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Vol. II I J AN UA RY 1 96 7

NANCY BATSON CREWS has earned her flight instructor's rat-ing and is teaching at Rose Aviation (JEAN PARKER ROSE,43-7) ;it Hawthorne Airport, Los Angeles, California.NANCY CREWS-JEAN PARKER ROSE Team placed 6th inthe International Air Race in 1966.

ADELE SCHARR was given a pendant charm, in the shape of the St. Louis Arch, at a meeting recently honoring herearly flying days and continued participation in aviation.

BETTY GILUES has had a busy ye ar actively engaged in Calif-fornia politics. She still flies their Beech Baron, and is nowon a trip to Chile, South America. Betty and Allison haveseven grandchildren; three in Rome, Italy and four "downthe road apiece".

WAFS Secretary - Mrs. Adele Scharr12985 Old Jamestown RoadFlorissant, Missouri 63033

RUTH ANN RUECKERT has a most rewarding hobby. Since1954, RUTH has been a certified volunteer braille tran-scriber and a member of the Golden Gate Braille Tran-scribers Inc. They supply text books to blind students fromfirst grade to junior high school. Transcribing braille takesmany hours - one text book sometimes transcribes into 25volumes of braille. RUTH's husband, Fred, is in the auto-mobile business. They have one daughter, Marsha, astudent at Sacramento State College. From their San Fran-cisco home they can see Farralone Islands and traffic onland, sea and in the air. Fred loves to hunt, and RUTHloves to cook wild game. May 14, 1966 RUTH was pre-sent at San Francisco International Airport to bid farewellto "old" Mills Field. Her first instructor, Marshall George,stated at the cermonies that RUTH Marshall (at that time)was his first I!irl student.

43-4Secretary - MRS. FAITH BUCHNER RICHARDS

7703 CailletDallas, Texas 75209

43-1Secretary - MRS. DOTTIE YOUNG

6512 N. W. 20th DriveBethany, Oklahoma 73008

MARJORIE M. GRAY is an active member of the Ninety-nines. In 1957, MARJORIE was the recipient of the HayTrophy.

EVELYNS. GREENBLATT is employed with Flightways, Inc.at Atlanta, Georgia.

MAJOR ANN R. JOHNSON has recently been transferred toHawaii. ANN is anxious to contact the WASPs who are stillon active duty in military service.

43-2Secretary - MRS. MARION SCHORR BETZLER

3190 Dale AvenueColumbus, Ohio 43212

MARION SCHORR BETZLERis instructing at Lane Aviation,Columbus, Ohio along with being chairman of the Ohio

.99 Chapter and housewife. She and her husband, Chuck,have purchased a Comanche 250.

43-3S!;cretary - MRS. ESTHER POOLEBERNER

1057 W. 58th StreetIndianapolis, Indiana 46220

BETTY ARCHIBALD has just become MRS. RICHARDFERNANDES. Dick is executive pilot for Bowles SealfastCorp. at Indianapolis, Indiana and Betty is in TrafficControl Tov,:er at Wier Cook Municipal.

FLASH! November 23, 1966, DORA DOUGHERTY I:;LesterStrothers were married. Les is editor-publisher of theTexas-Metro Magazine and DORA is on the staff. (Seefeature article on Whirly-Girls).

MARY BELLESMITH f, DORA DOUGHERTY recognized eachother one day in March 1966. They had not been togethersince they were classmates in the WASPs.

JEANE ROSS HOWARD travels to many conventions promotingthe use of helicopters. Her current project is getting hosp-itals in the U. S. to install heliports for emergency accidentservice. There is a film available (10 minutes) for showingto your local groups. Just write JEAN for details. In addit-ion to her aviation interests, JEAN was elected President of the American Newspaper Women's Club in 1966. A galwho gets things done! (See feature article on Whirly-girls)

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MRS. MADGE RUTHERFORD MINTON4840 E. 77th St., Indianapolis, Indiana 46220

EDNA PEDLARBISHOP has just graduated from the Universityof Southern Miss'issippi and is teaching in Hattiesburg, Miss.E~NA was found by MARION SCHORR BETZLER(43-2)thIS summer when MARION was flying the InternationalAir Race (IAR).

DOROTHEA G. SCHULTZ is back in USA and teaching in SanDiego, California. In September DOTTIE f, RUTH GAMBERd:o.ve out to BETTY GILLIEScountry home for a surpriseVISIt. . .

LAURETTA FOY has 5 grand children who live close-by.LAURETTA still has a teen-age son at home who likes tofly as much as his mother. (See Whirly-Girl article.)

NATAUE ELLISFAHY returned to the States in August, 1966from Buenos Aires, Argentina, long enough to enroll theirtwins, Charles at N. Georgia State Military Inst. andLiz at the University of Georgia. NATALIE's husband,Bert, is a retired Colonel USAF who is presently with apetro-chemical company in Argentina. The FAHY's havean older son, Albert III, who is a cadet at the Air Force .Academy in Colorado. Their youngest daughter, Stephanie,is ten years old. Most of Bert's military life has been spentin South America, hence, the family is bilingual. Theywill be very happy to greet any WASPstraveling to Buenos _Aires soon. NATALIE is actively engaged in the schoolsand has served on the school board. She also enjoys golf and fishing.

ANNE HOWELLWATSON and her husband, Lt. Col. Cody U.Watson, USAF Ret. are back in Thomson, Georgia.

INEZ WOODWARD WOODS is teaching social studies and journalism at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles. Herdaughter, Barbara Anne, is the namesake of 43-4 BARBARAWARD LAZARSKY. Prior to moving to California and beingmarried, INEZ was an executive pilot for a steel companyand public relations manager for the Sheaffer Pen Company.

VIRGINIA MALANY MELONEYwas LOUISEBOWDEN's room-mate at Romulas, Michigan at the time of LOUISE's spec-tacular parachute to safety. VIRGINIA had lost contactwith LOUISEuntil the arrival of the 1965 Newsletter.

VIRGINIA HILL WOOD f, CELIA HUNTER are obviously busyyear-round. Their newsy "The Tundra Telegram" whicharrives annually describes their hectic summer season orga-nizing expeditions for their regular guests and some unex-

pected arrivals.

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However, their off-season panics are justas arduous; such as repairing bear damage whose vandalismis appalling, filling in washouts, tedious drives though fogand darkness, messages carried via garbage truck drivers,plus settling down to at last putting the finishing touches onthe "Telegram" only to be delayed shoveling out from un-der a 2-foot snowfall. Their motto at Camp Denali is: "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs- then obviously you don 't understand the situation! " Quote:"We realize that Camp Denali is an anachromism in thisage. It has been built and operates without a governmentsubsidy or large sums of borrowed capital. Its success isn'tmeasured in terms of growth and expansion, or profits andvolume of business only. Camp Denali's existence is jus-tified by the hundreds of guests (1500 in 1965) who havethis to be the highlight of their Alaskan Visit. No matterwhat the future portends .. 'Don't let it be forgot, thatonce there was a spot, for one brief, shining, moment .. '''.

