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Vol. 2 No. 2 May-June
The Ninety-Nines, Inc.
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CONTENTS
UFO — B elieve 'em Or N ot — Tony P a g e .................................................................... 10
1974 Convention — Esther W rig h t.................................................................................. 8
Chapter P e rso n a litie s........................................................................................................ 12
International S c e n e .............................................................................................................4
99 P ro file ............................................................................................................................... 3
Respiration (Part 1) — M ary F o le y .................................................................................14
Regular Features
W hat Its A ll A bo ut — Com m ittee R e p o rts .....................................................................16
APT — Margo S m ith ................................................................................................ 16
AWTAR — PPD — M arion A n d re w s .....................................................................16
Flying A ctivitie s — Charlene F a lk e n b e rg ...........................................................17
International H ot Line — S hirley A lle n ............................................................... 17
International H ot Line, U.S. Report — Pauline G e n u n g ................................. 18
M em bership Corner — Pat S h e a re r.................................................................... 18
President's M e ssa g e ......................................................................................................... 1
Chapter R e p o rts ................................................................................................................ 20
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President — Susie Sewell, C/O Catlin Aviation, W ill Rogers Station,
O klahom a City, Okla. 83159
Vice President — Pat McEwen, 16206 E. Central, W ichita, Kansas 67230
Secretary — Mary Nees Able, 9009 Braeburn Valley Dr., Houston, Texas 77036
Treasurer — Lois Feigenbaum, 103 Pinewood Dr., Carbondale, Illinois 62901
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SPOTLIGHTING THE INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT
Editor’s Note: Due to “double jet lag” , induced by the 99's Southwest Sectional in
Hawaii, International President Susie Sewell’s column missed our late-late deadline. See
the “International Scene” for more about Susie.
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THE SMALL RACE
M ichigan Chapters of The N inety-N ine s, Inc.
Everyone is very much aware of the big problem of 1974 - lack of
fuel. The SM ALL Race Board, of the M ichigan Chapters, much
aware of the fact, have reacted co n stru ctive ly. There w ill not be a
race. Instead we w ill have the M ichigan A viation Festival and
Rally on O ctober 3, 4, 5, and 6. at the Shanty Creek Lodge in
Bellaire, M ichigan.
The Rally w ill be:
o Flown under fuel conservation techniques in a p ro ficie n cy
flig h t
o Open to all p ilo ts flyin g any aircraft carrying a current air­
worthiness certifica te .
The Festival w ill be:
o Focusing a tten tion on w orkshop sessions, designed to
advance knowledge of and experience w ith gas-saving
techniques.
o A week-end of fe stivitie s fo r the w hole fa m ily, sta tic
displays, ha ng -glidin g, aerobatics, barbeques, etc.
The Rally portion w ill be lim ite d to 300 planes but the parking
w ill accom m odate 1000 aircraft.
Registration in fo rm atio n w ill be available from Ju ly 15 to
September 7.
Send $2.00 to :
Nancy Brandon
P.O. Box 675
Lansing, M ichigan 48903
(State if you wish to enter rally also)
Show that you care about fly in g by atten din g and sup p o rtin g the
Michigan Chapters and th e ir:
1974 MICHIGAN AVIATION FESTIVAL & RALLY
Directed by:
The M ichigan Chapters S M ALL RACE BOARD
In Cooperation w ith :
The M ichigan A eronautics C o m m issio n
Sponsored b y —
The Bellaire Cham ber o f Com m erce
In Connection w ith :
The Annual B ellaire A utum n Festival
The SMALL Race Board, Michigan Chapters of the Ninety-Nines
Front row (L to R) Eloise Smith, Kalamazoo, Dianne Ritt,
Bellaire, Co-Chairmen.
Back row (L to R) Kay Chamberlain, Treasurer, Mt. Pleasant.
Claire Ojala, Secretary A Publicity, Dearborn Heights, and Betty
Finout, Operations, Lindon.
(Some members were absent when the photo was taken)
Page Shamburger
Page Sham burger, o f the Carolinas
Chapter, has a q u a lity w hich makes her
admired and beloved by all who know her.
It is the a b ility to be "ju s t like she is” . No
p u t-o n , no s u b te rfu g e , no la c k -o ffrankness. And w ith th is she has a drive
that doesn't seem com p atib le w ith her
slow, sou thern -style way o f speaking.
Because of th is , and her talent for
researching m aterial in the fie ld of
aviation, she has w ritten seven books
between 1964 and 1972. +
Her flyin g started "a bloody long tim e
ago” , as she puts it. She was fifte e n , and
took her firs t lesson because her boy
friend could talk of nothing else. She
became hooked, and he q u it! Her fam ily,
w h o se c o n v ic tio n w a s th a t p ro p e r
Southern “ la d ie s" did nothing more ex­
citin g than kn it and gossip, forbade her to
fly, and she ended up fo rg in g the ir
signatures fo r the necessary perm ission,
selling m ost o f her possessions, and
working sum m ers as a 7-day a week ap­
prentice m echanic at the a irp o rt. Her
fam ily fin a lly q u it o b je ctin g , probably
because they discovered it was useless.
But the private boarding scho ol, St.
Mary's, was so shocked at her answer to
their survey of what th e ir graduates were
doing w ith th e ir “ fin e ed u ca tio n ” , w hich
was “ w o rking as an apprentice airplane
m echanic", they liste d everybody in her
class expect Page..
Life has been fu ll of “ good, bad, fun ny,
and te rrify in g experiences” fo r Page. Of
her early fly in g she says, “ I was too stu p id
to know how stu p id I w as” , when she
reviews such th in g s as the tim e she was a
m oonshine sp o tte r by plane fo r the local
law, u n til she came back one afternoon
w ith her T -cra ft’s w ing riddled w ith
bu cksho t. Or once when she flew a
c lip p e d -w in g Cub to Jam aica, handpum ping gas out o f a sm all tank in the
fro n t seat to the m ain tank in order to
barely make it fue l-w ise . Then there was
the tim e she tried to get in to an airshow —
her perform ance, clim b in g a ladder from a
car top to a Cub.
But Page survived these and other
experiences and began her aviation w ritin g
career in earnest as a fly in g reporter fo r the
Am erican A via tion Magazine. She traded
her car fo r a Cessna 140. Then came her
Cessna 170. Now she is fly in g her second
Bonanza. C u rrently she is a c o n trib u tin g
e d ito r to A ir Progress Magazine, and free
lances fo r m any others. A long the way she
has collecte d honors and awards. Am ong
these was the Lady Hay Drum m ond-Hay
Trophy fo r the A viation W oman of the
Year; tw o ce rtifica te s of appreciation from
the State of N orth C arolina; the Doris
M u lle n
M e m o ria l
S c h o la rs h ip
fo r
h e lico p te r tra in in g ; com m endations by the
U S A F ; and an award fo r the best non­
fic tio n a v ia tio n . book of the year for
SUMMON THE STARS. In a d dition, Page
is listed in W ho’s W ho, W ho's W ho in
Am erica, W ho’s W ho in The South and
Southw est, W ho’s W ho In North Carolina,
Personalities of the South, and others.
Her 99 background is equally as im ­
pressive, and includes Chapter Chairman,
S e c tio n G o v e rn o r, E x e c u tiv e B o a rd ,
Curator o f the Museum , PPD and Angel
Derby o ffic ia l, and co-chairm an fo r the
1974 International C onvention.
Page is stea dily "in vo lve d ” w ith the 99s.
She is a determ ined, self-e ffa cing person
of whom we can all be proud.
+ Tracks A cross the Sky (L ip p in co tt);
C lassic M onoplanes (C row n); Comm and
The Horizon (A.S. Barnes); Aces & Planes
of W orld W ar I (C row n); Sum m on the Stars
(A .S . B a rn e s ); th e C u r tis s H a w ks
(W olverine Press) (Paperback E dition,
Crown).
Photos from Southwest Section Meeting
International President, Susie Sewll (L),
greets Christine Wells, Governor of the
Australian Secion 99s, at the SW Sectional
in Honolulu.
Pat Shearer (L), shown with Southwest
Section Governor Mary Vial, greeted more
than 300 pilots in Honolulu on April 26. Pat
was the “spark plug” among the women of
the Aloha hostess chapter.
99 Virginia Cook, Tucson Chapter, with
491/2 Ken, who coordinated the “Orchid
Special” flight to Honolulu for the South­
west Section.
International Scene
with a sense of having accomplished her
duties with great credit. Best of all, the
Ninety-Nines will still be able to take
advantage of her knowledge and interest.
E lizabeth “ S u s ie ” Sew ell has been
International President of the Ninety-Nines
for the past two years. Surrounding herself
w ith e x c e p tio n a lly able C o m m itte e
Chairmen, Susie has been successful in
realizing her goal of increased active
participation by members in the many
worthwhile projects of the organization. A
healthy growth has been achieved, and
recognition by the aviation industry and
the general public is clearly and con­
tinuously being accomplished.
Her interest in aviation began with building
models when she was very young. She
learned to fly before she learned to drive.
Her private pilot ticket was earned in 1945
and she became a 99 the following year.
She joined the Catlin Aviation Company so
that she might stay in aviation (she is now
Secretary-Treasurer of the Company). In
1947 she won the coveted Amelia Earhart
Scholarship Award, and went on to get her
Commercial Pilot’s license and Flight
Instructor’s rating. She attended the
University of Oklahoma in 1950 for special
courses in Business Law, Business
Management, and Corporate Finance.
Eventually she organized an insurance
agency specializing in aviation coverages,
and serves now as President-Treasurer,
and has become an expert in the field.
Piper Aviation thinks so highly of Susie
that she was named distributor in
Oklahoma and western Arkansas - one of
two women to hold this position in Piper’s
worldwide distribution system. In this
important job she is President-Treasurer of
the Aviation Development Corporation.
She has had a free hand with her ideas for
a dealer development program, and works
with them enthusiastically, for as she
says, “We are proud of our dealers.”
Susie has held all chapter offices, been
Section Secretary, and besides various
committee chairmanships, she has served
as International Board Member, Treasurer,
Vice-President, President; and presently
is a member of WACOA (which will soon
have a name change to Citizens Advisory
Committee to the President).
A very busy girl indeed, is Susie Sewell.
Despite this, she will leave the 99s
Presidency at the end of this term, surely
Our current vice president, Pat McEwen, is
probably as well-known outside the
Ninety-Nine organization as she is in it.
Not only was she “born to fly”, to borrow a
phrase, but she seems destined to be a
leader in general aviation. Among her top
honors is that of Chairman of the Women’s
Advisory Committee on Aviation, soon to
be known as the Citizens Advisory
Committee on Aviation — an active and
influential committee appointed by the
President of the USA.
Pat has been an Accident Prevention
Counselor since the inception of the
Program in 1968. She has chaired three
accident prevention programs in the
W ichita, Kansas area, and carries the
safety message all over the United States
in talks to various groups. Her interest and
activity extend to the Wing Scout
program; the Air Age Education programs
in public schools; indoctrination flights
for cerebral palsy children, and for the St.
Francis Home for Lost Boys, which now
has an aviation program as one result; the
medical program, Project Concern, and the
March of Dimes Airlift; relays for the
Direct Relief Foundation (DRF), during
which tons of medical supplies were
stored in her hangar; and many other
donations of her plane and her time —
services she was proud to contribute.
A member of the 99s since 1961, Pat has
been chapter membership chairman and
chapter chairman; has held sectional
offices; has served on the headquarters
committee, and Board of Directors; and
co-chaired the 1971 International con­
vention. Other organizations also saw Pat
joining since she started to fly in 1959.
Among them the National Association of
Flight Instructors, International Flying
Farmers, National Pilots Association,
N a tio n a l
In te rc o lle g ia te
Flying
A s s o c ia tio n ,
N a tio n a l
A e ro nautic
Association, and the Aerobatic Club of
America where she was on the board of
directors, and Newsletter Editor. She has
logged more than 5,000 hours, and
possesses a commercial license, SMEL
and instrument and instructor ratings. She
is listed in “W ho’s Who In Aviation”. She
flies as corporate pilot for Steffen Dairy
Foods Co.
Pat also leads a busy home and com­
munity life. She is the wife of executive
Owen C. McEwen, and the mother of seven
children. Despite all this, she sings in the
church choir, and takes part in civic
organizations, such as the Symphony, Art
Assoc., and Jr. League. Truly one of our
extraordinary 99s!
Some may tab Mary Nees Able, Inter­
national Secretary, as bashful. Don't you
believe it — she is far too accomplished in
aviation fields to have been any kind of
wall flower. True, you may have to pry the
information out of her, for she is obviously
a person who operates by deeds and not
words. Undoubtedly her Houston Chapter
of the South Central Section know all
about her credits, and knowing Mary, they
will forgive ye editor if she inadvertently
skips something..
She has been a 99 since 1962, and has
worked her way up to the prodigious
Learjet 23-24 type rating. She now has
some 5,000 hours, Airline Transport Pilot
Certificate, Instructor and Instrument
ratings, and all ground ratings. She is a
F.A .A . Aviation Safety Counselor, and a
Designated F.A .A . Examiner.
Mary owns and operates her own “M. Able
Aviation Company, Inc.,” at Andrau
Airpark (12 miles west of Houston). She
still has time to enter the Powder Puff
Derby (four of them!), the Angel Derby,
and many of the smaller races.
Outstanding honors include earning her
chapter’s Achievement Award five times,
plus garnering three first place Awards;
being a member of the Women's Advisory
Committee on Aviation, appointed by the
President; and holding both Chapter and
Sectional offices during her career.
Definitely, Mary belongs to an aviationminded family. Her husband, Conover, and
two sons, Conover, Jr. and Gary, are all
pilots. She also flies a twin Bonanza for
parents “and pleasure”. Is a “standby”
pilot on Lear Jets for two companies in
Houston.
Mary’s aviation knowledge definitely is a
tremendous asset to the 99s.
New Ninety-Nine
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Lois Feigenbaum, International Treasurer,
can perhaps be described in three words —
pert, personable, and proficient. Yet, it
would take many, many more comparable
words to really detail the seemingly
boundless energy, the contageous en­
thusiasm, and the plain-old efficiency with
which she accomplishes any Ninety-Nine
task that comes her way.
That her Cape Girardeau Chapter ap­
preciates her is obvious. In 1964 (one year
after joing the chapter) she won the “Pilot
of the Year” Award. Then, in 1973, she
became their “Pilot of the Decade". She
has been Chapter Chairman, Treasurer,
A.E. Scholarship Committee Chairman,
PPD Stop Chairman, Angel Derby Stop
Chairman, Convention Delegate, and held
Section offices. Internationally, she has
really become acquainted with the many
facets — NIFA Achievement Awards
C o m m ittee, H ead qu arters C h airm an ,
Representative to the Museum Trust,
Tellers Committee and Treasurer. She has
served on the President’s WACOA (Women
Advisory Committee on Aviation), and is
an Accident Prevention Counselor.
In 1962, when she first started flying, she
went at it with her usual animation, and
swept through her private, Commercial,
SMEL, Instrument and Flight Instructor
ratings In record time. Then she went on to
her Airline Transport Pilot's Certificate.
Her husband, Robert, and her three
children and one grandchild, form a loyal
and excited cheering section for her 99
activities. Hubby Bob is somewhat of a
family legend himself, having received his
Law degree at the age of twenty — one
year before he could take the Bar exam.
Lois says he is a great 491/2er.
She has taken part in 2 PPDs, flying with
her pilot-daughter, Susie.
Lois is widely known in her area as a
speaker. The spark plug in the PPD in
Southern Illinois was Lois — bringing the
famous race to Mt. Vernon. For her ex­
traordinary e ffo rts “ for c o n trib u tin g
enormously in furthering the growth in the
area", she was honored by an “Area
Appreciation Award”.
Lois continues to be a great credit to the
Ninety-Nines..
Alice Roberts, Permanent Trustee and
Chairman of the Amelia Earhart Memorial
Scholarship, is a member of the Phoenix
Chapter 99s. She is not only noted for
being “that goodlooking red-head with the
ready smile”, but for her energy and
frie n d lin e s s in her work for our
organization.
She started to fly in 1953, receiving her
license after five months, and immediately
joining the 99s. Since that time she has
held all Chapter, Sectional, and Inter­
national (except Sec’y) offices.
Her flying immediately drew her into the
Powder Puff Derby. Getting her first
license in June, she entered in July of
1953, placing 20th in a Piper Tri-pacer. As
the years went along, her winnings
became more impressive. In her thirteen
tries at PPD, she came in second in 1955
and 1956. The big win — 1st place — came
in 1957. Another first was in the Michigan
SMALL race in 1956. The one Angel Derby
she entered had weather, and she didn’t
finish. She now has some 2,650 hours, and
possesses a Commercial License with an
Instrument rating.
Alice has always been active in her
co m m u n ity . One of her c o n tin u in g
projects is Choir Director of the Freeway
Baptist Church. She has been both a
pianist and organist in the past.
With her husband Charles, she has been
active in their business, Chas Roberts
Trane Air Conditioning Company. After 32
years devoted to this, Alice and Charles
have retired, leaving it in the safe hands of
their son.
With a reputation for being fair-minded, a
woman of consistent devotion and vision,
Alice makes us feel very lucky too have her
as a member of the Ninety-Nines.
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in it ia l
organizational steps of a new N inety-N ines
Chapter, the C o ttonw ood Chapter, have
been the goals of the Dallas Redbird
Chapter on tw o occasions th is past m onth.
The firs t trip to Athens was taken in four
airplanes w ith eight Redbird members and
four guests. Marge Barr & Betty W orstell
flew w ith E linor Jo h n so n ; Hazel Jones
went w ith Pat Je tto n ; Helen W ilke had
Kathy Long, Bryant H utchinson and guest
Doris F uller as passengers. Sue Stidham ,
tem porarily here from Mass., flew in w ith
guest W inn ie W ackw itz and her daughter.
Duane Perry and Elaine W hite, local
Athens p ilo ts , met w ith the Redbird group
for an organizational m eeting fo r the
proposed new Chapter. A lso present was
Peg Ong, Dallas Chapter mem ber who now
lives in the Cedar Creek Lake area, and
several oth er prospective wom en pilots.
Recently another flig h t was made to
Athens to furthe r discuss the upcom ing
Chapter and to air-m ark the airport.
Attending on th is occasion was E linor
Johnson w ith 49—Vier Rowland, Kathy
Long, Helen W ilke, Hazel & Roys Jones,
Sandra Sexton and childre n, Bryant
H utchinson, Pat Jetton, Dallas member
Pauline W inthro p and special guest form er Dallas member C indy Carson from
Colorado. Duane Perry and Elaine W hite
also participated in the painting of the
name A thens on the taxiw ay. Driving in
from Ennis, Texas was another prospective
99, Vi Mason, w ith her daughter.
The proposed C o ttonw ood Chapter is
alm ost ready to get o ff the ground w ith the
required num ber of charter members for
application to the Executive Board and the
South Central Section.
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Some of the Redbird Chapter members
meeting with Duane Perry (third from left)
and Elaine White (extreme right)
NEWS BRIEFS
BISHOP WRIGHT 1974
AWARD WINNERS NAMED
DORIS RENNINGER
Four in dividu als who have d istin g u ish e d
themselves in the air in du stry by “ the ir
hum anitarian g o o d -w ill” received the 1974
Bishop W righ t Award.
They are: Senator Barry Goldwater;
Cesar B. Pattarini, Director of A viation, the
Port A u th o rity of New York and New
Jersey; George Van Epps, Eastern Area
Chief, National T ransportation Safety
Board; and Mrs. Doris H. Renninger,
mem ber of the W om en's Advisory Com ­
m ittee on A viation for the Federal Aviation
A d m in istra tio n , and the firs t woman
licensed he lico pter p ilo t in New York
State, and vice chairm an of the 99 Museum
Trust.
Presentations were made Tuesday,
March 12, International H otel, Kennedy
A irport.
The A ir Industry Awards Luncheon is
named for the father of aviation pioneers,
O rville and W ilb u r W right. Bishop M ilto n
W righ t, the father, was pastor of the
United Brethren C hrist Church in Dayton,
O hio, and fostered the fly in g a ttem p ts of
his sons. These culm inated in the first
flig h t by man in a heavier-than-air
m achine.
Rev. Bowman presenting Bishop Wright
Air Industry Award to 99 member Doris
Renninger. (Greater New York Chapter)
L-R: Mr. Edward E. Carlson, President and
Chief Executive Officer, United Airlines,
Inc.; Rev. Marlin L. Bowman, Chaplain
of the Protestant Chapel at John F.
Kennedy International Airport; Mrs. Doris
H. Renninger, member of the Women’s
Advisory Committee on Aviation for the
Federal A viatio n A d m in is tra tio n and
President of the Women’s International
A s so ciatio n of A e ro n a u tic s ;
Hon.
Alexander P. Butterfield, Administrator of
the Federal Aviation Administration and
Herb Fisher, General Chairman of the
Bishop Wright luncheon and airport
executive for The Port Authority of New
York and New Jersey.
Libby Pruett, Liz Taylor and Rita Davenport on the Open House Show talking about
Project AWARE.
PROJECT AWARE
AND HOW IT WAS STARTED
By Natasha Swigard
In the Spring o f 1972 a sm all group of
gals from the Phoenix Chapter (Sue
Harper, M illie Dawe, Mary Vial, Lenah
Peterson, and Jessie W im m ers) met w ith
Don H oughton (since retired FAA A ccident
Prevention S pecialist) and discussed the
idea o f developing an annual safety-inaviation project directed p rim arily towards
those wom en who are flyin g com panions.
The proposed program was dubbed
Project AW ARE. “ AW ARE” is an acronym
fo r “ A W ife 's Awareness
Reassures
Everyone” . O bjectives of the program are
to interest ladies in flyin g a ctivitie s w ith
tip s on safety and fo r more fun in fly in g . It
should also relieve wives and g irlfrie n d s of
certain apprehensions about fly in g . They
are introduced to pre -flig h t in spe ction,
ra d io p ro c e d u re s , s im p le n a v ig a tio n ,
w e igh t and balance, and the use of the
ch e cklist w h ich co n trib u te s to safer and
more enjoyable flig h ts w ith p ilo t husbands
or boyfrineds.
The Phoenix Chapter has presented 3
Project AW ARE program s, and has made
approxim ately 435 wom en (and a few men)
more "aw are" o f safe ty-in -aviation . The TV
and radio sta tio n s along w ith m any of the
valley’s newspapers have been very
cooperative in p u b licizin g the program.
Many businesses have been qu ite gracious
in c o n trib u tin g g ifts to be used as doorprizes. And Starrets Fashion W orld has
been m ost generous w ith tim e and e ffort
on the part of Pat Vaughn to organize and
present lovely “ fly in g ” fashion shows that
have been a part of each Project AWARE.
The local FAA office , and present
A ccid en t Prevention S pecialist, Charles
Rutledge, have been very helpful to the
Phoenix 99’s in presenting th is program to
the co m m u n ity. Each year they have
allow ed us to include an in vitatio n to our
program in one of th e ir m on th ly m ailings.
A ll of us in the Phoenix Chapter hope
that more chapters throu gh ou t the U.S.
w ill fo llo w exam ple and present a sim ilar
program in th e ir respective com m u nitie s
so that more people w ill become "AW AR E"
of the need fo r safety-in-aviation.
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W E W O U LD LO VE TO
HEAR FROM YOU!
Remarks delivered at Aviation Safety
Conference by Pat McEwen, Chairman,
W om en’s Advisory
C o m m itte e
on
A v ia tio n ....M a y 2, 1 9 74
S t. Louis,
Missouri.
Thank you - I’m delighted to be here w ith
you to n ig h t and want especially to thank
Mr. Coulter for in viting me to say a few
words. Of course, I needn’t te ll you but it's
m ighty hard fo r a wom an to q u it talking
any tim e, and m ost especially when she
has a captive audience! I want to extend
my con gra tu latio ns to all of you in the
Accident Prevention Program - S pecialists
and Counsellors - you have done a m ost
COMMENDABLE jo b and we have the
statistics to prove it. KEEP UP THE GOOD
WORK!
Let us remember the words of a fe llo w
American, friend of aviation, and one of its
most en th u sia stic supporters in the early
years of fly in g - W ill Rogers - who said, “ If
there is a safer mode of transp ortatio n I
never found it . ” Everyone in th is room
tonight also agrees that we can make
flying safer.
Let us also rem em ber that the A ccident
Prevention Program was created a few
years ago largely because the F lig h t
Standards people in the field were placing
great em phasis on airm en c e rtific a tio n and
enforcem ent of the regulations. Like it or
not, the average p ilo t came to view a F lig ht
Standards inspector as a “ co p ” w ho was
looking fo r som e reason, real or im agined,
to "g e t" him - in other words, the black hat
guys. We all know that th is was not true to
a large extent, but the image was there.
When the program originated even the FAA
used the Black Hat versus the W hite Hat in
its p u b licity.
The original program , therefore, was
originated largely as a p u b lic relations
gim ick to enhance the IMAGE of the FAA.
By luck or chance or maybe design the
FAA hit upon A viation Safety as the theme
of the program and they co u ld n 't have
made a better choice.
The program was o ff to a fly in g start - no
pun intended. It struck the im a gin atio n of
many local and national groups, such as
the N inety-N ines, National A sso cia tio n of
F light Instructors, G AMA, and AOPA, who
rallied around and gave it e n th u sia stic
support.
During the firs t year the success of the
program was sensational. There were
hundreds of local p ilo t m eetings devoted
to aviation safety. Many know ledgeable
people were designated as A viation Safety
Counsellors and gave freely o f th e ir tim e
and talents to enhance the program.
Thousands of p ilo ts gained new and
valuable sk ills and learned new ju dg m ent
factors on w hich to base a safe flig h t.
But the honeym oon is over and the FAA,
having made its po in t, is rapidly going
back to its old ways - its old image. For
exam ple, in many areas of the cou ntry
p ilo t safety m eetings are few and far
between. Locally, many of the A ccident
Prevention S pe cia lists say they have no
money and no sup po rt and that they m ust
look to “ In d u stry” to in itia te and support
m eetings and clin ic s .
T he p o s itio n o f th e W a s h in g to n
C o ord ina to r is a s ta ff po sitio n and has
been vacant fo r a considerable tim e. To
indicate the real paucity o f the program,
out of the to ta l 55,334 em ployees in the
new FAA budget request now before
Congress, there is 1 per 2.7 US airplanes
and 15.37 per US licensed p ilo ts but there
are only 85 accident prevention spe cia lists
in the fie ld and a national to ta l of 100 FAA
em ployees in the program , or 0.0017
percent of the to ta l em ployees, 1 per 1,585
planes and 1 per 8,952 p ilo ts . In co m ­
parison, th a t’s so th in that it ’s n e gligible !
W HAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT? This
m eeting here to n ig h t gives us hope that
the old horse is n ’t dead yet! The fiscal
1975 budget request is up over 58 percent
to a horrendous to ta l of TWO BILLION,
FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTY-SIX M ILLION,
E IG H T
HUNDRED
E IG H T Y -T H R E E
THOUSAND DOLLARS. Last year’s budget
was a BILLION DOLLARS LESS! Surely,
out of that vast am ount of m oney, there
should be plenty to support what we, a
great m a jo rity of US p ilo ts, th in k is a m ost
im portant program .
We therefore o ffe r these fin ite recom ­
m endations to revitalize the Aviation
Safety Program and establish it firm ly and
perm anently as a viable, m eaningful part
of the total FAA e ffo rt. We sincerely hope
these recom m endations reach the ears of
those people in the FAA who have the
c lo u t to fo llo w th ro u g h :
1. E stablish in the W ashington o ffic e a
high level s ta ff who entire fu n ctio n is to
lead, sup po rt and keep the aviation
safety program going in high gear. This
o ffic e should be given the respon­
s ib ility , a u th o rity and fun ds to do the
job.
2. Place in the leadership po sitio n an
in dividu al of the highest caliber, a b ility ,
experience and ju dg m ent, one w ho has
the con fide nce and support of general
aviation interests.
We feel that the general aviation safety
program, w hich after all is concerned w ith
approxim ately 90 percent of the active
p ilo ts and 98 percent of the aircraft in the
cou ntry, should be at a level w hich reports
to and is responsible to the Associate
A d m in istra to r fo r A viation Safety, and not
buried in an obscure niche in a service
o ffice.
F in a lly
let me close by qu otin g W ill
again, “ It looks like the only way you can
get any p u b lic ity on your death is to be
killed in a plane. It’s no novelty to be killed
in an auto a n ym ore ." DO WE W ANT
PUBLICITY OR DO WE W ANT A 100
percent SAFETY RECORD???? IT CAN BE
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CONVENTION UPDATE
by
Esther Wright
GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS, W hat are you going to do when you
get to the hotel and do not have accom m odations? We have
better than 500 airline reservations fo r the convention but very
few reservations for the hotel. The room s that were blocked off
for us w ill be released by July 15,1974. It is v ita lly im p ortan t that
you make your reservations now. For your convenience,
reservation form printed in th is magazine.
Remember you w ill know exactly what th is convention w ill
cost you before you leave home. No registration fees, no extras.
Just com e prepared to have the greatest tim e you have ever had
at any international convention. A ll C om m ittee chairm en have
been tru ly w orking overtim e ju s t for you.
ATTENTION CHAPTER CH AIR M EN : Do you have any 99
goodies that you w ould like to see at the convention? You may
have th is privilege by taking a $25 ad in the program for the
convention and paying a $5 fee fo r d ispla yin g the wares in an
assigned area at convention. If any chapter w ould like to make
th e ir g ift item s or sale item s available, please contact me,
Esther W righ t, im m ediately. The space is lim ite d . Make your
reservations for th is space now.
(L) Miriam Davis, Florida Goldcoast Chapter, is Chairman of the
International Convention Banquet.
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“ . . . a t a tim e w h e n fic tio n w rite rs
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year, there is no need fo r c o n trib u tio n s for
next year. W hile it is true the money does
carry over it is an on-going operation that
requires w ork by the AWTAR board all
year. This year as in other years the
AWTAR board needs operating funds.
H o pe fu lly, the com em orative album w ill
provide funds to the board so they can
c o n tin u e to fu n c tio n and get the wheels in
m otio n for next year. Prelim inary work had
already been done, such as trail blazing
th is year before the race was called off.
That took m oney. So they s till need your
help. In the form of orders fo r the album
and help in the form of c o n trib u tio n s from
your chapter to the operating fund. Get
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the album to :
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send your cash c o n trib u tio n s to me or Kay
fo r the 1975 Powder Puff Derby. Help us
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UFO
Believe 'em or not
by Tony Page
Editor Note: Tony Page, colorful and often controversial
Publisher-Editor of the aviation newspaper Cross Country News
(Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas 76106), is a member of the
Fort Worth Chapter 99s. Tony and I wrote columns »or the
California published Aviation News Beacon, which had a wide
distribution as a newspaper in the mid-1940s.
I have been w ritin g about the UFO since 1947 when the p ilo t
Kenneth A rnold saw and reported on a fleet of ten shinin g
circu lar disks w hizzing along at a thousand m iles per hour,
darting in and out of the peaks around M ount Rainer,
W ashington State.
The news flashed around the w o rld w ith the speed of lig h t
waves and started the co m m o tio n called "fly in g saucers” , w hich
eventually were called U nide ntifie d F lying O bjects - UFOs.
At that tim e I was w orking fo r an e d ito r who to ld me to forget
it. But I c o u ld n ’t - and started c o lle ctin g stories on sig h tin g s,
w ritin g them up fo r other p u b lica tio n s, often w ith a tou ch of
skepticism .
S kepticism changed in to a "seek and ye shall fin d ” attitud e,
after an interview w ith a s c ie n tific man, who answered my
question “ Is there life out there?” th u s : “ W o uldn 't we be con­
ceited to th in k that in th is galaxy, we were the only planet w ith
life?”
There fin a lly were so many reports, the G overnment set up
Project Blue Book in C olorado to report on the UFOs. The
con clu sion from that program was d isa p o in tin g to several
scie n tists who continued to investigate sig h tin g s.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Chairm an of the Departm ent of
A stronom y, N orthw estern U niversity, was one of the men on
Project Blue Book. He was not satisfie d w ith the results, and
w rote a book - The UFO Experience, A S cie n tific Inquiry - w hich
anyone who d o ub ts the subject o f UFOs sho uld read.
A nother scie n tist a NASA engineer, Josef F. B lu m rich, o f the
Marshall Space F lig h t Center in H u ntsville, A la., believes the
land of Israel was visited som e 2,600 years ago by a spaceship
more sop histicated than anything m odern tech nolog y w ill be
able to co n stru ct in the next tw o decades.
