N ew s Reporter, HOPE McKAY of Roseburg; Am eria E ar­hart Scholarship, JEAN SHAW of Grants P ass. With so few in number, it w as decided that each one of us would concentrate on Aerospace. To you, HOPE, “Thank you” for a won­derful job of 'leadership this past year. It has been an enjoyable and busy year.

There w ere several reports on flights during the sum m er months. At pres­ent, JE A N SHAW, her 49%er and son, BILLY, are on a trip to Ohio and then on to N ew York to v isit with their other son. ROGER. ROSE ELLISON and her 49%er flew to Campbell River, B.C.. This is on Vancouver Island. The w eather w as beautiful and ROSE reported a m ost enjoyable trip. Later ROSE and HOPE flew to M edford for a luncheon with Jean Shaw. Yours truly, her 49% er and two children flew to Wyoming and visited with the POWERS fam ily at Greybull. We had a wonderful tim e clim bing those high m ountains and renewing flying experi­ences. PAULINE w as form erly a m em ­

ber of our group and is a m em ber of itheir new Chapter. M et a couple other 99s there who are also flying enthusiasts.

Our Septem ber m eeting will be at the Medford airport, after the North­west Sectional.

W E ST E R N W ASHINGTON C H A PT E R R ivka A . P ra tt , R ep orter

B ecause m y job m oved to Seattle and I m oved with it 1 transferred to W estern W ashington Chapter from Oregon Chapter just before the1 Pow­der Puff Derby Start and got in on a lot of the hard work and fun connect­ed with the race. B ecause of her very busy schedule, PAT M cGEE asked GINNY ANDREWS if I could take over the N ew s reporting — so here I am .

W estern Washington Chapter is grad­ually recovering from the race start. Two years ago it seem ed alm ost an im ­possibility that we could accom plish such a feat, but with the splendid co­operation given our R ace Chairman, Helen Appel, and Co-Chairman Ilovene Potter, everything turned out very well. When the chips are down som e­how 99s seem to band together and put their shoulders to the wheel. When the race w as postponed, the citizenry of Seattle cam e to the fore with in­vitations for dinner, offers of rooms, boat rides, sight-seeing trips, etc., to help m ake our task a little le s s diffi­cult. From the s c o r e s of com pli­m entary letters com ing in from all over the country things m ust have been all right, in spite of the horrible w eather we experienced. We certainly do appreciate these letters, girls. It m ore than m akes all the effort w e ex­pended seem worthwhile.

The Goody B ags were real “Good­ie s” . F ar West Chapter hand painted everyone of them and all the Chapters in the Section cam e up with splendid item s to go in them . Without this splendid cooperation from other Chap­ters our job would have been very difficult. M any of the girls from the other Chapters also helped us out in the hospitality room when relief help w as needed. In fact, no m atter what w as asked of them , they alw ays cam e up with an “O.K. — where do I start?” attitude for which w e were truly g ra te ­ful.

One of the “funnies” at the race start w as that canned ju ices w ere packed in the box lunches, but no can open­ers.

PAT M cG EE has ben doing som e

Charter work; she flew som e investors up to Torofino, Canada, and said she greatly enjoyed the rugged country up 'in that area. Of great interest to all of us in the suit PAT M cGEE had against the FAA to enable her to in­struct while w earing contact lenses. After three years, FAA finally grant­ed itheir approval and now PAT can teach for pay. During the tim e PAT w as battling with FAA she taught over 400 hours (without pay) and instructed 39 students.

After two yea rs of not flying, I am being checked out in a Cessna 150 by PAT M cGEE so that I can do a little flitting over the countryside and learn m ore about m y new hom e State. F ly ­ing a 150 after being used to a 175 is like transferring from a Cadillac to a Volkswagon — but PAT says she thinks I ’ll be able to do it. JUDITH IMMELE, CAP, and BETH OLIVER, B ellevue, cam e in 28th in the Powder Puff Derby. Shortly after her return hom e BETH OLIVER and her 49% er, BARRY, adopted a new little daugh­ter: Born July 28, 1966 — 5 lb., 10 oz., 18%” long—nam e, SHERYL ANN, who has com e to m ake her hom e with JOHN and SUZAN. You better know that BETH is a busy gal.

CAROL TALICH m oved to Seattle from Los Angeles earlier than she needed to in order to be able to help us out w ith the race start. She brought with her all the pieces of her home built airplane, and now that the race is over will concentrate on getting it together. JEAN STEWART is another of those daring individuals who is building her own plane. We wonder who will finish first.

Those of us who knew DORIS MUL­LEN w ere stunned by her death.

TERRY KELLOGG has recovered from m ajor surgery earlier this sum ­m er and is back taking part in activ­ities. GINNY ANDREW S accom panied son TOBY on an instrum ent training flight to Spokane. It w as a real treat for her to watch him in the process of learning.

At the August 1st m eeting, GINNY ANDREW S w as re-elected Chairman; JAY LAWRENCE, Vice-Chairman; DOTTIE DAUB, Treasurer; a n d JOYCE HARDING, Secretary.

ILOVENE POTTER, her 49% er and fam ily have been spending m ost of their tim e at Hood Canal since the ra ce start. MARTY SPAULDING left for Europe just before the Derby. We are looking forward to a report on her trip wihen she returns. LOUISE NIEMI

and VAN ADDERSON flew to Shelton for lunch one day last w eek and then flew up North around the loop from Burlington v ia Concrete, Darrington and Arlington. VAN reports she finally has finished rem odeling her kitchen (she w as right in the m idst of it w hile carrying out her duties as transporta­tion Chairman for the race start).

Before I sign off, it w as wonderful to see the m arvelous cooperation and understanding that the 49% ers gave their w ives during the trying days of the race start. Thanks, fellow s. We are m ost grateful. And to the good people of Seattle — thank you for help­ing us further a general interest in aviation.

W YOM ING C H A P T E R D orothy M isner, R ep orter

Since I w as on vacation with m y fam ily at our cabin in the beautiful B ig Horn M ountains and w as unable to participate in the B ig Sky R ace in M ontana or attend our August m eet­ing in Therm opolis, I have to thank our ever interested and enthusiastic 99, NIKI WEAVER, Chapter Vice- Chairman, who brought m e up to date on all events.

On their m em bership drive trip to Buffalo and Sheridan, NIKI and MA­BE L ANESI, Chapter Chairman, Lan­der, w ere thrilled to discover about nine wom en student pilots and about eleven wom en pilots, who we hope to interest in 99 m em bership.

PAULINE POWERS, Greybull, has checked out in a M ooney. MARIE ENGELM AN, Worland, hasn’t been around m uch this sum m er and we m iss her. She flew to Arizona and returned with her three grandchildren and then to Seattle to be with her daughter who has been ill. The WEAV­ERS have another pilot in the fam ily, their oldest son, KIM, won his private license, M ay 25, 1966 — Congratula­tions, KIM. ELAINE M'ONCUR, Pow­ell, has m ade several attem pts to check out in their Commanche, but either the weather or som e other diffi­culty has prevented it to date. Keep trying ELAINE. BETTY ADAMS, Worland, flew to Sheridan and return­ed with a passenger, the daughter of RICHARD and K A T H Y BRAUN. KATHY works for BETTY in her gro­cery store, the Court House Market.

Congratulations are in o r d e r for NIKI and BETTY who won the spot landing in the Montana B ig Sky R ace (see picture). NIKI enjoyed the race

NIKI W E A V E R (le ft) and B E T T Y ADAM S proudly d isp la y th e Spot Landing Trophy p resen ted to them fo llow in g the B ig Sky R a c e fin ish at L ew istow n, M ontana.

so much that she can ’t wait to plan one here in W yoming.