43-5Secretary - Mrs. MARGARET RAY RINGENBERG

9902 Hosler RoadGrabill, Indiana 46741

ANNEM. SHIELDS OF Philadelphia, Pa. is an Air TrafficControl Specialist at North Philadelphia Airport, whichmeans ANNE works in the Flight Service Station. She isactive in the 99's and especially interested in entering intothe racing phase of flying. She placed 12th in the lAR fly-ing a Cherokee 180.

JILL McCORMICK has purchased a Beech Bonanza with 5 others.Jill says her Bonanza is a honey - it has "66" wings. (Whocouldn't fly with 66 wings?) JILL'was Chairman of the1966 Fair Ladies Annual Indiana Race (FAIR). (SeeACADEMIC FLYING Article). __ ._ ---'~.~J'

JANE THOMAS' CAMPBELLand her husband ar~ new H.olstein-Friesian breeders and milk producers. TheIr farm 1Slocated65 miles from New York City in Kingston-in-DelawareCounty, N. Y. Since JANE'S occupation is a bit unusualfor a Fifi she is anxious to know if other WASPs are con-nected with dairy farming or breeding. .

HELENPORTER SHEFFERis an instructor at the Montoursv1lleAirport, Montoursville, Pa.

MARIANNE BEARD NUTT is in the control tower at Bethage,Long Island, New York during the wee~ an,d on weekendsuses a light gun at Zahn's Airport, Am1tyv1lle, Long IslandIn 1964, MARIANNE was promoted to Major in the A~r

Reserve. Her most interesting tour of duty was the A1r Re-covery Program. Her chief goal at the present time is toget an instrument rating. Betcha won't forget her addresseither, she's the "only NUTT on Pecan Street".

43-6Secretary - MRS. EliZABETH McGEORGE SULliVAN

Mt. Crest Orchards, Orrtanna, Pennsylvania 17353ANN WALDENCURRIER is not very involved in flying herself

anymore, but is "the hottest hangar flyer in the Eighth AirForce". (ANN flew B-17's in the WASPS). The CURRIERshave been stationed for six years at Griffiss AFB, Rome,New York. Major Phillip Currier is pilot on KC-135 jettankers. ANN and Phillip feel like natives of Rome and oc-casionally get to fly with local aero-club members. (Seeclipping)

43-7Secretary - MISS MARY H. BURKE

2306 McCue, Apt #229Houston, Texas 77027

BETTY J. CLARK of Rifle, Colorado was elected pre.sid~nt of the Colorado Aerial Dusters and Spraying Assoc1atlOn.

ISABELTYNON MARTELLteaches journalism and speed read-ing at Molalla High School, Molalla, Oregon.

43-8Secretary - MRS. LOIS DOBBINAUCHERLONIE

26 Agawam RoadWest Acton, Massachusetts 01780

MAXINE EDMONDSONFLOURNOYfound INSTRUCTOR JAMESP HILL who in turn found INSTRUCTOR KENNETH C.ECKLEY. MAXINE is married to an oil well drilling con-tractor and has three daughters. The live in Alice, Texas.

LOIS DOBBINAUCHTERLONIE is a free-lance technical editorfor various divisions of Raytheon Company. She flies herown Cherokee 180 and is active in the Ninety-Nines.

JANA CRAWFORD EBERLYhasn't flown much since the WASPsuntil recently. JANA and her husband have purchased anold twin-engined Navion. Aside from hassling two smallchildren, her main interest is golf.

DR. BETTY E. CLEMENTS died of cancer June 19, 1965.BETTY was a well-known neurologist and co-founder of the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona.

44-1Secretary - MRS. ALBERTA HUNT NICHOLSON

3450 Cleveland CircleSalt Lake City, Utah 84109

JEANETTE JENKINS happened to see and read BILL TISCHLER'spicture and article in the United Airlines magazine "Main-liner" on a return flight from Oklahoma to her home in'New Philadelphia, Ohio. She had been viSiting WASPsRUTH JONES & IDA CARTER, both, 44-1

MARY A. O'ROURKE and her husband, Col. G. J. O'Rourke,have returned to the States after a tour of duty in Europe.They are now stationed at Robins AFB, Georgia.

MARDO CRANE is currently writing books, Her most recentproject is "Fly-down of the WASP. "

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Secretary - MRS. MARGE GILBERT STEWART55 N. SheridanIndianapolis, Indiana 46219

MARGE NEEDHAMWALKER is instructing flying on weekendsat Mariana, Florida. She has two boys, Joe and JohnMichael.

ANNE BERRY LESINIKOWSKI is librarian at Vineyard Haven,Massachusetts. They ha ve three children.

DORIS ELKINGTON HAMAKER is in Naples, Italy where Co-mmander Hamaker is with NATO. They have three girlsand two boys (twins).

MARGE GILBERT STEWART is taking a course at Indiana Un-iver5ity Extension in Indianapolis, Indiana. MARGE andRay have three children.

MILliE GROSSMAN PLAMERwas married in December, 1964.JEAN MOORE SOARD and her husband, Cliff, operate two

cheese stores. One is located in the Winter Parl

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44-5Secretary - MRS. JEN HILL MOSELY

7532 Chef Menteur Hwy (Space 25)New Orleans, Louisiana 70126

PATRICIA KENWORTHY NUCKOLS started another chain of locating lost Fifis. PAT found BEVERLYBEESEMYER, 44-6,who in turn found DOROTHY AVERY, 43-7.

SANDY SAUNDERS WILLI-SONis doing a lot of flying; ferrying,sales demonstration, student work, pilot checkout, multi-engine instruction (; instrument instruction. This is in ad-dition to her job as office manager at Southern Airways,Orlando, Florida.

JENNIE GOWER WYNNE is selling real estate in Malibu,California for six years, but makes yearly trips back toTennessee. If some lonesome Fifi just happens to be flyingbetween California and Tennessee, call JENNIE. Shewould love the chance to fly with you.

GLORIA HEATH is now consultant to the Cornell-Guggenheim,Aviation Safety Center and is currently developing programsfor improvement of aviation safety with respect to flightinstructors, and a fascinating program called Downed Air-craft Position Locator system.

DOROTHY SWAIN LEWISis teaching at a private school forboys and girls, the Orme Ranch School. Besides being inthe history and art departments, she has at times' instructedfrom the local airstrip in Mayer, Arizona. Her son grad-uated from Orme in June, 1966. During the summer,DOROTHY migrates to Idyllwild, California and teachesart at the USC-Idyllwild Arts Foundation. Some of DOROTHY's Art work was recently published in Book III of Prize Winning Graphics, 1966.

JEANNE "BECKY" McSHEEHY spent 1965 on Sabatical Leave.She no longer flys, but is a Major in the Air Force Reserve.Her home is Coronado, California.