He believes the craft was an atom ic-pow ered, atm osp he ricentry vehicle, w ith fo u r h e lico p te r-like "d in g h ie s ” fo r local
transp ortatio n on planets it visite d som etim e around the year
592 B.C.
Blum rich, an A ustrian by b irth also w rote a book - “ Da Tat
Sich Der Him m el A u f" or "The Heavens were O pened" roughly
translated. W ords in the firs t chapter of the Book of Ezekiel
B lum rich believes set the stage fo r the prophet’s account of
man's earliest experience w ith space travel.
Ezekiel’s account of w hat he called his “ V ision s of G od" is one
of the m ost lucid passenges in the Bible, P sycho lo gists have
suggested the prophet m ust have suffered som e kind o f a fit, but
B lum rich looked at the report throu gh an aeronautical engineers
eyes.
Viewed th is way, he contends, Ezekiel’s firey cha rio t w ith
wheels and winged beasts can be interpreted qu ite s tra ig h t­
forw ardly as sort of cone-shaped central body, 70 feet high and
about 75 feet across w ith fou r landing legs w hich could be
detached and flo w n independently, in he lico pter mode.
99 Tony Page, is known for her quick sense of humor, as well as
for her sharp ability to call a spade a dirty black shovel. She is
shown here on the receiving end of a bit of clowning, when the
Tulsa Chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA)
made her an Honorary Chief in the fictitious Sycamore Tribe.
Ezekiel’s cha rio t m ust have been nuclear to perform as Ezekiel
said it did, according to B lu m rich. The power plant would
require a sp e cific im pulse of 1,900 or 2,000 w hich is about
double what we should be able to b u ild in the way of an atomic
rocket engine today, the NASA engineer believes. B lu m rich ’s
d e scrip tion of the ato m ic vechicle and the im pression it made on
the ground, brought back to m em ory a story we had back in
1969, on a landing of a "s o m e th in g " made in 1968 near Fort
W orth.
This photo was snapped in Texas November 19, 1968, and
although studied by many, from Government Agencies to
photographic experts, conflicting conclusions were drawn as to
its identity.
The man who to ld us about it did not want to be id en tified the "la u g h te r c u rta in " or a visit w ith a “ S hrink" w hich happened
to many p ilo ts who reported UFO s ig h tin g s and now do not. He
is a pilot-farm e r.
May 1968 was rainy. The black earth on his farm was m uddy
from spring rains. It was c o tto n p lan ting tim e. He was checking
his land, wading around in the gum m y ground, he came across a
strange depression. It was dish shaped, about five feet across,
w ith an egg shape area surro un din g. The area looked like a
“ so m e th in g ” had landed and taken o ff.
The form er A ir Force man, too k a better look. He saw five
holes in the ground. He measured the depth, each one eighteen
inches in to the black farm land. He measured the diam eter of
each. Four were tw o inches in diam eter, the center one was one
inch in diam eter.
The earth was dried out, alm ost baked it was so firm “ alm ost
like a restaurant plane” sm oo th and hard.
He look around, found no fo o t p rin ts other than his own in the
entire m uddy field. He left, went to the business section o f his
sm all c o m m u n ity, got a local business man to com e out, take a
look and con firm w hat he’d seen.
Next he called a nearby A ir Force Base, Down came tw o
he lico pters, w ith A ir Force personnel, about tw en ty in all. They
landed, started looking w ith interest at the five holes, the d ish ­
like im pression, made no com m ent.
Airmen walked the field, O ffice rs too k soil sam ples, took
notes and flew away. N othing more was ever heard on the
subject from the A ir Force.
Our farm er planted a crop, watched the land, w atched the
shoots and w h ile in spe cting fo r bo ll w eevils, he checked the
area again.
Not a stalk of co tto n came up in the area where the five holes,
had been made by a “ som e th in g".
“ It looked like the ground was sterilized by heat or
som e th in g," he to ld one con fida nt. The second p lan ting was
made, the crop came in and the co tto n around the area was
sickly, not w orth w atching.
Could the depression have been made by the same kind of
object w hich happened 2 November 1971, on the farm o f Durel
Johnson, of Delphos, Kansas? Very likely.
The Johnsons have a son, Ronnie, age 17, who was fin is h in g
his chores, feeding the last few sheep in the back yard.
Mrs. Johnson called him to supper. He said he'd be in as soon
as he got the sheep taken care of. M inutes later, he s till hadn't
shown up, she called him again. There was no answer.
"H e's ju s t being stu b b o rn " she told her husband. Then Ronnie
came in and said, "C om e here qu ick. There’s been a flyin g
saucer or som ething out here.”
The Johnsons came out of the house in tim e to see a “ flyin g
m ushroom " rise over the livestock shed and speed o ff to the
South. The “ stem " of the m ushroom was glow ing b rig h tly "in all
colors like an electric welder” according to Ronnie and it "sh oo k
and rum bled like m om 's washing m achine when it ’s out of
balance.”
In the fall of 1972, alm ost a year after the in cide nt, a UFO
in vestig ator dug a trench in the ground where the object had
apparently aligh ted. The diggers hands also went num b.
The soil around the circle was dehydrated, not burned. The
ground was wet from rain that n ig h t, but the ring in the back
yard was dry after the in cide nt. There is a w h ite m ossy sub­
stance in every pore of the so il, the nature o f w hich has defied
sc ie n tific investig ation fo r over a year. It extends to at least 16
inches below the surface of the ring, the depth of the trench dug
up by the investig ating scie n tist.
The Joh nso ns were presented a check for $5000 for reporting
the UFO story “ that supplied the m ost s c ie n tific a lly valuable
evidence of extraterrestrial life in 1972" by the National Enquirer,
a Florida based weekly ta b lo id , recently.
Are the tw o related? I d o n ’t know, but it tickle s my
im a gin atio n.
There is another UFO scie n tis t, Stanton T. Friedm an, a
nuclear p h y s ic is t, who gives lectures at colleges on the subject.
He says UFOs from outer space are very real. He calls them
EEMs fo r Earth Excursion M odule, instead of UFO or “ flyin g
saucer” .
"These vehicles have many features in com m on w ith our own
Lunar Excursion M odule (Lem) of A po llo, Friendm en opined,
“ in clu d in g the a b ility to hover, land, take o ff from unprepared
sites and to carry strange-looking hum anoids who wander
around c o lle c tin g specim ens."
Friedm an, a graduate w ith tw o degrees in physics from the
U niversity of C hicago, blamed a "la u g h te r c u rta in " b u ilt by the
news m edia and by a conservative s c ie n tific co m m u n ity for
failures to report "good UFO s ig h tin g s .”
A ccording to a G allup Poll released in December '73, 15
m illio n Am ericans believe UFOs are real, 11 percent o f the adult
po pu latio n in the U.S. say they have seen a UFO - and m ore than
half that num ber fe lt it was som ething real and not ju st their
im a gin atio n.
I have had tw o N inety N ines tell me of UFO experiences
(“ Don't use my nam e"), and one W h irly-G irl recently told of her
son who had “ an experience” but refused to tell about it,
because of his fear of the "la u g h te r c u rta in ".
Therefore there's good news fo r those of you w ho happen to
have a UFO or EEM experience and w ant to report it privately, to
a scie n tist.
A Texas pilot-farmer found the impressions baked in the ground
in 1969, although it was rainy and surrounded by wet and muddy
ground.
It was Ronnie who actually saw the object lift from the
ground. His father who had ju s t com e in from the back yard says
"I had to be 50 feet from it, but it was dark out and there was no
reason to look back there, so I never saw it."
Ronnie says he was watering lam bs when he heard a rum ble
from behind the shed. That’s when he heard his m other ca ll. He
walked behind the shed in tim e to see the "fly in g m ush roo m " lift
into the air. He swears he never heard his mom call him the
second and th ird tim es. He was frozen to the ground where he
stood, as was Snow ball, the fa m ily dog, and the sheep in the
pen near where the “ m ush roo m ” le ft the ground. S now ball was
blind fo r three days and R onnies eyes hurt long after that
"w hatever", too k o ff.
It was only after the "m u sh ro o m " was about 20 feet o ff the
ground that he was able to move. The sheep recovered a few
m inutes later.
"The sheep jum ped over the fence that nigh t and every nigh t
for about three weeks afte rw a rd ," Johnson said.
A fter the “ m ush roo m ” had left, Johnson and his w ife "b en t
down and touched the ring it had left. O ur hands went n u m b .”
“ You could have cut my fing ers o ff fo r a couple of days af­
terwards and I w o u ld n 't have known it . ”
Dr. Allen Hynek, and others concerned, have set up a Center
for UFO Studies. The address is P.O. Box 11, Northfield, ill.
60093. However, if it's a current sig h tin g , one w hich demands
im m ediate a tte n tio n , there is a 24-nour telephone num ber in
Chicago, w hich all police departm ents have.
Should you have som ething to report, call your police ask
them to call C hicago, and one o f 500 volunteer scie ntists,
spe cia lly-trained investigators who can respond to urgent
reports w ith in a m atter o f hours.
"These m ob ile units w ill make on the spot in vestigations,
obtain firs t hand accounts from w itnesses and record all traces
of physical evidence found at the scene.
“ We w ant to get unadulterated sam ples, before the circus of
souvenir hunters arrive" Dr. Hynek says.
A ll reports and fin d in g s w ill be fed in to an electron ic com ­
puter w hich w ill serve as a data bank to help establish recurring
patterns and features o f the reports.
Any physical evidence collecte d at sites w ill be analyzed and
given laboratory tests by trained s cie n tists from various
discip lin e s.
“ One o f the firs t th in g s the center wants to do is issue a
technical report on the Wave of UFO s ig h tin g s that occured this
fa ll” Dr. Hynek stated.
Now you know where to report it, should you have an en­
counter, and why I have been so interested in the subject these
many years. I am glad I d id n ’t take that e d ito r’s advice - “ forget
it . ” Forget it? Never!
Chapter Personalities
LOUISE THADEN
By Nancy Wrenn
Members of the C arolinas and K itty Hawk
C h a p te rs , w ith G o v e rn o r Bee Reid
re p re s e n tin g th e S o u th e a s t S e c tio n ,
gathered in Raleigh on Tuesday, 12
February 1974, to join the North Carolina
General A ssem bly in paying special trib u te
to their own Charter 99, the very great lady
of aviation, Louise M. Thaden.
Thanks to Nancy Jones and her 49'/2er,
State Representative Robert A. Jones,
"Louise M. Thaden Day" was o ffic ia lly
w ritten into the records of the Tar Heel
state.
The day began for Louise and the 99's
w ith coffee at the Executive M ansion as
guests of the Governor's Lady, Mrs. James
Holshouser. The Sir W alter Cabinet, an
organization of the wives of the State
Legislators, the Judiciary, and the C ouncil
of State, welcom ed the group for lu n­
cheon. Louise S m ith, Past International
President, presented an interesting and
in fo r m a tiv e
h is to r y
of
th e
9 9 's
organization. Nancy Jones introduced the
honoree. Mrs. Thaden, who captivated her
audience w ith an absorbing series of
reco lle ction s of her close personal friend
and fellow p ilo t, the legendary A.E. A
standing ovation and an arm ful of red
carnations could hardly begin to show the
esteem tendered Mrs. Thaden who in her
in im ita b le way had tried to turn the
sp o tlig h t from her own acco m plishm e nts.
During the afternoon session of the
General A ssem bly in the State Legislative
B u ild ing . Rep. Jones introduced the
f o llo w in g
r e s o lu tio n :
“A
JO IN T
R E SO LU TIO N PAYING T R IB U T E TO
LOUISE M. THADEN FROM HIGH POINT,
NO RTH
C A R O L IN A ,
W HO
HAS
ACHIEVED OUTSTANDING VICTORIES IN
THE FIELD OF AVIATION.
W hereas, th is General A ssem bly ap­
preciates the o p p o rtu n ity to pay trib u te to
North C arolinians who have d isting uish ed
them selves in various endeavors and who
bring credit to our state by the ir presence
here; and
W hereas, we are privileged to have a
resident in our state w ho has, by her own
a b ility and de term in ation , excelled in the
field of aviation during an era when this
career was heavily dom inated by m e n ; and
W hereas, th is grand lady, Louise M.
Thaden of High Point, North Carolina, has
achieved many o u tsta nding goals and
victories in the field of fly in g , som e of the
more sig n ifica n t of w hich are as fo llo w s :
1. Set an altitude record of over 20,000
feet in a small open cockpit, single engine
plane in 1928;
2. Set a solo duration (over 22 hours) and
speed record (156 mph) and won the first
Women's Air Derby in 1929;
3. Set a refueling duration record (196
hours) in 1932;
4. Won the Bendix Transcontinental Air
Race in 1936, the first year that women
were permitted to compete with men in
this National Air Race, and was awarded
the F ed era tio n A ero n a u tiq u e In te r­
nationale Aviator Harmon Trophy Award in
1936;
5. Founder and charter member of the
N in e ty -N in e s
(an
in te rn atio n al
organization of women pilots).
Now, therefore, be it resolved by the
House of Representatives, the Senate
c o n c u rrin g :
Section 1. That we welcom e Louise M.
Thaden to the General A ssem bly th is 12th
day of February 1974, along w ith many of
her frien ds and fellow m em bers of the
N inety-N ines and w ish her and these other
courageous ladies fair w inds and clear
v is ib ility as they ‘s lip the surly bonds of
earth and dance the skies on laughtersilvered w in g s .’
Section 2. This reso lu tion shall become
effective upon ra tific a tio n .”
The reso lu tion passed unanim ously in
both the House and Senate chambers.
Again, standing ovations recognized this
special lady who watched q u ie tly w ith her
friends from the gallery. It was w ith deep
h u m ility and trem endous respect that her
sister 99 s had flow n in to honor Louise
Thaden on her special day.
Meet a Flying Activity Chairman
by
Charlene Falkenberg,
International Flying Activities
I w ould like to introduce you to a typica l
flyin g activity chairm an. Mary Krautkram er
of the C hicago Area Chapter of 99’s, has
served as the ir flyin g a ctivity chairm an for
the past tw o years.
Mary has brought m uch enthusiasm to
flyin g a ctivitie s in th is chapter. She has a
planned fly in fo r alm ost every m onth in
the year. Some have been coordinated w ith
nearby chapters, especially the Indiana
Chapter of 99’s. Each fly in is diffe re nt.
She has had them on week days,
weekends, and at nigh t, and everyone has
been very successful w ith good a t­
tendance. Much of the success is due to
M ary’s enthusiasm at the regular chapter
m eeting. She has a sign-up sheet ready
and anyone who po ssib ly may be able to
go to the fly in signs up. Then Mary calls
each one p rior to the date of the fly in to
remind them . She puts much w ork and
tho ugh t in to her jo b but it has paid off.
Mary received her private license in 1970
and has been a 99 since 1971. She holds a
SEL com m ercial license w ith instrum ent
rating and has over 400 hours. Her
husband, Joe, is also a p ilo t and they are
the parents of tw o childre n, a boy and a
g irl. They fly a Bonanza and a Messerschm idt.
Mary, as p ilo t, w ith co -p ilo t, Pat
Friedman of the Chicago Area Chapter of
99’s, placed fifth in the 1973 Powder Puff
Derby w ith the M esserschm idt. Mary flys
all the sm all races held in the nearby
states, som etim es w ith Joe and other
tim es w ith another 99.
Mary is very fo rtu n a te in that she lives on
Mary Krautkramer, Chicago Area Chapter,
with friend.
The quiet dignity of Louise M. Thaden is reflected as she stood in the gallery of the
North Carolina State Legislative Building to receive the tribute of the General Assembly
and her fellow Ninety-Nines of “Louise M. Thaden Day” .
her very own private strip at B risto l,
W isco n sin ..W in fie ld A ir S trip is located at
41 degrees - 31 ’ and 80 degrees - 01' w ith a
sod runway of 2000’. Mary extends a
personal in vitatio n to each of you to fly -in
and visit w ith her over a cup o f coffee.
Memories of winter at Mary KrautKramer’s
private strip at Bristol, Wisconsin.
CAROLINE SMITH
Caroline S m ith, dynam ic Chairm an of the
Chicago Area Chapter, is c o n sta n tly on the
go — involved in a variety of 99s and civic
activities that w ould Keep ten ordinary
m ortals busy!
Caroline earned her private license in
1966 and became a 99 in 1967. She has
served tw o years as Chapter Chairm an,
and tw o p re v io u s ly as
R e c o rd in g
Secretary. She has also been chairm an of
such com m ittees as M em bership, By-Law
R e v is io n , T e lle rs , R e s o lu tio n s , M ary
Shumway Scholarship, and the Chapter A ir
Race. She’s flow n tw o llli-N in e s A ir
Derbies herself, and won o u r Chapter A ir
Race in 1968. C aroline has attended m ost
Sectional and International m eetings as a
delegate.
In activities clo ser to her home in
Naperville, III., Caroline is a m em ber o f the
Naperville W om en’s Club and of the
American Business W om en's A ssociatio n.
She's presently Vice President o f the
N a p e rv ille C o m m u n ity F u n d , h a v in g
previously served 2 years as Secretary.
She’s also D istrict Manager fo r Coppercraft G uild. In her "spare tim e ” , she
Caroline Smith, Chicago Area Chapter
Chairman, shows off the unique 99s
Bicentennial Star received recently from
charter m em ber
and
B ice n te n n ial
Chairman Fay Gillis Wells. Please note
that Caroline is holding the Star, and has
not sealed off her baggage compartment
— Chicagoans don’t usually travel quite
that light!
w rite s fo r m agazines, and served 2 years
as a reporter fo r the N aperville Sun. This
busy gal s till has plenty of tim e le ft over to
be a w ife and m other.
Caroline and her 49 1/2er George own and
fly a turbo Com anche 250. "Jo vial G eorge”
was recently elected Tribe C hief of the
International Com anche S ociety.
Caroline has been involved w ith the 99s
B ic e n te n n ia l S ta r P ro g ra m . C a ro lin e ,
accom panied by Joan Kerw in and Gail
W enk, met w ith the Program 's chairm an,
99s charter m em ber Fay G illis W ells, for
luncheon at the Executive C lub in C hicago,
where Fay presented her w ith a num ber of
the m eaningful Star em blem s to be placed
on our chapter’s airplanes. Am ong other
th in g s, the Star stands fo r pro m otin g
inte rna tiona l good w ill, and c o n trib u tio n of
women to excellence in aviation. Rem inds
one of Chicago Area’s g u id ing lig h t,
Caroline S m ith.
Two o u tsta n d in g wom en in th e ir fie ld —
aviation advertising, w ith the firm of
M cPhail & A ssociates, Inc., of O klahom a
C ity — are also active m em bers of the
O klahom a Chapter of the N inety-N ines.
Suzette M cPhail, shown here w ith the
Check Chock, w hich she is curre ntly
pro m otin g w ith en thusiasm , and Saundra
Lapsley, Creative D irector of the aviation
firm .
Suzette McPhail
It was at the in sistan ce of her brother
(one of the now 1300 Am ericans s till
m issing and unaccounted fo r in Vietnam )
that th is 99 started to fly . She went
stra ig h t through to get her C om m ercial.
Her husband, W ayne, was involved in
aviation advertising, w hich meant often
ferrying m issions w hich she enjoyed. One
of the results of these trip s was the
e sta blishin g
of far-ranging
accounts,
w hich enabled them , even at the peak of
the energy crisis, to esta blish M cPhail &
Associates, located at 4509 Classen Blvd.,
in O klahom a C ity. Their firm is suc­
c e ssfu lly engaged in advertising in the
fie ld of aviation, w ith w hich they are both
h ig h ly inform ed, and very active.
Oklahoma Chapter Ninety-Nine Suzette
McPhail displays the easy use of CHECK
CHOCK on her Cessna Skyhawk N500BB.
A commercial pilot, Suzette is an active
real estate broker and vice president of the
aviation advertising firm
McPhail &
Associates, Inc., of Oklahoma City.
Suzette has a real estate license, and
cred its her success in the field w ith her
association w ith people who fly. She and
her husband have th e ir ow n (company)
Cessna 172 w ith fu ll IFR panel — which
Suzette hopes w ill com pel W ayne to take
her on fo r that in stru m en t rating.
She cre d its the “ frin g e be n e fits” — such
as her frie n d sh ip s, pa rticularly the 99s,
w hich she has made through her flyin g —
as being the m ost w o rth w h ile part of the
w hole big adventure.
Saundra Lapsley
When Wayne M cPhail, w ell-know n
aviation ad man, spotted Saundra Lapsley
and her fine work fo r another advertising
agency, he decided she had to be part of
his new M cPhail & A ssociates, Inc. She
came as the Creative Director, w ith lo ts of
w ork in the fie ld as a w rite r, developing of
m arketing approaches, and know ledge of
a v ia tio n . S a u n d ra , m o re s p e c ific a lly ,
w rite s ads, brochures, ghosted stories for
p u b lic a tio n s , s p e e c h e s ,
in s tr u c tio n
m anuals, and “ anything else a client
happens to w a n t". A ltho ug h she works in
all fie ld s, as does M cPhail, aviation is her
firs t love, and in w hich she is best known
and m ost knowledgeable.
A ltho ug h her father was a p ilo t, and
sym pa th etic to her desire to fly, it too k her
much planning, m oney-saving, and sheer
de term in ation to get her private license the
day before her graduation from High
School in 1966. From then on, her dad
helped her out, so that w ith her Com ­
m e rc ia l
lic e n s e ,
In s tru m e n t
and
Instrum ent In stru cto r tickets fin a lly won,
she got a pa rt-tim e jo b as flig h t and
ground in s tru c to r at O klahom a State
U niversity.
Her push in to w ritin g was given by 99
Page Sham burger at a NIFA meet, who
gave her the assist she needed to start her
w ritin g career. Since then, although it has
,n o t all been sm ooth, her a b ility has put her
in an enviable p o sitio n w ith a fresh, new,
to p -n o tc h
com pany,
M c P h a il
&
Associates, where she is having the tim e
of her life.
Saundra Lapsley, holder of ratings through
instrument flight instructor, gave up full
time flying for full time writing about
flying. She’s creative director for the
aviation advertising firm, McPhail &
Associates, Inc., Oklahoma City.
RESPIRATION
Chapter Personalities
Continued
LIZ TAYLOR
Flight Instructor of the Year fo r Arizona
During a luncheon m eeting of the Arizona
General A viation Advisory C o m m ittee at
Sky Harbor International A irp o rt, Elizabeth
C. Taylor was named F lig h t In stru cto r of
the Year.
Liz was born in Los Angeles, C alifornia.
She grew up in S. Pasadena and attended
Pasadena C ity College and U .C .L.A .
She moved to Phoenix in 1965. It was
w h ile living in Phoenix that she became
interested in aviation and earned her
Private P ilo t’s License on June 18, 1966.
Liz continued flyin g and obtained a
Com m ercial License Nov. 28, 1967, adding
an Instrum ent Rating on Jan. 16, 1968.
A fter de cid ing to make aviation her career,
she earned her F lig h t In stru cto r A irplane
Rating on A pril 24, 1968, and s h o rtly after
began in stru ctin g fo r Saguaro A viation,
Inc. Six weeks later she passed the
Instrum ent Instructors F lig h t Test. She
has added a M ulti-E ng ine Rating, an
Instrum ent G round Instructors Rating and
a Gold Seal to her q u a lifica tio n s. She has
been an in s tru c to r fo r the past 6 years, and
has done all her teaching at Saguaro
A viation. To the present she has signed off
93 ratings. Says she's going to q u it when
she reaches 200!
Liz was selected as top flig h t in s tru cto r
of the basis of her effectiveness as an
in stru cto r, her p ro fe ssio nalism as a
teacher, her in itia tive in developing and
im p la n tin g new id e a s and t r a in in g
m ethods, her e ffo rts in pro m otin g aviation
in schools and to the general p u blic, her
know ledge of and com pliance w ith the
Federal A viation Regulations, and her
unblem ished safety record.
Liz is a m em ber of the Phoenix Chapter
of the 99's, and is APT Chairm an fo r the
group. She resides in Phoenix w ith her
husband Lester and the ir 14 year old cat
Ignatz. Her hobbies include o il pa in ting,
f ly f is h in g ,
h o rs e b a c k r id in g
and
m inerology.
M A R Y FO LEY
Evelyn Johnson looks over her tie-dyed
“long-john” flight suit presented by
Tennessee chapter 99’s at a surprise birth­
day party in Morristown, Tennessee some
time ago. She has just been named Flight
Instructor of the Year by nashville GADO.
Dot Wilson, Memphis Chapter 99, receives
a plaque from John Wright, Chief of FAA
Memphis, naming her Flight Instructor of
the Year by the Memphis office of the FAA.
Do not send your
change of address
to your Editor.
send it to
Headquarters.
R espiration is the process by w hich a
living organism exchanges gases w ith its
environm ent. Breathing enables us to get
oxygens in to the blood stream and to
remove carbon dioxid e, a product of
m e ta b o lis m . R e s p ira tio n a ls o h e lp s
m aintain body tem perature and the acidbase balance of the body.
The lungs contain m illio n s of tin y sacs
and blood vessels fo r the exchange of
gases. The sacs, called alveoli, have
porous w a lls through w hich the gases,
norm ally oxygen and carbon dioxide, pass
by d iffu s io n . The gases also diffu se
through the w alls of the pulm onary
cap illaries, sm all blood vessels which
surround each alveolus. These capillaries
connect w ith the artery carrying blood
from the heart to the lungs and w ith the
veins carrying blood back to the heart.
The heart pum ps the blood to all parts of
the body where the gases are exchanged in
the cells. In the cells, the oxygen is used in
the chem ical reactions w hich sustain life,
and carbon dioxid e is produced.
The red blood cells are the gas carriers.
They easily pick up oxygen in the lungs at
ground-level atm ospheric pressure, as it is
in the lungs. They release oxygen rapidly
at low er pressures, such as those found in
the body’s cells, and pick up the m etabolic
waste product, carbon dioxide.
At sea level, air exerts a pressure of 14.7
pounds per square inch (760 mm Hg.) 20.9
per cent of the air is oxygen, and this
oxygen is responsible fo r 20.9 per cent of
the total pressure. At sea level, oxygen
thus exerts a pressure of about 3 pounds
per square inch (100 MM Hg). This am ount
of pressure is necessary in the lungs to
keep the blood cells saturated at about 95
per cent o f th e ir capacity w hich is normal.
TO BE CONTINUED
Please note address of
Liz Taylor, Phoenix Chapter 99, with her
magnificent trophy for being selected
Flight Instructor of the Year for the state of
Arizona.
Circulation Editor.
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Flying on to
(The heading New Horizons reflects the belief that death is a horizon toward which we all
fly, even though this new adventure is brought about by diverse causes. In a sense it is a
flight from the “Bonds of Earth” to unknown “New Horizons” .)
NEW HORIZONS
Zipora Alterman, Israeli Chapter, died of cancer, 26th o f A p ril, 1974.
Helen Strok, vice-chairm an of M aryland 99s, died of cancer, Feb. 19. She was also serving as Queen of M aryland Flying Farmers
th is year.
Marian Burke and Ruth Hildebrand, San A n to n io and H ouston Chapter m em bers, K illed in the crash o f the ir plane during the
Angel Derby, A pril 25, 1974.
Margie Jones and Doris Ann Norcross, Central Illin o is Chapter, killed in the crash o f the ir plane in the Angel Derby, A pril 25,
1974.
To date, no d e fin ite cause has been established fo r the loss of
either of the tw o planes in the Angel Derby; weather and
v is ib ility were reported good in the area of both in cid e n ts. It has
been established that neither plane "fle w in to " a m ountain.
If fate destined these p ilo ts fo r m isfo rtu n e we hope that they,
from the ir "N ew H orizons" vantage, and th e ir fa m ilie s can take
com fort from know ing that the V olunteer Arm y rescue u n it at
Uruapan now know about ELT’s in the U. S. Registered aircraft
and how to u tilize the ELT fo r search and rescue.
We know and share the sorrow o f the loss o f these dear ones
w ith their fam ilies.
ALL W OMEN’S INTERNATIONAL AIR RACE, INC.
(
Virginia B ritt, President
The following is a tribute to the pilots who finished the race:
“ I am not surprised at all that you ladies are co n tin u in g on
your ‘flig h t path’ in spite of the tragedy that befell you r fe llo w
flyers _ it is ju s t what I w ould expect of persons like your­
selves. To all those a ltitu d e s you always brought the same
attitude. Som etim es the skies shone in b rillia n ce and
som etim es you were surrounded by dark clouds. N aturally, th is
is a som ewhat som bre day fo r you. B ut, above that it is a
beautiful day. Because your being heretogether represents
superlative navigating rig ht through the turbulence o f the tim es
and w hat’s m ore— the triu m p h of human s p irit. I salute each of
you for that and fo r c o n trib u tin g to inte rna tiona l good w ill.”
(signed) Senator Edward J. Gurney
Professor ZIPORA ALTERMAN
Israeli Chapter
It is w ith great sadness that I w rite th is trib u te to one o f the
W orld's great wom en, Zipora Alterm an, who died in Sydney
Hospital on 26th A p ril, 1974, during Sabatical Leave in A ustralia.
Born in Berlin in 1925, she em igrated to Palestine w ith her
fam ily at the age of 12 years and spent much tim e travelling
wherever she could, by boat, train or air. She studied at the
Hebrew University and later became Professor M athem atics and
Head of the Department of E nvironm ental Sciences at Tel Aviv
University. Here, she and her stud ents studied everything about
the Earth, from its m olten core to the Solar W ind s and the
weather co n d itio n s on other planets, to help long range weather
forecasting. Using an enorm ous com puter, a CDC 1600, w ith
inform ation from a model of the Earth made by Professor Bullen
of Sydney U niversity, she calculated when and where earth­
quake waves w ould travel, where they w ould bounce o ff certain
solids and flu id s , over m ou ntains and throu gh water,
showing the speed of these waves in various m aterials, and
proved that Professor B u lle n ’s model is correct, and th is has
made it possible to calcula te when and where future shocks
w ould occur. T his involved study of wave propergation, com ­
pression and shear. She was curre ntly w orking on Crack
Propogation in Elastic M aterial.
She has had hundreds of articles published in S cie n tific
Jou rna ls all over the W orld, from the Royal S ociety in London to
the U.S.S.R . and the U.S.A. Even the Russians published under
her own name. During her many travels she became w ell known
to a irlin e p ilo ts and was always invited up to the flig h t deck,
here she decided flyin g was ju s t like operating a com puter, and
she began to wonder w hy she em ployed a p ilo t to do her
research over the sea and lakes, w ith an infra Red Camera,
charting the varying tem peratures of the waters, to p in -p o in t hot
springs in the sea, etc., and enable fisherm en to know where to
fin d various types o f fish in various tem peratures. One day in
1970, she decided to learn to fly, but was told that, at 45, she
was too old. However, after much persistance the Department
said she cou ld on ly learn if she was taught by a certain very
tough in stru cto r, who was booked up fo r 3 years anyhow!
However, she pursuaded him to give her h is tim e fo ra few weeks
and in 30 hours fly in g she had her private licence and 2 more
hours she had a m ulti-eng in e rating. She then flew the
U n iversity’s Twin A ircra ft to chart the sea tem peratures.
In 1971 w h ils t on a visit to U .S .A ., she obtained her Seaplane
Rating and back in Israel, her in stru m en t rating. Then she hired
a tw in Cessna 337, for 4 hour flig h ts , and began cloud seeding,
w hich resulted in a 20 percent increase in rainfall over Israel.
In 1972 she returned to U.S.A. to obtain an In stru cto rs rating,
there being no in stru cto rs courses in Israel fo r civilia n s. Here
she was tw ice awarded the A ir Safety Test badge - a Safety Pin
w ith an explanatory label attached!
In 1973 she again visited Los Angeles, to earn her I.F.R.
In stru cto rs Rating. She flew w ith a pupil to the 99’s Convention
in M ilw aukee where she was presented w ith a gold watch for
having traveled the farthest to the Convention. On her return to
Los Angeles she im m ediately flew in the w inning aircraft in the
Palms to Pines A ir Race.
In 3'/2 years she flew over 1200 hours as p ilo t in com m and,
le ttin g no o p p o rtu n ity s lip by that enabled her to get in the air.
She was in the process of taking out an A ustralian Licence, to
fly w ith me to the com bined 99's and A .W .P .A ., A .G .M . in
Adelaide, when she slipped and badly broke her leg, on 26th
March. P hysically she was never very strong, but she swam a lot
to help b u ild up her energy. Her sheer de term in ation and deep
love of fly in g got her back in the air very rapidly, after more than
1 very serious illness, but she could not beat the cancer of the
throa t that caught up w ith her 2 weeks after her leg operation in
Sydney.
Those o f us who were privileged to meet her, w ith her
husband Israel, w ill never forge t her, fo r her d e lig h tfu l per­
so n a lity, her courage and her de term in ation to get as much
enjoym ent and adventure out of life w h ils t there was yet tim e.