I don’t know what you call it, but it must have been lots of fun, when VIRGILEA SWORTS and husband DALE, Thermopolis, worked very hard planning the routes for every­one to take to get to Therm opolis for the August m eeting, Saturday the 13th. Attending w ere MABEL ANESI, ELAINE MONCUR, NIKI W EAVER and VIRGILEA SWORTS. Guests were NIKI’s daughter, ANN, and a niece of ELAINE’S. P lans are pending for forming a 66 group. E lection of offi­cers is being held by written ballot. Ballots to be sent to absent m em bers and results to be announced later. DR. SWORTS hosted the group for lunch at the M anhattan Cafe and it w as unanim ously agreed to hold the Sept. m eeting in Buffalo on the 10th.

SOUTHWESTSECTION

E L C A JO N V A LLEY C H A P T E R D ottie S an d ers, R ep orter

The trophy and display case donated to the County of San D iego for in­stallation at the Administration Build­ing at G illespie F ield is finally com ­pleted and installed, with som e m em or­able plaques, pictures, etc., com m em o­

rating the Start of the Powder Puff Derby from there in 1965. Its official dedication will be held during Gillespie F ie ld ’s first Annual Air-Cade, dates of which have been changed from Octo­ber 1-2 to October 15th-16th. New 1967 m odels o f aircraft as w ell as antique m odels will be shown, and be­cause autom obiles are a necessity to get to the airport, new and antique m odels w ill be shown, and because autom obiles are a necessity to get to the airport, new and antique m odels of cars will also be shown.

Our Chapter is assisting the Avia­tion Com m ittee of the E l Cajon Cham­ber of Com m erce in this show with JUDY BACHMAN heading the Pub­lic ity C om m ittee and LEAH LIERSCH heading the 2;C-per-pound flights to be held in connection with the Air-Cade. In this case, all of the proceeds of the 2c-per-pound flights will be di­vided am ong the operators who fur­nish airplanes for it in proportion to the num ber of hours flown by their airplanes. DOTTIE SANDERS will continue to be in charge of the Trophy and D isplay Case and its dedication.

So m ark your calendars for Octo­ber 15th-16th to com e to Gillespie Field!

H ere and there: V acationing at this

Don't W a it ! Activate

Deadline Sept. 30, 1966

writing are HARRIET ALLEN, DOT­TIE CAMPBELL and IDA GAY; BAR­BARA ALMAND com m uting between San M arcos and Apple Valley; MAC HUNTINGTON is busy with two new flight schools — F isher Aircraft at Lindbergh F ield with a Branch at G illespie F ield — good luck, MAC! ISABELLE McCRAE and DOTTIE SANDERS represented our Chapter at the Charter presentation of the newly formed Palom ar Chapter at Ocean­side August 13th, the new Chapter hav­ing been sponsored by S a n Diego Chapter — what a trem endous suc­cess with so m any Southwest Section Chapters represented, a s w ell a s dig­nitaries from the County of San Diego, City of O ceanside and Fallbrook. ’Twas

alm ost like a Section M eeting, with PRESIDENT ALICE ROBERTS and GOVERNOR PAT LAMBART to award the pins and m em bership cards and Bay Cities, E l Cajon Valley, Las V egas, Orange County, Phoenix, Red­wood Em pire, of course San Diego and San Fernando V alley Chapters represented. All of our Sectional Of­ficers w ere there except for our Treas­urer. Gifts to the new Chapter were N am e Buttons from San D iego and a white and gold G uest Book with the 99 com pass rose engraved from El Cajon V alley Chapter. TOM JOHN­SON, FR A N ’S 49%'er from Las Vegas, very graciously gave the new Palo­m ar Chapter 4914ers proper initiation —with aprons for housework while their 99s go flying.

All good wishes, Palom ar Chapter, for much success! With such a good start, you are bound 'to be an out­standing Chapter!

FA LLO N C H A PT E R E la in e Brow n, R eporter

N ew s is scarce this month. Guess our 99s are busy herding kiddies through the last few w eeks of sum m er vaca­tion. I don’t know about the rest of you gals, but this sould finds it a bit of a bind to filter the kiddies out am ong the neighbors and head for the airport. Ah, for Septem ber 6th and the first day of school.

LOIS WILLIAMS is beginning to find m ore free tim e now that her oldest son, DAVID JR., 16, has soloed. His shirt ta il w as cut August 15th. What a proud day! LOIS and her 4914er, DAVE, bought a Cessna 182 and have had it in the air practically every day since. LOIS took her three youngest boys back E ast for a vacation on a com m ercial airliner. Then cam e the now fam ous strike. The b e s t they could do on the com m ercial airlines toward getting hom e to Reno w as Sioux F alls. Husband DAVE saved the day by m eeting them there with the 182 and flying them on home.

JUDY HISLE has been too busy with her business ventures to give her Ces­sna 210 the proper exercise. She’s looking forward to flying to Carson City with LOIS WILLIAMS for our next Chapter m eeting this Friday the 19th.

DOROTHY STAUFF reports her 4914er, CARROLL, has finally cured his case of 210-itis. How e lse? B y buy­ing one, of course! “And it’s beau­tifu l,” says DOROTHY, who has m as­

tered all of the new gadjets, includ­ing the DME. “ It flies a s easily as I he 182,” she m urm ers. They took it to M onterey where they spent a glor­ious day. M ethinks they have speeded them selves o u t of spending whole weekends away, un less they want to try for Miami!

JANE JANSSEN has had little time for flying a s she has been pitching in at the National Air R ace office in Reno. The m anager, DUANE COLE and fam ily, went back to the Rock­ford EAA fly-in and air show and JANE held down that busy air race of­fice for a week. She and 49%er BILL flew their two little girls to Fresno to spend that w eek with relatives. The 170 m ade the trip again to bring the girls hom e in tim e to enjoy a good case of the mumps!

FRAN and GUS GUSTAVSON have been busy getting to rights in their new apartm ent in Fallon. While w e w ere stopping over there, we saw ANITA (Redwood E m pire Chapter) and JACK WOREL fly in to spend a night with GUS and FRAN before flying over to the Shurz Y to spend the weekend at BERTHA and CURTIS CLINE’s new resort. JACK (a lias B ig M am a) won the weekend for being the “best dressed participant” in the Fallon Fun R ace last June.

G uess that’s it for this month. Hope you all had a good sum m er and are looking forward to those beautiful fall flying days. Hope to see you in Reno for the National Air R aces Septem ­ber 22ind-25th!

IX>S A N G E L E S C H A PT E R R achel Bonz.on, R eporter

At our July m eeting w e w ere pleased to w elcom e a s fulhfledged m em bers LINA BLACKMORE and LYNN OP- PER. We also had four guests and prospective m em bers present.

We w ere sorry to hear that our only AWTAR entry, BARBARA WIL­LIS, w as unable to finish the race. She got farther than any of the rest of us, anyhow.

CAROL LEWIS w as back from a flying vacation w ith 49t ie r BERNIE having visited relatives in Ohio and been stranded in Jefferson City, M is­souri, for som e tim e because of a tornado. Then som e days in the Red­ding area, including fishing in Lake Shasta from a houseboat, rounded out a fun trip.