44-6Secretary - MISS JEAN HIXSON

804 Havenwood DriveAkron, Ohio 44313

JOAN MICHAELS LEMLEYis employed in the FAA Academy,Field Training Materials Branch, at Oklahoma City.

MARY RETICH WELLSis back in the United States after three"wonderful" years in Spain. She did some flight instructingover there and is hoping to return to teaching school. thisyear . Her husband, James, is a retired Colonel in the AirForce who is now in the First National Bank in Albuquerque,New Mexico. MARY is anxious to find the "Squirt Squad-ron of 44-6 ": JERRY TRIBBLEVICKERS, ANN WARDENGRIFFITH, BETTY WHITE SHEEHAN, MARY REINEBERGMcDARGH (; MARY WELLS. JERRY is the only "squirt"besides MARY that Fifi Headquarters has been able to find.

BEVERLY BEESEMYERis part owner of an employment agencyin Bever!y Hills and Westwood Village, Los Angeles:Beverly-Cross Agency.

BETTY JANE WILLIAMS was the designer of our Fifi in theclouds (the original emblem was in a circle) which is onthe Newsletter. BETTY was national president of theorder of Fifinella 1946-8. She has been writing, directing

> and producing aerospace films for Lockheed since 1954,currently doing work on vehicles designed to travel at Mach20 - hypersonics. In April, 1966 BETTY made her secondtrip this year to Germany for Lockheed. As President of the Los Angeles Advertising Women, Inc., she toured

Honolulu, Tokyo, Osada (; Kyoto, Japan, Hong Kong, andManila in 1966. This has been her year to travel, youmight say. In 1948, BETTY was commissioned in the U. S.Air Force Reserves. She currently holds the rank of Majoras motion picture producer and also as information officer.

44-7Secretary - MRS. BETTY PETTITT NICHOLAS

125 West 82nd StreetIndianapolis, Indiana 46260

BETTY JO STREFF REED has just earned her multi-enginerating. The Reed's own a Cessna 310K.

BERNICE DANNEFER PINKERTON wrote a note from Rome,Italy. They have been living in Rome and Cairo since1947. Plan to return to the State s in the summer of 1967.Her husband is employed by Trans-World Airlines. Theyhave one son in college.

FRANCES WINTER BROOKINGS and family are living inShreveport, Louisiana. Their oldest daughter has just com-pleted a year on the Van Cliburn Scholarship in Baylor Un-iversity. They have three boys who are very active in bothsports and music.

BETTY PETTITT NICHOLAS has just purchased a Cessna 150to replace their stalwart original Cessna 140. BETTY dis-covered an unused balance of $17. 3~ in the Indiana Chapterof the Order of Fifinella, which became inactive in the1950's. This amount was transferred to our present Orderof Fifinella Account. (Perhaps there are other chapterswith unused bank accounts. )

PEG PARISH GARLANDsent us the sad news confirming the~act that WINNIE L. JONES, 44-7 was killed April, 1946III a crash of a BT 13A in Texas. She was caught in astorm, reportedly. PEG and her husband, Newton, nowlive in Burlington, Vermont where he is an engineer withGeneral Electric Company. They have two teen-age sonsand enjoy sailing, skiing and all that goes with living inVermont. The airport is lovely and inviting to all!

44-8Secretary - MRS. JOAN GOUGH FROST

Rydal RoadRydal, Pennsylvania

GERALDINEFULK CROOK is secretary to the CommandingGeneral at Shaw AFB, South Carolina.

Dr.. MARY W. LAMY is guidance consultant in the PlacerCounty Schools which is a large county between SacramentoCalifornia and Reno, Nevada. The last major flying Maryhas done was the 1949 AWTAR from San Diego and Miami.She would love getting a call from Fifis traveling throughApplegate, California.

44-9Secretary - MRS. BETTY STAGG TURNER

7746 Blue Crystal CourtCincinnati, Ohio 45224

JEAN DOWNEYHARMAN has posed a question which no oneseems to know the answer: "Where do you write for gradetranscripts from WASP training ground school?" JEAN'shusband, John is a retired Navy Commander, and now is asystems analyst for the Southern Pacific Railroad. AllWASPswho were in 44-9 and would like to get togetheragain this year, please call JEAN if you live in the BayCities Area.

VIRGINIA POTTHOFF TRUMBULL and her husband, Fred,work together in his CPA office.

BETTY MARTIN RIDDLE (; MARTY MARTIN WYALL, 44-10,had a chance to visit for a few minutes in October, 1966at the Wagon Wheel Lodge, Rockton, Illinois. It was theirfirst meeting since the 1947 WASP Reunion in Ponca City,Oklahoma.

DOROTHY ESTEP is assistant director of child welfare and at-tendance for 12,000 students in the Sequcia Union HighSchool District, Redwood, California.

VIRGINIA ETHERTON SPEAR (; CLAY SPEAR (an instructor atSweetwater) are living in Bryan, Ohio. CLAY is still fly-ing, and was Mr. Eisenhower's personal pilot several daysin 1965. They have a son, Lewis, who has his degree inlaw and a daughter, Marilyn,in college. VIRGINIA is a

legal secretary.ROBERTA JANE FOHL is teaching in the physical educationdepartment of the Hollywood High School in LosAngeles ..She attended the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo and then con-tinued traveling around the world.

ELAINEHARMON has been sending newsletters yearly to allthe members of Flight #1 since 1944. Her continuous mmethod of keeping in touch has been a great help in find-ing lost Fifis. Many of the Trainees at Sweetwater mayremember ELAINE's husband, Bob. He made regular visits.A sad note from ELAINEstates that Bob had a stroke anddied within a few hours September 9, 1965. ELAINEis inreal estate business in Silver Spring, Maryland. They haveone son, Robby, and daughter, Terry, in Colorado StateUniversity, plus another daughter, Chris.

MARGARET GEEis radiation laboratory technician, and isvery involved in the political issues in California.

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DOROTHY DEANEFERGUSON is a practicing attorney inWashington, D. C., and an officer n the Woman's LifeFounding Association. This is an insurance company shehelped organize.

HELENJOHNSON CANNON is an active member of the Clark County School Board in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her husband,Robert, is Vice-president and general manager of theTropicana Hotel.

PINKY BRIER is flying charter at the Tri-city Airport, SanBernardino, California.

DIXIE DIXONKELLEYexpressed the sentiments of many of BILLTISCHLER's students in the WASPswhen she commen-ted, "he, to me, is the most tremendous instructor in fly-ing. "

44-10Secretary - MRS. SARA PAYNE HAYOEN

22 Stadium RoadMethuen, Massachusetts

MARY CEYANESWAGNER is able to have a choice of air-planes. They have a Cessna 180 and a Cessna 310 in thefamily, and a friend with a fully aerobatic Stearman witha 300 hp Lycoming engine. MARY is also a "ham". Herstation is WN5 NMA and she listens on 7155,60,74,84 (;.95. She probably has numbers constantly in her head wheth-er she flies or yaks.