She is survived by her 19 year old son Man, who has already
won the W eizm ann In stitu te Prize fo r an auto p ilo t for landings,
based on a pendulum , 1 o f the 5 best prizes fo r Israel’s 25 years
of achievem ent, and by her Husband who is a co n su ltin g
engineer and is the Israeli Representative Fellow of the In stitu te
of S tructura l Engineers in London and th e ir Exam iner in Israel.
M argaret Kentley
A ustralian Section 99's
What its all about...
COMMITTEE REPORTS
APT
Margo Smith, Chairman
APT CHECKLIST
(CONTINUED)
(PLEASE SAVE FOR
FUTURE REFERENCE.)
In NOTAMS ONE, we said:
TO HAVE APT LISTING IN 1974-75
ROSTER
1.
If, since July 1, 1973, you had any of
the fo llo w in g — (a) an APT ride (b) a BFR
(Biennial F lig h t Review) (c) a checkride for
a new ce rtifica te -ra tin g (d) a courtesy
p ro ficie ncy ride (safety pin) from an APS or
APC (see NOTAMS ONE fo r d e fin itio n s).
AND
2. If, by June 30, 1974, you s u b m it the
signed bottom portion of APT form w ith
M em bership renewal ... you w ill be listed
APT in the roster.
Note: In lieu of signature, xeroxed "p ro o f"
stapled to APT form is OK.
A xerox copy of new ce rtifica te -ra tin g or
BFR logbook endorsem ent, stapled to APT
form , w ill co n s titu te the required "p ro o f.”
APT form s are available through Chapter
APT Chairm en, and one accom panied
m em bership renewal form .
TO HAVE APT LISTING IN PERMANENT
FILES
(IN T E R N A T IO N A L ,
S E C T IO N
AND
CHAPTER)
Turn in m id d le portion of APT form to
your CAC (Chapter APT Chairm an) or
Section APT Chairm an, if no Chapter im m ediately fo llo w in g the “ rid e". Form
m ust be fille d in com pletely and signed (or
proof attached). By s u b m ittin g form to
CAC, and on tim e, you w ill 1) m aintain
consecutive years APT. 2) receive a card
(gold every th ird year). 3) assist your
Chapter in th e ir bid fo r a Section APT
trophy, where applicable. 4) save the
sanity of the bookkeepers w ho are
voluntary, unpaid slaves who care about
you and the image 99’s present.
TO BE APT FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR
1974
If you have had any of the 4 types of
rides m entioned above, since January 1,
1974, you are APT th is year. If not ... do it
before December 31, 1974.
Rem ember: you MUST have a BFR prior
to November 1, 1974 (USA regulations)
TO BE CURRENT IN USA ... to fly PIC-solo
(see FAR61-5T or com plete w ording) you
m ust have 1) a current, appropriate
m edical 2) a BFR in the 2 years prior to
Nov. 1, 1974 3) made 3 take offs and lan­
ding s in category and class, in last 90 days
Day: touch and goes are okay unless you
fly taildraggers
Night: m ust be fu ll stop.
4) IFR currency: in last 6 m onths, 6 hours
o f actual o r sim ulated (3 hours in flig h t)
w ith 6 in stru m en t approaches OR had a
com petency check given by FAA, designee
or in stru m en t in stru cto r.
NOTE: 1) I have lib e ra lly paraphrased and
condensed 61.57. Suggest you read it!
2) New FAR Part 61 went in to e ffect Nov. 1,
1973 except those se ctio n s w hich had a
q u a lifyin g date e.g. BFR, conversion of
in s tru cto r certifica te s.
BIENNIAL FLIGHT REVIEW 61.57
The BFR can be given by an FAA
exam iner, a designee, an APS (Accident
Prevention S pecialist) and APC (Accident
Prevention Counselor) — or your favorite
in stru cto r, so long as that in s tru c to r is
authorized. A uthorized means checked out
and current in the aircraft to be used, and
having a valid
in s tru c to r ce rtifica te .
C onduct and m aneuvers to be included, is
left to the d iscre tio n of the in stru cto r. If
you have acquired a new rating or higher
ce rtifica te , you do not have to take a BFR.
H IG H
PERFORM ANCE
A IR C R A F T
CHECKOUT: If, p rio r to Nov. 1, 1973, you
had not checked out in an aircraft that has
more than 200 HP or that has retractable
landing gear, flaps and a c o n tro lla b le prop,
and you now w ish to do so, the checkout
m ust be given by an in s tru c to r the firs t
tim e (see 61.31 e)
CATEGORY, CLASS, TYPE, GRADE
(see FAR Part 1 and 61.5)
GRADE - means “ what kind of cer­
tific a te ” - S tudent, Private C om m ercial,
A ir lin e T ra n s p o rt P ilo t and F lig h t
Instructor. C e rtifica te - License - Ticket in
com m on talk.
RATINGS - you w ill alw ays have a
CATEGORY and CLASS rating put on your
c e rtifica te (except student). Example ASEL A irplane, S ingle-engine land.
TYPE - if you are qu a lifie d in a particular
TYPE of aircraft requiring TYPE rating it
too w ill be added.
INSTRUMENT RATING - This too would
be added to Private and Com m ercial only.
CATEGORY and CLASS have diffe re nt
m eanings depending on w hether it is
p ilo ts or aircraft being discussed.
APT RIDE -(-Annual P roficiency Training
Ride: a 99 Program term . The APT ride
parallels BFR in criteria but w ith the
recom m endation that the ride be done
annually.
SUMMARY
BFR is an APT ride ... may be given by
In stru cto r or higher Safety Pin Ride (also
good fo r APT ride) ... m ust be given by
APS or APC C heckride fo r new certificaterating — BFR — APT
FAA C urrency (1) current, appropriate
m edical (2) BFR w ith in previous 2 years (3)
3 ta ke o ffs and landings plus 3 fo r night
currency.
AWTAR-PPD
by
Marion Andrews
Just in case you th in k the AWTAR Board
of D irectors is taking a sabbatical th is no­
race year, we all agree that putting
tog ether the Powder Puff Derby Com­
m em orative Album is more work than
running a race. We do w ish more of the
racers had sponsored th e ir own pictures
fo r the album . Fifteen pictures of deceased
racers to be included have been sponsored
by 99s or Chapters. It really is a colossal
jo b to correlate the m aterial fo r 27 races.
Maybe th is is the tim e, when you are not
spending the money to fly the race, to buy
your Powder Puff Derby pin. We have a
lim ite d supply of solid gold at $27.50 each
and gold fille d at $15.00. Make checks
payable to AW TAR, Inc. and send to
Barbara Evans, 40 Stuart PI., Manhasset,
New York 11030.
The bu ild in g that houses the AWTAR
Headquarters has been sold arid a new
tenant has taken half of ou r o ffic e space.
T his w ith no reduction in the $125.00 a
m onth rent. By agreeing to the shrunken
space, we avoided a sizeable increase ando r m aking another move at th is tim e.
The film “ Powder P uff fo r Joan” is
available upon request. W rite to Helen
Shropshire fo r sh ip p in g charges and
scheduling. A 25 m in ute co lo r sound film
o f the 1972 Powder Puff Derby, Palomar,
Cal. to Elm ira, N.Y. is available from
AWTAR Headquarters, Teterboro A irport,
Teterboro, N.J. 07608. W rite fo r shipping
charges and scheduling.
We are happy to report that Board
m em ber B etty W harton has recovered
s u ffic ie n tly from surgery to be con­
valescing in Hawaii. We hope the thought
o f fly in g her new airplane w ill make her
recuperate faster.
PPD Album is also Com m em orative in
that those w ho have flow n on to "New
H orizons” w ill have a m em orial Photo
sponsored by a fly in g friend.
M E M O R IALS
A P P E L, Helen
DAVIS, Arlene
HART, Rita
JU R LIC H , Dot
MACPHERSON, Bea
M U LL E N , Doris
M U TTE R , Gladys
PRESTAS, Bobbie
SCHUBERT, T rix ie Ann
SHUYM, M ary
SMITH, Elsie
SMITH, Joan M e rria m
STE IER T, Jo Ann
TE LLEKSO N , Jeanine
W IK A N D E R , Ruth
S H EEHY, Ethel
P H O TO S P O NS O R E D BY
llovene Potter
Jean Ross Howard
Geraldiine Michelsen
Long Island Chapter
Tucson Chapter
Jean Ross Howard
Doris Langher
Pat Wilson
Lola Ricci
Geraldine Krause
Norman S. Smith
Fay G illis Wells
Los Angeles Chapter
Charlene Falkenberg
lloven Potter
Anna Brenner
Three who won No. 1 places at the Chicago
Area C hap ter's A chievem en t Aw ards
Banquet. L to R, Charlene Falkenberg,
Elsie Wahrer, and Jean Ingle.
Sherry O’Keefe (R) receives her No. 1
Award from C h icag o Area C h ap ter
Chairman of the Achievement Awards, Rita
Adams.
A FLYING ACTIVITY PROJECT
By Charlene Falkenberg,
Chairman, Flying Activities
Members of the C hicago area chapter
held the ir annaul Achievem ent Awards
banquet on March 23.
R ita A d a m s , A c h ie v e m e n t C h a p te r
Chairman, M istress of Cerem onies, gave
an interesting presentation, assisted by
her com m ittee, M argie Kinney and Cheryl
Hook.
Tw enty-six m embers of the C hicago
Area Chapter participated in the contest
during the year. In order to make the
contest fa ir to everyone a new mem ber
category received awards as w ell as
members who participated fo r the entire
twelve m onths. The six new mem bers who
participated and the order o f th e ir scores
are as fo llo w s : 1. Pauline G ilkiso n , 2.
Juanita Harr, 3. Gai Lapook, 4. Ruth
Frantz, 5. Carol Para, and 6. Sue Dewulf.
In addition other categories awarded
tro p h y s and th e w in n e rs
are as
fo llo w s:
Bonus Points — 1. Charlene
Falkenberg, 2. Mary Stroh.
In addition oth er categories awarded
trophys and the w inners are as fo llo w s :
BONUS POINTS — 1. Charlene Falken­
berg, 2. Mary Stroh.
FLYING TIME — 1. Sherry O'Keefe, 2.
Patricia Friedman.
LICENSES, RATINGS, ETC. — 1. Jean
Ingle, 2. Sylvia Harper.
CHAPTER ACTIVITIES — 1. Elsie Wahrer,
2. Mary Stroh.
TOTAL POINTS — 1. Charlene Falkenberg,
2. Mary Stroh.
As you can see pa rticip ants in the
Achievement Awards are not lim ite d to
members who do the m ost fly in g . It is
understood that not everyone has the
op po rtu nity to own or have available an
airplane, therefore, the other categories
which are ju s t as im p ortan t in 99 m em ­
bership are in the contest.
If your chapter does not participate in
Achievement Awards I w ould urge each
chapter Flying A c tiv ity Chairm an to make
it her goal to start th is a ctivity. It keeps the
members on th e ir toes and interested as
well as culm ina ting w ith a be au tifu l social
event shared by both 99's and 49’ers, as
well as friends.
Anyone w ishin g to receive in fo rm atio n
on achievement awards please con tact me
and I w ill send the in fo rm atio n to you
im m ediately.
INTERNATIONAL HOT-LINE
Shirley Allen,
International P.R.
AFRICA: The very word conjures up a
m ental p ictu re o f steam y ju n g le s, w ild
anim als, p rim itive natives and pu lsa ting
d ru m s !! A co u n try that is a kaleidoscope
of ever changing clim ate and cultu res,
encom passing the early social orders of
many Negro tribe s to the m ost modern
areas of civilize d com m erce and in du stry.
A con tra st from the ancient and sim p le to
the in tru sio n o f “ p ro gre ss." One does not
readily associate AFRICA w ith
20th
Century con cep ts. It is a young cou ntry
w ith regard to fly in g , G overnor Ann W hite
states, yet it w ould seem to be the logical
answ er
to
t r a n s p o r ta tio n ,
b o th
e co n o m ica lly and so cia lly. A propor­
tio n a te ly sm all po pu latio n spread over a
vast C o ntin ent, second o n ly in the W orld
to Asia in area size and fo u r tim es larger
than the United States of Am erica.
W omen are waging an u p h ill ba ttle to
get in to aviation co m m e rcia lly in South
A frica. One or tw o are w orking in A ir
T ra ffic C ontrol under the ju ris d ic tio n of the
Departm ent o f Transport - no apparent
problem there.
The last research that was done in to the
num ber of wom en p ilo ts , e ith e r actively
fly in g or on course was a few years ago
and a rough num ber of around 200 was
tabulated. Ann spearheaded a m em bership
drive circu la r and alth ou gh the response
was good, she fe lt that they had barely
scratched the surface.
Civil A viation Rules and Regulations
again based on ICAO standards w ith a few
ad d itio n s regarding
local areas and
re strictio n s. Private p ilo t q u a lific a tio n s are
being upgraded w ith the in tro d u c tio n of
pe rio dic flig h t testin g fo r license renewals
and clo ser surveillance on private p ilo ts
w ith between 150 and 180 hours (the
dangerous period) has been advocated.
Instrum ent-rated p ilo ts are re-tested every
six m onths by a Departm ent o f Transport
approved Instructor.
“ W INGS OVER A M ER IC A" w ith a c ir­
cu la tio n of over 50,000 has been in print fo r
32 years. An excellent A viation magazine
th a t p ro je cts aviation as it applies to A frica
on ly. It covers the gam ut of fly in g - civil,
m ilita ry , air travel, general aviation,
private, parachuting, g lid in g and aerom odelling - w ith a heavy em phasis on
Safety and A ccident Prevention.
The only other p u b lica tio n is com ­
paratively new - “ W orld AIRNEW S", has a
broader content w ith a Section on ‘Club
News' in clu d in g a Report each issue in
short form from the N inety-N ines.
F lying C lubs abound, it is d iffic u lt
keeping track of them . The N inety-N ines is
at present the only W om en's Aviation
O rganization, there was a W om en’s Flying
A ssociatio n w hich u n fortuna tely phased
out. Many of the m embers were not
licenced p ilo ts , but wom en vita lly in ­
terested in prom oting aviation. They were
responsible fo r settin g up flyin g bursaries
and events to sponsor in dividu als in­
terested in flyin g careers. This fu lfille d a
real need and was sorely m issed.
Local co m p e titio n s are held at Club
level, Provincial and National events,
under the auspices o f the Aero Club of
South A frica. Aerobatics are taught, but on
a very lim ite d basis as aerobatic aircraft
are in short supply. There is a National
Aerobatic C o m pe tition.
Ann W hite reported that several o f their
mem bers com pete in the A ir Races and
Rallies. She m entioned that M iss Auriel
M ille r won a 5th place "Perfect F lig h t”
Trophy in the round-N atal A ir Rally in 1973
and Jeanette and Michael Van-Ginkel of
Transvaal placed firs t tw ice, in 1969 and
1973 fly in g a tw in Com m anche in the State
President’s A ir Race. This is the top event
in South A frica and has a proud h isto ry. 60
to 85 planes enter in th is race. One issue of
“ AIRNEW S" featured stories and pictures
of ou r 99 m embers who had done so well.
B etty Am brose w rite s from Rhodesia,
Central A frica Section that w h ile their
num bers are sm all, th e ir enthusiasm is
high, but the fuel shortages have curbed
th e ir flyin g tem porarily. S ight-seeing trips
are very po pu lar in Rhodesia and one A ir
Carrier operates three Apaches. For $4.00
you can take a 10-m inute flip over the
V ictoria F alls, a breathtaking, panoram ic
view of A fric a ’s greatest to u ris t spectacle.
Known as the “ flig h t o f the angels". Or for
$14.00 you can take o ff on a “ Zambesi Sky
Safari" and view the game from a co m ­
paratively (?) safe altitu de .
South A frican Section was the firs t to be
incorporated in July, 1966. There are at
present tw o S ections in the Directory. By
the tim e the next M em bership Roster is
printed there may be one or even tw o more.
As the 99’s increase in num bers, they
divide to form th e ir own Sections.
O ur
g lo b e - t r o t tin g
In te r n a tio n a l
M em bership Liaison, Edith Denny, on a 5week trip to A frica last year, reports
considerable interest in the areas she
visited - E thiopia - Kenya - Tanzania and
Nairobi - and an increasing num ber of
wom en p ilo ts. Two m embers at large were
installed - Denise Marchand and Heather
Irwin. Two more ap p lica tio n s are now
before the Board, one being one of the
o st reveered and respected women
aviator’s in East A frica. Dr. Anne Spoerry
is a legendary fig u re who flie s a Cherokee
300 fo r the F lying D octor’s A ssociatio n,
ad m in isterin g to the sick in Tanzania,
Uganda and Kenya. We firs t learned about
th is remarkable woman talking
w ith
Madame Beauregarde in Paris last sum m er
and Edith resolved to contact her on her
forthco m ing visit to A frica later that year.
We are extrem ely honoured that Dr.
Spoerry has applied for m em bership in our
organization.
Our newest members
Denise and
Heather are both Com m ercial p ilo ts flyin g
for A ir Charter Services out of Kenya and
Nairobi, respectively. Denise is very en­
thu sia stica lly tracking down names of
other women p ilo ts through th e ir local
Aviation au th o ritie s in East A frica fo r the
in corporation of the third A frican Section,
the wheels are already in m otio n for
International approval.
INTERNATIONAL HOTLINE
U.S. REPORT- by Pauline Genung
The m ailbag during recent weeks and a
personal visit w ith the N inety-N ine s of the
South Central Section in H ouston, a ffirm s
once
a g a in
th e
s e rio u s n e s s
and
professional a ttitu d e being reflected by
U.S. N inety-N ines in the ir approach to
prom oting
aviation and
N inety-N ines
m em bership.
Projecting a good im age seems to be
second nature to our m em bers and one of
the m ost successful areas appears to be in
that of air education because it serves as a
natural o u tle t to share enthusiasm for
aviation and concern fo r air safety w ith
both p ilo ts and laymen of all ages.
One exam ple w hich has com e to my
atten tion appeared in the A pril 1974 issue
of "F lig h t
P lan," published
by the
Maryland State A viation A d m in istra tio n .
The story fo llo w s :
"T w e nty-five high school g irls at
M a ry v a le
P re p a ra to ry
S c h o o l,
B rooklandville, Md., participated in
an aviation course conducted by the
Maryland Chapter of the N inetyNines last m onth. The N inety-N ines,
and in te rna tiona l organization of
women p ilo ts , were invited to teach
aviation during the m in i-m ester, a
new learning concept. This m in im ester provided stud ents the op ­
po rtu nity to explore, fo r one week,
subjects w hich were not included in
their regular c u rric u lu m .”
"The N inety-N ines teaching team,
Sally W illia m s, Lorena Burch, Cleo
Sherbow, Sheila M cEntire and G inny
Vogel, showed the g irls the fu ll
scope of aviation. Their lessons
in c lu d e d s o m e g ro u n d s c h o o l,
d iscu ssio n s on career o p p o rtu n itie s,
practice in the use of an aircraft
sim u lato r, and a to u r o f the radar
ro o m and w e a th e r b u re a u at
B altim ore-W ashington International
A irp ort. The h ig h lig h t of the m inimester came on the last day when
the N inety-N ines took the g irls for
airplane rid e s."
This involvem ent in the m in imester is part of the new lecture
program the N inety-N ines
have
b e g u n in w h ic h th e y p ro v id e
speakers fo r scho ols and c lu b s .”
"The M aryland N inety-N ine s are
also p a rticip a tin g in the Direct Relief
p ro g ra m
w h ic h
tr a n s p o r ts
e m e rg e n c y
m e d ic a l
s u p p lie s ."
T his is ju s t one exam ple out of many
crossing my desk show ing the dedication
of N inety-N ines and th e ir c o n trib u tio n to
the good p u blic relatio ns e ffo rt by our
members.
+ + + + +
N inety-N ines w ho were active in
aviation p rior to W orld W ar II can con­
trib u te som e of th e ir re co lle ctio n s of early
flyin g experiences if they so desire by
answ ering the fo llo w in g qu estio nn aire to
be used in preparing a do cum entary film
on early women flyers, p a rticularly those
who flew before 1938. Excerpts from a
letter recently received from the film
com pany said in part, “ ............ It w ill be
about not only the factual triu m p h s of the
early wom en flyers but th e ir more per­
sonalized accounts of th e ir flyin g ex­
periences du rin g that pioneering pe rio d.”
“
Your response to the fo llo w in g
q u e s tio n s w o u ld be m o s t h e lp fu l.
Disregard any that d o n 't apply and feel free
to include any a d d itio n a l th o u g h ts and
in fo rm a tio n ."
N inety-N ines interested in answering
the fo llo w in g qu estio ns may send the
in fo rm a tio n to : W ind and Stars-W om en in
Media, 256 S. R obertson, Beverly H ills,
Ca. 90211 or phone (213) 659-4210.
QUESTIONS
1. When did you firs t begin flyin g and what
were the circu m sta nce s of your training?
2. W hat kin ds of planes did you fly?
3. W hat kind of clo th es did you wear w hile
flyin g?
4. W hat was the reaction o f your friends,
husband and fa m ily to your flyin g ? Did
th e ir re a c tio n s in flu e n c e y o u r p a r­
ticip a tio n ?
5. W hat did flyin g mean to you in the early
days? W hat do you th in k it meant to early
wom en aviatrix in general? How do you
feel the cou ntry as a w hole responded to
the women fliers?
6. W hat events and places stand out in
your m ind as excitin g , generally im portant
or tu rning po in ts in your own career as a
flier? Please describe them in as much
detail as you can remember.
7. Are you s till fly in g now and if so under
what circum stances?
8. W ho do you adm ire m ost am ong the
early women flie rs and why?
9. W ho w ould you p a rticu la rly recommend
we con tact fo r th is stud y and why?
10. Do you know of or have any film or s till
photos that we cou ld look at and use in our
docum entary project.?
Membership Corner
by
Pat Shearer, Chairman
INACTIVE
One of the interesting th in g s about
aviation is that a lo t of the term s used in it
are m isu nd erstood . For instance, take the
word “ s ta ll” . To a person new in aviation,
or to a person not in aviation, it means to
com e to a s ta n d s till, to stop. Now, we
know that is not what it means. Another
m isu nd erstood expression is “ final ap­
proach” — to som e it sounds om ino us —
like it is that last chance at life.
In the N inety-N ines, we have a term that
is very m isu nd erstood . It is the term
“ in a ctive ." Inactive m em bership does not
mean that the person is not active in the
N inety-N ines. In m any cases, th is is far
from the tru th .
The d ictio n a ry describes the word
inactive as "characterized by in a ctio n ; not
engaging in a c tiv ity ; id le ; in e rt.”
Inactive is a class of m em bership in the
N inety-N ines and does not refer to those
"n o t engaging in a c tiv ity " of the chapter.
Instead, it means that th is member's
m edical has lapsed and she has been a
m em ber fo r more than five years, and has
200 hours (or more) of pilot-in -com m a nd
tim e.
An inactive mem ber pays dues, may
vote, but cannot hold o ffice . Even though
her m edical has lapsed, she is show ing to
us that she is very interested in aviation,
and is very interested in the N inety-N ines
by
rem aining a vital
part
of our
organization. Don't cou nt her out, for she
is very needed by the N inety-N ines.
For every airplane p ilo t, there is ground
crew that enables that p ilo t to fly . There
are m echanics who check the plane, the
gas boys who gas a plane, the schools
w hich provide in stru cto rs, the business
that provide plane rentals. So, fo r every
one in the sky as a p ilo t, there are at least
tw o on the ground as “ ground crew ."
“ G round crew " is needed, too, by the
N inety-N ines. And I feel th is is a point we
should all consider.
W hat happens to a N inety-N ine who
loses her m edical but DOES NOT have 200
hours of p ilo t-in -co m m a n d tim e even
though she has been a member of the
N inety-N ine s fo r five years? She becomes
an inactive m em ber u n til the end of the
fisca l year fo r w hich her dues have been
paid. If at that tim e, her m edical has not
been renewed, her m em bership would
term inate. She could be a very active
chapter member, and a person who
sup po rts and believes in the N inety-N ines
fu lly . No m atter what she w ished, or her
chapter w ished, she w ould no longer be a
m ember. This m edical loss may be due to
an accident or circu m sta nce s beyond
human co n tro l, ft w ould be a shame to lose
her as a member.
W hat happens to the N inety-N ine who
loses her m edical, has 200 hours p ilo t-in com m and tim es but DOES NOT have five
years a m em ber in the N inety-N ines? It is
the same as above - she becomes an
inactive m em ber u n til the end of the fiscal
year.
The new FARS in e ffect now requires a
p ilot to have a biennial (m eaning once
every two years) flig h t review in order to be
a current p ilo t and act as P ilo t-in Command. Under the new FARS and our
present By-Laws, if the 99 does not have a
flig h t review by November 1, 1974, and
does not have 200 hours p ilot-in -com m a nd
tim e, and has not been a m em ber of the
N inety-N ines fo r five consecutive years,
then (by our present By-Laws) her
m em bership w ould term inate at the end of
the fiscal year. A lo t o f ou r m em bers do not
have the o p p o rtu n ity to fly that som e o f us
have. Some may be down w ith a slig h t
medical problem at th is tim e. Some may
be down due to tem porary fina ncial
problem s. Because of the ir interest in
Aviation, these m embers make invaluable
c o n trib u tio n s to the 99s, and thereby
sustain the organization. They are the
"ground crew " to the chapters, vital to
their very existance. There is a need to
redefine the status of 99 m em bers to be
more in the line w ith U.S. FARs, yet gen­
eral enough fo r o u r non-U.S. m em bers.
SPRING SECTION MEETING
FOR SOUTHEAST
HELD AT
NAG’S HEAD, N.C.
APRIL 5-7
Peggy McCormick, S.E. Section Secretary
Escorted by the tra ilin g edges of an in ­
teresting fro n ta l system , S'east Section
99’s came to K itty Hawk, where the
prevailing w inds pattern had coaxed the
W right brothers in to using the w inds and
the dunes area fo r th e ir earliest successful
powered flig h ts . A ll of us enjoyed the
s tra n g e
b e a u ty
and
th e
h is to r ic
background at Nag's Head fo r 1974 Spring
Section M eeting.
Regular business plus an extra session to
work on final plans for Puerto Rico
In te rn a tio n a l C o n v e n tio n , c o m e t h is
August 21-25, took some tim e, but
Saturday afternoon was free to v is it w ith
each other, explore the W righ t M em orial
grounds, and investigate the many other
fa s c in a tio n s
w ith in
rea ch
of
th e
headquarters at the H oliday Inn. The S’east
Section has had a busy year — the APT
program and Aerospace Education work
deserve special reco gn ition . C onvention
plans are in great shape and w ill be
tho ro ug hly reported elsewhere in the
News.
A t S a tu rd a y n ig h t ’ s b a n q u e t, B ob
Farrington, Com m ASMEL Instrum ent,
radio and TV personality, FAA APC, and
form er president of the C a rolina Aero
Club, kept the audience in an uproar as he
took the w hole gang hangar-flying w ith
him in a series of m isadventurous tales.
Annette Rogers, K itty Hawk Chairm an,
expressed the Chapter’s thanks to all who
helped, but the guests fe lt that she and the
Chapter were the ones who were due the
gratitude fo r a really super weekend.
SECTION REPORTS
REPORT OF SOUTH CENTRAL SECTION
MEETING
HOUSTON, TEXAS, MARCH 29, 30, 31,
1974
SPRING ROUND-UP IN HOUSTON
By Marilyn Cragin
The H ouston Chapter, known fo r doing
th in g s rig h t, did it again! The Sectional
M e e tin g , a p p r o p r ia te ly t it le d “ S p rin g
R ound-up", was a success, and the
H ouston g irls should be proud! Even the
weatherm an coo pe rated— blue skies all
weekend in H ouston and "g o in g hom e”
weather reported fa irly good to m ost areas.
For early arrivals, Friday m orning
started w ith the tele visio n show “ Dialing
fo r D ollars", a c o m b in a tio n talk and give-a­
way show . The N inety-N ine s, seated at
tables, “ aaahhed” and "cla p p e d ” properly,
were interview ed, and photographed. It
was great fun. Two blonds interviewed on
the show were the form er M iss H ouston
and the current M iss W ashing to n, and
alth ou gh they were very lovely, our own
Governor, blond Brenda S trickle r, w ould
be c o m p e titio n fo r eith er of th e m !!
Friday afternoon was the h isto rica l and
museum tours, h o s p ita lity room , and the
unusual ride on the b lim p , the “ A m erica".
The ride, lim ite d to the firs t 12 registrants
(I was lucky) too k place from the blim p
base 22 m iles North of H ouston and lasted
about 30 m inutes, six passengers at a
tim e. G etting on and o ff the b lim p , w h ile it
hovered, was a test of o u r a g ility . Clear
weather over H ouston added to the
pleasure of the flig h t.
Friday nigh t at the R ound-up Supper we
were greeted by blue and w h ite gingham
dresses, cow boy hats, “ The Yellow Rose
of Texas” , and an exceptional buffet
dinner. The H ouston Chapter looked
charm ing in flo o r length gow ns and w h ite
cow boy style hats. The m usic was a
m ixture of rock and w estern. South
Louisiana Chapter enlivened the room on
one side, and G olden Triangle the other,
w ith 14 strong , w in n in g the A ttendance
Award.
Saturday m orning a tw o hour m eeting
was held and Mr. Perry W esbrooks, a
491/2er, and an attorney from W ic h ita Falls,
spent part of that tim e in fo rm in g us of the
a d v a n ta g e s o f c h a p te r in c o r p o r a tio n ,
tu rn in g a la ck-luste r sub je ct in to a very
in te restin g one. It was also disclosed
where the next 4 South Central Section
m eetings w ill be held. Im m ediately,
th o u g h ts of fu tu re trip s to Las Cruces,
Abilene, Aspen, and Baton Rouge started
the wheels o f our m inds turning very fast!
Again, good food prevailed at the
luncheon at S ako w itz’s Sky Terrace Room.
A ll o f us e n th u s ia s tic a lly viewed the styles
and could have looked on and on at more
fash ion s. A fte r lunch, many of the g irls
were seen scurrying around the store,
o b vio usly en jo yin g the in sta nt cre d it a f­
forded us as N inety-N ines.
The co ckta il hour, p rior to the banquet
on Saturday nigh t, found M. E. O liver at
the grand piano and nearly everyone
stop pin g by to sing a few bars of an old
favorite tune. A fte r the co ckta il hour: the
banquet, and an in te restin g speech, slide,
and strum m in g
presentation
by Dr.
H yp o lite Landry, who set 13 records in an
aro un d-the -w orld flig h t in a S-35 Bonanza.
Sunday m orning, after breakfast and a
w e a th e r b r ie fin g , e v e ry o n e d e p a rte d
H ouston w ith m em ories of another suc­
cessful South Central Section m eeting.
Old acquaintances renew ed— happy hours
of being w ith old friends, com paring notes
on chapter a ctivitie s. The N inety-N ines are
undo ub te dly the best wom en in the w orld,
and know ing and seeing one another at the
m eetings is really the essence of the
m eeting!
SO U T H W E S T S E C T IO N A L M EETIN G
REPORT
A Texan looks at Hawaii
by Hazel McKendrick Jones
For all of you who did not avail your­
selves of the Southw est Sectional m eeting
in H a w a ii;-y o u m issed it ! ! ! It was alm ost
an International C onvention w ith 315
N inety Nines in attendance from the
S o u th w e s t S e c tio n and fro m Texas
O regon, W ashing to n, Alaska, Illin o is,
M ichigan, O klahom a, A ustralia, Canada,
Norway, and New M exico.
A ll of the th in g s you have ever heard
about Hawaii are true about tw ice over! It
is Paradise and it is hard to believe there is
a spot like th is le ft in the w orld.
From the m om ent we stepped o ff the plane
and were given a carnation and plum eria lei
and a kiss, you knew you had stepped into
another w o rld. The A loha Chapter m ust
surely be given a trem endous vote of
thanks and appreciation for all the work it
too k to put th is m eeting together. A big
A LO H A ! (I’ve already gone native) to Pat
Kelley Shearer, her fa m ily, and friends who
have worked from "can to kain’t ” to
assure that everyone got where they were
suppose to be when they were suppose to
be there. A ll of the escorts from Tradewind
Tours were captured so that we could have
a leader at all tim es. This chapter m ust
have an “ in " w ith the weather departm ent
for it was ideal the w hole tim e.
They had som ething fo r everyone. There
was a to u r to an a irfield for flyin g or
soa rin g; surfboard rid ing and lessons,
g o lf, s n o rklin g , or ju s t sunning on the
beach. S w im m ing in the BLUE PACIFIC
was som ething else. It really is blue, blue,
blue! I hate to say this, but we haven't got
a sin g le lake in Texas th is big. In fact th is
Native Son o f the Lone Star state is ready
to defect to the 50th state.