Saga of the Birds, Episode 2: Sure enough, the LODWIG’S feathered guests, knowing when they w ere not

wanted, m oved down the line to OP- P E R S’ Skylane. To m ake hom estead­ing a little m ore secure, th is tim e they deposited eggs. The thought occurs to m e that the next generation will be num erous enough to take over both engines o f our twin. (LYNN, is it dang­erous to express such a thought?) It w as fun the other day to see LYNN and BOB take off for parts unknown, even to them , with their two-piece motor scooter tied in the back seat. A spontaneous trip in beautiful w ea­ther.

The DORR fam ily are planning a trip to Britisih Columbia in their PBY, with som e lake-hopping in mind. RACHEL had a ride in the Ford Tri- Motor at Sanita M onica Airport, en­joying a Tin G oose’s eye v iew of the bikinis on the Marina beach and the traffic on the freeway, that nice clean sm ell of fuel, and that vibration that says you are “R eally F ly in g .” RACH­E L got her instrum ent rating and al­m ost im m ediately look off, v ia free­w ay, for a cam ping trip, returning with a sunburn, a cold, and ten extra pounds.

Hope every one of you are likew ise enjoying various vacations.

JEAN IVANO'FF w as hostess to the Los Angeles Chapter’s August m eet­ing a t her hom e in Torrance. It w as a beautiful day for sw im m ing, sunning, barbecuing, and catching up on per­sonal news, after which VIVIAN (Keo- keolani) THOMPSON entertained gen­erously with island dances.

“Nine-Nines P lu s One at the Cen­tury” is getting off the ground. The Los Angeles Chapter is presenting a gala star-studded even ing on Satur­day, D ecem ber 3, !at the Century P laza Hotel, Century City, proceeds to go to the A m elia E arhart Scholar­ship Fund, and to UNICEF. Ticket inform ation for th is dinner, with en­tertainm ent by Hollywood celebrities, m ay be obtained from LYNN O PPER, VE 9-3797.

DRU and BOB B E N E F IE L have been busy every weekend putting tim e on their new ly com pleted home-built Tailwind, in preparation for licensing. ANN and MAURY LODWIG have been fly ing locally, plus a trip with SALLY LA FORGE by Comanche to Santa M aria, then v ia San Simeon and Cal­ifornia V alley to hotter than hot N ew Cuyam a (a recom m endation of un­identified form er friend). LYNN and BOB O PPE R flew to Salt Lake City in tim e to 'hear choir practice at the Mormon Tabernacle, a wonderful ex-

perienee; also to Seattle, Eugene, San F rancisco and Yellowstone. BEULAH and BILL KEE have been busy with the fly ing activ ities of the Icarian Club. REBECCA HELD has been bring­ing us new friends and prospective m em bers a s w ell a s putting consid­erable tim e in the a ir locally.

N O RTH ARIZONA C H A PT E R Ruth Sm ith , R eporter

Our July m eeting w as a breakfast at F lagstaff M unicipal Airport Cafe. Six 99s w ere in attendance. We had as guests, SHIRLEY MARSHALL and LEE, RUTH RAM AGE of Phoenix and LOIS WARD brought her granddaugh­ter, VIRGINIA.

The m eeting w as devoted alm ost exclusively to discussion of our air lift. Those who have done th is know that there are a thousand details to be worked out. We decided to charge 2c-a-pound and c a l l it “Pennies-a- Pound” . The date of Septem ber 25th is fast approaching, and w e need the help and support of all in our Chap­ter.

I don’t know of too m any flying ac­tiv ities lately. M A R Y ELLEN and W ARREN flew back to Nebraska to get daughter LORI, who had been visiting her aunt for 7 weeks. Too long, sa y s MARY ELLEN. She flew the first leg to Tucum cari, then let WAR­REN fly. The a ir got very rough so they landed at Dodge City. MARY ELLEN recom m ends that place quite highly, line boys to greet you and a courtesy car. They landed at Grand Island because of showers. They were greeted by a lady in a red dress who rolled out a red carpet for MARY to w alk on. She said it m ade her feel like a Queen instead of a wilted lady pilot. From there, on to their final destination of W ayne, Neb. On the w ay back, they w ere held up in Oma­ha for 2 days because of weather. F inally m ade it home. Quite a won­derful experience all in all.

As I write this, BETH is in the hos­pital recovering from surgery. She is doing quite well, I understand, and m ay be allowed to com e hom e today. We all wish her a speedy and com ­plete recovery.

One Sunday last month, the four of us flew to P ipe Springs National Monu­ment. We w ere to m eet another couple there for a picnic. They flew by way of P age and Rainbow Bridge. As we w ere on final, they w ere turning down­wind, pretty good tim ing. For any

who are interested, this is a nice place to fly. An em ployee m et us at the airstrip (which is good), took us to the picnic grounds. These are love­ly — trees, tab les and grills and wood to cook with. The Old Mormon Fort is within ea sy walking distance . . . we took the tour of this fort, very interesting.

I ’m sure there m ust be m ore to write about, but I ’v e been a little lax a b o u t contacting m em bers to catch up on what they have been doing. H ave enjoyed being 'our Chap­ter’s reporter this past year. I en­joy 99s so very much, anyway, and look forward to our monthly get to- gethers.

O R A N G E C O U N T Y C H A P T E R Ami C antillon , R eporter

The G reatest Southwest 'Sectional E v er!!!!

Upon your arrival at Orange County Airport, you w ill be whisked to the Newporter Inn in Newport B e a c h where your headquarters for fun will await you on Septem ber 23, 24 and 25. Don’t sit a t hom e aw aiting the new s of activities from your Chapter m em ­bers. Join them.

Enjoy sw im m ing in the beautiful Pacific, or a lovely sw im m ing pool is available for those who don’t care for w iggling their toes in the sand.

A large boat is aw aiting your com ­mand to “ toot” you around the bay of Newport, or a quick nine holes of golf 'if you prefer.

Cocktails in the Villa on Friday evening am id the awarding of prizes for those expert 49% er racers, fol­lowed by a Buffet Dinner,

Awake to the sound of the ocean w aves breaking on the s h o r e , the aroma of fresh coffee and a Continen­tal breakfast is yours in the coffee shop.

N ext for the casual, a Fashion Show and Luau luncheon around the pool while you drench yourself in our warm California sun.

Saturday evening dine in the eleg­ance of the Em pire Room with its plush Red Carpet and Crystal Chande­liers. Later, dancing under the stars for the moonlighters.

Your accom odations w ill be in the secluded French Court where you can call across the court yard to your friends.

A hospitality suite will be available throughout your stay with goodies and surprises for everyone, be sure to check.

The Orange County Chapter is de­lighted to be your hostess and we aim to p lease. P ack your bags, w e’re await­ing your arrival.

R em em ber Septem ber 23, 24 and 25.

Welcomeand

Congratulationsto our new

Falomar

Chapter

PA LO M A R C H A P T E R .Mary M . M oons, R eporter

G reetings from one of your newest Chapters. We held our Charter in­stallation dinner on August 13 and had a very nice turnout. Over 100 m em bers and guests w e r e there. ALICE ROBERTS, the International President, and PAT LAMBART, South­w est Governor, flew over from Phoen­ix to be our honored guests. We were sponsored by the San D iego Chapter who presented us with nam e buttons, and our gold 99 pin. The E l Cajon Chapter also attended and presented us with a guest book which all of our visitors signed. M ost of the Grange Coun'ty Chapter w ere there too, and g uests from as far aw ay as San F ran­cisco, L as V egas and Phoenix flew in.

The husbands “top the p ledge” en- m asse and w ere inducted as 4!)t ie r s by TOM JOHNSON from Las V egas in a hilarious cerem ony.