PETE GIMBLEMcADAMS is a Ham Radio Operator as well asMARY CEYANES WAGNER. PETE located JANICE GREGGWHEATLEY in Bakersfield, California through a ham whohad a telephone book handy.

MAJOR NINA K. MORRISON is stationed in Hawaii along withMAJOR ANN R. JOHNSON, 43-1.

MURIELMORAN is teaching school in Honolulu, Hawaii.LOUISEMAGOON THOKEYcombined a family visit in June,

1966 with a national meeting of the Christian Church inLafayette, Indiana. Her two children, Debbie and Davidvisited cousins in Ypsilanti, Michigan while LOUISEat-tended the conference. The three of them jetted to Det-roite from New Orleans.

SUZETTE VAN DAELLDOUGLASwas found this summer.SUZETTEnow lives in Arlington Heights, Illinois which isnear Chicago.

THELMA HENCH MILLERwas busy this summer instructingher son, Craig, in their Cessna 182 Skylane. He was 16i.nin September, 1966. "T. K." made an uns.cheduled stop In

Fort Wayne, Indiana one stormy afternoon l.nJuly .. It was just time enough to visit and snack at the aIrport wIthMARTY MARTIN WYALL, who is only 5 minutes from thefield. T. K. and her daughter, Mickey, were enroute toLafayette, Indiana.

DOROTHY DAVIS has a friend in the post office at San Fran-cisco. Her mail was forwarded after having moved awayfor over sixteen years.

JANICE GREGGWHEATLEYenjoyed a 44-9 Reunion (she wasa wash-back) in San Franciso early in 1966. Hopes to se~all WASPs passing through Bakersfield which is on the maInroute between northern and southern C llifornia. At leastCALL!

MARY JANE LIND SELLERSis presently interested in gettin?. back into flying, but she hasn't been too far away from It

since dear.tivation. MARY went to Lima, Peru as an em-ployee in the Office of the Air Attache in 1945. While

there she met and rna rried Capt. Coleman Sellers.Thro~gh the years, MARY and f~mily have been.~tationedin Panama, New York, CalifornIa, Japan, Hawall, Colo-rado, and now back in California (Hamilton AFB). Col.Sellers is a jet pilot, and has just retired. MARY JANE hascontinued to be busy as mother to two lovely daughters,selling real estate and fashion modeling. (See. picture)

ETHEL LYTCH MILLERis living with her famIly In ColoradoSprings, Colorado.

DOTTIE NAGEL IRELAND is busy looking up lost WASP con-tacts since her husband, Brick, has retired from the AirForce. They live in Northridge, California, and LIBBYPOWERS is practically her neighbor. DOTTIE has traveledextensively since 1944. Only seven years ago she wasteaching at a private elementary school in Hawaii, andthrough a series of circumstances involving an erupting vo-lcano and a plane flight that didn't return, DOTTIE met

Brick Ireland. Soon they were married. Together, theyhave 4 children; her Chris and his Gina, Betsy and Bill.Several years ago, DOTTIE met CAPT. BOBTAYLOR (nowLt. Col) at a cocktail party in Honolulu, and at anothertime DOTTIE (;.HELENPAINEDAVIS met in Hawaii.HELENis married to a Navy Commander, but Fifi Head-quarters does not have HELEN's address.

BETTY STABLERSHAFERwas the gal who was located byHELENPORTER SHEFFER, 43-5, BETTY in turn, gave FifiHeadquarters DOTTIE NAGELIRELAND's address. Thanksto both of you!

JACQUELINERILEYZERLAUT is now living in Coloma, Mich-igan, and was quite happy to be located by the WASPsagain.Coloma is close to Benton Harbor.

JO BARDSLEYGERMAINE and family are living in a newhouse on the banks of the Tippecanoe River in Leiters Ford,Indiana.

RUTH REES PHILLIPSis gradually returning to civilicationagain by flying to San Antonio for 99 meetings, which i~easy access from her Mexican Ranch.

UNCLASSIFIED

INSTRUCTOR RIGDON EDWARDSis still in Sweetwater,Texas. Golf has replaced flying and his three daughtersare no longer at home. Two are married and the thirdteaching home economics in the Irving High School, Irving,Texas.

E.O. HALLYSTIRES has two addresses: one with MADELAINEALLAIREBENNETT, 43-7, in Tucson, Arizona and the

other with BETTY JANE WILLIAMS, 44-6, in WoodlandHills, California. It was through HALLYthat we receivedthe sad clipping about BETTY CLEMENTS, 43-5.

C. O. OSCAR A. HEINLIEN has moved to Boulder City,Nevada.INSTRUCTOR KENNETH ECKLEYwho had students from 43-5

to 44-2 is now flying both domestic and military runs forUnited Airlines. The military run is to Saigon. After theWASP program, KEN flew the China "Hump", Crop dustedin Alabama and Texas (with INSTRUCTOR PAPPY RYAN)and joined UAL in 1948. He is planning on the 1969 Re-union.

INSTRUCTOR JAMES P. HILLwas found by MAXINEEDMONDSONFLOURNOY, 43-8. He is the InternationalHarvestor Equipment dealer and owner of Hill MachineryCompany, Inc. in Alice, Texas. After instructing atSweetwater the classes 43-W-5 thru 43-W-7, MR. HILL

joined the Ferry Command in Memphis, on to North Africa,and finally "the Hump" in India. Presently, he is in theReserves for the Air Force as -::ommander of the 68th TCSqdn and flying C-119's for the 433 rd Troop Carrier AlamoWing at Kelly AFB, Texas.

INSTRUCTOR WILLIAMTISCHLER in 1966 had two awardsgiven to him by United Airlines. The Flight OperationMan-of-the -Year Award and The Outstanding Contributionsto Flight Operations in 1966 Award. His seniority withUnited has put him on the Boeing 727's, and he hopes tomove into the DC-8's soon. By 1969, the 490-passenger747's will be in service, and in 1972, the SST (Super-sonicTransports ).

WASPsstill on active duty in the Air Force Are:

Capt. Doris Williams, 43-8Major Yvonne C. Pateman, 43-5Major Ann R. Johnson, 43-1Major Margaret Lowell-Wallce, 43-6Capt. Marion R. Tibbetts, 43-6Capt. Virginia H. Yates, 43-6 (retired)Major Nina K. Morrison, 44-10

BOOKTO BE PUBLISHEDSOON! ! ! ! !

MARDO CRANE 44-1 has been working on a novel aboutthe WASPs since 1944. She expects to have it published soon.It is "FLY-DOWN OF THE WASP", and tells of the life anddeath of our beloved service. Watch for it!

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SHEEPSKINWITH WINGS, printed from the FAAAVIATIONNEWS, February, 1966 features JIll McCORMICK, 43-5, amajor in the Air Foree Reserve and instructor in the flightsimulator at Purdue University.

