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CLASS NOTES
WAGS TO WAFSDEL SCHARR wore her uniform at the banquet.
NANCY LOVE has sold her airplane. The girls enjoyparticipating in horse shows, while Nancy and her
husband are sailing most of the summer In
Martha's Vineyard.
BETTY GILLIES and BARBARA LONDON flew to Cin-cinnati in Betty's Baron to attend the reunion.
43-1MARY LOU COLBERT NEALS received notice of the
WASP reunion just 5 days before the 13th. The
letter finally found her in California.
MARJORIE KETCHAM DEACON passed thr~ugh Cin-cinnati just one week later on her vacatIOn. Theword was too late for her to rearrange her plans.
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CA"1HERINEVAIL BRIDGE hopes to kee p in touchfor future plans.
RUTH FRANKLING REYNOLDS has guests after thereunion at her farm in New York. The guests:tEWISE COLEMAN ADIE and MARTHAWAGANSEIL DAVIS both 43-2 class. The 3 have
not been together since disbanding.MARGARET KERR BOYLAN, named special assistant
to William J. Schulte (Asst. Administrator for
General Aviation, FAA). Margaret is daughter ofthe late Sen. Robert Kerr (D. Okla.) and just re-cently returned to USA after 10 years foreign ser-
vice duty with Mr. Boylan.MARY TROTMAN O'BRIEN missed seeing old friends
again.43-3
LAURINE (RENE) NIELSEN lives in Palmer, Alaska.43-4
NANCY LEEBAKER is in Fairbanks, Alaska.GINNY HILL WOOD and CELIA HUNTER are operating
a camp in Alaska. If you want a vacation i~ therugged wilderness from June 1 - Sept. 10 wnte.:Camp Denali, Box D, College Alaska for details.
CONSTANCE LLEWELLYNHOWERTON writes thatsince deactivation 10 gals from 43-4 class havekept a round robin letter going. That's 20 years!
ROSA LEA FULLWOOD MEEK brought favors to thebanquet from Mooney Aircraft. She is a Mooneydealer in Kerrville, Texas.
MARY JANE STEPHANS MEIKLE has moved to
Nebraska.43-5
JILL McCORMICK was one of the winn~rs of the 1964
Amelia Earhart Scholarship at the Nmety-Nme
NEWSLETTEROdober 1964
Convention. She is also on the FAA Women'sAdvisory Committee. Presently Jill is teachingin the Aviation Dept. at Purdue University.
HELENTURNER HOLLAND was in Canada at the timeof the reunion. Hopes to find more Wasps close to
Norman, Oklahoma.JO PITZ EGAN was vacationing in Florida August 13th.Major Yvonne Pateman is stationed in Anchorage,
Alaska.MARJORIE SANFORD THOMPSON toured Europe in
August, but won't miss the next reunion.
43-6CAPT. MARIAN TIBBETTS is stationed at what
used to be Big Spring Air Field, now called
Webb AFB. She is with the pilot training
program.MAURINE BRUNSVOLD WILSON was very sorry
to be unable to see everyone in Cincy.
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SAMMY CHAPIN HASSEN had a lovely pool partyfor those attending the Wasp reunion. Thevery next day the family (Sammy, Charlesand their two sons) flew to Massachusetts In
their Cessna 310.CARO BAYLEY BOSCA attended the reunion. She
was an aerobatic champion in the 40's.43-8
CAPT. DORIS WILLIAMS is back in the states for
a new assignment in Westover AFB, Mass.She was on leave in California in August.
LOIS DOBBINAUCHTERONIE is Governor of theNew England Section of the 99's.
44-2FRANCES LARAWAY SMITH hopes to make the
1969 reunion. She has a family of six.FRANCES SMITH TUCHBAND was on vacation
during August with her family.DORIS ELKINGTON KAMAKER sailed with her
husband, Cdr. USN, July 23rd for Naples,
ha~. . .RUTH M. PETRY lives in PhoenIX, Anzona.
44-3JEANNE WAGNER SIMPSON hopes ~asp contacts
with one another could lead to Information
and publication of the acti vities of t.hose for-mer Wasps still contributing to the held of
aviation.44-2
ESTHER NOFFKE is employed at Pal-Waukee Air-port on northwest edge of Chicago.
EUNICE BOARDMAN owns and operates a 48-footkitch out of Marina Cay in the British Virgin
Islands.
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LOUISEBRAND HYDE spent the month of Augustat Martha's Vineyard. She still flies and racesin the Powder Puff Derby each year~.
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'AT KENWORTHY NUCHOLS lives in DogwoodFarm, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Shehas many guests during the summer.
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EDITH CRAGIN DALEY sent a letter in hopes toget a report of the Wasp reunion.