The A loha Chapter and Pat Shearer had
arranged fo r us “ firs t tim e rs” to do all the
th in g s you are supposed to do to see
Hawaii. We went to the Hawaiian Hut, a
to u r o f the c ity by day and another one by
Chapter Reports
night. Incid en ta lly, all the bus drivers sing
and sing w ell and as you are going hom e to
the hotel they sing to or w ith you. It is
really w ild !! We were taken to the
Polynesian C ultural Center. Some took the
H .A.T.S. to u r w hich is an all day to u r of ail
the other islands. Part o f the group went to
the other islands w ith Rick Burger, an
escort from Tradewinds, by air and bus.
Those of us who stayed behind had the
Pacifica Flora, Pearl Harbor, or the Golden
People Tours to occupy our tim e. Or ju s t
“ hang loose” out on the beach w ith an
outrigg er canoe ride.
Tour guides and directors kept th e ir cool
w ith th is gaggle o f fem ale p ilo ts , and not
one appeared displeased w ith the dum b
questions or the endless rep etitio ns. This
is tru ly a diffe re n t w orld, a d iffe re n t a t­
titud e, and it is neat. Hawaii is our newest
state and th e ir pride in being a m em ber of
the team is “ som ething else". Can you
im agine the audience standing up to sing
“ God Bless A m erica” in a co ckta il nigh t
club show? It happened at the Don Ho
show. My goosebum ps had goosebum ps.
It was tru ly an exce ptio na lly organized
m eeting. For those of us who pre­
registered it was great because we took
advantage of Pat Shearer’s d isco u n t and
d id n ’t have to pay as much.
Thanks to the Southw est Section and the
Aloha Chapter fo r extending an in vitatio n
to us ou tside rs to jo in in on the fun. The
Texas delegation had a ball.
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So u th w e st Section
A R IZ O N A - C A L IF O R N IA
H A W A II - N E V A D A - U T A H
w ritte n , on the firs t try! March can be a
rainy m onth in Hawaii, but after tw o un­
successful days of rain and
over­
scheduled airplanes, TRIPPI PENLAND
took three of her co h o rts from the FDIC, of
the Los Angeles and San Francisco o f­
fices, fo r a sig htsee ing to u r o f Oahu. She
was able to gain tw o m ore converts to take
up pleasure fly in g .
PAT DAVIS and hubby put on a Pattie’s
Day party to beat all. It even made the
celeb rity colum n the next day. Belly
dancer, Shalim ar, was there to w iggle her
way in to the hearts o f m ale p ilo ts
everywhere.
66'er Barb NOYES decided fly in g w ith
her husband, Terry, was g e ttin g her
nowhere, so she changed in stru cto rs, and
rig ht o ff she soloed! H usbands can be
funny that way!
BAKERSFIELD CHAPTER
Margaret Harps, Reporter
Good food and fe llo w s h ip were enjoyed
when the Bakersfield “ 99’s" air marked
Meadows Field, A pril 20th. F .A .A . per­
sonnel jo in e d us.
At a recent m eeting Joan Davidson was
welcom ed as a new member.
Jack Patrick, F .A .A . A ccid en t and
Prevention Chairm an fo r th is region came
down from Fresno to be a “ 99” speaker. La
Verne B illin g le y , “ B u tch ” Ayars, Joan
Paynter, and Carol Dunsm ore too k th e ir b i­
annual p ro ficie n cy rides w ith Jack. Thanks
to Jack fou r more are now “ A p t".
As th is goes to press we are envious of
all w ho enjoyed the Southw est Section
m eeting in Hawaii.
BAY CITIES CHAPTER
Kathy Walton, Reporter
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ALOHA CHAPTER
Trippi V. Penland, Reporter
By the tim e th is new sletter is out, the
A lo h a c h a p te r w ill h o p e fu lly have
recovered from the Spring S ectional. W hat
w ith scheduling airplanes, both private
size and com m ercial, the san ity of certain
members is becom ing d o u b tfu l. We owe a
great deal of SPECIAL TH AN KS to PAT
SHEARER, who has devoted the last eight
m onths to scheduling all the fa n ta stic
events and com plicated schedules fo r the
365 99's w ho were able to jo in us in sunny
Hawaii. And also to JIM SHEARER, Pat’s
husband who licked, stam ped, com uterized, and generally kept Pat going.
MANY THANKS.
Patty HALLAM also deserves a warm
thank you, because w ith her p rior ex­
perience o f other sectionals, she made a
perfect sectional chairm an. O ther thanks
go to Jane KELLEY fo r the use o f her home
for the luau, Pat COATES fo r organizing
the B ishop Museum nigh t, and Hawaii fo r
having such be au tifu l weather. Thanks to
everyone else, too many to m ention.
EVE KERR passed her in stru m en t
Twenty -six Bay C ites mem bers and our
frien ds from oth er chapters recently
celebrated the 42nd anniversary of our
chapter fou n d in g . We had a flig h t to Rio
V ista where we went to a local restaurant
fo r lunch. La Rue Brown (Sacramento
Valley Chapter) made us a birthday cake in
the form of Rio V ista ’s runways and
presented us w ith a key to the c ity . We
were joine d by m embers from M t. Diablo,
Redwood Em pire, Sacram ento Valley,
Santa Clara Valley Chapters.
W hile G ertrude Cherry, Helen Kelton
and Ruth Jacquot were sunning on W aikiki
at Spring S ectional those o f us who stayed
behind fle w to Clearlake H ighlands. We
entered w orm s in the 4th Annual Worm
Races. Mary Ann and Bob Penson-Santa
Clara Valley Chapter joined us fo r lunch at
th is now annual chapter event,
chapter event.
F u tu re e v e n ts in c lu d e a D o m in o
Tournam ent on Septem ber 14, 1974 at the
Oakland H ilto n Inn. Inform a tion may be
obtained from Joyce W ells. Some o f the
proceeds from th is fund raising event w ill
be used to provide a scho la rship for
aeronautical education.
We w ill be assistin g at a Safety Sem inar
at Gnoss Field in association w ith Marin
C ounty Chapter, the CAP and FAA on May
17th.
W ith sum m er weather and longer days
upon us rem em ber runways get “ shorter"
as the weather gets hotter. Happy F lying!
GOLDEN WEST CHAPTER
Jeanne Abramson, Reporter
Ever hear of a house-cooling? T hat’s
what the GW fo u rth anniversary pot-luck
dinn er party at Pat and Dave Forbes’
re s id e n c e
on
A p r il
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m ig h t
e u p h im is tic a lly be called. Part-tim e racer
(he’ll fly the bi-plane at Merced on May 31)
and fu ll-tim e UAL flig h t engineer Dave has
been transferred to CHI, and Pat has been
co m m u tin g w ith some regularity, getting
ready to set up housekeeping at 4611
Daniel Drive, Crystal Lake, III. 60014.
C a lifo rn ia tie s w ill not be severed,
however, as they plan to rent rather than
sell the A the rto n house.
Party nigh t was wedged right in the
m id dle o f one o f the prettiest flyin g
weather weekends we’ve had in a long
tim e, con sid erab ly easing the envy of
m ainlanders w ho were not enjoying Aloha
h o s p ita lity at SW Sectional. F estivities
were augm ented by the presence of ten (!)
fu lly-fle d g e d (how APT!) new chapter
mem bers, in clu d in g Caroline Zapata, who
managed to tear herself away in tim e to
shape up fo r p a rticip a tio n in a CAP search
m ission the next day. O thers welcom ed
in clud e Gay B aldw in, Maureen Carter, Pat
Glasser, Joan Cassidy, Cecile Deriman,
Sandra Green, Dorothy Reel, B etty W alsh,
and Geri W iecks. Barbara LaPoint, who
recently earned her com m ercial ticke t, is
more than delig hted w ith the expanded
w ork force po tentia l fo r June 15 M INI­
DERBY chores.
Rem inder: k its available from Barbara at
10 Estrada Place, Redwood C ity, CA.
94062 fo r $1.50; Hayward round-robin
cruise and profiency race open to men,
wom en, stud ents w ith m axim um 750 hours
or no race experience.
M eanw hile, back at the party som etim e
around the w itc h in g hour, Kathi W ent­
worth produced several bo ttles of bubbly
w ith w hich to toast hostess Pat on her
upcom ing birthday. Surprise enough, but
unbeknow nst to Pat, more was to be fo rth ­
com ing , as Rae G ilm ore and Nancy Stock
had spent m uch of the evening surrep­
titio u s ly arranging a fly-aw ay to Monterey
luncheon fo r the very natal day. DL
prevents a syno psis of what we know w ill
be-was another au spiciou s event.
LAS VEGAS VALLEY CHAPTER
Liz Heller, Reporter
A ll sorts of th in g s doing recently in and
around the valley. In January, Marie
M cM illan and Liz Heller flew M arie’s 150 to
Albuquerque to attend The International
Balloon Fiesta. The fly in g weather was
perfect VFR and the g irls got to w ork in
one of the ground crews.
February found us co-sponsoring the
AOPA F lig h t In stru cto rs C linic. Several of
our members worked on the reg istratio n
desk and attended the lectures.
We were fortun ate to meet several
visitin g N inety-N ines who were attending
The N a tio n a l A e ro s p a c e E d u c a tio n
A ssociation C onvention. Marie M cM illan ,
Carole V ilardo, Lois
Erickson,
Jane
Leighty and Liz Heller helped out during
the three day session.
Our co n g ra tu la tio n s to Marie M cM illan
on becom ing ou r chapters firs t CFI. In a
recent spot landing contest held at north
Las Vegas A ir Term inal, Marie came in firs t
in the g irls divisio n.
M em orial day week-end w ill see some
of us at Parowan, Utah doing an air­
m arking. Prom ises to be a fun project.
The chapter has embarked on the co­
sponsorship of an Explorer Scout Troup.
LONG BEACH CHAPTER
Jean Pyatt, Reporter
The Long Beach Chapter’s annual Palms
to Pines event w ill be a p ro ficie ncy flig h t
w ith par speeds from Santa M onica, CA. to
Independence, Oregon. The event w ill take
place on Ju ly 26th and July 27th. Entries
close June 26th and kits may be ordered
from Jua nita T hom pson, 4013 W. 120th St.
Hawthorne, CA. 90250. Juanita spoke to a
group o f 171 W ing S couts on A p ril 20th at
N orthrup In stitu te . Her to p ics included
c e r tific a te re q u ire m e n ts , w o m e n in
aviation and air racing.
Jean S hiftm an has passed her w ritten
exam ination fo r the Instrum ent rating.
Betty G abrielson and Joan Rees are taking
the ir com m ercial train in g w ith Gene
F itzpatrick and Joyce Jones is also flyin g
w ith Gene for her Instrum ent In stru cto r
rating.
The May m eeting was held at Coleen
G iglie's Eagle A viation in Long Beach. Don
Brink, Chief o f ATC operations fo r the
W estern Region and Jim Turner presented
an evaluation o f the over the water ap­
proach to LAX - a noise abatem ent
proceedure. Ken Cress, also of ATC w ill be
in charge of arrangem ents for the Palms to
Pines pro ficie ncy flig h t. Ken also invited
all interested 99’s to an ATC forum at the
Am erican Hotel on June 13th.
ATE of C a liforn ia is presenting one
Silver Seal pro ficie ncy course scholarship
each to Long Beach, Los Angeles and San
Fernando Valley chapters. This c o n sists of
2 hours o f ground school, 3 hours of
sim u la to r and 3 hours of flig h t fo r an in ­
strum ent rated p ilo t. ATE w ishes the
scholarship to go to a 99 who has fin a n cia l
need, is w orthy of the award and has been
active in her chapter. Rita G ibson, Jean
Pyatt and Mary W enholz w ill serve as the
com m ittee to select the Long Beach
recipient.
Our various fly in g activites in clud e:
Margaret Calloway flew a 172 from
Brackett Field, C a lifo rn ia to Yakim a ,
W ashington fo r G ini R ichardson; Betty
Gabrielson flew a group to Palm S pring s;
Joan Rees estim ates 800 labor hours to put
together her Bede 5; and Kay and Doug
W oodson w ill be leaving for Big S prings,
Texas where Doug w ill be receiving his jet
tra in in g w ith the A ir Force.
LOS ANGELES CHAPTER
Holley Ballard, Reporter
Some lucky LA 99’s made H ono lulu for
the S outhw est S e cio n a l...lo o kin g greenly
at Sally La Forge, Rachel Bonzon, Dianna
Sloan, Lynne Opper, and Dorothy Pepin.
O ur en tra nts to the ANG EL DERBY were
Berni Stevenson, Norm a Futterm an and
V irg in ia Showers. A ltho ug h the race ended
ju s t today, I have it on good a u th o rity that
our BERNI STEVENSON placed am ong the
TOP THREE...
Berni is also the chairw om an of the
Pinch H itte r M echanics Course at Nor­
thrup, June 8 and 9. She ju s t got her
seaplane ratin g, so she is now SMELS!
Norm a Futterm an and fa m ily hosted our
C hapter’s 42nd BIRTHDAY fe stivitie s.
Sharing drinks, dinner, m usic and pool
made a happy evening fo r 50 m em bers and
guests.
Anna Baca w ill be m oving to Phoenix
th is sum m er. She is ou r a ctivitie s cha ir­
woman and has alw ays done a super jo b
organizing fly -in s . WE W ILL MISS YOU,
ANNA.
W elcom e to C h ristine Sooter, our
new est
m e m b e r,
w hose
hobby
i s . . . w e ll . . . t o il e t p a p e r c u t t in g . . . in an
airplane, of course. Look fo r her at the
P orterville M o o n -lite Fly-In.
We are h ittin g the Anza Sky Trail in May,
w ith an overnight at Norm a’s in Palm
S pring s...and
m argueritas,
fo r w hich
Norm a is ju s tly fam ous.
Look fo r LA 99’s in new navy blue -w ithw h ite -s titc h in g jackets, and patches. If
you have any patches to sell, we’re buying.
Have a pleasant sum m er.
MONTEREY BAY CHAPTER
Elaine Brady, Reporter
N inety-N ines flew in from Sacram ento,
San Joaquin, Santa Clara and Santa
Barbara in spite o f other than CAVU
weather fo r our aviation oriented luncheon
and fashion show March 2 at the Salinas
Elks Lodge. “ Fly Into Fashions W ith The
N inety-N ine s” was the them e fo r the
M onterey Bay Chapter sponsored show
featuring travel coo rdinated , packables
and sportsw ear. Polynesian fash ion s for
Hawaiian holidays and the Southw est
Sectional were accented w ith leis donated
by the A loha Chapter N inety-N ines.
M odels were our own N in e ty-N in e s: Dell
Hinn, Judy Dake, June Knapp, Sara Jane
Clouse, Jo Dieser, Kay Harm on and
daughter, Dianne, and yours tru ly. The
luncheon-show was a success due to the
p a rticip a tio n and cooperation o f many
people, pa rticu la rly Geri H alfpenny, Show
C oordinator,
Rosemary Tom ai, C om ­
m e n ta to r, and Kay H a rm o n , S h o w
C h a irm a n .
S o u n d e ffe c ts
in c lu d e d
Hawaiian background piano m usic plus
a u then tic c o n tro l tow e r dialogue by our
own Sharon G oodw in, who is a Salinas
C ontrol Tower O perator. N um erous door
prizes of travel bags and dinn er ticke ts
LA Chapter members who managed to get
in front of camera on DRF Day: Rachel
Bonzon, Sally LaForge, Dianna Slone,
Norma Futterman, and Virginia Showers.
The rest of us are there in spirit.
were won by the gals and th e ir hubbies and
guests w ho jo ine d in the fun.
O ur newest Chapter members are AM
Guest and her Daughter, Tina Crabtree.
They fly a C om m anche 250.
ORANGE COUNTY CHAPTER
Jean Garrett, Reporter
At G inny Flanary’s suggestion for our
A pril m eeting, we each had 5, which
stretched in to 15 m inutes, to learn enough
to intro du ce the person s ittin g next to us.
Ginny was rig h t; we d id n 't know as much
about each oth er as we tho ugh t.
Lately, w ith som e of our tradition al
flyin g a ctivitie s being curtaile d, we have
been atten din g classes. Margo S m ith,
Shirley Cote, & Shirley Baker com pleted a
9 week m echanics course for p ilo ts at
Orange Coast College. B etty Farrar passed
her C om m ercial w ritte n , & Kathy Boyer
passed the w ritten fundam entals in her
ground & flig h t in s tru cto r class. A fter
sig nin g up fo r soaring ground school, rentfree g lide rs fo r woman on ly was an­
nounced at Crystal Air. They wanted to get
more wom en involved & tho u g h t up a
beautiful so lu tio n .
Taking to heart Pat Shearer's desire to
im prove the ratio between women p ilo ts
and 99’s, we have ordered business cards
for m em bers to give to any potential gals.
The theory is that a card is more likely to
be kept than an addressed scrap of paper.
Even w ith o u t the cards, we have gained
new m em bers B etty Carrier & Sharon
Temps. B etty, after receiving her private
license, im m e dia te ly enrolled
in
in­
strum ent ground sch o o l; and Sharon is
taking com m ercial soaring ground school
and sup plying us w ith soaring film s.
We ju s t w elcom ed M arty Harstad back
to the fo ld and now she is leaving in­
d e fin ite ly fo r South Am erica. M arty did
have tim e to get APT along w ith Ursula
Tracy, M adine Carpenter, Enid Gray,
Shirley Cote, & Barbara Stewart.
Betty Acerm an is giving her high school
d is tric t a taste of general aviation. She has
organized a w ork experience program at
F ullerton A irp o rt, where stud ents spend 90
hours in one o f the departm ents. Soon,
Orange C ounty A irp ort w ill be included.
One of the biggest events of the chapter
was our airm arking at L itc h fie ld Park. We
had 22 99ers plus 12 CAP cadets from Sq.
309 show up to paint those BIG letters.
Dale Liljegren (a very active 49 1/2) laid out
the 40 ft. high letters. His w ife, A ggie, is
our chapter's airm arking chairm an, had
th in g s well organized. Layout, painting
and cleanup were all done in 2 hrs. tim e!
We have George Hex (airport manager),
Owen Perry (ow ner of L itc h fie ld Aviation),
and W ill E llis (owner o f restaurant and
chief p ilo t fo r PSA) to thank fo r the very
d e liciou s G erm an-style feed they provided
for all the hungry airm arkers.
The chapter also airm arked S tellar
Airpark, 40 people turned out fo r that
event. Once again th in g s went sm oo th ly
and qu ickly. So far th is year the chapter
has airm arked 8,737 sq. ft.!
We had a special day fo r gals to get APT.
Instructor & APT Chairman, Liz Taylor
checked out Beth Ussher, Nancy Peniston,
Bev Powell, Nancy Crase, and Sue Harper.
Our other APT gals to date are: Aggie
Liljegren, Carol Borgerding, B runhilde
B ra d le y , C h a rlo tte G ra h a m , C a ro lin e
Reibert and Liz Taylor.
Liz Taylor had a fa n ta stic honor
bestowed upon her by the Safety Advisory
Board of the Arizona Dept, of Aeronautics.
She was selected as the flig h t in s tru cto r of
the year for our state.
Natasha Swigard (P.R. Chairm an) gave a
talk before a group of Phoenix Business
W om en. Told them all about the 99's and
the ir various a c tiv itie s ; and also related
personal experiences about what it's like
to fly.
In the past few m onths we have added
some new m embers to our roster. They
are: Eileen A they, Mary Damstra, Judi
G unter,Sue Houck, Margie Jenson, Nancy
P e n is to n , C a ro lin e R e ib e rt, S h irle y
Rogers, Cheryl Sterns, Joan Strand, Jerri
Toci and Mary W illia m s. T his brings our
total chapter m em bership to 85 members.
Praises go to ou r m em bership chairm an
Nancy Crase.
Jan Edens passed all the necessary
te s ts
to
a c h ie v e
h e r c o m m e rc ia l
rating.June Bonesteel earned her tw in
ATR; and Natasha Swigard and 49'/2er
C liff both passed the ir in stru m en t w ritten .
A few weeks ago, Anne Roethke from
the M ilwaukee Chapter, flew in to Sky
Harbor. She was on her way to attend a
m edical sym po siu m . Local 99ers who
welcom ed her to Phoenix, and shared a
de liciou s luncheon, were Sue Harper,
A lice Roberts, Natasha Swigard, Mary Vial
and Jessie W im m ers.
Beth Ussher was married A pril 27th, and
honeym ooned in Hawaii. This glad event
coincided w ith the S ectional. Im agine Beth
and her 491/2 Bob Carlsen w ill attend som e
of the fu n ctio n s.
We are happy to know that C harlotte
Graham is w ell and about after a long
convalescence fo llo w in g ear surgery. She
is the present president of W h irly-G irls.
One of the biggest events of the year is
our Project AW ARE. It was held on a
Saturday m orning w hich allow ed many
w orking gals to attend. Co-chairm en Libby
Pruett, Nancy Crase and Caroline Reibert
did an excellent jo b of organizing a good
program . O riginal and im aginative skits
were perform ed by Sue Harper, A lice
Roberts, Nancy Crase, Nancy Peniston,
Judi G unter, Louise Toncre and Sandi
Haag.
We had a hangar fu ll of m edical supplies
fo r the DRF, but through the e ffo rts of
A nita Staton and Gwen Dare the hangar is
em pty and the m edical sup plies in Santa
Barbara.
The 8th Annual Desert Sportsm an P ilots
Assn. A irshow was ju s t held. The Phoenix
99’s helped park 325 v is itin g airplanes,
collecte d between $4000-5000 to help
finance the U.S. A ero ba tic Team. The hit
of the A irshow was local 49 ’/2er Bobby
B ishop in his Bede jet.
The biggest event we are planning on
next is ou r annual P roficiency A ir Rally. It
w ill be held in November - so mark your
calender!
The gals who welcomed Anne Roethke
(Milwaukee Chapter) to Phoenix: Front
row: Alice Roberts, Jessie Wimmers,
Anne Roethke Back row: Mary Vial,
Natasha Swigard, Sue Harper
REDWOOD EMPIRE CHAPTER
Nina Rookaird, Reporter
The Redwood Em pire Chapter met at Pat
S tauffer's last m eeting. Lynn Ahrens has
joined CAP at H a m ilton and w ill soon be
pra cticin g in the T-34 fo r po ssib le Search
and Rescue a ctivitie s.
Jeanne G ibson, Esther Harri, and Nina
Rookaird drove to
Merced
fo r
the
P hysiological Pressure C ham ber session
at Castle. Frances G auger and her son met
the group there as they had been cam ping
near C astle; w h ile A n ita W orel and 491/2
Jack flew from th e ir new home in Nevada.
Ask them about the problem s of flyin g
w ith the d o or open on th e ir Bonanza ! The
class is very in fo rm ative and very w e ll run.
Nina Rookaird was privileged to attend
the NAEA C onvention in Las Vegas April
4,5,6. The speakers were excellent. It was
w orth w h ile m eeting aerospace people
from all over the United States.
SACRAMENTO VALLEY CHAPTER
Barbara Foster. Reporter
It has taken fancy fo o t w ork to sandw ich
our many a ctivitie s in to good week ends
between the many weather fro n ts that have
been m arching through, but Sacramento
Valley Chapter has managed pretty well
w ith on ly a few d isap pointm en ts. The
flig h t to Salinas fo r luncheon w ith Mon­
terey Bay Chapter was necessarily lim ited
to IFR rated p ilo ts. A pro ficie ncy flig h t to
Rio V ista where we met w ith members of
Bay C ities, Redwood Empire and Mt.
Diablo Chapters to help Bay C ities Chapter
celebrate an anniversary was delayed an
hour due to fog. Featuring severe clear,
was a trip to Napa fo r lunch and a tou r of
Japan A ir Lines training sch o o l.
Two more a irp o rts in our vicin ity are
spo rting fresh letters on th e ir runways as a
result o f Sacram ento Valley Chapter roller
w ielders. They are Yolo C ounty A irp ort and
W oodland-W atts.
M iriam Burchham , Barbara Goetz and
Helen H offm an attended the Southwest
S p rin g
S e c tio n a l
in
H a w a ii.
They are the envy of the rest of the Chapter
because, ob vio usly, much preparation has
gone in to the m eeting.
Representatives from Bay Cities, Redwood
Empire, Mt. Diablo, Santa Clara Valley,
and Sacramento Valley Chapters gather at
Rio Vista to help By Cities celebrate their
42nd Anniversary.
SAN DIEGO CHAPTER
Marilyn Elmers, Reporter
On A pril 6, 1974 a jo in t dinn er was held
w ith El Cajon Valley Chapter at Boom
T re n c h a rd 's R e s ta u ra n t. San D iego
C hapter mem ber, B etty G illie s, charter
m em ber of the 99’s, gave a d e lig h tfu l
account of her career in aviation, com ­
m encing in 1928.
O ur m o n th ly business m eeting was held
at the hom e of C indy de Courcey on April
15th. A m a jo rity of the chapter members
were present to hear guest speaker, Valerie
H um phreys, m em ber of the South Central
A frica Chapter of the N inety-N ines. Val is a
bush p ilo t and flie s an Italian b u ilt aircraft
th ro u g h o u t A frica. Val states that there are
one hundred N inety-N ines in South A frica
who meet tw ice yearly. These gals enjoy
more than 300 VFR flyin g days a year.
San Diego Chapter's newest m ember,
Patricia M ouzella, who holds a private
lic e n s e .
Pat te a c h e s
b a lle t. E ig h t
prospective m em bers attended the A pril
m eeting, each w ith unusual and in ­
teresting careers and aeronautical ex­
perience. Linda McGee of La Mesa is a
teacher and a new private p ilo t. Joan
Balm in is an aeronautical engineer and has
been fly in g for fo u r years previously in
Santa Paula where she became an ex­
perienced g lid e r and aerobatic p ilo t.
Glenda Trego, a new p ilo t, is also a speech
therapist. A nother private p ilo t, Margie
Nunez, serves as an interpreter fo r the
Flying Sam aritans, and teaches fo r deaf
children in San Diego. Linda Doucher, a
student p ilo t, is a d ieticia n. K itty Razook
is a 10 year veteran who is curre ntly
w orking on her m u ltien gin e rating. Ericka
McCleeve is a student p ilot and m other.
On A pril 27-28, m embers Diane S to cklin
and Shirley W olf attended a survival course
sponsored by the San Diego M ountain
Rescue Team, Inc.
Eleanor Richardson and Pat O sm on,
though absent from m eetings recently,
were on a w inning aviation team in 1973:
Squadron 97, G roup 3, Civil A ir Patrol.
This un it, w hich meets at G illespie Field
Monday nigh ts, was named C a liforn ia 's
O utstanding Senior Squadron of the Year
at the W ing Conference at Anaheim the
firs t weekend in February. Eleanor has
qualified as a Cadet O rientation P ilot and
in February received her pro m otio n to First
Lieutenant. At a G roup 3 awards dinn er in
La Mesa March 29, Pat was named O ut­
standing P ilot fo r G roup 3 in 1973 as a
result of her e ffo rts in giving Cadet
orientation rides and q u a lifyin g as A ir
O perations O ffice r fo r search m issions.
short visit to 99 Evelyn Brease, trom the
Cape Girardeau Area Chapter, North
Central S ection. Evelyn and 49'/2er B ill are
the FBO's at the Dyersburg. Tennessee
M un icip al A irp o rt.
1972 Cross C o un tries included flig h ts to
Spokane and Seattle, W ashington and to
New York State, w ith a tw o day stop-over
at Rapid C ity, South Dakota, for trip s to
M ount Rushm ore and the Badlands.
Along w ith San Fernando Valley m em ber
Lula (Rodge) Rodgers and 49>/2 Ed, Bob
and Mary have been active in “ A viation
Youth of A m e rica ," a N eighborhood A du lt
P a rticipa tion Project, sponsored by the
W hitem an A irp o rt P ilo ts A sso cia tio n , and
the m erchants and C ham ber of Com m erce
of Pacoima, C a liforn ia . The organization is
open to all you th, ages 10 to 18, w ho are
interested in aviation. There are flig h ts for
all p a rticip a n ts, plus model bu ild in g for
the youngsters and ground school fo r the
olde r kids.
Mary and Bob w ill have to cu rta il the ir
flyin g and w ork w ith the fu tu re p ilo ts of
Am erica fo r a few m onths, however, as
they are going to work a Forest Service
Fire C ontrol Lookout in the Klam ath
N ational Forest in N orthern C alifornia,
from May to O ctober. Together tw e n ty-fo u r
hours a day, seven days a week, fo r one
hundred and th irty -fiv e days. That's Love!
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHAPTER
Bonnie L. Seymour, Reporter
Mary Totans standing beside her Cessna
175 Skylark N8174T Member of San Fer­
nando Valley Chapter Ninety Nines.
Mary Totans and 49 V2 er Bob, and the ir
Cessna 175 Skylark, N8174T were the
subject of a feature a rticle in the A pril,
1974 issue of "P lane and P ilo t" magazine.
Q uoting author Don D w iggins, "W hen Bob
Totans and his w ife Mary go skylarking in
their 175, they've got the whole w orld by
the ta il!" They have, too. Mary has been an
active m em ber o f the San Fernando Valley
Chapter 99’s since July, 1973, soon after
she passed her private p ilo t check ride.
Bob has been fly in g fo r six years, and
became part ow ner of 8174T fou r years
ago. Since Bob retired from the Detective
Bureau of the Los Angeles
Police
Department in January, 1972, after tw entysix years service, they have taken many
cross-country flig h ts , landing at a irp o rts in
th irty-six states.
During the sum m er of 1973 Mary and
Bob took a tw o m onths flyin g vacation (in
a 182), tou ring several of the Eastern states
and all of the Southern states in clud in g
Texas. Bob and Mary stayed w ith 99 Ellie
M cCullough fo r fou r days. They also paid a
another to u r o f Redlands A irp ort fo r a
group of pre-schoolers.
M aking
the
pro ficie ncy flig h t to Apple Valley were
Joan and Ed W inter, Use and Jack Cook,
and Carrleen and Glenn Hargett.
W ith regret our Chapter w ill loose two
fine m em bers in May. Marijane Nelson w ill
sail in Puff, a 26 foo t sailboat, w ith her
husband, son, and a friend for Hawaii. Ann
P ig go tt w ill move to Tucson, Arizona.
Beverly Mahoney and Peggy Marsh display
their trophy for Pacific Air Race in the
Angel Derby, they wore No. 14, sponsored
by the Chino Bowl and El Rancho Phar­
macy, and flew a newly painted Comanche
250.
SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY
Charlotte Morrill, Reporter
This m onth the San Joaquin Valley
C hapter w ould like to in tro du ce our Helen
M acDonald McGee who we feel is very
special as a person and o u tsta nding as
p ilot and 99.
Helen was maneuvered in to fly in g by her
husband, Harvey, a form er Navy p ilo t who
SAN GABRIEL VALLEY CHAPTER
Eve Hunt, Reporter
Margaret Lawson has been care fu lly
supervising our Bede 5 Sem inar. W hat
w o uld we do w ith o u t her! A p ril's m eeting
was a w orkshop fo r fo ld in g flyers and
checking fin a l de tails. Since we met during
Easter vacation, M arjorie Loom is was able
to attend.
Many o f our 99’s took to the skies
around E aste r-C arrle en adn Glenn Hargett
flew to Texas w ith Carrleen flyin g tw entyone ho urs; Margaret and David Lawson, to
Las Vegas; D orothy and Ed M onsanto,
fly in g to Pioche and Reno, Nevada. Joan
W inter flew to Brown Field w ith the
C hristian P ilots to deliver su p p lie s to the
Rose Park Orphanage. Jo Ann and Ed M iro
and D orothy and Bob M essenger flew w ith
the R ialto Cherokee C lub to New Cuyama.
D orothy and Jo Ann and th e ir fa m ilie s
recently flew to Lake Havasu fo r the
w e e k e n d . P o rtia C o rn e ll c o n d u c te d
Helen MacDonald McGee, outstanding 99
of the San Joaquin Valley Chapter.
had a yen to ow n a plane. Harvey being a
man of actio n and sneaky too, ju s t up and
bought one and presented it to Helen for a
b irth da y present. T his was in 1965. L ittle
did he know what chain reaction he had set
in to m o tio n . In the fo llo w in g nine years,
Helen has flow n six Powder Puff Derbies.
Her firs t in 1968 w ith Laverne Gudel of
C h o w c h illa , C a lifo r n ia , p la c in g 1 7 th .
In subsequent years she has placed 4th
tw ice and 2nd in 1972 flyin g solo. Helen
has entered the P acific A ir Race fou r tim es
w inning 1st place in 1972 fly in g w ith her
daughter Laura Mary as c o -p ilo t. She has
also participated tw ice in the Angel Derby
and as th is a rticle is being w ritten she is
on her way to A capulco fo r another go in
th is 1974 race. Helen's total is fourteen
races in all.
If th is isn ’t enough she is the proud w ife
and m other of the 1973 w inners of the
Fresno 400 Men’s Race.