UNIVERSITYDEGREEIN PROFESSIONALPILOT TECHNOLOGY

Conservative forces in our universities still regarding flyingas "just for fun" with no academic value. But the next gener-ation of professional pilots. are beginning to see the need fortechnical studies to cope with the advances in commercial avi-

ation.Purdue University has had a long aviation history. In 1931Purdue had the first university-owned airport, and was one of the first schools to be used by CAA for flight training (1938).Purdue Aeronautics Corp. (PAC) was established in 1947 whicheventually purchased DC-3's for the purpose of getting intothe air caITier business. CAB refused to approve any largescale operations as an airline, however

. After many yeark of planning and vision, Professor James R.Maris has at last succeeded in building up the pilot trainingcourse to the point where it became acceptable for a 4-yeart;legree at Puroue.

JIll S. McCORMICK, 43-5, arrived at Purdue Universityin 1955 to write the cUITiculum for and teach in ProfessionalPilot Program.and to teach.

The first two years of the basic program combine generalflight technology with university cour ses for students workingtoward B. S. degree. The last two years are a concentratedprogram of techniques in flying DC-3's and DC-6's plusacademic courses in English, math, physics, speech, indust-rial management, engineering, etc. The students log some200 hours in carrying cargo and passengers for PAC.

Pilot trainees are also offered courses in aviation main-tenance and electronics. It is an excellent opportunity togain a solid background for the vocation of being a profes-sional pilot.

The first normal graduation will be held in June, 1968.The first of the general aviation students have moved intotheir junior year September, 1966. An Associate Degree isgiven to these students, and most are currently enrolled forthe four-year degree. The final step was accomplished re-cently by combining the two courses into one curriculum forthe highly regarded B.S. Degree in Professional Pilot Tech-nology.

STRAIGHT A FOR ATLANTA, printed from FLYING April1966 features two WASPS, Georgia Eidson and MARTHA 'SMITHBULLOCK, 43-6. GEORGIAEIDSONdoubles as worldhistory teacher mornings at Henry Grady High School aDd asflight instructor afternoons. MARTHA SMITHBUU.OCKhasbeen with the program from the beginning and teaches groundschool at Dykes High School.

HIGH SCHOOLAVIAnON COURSE

The Atlanta, Georgia school system offers high school stu- \ dents a non-credit course in aviation. Naturally, kids arefascinated by the opportunity to fly at a nominal cost and theprestige of being accepted is an encouragement to keep theprogram growing. There are 50 students at the present time.

The curriculum is divided into five different ways of in-

struction: reading, seeing, hearing, discussion and doing.The objective of the course is not to produce professionalpilots, but to provide a situation of learning. The aviationcourse is treated as a combination of many high school subjectsput to a practical purpose; namely, social studies, economics,engineering, mathematics, science as well as a vocation.

Three high schools in the city of Atlanta are participatingduring this first year of operation. Piper Aircraft Corp. loanedthe school system one Cherokee 140 at first, but now theplanes are used on a rental basis. The classroom courses aresupplemented by Sanderson films, FAA and Zweng manuels.Both the ground school & flight school are FAA approved.

The flying part of the program is optional to the studentsat $7.50 per hour. MRS. GEORGIA(BETTY) SLOANEIDSON44-8, is the only flight instructor. She also doubles as world)history teacher at Henry Grady H. S. "I love flying, " she says."And the kids just love it. This really provides a stimulus for

them, and it'll make real people out of them quicker thananything else. Kids want a reason for existing. "There are three ground school teachers: Mr. Julius Alex-

ander at Luther Judson Price H. S., MRS. MARTHA SMITHBULLOCK, 43-6, at Dykes H. S., and MissJoan Basler atHenry Grady H. S. MARTHA has been with the program sincethe beginning in 1965. She read about the course starting inAtlanta, applied and was hired.

Representatives from the FAA are interested in seeing aprogram such as this develop in other communities in the stateof Georgia as well as other states. The eventual plan is tooffer a 3-year course in aviation as a prerequite to studentsentering the universities which extend B.S. degrees in Profes-sional Technology and Aeronautical Engineering.

The results of the course may motivate these students toacquaint themselves with the opportunities for careers in avi-ation, which is fast becoming indispensable in our way of live.

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In 1955, during the American Helicopter Society (AHS)Forum, thirteen women helicopter pilots met to form an ex-clusive club whose only requirement to join was a helicopterrating certified by the Federal Aviation Agency or its foreignequivalent. From that meeting on April Fool's Day, thisgroup was called The Whirly-Girls and their get-togethers arellhoverings".

It all began back in 1954 at the International Air Pioneers'Dinner held in Washington, D. C., during the observance of the 50th Anniversary of Flight when two people got to talkingabout helicopters: The late Larry Bell, President of Bell Air-craft Corp. and JEAN ROSS HOWARD, Assistant to the Dir-

ector of the Helicopter COllncil, Aircraft Industries Assn. JEANwas anxious to take instruction, and Mr. Bell offered to arrangea sch'edule for JEAN to learn on Bell Helicopters at their plantin"Fort Worth, Texas, JEAN was there a week later! Thecourse took 30 days and 30 flying hours. Many pilot3lwho flyhelicopters ha ve learned what JEAN realized - that you haveto Unlearn many things about flying fixed-wing aircraft whenyou transition to rotocraft. In a helicopter, you push the stick forward to land instead of gradually pulling back, and youland at a constant speed, instead of reducing speed.

Curious JEAN ROSS HOWARD set out to find out how manywomen had qualified and received their helicopter rating.There were twelve others, five of which were not living in theUnited States. The First Hovering was attended by the thirteencharter members of the Whirly-Girls:

Mademoiselle Valerie Andre, Paris, France - W-G #6Madame Jacqueline Auriol, Bretigny, France - W-G #8Mrs. ANN SHAW CARTER, Fairfield, Connecticut - W-G

#2 and WASP 44-10Miss Marilyn Grover (now Mrs. Heard), Carmel, California

- W-G #5

MISS JEAN ROSS HOWARD, Washington, D.C. - W-G #13and WASP 43-3*

Miss Clara E. livingston, Dorado, Puerto Rico - W-G #11Mrs. Nancy Miller Livingston, Corvallis, Oregon (now

Juneau, Alaska) - W-G #4Mrs. Marilynn Himes Riviere, Washington, D. C. - W-G #9Miss M ry Rosholt, Los Angeles (now Palo Alto), California

- W-G #12Mrs. Ethel Jones Sheffler, Bound Book, New Jersey - W-G

#7

Mrs. Priscilla H. Swenson, Wellington, New Zealand (nowStratford, Conn.) - W-G #3

Mrs. Edna Gardner Whyte, Fort Worth, Texas - W-G #10

and Fraulein Hanna Reitsch, Frankfort, Germay, W-G #1 whoreally started all this in 1938.These thirteen women were not only peoneers in the field

of rotocraft, some were even heronines. One night back in1938, a huge crowd gathered in Berlin's Deutschland Halle towitness an unusual event. Unbelieving eyes watched a strange-looking twin-motored rotocraft - the Focke-Achgelis Helic-opert. It maneuvered sidewa ys, backwards, straight up,around in circles and landed softly, all inside this big indoorarena. The pilot was a woman: Fraulein Hanna Reitsch,famous German glider pilot and record holder, who at thismoment became the world's first successful helicopter pilotman or woman.