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BETTY TO STREFF REED flew to the reunion withher' husband in their Mooney. They live inDenver. See you in 1969.
BEVERLYFRISBIE CARRUTH is waiting for B.FulkHaydu to give her an account of the reunion.
BEA FULK HAYDU flew to Cincinnati in a Cessna172.
BONNIE DORSEY SHINSKI lives in Lemon Grove,California, and could not make the trip to
Cincinnati.LOIS McMURDIE is lucky the questionaire found
her. The letter went to her mother's homein Spokane which had been sold six yearsago. She couldn't attend because it washer husband's birthday.
fERI FULK CROOK and her husband Iive nearShaw, AFB, South Carolina. They have
2 teenage daughters. Jeri works for 2 Brig.Generals at Shaw.
rOT FISHER WISE is in the real estate businesswith her husband. They have a fourth in-terest in a Cessna 172, a dachund and 2teenage children. Ironically, they wereweathered in for a few days near Cincin-nati 3 weeks before the reunion. They livein Tallahassee, Florida.
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MICKEY McLERNON BROWN at present is livingin Austin, Texas. Her husband is working onhis doctorate in education at the Universityof Texas. They have 4 children 6-12 yrs.Her permanent address in San Antonio, Texas.
3ETTY MAR TIN RIDDLE sent a telegram to thebanquet because she could not attend. Shelives in Rockford, Illinois and an active 99.
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PATRICIA DISSTAN COLEMAN, her husband andtheir 3 children were on a ranch in Wyomingin August. She will definitely make the 25threunion.
MARTHA BLAIR GAUNCE came to the reunionvia camping trip. She left the family andcamp at Cleveland, flew to Cincinnati forthe dinner; then joined them again the nextday to return to North Dakota.
COMMENTS OVERHEARD AT THE SHERATON-
GIBSON"Deadie is just as cute and vivacious as sheever was!"
"Who is she" I really didn't recognize her? And to
think we were bay-mates. ""Do you realize that between the 4 of us, we have
26 children"?"Just give me a Bloody Mary for breakfast. ""Imagine that - they can both wear their uniforms"
Reunion Spotlight
2Wo.menAviaforB Y M AR IO N S. H O DG SO N
CINCIJ\'NATI, Aug. 13 (Spl)-Two record.shatteri
women aviators shared the spotlight Thursday night at t
reunion banquet of the WASP (Women Airforces Serv
Pilot~l. . Former fh'in" buddies of hlDr Dora /)oughe.rty of 3616 here includ~ Is~hel Fenton 5t
Landy Lane. Fort Worth. wa~ a son. who came all the way fn
featured speaker along WIth \Vt'slfieJd. :\'Iass.. \\:ith her fworld-ramou.s .Jacqueline Coch. l'hile!ren to aUelle! the reuni(
r~ne. war'tlme boss of the ~Irs. Stinson's memories\\'ASP, fJi2ht trainin2 days at Swt'
Dr. Dougherty. an aviation \\'~ter ar~ enliwnmg the ..ps~'choJogist with Bell Helicop- membrr when" ('ontest thattel' Company, was greeted by under way.
women she fh:w with 20 yt'ars She remembers when a rIa
ago during World War II. mate at Sweetwater was so
She holds world's helicoptt'r jng an open.cockpit trainer Sfrt'cords for womt'n. But she is eral thousand feet in the 2
more interested in talking ahotlt "She wanted to get a suntwhen she .as a Wasp helping while she was alone up thewith the war than discussing so she took off her shirt," Mhe:- records. Stinson says.
. . . "She got the suntan all rig.
"THE LUCKIEST break I but her shirt blew away."ever had a s a Wa~p was when The student radioed inJ got to fly the B-29," she 'says, help. The message was relay"They wanted two g irls to f ly from the tower to Mrs. C
around the country on demon. Deaton of Wichita FaJls, "hou;
stratiolJ hops. and of course we mother" of the trainees.all volunteered. .
"We had to draw straws. Dee. MRS. DEATON rushee! to tdee Johnson :\lorman of Sioux flight line with a blanket, t
Falls and 1 were the lucky ones. not before a curious carand I guess we were the first ',whose ship had a radio) zen
women in the world to pilot a in on the red.faced Wasp aB-2!!." flew formation with her.