Our m em bers are m ainly from the com m unities in North San D iego coun­ty. Our nam e of Palom ar Chapter w as chosen to help identify our area, since we thought m ost people have heard of Palom ar Observatory.

We feel very honored to becom e a part of your organization and hope to participate in m any of your activ i­ties. MARY PEARSON, our Chapter Chairman, and NELL CONNOLLY w ere in the Powder Puff Derby this year and TERRI POER and PAM VAN D E R LINDEN entered the F a l­lon Fun Race.

These are our Charter M embers: NELDA C. CONNOLLY, JEAN E . CO­

PUS, STELLA T. HESSE, DORIS J. JANISZ, RUTH M. K NIEFEL, ELI­ZABETH (BECKY) A. GLEASON, MARY M. MOONS, HILDEGARD PET- TROSS, NANCY J. (TERRI) POER, MARY PEARSON, PAMELA M. VAN D E R LINDEN, WILMA R. VIOLET and ESTHER A. WHITT.

We have several dther fledglings in our area who we hope will join our group a s soon a s they qualify for their private pilot’s license.

We are looking forward to enjoy­ing both the fun and the work in be­ing a m em ber of the 99s.

SAN D IE G O C H A PT E R Ruth E b e y , R ep orter

E ven though it w as the 13th of Au­gust and there were just 13 m em bers, the Ninety-Nines in the newly formed Palom ar Chapter felt very lucky to be receiving their Charter.

120 Ninety-Nines, 49% ers and guests sat down at tables decorated with tangerine-laden branches for the ban­quet held at M arty’s Restaurant in Oceanside. BETTY WHARTON, who as M em bership Chairman of the sponsor­ing Chapter, has done all the liaison work with the new chapter, did a tre­m endous job as m aster of cerem onies. F irst to be introduced w as ALICE ROBERTS, International President, who acquainted the guests with back­ground on the Ninety-Nines and in­troduced in turn PAT LAMBART, Southwest Section Governor. PAT first presented the Charter to Chairman MARY PEARSON and then the 99 pins and letters of w elcom e to each m em ­ber of Palom ar Chapter.

DOTTIE SANDERS, on behalf of the E l Cajon V alley Chapter, presented the new Chapter with a beautiful guest book, the cover of which had been im ­printed with the 99 com pass rose em ­blem and “P alom ar Chapter” in gold.

E ach m em ber of the new Chapter received a perm anent nam e button, given by the San D iego Chapter, pre­sented by Vice-Chairman RUTH E B ­EY, standing in for Chairman STEL­LA HARDIN who w as unable to attend because of recent surgery.

The absolute hit of the evening, how­ever, w as TOM JOHNSON’S (FRAN'S 49%er from Las V egas) adm inister­ing the 49% er oath to a ll the new 49% ers — left hand raised, they prom­ised to provide their w ives with safe, airworthy planes, baby-sitters, to a t­tribute any dam age incurred when their w ives w ere flying to m aterial failure, etc. — after the 99s had tied

49% er aprons around their husbands. E ach of the 49% ers received a copy of the oath, com plete with appropriate cartoon.

At the head table besides ALICE, PAT, MARY and BETTY there were BOB COZENS, San D iego County Sup­ervisor, Carlsbad MAYOR WILLIAM ATKINSON, O ceanside MAYOR E R ­WIN SKLAR, Palom ar Chapter offi­cers: Vice-Chairman MARY MOONS, Secretary RUTH K NIEFEL, Treasur­er NELL CONNOLLY. The rem aining m em bers are: JEANNE COPUS, BET­SY GLEASON, STELLA HESSE, DOR­IS JANISZ, HILDA PETROSS, TERRI POER, PAM VAN D E R LINDEN, WILMA VIOLET and ESTHER WHITT.

Also present were: the M anagers of Carlsbad, Fallbrook and Palom ar air­ports; Southwest Section Vice-Gov­ernor LOLA RICCI and Secretary MYRTLE WRIGHT; Charter M ember BETTY GILLIES; FRAN JOHNSON, Chairman of Las V egas Chapter; THON GRIFFITH and other m em bers and their guests (total of 18) from Orange County Chapter; two 99s from B ay Cities Chapter. N otes and te le ­gram s w ere received from Ninety- Nine officers who could not attend.

ALICE ROBERTS and PAT LAM- BART received gift boxes of avocados from the new Chapter.

Good luck to a fine young Chapter with whom w e look forward to shar­ing m any activities!

BETTY and CLAUD WHARTON flew in their Cessna 210 to Catalina recent­ly with friends.

MARGARET MOODY, with her two daughters and a neighbor, plans to fly to Solvang v ia Tri-Pacer one week­end in August.

A lm osLm em ber SHELMA MALIN- SKY and her husband plan to fly to Bakersfield and Saugus—also in Au­gust.

TERRY and AL VASQUES plan to take the Apache to Bahia de Los An­ge les in Baja California Labor Day weekend.

SA N F E R N A N D O V A L L E Y C H A PT E R L oreli C angiano, R ep orter

Yesterday we had a Southwest Sec­tional — well, would you believe a Junior Southwest Sectional? We fol­lowed our brave leader LOLA RICCI, Fly-In Chairman, (sorry about that Chief) to a beach party Fly-In at Santa Barbara; and guess who all were there besides our own San Fernando V alley girls!

We w ere so pleased to see JEAN-

NINE CECCIO, form erly one of us and now San Jose, along with MARY SMITH from the Santa Clara V alley Chapter. And from even further north we (had HIALEAH REILICH and GLADYS COBB from the B ay Cities Chapter (not to mention GLADYS' pooch Cindy and a couple of young- ’uns). Not flying in, un less just around the patch, but there to greet us were representatives from Santa Barbara Chapter JOAN STEINBERGER, DOR­OTHY BATTERTON and MARGARET M EAD. We had a ball having lunch from the ham burger stand, visiting, getting tar all over our feet and chil- to the San Fernando V alley m em bers dren, and a few of the braver going in for a dunk. “W e” in this case refers which included NITA LOVELESS, LIBBY SVENSEN, LOLA RICCI, LOR­ELI CANGIANO, MARY JOHNSON, ELLEN TRINDLE, LOIS MAUER, CATHY BLACK, LOIS MILES, EM SANDERS, JEANNE DAY, ANNETTE SEYDEL and friends and relatives and w e thank the Santa Barbara girls for so thoughtfully rolling out this fine stretch of beach even if they did m iss rem oving all the tar when they got it ready. It w as great fun!

That w asn’t all we did this month. We had a Chapter m eeting, too, where we found out that MARY K EM PER and LOIS MILES clim bed the slopes of the just nam ed “Mount A m elia E ar­hart” with m em bers of the Rocket- dyne Climbing Club. For this achieve­m ent they w ere aw arded honorary m em berships and “Y etti” Awards from the clim bers. Seeing a s they had to carry 20 lb. packs and w ear spe­cial boots, they practiced around the house beforehand to get used to their “h eavy” feet. We are very proud of our two pioneers.

Here and there w e note that BER- NADINE BENNING took ROY ROG­E R S for a spin but left Trigger be­hind; EM SANDERS flew hubby on vacation to North Dakota and he hard­ly “side-seat-piloted” at all; FLOR­ENCE DITTMAR and fam ily went fishing in Canada; L I N D A DENS- MORE w as off to the San Juan Islands, ANNETTE SEY DEL to Lake Tahoe, ARDIE TRENHOLM to Salt Lake in a Lear Jet, AUDREY SCHUTTE to Santa Cruz and Catalina, SHIRLEY CLARKE also to Catalina but in a genuine 1929 G ypsy Moth; and JEANNE DAY flew to B ryce, Zion, Canyon- lands, the Cheyenne Rodeo, etc., and arrived hom e only hours before the m eeting.