Mlle. Varlerie Andre, famous French brain surgeon, wentto Viet Nam in 1949 as a Captain in the French Army. Shewas assigned to a French paratrooper unit, and it waSll't longuntil she realized that a helicopter was needed to bring outthe wounded in this rough terrain. Mlle. Andre returned to

France, learned to fly a helicopter, flew back to the battlezone and managed somehow to get a helicopter assinged to herheadquarters near Hanoi. Time and time again, MIle ValerieAndre flew through enemy gunfire, picked up the wOllnded,returned to the hospital area, and then became the surgeonwho saved the lives of the wounded. Altogether, she flew120 helicopter missions and evacuated more than 165 wounded.

The Whirly-Girls are working towards two specific goals:to promote women's interest in and acc~ptance. of helicoptersand the establishment of a helicopter flight trallllllg scholar-ship. It is amazing how these Whirly-Girls get around and t~lebound of high regard they hold for each other. When there ISa "hovering",. it is cer~ain to be well ~ttended ~nd e?"Joyed byall. One cunous fact ISthat the W-G s always Identify them-selves by their W-G number rather than by name.

The following Whirly-Girls are also WASP's, eight at thepresent but there are more to be added soon.

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JEAN ROSS HOWARD dreamed of organizing women helicopterspilots when dubbed "Whirly-Girl" by her flight instructor.

JEAN ROSS HOWARD, 43-3* & Whirly-Girl #13, is thefounder of the Whirly-Girls and assistant director of the Vert-ical Lift Aircraft Council of the Aerospace Industries Assoc-iation. JEAN joined Aerospace Industries in 1945 as staff as-sistant of the public relations director of the Personal AircraftCouncil. In 1950, she was promoted to her present position.A native Washingtonian, JEAN received her AB degree fromGeorge Washington University and did graduate work at Amer-ican University. After serving as trainee in the WASPs, JEANserved with the American Red Cross as Program Director of the Air Force Rest Camp on the Isle of Capri during WorldWar II.

WhirlY-Girls meet with President Kennedy on the White Houselawn in 1962, citied need for a down-town heliport for theNation's capital. Left to Right: Jane Har, JEAN HOWARD,Danna Kusianovich Henderson, Hanna Reitsch, DORADOUGHERTY, Judy Short, Ellen Gilmour, President Kennedy,Jean Wilson, Barbara Kiernan, Charlotte Kelley and ANN SHAW CARTER.

Bell Helicopter Compa,,~ Photo

ANN SHAW CARTER, 44-10 & W-G #2, is the first womanin the United States to get a helicopter rating. ANN soloed in

June, 1947 in a Bell Helicopter at New York's Westchester Air-port. She became a pilot for Metropolitan Aviation Corporat-ion which was one of the first helicopter passenger services inthe U. S. ANN is married to Edward (Ted) Carter, one of thetop engineers with Sikorshy Aircraft. They have three child-ren. Due to a bout with polio in 1955, ANN has not been ableto fly helicopters, but she remains active and is still interestedin aviation through her husband's career. ANN is a chartermember of the Whirly-Girls.

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Bell Helicopter Company Photo

Helicopter record holder is DR. DORA DOUGHERTYwho in1961 broke two world rotary-wing marks formerly held by

Russia. She received the Women's International Associationof Aeronautics trophy for her achievement.

DR. DORAJ. DOUGHERTY, 43-3 & Whirly-Girl #27, isHuman Factors Engineer at Bell Helicopter Company, Fort.Worth Texas. DORA has received many honors and contnb-uted ~uch through research and accomplishments in the fieldof aeronautics. In February, 1961 DORAbroke two worldhelicopter records previously held by the Soviet Union. Morerecently, DR. DOUGHERTY received the 1966 AchievementAward of the American Association of University Women,This award is in recognition of the contributions through re-search to a specific field of specialization. Along with theaward was also a cash amount of $3, 000. In June, 1966DORAwas appointed Chairman of the Federal AviationAgency Woman's Advisory Committee on Aviation (WACOA),succeeding Mrs. Janie Hart. Vice-Chairman to the Commit-tee is Mrs. Betty Miller, famed pilot who was the first womanto cross the Pacific in solo flight. It is interesting to note thatall three women are Whirly-Girls.

lAURETTA BEATYFOY picks up Actor Dick Van Dyke atSunset & Vine in Hollywood to take him to a luncheon at oneof the local Country Clubs. (He was only clowing for thephotographer's benefit. )

lAURETTA BEATYFOY, 43-4 & Whirly-Girl #46 has beer,instructing on helicopters for five years, and is currently atPacAero, a division of Pacific Airmotive Corporation inBurbank, California. LAURETTA is also an FAA designatedFlight Examiner for helicopters. Most of her work is instruct-ing, but she does some air taxi, charter and photo work forthe movies. It has been a decade of pioneering for both heli-.copters and women pilots who are dedicated to the difficult

job of making helicopters a paying company business.

A MOMENTOUSOCCASION -- JENNIELONGACREOF South-ern Airways of Texas Inc. poses with Southern Airways MetHodsof Instruction staff members. At left, John MacFarlane, DaleLewis, JENNIE, Huey Long. Photo was made November 25,1966, the day she passed her military acceptance ride.

GENEVIEVEBROWNLONGACRE, 43-4 & Whirly-Girl #14,is the only woman instructor for the U. S. Army Primary Heli-copter Schools-. She is teaching at Fort Wolters, Texas onHiller OH 23-D's. This is the culmination of a dream she hasbeen working toward since JENNIEearned her commercial ro-torcraft rating 12 years ago.

During the WASPs, JENNIEflew B-17's and C-47's. Follow-ing the war, she owned and operated flying schools at Porter-ville and Delano, California. In addition to charter work,JENNIEhas flown for the Forrestry Service, hauled parachute

jumpers, and weather engineers. Just for fun, she ~as num.er-ous trophies won in the Powder Puff Derby, InternatIOnal AIrRace and efficiency cross-country races.

In addition to her commercial helicopter rating, JENNIEholds a valid FAA airplane, single engine, multi-engine,land & sea instrument, instrument instructor ratings.

currently, GENEVIEVEBROWNLONGACREis.residing inMineral Wells with her 3 children. Her comment about hernewest challenge is, "It's wonderful! !"

BETTY HAAS PFISTER and husband Art raise Norwegian horseslike this one, and quarter horses, on theh' 700-acre ranch atAspen, Colorado.