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IN MEMORIAM
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Kay AlspachMary M. Beritich
Margaret Bruns
Michie Carmichael
Jane ChamplinSusan Clark
M. Joy Jehl DaCostaMargie L. David
Patricia DickersonKatherine Dussaq", Staff Exec.Marjorie D. Edwards
Ellen Endacott
Elizabeth Erickson
Grace E. EverettCornelia Fort
Virginia Grant
Harriet GriggsFrances Grimes
Janice R. Tate HarrisMary Hartson
Hayden Head
Annie J. HenryEthel D. Hoskins
Levona Lillian HoveMary"H. Howson
Margaret M. HurlburtEdith Keene
Kathryn B. Lawrence
Hazel Ying Lee
Mitchell I. LongPaula Loop
Alice LovejoyLea Ola McDonald
Helen McGilveryPeggy MartinMatie N. Mitchell
Virginia Moffatt
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,Beve~iy,Moses
~ Dorot,hy.Nichols
Charlotte Niles
Jeanne L. Norbeck
Margaret OldenburgShireen M. Phelps
Hazel J. RainesMabel Rawlinson
Helen RicheyGleanna Roberts
Betty ScottDorothy Scott
Margaret J. SeipHelen J. SeversonMarie Sharon
Evelyn Sharp
Ethy1 Sheehy,Field Rep. to WASP Dir.
Betty P. StineHarri et M. ThysonMarion Toevs
Gertrude TompkinsMary Webster
Bonnie Jean Welz
Mary L. Wiggins
Betty T. Wood
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ROSTER CORRECTIONS - September, 1964
Adams, Kate Harris, 4536 Momosa Drive, Bellaire, TexasAdie, Lewise Coleman, 142 Riverview Drive, Marietta, Ohio
Bessent, Mrs. Clarice, 2301 Santa Clara Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada
Born, Martha Bevins, R. R. 1, Morning View, Kentucky
Brickford, Betty Bechtold, 4603 Wood Street, Willoughby, Ohio
Campbell, Martha Duncan, 239 E. 33rd Street, New York 16, N. Y.
Christansen, Marjorie Redding, Rt. 1, RFD Box 59, Cedar City, UtahClark, Elizabeth Carsey, Sugar Hill Road, Zepp, Virginia
Coakley, Virginia McPike, 31 Chester Drive, Rye, New York
Coleman, Patricia Disston, 1054 Rock Creek Rd., Bryn Mawr, Pa.Cronan, Selma, 209 Hillcrest Ave., Leonia, New Jersey
Davis;. Martha Wagenseil, 1624 Shoreline Drive, Santa Barbara, Calif.
deLaet, Mary Waters, 620 Darrell Road, Hillsborough, California
Doerr, Virginia Warren, c/o Breslauer & Warren, Kenora, Ontario, Can.
Dunkle, Jean Livingston, 3701 Court St., Sioux City, Iowa
Gaunce, Martha Blair, 514 W. 13th Street, Williston, North DakotaGibson, Patricia, 2070 Hoover Avenue, Oakland 2, CaliforniaGustavson, Frances Dias, 510 West A Street, Fallon, Nevada
Col. Oscar A. Heinlein, USAF, P. O. Box 1525, Vandenberg AFB,Calif.
* Henry, Helen Parks, 609 Henderson Falls Road, Toccoa, Georgia43-2 Hooks, Helen Ricketts, 505 N. Wilson, Hammond, Louisiana
43-3 Howard, Jean Ross, 2900 Connecticutt Ave., NW, Apt 243, Wash. DC.43-4 Howerton, Constance llewellyn, 649 N. San Marcas, Santa Barbara, Cal
44-9 Jones, Mary Regalbuto, Timbridge Trail, Gates Mills, Ohio43-3 Kidd, Louise E., 6427 S. W. 10th Terrace, Miami 44, Florida
44-10 Kimport, Julia Loufek, 206 New Castle Way, Madison 4, Wisconsin44-10* Kurtz, Mary Anne Hoyt, 1692 Hillwood Drive, Dayton, Ohio
44-6 Lemley, Joan Michaels, 5917 S. Oak Creek Dr., Apt.2, Okla. Cy. ,Okla.43-4 Martin, Betty Naffz, Box 179, Rt. 7, Florence, Alabama44;-10 Miller, Thelma Hench, 3 Central Blvd., Norwalk, Ohio43-3' Mitchell, Dorothy Christenson, 4122 Taney Ave., Alexandria, Va.