Helen is presently our A ir M arking
Chairman, having served as chapter
chairm an in 1968 and 1970. She is in ­
strum ent rated and ty p ifie s the best in our
chapter or any chapter. M entally very
sharp, w ith an equally sharp sense of
hum or and certainly a person w ho con­
tributes the fin e st human q u a litie s to our
organization and to society in general.
The McGee fa m ily c o n s is ts of fo u r
daughters and one son. Their hom e is in
S onora,C alifornia, high atop a beautiful
h ill so close to the sky that the next logical
step was to “ take to the A ir.”
The San Joaquin Valley Chapter salutes
you, Helen MacDonald McGee. We are
indeed fortun ate to have you as a fellow
99.
SANTA BARBARA CHAPTER
Judy Roeser, Reporter
Santa Barbara's fam ous Joan Steinberger has done it again. T his tim e she's in
a book called Great Flying Adventures. The
chapter about Joannie is en titled “ The
Race W ith Two W inners” and it chro nicles
the 1969 Powder Puff Derby where she
un se lfish ly sacrificed her chances of
w inning the race in order to help another
pilo t find her way in the storm . Great work,
Joannie. We're proud of you!
For our March m eeting we met w ith the
Santa Barbara A irp o rt A sso cia tio n . This
was indeed inform ative and opened our
eyes to som e of the problem s of running a
m unicipal airport.
Jean W iley and Judy Roeser both
received their m u lti engine ratings th is
m onth. B etty Engstrom has passed her
instrum ent w ritten exam and is ju s t about
ready for her check ride. Jan Edm ond, Irma
and John C h ristian , and Evy and W oody
Treen have all been attending instrum ent
ground school.
We had tw o D.R.F. fly -in s th is m onth,
organized by D.R.F. Chairm an Joan
Steinberger (there’s that name again). Two
planes flew to Fresno to pick up
“ groceries” and say “ H i” to
Kathy
McNamara. Five planes flew to Bakersfield
the fo llo w in g weekend.
Evy Treen te lls us that seven of the
women w ho attended our Program AWARE
m eetings are now taking the Pinch H itte r
course offered by Santa Barbara A viation
and that six of those seven have signed up
for private p ilo t ground school. That's
really great.
Rachael C ow in, our Fly In Chairm an is
th in kin g hard about fu tu re fly -in s and
especially about a Treasure Hunt she is
planning in May.
W elcom e to Shy S m ith w ho is jo in in g
our chapter from Portland, Oregon. Shy is
w orking weekends as a “ line boy” at the
airport. W hat a fun jo b that m ust be!
Many of our g irls attended the Spring
Southw est Sectional in Hawaii. A tte nd ing
from Santa Barbara was M arion Fickett,
Rachael C ow in, Diane Dee, Jean W iley,
Mary Lewis, Janet Shelby and her 491/2er,
Dick, who presented th is trip as a
C hristm as present to Janet -- isn ’t that
neat?
SANTA CLARA VALLEY CHAPTER
Betty Hicks, Reporter
Irre p r e s s ib le J a n e t H itt and
in ­
defatigable M arion Barnick are Santa Clara
Valley C hapter’s to p award w inners fo r the
s e le c tio n
ye a r o f 1972.
The an­
nouncem ents were made w ith appropriate
cerem ony at the chapter’s awards banquet
A pril 18.
The adjectives are interchangeable.
F lig h t in s tru c to r Janel H itt became the
firs t professional p ilo t to earn the accolade
“ P ilot of the Year." M arion Barnick, who
has volunteered fo r alm ost everything in
the chapter except the honor she w on, was
awarded chapter gra titu de in the form of
the “ Service A w a rd ."
Janet, celebrating her silver anniversary
as a CFI, has been so busy scooping up
honors in the past six m onths she has
scarcely had tim e to scratch the ears of the
prize co llie s she raises. She kicked o ff her
prize-grabbing orgy by w in n in g , by chapter
acclaim , the free ticke t to the Southw est
Sectional in Hawaii the chapter was
awarded by the sectio n fo r being the m ostreservations victo r. She fo llo w e d th is by
w in n in g the Santa Clara Valley scholar­
ship, w hich she p ro m ptly applied to the
annexation of her m u lti-e n g in e rating on
her already-earned a irlin e transp ort p ilo t
ce rtifica te . But Janet had not yet com ­
pleted the g ild in g of her lily.
The San Jose GADO next selected her as
its F lig h t In stru cto r of the Year, after
h a v in g a p p o in te d her an A c c id e n t
P re v e n tio n C o u n s e lo r. T he S te p h e n s
College aeronautics graduate was then
fo rm a lly
presented w ith a diam ondem bellished gold 'Safety P in” by FAA’s
John Zentner at the same awards banquet
at w hich she became the “ P ilot of the
Year.” Chapter m em bers agreed: fo r the
unheralded star of “ Tora! Tora! T o ra !”
acclaim was long overdue.
No one has ever been eased in to the
“ Service A w ard” w ith more secrecy than
was M arion Barnick, who has stub born ly
resisted any past e ffo rts to nom inate her
fo r th is honor. For M arion too, the
acknow ledgem ent was behind its ETA.
“ She doesn't m iss a m e e tin g !” marvelled
chapter chairm an Pat Roberts, referring to
M a rio n ’ s in e v ita b le p a r tic ip a tio n at
aerospace education conferences, local
and regional m eetings on a irp o rts, and
gatherings anywhere that aviation is either
threatened or encouraged.
Part ow ner of Gee Bee Aero, a parts and
repair fa c ility at R eid-H illview A irp o rt,
Marion provided much o f the im petus
w hich saved tha t airpo rt from its potential
a n n ih ila tio n by belligerent neighbors. She
was the innovator of the co n stru ctio n of
L ittle League baseball fie ld s on airport
clear areas, of the high school flig h t
scho la rship s fo r stud ents in the deprived
areas w hich enclose the airport.
Housem other to aspiring women p ilo ts,
M arion won p a rticular chapter gratitude for
providing bed, board and airplane to
India's M ohini S hro ff when she was
w in n in g her com m ercial p ilo t certifica te .
Nor is M ohini the only young aviatrix
M arion has prodded tenderly on her way to
achievem ent.
These are un fortunate space restrictio ns
w hich do not perm it the fu ll lis tin g of the
to ta lly u n selfish e ffo rts of th is chapter's
candidate for sectional governor. Marion
Barnick has never asked if her love for
aviation w ould be requited.
Chapter tid b its : recuperating from a
rather serious case of what they diagnose
only as "je t lag” are Pat Roberts, Pat
R o w e, Des S tu a rt- A le x a n d e r, M a rio n
Barnick, Verna W est, Adrienne Parker,
W illy Gardner, Susan Bates, Mardo Crane,
and 99 friend M artha Baechie. They’re ju streturned from w hat they breathlessly
describe as a fab ulo us trip to Hawaii, w ith
the S outhw est S ectional as a th in lyd is g u is e d e x c u s e
No e x c u s e w as
needed fo r Susan Bates to zero in on that
in stru m en t ratin g, now ju s t tw o-w eeks old.
W ho w ants to let a 96 on the Instrum ent
w ritte n expire?
SANTA PAULA CHAPTER
Adrienne Nater, Reporter
Eighteen m embers in clu d in g 49’/2er
went on the q u ickly planned trip to
Palmdale, th is de spite the fuel shortages.
The tou r was of the Los Angeles ARTCC in
Palm dale, arranged and conducted by the
FAA,
p u rp o s e
o r ie n ta tio n
and
fa m ilia riza tio n of the center. We were able
to view the rou ting and d irectin g the tra ffic
in the various sectors and how tra ffic is
landed o ff to the bordering centers. The
to u r was very educational. The to u r lasted
three hours and was extrem ely thorough. It
w ould really benefit anyone w orking on
th e ir in stru m en t rating. We did learn that a
plan of th is type, of a governm ent in­
sta lla tio n , should be in itia te d six weeks or
more in advance fo r the processing of the
reams of paper w ork necessary for
clearances.
Sally A llen arranged another tour, this
one to the 747 to u r fa c ility at Los Angeles
International A irp o rt. Those wno attended
were im pressed w ith the scope of services
needed to keep the large com m ercial
carriers operative. It was a thorough tour.
Della Abernathy attended our March
Chapter m eeting, we are hopeful that she
w ill becom e a m em ber to thus double our
m em bership since chartering last July.
Barbara Deed has po sitive proof that the
w ing of a Cessna 172 can pass over a
wing of a Cessna 150 w h ile taxing for take­
o ff p o sitio n .
Santa Rosa Chapter of the 99's is going
A.P.E. and alm ost one-hundred per cent
so. We are having a June AIRPLANE
PROFICIENCY EXCURSION. Twelve a ir­
p la n e s are g o in g and tw e n ty -fiv e
g a ls ....n o t bad considering our total
m em bership of th irty-o n e . The enthusiasm
is great and we are all grabbing our best
casuals and glad rags and fly in g o ff to
id en tify three m ysterious a irp o rts and a
de stination that offers fun and sun. We
w ill all be stretchin g our navigational s k ills
and hoping to get the closest to that
m ystery spo t! Then fo r the second night
the 49’/2's w ill com e along fo r a W estern
Style Awards. The second day w ill fin d us
com peting in short fie ld landing con tests
and flo u r bag drops.
Our June flig h t prom ises to be SuperFun but also a real chance to upgrade our
flyin g skills.
Can you believe ou r lis t of NEW
m e m b e rs .. .w e lc o m e .. .w e lc o m e : M ary
Johnson, Eleanor Buckingham , Diane
Cory, Carol Valette, Ester Binz and Claudia
Kirk. C o ng ratula tion s to our upgraded
gals: Jeannie Schulz, Joann Robbins and
Lynn Cary conquered the Com m ercial
Ticket.
Good Travelling to our convention
bound ga ls: Faye Kirk and daughter
Claudia and Sandy Petersen. Sure sounds
like a great tr ip ...“ B u tch " et al. We are
spreading our 99’s word furthe r and fu r­
ther; thanx to Fran Johnson and Rae Pass
for the ir Eagle-Flying posters now in many
new surrounding airports. We have a lo t of
hard w orking gals trying to zero in on a
“ u n ifo rm " and h o pe fu lly soon we w ill be
great look-a-likes.
Sandy Petersen and Carol Valette w ill be
flyin g 400 pounds of m edical sup plies to
Santa Barbara. O ur own Santa Rosa
through its m edical wives group and the
99's in one years tim e have transported two
thousand pounds of m edical supplies.
SOUTHERN SIERRA CHAPTER
Doris Corwin, Reporter
Two runways, Delano and Tulare, were
painted in A pril by five 99s and seven
p ro s p e c tiv e m e m b e rs . The ru n w a y
id e n tifica tio n program proves to be a great
aid to navigation in flyin g the 100 m ile long
San Joaquin Valley of ag ricu ltural land
where the highw ay connects a series of
city airports, all look-alikes. Each c ity
provided the paint, engineering s k ill in lay­
out and lunches and the energetic p ilo ts
painted the ou tlin e d letters.
We five members P hyllis Taggart, Doris
Corwin, Sally G illespie, Murl Bragg and
A lline Lin th icu m are appreciative o f the
enthusiasm o f the prospective m embers
who joined in the fun- Sarah A rm strong,
Martha C u m m in g s , B e tty F e rg u s o n ,
Frankie Ferguson, Betty Massey, Joyce
Noell, Lorraine Sevier.
A irshow schedules are being posted and
plans are being form ulated fo r chapter
fu n d -ra isin g . Southern Sierra w ill sell ice
cream again to the spectators o f the
P o r te rv ille A rea P ilo ts A s s o c ia tio n
M o o n lite F ly-in June 8th and 9th. We look
forw ard to many exhanges o f ice cream
bars fo r greenbacks and tw o days of fly in g
a ctivitie s.
Hawaii w hich has captured the interest and
excitem ent of the "a lm o s t-h a lf” of the
chapter who are going to attend. By the
tim e th is makes print, our glorio us
Hawaiian H oliday w ill be an accom plished
fact, and G iunny Cook w ill have unraveled
from the taxing jo b o f coping w ith the
O rchid Special charter.
A lso by the tim e th is makes print, all
election b a llo ts w ill be in and counted and
we w ill know “ who takes it from here.”
Know ing the candidates, th is "lam e duck
cha irm an " is sure the chapter w ill flou rish
and stands eager to w ish her successor
well.
UTAH CHAPTER
Jane Patterson, Reporter
Southern Sierra Chapter painting the “0 ”
in Delano
Southern Sierra Chapter paints Tulare.
TUCSON CHAPTER
Jayne Hunter, Reporter
Tucson Chapter was pleased to w elcom e
in tw o new m em bers at our last m eeting;
M a rg a re t
H a rs h b e rg e r
and
Joa n
M cD onald; both are teachers and recent
new p ilo ts . In process is a chapter
directory that w ill contain a thu m b na il
histo ry o f each m em ber as w ell as a short
chapter history.
T hrough the e ffo rts of H ilde Peterson
and Nancy Engebretson, our chapter’s
“ P ro je c t E le c tr a ” — in v o lv in g th e
renovation and re h a b ilita tio n of an aircraft
of the same type as flo w n by our founder,
A m elia Earhart — has been endorsed as a
B icentennial a ctivity and therefore as a
part of the observance of ou r c o u n try ’s
200th anniversary.
In searching through Chapter records,
we have become aware that ou r chapter’s
silver anniversary w ill co in cid e w ith the
Bicentennial Year and we plan to start
g e n e ra tin g s o m e id e a s to s u ita b le
celebrate th is event. A ll plans are "p ig e o n ­
ho le d” u n til after the SW Sectional in
The S outhw est Sectional in the Fall of
1974 w ill be held at Snow bird ski resort in
the W asatch m ountains east of Salt Lake
City. The event w ill be held on Septem ber
13, 14 and 15th. The theme w ill be “ en­
jo ying the m ountains in the out of d o o rs."
The Utah chapter hopes to meet a lot of
99s at S now bird next Fall.
In March the chapter was treated to
movies of hang g lid in g and a chance to
"try one o n .” Four p ilo ts and tw o students
were guests at the m eeting. Mary Lou
Klein, a transfer from Long Beach chapter
was welcom ed to the chapter. Mary Lou
and her husband have joined a flyin g club.
In A p ril, hardy 99s attended the April
m eeting at the Ogden airpo rt in spite of a
severe Spring snow storm . Movies on
aerobatic flyin g were show n. Business
involved the plans for the sectional, and
for the m aking of the hats that w ill be given
to each 99 atten din g the sectional in the
fall.
The May m eeting w ill be a to u r of A ir
Caledonia’s BC-8 and a chance to s it in the
co ckp it of an airliner.
Your reporter is w ritin g th is from Falcon
Field, Mesa, Arizona, after attending the
Desert Sportsm an P ilots A ssociatio n A ir
Show. It was a fa n ta stic show. Beautiful
weather, hundreds of airplanes and
spectacular aerobatics. It was w ell worth
the trip and a chance to see ex-m em ber
Barbara Barlow, who is now a resident of
Arizona. Noticed many 99s in attendance.
Especially the hard w orking Phoenix
Chapter members.
W ilm a N ichols and husband are the
proud ow ners of a Cessna 120. That makes
two Cessna 120’s in the group. She flew it
to W endover, Utah on A pril 21st, where
she was joine d by other 99s Vivian Yardley, Maureen Sim pson and Barbara
W hitaker. Barbara has also been to Jack­
pot tw ice during A pril and Pocatello.
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A L A S K A - ID A H O - M O N T A N A
NORTH D A K O T A - OREGON
SOUTH D A K O T A
W AS HIN G TO N - W YO M IN G
COLUMBIA CASCADE CHAPTER
Dorothy Mercer, Reporter
In March our m eeting was held at Aurora
A irport, our top ic survival. Mr. Frank Heyl,
Director of ou td o o r education fo r Oregon
Museum of Science & Industry, treated us
to a fine, long ta lk on hazards and
preservation to insure survival in all types
of em ergencies and environm ent, the
basics of survival supplies, and means
available to effect rescue. We heard also a
tape-recorded interview w ith a hiker lost
recently fo r several days in a blizzard on
Mt. Hood, narrating his experience,
survival and rescue.
F o u rte e n m e m b e rs , a t o u r A p r il
m eeting, tho ro u g h ly enjoyed a day-long
tou r of Oregon A ir Guard fa c ility on
Portland In t’l. A irp ort, watched take offs
and landings of tw o F-101 in terceptorfig h te r practice m issions, flig h t-p la n n in g
and debriefing session, inspected one of
the planes, and th rille d to the experience
of flyin g the ir F-101 sim u la to r through the
im agine w ild-b lu e-yon de r at the speed of
sound. Try flyin g an ILS in one of those to
shatter your self-confidence!
A welcom e guest at th is ge t-together
was Ellen Mayo of W iscon sin chapter, and
her 49V2, presently living in Longview ,
Wash.
We had tim e fo r a hurried lunch at
Cosmo A irtel near the airpo rt and
presented a going-aw ay g ift to Vera A rnold
w ho is returning to C a liforn ia in May. We
have greatly enjoyed having Vera w ith us
the past tw o years and envy Santa Clara
Valley g e tting her back. Pegge B lin co w ill
take her place as our treasurer.
EASTERN W ASHINGTON CHAPTER
Suzy Ward, Reporter
HOT NEWS F LASH : O ur firs t A ir L ift of
1974 was held at Felts Field, Spokane,
W ashington on Sunday, A p ril 28th. We had
a good turno ut and good weather. Helen
Shanewise, w ho is our 2nd Chapter
member to receive her FAA Safety Pin, was
Chairman of th is event.
Note paper w ith our 1975 International
Convention sym bol on it w ill go on sale
early th is S pring. The price w ill be
reasonable, not cheap but reasonable.
Keep w atching th is space fo r news of
the 1975 International Convention in Coeur
d’Alene, Idaho.
Subscriptions for non-members
are $6.00 per year
GREATER SEATTLE CHAPTER
Carol Canedale, Reporter
O ur A pril m eeting was held at Fancher
Flyways at Renton airpo rt after weather
again kept us from fly in g to A rlin g to n , our
orginal de stina tion . W hy is it that the
weatherm an frow ns upon the 2nd Wed­
nesday of each m onth? W e're all looking
forward to sunny skies, tho ugh , fo r next
m o n th ’s fly -in m eeting at A rlin g to n .
(Knock on w o od !)
A report from Van Adderson, w ho visited
the Eastern W ash, chapter m eeting A pril 6
in Coeur d'alene, Idaho at the North Shore
Lodge. She and C harlotte Kamm went to
look over the fa c ilitie s fo r the 1975
International C onvention to be held there,
and to check on in fo rm a tio n about the
banquet room . Seems that Greater Seattle
chapter w ill be hostesses fo r the banquet
at the convention! Van and C harlotte also
took tim e to visit the EXPO ’74 grounds in
Spokane w h ich opened, May 4. “ It was
great seeing all the g a ls...a n d m eeting the
new o n e s !”
A warm w elcom e to Linda Harris, our
newest m ember. We also had four
prospective m em bers jo in us in A p ril:
Candy Harvey, Louise A nderson, JoAnn
Burnett and M ajoria H olten. The m ajor
order of business was the upcom ing 1974
N orthw est Sectional on Septem ber 6, 7
and 8 in Renton, W ash, at the Doubletree
Inn sponsored G reater Seattle! W ith the
help of Mt. Tahoma, Puget Sound and Far
W est chapters, we are all lo okin g forward
to a successful sectional and a great tim e
fo r a ll! Be sure to bring a few em pty bags,
gals. The Doubletree Inn is a next-door
ne ig hbo r to S eattle's largest shopping
center, Southcenter. Hope to see you all
there!
Our m eeting was follow e d up w ith a
sm all “ w h ite e lep han t" sale w ith item s
auctioned off to the high est bidder by our
ow n “ M onty H a ll", G loria A ndrus. One of
the ho tte st item s to go was a rather bat­
tered paperback copy of You’ll Never Get
Off the Ground! We re planning another
“ w h ite elep han t” sale fo r next m onth. Pack
your airplanes fu ll and w e 'll see you at
A rlin g to n !
MONTANA CHAPTER
Juli Peden, Reporter
The M ontana 99’s met at the new home
of Pat Roemer in M isso ula fo r A p ril’s
m eeting. Ten m em bers were present. A
special guest was Esther Com bes Vance,
Montana's charter m em ber of the national
organization. Everyone was interested to
hear Esther te ll of her ba rnstorm ing days
w ith her husband.
Creta Duncan from M isso ula is a new
m em ber and is em ployed by Executive
A viation as a bookkeeper and parts
manager.
One to p ic discussed at the m eeting was
aircraft property taxes. Many Montana
aircraft ow ners are paying th e ir taxes
under protest because they feel they are
being assessed im properly.
Elsie and Glen C h ild s are back from the ir
trip to Ireland. No d e tails on that yet.
Left to right: Laulette Hansen, Glen
Childs, Helen Dunlop, Marty Volkomener,
and Doris Kamerad enjoying lunch after
Great Falls meeting. (Montana Chapter)
Back row: Mary Stevenson, Marge Rolle,
Liz Gunn, Margaret Tuxill, Pat Roemer,
Marge Swartz. Front row: Helen Dunlop,
Esther Combes Vance - our Charter
Member of Int. Org. 99s: Doris Kamerad.
MT. TAHOMA CHAPTER
Betty Geisler, Reporter
The A pril m eeting of the Mt. Tahoma
C hapter was held on Thursday, A pril 11, at
Jo h n n y’s On The Mall w ith
dinner
fo llo w in g the regular business m eeting.
The controversy over the proposed
headquarters fo r the 99's was among
to p ics discussed to determ ine how our
chapter feels about it. Our governor w ill be
representing ours and other Northwest
chapter’s views when she attends the
inte rna tiona l m eeting in Puerto Rico this
sum m er.
Kathy A m endt, from Shady Acres, has
been atten din g m eetings as a guest and we
are delighted that she soon is to become a
mem ber of th is Chapter.
Jean Freeburg, A lice B utler, and Betty
G eisler worked at the S pring bird C lin ic in
Port Orchard held on Saturday, March 23
a pproxim ately 70 p ilo ts were registered.
One o f
our ow n
m embers,
Leslie
Reynolds, attended also.
Four of us met for a fly o u t luncheon at
Shelton on A pril 20. The weather was w ith
us th is m onth. Jody W heeler and Janet
Penner came up in a Cessna and Jean
F re e b u rg fle w a C h e ro k e e W a rrio r
w ith your reporter e n jo ying every m in ute of
it. Jean has been very busy these days,
having ju s t com pleted her checkride for
m u lti-eng in e.
Next m o n th ’s m eeting w ill fin d fewer of
the mem bers in attendance as vacations
are com ing up, but h o pe fu lly we w ill have
m ore fly in g wom en atten din g as guests.
PUGET SOUND CHAPTER
Betty Curran, Reporter
We had a nice luncheon at the Jet Deck
on Paine Field fo r our February m eeting.
Our m eeting turned out to be qu ite a jam
session d iscussin g all the fo ils that have
developed in the flyin g field through no
fault of any of us flyin g en thusiasts and we
are all a b it irate about the w hole th in g .
The price of gas has skyrocketed but
fortunately we have fuel (so far anyway) if
we can afford to pay fo r it. Then we turned
to the brigh te r side of o u r favorite sport
and found out that Peggy Nugent is now
the proud processor o f a lovely 172
Skyhawk and Peggy says they all wear kid
gloves ju s t to go near the proud bird. Betty
and her husband flew to various airpo rts in
Oregon and much to our surprise had no
problem g e tting enough fuel. It turned out
to be a much more relaxing flig h t than we
expected especially as we watched the
long lines of au tom ob ile s queued up at the
service statio ns. Lorna Kringle is co m ­
piling news fo r the W ashington State
Aerospace Educational Board new sletter
to be d istribu te d to all members of th is
Board once a m onth and we are proud to
announce that Lorna does her share to
help keep the ladies' flyin g activities
available to th is reading media. Our
chapter is lo okin g in to the p o s s ib ility of
creating a college cred it course on a
particular phase of fly in g . A pparently th is
is already being done elsewhere. Marina
Lewis is p u tting her teaching s k ills to work
as often as she can, providing the weather
perm its which has been very unfavorable
so far th is year. Our chapter voiced its
opinion on the m ethod used in selecting a
recipient fo r the A.E. scho la rship through
our letter w riter, M archine Dexter, and she
received a som ewhat e n lig hten in g reply
from A lice Roberts w hich we did not agree
w ith in part. Our chapter discussed the 18”
high num erals for planes and we all agreed
that th is is rid iculou s.
A irlin e s w ill be flyin g o u t o f that base to
the Hawaiian Islands as of June 1st.
They're keeping the ir yacht and w ill spend
some tim e aboard it and cru isin g the San
Ju a n s -W h a t a life !
Della Koss is s till w orking on her in ­
strum ent ra tin g -th e weather has surely
cooperated, we've had no thin g but in ­
strum ent co n d itio n s . Also, we have a VIP
in Della s c a s e -s h e was elected president
of the W ashington P ilots A sso cia tio n Seattle Chapter.
P riscilla Cook was up fo r Vi hour in
February - the firs t in 3 m on th s- that
weather again!
M arch: During the gas crunch we are
trying to save by m eeting in private homes
and fo rm in g car pools. This m onth we met
at P r is c illa C o o k ’s b e a u tifu l
la ke
W ashington w a te rfro nt home (w ith the ir
“h is " & "h e rs” planes parked at th e ir wharf
rig ht o ff th e ir fro n t deck.) P riscilla 's son,
W yatt, showed tw o film s on hang g lid in g .
He has b u ilt his own w ings and made 2
(jum ps) flig h ts from a 600’ c liff. It's very
th rillin g . W hat a flyin g fa m ily -s e e m s they
were born w ith w ings. P riscilla and her
49Vier flew to G uanajuato, M exico fo r a
week of blue skies, warm sun, and among
other th in g s brought back a beautiful hand
made rug that now covers alm ost one fu ll
wall of th e ir living room (like the old
castles & the ir tapestries).
Doris & Harold W o lfsto n e were o ff to
M exico again in th e ir Bonanza they flew
w ith a group of 10 planes & 35 people from
the Seattle area.
Della Koss is a m em ber of the “ F irst
Round-The-W orld F lig h t C o m m itte e ” . This
com m itte e
was
form ed
to
plan
a
celebration com m erating the flig h t w hich
(occurred fifty years ago. Four Douglas
W orld C ruisers le ft Sand P oint A ir Drome,
Seattle, W ashing to n, A p ril 6, 1924, and
re tu rn e d S e p te m b e r 28, 19 24 .) The
celebration is planned fo r Septem ber 1974,
w ith many d ig n ita rie s, in clu d in g General
Leigh Wade, the last rem aining p ilo t.
WESTERN W ASHINGTON CHAPTER
Anita Morrison Baker, Reporter
Our January m eeting was held at the Sea
Tac International A irp o rt. Judy Nesland
arranged w ith FAA personnel to escort the
99s and the ir guests on a tou r show ing and
explaining the new radar system , w hich
shows not o n ly the aircraft com ing in to the
airport but the speed in knots, and the
change of a ltitu d e on the screen as the
aircraft descends. We also viewed the
con stru ction w ork going on on the new
tower. Laura Baxter became our latest 99.
February: Jayne Pykonen brought us up
to date by te llin g us about renting a
Cessna 172 in Sweden last sum m er and
enjoying the flig h t im m ensly. They pur­
chased a Bonanza after sellin g th e ir 180.
Judy Nesland is acco m plishing a great
deal as APT chairm an. She keeps
rem inding us and the firs t of February she
sent a personal le tte r to each chapter
member to encourage (or shame) us into
getting “ APT” . She’s very persistant.
Terry and Dave Kellogg w ill be spending
a great deal of tim e in the San Francisco
area since Dave w ho is w ith W estern
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A R K A N S A S -C O LO R AD O - LO U IS IA N A
ABILENE, TEXAS CHAPTER
Marjorie Andrews, Reporter
A record tu rn o u t fo r ou r chapter greeted
Brenda S trickle r, Section G overnor at our
A pril m eeting. New m em ber M arianne
Burhans hostessed the luncheon at her
hom e at Dyess A ir Force Base. Dyess
personnel then w elcom ed the group of
eleven to th e ir w eather-reporting fa c ilitie s ,
con tro l tow e r and the RAPCON area. We
all have a clearer understanding of who
and w hat are on the oth er end of that in ­
visib le radio wave now, and as Am ber Cree
com m e nted : “ I feel like a N inety-N ine
a g a in !"
G overnor S trickle r made a special trip to
A bilene to guide us w ith plans fo r the
s p rin g ,
1975
S e c tio n a l.
Her
en­
couragem ent helped greatly since we are a
sm all group and a little nervous about such
an undertaking.
Nancy and Dan R ichter, M arjorie and Mac
Andrew s attended the recent awards
banquet fo r local in stru cto r, Don Bondick,
who was area “ In stru cto r of the Year".
M.C. fo r th is event was TV and m otion
picture star, C liff Robertson, who kept us
entertained fo r an hour w ith tales from his
varied fly in g background.
M arjorie experienced another firs t: radio
failure, but THEIRS, not HERS! Lubbock
blew a fuse ju s t as she and Nervous
Navigator Mac had been handed o ff to
Lubbock Tower from Approach C ontrol
w ith a Texas International je t ju st behind.
The Lubbock tra n sm itte r became operative
ju s t in tim e fo r “ make short approach 50X
— CLEARED TO L A N D !"; no receiver,
though, so there was som e violent w ingw aggling and lig h t flash in g and we got
down and o ff, so Tl d id n ’t have to go
around. “ W h e w !”
ARKANSAS CHAPTER
Marguerite Nielsen, Reporter
Derm ott A irp o rt in Derm ott, Arkansas
was airm arked by the Arkansas NinetyNines in M arch. The num bers were painted
on the runway as w ell as the center line
and taxi line.
M arjorie McLean has been appointed by
Governor Dale Bum pers to the Arkansas
State A eronautics C om m ission fo r a term
to expire November 8, 1978. V irginia
P roctor is also serving on Arkansas State
Aeronautics C om m ission.
M arjorie and B ill McLean have been
enjoying th e ir Beech Sundow ner which
they recently flew to Tulsa fo r a visit w ith
the ir daughter and to New Orleans fo r a fun
week end.
Marge Nielsen has been fly in g search and
rescue w ith CAP Arkansas W ing, again
and the aircraft was found w ith one sur­
vivor.
Kay Newth is our candidate fo r Treasurer
of the South Central S ection. Kay is a very
d e d ic a te d w illin g w o rk e r in g e n e ra l
aviation and especially in the NinetyNines. Kay deserves ou r support.
... and may you all have fa ir skies and a
strong ta ilw in d wherever you may fly.
CHAPARRAL CHAPTER
Mary De Kinder, Reporter
At the H ouston Sectional Hazel Jones
was the lucky w inne r of the beautiful afgan
made by Rene H irth o f o u r chapter. Rene
crocheted the afgan to help us raise funds
for o u r Fall S outh Central Sectional here in
Las Cruces.
Karen Iselin is jo in in g our chapter, and
has brought a very good little guest to our
last tw o m eetings — Kail Laurene Iselin,
bom February 7 th is year.
At o u r March 25 m eeting we honored our
beloved m em ber Lela Carwardine by
presenting a Life M em bership to her. Lela
has spent the better part of the last tw enty
five years aiding general avaition and the
99’s; and in Alaska, Texas, New M exico,
or in any of the m any other places she has
visited, there w ill be for many years people
who w ill remember a sweet, pretty,
th o u g h tfu l, and in te llig e n t p ilo t. A gain, we
salute you, Mrs. Chester Carwardine!
COLORADO CHAPTER
Mary Neil, Reporter
RED ALERT: to all friends of DEEDO
HEISE. Deedo is not w ell. She was in the
hospital in W iscon sin where she was so
helped before. Her address now is at home
Deedo Heise
8990 A lkire Street
Arvada, C olo. 80005
Cindy B ellm ar passed CFI Rating.
Dolly G ibbons w ill be w orking w ith NCAR
(A tm ospheric Research) and NHRE (Nat'i
Hail Research Experim ent) all sum m er
chasing thu nde r-sto rm s and hail through
Northeastern C olorado and S outhw estern
Nebraska and she gets paid fo r this?
Anita Hessin and husband B ill taking the
Cherokee to Baja-Punta Pescadore and
Cabo San Lucas.
Ann Luce gone to M exico C ity fo r
research w ork on her M aster’s Thesis. She
also flew the Angel Derby as did (I thin k)
Velda M apelli and daughter Stephanie
Beuchat.
Mary Neil to o k APT ride w ith B ill G uin ther
— the fam ous Bonanza in s tru c to r who
hails from K utztow n Pa. — W hat a guy and
does he make that Bonanza fly and the
p ilo t work.