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Helicopters, horses, fighter planes, skiing and soaring areall interests'.in BETTYHAAS PFISTER's life on the LazyChairRanch in Aspen" Colorado. BETTY, Whirley-Girl #52, wasthe first woman in Colorado to be a licensed helicopter pilot.In the WASPs, Class 43-5, BETTYwas pilot on the B-17 "Fly-ing Fortress" Bombers, but welcomed the opportunity to flyfighter planes. Shortly after V-J Day, she purchased a P-39Bell Aircobra from war surplus. BETTY modified it for racingand named it "Galloping Gertie". Bell Aircraft Corporationlater purchased "Galloping Gertie" and it is now a permanentpart of th.e.Air Museum collection in the Smithsonian Instituteat Washington D. C. After becoming an airline stewardess forPan-American Airlines, BETTY joined:tha Air Force Reserve

Program opened to all WASPs. The PFISTERs now own aCessna 32- Skynight, and club members of a Schweizer 2-32soaring plane.

BETTYwas.the prime mover in gettillg a heliport at AspenValley Hospital. A hair raising landing between trees, wires,parked cars and inadequate lighting on the hospital parking lotwith an emergency mountain accident, made it easieI' forBETTYto get the hospital to donate land adjacent to the emer-gency entrance for a heliport 100 feet by 60 with no obstruc-tions. The heliport which was put into operation November,1966 is the first and only one for hospitals in the state of Colo-rado.

Whirly-Girh attending a breakfast "hovering", January 25,1966, Arlington, Texas, during HAA Convention. Standing,left to right, Shirley Thomas, #102; LAURETTA FOY, #46;Charlotte Kelley, #21; Tony Page, #67; Judy Short, #29;Hazel McKendrick, #85; DOTTIE YOUNG, #16; SparkyCannon, guest; FAITH RICHARDS, #74; Nancy Livingston,#4; DR. DORADOUGHERTY, #27, Seated, left to right,CealOrpen, #48; JEAN ROSS HOWARD, #13;'Edna GardnerWhyte, #10; and BETTY PFISTER, #52.

FAITH BUCHNERRICHARDS, 43-4 & Whirly-Girl #74, isthe type of person who first gets the idea (flying helicopters)-and then the idea gets BUCKY. She was hooked and convincedinto becoming W-G #74 after talking to #27 and #16. FAITHsaved her money and arranged her vacation time to go toOklahoma City for a "crash" program - concentrated, that is

_ with DOTTIE YOUNG as her instructor. In nine days and 23helicopter hours later, BUCKY could breathe easy again. Thelight, highly maneuverable and temperamental Brantly B-2deliberately frustrated BUCKYso many times that she "wantedto get out and beat it with a stick". This all took place justone month before the 1964 WASP Reunion in Cincinnati.

It was another WASP Reunion which brought BUCKY, thenthe international president of the Order of Fifinella, to Dallasin 1949. She is a Chicago girl who flew from the same air-port in 1941 as DORADOUGHERTYbefore either one joinedthe WASPs. Her. degree from Morningside College in SiouxCity, Iowa came through while FAITH was stationed at Sweet-water. During the WASPs, she flew B-24's, B-26's on testflights and weather missions.

Although, BUCKYdoes not fly helicopters commercially,she is connected with aviation as Reservations Supervisor withBraniff Airways in Dallas, Texas.

DOTTIE YOUNGis the first woman to obtain an Airline Trans-port Rating for helicopters. She is chief helicopter pilot forL.D. Catlin Aviation Company of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Another outstanding Whirly-Girl is DOTTIE YOUNG, 43-1& Whirly-Girl #16, who became the first and only one of twowomen in the world to obtain an Airline Transport Rating forhelicopters. She is Chief Helicopter Flight Instructor at CatlinAviation in Oklahoma City. DOTTIE is a dedicated instructorand is also an FAA Designated Flight Examiner (at this writing,DOTTIE & LAURETTA FOY are the only women Flight Exam-iners for helicopters). DOTTIE and her husband, Pete, makean unusual husband-wife team. Pete is an Air Carrier special-ist with the Federal Aviation Agency in OKe. DOTTIE justcompleted two years as editor of the publication of the Ninety-Nines, Inc., and she is also a member of the WOCOA for theFAA having been appointed by the late President Kennedy.

CAPT. WILLIAMTISCHLER is Jingles the Clownat San Francisco Children's Hospital, July 1966.

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ANN WALDEN CURRIER - 43-6

MURIEL MORAN - 44-10

STILL FLYING mGH - Maj. Phillip N. Currier, a KC-l35 'jet tankerpilot with the 41st Air Refueling Squa'dron at Griffiss AFB, gives a cock-pit briefing to his wife, Ann, at a tanker trainer . .At the right, Mrs. Cur-rier is shown at the controls of a B-17 bomber during World War II whenshe servedwith the WASP'sand met her future husband.

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PORTRAIT OF HELENCANNO

JEAN MOORE SOARD - 44-2, husband Cliff & family

LOUISE BOWDEN - 43-4, examines X-Ray filesin Miraj Medical Center, Maharastra, India

DOROTHY NAGEL IRELAND - 44-10 and

husband Col. Loren E. Ireland, USAF

'nIe good.looklllll.palricien.aharpl)' clre!sed clerk of I!leClark counly IChooI boardUflfd her eyel from her notepad and IoIsed a warm Ill\lIeto a lCboolboy who ftnl tothe IChooI boerd with lomelort of proteal.

"YOU COME again anylime," Helen Cannon told 1M

boy III a voice wIilcll can behusky, liItJnI, 1fllW1)',/IIlllt.11Illor loy cold wIl!IllI I h lame sentence.

"We'd like 10 _ a lo t.more studentl like )'OII,"1heassured him. TIlls wal I!lemelUna voice. lIle ft'lI I.way~' touch.

'I11e Itudent, wtIo " a IIbrought III a IfIpe andthought he wa. lolIlln abombshell at Ih'. IIChooIboard, bJushed.and bar. I ymanaged to Ilam mer histhanks before lie relnl.ledfrom tilemike In fronl of tbeboard'i rostnml.

Helen Cannon had workedher cbmn.

She did It II women gen-erally do - In a contradlc.tory way.

Onty minutes ,before, I h esharp - minded, quIek wli.I~ wife. ol a 8lrlp bolel ex.ecutlve had betII lecturinl abulldllll conlr.ctnr, lakllllhim over the coala for \le-Jays III a 1Cboo1.projed.

TBAT "AI a IllCOIIdHelenCall1lOn:the buolneuwll1llan.the chl1ly~ed keeper of lhepublic ~strlIIIl.

In lhal n\Ood,her IOfIvoicecan..cnl hard, can even slaahIhe air. This Is a woman whohasn'l got '11me or guileenough to conceal her alii.ludes.

"It', hiconcelvable," I heonce Iold her fellow schoolboard memberl In , discus-sion aboul Iree lunches fornee d y children, "that weshould llIrn down anyone whoneeds 10 be fed."