And finally, but as a lw ays, we wel­com e new m em bers JOY SILBER- KLEIT a:id VIRGINIA WOOD who w ere pinned at this last m eeting.

SAN G A B R IE L V A L L E Y C H A PTER B e tty H um ble, R eporter

As another Powder Puff Derby has becom e history, we are all proud as peacocks of our Chapter’s entrants and their showing in the race this year. VIRGINIA W EGENER and MARILYN NORTON team ed up to fly a Cessna Skylane and placed 22nd in a field of over 80 entries, with a score of 10. Very good indeed girls, w e ’re proud of you.

NORMA WILCOX recently spent 2 w eeks with her m other in Lakeview, Oregon. She brought the Airport Man­ager back with her and flew on to Tucson to pick up a plane. A de'.onr to Fox F ield in Lancaster have them an opportunity to watch the trials for the National Air R aces. They also spent som e tim e in D eer Valley, Ari­zona, to do som e soaring. Congratula­tions a re a lso in order (a little be­latedly) to NORMA for receiving her instructor rating. She is flying for Ginny’s F lying Service (VIRGINIA W EGENER) at Brackett Field.

GINNY and RUSS GRAHAM have returned from an extensive (our of Europe and we hope to have som e details of their trip for a future is­sue BETTY and ARNOLD HUMBLE had a great trip to Yosem ite, Sequoia and San D iego in July, but, unfortu­nately, had to drive and drive — and drive! H owever, they plan a flying trip to Boise, Idaho, in Septem ber and will fly a Super Skym aster.

SHIRLEY and CARL GILMORE have just returned from a breath- takingly beautiful air tour of South­east Alaska with the Sky-Larks — and all their survival equipment w as in­tact and untouched! Anyone for a freeze dried dinner? ISABEL OWEN recently hurdled the instrum ent writ­ten exam and is now plugging for the rating. She is really concentrating as the written is good for only two years! You'll m ake it, ISABEL!

JEAN SUGDEN reports a new Mus­keteer is in their “garage” and they hope to be flying to Jackson Hole soon. W e’re sure there are m any trips on the agenda.

Our new year will be ushered in at our annual Installation Dinner on Sep­tem ber 8th at the Old Hickory Inn in Glendora. W e’re looking forward to a

wonderful program , arranged by JEAN SUGDEN. Hope to see ALL of our Chapter m em bers there.

As this goes to press, we are look­ing forward to our August fly-in m eet­ing a t B ig B ear — Thursday, August 18th. P lanes w ill fly in about 11 a.m . and transportation w ill be waiting. Lunch will be served by hostess SHIR­LEY GILMORE and BETTY HUM­BLE. Later a short business m eeting and entertainm ent. SHIRLEY has spent much of this sum er at their cabin at Big B ear since their return for A las­ka and assu res us that the weather will be beautiful and sunny and a good day to relax am ong the pines. This will g ive everyone a chance to practice their high altitude landings and take­offs. Should be lots of fun — and w e’ll have a report on the activities for a later issue.

Must get th is in the m ail and head for B ig B ear to w elcom e all the 99s and guests for the fly-in. See you next month. Over and out!

SA N JO A Q U IN V A L L E Y C H A P T E R L a v ern e G udgel, R ep orter

This Chapter’s August fly-in lunch­eon m eeting w as held in L as Banos, MARIE McDOWELL acting as hostess, with eight m em bers flying in. After and a w elcom e by the M anager of the Chamber of Com m erce, we gathered at a local restaurant for the busi­ness at hand including the nomina­tions o f Chapter officers. An inter­esting side trip to the site of the San Luis D am project highlighted the day.

Those flying in w ere MARTY GRA­HAM from Antioch, GEORGE ANN GARMS from P alo Alto; ELAINE SMITH, EVELYN JOHNSON and JEAN M URRAY from Stockton; HEL­EN M cGEE from Sonora; LAVERNE GUDGEL, PAULINE CHRISTENSEN and guest MARGARET CHRISTEN­SEN from M erced. Those driving in order to help with ground transporta­tion w ere JEAN ENNE THOMPSON, EV HENDLEY of M odesto and LAURA MAY CRAWFORD from Turlock and MARIE from Gustine.

ELAINE had just returned from a 5500 m ile round robin a ir trip touching down in, to nam e a few , T exas, Kan­sas. So. Dakota, Moritana and Idaho, giving a real test to their new Cessna. GEORGE ANN hast flown her two chil­dren to M issouri returning by follow­ing the Oregon Trail. She reported that the history of the trail is still ev i­denced by the ruts of wagon wheels. The GARMS’ fam ily is departing via

their Cessna 182 to F t. Barrow, A las­ka, traveling the la st 700 m iles by com m ercial m eans.

EVELYN, busy working th is fall in her husband’s law office, has had flights to Van N uys and Fresno in her Cessna Skyhawk. PAULINE act­ed as chauffer in the CHRISTEN­SE N Apache flying LINDA FOREMAN of Gustine, the district D airy Princess, to Hollywood where she becam e the winner of the S ta le Title.

E V and WALT H ENDLEY are trying out their new Skylane by flying to Columbia to v isit their son and daugh- ter-im-law, the honeym ooners. Also enjoying the Mother Lode country of Columbia w as your reporter, LA­VER NE, and 49!'2er BOB, who Deb- onair-ed to the area for the sum m er Fallon House Theatre and dinner.

JE A N E N N E and fam ily spent an exciting vacation in Bend, Ore., at the m ovie location “Way W est” with such stars a s RICHARD WIDMARK and ROBERT MITCHUM.

Renew! Renew! W H O ?

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Sept. 30, 1966

M em bers m aking other local flights th is last month include LAURA MAY with their Bonanza to M onterery, Nut T ree and N apa County; H ELEN with their Cherokee to Novato and W atson­ville; MARTY m et tw o wom en stu­dent pilots at Ukiah for lunch.

The MURRAYS announced that their close-in Stockton airstrip has been newly graveled and ready for use. Word w as also received t h at our Chapter has a new ly instrum ent rated pilot with our new est m em ber, CHAR­LOTTE RYAN. Congratulations, CHARLOTTE!

TUCSO N C H A IT E K M a g g ie S ch ock , R ep orter

My fam ily and I stopped at Palom ar Airport, California, while on our va ca ­tion and heard news of a new 99 chapter. MARY PEARSON w ill be Chairman and there are several new m em bers a s w ell a s transfers from San Diego. MARY was a Charter M em ­ber of our Tucson Chapter, her ability

and knowledge w ill help guide the new group thru the first chaos of organiza­tion.

We assum e LAURA BOHANAN is beating the sagebrush around Needles for enough wom en pilots to form a Chapter there. There should be som e real “hot” prospects in that area this tim e of year. Sorry about that.

The “monsoon season” is upon us here in Tucson and, although it only lasts a few w eeks, everyone either leaves town or hibernates in their air- conditioned cem ent block caves. KEN COOK took daughter SUSAN to Chi­cago for a couple of w eeks and left VIRGINIA hom e without an airplane.

SHIRLEY MARSHALL picked up H E L E N LAWRENCE’S daughter, KARYN, in F lagstaff and flew her and SH IRLEY’S daughter, LEE, to San Carlos, M exico, for a week. Later KARYN w as deposited back home and SHIRLEY m ade a quick trip to Albu­querque.