^ Plans are already afoot fo r ou r South
Central Section m eeting fo r Fall 75
com bined w ith a M ountain fly in g COURSE
AND CHECK RIDE. We expect th is course
to be open to everyone not ju s t 99 s from
I SCS. So start you r plans to jo in us fo r the
Fall C olor in Aspen, C olo. A ccom ­
m odations w ill be plush co n d o m in iu m s
com bined w ith the casual atm osphere of
the High cou ntry. B etty P fister w ill be our
“ on s ig h t” coo rdinator, Eulalia N ichols
and Jean Ferrell w ill be ou r M ountain
flyin g co o rdinators and Mary N eil is CoChairman of the w hole w ith Eulalia
N ichols.
DALLAS CHAPTER
Judy Cobb, Reporter
The March M eeting was held at the home
of CATHY W AYS. Plans were in the
fin a liza tio n stage that n ig h t fo r our Hangar
Party in May.
SANDRA SIM M ONS went to Hawaii and
upon return received word to report for
final exam inations, etc., and at ou r last
m eeting it was proudly announced that
Sandra had started w ork as a F lig h t
Engineer.
JAN THO M AS passed her in stru m en t
w ritten and now holds a brand new
com m ercial ce rtifica te . Jan also reports
she had the pleasure o f serving as co -p ilo t
during a trip to H ouston on an F-27
recently.
DOT and CHUCK W ARREN have been
going to Jetstream school. They are both
now q u alified to in s tru c t (Dot, Ground
School and Chuck F lig h t Training) in that
lovely aircraft.
BETTY and POSEY HUNDLEY ju st
returned from Breckenridge, C olorado.
B etty says they experienced the ‘m iracle of
the m o u n ta in ’ w h ile there — she fin a lly
learned how to ski.
EL PASO CHAPTER
Norma Kudiesy, Reporter
Our Chapter Chairm an, M arilyn Cragin
and husband George, have purchased a
tw in Apache and are g e tting checked out in
it. They flew to C uliacan, M exico last week
on a business trip .
Ruby Tatm an and B etty Rogers w ill at­
tend the S W S ectional in H o no lulu. Ruby
w ill stop o ff in C a lifo rn ia fo r an extended
vacation on th e ir return. B etty won a
$200.00 firs t place prize as a m em ber o f the
city -w id e a u to m o b ile safety con test fo r her
w ork w ith KISS, “ Keep It Safe, S tud ents” .
A n n N o b le s , A c c id e n t
P re v e n tio n
S pecialist, w ith the local FAA o ffic e was
m arried 12 A p ril to Lucin Stone of the Fort
W orth FAA o ffice .
Mrs. Jean C artier is our latest mem ber
being voted in at ou r A pril m on th ly
m eeting. H usband, Thom as, is a Marine
Corp Liaison Representative fo r active and
reserve u n its in the El Paso area.
A M arvelous tim e was had by Emma
U dovich and M arilyn at the S W Sectional
in H ouston. They helped Rene H irth o f the
Chaparral Chapter sell tic k e ts on a
be au tifu l Squash B lossom to be given
away at the Fall Sectional in Las
C ruces.A ll flew to H uston in a Jet Com ­
mander.
FORT WORTH CHAPTER
Jean Bishop, Reporter
Our be au tifu l spring weather has had all
ou r N inety-N ine s heading fo r the sky.
Jua nita W addell flew her 172 to H ouston
fo r the Spring Sectional w ith Mary Lou
Blain as her c o p ilo t. Ernie and Gladys
Latham had a lovely flig h t to O il C ity,
Louisiana fo r a weekend w ith frien ds, Dr.
and Mrs. Frank Doyle. Jean and Tom
Bishop are the proud new ow ners of a
Mooney MK 21. It takes ju s t the barest
excuse to get them fly in g these days.
Freda Price reports th a t she and her
fa m ily enjoyed a weekend fis h in g trip to
Lake Texoma. And our own Malena
Richardson was the Fort W orth Chapter
Queen, leader and Graduate Kops at the
Corpus C h risti convention of TOPS (Take
O ff Pounds Sensibly).
A pril saw the a d d itio n o f three new
m em bers to our roster, Carole W heeler,
H e n rie tta P e n ce , and B e tty H a n n .
W elcom e, g irls ! U n fo rtu na te ly, we have
lo st B etty and Joe Parsons to the south
Texas border co u n try. Joe and Betty fin a lly
fin ish e d b u ild in g th e ir house down there.
We w ill ce rtainly m iss both of them at our
m eetings. Tony Page sponsored a Going
Away Party fo r Joe and B etty at the Fort
W orth Press Club.
Edna W hyte extends an in vitatio n to all
99 s to v is it her at her airport, Aero Valley
A irp o rt. Edna has ju s t finishe d her 45th Thanger. She has a flig h t scho ol, sky-diving
school, restaurant, fu ll FAA approved
shop, acrobatic box area and hom ebuilt
clu b headquarters. The airpo rt is a big
project, but Edna enjoys her 16 hour days
m anaging it.
GOLDEN TRIANGLE CHAPTER
Ellen VanDeventer, Reporter
We have six new m em bers: Glenda
Farmer, Jackie Hansen, Ann Hoffm an,
LaVine H orton, Peggy Norm an and Penny
Peyton. Each one has been w orking w ith
us fo r several m onths, helping make our
Easter eggs, p a rticip a tin g in ou r Bake
Sale, A irm a rking and doing A ir Age
Education projects. As you can see,
they've been fu lly in do ctrinated to the 99 s.
Our A pril business m eeting was held in
Hurst. Jean Lem m on discussed the air­
m arking of a local fie ld and Brenda
S trickle r announced May 9 as the date for
the com ing Safety Sem inar. Helen H ill has
reserved May 11 AS THE DAY FOR
SAILPLANING AND June 15 to be our
chapter’s race to Lake Murray.
The fin a l report from our money m aking
chairm an, Carol Callan is in. During the
past Easter season, 225 sugar eggs were
made and sold. T hat’s really fan ta stic,
Carol.
G olden T riangle too k 14 m embers to
H ouston. It took everyone's e ffo rt to bring
back the attendance award.
Golden
Triangle trie s and achieves.
Seen at the South Central Spring Section
banquet are (I. to r.) section officers Hazel
Jones (s e c re ta ry ) and Jan M illio n
(treasurer) with Betty Frltts, chairman of
the Houston Chapter.
KANSAS CHAPTER
Carolyn Westerman, Reporter
O ur A pril m eeting was held in con­
ju n c tio n w ith the O klahom a Chapter in
S tillw a te r, O klahom a. Due to high w inds
our sp o t-la n d in g contest was cancelled.
However the bom b-dropping co n te st took
place and o u r Jackie Luke too k th ird place.
The O klahom a 99 s baked cakes fo r our
dessert and they were d e licio u s!
W ilm a Sheets, our newest member, won
the Cessna Em ployees F lyin g Club spotlanding con test in the category of 50 to 200
hours. The contest was held at Redwing
A irp o rt, A ugusta, Kansas on A pril 21.
Dorothy and Bob Barker added to their
fa m ily an in s tru m e n t- e q u ip p e d P ip e r
Cherokee 140.
The new Mayor of Neodesha, Kansas is
Ruth Jo h n so n ’s 49’/2er Leonard. Leonard
won the electio n as a w rite -in on the ballot.
M arilyn and John Copeland attended a
denta! sem inar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
They spent eleven days tou ring the city
and surro un din g areas. M arilyn reports
that Rio de Janeiro is the m ost beautiful
c ity and has the m ost be au tifu l beaches
she has ever seen.
May 11, 1970, Lubbock was hit by a tor­
nado w h ic h d a m a g e d o r d e s tro y e d
several
planes at the
airpo rt.
The
Staggerw ing was damaged, but after about
6 weeks' w ork, in July, 1970, they flew it
"s tra ig h t north about 4,000 m ile s " to
Inuvik, N orthw est T erritories, on the m outh
of the Mackenzie River where it em pties
in to the A rctic Ocean. As a result of this
flig h t, A ngela returned home and started
w orking toward her private p ilo t’s license.
The day she earned her private license,
May 1, 1971, she applied fo r m em bership
in the Top of Texas Chapter of the 99 s. In
January, 1972, a sm all group began
organization o f the Lubbock Chapter.
Angela was made tem porary Chairman of
the group, and when the charter was
issued A pril 16, 1972, she was elected the
firs t Chairm an o f the Lubbock Chapter.
She was on the air safety and the program
com m ittee the firs t year, and th is year she
is Chairm an of the p u blic relations,
m o n e y m a k in g , and a v ia tio n
s a fe ty
com m ittee s fo r the Chapter, and is A ir­
m arking Chairm an of the South Central
Section fo r 1973-74. She has attended all
section and inte rna tiona l m eetings since
the form atio n of the Lubbock Chapter.
Angela's other m ost exciting fly in g ex­
perience came in June, 1973 when she flew
in her Bonanza as c o -p ilo t to Edna Gardner
W hyte in the W om en's Intercontinental A ir
Race from M onterrey, M exico to Nassau.
They d id n 't place, but did have a wonderful
tim e trying , and Angela said she learned a
lot from Edna Gardner W hyte.
The 99 s are m ost fortun ate to have this
g o-getter w orking fo r them.
LUBBOCK CHAPTER
Beth Covey, Reporter
O ur strobe lig h t th is m onth is on the
“ F ounding M othe r", and firs t Chairm an of
our chapter, Angela Boren. Angela is one
of those people everybody looks fo r when
they need a jo b done. She is an A ssistan t
Professor of Foods and N u tritio n at Texas
Tech U niversity, and F aculty S ponsor of a
student Foods and N u tritio n group. She
holds m em bership in several professional
o rganizations. In 1973, she was appointed
to a 3 year term on the Lubbock Regional
A irp o rt Board, and is Secretary o f the
Board th is year. In ad d itio n to w orking for
our 99's chapter, she has started w orking
toward her in stru m e n t rating, and hopes to
com p le te it w h ile school is out th is
sum m er.
A ngela's 491/2er, Doug, is President of
The S ecurity N ational Bank in Lubbock,
and an avid p ilo t. He was a p ilo t even
before he finishe d high scho ol, served in
the A ir Force, tho ugh not in a flyin g
capacity, and is in stru m e n t rated. They
bought th e ir firs t airplane about 6 years
ago, and are part ow ners of the Alexander
Eagle Rock, the 1973 Grand C ham pion of
both the EAA and AAA shows.
One of A ngela’s tw o m ost e xcitin g flyin g
experiences led to her career as a p ilo t
instead of a passenger. In 1970, she and
Doug owned a Beech Staggerw ing D17S.
PIKES PEAK CHAPTER
Marion Hein, Reporter
The Pikes Peak Chapter of the N inetyNines, Inc., the M ountain Safety Foun­
dation Aero C lub and the C ity of C olorado
Springs sponsored a Federal Aviation
A d m in istra tio n safety sem inar A pril 5th
and 6th in Colorado Springs. The FAA
Rocky M ountain R egion's G olden Sentinel
Team conducted the sem inar, w hich in­
cluded accident prevention specialists
from the d is tric t o ffic e in Denver. There
were d iscu ssio n s and presentations on
accidents and cause factors, airspace,
airspeed, weather, m ountain flyin g and
survival, and the new Part 61 p ilot
requirem ents.
June 1st w ill be AVIATION DAY in
Colorado S prings. The M ountain Safety
F oundation Aero C lub and the Pikes Peak
Chapter o f the N inety-N ines, Inc., w ill
participate by giving Pennies-a-Pound
rides, settin g up a sta tic displa y and lining
up an air show, w ith the cooperation of the
Rampart A viation Com pany, Colorado
Springs.
S hirley M arshall reports the Fem inine
Wave Camp recently held at the Black
Forest G lider Port was a trem endous
success. Hannah Duncan received her
diam ond for the highest absolute altitu de ,
soaring to 32,000 ft.
We are glad to have Vivian Bennett out of
the hospital now. She reports a great flig h t
to D e n v e r... Gene and Gus Gonzales have
b ought back the Luscom be w hich they
once had ... We are planning another a irlift
of c lo th in g and craft sup plies to the Rusk
State H o spita l.
South Central Section Governor Brenda
Strickler is seated at the head table as
Houston's Mabel Edith Oliver greets the
South Central Section.
HOUSTON CHAPTER
Stephanie Vickery, Reporter
The Houston Chapter wishes to extend
their thanks to all those atten din g the
South Central Section m eeting March 29SI . We w ish to extend a special thanks to
those early arrivals who participated in the
H ouston television show “ D ialing for
D ollars," as they went w ith o u t coffee and
breakfast to meet our tim e schedule.
Among the featured events of the Sec­
tional was a tou r of Houston in the
Goodyear B lim p America for 12 lucky 99’s.
The Dialing fo r Dollars show featured A lice
Seaborn, Pat McEwen, Mary Able, Brenda
Strickler, and an audience of South Central
99 s. At the business m eeting lawyer Perry
W esbrooks (491/2er from W ich ita Falls)
spoke on the 99’s in corp oratio n under 501C3 exem pt status. Dr. H ip p o lite Landry
flew in from south Louisiana to be our
guest speaker at the banquet. Dr. Landry
set an around-the-w orld speed record in
1969 in an S-35 Bonanza.
H o u s to n w e lc o m e s new m e m b e rs
Shannon Able, Beth A kin, Audrey Haley,
Pat St. Germaine, M olly Sm yth, and Sally
W indham .
Mary Able is fillin g in regularly on Big
Three Ind ustries' Lear Jet w ith trip s to
Palm Springs, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge,
and W ichita.
B illie W yche has been busy w ith cor­
porate flyin g in a Beech King A ir and a
Piper pressurized Navajo and has checked
out in a Beech Baron.
Pharm acist M arilyn C urtis has become
the firs t woman store manager in the
pharmacy chain fo r w hich she works.
Linda Turk has graduated to solo
a e ro b a tic s a fte r h a v in g re c e iv e d in ­
struction from Shreveport's Bud Ports
(D ottie's 49’/2er) in his Decathalon. Linda
reports that it is great fun.
B illie W yche flew
Dow C hem ical's
W indecker Eagle 1 to W ashington, D.C.,
for the 29th Annual Conference and E xhibit
of the Reinforced P lastics-C om posites
In stitu te in February. The Eagle was on
display in the ballroom of the Shoreham
Hotel and received the Grand Design
Award fo r Excellence in the fie ld of
reinforced plastics.
SAN ANTONIO CHAPTER
Marian Burke, Reporter
R A T IN G S : C Y N T H IA M cG A R Y has
recently received her instrument rating.
Congrats to you Cynthia!
PROJECTS: The San A n to n io Chapter
helped present the Aviation Education
portion of "Free Form " week in March at
Ursline Academy under the d ire ctio n of
LAURA RICHTER. Laura teaches at Ursline
and did an excellent jo b of d irectin g the
program.
Safety film s were shown at the March 9,
'74 99's m eeting by San A n to n io FAA
office.
RACES: MARIAN BURKE & Co p ilo t
RUTH H IL D E B R A N D w ill leave fo r
Acapulco, Mexico A pril 20th to participate
in the Angel Derby. 35 planes were entered
at clo sing date.
A pril w ill be A irM arking m onth fo r San
A nto nio Chapter & in May they w ill have a
"Treasure H u nt".
Got your p ro ficie ncy ride yet? .... Are you
APT? ... DO IT SOON and have a SAFE
FLYIN' SPRING!
NOTE: Marian was reporter fo r the San
A nto nio Chapter. This was her last report
— as usual "sh o rty and m ea ty." 99s w ill all
m iss her. She and Ruth Hildebrand won
the 1973 PPD, AND WERE GREAT PILOTS.
SHREVEPORT CHAPTER
Dot Lindsey, Reporter
Martha C hristy, Jere Saur and Evelyn
Snow attended the Sectional at H ouston.
SHV Chapter won the Section Award for
1973 APT — a silver tray donated by the
Oklahoma Chapter. It is on display in the
lobby of Downtown A irp ort. Let's keep it
as long as we can by all becom ing APT.
Many hours of paper work, telephoning
and personal con tacts were logged by
Joan Carroll, D ottie Ports, Mary Jo Voss,
Helen H ew itt, Jere Saur and Evelyn Snow
in connection w ith the Louisiana A ir T our’s
brief, successful visit - tw en ty-five aircraft
were on tou r - everyone enjoyed the
ho spita lity.
The A pril m eeting was held at the
reporter’s home. We fashioned "A u n t
Jem im a D o lls” out of red rags to give
Angel Derby p a rticip ants - together w ith a
praline - thus they w ill have a clean rag and
a source of qu ick energy. M artha C h risty’s
idea.
Sarah Hiern has moved to Rome, G eorgia
- we m iss you Sarah.
The Biennial F lig h t Review Sem inar (May
4 and 5) sponsored by Louisiana Tech and
SHV 99 s in cooperation w ith the FAA has
arranged an interesting and know ledgeable
program.
Ann King has tem porarily shelved the
airm arking program due to our par­
tic ip a tio n in other projects.
SOUTH LOUISIANA CHAPTER
Prunella Peachtree, Reporter
G reetings from the land of Spanish m oss
and m agnolias! — and craw fish, and
gum bo, and pirogues, and tarpin, and
cypress! The nine members who traveled
to H ouston in Pat W ard's Dodge Maxivan
had so much fun that tentative plans are in
the m ill fo r a s im ila r trip to the Fall SC
Section m eeting in Las Cruces! The
H ouston Chapter really o u t-d id themselves
on a m ag nificent event. (We are happy to
h e ar th a t D e lle H ig h to w e r 's “ G rand
O pening” was succe ssful the day after we
all went hom e.) For O ctober, would
anybody along the route in Texas want to
offer the ir living room flo o r, barn, hangar,
garage for us to toss a sleeping bag down
as we go? H ouston? San A nto nio ? San
A n g e lo ? El P aso? O d e s s a -M id la n d ?
Abilene? F ort W orth-D allas? Longview?
We seldom snore, (seldom sleep!), come
equipped w ith our own canteens and bath
tow els, pick up ou r sandw ich bags— oh
yes, and we also dance: at least the Bunny
Hop!
P olly Baughm an and Pat W ard are
d e dicating hours and days of every week
on the IRS 501 .C(c) a p p lica tio n fo r our
C hapter; were invited to attend the Annual
G overnor’s Conference on T ourism in
Louisiana as representatives of The 99 s,
and did so on Thursday, A p ril 25. Polly,
Pat and Shirley Bernhardt met w ith the
H ilton m anagem ent in early A p ril regar­
ding the Spring '76 Section m eeting (Note:
th is w ill be 3 night-3 day m eeting, Thur­
sday - Sunday, A pril 22-25, 1976). G loria
Holm es has been to A b ita S prings tow ing
gliders in a C itabria, and had a real treat
when she ferried a B la ntik sailplane from
Salles' La. A ir Tour so we could go to the
fish fry, then on to O pelousas fo r the
Confederate A ir Force show and air antics
by ou r own M arion Cole. Fran's air tour
included an entourage of over 30 airplanes
from 14 states th is year, and was
b e a u tifu lly executed - as always. She’s
considering having it on the week im ­
m ediately fo llo w in g the '76 Spring Section
m eeting in Baton Rouge.
We had a visitin g 99 “ d ig n ita ry " in our
m id st in A p ril: Vice-Chairm an of the
K e n tu c k y B lu e g ra s s C h a p te r, G in g e r
Edwins, form erly of South La. Chapter,
and enjoyed having dinn er w ith her w hile
she was here.
Some of us w ill see some of you in San
Juan!
Frito-Bandito Contest? Not quite! Just the
South Louisiana Chapter at the gala
Western Supper in Houston. (L-R) Cal
Meredith, Pat Ward, Gloria Holmes, Molly
Stockwell, Polly Baughman, Mary White,
Eleanor Lowry (standing); Sandra Rice,
Shirley Bernhardt, Ding-Ding Dee Wilson,
Betty Jones (on their knees— a-hem!).
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N orth Central Section
I L L I N O I S - I N D I A N A - IO W A
K E N T U C K Y • M IC H IG A N - MIN N E S O TA
M IS S O U R I - O H IO - W IS CO NS IN
WE’D RATHER BE FLYING is what one of
the banners on Pat Ward’s Maxivan says,
but those South La. 99s who traveled to
the SC Section meeting in Houston say
that the fun, games and conversation was
terrific. The Nine Ninety-Nines traveling
together were: Pat Ward, Polly Baughman,
Molly Stockwell, Shirley Bernhardt, Betty
Jones, Gloria Holmes, Sandra Rice, Dee
Wilson and Cal Meredith.
A bita S prings' La. Soaring Center to
B ogalusa; says it ’s a real fine sailplane
(would you believe, our little G loria is
enrolled in Karate lessons? B etty Jones’
daughter is an im pressively accom plished
Karate expert, to o !). Mary W hite is busy
m aking out fin a l exam s fo r her stud ents at
USL where she teaches a Math Sem inar in
the graduate school. Dee W ilso n spent a
cou ple of days during Easter w ith Pat Ward
at the W ards’ cam p on Toledo Bend Lake
(w ith in sho utin g distance of the Am m ons
A ir S trip near the Pendleton B ridge.) Cal
M eredith offered her home in Houma for
any of us who wanted to RON (ala South
La. 99-style) fo r the last weekend of Fran
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ALL-OHIO CHAPTER
Kathy Talalas, Reporter
The ladies of A ll-O h io have been
spreading the news about 99 s a lot lately,
as we head in to a great sum m er of flyin g .
Marie W olfe talked to a 6th grade science
class about fly in g . (Marie says wow the
qu estio ns they asked), Jane W eislogel
spoke to a 4th grade class, and Akron 99
Jean H ixson who is a m em ber of WACOA
(W o m e n s
A d v is o ry C o m m itte e
on
A viation), appeared on the M ike Douglas
TV program ta lkin g about women in
A viation and astronauts. Joan More, F lig ht
In s tr u c to r a t O h io U n iv e rs ity w as
re c e n tly
a p p o in te d an
In s tru m e n t
Exam iner by the C olum bus GADO office .
She is also a CPE for Private & Com m ercial
ratings. Caorline Snell (present secretary
of A ll-O hio) participated in a county
m eeting fo r the M ontgom ery County Girl
S couts, subject “ W OMAN POWER". Anne
Esselburne passed her m ulti-eng in e and
m ulti ATP flig h t checks, w h ile Marcia
Greenham earned her Instrum ent rating in
April. Shawnee Lee von K linger, w ho w ill
be heading up a new kind of pu blic
relations program fo r A ll-O h io received the
Amos Ives Root award for excellence in
aviation jo urn alism sponsored by the O hio
Aviation Trades A ssociatio n, C olum bus.
She is a reporter fo r the M iddletow n
Journal and has been invited to jo in the
Aviation-Space W riters A ssn., a national
organization
for aviation
and space
w riters. Bonnie M ille r flew to F lorida w ith
Marge & Jim Gorman in the ir new Duke.
Marge went through the Duke school at the
Beech factory last fa ll, logging lo ts of
hours.
We were inform ed of the illne ss of
Doctor Charles Thom as, 49’/2 o f V irg inia
Thomas. Cards can be sent to Good
Samariton H ospital, Dayton, O hio. Bertie
& Charles Barbeau ju s t got back from a trip
to M exico in th e ir 172 w ith stop overs at
such exciting places as H arlingen, Texas
(say Rebel Ball A ir Show and Ciudad
Valles, S .L.P ., M exico.)
Here’s a real love story about one of our
99's. Marion Betzler Brown met a guy
named Jack Brown at R om ulus A ir Force
Base in 1943, but then he left fo r overseas
and they lost contact w ith each oth er fo r 30
years. Then Herb Fisher o f N.Y. Port
A uth ority made up a roster of A.T.C. p ilo ts
and soon found Jack (J.D.) flyin g fo r a
cattle rancher. The happy ending-they
were married Feb. 23, 74 and moved to
Laredo, Texas. M arion w ill be jo in in g the
San A nto nio or Corpus C hristi Chapter.
Their gain is ou r loss.
FEATURED 99 OF THE MONTH
Doris G ill joined 99 s in A ugust of 1972,
since then she has worked at APT
Chairman, Ways & Means, Budget &
Audit, was a co -p ilo t in the M ichigan Small
Race of 1973, sponsored 4 new m em bers
in 73-74. She and her husband operate an
FBO
o p e ra tio n
at
C lin to n
F ie ld ,
W ilm ington O hio. Doris is m aking item s
for 99’s and w ill be bringing them to the
Kansas sectio na l, knitted long sweaters
w ith 99 on pocket, great throw p illo w and
purses, all personalized fo r a sm art
looking 99.
The June Poker Party is com ing up w ith
Bonnie M cSwain w orking extra hard.
CAPE GIRARDEAU AREA CHAPTER
Charmiane W. Freeman, Reporter
A fter a long seige of inclem ent weather,
the Cape Girardeau Area Chapter fin a lly
had a m eeting and could actually fly to it!
Plans were discussed fo r the Fall Sectional
to be held in M arion, Illin o is and hosted by
our chapter. We are looking forward to a
very successful m eeting at that tim e.
Members of Cub S cout Den 5 visited the
Dyersburg A irp o rt recently and were taken
for an o rien ta tion ride by Mary Boyd,
Evelyn Braese, and Charmiane Freeman.
For m ost, it was a firs t ride in an airplane.
Since Mary Boyd has been accepted in
Law School th is fa ll, she w ill not be up for
re-election as Chapter chairm an.
Charm iane Freeman recently attended
the National Aerospace Congress in Las
Vegas, Nevada; traveling via T-29 from
Nashville, Tn. to Jackson, Ms. and from
there by C-130. At the co n clu sio n o f th is
m eeting, she accepted an in vita tio n by Dr.
Bealer S m otherm an, D irector o f the
Aerospace W orkshop of M iddle Tennessee
State U niversity, to jo in the s ta ff fo r the
1974 session from June 10 - Ju ly 5.
CENTRAL ILLINOIS CHAPTER
Clarissa Holcomb, Reporter
Our cake comomorating our 8 April 1945
Chapter Charter date.
L. to R. Libby Ann Dunseth, Ronda
Phillips, Norma Newbury, Kathleen Wood,
Jayne Schiek Barbara Jenison, Eleanor
Schmelzer, Doris Ann Norcross. Margie
Jones in front, Deed Holcomb in back. At
Sparta to celebrate 29th chapter charter
date. (Central III.)
Jean M cLaughlin is busy w ith students,
taking three 172 loads to F lorida before our
weather in th is area perm itted much fly in g .
They went all the way to the Keys. Had
everything from ice to thu nde rsto rm s so
they learned a lot.
Margie Jones and Doris Ann N orcross
started out to jo in in the Angel Derby fun
and fo u g h t thu nde rsto rm s in Texas.
F in a lly made it in tim e to A cup ulco.
Next m eeting M acom b g irls are charging
fo r every em pty s e a t-2 5 cents a seat! Then
a. spo t-la n d in g con test, the C ountry Club
for lunch and the second draw on our
Poker Run. W e’re hoping the Quad City
Area g irls w ill jo in us. Some of them are in
our area, but belong to QC to have some
place to fly . We are disappointed at no llliNines A ir Derby th is year, it gave the
Illin o is g irls a chance to meet together.
Several made it to Sparta fo r a m eeting.
We celebrated our 29th Charter date. Had a
beautiful cake to com m em orate the oc­
casion thanks to hostess, Margie Jones.
We sent the 491/2’rs o ff to find Vernon
W illin g h a m ’s latest work o f art in the
plane-building fie ld . John N orcross has
the same plans and hopes to start on it as
soon as Doris A n n ’s poor Iron B u tte rfly is
put back to rig h ts after storm damage.
Jayne Schiek was “ bum ped" from her
seat in the Bonanza when John flew Doris
Ann down to jo in M argie enroute to the
Angel Derby, so she jum ped in to the
Durlyaire (her Plane Jayne) and flew down
for ove rnight and the Friday m orning sendo ff. She had packed a goodie bag fo r the
g irls w ith several cham pagne s p lits to be
used at the d iscre tio n of the co -p ilo t. She
knew they w o u ld n 't th in k o f undertaking
such a trip w ith o u t Snoopy so there he was
on his dog house to give moral support.
Jayne was held up by weather reports of
low ce ilin g s in the S pring field area so I got
a ride in the Plane Jayn e -sh a d e s o f 25
years ago when we had the V a g a b o n d th a t’s fly in g . Later I got under-the-hood
and tried to find M ount Vernon by VOR and
back to Sparta w ith an NDB spproach. A
bit rusty! Misread the new Mark 16 radio.
Helen Lewis has been dogging that
Instrum ent Rating. Drives all the way to
Chicago and then the weather is im ­
possible. T hings should im prove soon.
Eleanor Schm elzer is after her Com m ercial
rating.
O ur chapter is planning a cam p-out at
the Andrew 's RLA for the firs t of June.
This w ill be a firs t fo r us. It w ill also end
our Poker Run w hich Norma Newbery
dreamed up fo r us. She is m aking plans to
beat us to the fin is h “ to hide th in g s .”
Barbara Jenison made us all proud when
she related that Jerrie Cobb said that one
tribe in South Am erica planted rice and
really grew a surp lu s w hich they bartered
for fish and game and improved th e ir food
supply im m ensely because o f ou r interest
and help.
We have been invited to participate in
the F lying Farmers Park Tour w hich w ill be
held Septem ber 14 and 15. O ur Illin o is Park
Strips are kept open through use so we are
urged to fly in and use them.
Jayne Schiek is keeping at that in ­
strum ent work. Filed and got in to Detroit
under IFR c o n d itio n s even the CAVU
weather had been forseen fo r the whole
trip. Then to Saint Louis and although the
weather was supposed to be clean, arrived
to fin d a cloud cover and 500 ft. and 2
m iles. Was glad she had file d IFR. Re-filed
to get ou t, so in the 30-m inute w ait it
cleared. She w asn’t the least disappointed
in that.
CHICAGO AREA CHAPTER
Sandy Klock, Reporter
“ T ripp ing A ro u n d :” Sue DeW ulf & fam ily
flew down to K noxville, Tenn. recently for
a m in i-vaca tion in the Sm okies National
Park. Barb Silagi & 3 frien ds flew furthe r
south to Fort Myers Beach, Fla. fo r a week
in the sun during Easter vacation. And
Mary Panczyszyn & her tw o sons recently
flew to Naples, Fla. fo r som e sun and fun - mom got the sun, and the boys had fun
“ g irl-w a tc h in g !”
M eanwhile, back at the U. of Illin o is ,
Chicago Circle Campus, our 99s are
helping the C ircle Flyers w ith the ir Private
Pilot G round School. NIFA Chairm an Polly
G ilkison started the ball ro llin g there, and
then Polly, Karen Irvin, Jean Ingle, and
Joan M allin offered to donate th e ir tim e
and talent by lecturing to keep it
rolling.K aren co u ld n 't make the firs t class,
but sent a stand-in, Lee Cupp, who got the
program o ff to a good start by le ctu rin g on
"Theory of F lig h t.”
Mark your calendars! The C hicago Area
Chapter is sponsoring a "Treasure H u nt"
to help finance the 1975 llli-N in e s A ir
Derby. It w ill be held June 30th at Greater
Rockford A irp o rt, Rockford, III., at 10:00
AM, and run for 2 hours, w ith a nice lunch
afterw ards at the SkyRoom Restaurant on
the field. Donations w ill be $10.00 per
plane, and the hunt is open to both male
and fem ale p ilo ts -- everyone's invited!
GREATER KANSAS CITY CHAPTER
Dorothy Stratton, Reporter
Our chapter meets the firs t Thursday of
each m onth in Kansas C ity either in a 99
home or have a dinner m eeting w ith
49'/2ers. A pril m eeting was held at the
Runway Restaurant at the Old M unicipal
A irp o rt. The n o m in a tin g c o m m itte e
subm itted a slate of nom inees fo r o ffic e
for the upcom ing fiscal year. B allo ts are to
be turned in at the May m eeting. M arilyn
Dickson reported on final plans fo r Sec­
tional m eeting we are having in Kansas
C ity May 10-12th.
Our guest speaker could not attend so
members to ld about trip s taken during the
w inter m onths. Places visited included
Hong Kong, Barbacos, Spain, South
Am erica, Hawaii, States of W ashington,
New York and Florida.
We do not have Fly-in m eetings so we
have a F ly-O ut day during the m onth.
These were discon tinue d during the energy
crises and tours of local interest were
made. A pril 18th was Fly-O ut day again.
Planes pilote d by Joan Maple, Jean W ilso n
and Sherry Q uinlan w ith 11 members and
guests flew to B entonville, Arkansas fo r a
com plim entary lunch at H ill and Dale
Country Club and a tou r of Bella Vista.
Charles and B illie Bordner ju s t returned
from a vacation trip . They flew th e ir plane
to M obile Alabam a, Vero Beach, F lorida
and on to the Bahamas fo r a few days.
Sheldon and Ruth Stafford are m aking
another trip across the A tla n tic (Ruths 4th)
ferrying Beech Sundowners to Johannasburg, South Africa.