Bul another time, shebroke them up wllh this dead.pan piece of economic phil.osophy.. "There would be few.er people on relief," she said,"if there ftre no relief pro-grams."

Mrs. Cannon, who once

lesl~ew warplanes al 10,000feel, Is ImptllIMI with peopleIhe feels have not taken ad.nnlalt of their opportunl.lies.

"I llF:T IIIC1t," she volun-teered III an inlernew al herpleasant, lasleful horne 01\ KflIII)' Way, "of people who..,. the)' 'toUIdn't go to col. beC'lute tIlere was INIlIlOIIl!y.

"I wen! to collece andl!lert waa INI money Ih myfamll)'

Mrs. Cannon. who was bornHelen Cue In Cameron, Wis., yean 110, worked her way

Ibrough college as a secre-iiif)'. a dlshwuher, "any.1lIIng I could gel."

Always athlellcally Inclin-ed - she today possesses allunnllll\ly .lim fillure - Hel.en Cate fin~11ygot a sum.mertlme Job as a gym in-struclor. She laughl phy.icaleducation fo.r four years aft.er her graduation from IheUniverslly of WIsconsin.

IVRVEYtNG her elellanlliving room. she confided, Ina rough-and-ready voice fam-lUar 10 malingering IIChooldislrlct contractors. "I al.ways hated to have four wallsaround me,"

'I11ecall of physical freedomwas 10 lead lhe young gymteacher to Its farlhell heighls:lIflelearned to ny. paying forher lessons by working Inairports.

The lessons paid off. Altera World War II stinl as alesl pilot in the WASP pro-

gram, she taught flying alStephens College In C0lum-bia, Mo. And she .mel herhullband, Robert O. Cannon,now vicellresldent and gen-eral manager of the TroplcanaHotel, while he was slalionedwith her at Lulle Air Base InPhoenix. They came to LasVegas in 1947when Cannonwas named an official nf ElRancho Veflas Last P'ronller.

How did the school boardgel into the picture!

"My friends persuaded meI should ron," Mrs. cannonreplied. To hear her lell It,It's Just as simple IS thaI.

HER FRIENDll perlUadedher twice. with Ihe resu\l1halshe was re~Jected 10 a aec.ond four-year lerm thl. monthby a stumlllg margin of vic.tory.

Mrs. Ctmnon denln thai IIwas some kind of Inlellectualfervor which led her to devoleherself to the demandlnll, unpaid lask nf keeping an eyeon tile school syslem.

"Don'1 gel me wron.," shelold her Intern",er. "We'~no Intellecluals." Again theennlradlctlon: There Is noroom In her home In whichbooks - and good ones - arenol shelved or alacked.

HELENJOHNSONCANNON44-9

So who Is reading the Plawhich Ilea open on I IIviroom lable?

"MY SON Robin (actualRoberl cannon 1I1l. 00 youknow," she added In a sudenly warmer and sofler voic"he actually read some Ihis aloud to me? He got iw.resled In II lOme way."

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LOLARICCI, holds trophy presented to her March, 1966.She was dubbed "Woman Pilot of the Year" by the San

Fernando, California Chapter of Ninety-Nines.

MARY LIND SELLERS,44-10, & Capt. Coleman Sellersrelaxing on the base at Hamilton, AFB, Calif.

Eight Cherokees with pilot and co-pilot flew in formationduring the ceremonies of Airport Day at Santa Clara, Calif-ornia Pilots in back row, left to right, Stephanie Hancock,Verna West, Jeanne McElhatton, JACKIE HUGHESPETTY,44-9, Phyllis Pierce, Sandy Forrest, Jackie Sachen andPATRICIA THOMAS GLADNEY, 44-8. Front row, left toright, MARGARET STANDISH, 44-8, Marion Barnick, RoseDee, Mary Lail, Sherry McDonald, Natalie Bossio, EstherHainey and Alice Taylor.

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Onjune 28, 1946 CLARAjO MARSH, RUTH MARY PETRYand HALLYSTIRES subscribed their names to the Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Order of Fifinella. Oneparticular paragraph may be of interest to several, "The pur-poses for which said corporation is formed are:

(1) Promote, develop and further the status of women' inaviation.

(2) Establish a scholarship as a Living Memorial to WASPswho gave their lives in the service of their country.

(3) Provide a media for maintaining contact with whoseformerly in the WASPprogram and individuals and .groups interested in the advancement of women's pla.:ein aviation.

(4) Establish and foster a publication devoted principallyto aeronautical employment and other pertinent inform-ation relative to women in aviation.

Perhaps the Living Memorial Scholarship could be establishedeven now in the form of scholarships to young women whohaveexpressed a desire to enter one of the universities or collegesin order to study a subject relative to aviation,...,..Ig,e Ninety-Nines, have a scholarship to members of th (groliJ?':i;q"r furthertraining and WASPshave been awarded's scholarsIlip'sinceit was established in 1941. Namely, PA ~G:IA WO~SGlADNEY. JEANHIXSON, ANNEM. S g ;tD S , JI; -S;;)McCORMICK and VIRGINIA SWEET. Z ~terliational has anAmelia Earhart Scholarship for' women stu~ents with a"\iegreewho are going on to graduate school in the'loi 14 df' aeronauticalengineering. Would you be willing to contribu~to a WASPScholarship? (See the WASPInformation Form)

ESTHERPOOLEBENNER- 43-3 - Now worfor Indiana Aeronautics Commission, Esthepassenger, Lieutenant-Governor Robert L.the terminal after one of trips that help prand industry for the state.

The article on the aviation courses as a part of the ClIT-riculum of our public schools and:the professional pilot coursesin universities is in no way written to have you believe thatthese are the ONI.Y schools with such a program. There areother school systems and other WASPsworking in them, al jFifi Headquarters would ,appreciate additional information forour records.

WASPInformation Form is an attempt to preserve presenthsitory and have a future reference for vital information.Each individual can vividly remember what airplane she flewin training and at her assignments, but years later, \\Tho.wiEknow? For posterity, make it YOUR responsibility to giveHeadquarters a chance to have a complete picture of theWASPtraining program and duty assignments. Also, whatpercentage remained in military service, or the field of avi-ation.

In order to keep office work to a nrlinimum at Fifi'Head-quarters, the class secretaries are asked to address mailingstickers for their respective classes. This year, the mailing isdone directly from Headquarters, so as to have a better recoof the time mailed and addresses used. Also, 18 people willbe more likely to find lost Fifis than just Headquarters. Th~editor is very grateful for the willingness of each individualclass secretary in doing this chore.

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Money is always a touchy subject, but each year the ex-pense of newsletter mailing seems to just be under the amountin the treasury ($170.00). The total number of Fifis is now170: 1965, 107 and 1965, 62. More lost addresses are foundand fresh contacts are established each year. We, at head-quarters, hope to get a better response for membership cards,or the newsletter will have to be curtailed. Please be promptin your good intensions and mail in your membership form.

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