Our last m eeting at LORRAINE YO­CUM’S brought us a new m em ber. JAN ENGELHART works at F reew ay Airport a s secretary, bookkeeper and general Girl Friday. You w ill also hear her calm , calm voice on 122.8. JAN began flying quite a few years ago w hile in school and had mort of the usual interruptions; college, m ar­riage, children and, finally, a license. Good to have you with us, JAN.

LORRAINE and LEE YOCUM have had to drive back and forth to their m ountain cabin recently a s all that furniture just wouldn’t fit in the Bo­nanza. LORRAINE says the strip at Springerville is lighted now a s w ell as paved; probably still have to call into town for gas, tho.

On Septem ber 8th the YOCUMS take off for Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for the annual m eeting of the Mountain Oyster Club. They are working very hard at putting tim e on that new en­gine so it w ill be w ell broken in for our Penny-A-Pound in October.

BETTY BELLE and CARL INGWER flew their daughter to Guadalajara last w eek for a tennis tournam ent and then took off by car to tour the interior of M exico. They are visiting m any of the p laces inaccessib le by air and bare­ly so by road. There are a few places even the Grand Commander can’t take them .

This weekend is our “Tour” to the Grand Canyon — thunderstorm s per­mitting. VIRGINIA and LUM E D ­WARDS are getting the Cherokee ready for the trip with PAT and JIM

MORSE going as passengers. Or rath­er; LUM and JIM are the passengers, as the g irls insist both m en will ride in ithe rear seat. We w ill have an a c ­count of the trip next month. I should­n ’t say it w ill be a blow-by-blow de­scription, should I?

L ate news! A future 99 has just ar­rived at CAROL and DON EW ING’S. A baby girl born August 12th.

Now everyone is out of the hospital, neck-braces and slings and getting in drape for Penny-A-Pound. D eep knee bends, push-ups and hurdles are the order of the day for the next few weeks. We will probably have sore m uscles anyw ay.

U TAH C H A P T E R l.iic ile C hristopherson , R ep orter

Our July m eeting w as held at the hom e of MARGE MACKEY. A f t e r som e prelim inary business w as talked through MAXINE NIELSON gave a report of the AWTAR race and her dif­ficu lties encountered in K ansas City. Her plane was dam aged by the wind to such an extent that she decided to abort: the race and return hom e after the plane w as repaired. ALBERTA NICHOLSON reported on the conven­tion and the m eeting of m any form er friends.

Our August m eeting will be held this com ing Friday, August 19t:h, at Fillm ore Airport. We plan a Fly-in to Fillm ore in the early m orning hours so that the runway can be air marked before ift becom es too intensely hot.

Activities of various m em bers in our Chapter have taken them to m any places bdth within and outside of our mountain region: MAXINE NIELSON had a trip to Southern California and a side trip into M exico, itself. CARYL KNOWLTON flew to Lake Tahoe, In­cline V illage and Laguna B each, Cali­fornia. VIRGINIA LAVIN reports no fly ing but says she is happy to report that her husband is entirely well and back to work. LOUISE ANDERSON flew to Kalispell and Ennis, Montana. Later this month LOUISE plans a flight to Lompoc to see her daughter. SUE ELLIS has been busy m oving to her new hom e at 2330 Dallin Street, Salt Lake City. This sum m er she has enjoyed with her fam ily their lovely sum m er hom e on B ear Lake. JANE ANDREASON has started to work at Continental Motors in Salt Lake and although she thinks it is tem porary the grapevine indicates it will be full tim e. SALLY WELLS is helping her husband at the Cedar City Airport

during their rush of business of Fire Patrol F lying for the Forest Service and charter work a s well. LILA FIEL- DEN enjoyed a wonderful trip to Alaska and the Northwest.

LOUISE MORRISON has staying at her hom e, for the nexit year, a lovely new daughter from N ew Zealand, GLENDA HEY, age 17. GLENDA is here for a year to attend our schools on a scholarship. LOUISE, along with her new responsibilities, is working hard to obtain sufficient hours to m eet the dem ands for both her com m ercial and instructor ratings.

The AOPA Sem inar, held at Salt Lake City during the first part o f Au­gust w as very successful. Several of our Utah Chapter m em bers partic­ipated each day to m ake th is success possible: LOUISE MORRISON, NANCY REULING, BARBARA BARLOW, CARYL KNOWLTON and LILA FIEL- DEN.

Australian

Section

A U STR A LIA N SEC T IO N M argaret K en tley ,

G overnor, R eporting

Winter is over and Spring is here here again. My desire to flit around, enjoying an eagle's v iew of the beau­ties of Nature, while coping with tim e, distance and altitude, surges into an overwhelm ing force and this year gives prom ise of som e interesting fly­ing.

The Annual M eeting of the Australian Section was held in Melbourne in the Autumn and was w ell attended. Last y ea r’s Office-bearers w ere re-elected for a second term , and several new m em bers were welcom ed.

We are again very proud of ROS M ERRIFIELD, who has been awarded the B ritish JEAN LENNOX BIRD TROPHY for 1966, for her three P a ­cific crossings in 1965. Congratulations ROS.

BERYL YOUNG took a party of leading Australian and U.S. E xecu­tives of a M etal R efining Co., on a long IF R Charter F light over large tracts of sparcely populated North Australia. They really enjoyed hav­ing a wom an pilot fly them on this

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S p ec ia l M em o fro m K A Y A. BRICK , C hairm an, B oard of D irectors, AW­TA R , Inc.

W e’re prouder than punch of our A u stra lia n N in ety - N in e, N A N C Y B IR D W ALTON, w h o la s t m onth re ­ce iv e d th e M ost E x c e lle n t O rder of the B ritish E m p ire (O .B .E .) from H er M a je sty ’s hands (on th e Q ueen’s b irth d ay) a t B uck in gh am P a la c e . It w a s aw a rd ed for N A N C Y ’S “ se r v ic e s to th e co m m u n ity p a rticu la r ly for the F a r W est C hildren’s H ealth S ch em e” (o rg a n iza tio n ).

N A N C Y h a s been m iss in g no oppor­tu n ities to v is it w ith N in ety -N in es on th is w orld c ircu it, co n v ey in g to them th e sp ir it o f w h at b e in g a N inety- N in e m ea n s.

F o r th e p a st th r e e y e a r s sh e h as b een w ork ing industriously to ra ise m o n ey to “ put w in g s on the a m b u l­a n c e se r v ic e in N ew South W ales” . P a tie n ts n eed in g sp ec ia lize d tr e a t­m en t ca n b e flow n com fo rta b ly to ap p rop riate h osp ita ls .

N A N C Y ’S au tob iograp h y, “ Born to F ly ” , published in 1961, en terta in in g ly d e sc r ib e s p ilo tin g in th e A u stra lian ou tb ack w hich d e se r v e s our resp ec t.

extensive IFR journey.F iv e of our m em ber are still roam ­

ing the World — NANCY WALTON went to England and was presented with the honour of the Order of The British E m pire — OBE — for her serv ices to Aviation, by The Queen, at Buckingham P alace. NANCY has in- auguarted an APPRECIATION FUND FOR SHEILA SCOTT, to help her keep G-ATOY. All donations, of any

RH O N D A STEW A R T, A u stra lian S ec . tion, v is it in g M em b er-a t-L arge JA C ­Q U E L IN E CO USIN in B r u sse ls , B e l­g iu m , Ju ly Iftfifi.

size, w ill be w elcom e and can be sent to the “Sheila Scott Appreciation Fund,” c /o N ational Bank of Australia, 11a Albem arle, London W .I., U.K.,where they will be collected and a c­counted for by FLORENCE BAR- WOOD, who for over 30 years w as the m ainstay of the R oyal Aeronautical Society in London and w as such a good friend to overseas wom en pilots visiting G.B.