We are an xio usly w a iting to hear from
our members Mary Ann H a m ilton and N ita
Irwin who are fly in g the Angel Derby.
GREATER ST. LOUIS CHAPTER
Rose Mary Roth, Reporter
Doc Peter’s favorite nurse, Mary, has a
kn ittin g class she in stru cts on Tuesday
evenings, w hich is why we haven’t seen a
w hole lot of Mary lately. Not o n ly that, but
th is great gal who adopted fo u r Indian
children a couple of years ago is attending
a class at W ashington U niversity on, of all
th in g s, raising adoptive childre n!
Tuesday A pril 2nd Tex W ickenhauser,
Sue M atheis, Nelda Lee and Rose Mary
Roth, represented the 99’s at a com ­
b in a tio n M is s o u ri P ilo ts A s s o c ia tio n
m eeting w ith the Greater St. Louis Chapter
as the ir guests. O ur speakers enlightened
the audience on what its like to be a female
Aerospace Engineer, a he lico pter tra ffic
reporter and a flig h t in stru cto r.
New ra tin g s— Doris Kuhn received her
F lig h t In stru cto r Rating.
New planes— Shirley W all flew to
W ich ita to pick up her new C-182 and
received Cessna's royal treatm ent. Shirley
said that she wished she could buy a new
plane m ore often because of her VIP
treatm ent. Shirley took her Com m ercial
check ride and w ill start her Instrum ent
Rating in the new 182 w ith all the radio
equipm ent you could ever want.
W ednesday, A pril 24th Peggy K ilby was
our hostess at a fly -in to W entzville,
M isso uri. B etty Board, Doris Kuhn, Norma
and Dan Brauch, Ruth Lake, Gerry Beetz,
M arion Taylor and V irg inia Kunkel were
present to enjoy the beauty o f Peggy’s
restored farm hom e w ith the m ost fan­
ta stic selection of antiques yo u ’d ever
hope to see in a hom e. Peggy also gave us
a peek in her A n tiq u e Shop.
Racers at large— Val Johnson and Mary
Peters are flyin g the ir B on an zas in the
Angel Derby.
Rose Mary Roth was asked to com e in
fo r an interview at Ozark A ir Lines fo r a co­
p ilo t's p o sitio n . A ltho ug h she w asn’t hired
in th is class, Ozark w ill give Rose Mary
con sid eratio n fo r the next class, which
should be hired by early sum m er.
INDIANA CHAPTER
Lois Hawley
Kathy Forrest
Reporters
The Indiana Chapter of the 99's received
a s tiff challenge from chapter president,
Anne Black at th e ir February m eeting.
Saying that aero-space education is
“ where it's a t," Anne urged each member
to become involved in an air age education
activity w ith in the next m onth. These
include speaking to local school children,
setting up displa ys at our local airports,
and reporting 99 a ctivitie s to the com ­
m u n ica tio n s media.
Barbara Jennings, Tina Sturdevant,
Norma N evitt, Ann B ellefiore and Nancy
Hagans, 99 s from Valparaiso, have been
instrum ental in organizing the p ilo ts and
aircraft owners in Porter County. F ifty
interested persons attended the first
m eeting in January, and they w ill elect
o ffice rs in February.
N inety-nine J ill M cC orm ick w ill appear
in her rea l-life role as an aviation educator
in a television program on aero-space
education w hich was film e d at the School
o f A v ia tio n T e c h n o lo g y o f P urd ue
U niversity, where J ill is a staff member.
The program w ill illu stra te use of Purdue's
707 sim u la to r in th e ir Professional Pilot
C urriculum .
March found the Indiana 99 s rising to
the challenge to participate in air age
education. L illy Danek, 99 and music
teacher, takes her fly in g to the classroom
w ith her, and said her students should
soon be able to pass the private w ritten
exam as w ell as the ir regular lessons.
Margaret Ringenberg, CFI in Ft. Wayne
gives weekly film s on ground in stru ctio n
to m embers of the general p u b lic. Another
99, Sue Bathauer is w orking w ith Boy-G irl
Scouts in the ir aviation m erit badges.
Spring brings many hopes and some
disa p p o in tm e n ts to the Indiana chapter of
the 99 s. We regret having to cancel our
annual F .A .I.R . race due to the fuel
shortage, and are already planning for a
spectacular renewal of it in 1975 in
Anderson, Indiana.
On a hopeful note, we are looking fo r a
"new lo o k " in 1974 as we try to decide on
u n ifo rm s fo r the Indiana Chapter. G etting
100 ladies to agree on style is no easy
m atter!
Several of our members are planning to
attend the m idw est sectional m eeting in
Kansas C ity on May 10, to report on our
many a ctivitie s in pu blic relations, air
m arking, air age education and other
areas.
IOWA CHAPTER
Ruth Ulfers, Reporter
Indiana Chapter Chairman Anne Black,
awards Jill McCormick a special pin for her
contribution to the Chapter “above and
beyond” the call of duty.
A pril found 23 m em bers, 2 guests and 16
491/2ers atten din g the Newton m eeting.
The pictu re show s some of the 99’s
sm ilin g in spite of the 30 kt w inds. Pat
Muehl gave a report on Aerospace
E d u c a tio n and s u g g e s tio n in c lu d e d :
dispe rsing m ore in fo rm atio n in to scho ols;
scout g ro u p s; career education sessions;
and u tiliz in g old issues of the 99 Magazine
to prom ote fly in g and the activitie s of the
99 s. Pam E lling son has also designed
p u b lic ity posters fo r each of us to post at
our home airport to assist us in con tacting
potential 99 s.
Gwen McClure who is our Safe Pilot
chairman com m ented on the FAA Sem inar
held in DSM and also reminded us of the
upcoming seminars being held throu gh ou t
our state during the next several weeks.
The local IOW evening was graced w ith
100 per cent attendance on the part o f us
local 99s.
The April program was presented by
Herb M otch (49’/2 of Diane) who is the
Jasper County Mental Health D irector and
his associate P.J. w ho spoke on "F ear of
F lyin g ." P.J. holds several ratin gs and is
working on his ATP and has 1400 hrs. Herb
hypnotized P.J. and induced considerable
anxiety about fly in g . Herb then brought
him out of his hypnotized state and
allowed the group to question him w ith a
variety of related questions. Ann Clay
suggested to him that Earl Johnson
(16,000 hrs and Roberta’s 49’/2) take them
for a ride and according to her report his
response was im pressive: He was not
interested in fly in g , his hands were “ cold
and clam m y, he was w ild-eyed, breathing
heavily and clasping his hands nervously”
and not about to go. Herb then reversed
the state. They made the po in t that people
can and do dum p all th e ir anxieties on one
thing, whether it is fly in g or scuba diving
or whatever and that th e ir attitu d e
seriously affects the ir a b ility to perform
c o m p e te n tly .
Q u ite an
im p re s s iv e
dem onstration and program.
Our May m eeting in Omaha is going to
be a weekend fro lic as w ell as our usual
dow n-to-business m eeting. The hostesses
are also planning a brunch so we have an
o pportunity to meet m em bers o f the
Nebraska 99s.
Our 99s modeling the windtousled hair
styles are (L to R) Ann Johnson, FOD;
Fran Doherty, SUX; Roberta Johnson,
TNU; Carolyn Rowney, SUX; and Jeanne
Bedinger, SUX. This was taken in TNU in
April on a day with great sunshine and
even greater wind.
LAKE ERIE CHAPTER
Helen Keidel, Reporter
On January 12, 1974 a new chapter was
born -- the Lake Erie Chapter w ith a
c h a rte r
m e m b e rs h ip
of
42.
The
te rrito ria l boundaries include ten counties
in northeast O hio and 3 in Pennsylvania
w ith all po in ts in easy driving distance if
the weather does not cooperate on
m eeting days. O hio's rapidly changing
weather had a lo t to do w ith the form atio n
o f th is chapter, as it is an o ffs h o o t of the
A ll-O h io Chapter. It is about a 5-hour drive
by car between north and south O hio -c o n trib u tin g to poor attendance when IFR
weather prevailed. H o pe fu lly the Lake Erie
VFR p ilo ts w ith have no excuse now fo r
skip p in g m eetings.
O ffice rs elected fo r 1974 are Carol
Stephan, C hairm an; Margaret W e llin g to n ,
Vice C hairm an; Annette Fedor, Secretary,
and Mardi Mulvey, Treasurer. Parlim entarian Bernice Barris and her com m ittee
have been w orking feverishly to get a set of
By-Laws acceptable to the m em bership,
bership.
MICHIGAN CHAPTER
Suzanne Whyte, Reporter
Loma May chats with an old friend, John
Kreischer, at the reception.
Marilyn Sidwell
Senator Cannon
Starting off with a smile, the 1974 officers
(I to r) Mardi Mulvey, Carol Stephan,
Margaret Wellington and Annette Fedor,
display the banner made and presented by
Bernice Barris and Helen Keidel at the new
chapter's first official meeting. (Lake Erie
Chapter)
The o ffic ia l charter was presented to
Carol Stephan by Joan Hrubec of the A llO hio Chapter at a special Charter Dinner
held at tha spial Charter Dinner held at the
Avalon Inn, W arren, O hio in January.
Members and husbands totaled 49 at that
h is to ric gathering.
The firs t o ffic ia l m eeting was held
February 10th at the Cuyahoga C ounty
A irp o rt, Cleveland, w ith Bernice Barris and
Helen Keidel as co-hostesses. They
presented the Chapter w ith a banner to be
displayed at each of th e ir m on th ly
m eetings. Fourteen 49’/2’s were given a
tou r and histo ry of the airpo rt by Robert
Shea, A irp o rt Manager, w h ile 29 members
participated in th e ir m eeting. Special
guest that day was Jean Sim s, C hief of
C ontrol Tower O perations at Cuyahoga,
and the firs t wom an to hold such a
p o sitio n.
A ir m arking projects are being planned
fo r whenever the weather breaks, and a
“ 66" program is also on th e ir agenda. This
section of the co u n try has a great many
airpo rts, w hich means fem ale student
p ilo ts w ho should be inform ed of the
N inety-N ines organization. “ W atch Us
G row " m ig h t be an appropriate slogan for
th is new group.
and
Pat
Domas
greet
The M ichigan Chapter has been keeping
abreast of M ich iga n’s new radar in­
sta lla tio n s and current on ATC procedures.
P ro g ra m C h a irm a n , K a th y G e rh o ld ,
arranged fo r B ill Beynon, FAA Radar
S pecialist, and Gene Sim ons, F lin t Bishop
A irport Tower Chief, to give us ou r April
program . Mr. Beynon spoke on the in­
sta lla tio n and operation of radar eq uip­
ment. Mr. Sim ons spoke and showed a
film on proper radio com m u nica tion
techniques.
An in vita tio n was issued to Suzanne
W hyte, Chapter Chairm an, to send a
respresentative to a c o n tro lle r m eeting at
the Detroit M etropolitan A irp ort. The
N inety-N ines, Inc. was one of two
organizations invited. The purpose of the
m eeting was to discuss d e pictions for
local VFR charts under the new system s.
Joyce Odom attended as representative for
the chapter. A nother m eeting program
featured W illia m Elcoate o f the Bell
Telephone Co.
Mr.
Elcoate gave a
presentation on NORAD, the Canadian and
Am erican defense system . A telephone
and television system developed by Bell
Telephone enabled m em bers to talk
directly w ith the com m anding o ffic e r in
Colorado.
W illia m Sauber, business manager for
the Special Products Group in F unctional
Products at the Dow Chem ical Co. was
guest speaker in May. He is a p ilo t who
has been involved w ith the research and
developm ent o f the W.indecker Eagle since
its in cep tion. His program included a film
of last years Powder Puff Derby in w hich a
W indecker flew .
A Direct Relief F lig ht took place
fo llo w in g the May m eeting. Kay Cham ­
berlain, DFR Chairm an, arranged for
medical supplies to be prepared fo r flig h ts
from Mt. Pleasant to Detroit C ity A irp o rt.
Sammy McKay and W innie Duperow
flew Sam m y's Cessna 210 in the Angel
Derby.
A Poker Run is planned fo r June. This
fund raising project w ill urge p ilo ts to fly
to keep p ro ficie n t Sammy McKay and
W innie DuPerow flew Sam m y’s Cessna 210
in the Angel Derby.
MICHIGAN CHAPTER
Lillian Snyder, Reporter
COST ALLOCATION MAJOR TOPIC OF
MIDWESTERN AVIATION CONFERENCE
The M ichigan Chapter N inety-N ines,
cooperating w ith the A viation A dvisory
C ouncil of M ichigan, was active in
sponsoring the 4th Annual M idwestern
Aviation Conference held in Dearborn,
M ichigan.W innie DuPerow, Marge Hat­
field, and L illia n Snyder served on the
executive com m ittee.
U.S. Senator Howard W. Cannon, (D.
Nev.), Chairman of the Senate Sub­
com m ittee on A via tio n ;
Edward W.
S tim pson, President of G A M A ; and James
D.
R a m sey,
D ire c to r o f M ic h ig a n
Aeronautics C om m ission spoke on cost
alloca tion , fuel crisis, and other problem s
facing general aviation.
A Panel representing a cross section of
aviation, discussed the issues w ith the
speakers. When audience p a rticip ation
was encouraged by Dr. Joseph Novello,
m oderator, the audience responded w ith
enthusiasm and proved to be both in­
terested and inform ed.
A reception and dinner honoring the
speakers was held at the Detroit A th le tic
C lub in the evening. Loma May was in her
usual great form as the M istress of
Ceremonies.
I. to r. James L. Murray, President of
Teledyne CAE; Marge Hatfield; Lou
Young, Vice-President of Bendix Corp.;
and Mrs. Murray at the reception.
Senator Cannon meets with pilots as they
come onstage following the Conference.
Lillian Snyder is second from left.
WISCONSIN CHAPTR
Betty Willmore, Reporter
W iscon sin 99 s invited Chicago Area
Chapter to a fly -in luncheon at General
M itchel Field, Mke, on Sat. A pril 6. Thirty
mem bers and guests attended, hostess
Diane Gorak and GADO personnel rigged a
Cessna 150 to
test
our
p re -fligh t
ca p a b ilitie s. Loosened screws and fuel
caps were fa irly obvious, but then they
pulled a few “ shrew dies” like rem oving the
aircraft reg istratio n and the fuse fo r the
flaps.
Chicago 99 s, w ho sponsor the lll-N in e s
Derby, shared tip s on air derby s.o .p .s.
The W is-Sky Run, a 250 m ile proficiency
air derby, scheduled fo r June 8, is
W iscon sin 99’s firs t air race. H o pe fu lly, it
may becom e an annual event. May 15th is
the deadline fo r reg istratio n. 83 race kits
have been sold and 35 lady p ilo ts have
registered at th is w ritin g .
Jean Zapata recently got an instrum ent
rating and now is con cen tra ting on her
tim e and fuel estim ates fo r the W is-Sky
Run.
Katie C onkling visited 99 headquarters,
O klahom a C ity and reports that A .E .’s
flig h t su it is on display. The su it was
donated by W is Chapter m ember. Florence
Fintak, who received it from a friend of
Am elia.
QUAD CITY AREA CHAPTER
Jo Anne Walker, Reporter
Quad C ity Area Chapter has sent a letter
to the International President requesting
that a ba llo t be taken on w hether or not
in dividu al m embers are w illin g to support
a new Headquarters and Museum in
separate fa c ilitie s .
Von and Charley A lte r took a trip in the ir
Cherokee th is week beginning from M oline
to S helbyville, Illin o is , w ith stop s in
E v a n s v ille , R ic h m o n d and F r a n k fo rt,
Indiana after that. They also flew over
Xenia, O hio and Hanover, Indiana fo r a
look at the tornado damage on the way
home. A couple of weeks ago, Von had the
pleasure of m eeting Ensign Jane Skiles
who is one of o n ly three wom en w ho have
com pleted th e ir tra in in g to be Navy P ilots.
Jane is curre ntly based in M em phis,
Tennessee and eventually expects to be
stationed in Spain.
Gina and G ordon M illa r and fam ily
recently flew to Chicago to celebrate their
daughter, J u lie t’s birth da y. They had
dinn er in the revolving restaurant at the top
of the H oliday Inn on the lake.
Norma and Roger Sm ith and daughters
recently spent a weekend in C hicago
v is itin g the Museum of Science and
Industry, the Shedd Aquarium and the top
of the John Hancock B u ild in g . Norm a also
flew a W arrior fo r the firs t tim e recently.
Ellen and Robert Thiel plus daughter,
Shana Kay, have joine d the F lying Far­
mers.
Y vo n n e B o o n e o f D a v e n p o rt was
recently elected President of the Iowa
DAR.
It was w ith great sorrow that Quad C ity
Chapter received the news o f the death of
n e ig h b o rin g c h a p te r (C e n tra l Illin o is )
members, Doris Ann Norcross and Margie
Jones, in M exico at the start of the Angel
Derby. Being a sm all chapter ourselves, we
som etim es depend on other chapters for
help on large p ro je cts; and when help was
needed, Doris Ann was nearly always
che erfully and com p eten tly in the center of
the actio n. W e'll
m iss her dearly!
U n fo r tu n a te ly , s in c e M a rg ie w as a
relatively new m em ber of Central Illin o is
Chapter, m ost of our m em bers had not
made her acquaintance, but our hearts are
w ith her fa m ily and frien ds also.
MINNESOTA CHAPTER
Clara Johansen, Reporter
Five young wom en con tro le rs w orking in
the fou r MSP area con tro l towers shared
som e of th e ir experiences w ith us at our
A pril m eeting. Several of them are also
p ilo ts and have been invited to jo in our
chapter.
The May NIFA meet at St. Cloud, Mn.
was a success and Gail Vail and Ruby St.
Onge breath easier again. The enthusiasm
of all the college flyers was great. The
chapter m embers who were at STC to help
were glad they did.
C o ng ratula tion s to Linda Haedge on her
new instrum ent rating.
When the FAA and Mn Dept, of
Aeronautics held a 2 day A ir T raffic Control
S ym posium , Dorothy Bolander e fficie n tly
organized our chapter to assist.
Several of our Chapt. members are
w orking on new ratings. Gerry Bendickson
has her Instrum ent and Com m ercial and is
w orking on her CFI. She and Boby Sm ith
are in A irforce reserve - w e 'll give you their
w hole story in a later issue.
Gail Vail not only worked hard all year on
NIFA meet, but helped ferry 3 Bellancas
fo r 3 Brazilian P ilots to Iowa, Jan. 31,
where they took over and flew on to San
Paulo. We know they made it because
when th is reporter was on a flig h t to
SoAm . (Com m ercial th is tim e) sho rtly
thereafter and the plane stopped at S.P.,
there parked on the apron were the three
Bellancas w ith th e ir New Num bers! Only
disa p p o in tm e n t in SoAm. was not getting
to fly w ith Brazilian son, Mario, but when
he met h is Am . parents in Rio, he had ju st
returned from 10 wks in Europe and there
wasn’t tim e to get activated at his home
airpo rt in Porto Alegre during the six days
they spent there - Brazilian air regulations
are string en t. M ario earned his license in
P.A. the year after he’d been an AFS
Student in M pls. His solo flig h t was
culm inated w ith a Crank Case Oil Bath wonder if th a t’s why we d id n ’t meet any
wom en p ilo ts in Brazil?
Subscriptions for non-members
are $ 6 .0 0 per year.
New Y o rk -N e w Jersey Section
NEW Y O R K - NEW J E R SE Y
GARDEN STATE CHAPTER
Dolores Jane Zilincar, Reporter
Our A pril m eeting, held at M ille r A ir
Park, was im portant business - the final
phase of plans fo r the 1974 GARDEN
STATE 300. Our annual event w hich is
opened to any licensed p ilo t w ill take place
at the start of the three day M em orial Day
weekend. Im pound w ill be on Friday 24th
from 2 to 7:30 p.m . w ith the race o ff on the
25th at 10 a.m. We are fortunate to have
Gary Essex, Channel 7 News m etero lo gist
as our Honorary A ir Marshal and as our
officia l weather man.
Since practice makes perfect we expect
our 1974 p ro ficie ncy race to be even more
successful than our 73 inaugural. General
C h a irm a n A lm a H itic h in g s , w h o is
Chairman of Rules, has the fo llo w in g
outstanding m embers heading the race Race Chairman: Grace M aguire; Route:
Jerry Roberts, Beth S turtevant; Chief
Judges and Timers: Judy Meltzner,
Chickie A lp er; Operations and Impound:
Steve G redsted, Diane Shaw; Ways and
Means: Janis B lackburn; Entries: Dana
Mack; Hospitality: Jane M artin, Louise
M e is n e r;
P ro g ram s: S an dy D um a,
Dorothy S m ith ; Publicity: Dana Mack,
Claire Kurica; Transportation: Flo W alsh;
Awards Banquet: Claire Kurica, Dolores
Zilincar.
J e rry R o b e rts and C la ire K u ric a
represented our Chapter in the Angel
Derby. Margaret N icholson has acquired
her instrum ent rating - that makes her APT
for the year. We had a fine APT program
set for May 11th at Preston A irp ort. FAA
flig h t safety spe cia lists from Teterboro
Gato was on hand to give check rides to all
99's.
Alice Ham mond lead a discussio n airing
views concerning p u b lic ity for the 99's and
new members. It was agreed that as a
service organization we should aim for a
discreet m em bership drive based on good
taste and the desire to perpetuate in our
organization, the ideals of citize n sh ip
dem onstrated in the character of our
founder, Am elia Earhart. We are proud of
our organization - we should always let it
be proud o f us! And tha t's the truth.
GREATER N Y. CHAPTER
Mary Lou Balogh, Reporter
Member Penny A m abile is now fly in g as
co-p ilo t w ith Captain Murray Bennett for
station WFAS - flew to Albuquerque, New
Mexico, February 19-24 for the Inter­
national Hot A ir Balbon Races. She also
did three tapes for W FAS and got in a plug
or tw o for the 99’s.
Am ong other ratings, she has a balloon
in stru cto r's license and is founder and
president of Skyrovers, Inc. W orking
through the Chalet C lub, a sports clu b in
New York, and the Sport Rites C lub Inc. in
W hite Plains, where she is dire cto r of
A viation and sky diving she arranges for
the craft and som etim es does the fly in g or
b a llo on in g herself. Rye residents who
attended the Rye H isto rica l S ociety Ball
last June may have seen a ba llo o n ist
dressed in a ball gown decending on the
Rye Town H ilto n . It w asn't Mary Poppins,
it was Penny A m abile helping to make the
evening e xcitin g and pro fita ble. We w ill do
a real feature on Penny soon.
LONG ISLAND CHAPTER
Alice Borodkin, Reporter
MARCH 30-31 : L.l. 99 co-sponsor w ith
GADO, FAA A ccident Prevention ProgramVOLUNTEER Safety Rides and SAFETY
PINS held at Brookhaven A irport.
MAY 4: Weekend of New York, New
Jersey Sectional M eeting held at Colony
H ill. C ontact:
MADELINE LA CARRUBBA, 54 Long Oak
Path, S m ithto w n N.Y. 11787.
Pioneer A viatrix and Charter member
VIOLA GENTRY made news w ith feature
article in Clearwater Sun News (Fla).
LOVED MEETING AND GREETING YOU
ALL ON MAY 4! AND HAPPY FLYING!
Hudson Valley Chapter members who attended the March dinner meeting at which
Betty McNabb was the guest speaker, were (L to R) Evaline Cooney, Joan Rhodes,
Virginia Wentzel, Betty McNabb, Marcia Buller, and Minnie Osteyee.
HUDSON VALLEY CHAPTER
Sherri Bliss, Reporter
W ith the com ing o f sum m er, our
m em bership is lo okin g forw ard to some
good flyin g days and good old VFR
s u n s h in e . V ir g in ia W e n tz e l fle w to
Albuquerque fo r the National Balloon
Races. Three mem bers flew the Angel
Derby-Gert Felsen, Doris M iller and Nancy
Moore.
Doris M ille r reports that M icky Duncan,
Gert Felsen & Nancy Moore and herself
attended the luncheon at the W ings Club
in N.Y.C. on 2-14-74 - honoring women in
aviation.
Some other short m emos . . . Mary
Spaeth is feeling better after a bout in the
hospital th is w inter. A ltho ug h it w ill be
aw hile before she's back in her Cessna
172. Doris M ille r has earned her com ­
m ercial p ilo ts license She has also been
busy speaking to local Zonta C lubs on last
year's Powder P uff Derby. Shirley Dingman
has been doing the same in the Herkim er
area.
SOUTHERN TIER CHAPTER
Ellen K. Taylor, Reporter
It seems that som e flyin g a ctivity has
been reduced during the past m onth or so
due to the norm al blustery m id -w in te r
weather. However, th is doesn't seem to
deter our newest and youngest member,
Pam Grant and 99 ap plican t Lois Podrasky
who have been sighted at ou r local
F.B.O . a lig h tin g from one of the ir winged
jew els. Lois is now ge tting checked out in
a Piper Cruiser after having received her
p ilo t’s c e rtifica te in a Cessna 150.
Fran M orrisey is g e tting current in an
Arrow, planning to "ju s t head S ou th" w ith
husband B ill som etim e in the near future.
Kay W o lco tt and 491/2 Ezra have returned
from a Puerto Rico vacation. W hile there,
they rented a Cessna 182 and had them ­
selves a real treat exploring the nearby
islands.
A wonderful day was in store for several
of our chapter m embers who ventured to
New York C ity on Valentines Day to attend
a "sa lute to wom en in avia tio n " at the
W ings Club. Those attending were Barbara
and John Riggs, Mary and Jack W illis , and
Ellen Taylor. We were m ost impressed
w ith the wom en being honored for their
c o n trib u tio n s in the field of aviation -- from
interior aircraft designer, jet p ilo t, firs t
stewardess, m em bers of board of directors
of various airlin es, ou r 99 International
President, Powder Puff Derby chairm an, a
women w ith 230 solo crossing s over the
oceans of the w orld and 17,000 hours -- to
m ention a few. I believe it w ould be d if­
fic u lt to find such a pre stigious gathering
of aviation-m inded women again in the
near future. Their keen awareness and
c o n trib u tio n s to the entire aviation field
would be d iffic u lt to surpass.
The m o n th ’s a ctivitie s were concluded
w ith a Valentine party at the home of Mary
and Jack W allis, w ith our m ost ardent
chapter au xiliary mem ber Harriette Brett
and husband Bob jo in in g us.
Do not send change of address
to Editor. Send to Headquarters.
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New England Section
C O N N E C T IC U T - M A I N E
M A S S A C H U S E T T S - NEW H A M P S H IR E
RHODE ISLAN D • V ER M O N T
CONNECTICUT CHAPTER
Claire Ball, Reporter
Our evening m eetings seem to be qu ite
popular and it appears w e'll con tinu e th is
tre n d . O u r m e m b e rs are c o n s ta n tly
traveling, but som ehow m anaging to
attend m ost m eetings, alth ou gh we do find
it hard to keep track of one of our newer
m em b ers-A u drey Sweet. Since her trip to
Caracas, Vz. in January (w ith a flig h t to
Angel Falls), Audrey then went on a safari
in East A frica (saw over 40 species of
anim als, in clud in g an elusive leopard and
some black maned lio n s !) and ju st
returned from a trip to Athens and Crete!
Audrey says she hopes to be hom e for a
while.
Laurie Spence, Marcia Spakoski and
Evelyn Kropp attended the FAA 3-day CFI
refresher course at Bradley Field.
C ynthia Kemper has been in stru ctin g a
F lying W orkshop fo r her elem entary p u p ils
in W estport and recently had Stanley Ball,
First O fficer w ith Am erican A irline s, as
guest speaker. Stan found the children
very e n th u s ia s tic a b o u t fly in g and
presented each child w ith a little pair of
Jun io r Am erican A irline s w ings.
Laurie Spence is planning a radio
c o n tro lle d m o d e l a irp la n e s h o w at
W aterford A irp ort on May 19th. Laurie
expects that the attendance w ill exceed
last year’s 6000 people.
Planning Easter vacations are: Claire
Ball and fam ily to their co n do m inium in
the Bahamas and Laurie Spence in a
Com manche 260 to Florida.
EASTERN NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER
Judy Gillis
A pril M e e tin g -- S terling, Mass. A irp o rt’s
ramp has shiny new 30’ high letters thanks
to about 20 en thusiastic painters who
turned out on a lovely Saturday fo r the
airm arking. Lunch was either “ brow nbag”
type or at a restaurant ju s t a short walk
from the runway.
Carol S tites recently received her in­
strum ent rating.
Lynn Obelcz has received firs t prize on a
s c ie n c e p ro je c t e n title d “ P u rity o f
B iosynthesized V itam in B-12,” and was
awarded a $500.00 scholarship by the
W orcester Engineering S ociety.
L illia n E m e rs o n ’s d a u g h te r, C h ris ,
recently passed her Private w ritte n , and
Lillian and her 491/2er, Howard, spent a
lovely 2 1/2 weeks in Florida the firs t part of
March, despite some "in te re s tin g ” in ­
strum ent weather on the trip there and
back.
EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER
Judy De Marco, Reporter
O ur chapter as usual had a very hectic
m onth in A pril what w ith our m eeting at
B utter Valley A irp o rt, the lunch -w ith-the bunch, & the S ectional. Had a short but
e n th u sia stic note from Susie Sim on, her
trip to the islands in a corporate jet
NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER
sounded like the only way to go.Kate &
Anne Good, Reporter
Tom Macarrio delivered a biplane to
Dupont in Long Island. W ant to say that all
C o ng ratula tion s to Jean Batchelder, our had a good tim e at the sectional. Well
N.N.E. G overnor: she now has her planned by the host chapter, lo introduce
Com m ercial certifica te . A lso to Rae Tally, our chapter chairm an Joan Jones (see
our Secretary-Treasurer, is now Instrum ent p ictu re insert) Joan started w orking toward
her goal at the age of 10 in the scouts when
rated.
Some of our m embers are really she earned her A viation badge. Since then
travelling. Rae T ally w ent to Jam aica, Jean she has seen her dreams fu llfille d . At the
Batchelder to A ustralia. Betsy Alexander tender age of 24 Joan has flow n for 6
to Hawaii. W hile there she met Pat Shearer years, in every thin g from gliders to heavy
and other 99 s. The h o s p ita lity in the island tw in s. She has her Private & Instrum ent &
is unbelievable according to Betsy.
is w orking on the Com m . & II, w ith the
The N .N .E. Chapter w ill be ho sting the hope of eith er in stru ctin g or corporate.
fall Section m eeting, place undecided as
She has worked on 2 P.P.D. term inus,
of now.
ralleys, C .A.P. open house, sem inars, &
h e lp e d o rg a n iz e o u r F a ll S e c tio n a l.
Joan has tau ght school fo r 5 yrs. She
has in c o rp o ra te d a v ia tio n in to the
cu rricu lu m , such as weather and aero
space. In fact, she developed an Aero
Space education program fo r 4-6 grades.
M iddle East Section
She has now started w orking on her
DELAWARE - M A R Y LA N D
M asters w ith con cen tra tion on Aero
P E N N S Y LV A N IA - V IR G IN IA
Space. W ith all th is going fo r her she s till
has tim e to run for Vice-Governor of the
M iddle East Section. She is someone who
can get the jo b done.
You may like to pay your condolences to
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER
Yvette H ortm an on the recent loss of her
Mary Galbraith, Reporter
husband in a crash in V irg in ia on A pril 25.
Bad weather seems to arrive the same
Here's hoping fo r fa ir weather and safe
tim e our chapter m eetings are scheduled
flyin g .
and the gals are unable to fly. Bad weather
doesn’t ham per o u r attendance, as we take
to the highw ays instead.
Our March m eeting was held at the
lovely new hom e of Ronnie Johnson in
Joan Jones
W oolrich. O ur speaker was W alter Moody
Chairman Eastern Penn
who operates a ferry service fo r overseas
flig h ts . The h ig h lig h t of th is m eeting was
the Mexican luncheon prepared fo r us by
our hostess Ronnie Johnson. A "h o t" tim e
was had by all.
MARYLAND CHAPTER
M artie Pool gave a talk to the Lancaster
June Hanson, Reporter
Aero C lub fo r W ACOA (W om en's A dvisory
M aryland 99s were introduced to Hang
C om m ittee on A viation). Her to p ic was the
Powder Puff Derby. M artie Pool and Mary G lid ing by en thusiast Jerry Lanham on the
G albraith flew 300 pounds of m edical grassy ski slopes of Oregon Ridge in
sup plies from H arrisburg to Grove City B altim ore C ounty. A ll 99s, 491/2ers and
where they were received by Jane Menzies children who tried th is powerless flig h t got
airborne on th e ir firs t a tte m p t— much to
of the Greater P ittsbu rgh Chapter.