43-4 Minton, Madge Rutherford, 4840 E. 77th St., Indianapolis, Indiana44-10 Morrison, Jane, Long Beach, Mississippi
43-1 Neale, Mary Lou Colbert, 24463 Wayman St., Newhall, California44-7 Reynolds, Muriel Rath, 716 Orange Ave., Nevato, California43-6 Ricci, Lola Perkins, 3876 Reklaw, Studio City, California44-9 Riddle, Betty Martin, 1320 Verble PI., Rockford, Illinois
43-3* Rueckert, Ruth Nevada, 2037 Riviera St., San Francisco, California
44-5 Rountree, Martha Harmon, 4717 Winthrop E., Fort Worth, Texas43-4 Starr, Alice May, 705 Orange Court, River Vale, New Jersey43-5 Springer, Jean Mohrman, 3439 Berry, Cincinnati, Ohio
43-6 Sullivan, Elizabeth McGeorge, Mt. Crest Orchards, Orrtanna, Pa.43-3 Trasky, Bertha Link, Grand Rapids, Michigan44-3 Wahlborg, Evelyn Taylor, 242 Castle Drive, Atwater, California
43-4 Watry, Virginia Harris, 6017 Morse Drive, Oakland, California
43-4 Watson, Ann Howell, 1118 3rd Street, Dover, Delaware
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WASPSATTENDING REUNION BANQUET, August 13, 1964
Wifs Betty Gillies
Del ScharrKatherine RawIs Thompson
Barbara Erickson London
43-1 Marjorie Gray
Byrd H. Granger
MaJ. Ann JohnsonEvelyn Greenblatt
Dorothy Young43-2 Marion Scharr Betzler
Helen S. Stone
Helen Ricketts Hooks
43-3 Dr. Dora DoughertyIsabel Fenton Stinson
Esther Poole Berner
Virginia Crinklaw
Kay Menges BrickDorothy Christianson Mitchell
43-4 Madge Rutherford MintonHelen Schaefer
Faith Buchner RichardsViola Thompson Mason
Virginia Malany Melony
Rosa Lea Fullwood MeekRucy Mullins Menshing
43-5 Martha Thomas Campbell
Geraldine Hardman Jordan
Ann Karlson Kenney
Margaret Ray Ringenberg
Jill McCormickMarion Stegeman Hodgson
43-6 Elizabeth McGeorge SullivanLola Perkins Ricci43-7 Sammy Chapin Hassan
Caro Baylay Bosca
43-8 Lois Dobbin Auchterlonie
44 -1 Betty Bechtold Brickford
Alberta Hunt Nicholson44-2 Marjorie Gilbert Stewart
Joanne Wallace OrrMary Ellen Keil
44-3 Betty Jane Hanson Erenberg
44-4 Jeanette C. KapusGrey Allison Dunlap
Ruth Shafer Fleisher
44-5 Jennie Hill Mosley
44-6 Jean HixsonSue Delano Parish
Mary Helen Gosnell Chappell
Barry Vincent Smith44-7 Bee Falk Haydu
Betty Jo Streff ReedBetty Pettitt Nicholas
Alberta Paskvan Kinney
Betty Overman Brown
Peg Parish Garland
44-8 Anne Dailey Marshall
44-9 Betty Stagg TurnerLillian Dixon Kelley
Mary Regalbuto Jones44-10 Sara Payne Hayden
Nancy Mayes
June Wolfe Leckie
Jean Terrell MoreoCapt. Nona Morrison
Louise Magoon ThokeyMarty Martin Wyall
Ann Atkeison
Virginia McPike Coakley
Martha Blair Gaunce
Thelma Hench Miller
Eileen Bristol - Establishment OfficerMrs. Leni Deaton, Staff Exec. Officer
Miss Jacqueline Cochran, WASP Dir.Non-Graduates
Helen Parks HenrySelma Cronan
Martha Duncan CampbellRuth Nevada Rueckert
Virginia Flugel KeeferJean Nelson Bonar
COMMITTEE OF WASPBANQUET
Marion Betzler - Decorations
Jean Hixson - Publicity
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Betty Gillies, WAFS
Jean Ross Howard, 43-3Dora Dougherty, 43-3
FAA WOMEN'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ONAVIATION
The 32-member FAA Women's Advisory
Commi ttee on Aviation is a new ly formed group
to advise and make recommendations to the FAA.The members serve two years, receive no pay,
but are reimbursed for expenses incurred in at-
tending the meetings. They are tentativelyscheduled to meet semi-annually. Chairmanof the group is Mrs. Jane Hart, 99 and wife ofSen. Philip A.Hart, D-Mich. The Vice-Chair-
man is Mrs. Jerrie Mock, the first women to
fly around the world solo, and 1st to fly insingle engine aircraft.
Seven members of the group are former WASPs:Dorothy Young, 43-1Jean Pearson, 43-3
Louise Hyde, 44-4Jill McCormick, 43-5
Jacqueline Cochran flew to thereunion at the controls of herown Lockheed Lodestar.
Jean Terrele44-10
Now Mrs. Earl Moreo
And Mother of 10!
Please send clippings and pictures for the scrapbook toOrder of Fifinella, P.o.Box 2912, Fort Wayne, Ind.