NANCY LEEBOLD is on a two month business trip to USA and LIN BUTLER and RHONDA STEWART have just com e hom e through the States. In Belgium , RHONDA had a wonderful tim e visiting 99 M ember-at- Large, JAC COUSIN, in B russels. RHONA FRASER of N ew Zealand, is on an extended v isit to U.K. also.

Several of our wom en pilots are recovering from the shock of either passing or failing som e or all the re­cent Com m ercial L icense Theory E x ­am s. One paper had a pass rate of about 4%! ROSEMARY ARNOLD w as one of the lucky ones to pass this par­ticular paper, it w as a beaut! ROSE­MARY recently took the salute at the Australian Air League annual JEAN BATTEN WINGS PARADE and m ade a fine speech. Since her highly suc­cessful and very am using address to the Institute of Navigation at their annual Ladies Night, R osem ary is in great demand.

The following dates are worth re-

September, 1966

m em bering: THE NATIONAL AIRSHOW, 10th and llfih Septem ber,

ADELAIDE, S.A. This show will cover c iv il and m ilitary flying and the prom oters are out to rival Farn- borough!

A Fly-in to JILL M acKINNON’S sheep property on the w ay to or from the Air Show. Casterton Victoria, is not far from S.A.

The R oyal Federation of Aero Clubs annual Aerobatic Competitions, at Rutherford, N.S.W. M id-September.

The opening of the new Club House for the Canberra Aero Club, by His E xcellency, LORD CASEY, 24th No­vem ber. What a party this prom ises to be!

Cherrio.

E D NOTE: The following letter was received at H eadquarters. It is being printed as general interest to all m em ­bers.“ Dear Ninety-Nines:

“ I have just been reading your Nine­ty-Nine News, April 1966 and March 1966, and find them so interesting and inform ative that I just had to write to

Don 't Be

A Drop - Out !

R E N E W !

you. B eing a flying m em ber of the Rotorua Aero-Club, in N ew Zealand, I naturally find and m ake tim e to read tand learn all I can about flying. We in Rotorua Aero-Club have a sm all number of wom en pilots, six of us, a num ber which w e hope w ill increase rapidly.

“ F lying in "Little N ew Zealand” is progressing, and m any Aero-Clubs and F lying Schools are promoting “Learn to F ly ” schem es, we hope this w ill en­courage the fem ale m em bers of our com m unity.

“We have the greatest of adm ira­tion for all you “99ers” , and I would very m uch like to keep up a regular correspondence.

“Happy flying from your New Zea­land friends.

Yours Sincerely,GAEL HESKETH (M iss) c /o Capolani Salon Tutanekai St.,Rotorua, New Zealand

July 28, 1966

B R IT IS H

S E C T IO N

J a n et F erg u so n , R eporter

W e’re all trem endously disappoint­ed that the N inety - N ines visit to England has had to be cancelled. We w ere looking forward to m eeting you all and showing you around, a n d SHEILA had organized a wonderful program . However, we, 11 be keep­ing our fingers crossed that m aybe i t ’ll com e off next year.

I am writing this on the day of the K ings Cup Air R ace — the final of the National Air R aces — and I shall have1 to dispatch m y report before hearing the final placings of 'the three entrants from our Section: SHEILA SCOTT, MARGO McKELLAR a n d CHRISTINE HUGHES. I can, how­ever, report on the second round of the National Air R aces and the Nine­ty - N ines Trophy race, both of which took place on August 6th a't Middle­ton - St. George in the North - E ast of England. There w ere 30 entries in the. Nationals, which involved three laps of a 93-mile course. On the final lap, a lone aircraft cam e in'to view way out in front of the rest of the mob. G reat excitem ent am ong the watching Ninety-Nines when w e saw that it was SHEILA in her Round-the-World Co­m anche streaking toward the finish line. A spectacu lar victory and a thril­ling m om ent for all of us — not the least SHEILA! CHRISTINE, flying a de H avilland Chipmunk accurately and efficiently, took 5th place; but un­fortunately MARGO’S Tiger Moth was handicapped out of the top c la ss in spite of her usual im peccable flying.

There w ere 8 entrants for the N ine­t y - N in e ’s Trophy. SHEILA, CHRIS­TINE and MARGO w ere joined by ANNELIESE PINTO, M ember - at - L arge from Portugal; THEA ADAMS, DAPHNE POYNTER, DELFHINE GRAY-FISK and m yself with BETTY CONES a s co-pilot. PAMELA HUNT- LY had entered but had trouble with her Com anche in France and could­n ’t m ake it — w e all m issed her. DAWN TURLEY w as on hand but not racing — she w as there to cheer on 49%er ALAN in the Nationals. SHE­ILA wias severly re-handicapped after her su ccess in the previous race but, in spite of this, she again won con­

vincingly in her Comanche. Second was Delphine Gray - F isk and third, C H R I S T I N E HUGHES. Very many congratulations to them from the rest of us, especially to SHEILA for Iher wonderful double win. ALAN FREAKES of Champion Sparking Plug presented 'the Champion Trophy to SHELIA and the cash prizes for 2nd and 3rd places, a s w ell a s the prize for best foreign entrant — which ANNELIESE won, needless to say! We w ere so pleased to see ANNE­LIESE iagain and glad that she spent her vaction visiting us and doing som e flying over here. She flew, and raced, one of 'the Tiger Club’s Turbulents (the tiny single-seater 45 H P plane) by courtesy of our good friend NORMAN JONES, Chairman of the fam ous Tiger Club. ANNELIESE had a long cold trip up to Middleton, but found her way successfully, in poor weather con­ditions, in spite of very unfam iliar territory — not a bit like Portugal, she tells us!

E xciting news from THEA ADAMS. Firstly, she has passed her Am eri­can Com m ercial written with an exce l­lent result. Very m any congratulatons, THEA, and good luck with the flying side of it. Secondly, she now has her own aircraft — a 3-place Auster, which her father bought her. THEA flew this in the Ninety-Nines Trophy — her first air race — and w e wish her m any hap­py hours of flying in it.

SHEILA will be heading Stateside shortly. She’s attending the AOPA Plantation Party in her “official ca­pacity” as round-the-world record- breaker, so look out for her all you party-goers!

REW ENGLAND" SECTION

E A S T E R N NEW E N G L A N D C H A PT E R lA>is A u ch terlon ie, R ep orter

Chapter reports have been m issing —not because the m em bers have not been hustling and bustling — but be­cause 'this reporter had too m any deadlines at the sam e tim es. Hope to bring us up to dale and keep cur­rent.

New officers for 1966-67 are Chair­man, FRANCES PORTER; Vice-Chair­man, MILLIE DOREMUS; Secretary, GERTRUDE McGRATH; and Treas­urer, DOROTHY PULIS. E lection w as

R ep ain tin g th e L a w ren ce, M a ss., a ir m a rk er a re E a ste rn N ew E n glan d C hapter C hairm an F R A N P O R T E R (sta n d in g ), w h ite ja ck e t) su p erv is in g , w ith M I LITE D O R E M U S and P A T JO N E S. P a in tin g a r e M A R G A R E T M cF A R L IN , G E R T M cG R A T H , NO NA G U ST A FSO N , LOIS A U C H T E R L O N IE , R IP L E Y M ILLER and CIIRIS SE A V E R .

held during the August m eeting at Katam a, M artha’s Vineyard, When 20 m em bers and guests enjoyed the beau­tiful day at the beach — after a week of fog. FRAN and STEVE PORTER were on hand with transportation.