Helen Sheffer has recently been ap­ Mr. Lanham ’s surprise and d e lig h t. Hope
pointed A ccid en t Prevention C ounselor for to do more later.
AVIATION MINI MESTER fo r the high
the F A .A . She is busy in s tru c tin g the
school stud ents at Maryvale Preparatory
C A P. m em bers from W illia m s p o rt.
Our A pril m eeting was greeted w ith School fo r G irls was interesting and
more rain but was successful none the su cce ssful. Chairm an Rene B irch, Kay
less. Champe Pool presented slides and Bays, Sally W illia m s, Doris Jacobson, and
n a rra tio n o f th e N a tio n a l A e ro b a tic G inny Vogel helped teach a general ground
school and in tro d u ctio n to fly in g . Included
C o m p e titio n held in Romans, France.
Mary G albraith and 491/2, Bob, just were a to u r of B W I tower, radar room and
returned from a trip to F lorida in their weather statio n w ith the final day spent at
newly acquired
Navion
Rangemaster. A ld in o -C h u rch ville aAirpark where 21 of
the 27 g irls enrolled in the m ini mester
W eather was CAVU all the way.
O ur chapter boasts tw o new m em bers, were treated to airplane rides, courtesy of
Beverly Bailey and C h ristin e Myers. the Md 99s. P ilo ts were Barbara Feader,
C F II E dn a S o m e rlo c k , C FI S h e ila
W elcom e aboard gals.
G eorgia Pappas has recently accepted
the p o sitio n as afternoon tra ffic reporter
fo r a local Boston radio statio n - W HDH-and is riding in a Cherokee 235 Charger,
flow n by the sta tio n 's p ilo t.
McEntire, prospective 99 Ann E llio t, and
CFI Don Butler using Sally W illia m s new
Piper Seneca. ANOTHER MINI MESTER is
currently being conducted at O ldfie ld
School for G irls in Glencoe, Md.
A E R IA L PHO TO ID E N T IF IC A T IO N
CONTEST curre ntly in Harford Dm ocrat, a
Harford C ounty weekly newspaper, for
no n-p ilo ts only. W inners w ill be those who
send postcards corre ctly id e n tifyin g the
most ph otos; prizes w ill be a free airplane
ride courtesy of the Maryland 99s. C ontest
to run for 10 weeks.
New r a t in g s :
T o m m ie
S tra u s s Com m ercial, Barbara Feader—Instrum ent,
Edna Som erlock and Connie B a ll-M E L ;
Edna now w orking on ATR and Sally
W illiam s on MEL. Where the y’ve been
fly in g : Sally W illia m s to Florida, Kay Bays
to Utah and M exico, Sally H erchenrider to
Florida, Catherine Grover to A tlanta,
Tom m ie Strauss to Arizona.
Three girls from
Maryvale
proudly holding their FIRST
certificates signed by pilot
Feader.
Southeast Section
A L A B A M A - F L O R ID A - G E O R G IA
MISSISSIPPI - N O R T H C A R O L I N A
S O U T H C A R O L I N A TE NNESS EE
Mid-East Governor, Jackie Scott (R)
visited with Bozena Vrla (L) and Margaret
Kentley (center) from the Australian
Section on her round the world tour.
TRI-CITIES CHAPTER
Evelyn Richards, Reporter
Our chapter has sponsored (5) of The
P ilot E ducational C lin ic Sem inars to date,
one every six m onths. We have always had
at least (120) in attendance of the area local
p ilo ts . These p ilo ts feel as we do, that it is
m ost h e lp fu l in keeping the p ilo ts abreast
of the rule changes, and any new
situ a tio n s in the fly in g sta tu s fo r the area.
T his (photo) was an in tro d u c try m eeting
fo r ou r new Charleston G .A .D .O ., F .A .A .
a c c id e n t p re v e n tio n s p e c ia lis t . .. G .A .
“ P its" P itsenberger... O ther speakers were
the Tower C hief, F.S.S. C hief, and C hief of
the weather bureau. It was a good m eeting.
O ur chapter was hostess, w ith the Local
A .F A . Chapter, on May 29th dinn er
m eeting. B rigadier General Charles E.
Yeager was ou r speaker.
School
FLIGHT
Barbara
Pilot educational clinic. At the left is
G.A. “Pits” Pitsenberger, F.A .A . accident
prevention specialist, Charleston, W. VA.
G .A .D .O . and Evelyn Richards, Chairman,
Tri-Cities chapter.
Maryland 99 Tommie Strauss, center,
with Helen Davison and Georgetta Dix of
the Greater Pittsburgh Chapter. Tommie
had just flown a Direct Relief Supply from
Maryland.
Maryland 99s try hang gliding after a
demonstration and instruction from Jerry
Lanham. 99s in photo, I to r, are Chairman
Rene Birch, Ginny Vogel, Lenora Eaton,
Jane Noyes, Cleo Sherbow, and Mary Beth
Jones with Mr. Lanham and some 49V4ers
and 243/«ers.
VIRGINIA CHAPTER
Mary A. Baldwin, Reporter
On March 16th, five N inety-N ine s and a
group of EAA m em bers boarded a bus in
R ichm ond fo r a trip to W ashing to n, D.C.
We spent the afternoon tou ring the
S m ithso nian A ir M useum . We gathered
several tim es around the "W om en in
A v ia tio n " e x h ib it w hich d ispla ys the 99
in sig n ia and Powder P uff Derby trophy.
R ichm ond was the site o f ou r A pril
m eeting. V isio n s of open co ckp it planes
and the w ind blow ing our w h ite silk
scarves greeted us as we entered the
Aerodrom e Lounge of the H oliday Inn for
lunch. During the m eeting, we welcom ed
Pat L e s te r in to
o u r c h a p te r and
congratulated Janie Allen upon earning her
M u lti-e n g in e rating. Later, we all returned
to the a irpo rt to watch 49 1/2 er Jim Riley
take o ff in to the sky in the P itts “ S pecial”
that he b u ilt h im se lf, V irg in ia Riley and
M axine W alker in th e ir Piper taildragger,
Carol M atthew s in her Cessna 150, and the
N o rfo lk g irls in th e ir Cessna 172s.
FLORIDA GOLD COAST CHAPTER
Mina Elschner, Reporter
Do we have a record? Lois Porter has
received her A ir Transport P ilo t's Cer­
tific a te taken in a Cessna 150! Joyce
Pittm an and Marian Keys now instrum ent
rated. The chapter is very proud of Katie
Strehle who was selected by the FAA as
In stru cto r of the Year fo r the Florida area.
A.E. S cho la rship winner, Fran Sargent has
started w o rking fo r her A .T .R ., the object
of the award.
The m eetings have been business and
workshop types since the beginning of this
year. Margaret Mary (Peggy) Borek, our
flyin g nun, invited the m em bers to Retreat
House in sou thw e st M iam i for the March
m eeting. The w ork con sisted of fun d­
raising W hite Elephants and convention
m om entos.
Recent 99 s v is itin g th is area are Julie
vom Saal, Creater New York; Peggy
B ro w n , W .
New
E n g la n d ;
B e rn ie
Stevenson, Los A ngeles; Pauline M allary,
No.
G e o rg ia ;
Ire n e
W ir ts c h a fte r ,
W ashington, D.C.; Fay G illis W ells,
W ashington, D C. and Irene Keith, Greater
New York. M iss Keith has the unusual and
rare p o s itio n of Dispatcher w ith Pan
Am erican A .L. and is tem po rarily assigned
to the M iam i area. She recently received
the com p an y’s Tw enty-Five Year Award
certificate.
Gold Coast Chapter m em bers are all
busier than the proverbial ant w ith plans
for fund raising and the convention.
FLORIDA SPACEPORT CHAPTER
Norma McReynolds, Reporter
On March 13, 27 m embers and guests
flew to T itu sville fo r our regular m eeting.
Sharon Levine and Bonnie Quenzler were
voted in as new m embers. Mr. Lloyd Lane
of the Tico A irp o rt A u th o rity gave a brief
history and som e future plans fo r the Tico
A irport.
The A pril m eeting was held in Vero
Beach w ith 35 m em bers and guests
present. Cy Beers represented th is Chapter
at the S ectional m eeting at K itty Hawk.
The fo llo w in g m em bers are now A P T :
L a vin a T a b o r, S h a ro n L e v in e , A lm a
Drum m ond, B etty Hawkes, Gail Sim s,
Margaret Stannah, and Joan
Davis.
O fficers fo r the com ing year were elected.
A E R O N A U T IC A L A N T IQ U E S
D E C O R A T O R IT E M S
W o o d P ro p s — E n g in e C ly . L a m p s
F ra m e a b le O ld A ir c r a f t B lu e p r in ts
Mintage Aero
1 9 5 3 1 A i r p o r t W a y S o u th ( 7 1 4 ) 9 7 9 -4 4 3 3
S anta A n a A ir p o r t , C a lif. 9 2 7 0 7
Mary Jane Law, chairman; Joan Davis,
Vice chairman; Normma McReynolds,
recording
secretary;
G ail
Sim s,
co rrespo n ding secretary; and Alm a
Drummond, Treasurer.
C o ng ratula tion s to recent bride, Ellie
M cC ullough O drorico.
Any c o n trib u tio n s to the Mary B lackw ell
Joehrendt fund can be sent to Cy Beers or
Gail Sim s. Cy presented tw o beautiful
plaques at the sectio na l, to be placed in
the museum in m em ory of Mary.
The May m eeting was the a ltitu d e
cham ber at M cD ill AFB in Tampa. We are
planning to go through the center in
Jacksonville fo r the June m eeting.
FLORIDA SUNCOAST CHAPTER
Dotty Birdsong, Reporter
The F lorida Suncoast Chapter held an air
m arking event at W inter Haven, w h ich was
hosted by Barbara Sharit and Sue Van
Duyne on A pril 10. It took tw o days of
blocking and painting.
Six m embers reported on atten din g the
Southeast Section m eeting in North
Carolina. A ll agreed it was great!
A party at the Daytona Beach home of
President Jack Hunt of Embry Riddle, was
held to honor Susan Oliver, who was there
to address the firs t graduating class to
graduate a wom an at the U niversity. Mr.
Hunt also showed pictures o f Russia for
the benefit of the B irdsongs, w ho w ill be
departing fo r that spot very soon.
Susan O liver, who is our w ell-know n
actress-99 member, is in her last year at
W ACOA. She was awarded an Honorary
Doctorate of Aeronautical Science after her
talk to the graduating class. She was the
firs t woman speaker at the U niversity
event.
The Florida Suncoast girls are shown
airmarking Winter Haven, Florida.
Florida Suncoast Chapter members at­
tended a dinner party in honor of Susan
Oliver (fourth from left) at Daytona Beach.
L to R are Dr. Jack Hunt, President of
Embry Riddle, Rickey McDaniels of the
spaceport Chapter, Mr. Riddle, co-founder
of Embry-Riddle, Susan Oliver, actresspilot, who is serving her last year on
W A C O A , D o tty B ird so n g , Dr. Merv
Strickles of FAA, and Elly McCullough
Odrorico.
MEMPHIS CHAPTER
Betty Rockwood, Reporter
Netta and Doug Holden w ith the ir 11year old son, Cody, flew th e ir Bellanca
Super V iking to Baton Rouge, La.
In spite of low c e ilin g s and poor
v is ib ility , the M em phis N inety-N ine s flew
to R eelfoot Lake fo r the regular m on th ly
m eeting on March 2nd. Those who made it
were Dot W ilso n , G ladys Estes, Martha
and Frank Tobey, V irg in ia and Everett
Proctor, Joanne and John
M urdock,
Carolyn S ullivan, Jean M cCarthy, Nancy
M iller, Fern and Chuck Mann, Netta and
Doug Holden, Elizabeth and Don Farmer
and Pat K elle tt. Jean M cCarthy and Butch
Sullivan won the prize fo r ETA in route.
A three Bellanca flig h t to Clarksdale,
M ississip p i con sisted of Chuck and Fern
Mann and Doug and Netta Holden. They
attended the local Intern ation al Aerobatic
M eeting to help select a site fo r the ir
upcom ing aerobatic con test in May.
G la d y s
E s te s
fle w
to
B o liv a r,
M ississip p i and Jackson, Tennessee. She
also too k her daughter (and boyfriend) to
Reelfoot Lake.
On Sunday, March 17th, Fern and Chuck
Mann flew to Heber S prings on Greers
Ferry Lake fo r lunch. Had a great tim e.
They also flew a D ecathlon in pro ficie ncy
flig h ts at Sport F lite, Inc.
the Southeast section m eeting at K itty
Hawk, N orth C arolina and became even
more excited about Puerto Rico after
hearing all of the fab ulo us plans.
Four g irls again assisted the Georgia
D e p a rtm e n t o f T ra n s p o r ta tio n w ith
reg istratio n fo r the F lig h t In stru cto r’s
Revalidation C linic.
A pril was clean up and out tim e as we
held ou r spring rum m age sale. Thanks to
Chairman Kay G uice it was another
success.
We are sorry to report that Carolyn Riley
was injured in an au tom ob ile accident and
w ill be hospitalized fo r a m onth or more.
She is at South F ulton H ospital, 1170
Cleveland Avenue, East Point, Georgia. I'm
sure she w ould appreciate hearing from
99’s.
TENNESSEE CHAPTER
Ruth W. Thomas, Reporter
Tennessee 99s joine d the Southeast
Section Chapters in K itty Hawk for the
Spring m eeting the firs t weekend in A pril.
On top of ja u n ts to F irst F lig h t A irp ort, the
O uter Banks, and becom ing involved w ith
"Sea H ags,” the m em bers w ill have much
to discuss and co n firm regarding the
com ing International C onvention in Puerto
Rico.
The N a shville GADO has named Evelyn
J o h n s o n o f M o r ris to w n th e F lig h t
In stru cto r of the Year. Tennessee 99s,
C ivic O rganizations in M orristow n and
frien ds celebrated the occasion of the
presentation at the M orristow n Country
C lub the nigh t of A pril 18. Nashville GADO
w ill enter Evelyn's name in the regional
MISSISSIPPI CHAPTER
con test - and w ith o u t a do ub t, on to the
Ernestine Mahan
N ational contest.
A be au tifu l sky w ith ce ilin g u n lim ite d at
The 24th of May we celebrated the
M eridian A irp o rt on A pril 27th and the de dication o f the new term inal b u ild in g in
M ississip p i Chapter gathered in the tow er K n o xville ; the firs t Saturday in June at
fo r th e ir m eeting. H osts were Mr. J. T. N ashville A irp o rt, we learn the name of the
Dawkins and Mr. C. R. Thom as, FAA Annual Award re cip ie n t; and the first
Tower O perators.
Saturday in Ju ly we w ill meet in Dayton,
The business of the m eeting was Tennessee.
d iscu ssio n of the advertising fo r the
International C onvention Program and
M is s is s ip p i’s re s p o n s ib ility . Janet Green,
Chairm an o f R e gistra tion fo r the Con­
East Canada Section
vention, has everything under co n tro l. Jan
M cW illiam s is planning an A ir M arking Day
on May 18th w ith Shreveport Chapter
jo in in g us as “ Pro’s" in A ir M arking at
North Jackson A via tion , M adison.
MONTREAL CHAPTER
Sandy Frank, Reporter
We appreciate “ W anda G arson" and
p ro s p e c tiv e m e m b e r “ D in o S te v e n s .”
The M ontreal Chapter has been w orking
W anda served as "A n ge l Derby S top" on new ratin gs! Patti-Sue G ould has been
Chairm an in M eridian and was assisted by con cen tra ting on her m ulti-eng in e, Betty
Dino Stevens of M eridian. W anda and Dino Issenman is boning up fo r her firs t IFR
made th in g s happen. Through th e ir efforts renewal, yours tru ly has been checked out
-- the M ayor declared Saturday Angel on a Cessna 182 and is to ilin g on an in ­
Derby Day, the C ivil A ir Patrol was out in s tru c to r’s license. One o f o u r very APT
fu ll force, Key A via tion welcom ed every m em bers, Dr. Beverly Sanders, who moved
one and sup plied prizes fo r the race, and down to North Carolina, has inform ed us
the event was covered by newspaper, that she is now Mrs. Daniel Boone. Mr.
tele visio n, and radio. Members of the 99 s Boone is an FBO there. Good luck, Bev!
interviewed on radio were W anda Garson,
A nita N unns and 49>/2er Frank flew the ir
Janet Green, and Ernestine Mahan. Janet Cessna 182 in the Bahamas Treasure Hunt.
Green of Ocean S prings was the o ffic ia l They tell us that it was both enjoyable and
tim e r fo r the Race Stop.
cha lle ng in g.
A hearty w elcom e to our new member,
NORTH GEORGIA CHAPTER
A lthea S m ith, w ho has her private license.
Vernita George, Reporter
On the other hand, a say good-bye to “ Pat”
Kay G uice and Vernita George attended P o u lte rw h o moved to Pembroke, O ntario.
Our usual business m eetings have been
varied w ith some very interesting events.
The O ctober one saw us gathered together
in a Chinese Restaurant for a farew ell
"lu n ch -w ith -th e -b u n ch " to Pat Poulter.
There we all met Althea fo r the firs t tim e.
February saw the brainstorm of B etty
Issenman com e to fru itio n ! W ith Patti-Sue
doing some neat telephoning, M ajor Price
and Master Seaman John Gariepy o f the
Rescue and Survival U nit of the Canadian
Armed Forces Base at St. Hubert, Quebec,
treated us to an in tro d u cto ry course on
survival. (As a fin a le they took us out to the
end of the runway and let us each have a
practice shot at sending up a flare - having
first warned the ACT tow er what we were
up to !) A second PRACTICAL course up in
St. Agathe, in the Laurentians, near Betty
and Arnie's home (thanks to th e ir kind
invitation) w ill fo llo w . Many thanks also to
the R & S unit through them we w ill
acquire useful and basic s k ills fo r survival
in the w ilderness.
G iselle and 491/2er Jack Debacheera, who
fly their Navion on m any interesting ex­
cursions, showed us a com plete video­
taped session on th e ir in stru cto ress
daughter, Georgette, in stru ctin g a student
of W ondel A viation in St. Hubert, at the
March m eeting.
A board m eeting fo r the East Canada
Section was held at the home of yours
truly on Saturday, March 10th. Governor,
B arb ara B r o th e rto n , V ic e -G o v e rn o r,
Heather S ifton , G illia n Holden, Chairman
of F irst Canadian Chapter, Elizabeth J.
S c h e rm e rh o rn , C h a irm a n o f E a s te rn
O ntario Chapter and m yself, Chairm an of
Montreal Chapter attended. W ith th is type
of get-together, in ad d itio n to the Spring
and Fall Sectional m eetings, o u r governor
hopes to o b lite rate the many geographic
m iles between us! A ll enjoyed the Spring
Sectional in O ttaw a w ith the Eastern
O ntario Chapter on A pril 26th and 27th.
Captain Birch & C orporal George W alker
did an excellent presentation, and en­
couraged the audience to ask qu estio ns
regarding any phase of the presentation.
Saskatchewan Chapter: Left to right (taken
at the Search & Rescue Presentation)
C orporal G eorge W alk e r, Search &
Rescue; Darleen E. Yergens, News Editor
& P .R .O .;
Noreen Shook, Secretary
Treasurer; Nadine Cooper, Chairman;
Jean Hanft, Vice Chairman; Captain Ken
Birch, Search & Rescue.
Western Manitoba Chapter 99s:
Air
marking at McGill Field Brandon Manitoba
- Marj Polo, Jean Rose, Mildred Murray,
Dorothy Rosenman, Mae Binkley.
Australian Section
Western Canadian Section
AUSTRALIAN SECTION
Doreen McLeod, Reporter
SASKATCHEWAN CHAPTER
Darleen E. Yergens, Reporter
In San Diego for the HAA convention.
We saw a nice displa y honoring the 99's
organization in the A ir Space Museum.
The Saskatchewan Chapter sponsored a
Defensive F lying Sem inar in co n ju n ctio n
w ith the Canadian Owners & P ilots
A ssociation F lig h t 4 in January.
The A ud io Visual presentation on
Defensive F lying was held at the Regina
Flying Club on Jan 29 w ith ap proxim ately
75 p ilo ts in attendance, many from
surrounding areas. Some as far as on
hundred & fifty m iles away attended.
The Canadian Armed Forces Search &
Rescue Squadron o ffe r th is presentation
free to all F lyin g Clubs, schools or fly in g
organizations.
A get tog ether fo r many 99s at the recent
AGM breakfast tim e m eeting held in
co n ju n ctio n w ith the annual convention of
A .W .P .A .; - th is year in Adelaide, South
A ustralia, co in cid in g w ith the Adelaide
Festival o f A rts. V is itin g from New Zealand
were Pamela Lock and Judy C o ste llo ,
w h ils t all oth er States were represented
in c lu d in g
F re d a
Thom pson
fro m
M elbourne, Helen Blackburn flyin g from
Canberra and Rosemary de Pierres from
W estern A ustralia. O lga T arling, Dorothy
Herbert and Peg Kelman flew back to
Queensland in D orothy’s Com anche via
Sydney Opera House, - satiated w ith
cu ltu re and cam araderie. New member
Barbara C o llin s won a sectio n o f the
R e lia b ility Trial in Adelaide, and the m ost
e xcitin g news to com e out of the m eeting
was the proposal fo r a w om ens’ trans-
A ustralian A ir Race - Sydney to Perth;
Rosemary de Pierres is organising.
C o ng ratula tion s to C h ristine Davy and
Beth G arrett on co m p le tin g 10,000 flyin g
hours.
C h ristine W ills , our Governor, is m oving
house; th is tim e to N hulunbuy (Gove
peninsula) where Des w ill be w orking w ith
th e S w is s - A u s tr a lia n firm N a b a lc o .
C h ristine 's siste r Kathryn Flynn, also at
Gove w ill be v is itin g Russia w ith her
husband for five weeks, traveling via the
trans-Siberian railway.
SOUTH AFRICAN SECTION
Yvonne van den Dool, reporter
Once more Auriel M ille r has com e out
tops. Auriel was the w inner of th is year's
“ W oman of the Year" Award w hich she
rich ly deserves. This award is presented
annually to the South A frican 99 who has
accom plished m ost in aviation during that
year. The announcem ent was made at the
Sectional held at Grand Central Flying
Club (our headquarters) near Johan­
nesburg over the weekend of 20th-21st
October.
At the cheese and w ine party on
Saturday nigh t we met several new
members. Thanks to A m alie von M a ltitz for
organising the party. O ur Section has a
S cholarship Fund to help a deserving
South African member. It has been
decided to carry over th is year’s funds and
to award the scho la rship durin g 1974. A
m em ber has awarded a troph y to go to the
firs t South A frican Section m em ber of the
N inety-N ines home in the annual State
President's A ir Race. More details later.
C harm aine Klaue of B lo em fon te in flew
to the Sectional in her newly acquired
Beech Baron. Charm aine pushed her
conversion to tw in s so that she could fly
her own tw in to the m eeting, com p le ting
the conversion only three days before
leaving.
Madge G riffith s ,
also from
B loem fontein flew in her Beech Baron.
Hope to have news soon of M adge’s trip
out from W ich ita to South A frica in the
Baron. Theresa M arais from Posm asburg
ju st made it to the m eeting in tim e, in a
Cessna 172.
Do not send your change
of address to your Editor.
Send it to Headquarters.
Please note address of
Circulation Editor.
Governor, Ann W hite, 491/2r Peter, Val
Cunningham our Secretary, and Eve
Ramsay flew in from Durban in a Bonanza.
Auriel M ille r, Treasurer was unable to
attend personally. These office-bearers
were all voted in fo r another year in the
same capacities. Lo-an, Vice-G overnor
from Ladysm ith, Natal w ill be jo in in g the
Transvaal g irls as from next year as she
w ill be living in Johannesburg. N atal’s
loss, Transvaal’s gain. A m alie von M altitz,
Johannesburg is our new APT Chairm an.
Members not wearing the ir 99 badges
were each fined 25 cents. This is a per­
manent arrangem ent so be warned! This
Sectional m eeting was the largest tu rn -o u t
we have had yet. Looking forw ard to the
next one.
We are over 50 per cent APT.
Charmaine Klaue of Bloemfontein with her
new Baron. (South African Section)
Left to Right. Back Row: Yvonne van den
Dool, Lyn Wessels, Madge Griffiths, Ann
White (Governor), Eva Holiingworth, Gail
Michau, Janet Manning. Middle Row:
Charmaine Klaue, Lo-an Roux (ViceGovernor), Ingrid Adolphs, Eve Ramsay,
Val Cunningham (Secretary). Front Row:
Val Hunt-Davis, Theresa Marais, Fay
Preston, Angela Heinz and Amalie von
Maltitz. (South African Section)
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So u th Central A frican Section
SOUTH CENTRAL AFRICAN SECTION
Brigitte Hildebrandt, Reporter
W e’re under new managem ent! At ou r
5th biannual m eeting held in Lourenco
Marques, M ozam bique, BETTY AMBROSE
was - alm ost - u n an im ou sly voted to the
helm of our sectio n. The ’a lm o s t’ needs to
be q u a lifie d ; the one and o n ly alternative
suggestion came from a very far-away
m em ber w ho has not yet had the pleasure
of m eeting B etty. Our new governor is
backed by a strong , proven team w ith Hedy
Greene as the vice-governor and Ingrid
Heinz as secretary. O ur thanks and ap­
preciation go to the o u tg o in g o ffic e ­
bearers fo r th e ir hard w ork and success. It
was they who b u ilt up the sectio n from
scratch in 1972 to the present 17-strong
m em bership and, m ost im p o rta n t, con­
trib u te d so m uch to in te rna tiona l un­
derstanding by in itia tin g the con tact w ith
Botswana, M ozam bique, Rhodesian and
Angolan p ilo ts - all hundreds of m iles
away. It rem ains fo r the new team to
strengthen these bonds and to b u ild on
fo u n d a tio n s w ell laid. Good luck!
As usual ou r m eeting was good fun w ith
the o ffic ia l part treated w ith ju s t the right
am ount of decorum to leave lo ts o f room
fo r frie n d ly in te rje ctio n s. Valerie Hum ­
phreys was rid dle d w ith qu e stio n s on the
Angel Derby w h ich, by the tim e th is goes
to print, she w ill have flo w n w ith Am erican
99, Shirley. Ju st in tim e fo r the race she
and her 49V2er, Ken passed th e ir com ­
mercial exams firs t go! Ingrid Heinz has
taken the theoretical hurdle fo r her in­
strum ent rating.
We m ig ht ju s t have a spate o f in­
strum ent-rated p ilo ts soon. The four
Rhodesian ladies reported c o n d itio n s on
th e ir flig h t from S alisbury to Lourenco
Marques th a t w ould have inspired a
m oderately experienced bat to streak o ff to
a reputable tra in in g organization fo r a few
hours under the hood. But they had one
thin g to see them through - three of the
182's seats were occupied by APT p ilo ts.
B etty Am brose, Zee W itham and Penny
Dixon were presented w ith th e ir 1974 APT
1 cards at the m eeting. Together w ith my
APT sta tu s tha t makes fo u r APT p ilo ts in
our section by March and I can see that
elusive 100 per cent com ing up th is year,
especially as I w ill soon have a chapter
APT chairm an to help. The Rhodesian 99's
have been so active and succe ssful that
they are now strong enough to form the ir
ow n chapter. So strong , in fact, that,
having on ly really got o ff the ground in
O ctober last year, they are fie ld in g th is
year's governor!
A fte r the m eeting, Liuz Ribeiro Couro,
Inspector of C ivil A via tion , w ho had
provided the m ag nificent s e ttin g fo r the
o ffic ia l part, saw to it th a t we got to eat all
the prawns we m ig h t po ssib le w ant to tide
us over leaner periods in lan d. Seated in a
restaurant w ith a superb view o f the
Lourenco Marques bay and skyline, the
Subscriptions for non-members
are $6.00 per year.
eleven wom en accom panied by ju s t 2 men
- o n ly one 491/2er had braved the trip th is
tim e - m ust have provided qu ite a spectable. So m uch so tha t com plete strangers
jo ine d our table, probably to fin d out what
these men had tha t escaped them. Eleven
wom en and all of them handing over wads
of m oney at the b idd ing o f one o f the
m en!?! Just paying ou r share o f the meal,
but how were they to k n o w ......
Representatives of the South Central
African Section at the 5th biannual
meeting in Lourenco Marques. Standing
from L.t. R: Raquel Dias, Val Humphreys,
Hedy Greene, Zee Witham, Penny Dixon,
M yrtle B roo ks, Ingrid H e in z, Betty
Ambrose, Luiz Couto. Seated: Brigitte
Hildebrandt, Pilar Martins.
M e m bers-A t-Large
Fiorenza de Bernardi
Member -at - Large
ITALY
There are tw o of us in Italy w ith com ­
m ercial p ilo t’s licence and who are flyin g .
Grazia Serena Sartori is co -p ilo t fo r an
Italian in d u s tria lis t on a HS 125; and I was
the firs t Italian woman to become an
A irlin e p ilo t in 1967. Today I am flyin g a
YAK 40 fo r the AERTIRRENA
I have been to A ustra lia in the YAK 40
where I met several 99’s and they received
me very affe ctio n a te ly. Am ong whom I w ill
m ention O lga Tarling and Peggy Kelman of
B ris b a n e and D o ro th y
H e rb e rt o f
Charleville.
I spent my holidays in the D olom ites
during the m onth of January and too k a
course there in m ountain fly in g . My in ­
stru c to r was Erick Abram (one of the
conquerors of K2 in the Himalayas)
besides being an excellent m ountain
clim ber, is an exceptional p ilo t on snow.
The course was very in te restin g. I landed
on isolated peaks p u ttin g cham ois to
flig h t. I flew above all from the glacier of
A dam ello at 11,000 feet where we had a
base camp w ith a tent and emergency
rations. We learned to make ig loo s and
m any other th in g s about survival. Thus, I
am now the firs t wom an in Italy qualified
to land on slo p in g landing strip s and on
snow.
COUPLE THE NEW KING KCS 55 WITH YOUR
AUTOPILOT OR FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM.
Low cost, slaved Pictorial N a v ig atio n System, with rem ote e le c tric gyro, provides
selected h e a d in g an d course outputs for most Autopilots a n d Flight Directors.
To fly a heading, select your desired heading on the
heading "bug". With Heading mode engaged, your
Autopilot or Flight Director commands the proper bank
to fly the selected heading. To fly a VOR, RNAV or LOC
course, select your desired course on the course arrow.
With Radio Coupling mode engaged, your Autopilot or
Flight Director commands the proper bank to make good
the selected track with automatic correction for crosswind.
To provide heading and course coupling of this new
King Silver Crown Compass System to your Autopilot or
K C S 55 A U T O P IL O T INTERFACES
Autopilot Type
Mitchell:
Century II & III
& Piper Altimatic II & III
Century IV
Bendix
FCS-810
Cessna
Nav-O-Matic 400
Nav-O-Matic 400A
King
H-14
Autopilot Computer
or
Radio Coupler
Radio Coupler
IC-388
IC-388M
IC-388C
IC-388M-C
IC-388-3
IC-543
Computer
CA-814A
Required
KCS 55
Autopilot
Coupler
KA 57
KA 57
KA 57
KA 57
KA 52
KA 52
KA 52
Control/Selector
S530A
KA 57
KA 52
Computer
BG174/274/374
KA 52
Flight Director, King offers two optional, remote-mounted
Autopilot Adapter units (KA 52 or KA 57 priced at $100).
These Adapters convert DC heading and course select
signals from the Kl 525 PNI into AC signals compatible
with most aircraft Autopilots and Flight Directors. The
chart shows which Autopilot Adapter to use when inter­
facing the KCS 55 with various Flight Control Systems.
In addition to selected heading and course output
for Autopilots and Flight Directors, the KCS 55 can provide
optional heading output for an RMI compass card.
In a 3-inch Pictorial Navigation Indicator, this system
presents the following navigation information:
• Gyro-slaved magnetic heading
• Selected VOR/RNAV/LOC course
• Selected heading for Autopilot
• VOR and Localizer course deviation
• Dual Glideslope pointers
• To-From VOR indication
The pictorial presentation of all this information is
easy to interpret and eliminates the need for a separate
directional gyro and course deviation indicator.
The KCS 55, like more expensive slaved PNI systems,
features automatic fast slaving. This means aircraft head­
ing is automatically displayed two minutes after the system
is turned on. No manual setting of the compass card is
required.
The entire system weighs less than 9 pounds. It oper­
ates from either 14 or 28 volts DC and is priced at $2495,
plus $100 for optional Autopilot Adapter if required.
Kl 525 Pictorial Navigation Indicator, panel display for the new
TSO'd King KCS 55 Compass System. It front-mounts in a 3-inch
panel cutout and weighs less than 4 pounds.
Tom orrow 's A vionics T o d a y
from
KING
of course
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