W elcome aboard to DOROTHY AN­DERSON, PAMELA BUGG and AN­NE PRINGLE who w ere ‘pinned’ by Chairman FRAN PORTER a t the June m eeting, and a lso to RUTH CROWELL, MARCIA NELSON and BETTE VIGNERON, who will have received their pins before this appears in print. M em bership Chairman PAT JONES deserves a gold star!

The 1.966 AWNEAR al Burlington, Vt., in M ay w as m ost successfu l — win­ner MARGARET DAVIDSON and EV­ELYN MURCH of Connecticut (Ces­sna 205); second place ELLIE Mc- CULLOUGH, New York (Cessna 150); third, ISABEL BLODGETT1 and MARIE SEAVER, E N E (Cessna 172), fourth, ALLEGRA OSBORNE and LOIS WAR- TMAN, E N E (Cessna Skylark), and fifth, MINA ELSCHNER and SELMA CRONAN, NY, (Cessna 150). R ace day w as beautiful altho impound day was m arginal in spots—som e entries could not m ake it, but 13 planes were a t takeoff. We enjoyed JERR IE MOCK’S report o!f her round-world flight at the Awards Dinner.

M ay m eeting w as held at Lawrence, after which 99s repainted the airport air m arker. June m eeting was a fly-in to Sterling Airport (new paved strip) and lunch at G reenm eadow Lodge, 20 m em bers and guests arrived on that windy day. Was good to see LOR­RAINE MELICAN looking pert and fully recuperated and MARIE LE- PORE, who has set her ETA for full­tim e leisure in Septem ber. She plans to devote m ore tim e to things she enjoys doing — like painting. One of her paintings is being shown at the W orcester G allery.

July m eeting w as held at New Bed­ford, when 18 m em bers and prospects enjoyed film s on D ensity Altitude and the ‘AOPA 180 Course” , arranged by the FAA Tower personnel. Due to projector problem s, RIPLEY MIL­L E R ’S AWNEAR film s will be seen later.

PAT JONES, with JEANNE BEN­NETT (NN E) a s co-pilot, flew her new Cessna 206 to Seattle for AWTAR start; unfortunately weather plagued them all the way and they were un­able to m ake an extended impound deadline. H owever, the g irls flew to Clearwater anyw ay for the experience and thoroughly enjoyed all the activ­ities. PAT figures she and JEANNE are both w iser pilots for m aking the

trip — and anyone who has flown coastJto-coast tw ice will ag ree that it can be quite an education. LOIS WART- MAN w as at (he AWTAR Term inus as official tim er.

MILLIE DOREMUS, Air m arking Chairman, arranged to repaint the Ninety-Nines w ere m et by COL. Mc- CLURE who helped im m easurably with paint stirring, transportation, etc. P er­haps this a ir m arker will clear som e oi the confusion of civilian pilots who try to land at W estover AFB (nearby) when they are looking for W estfield — (if you can’t see the yellow' air m ark­er — ’tis the wrong field ). ANNE PRINGLE, MARGARET McFARLIN,

PAT JUNES, MILLIE DOREMUS, PAM BUGG and LOIS AUCHTER- LONIE sloshed paint and oggled the Air N at’l. Guard F-84’s m aking for­m ation takeoffs. Rough pastim e.

DOROTHY TULLER, our reading specialist teacher and air education gal, is m oving to California. We will m iss DOROTHY, who in 11 months acquired a private, com m ercial, and Instrument rating, in addition to the busiest schedule im aginable. B ay Ci­ties is 'the lucky Chapter to gain on this m ove.

FLASH from Northern NE Chapter — ALMA GALLAGHER is in Italy honeym ooning with hubby LAWRENCE

J. SMITH — m anaging editor of La­conia Citizen newspaper. Our very best w ishes for a most happy flight of m arriage!

For a vacation trip, ANNE PRING­LE and 49%er ANDREW (USAF pilot ) flew their Stinson Station Wagon to California and return. ANNE reports a m ost interesting trip and som e new ‘routes’ on their return! ANNE re­ports a m ost interesting trip and som e new ‘routes” on their return. PAM BUGG, husband and children flew a Cessna 172 to Colorado—carrying tooth brushes and shipping luggage. Great idea — except were weathered in in Missouri with only toothbrushes!

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NORTH CENTRAL SECTION

COMPTON, M arjorie E leanor (Mrs. Russell L.)2693 Chester Road Columbus, Ohio 43221 486-7591 All-OhioWOOD, K athleen (Mrs. Jean)RR No. 4, Sullivan. IllinoisBruce 16 on 2 C entral 111.

BRAUCH, N orm a Jean (Mrs. Daniel G.) 3233 St. Joachim , St. Ann, Missouri HA 9-4826 G tr. St. LouisETTER, N orm a Lee (M rs. W illiam R.)8113-A, ColoradoW urtsm ith AFB, Mich. 48753739-8911 M ichiganBRUNDAGE, D arlene E. (M rs. R ichard) 542 Chatham Court, Nennah, Wisconsin772-1391 . WisconsinOLSON, Bor'ghild Linde vig (Mrs. Arnold L.)2609 H ackberry Lane, LaCrosse, Wisconsin 784-0642 WisconsinPAULSEN, Dorothy216 Spring Street, Chilton, Wis. 53014 849-4916 Wisconsin

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TAP’LEY, Sophia Philen (M rs. Byron D.)3100 P e rry La., Austin T exas 78731GL 3-6070 AustinWRAY. Helen H eath (M rs. Chas. W.)441 M onrovia S treet Shreveport, La. 71106835-8200 Shreveprot

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KIPPENHAN, C atherine Josephine (Mrs. L ester A.)2304 M cKinley Ave.Spenard, Alaska 99503 277-6147 A laskaSWARTZ, M arjorie G arvin (Mrs. W arren E.)211 Benton, M issoula, M ontana 59801 549-2483 M ontanaWYMAN, K aren (Mrs. M ax H.)1500-42 P E ast. Seattle, Wash. 98102 EAST 3-5369 W estern Wash.

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MALINSKI, Chelm a Ivalene (Mrs. Le Roy)2522 Calle G aviotaSan Diego, Calif. 92114477-4558 San DiegoHUTCHINSON, F lo ra M.(Mrs. Donald W.)14214 Hor’tense St.Sherm an Oaks, Calif. 91403 788-6287 San Fernando ValleyMALBY, Vesta Werden (M rs. Donald F.)7686 M ulholland Drive Los Angeles, Calif. 90046 876-6983 San Fernando ValleyNEALON, Irene M arie (Mrs. Ivan)364 D arrell Rd.Hillsborough, Calif 94010DI 2-0956 San Joaquin ValleySMITH, M ary E sth e r (Mrs. W arren O., Jr.)1690 Hood CourtSan ta Clara, Calif. 95051296-2434 Santa C lara ValleyENGELHART, Jan ice Elaine(Mrs. H arry C.)6400 S. Kolb Rd.Tucson, Arizona 85710294-2235 Tucson

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SOUTHEAST SEC TIONLONG, M arjorie Reynolds (M rs. Jam es E.)114 No. Osceola Drive Indian H arbour Beach, Fla.773-1509 Fla. Space Port

NORTH CENTRAL SECTION KNAPP, B arb ara Ann (Mrs. E vere tt E.)Rd. No. 3, Box 11 Chard on. Ohio -.4024285-3193 All-Ohio

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