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I am home from the Fall Sections, One week later, I was in Washing­ but must confess, still not settled! As ton, D.C. representing the Ninety Nines always, it was such a pleasure to see at the American Congress of Women all the Ninety Nines. I really do enjoy Leaders. This is a group of women, being with each of them. all of whom are Presidents or Vice I left Phoenix and flew to Wichita, Presidents of National or International DECEMBER, 1966 where I was met by GENE NORA Organizations. It was a most profit­ JESSEN. Next morning, we left for able time. While not at the hotel for Official Publication of the Congress, VIRGINIA THOMPSON THE NINETY-NINES, Inc. Milwaukee and rhe North Central Sec­ was my 'hostess. JEAN ROSS HOW­ Headquarters, Terminal Bldg. tion Meeting. En route, we stopped in ARD honored me with a reception at Will Rogers World Airport Omaha, Nebraska, and visited with BELLE HETZEL. She is coming along her apartment. It was such a surprise P. O. Box 99 very nicely and wanted me to thank to see MAYETTA BERINGER there. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73101 all the girls who had written to her. The last time I heard from her, she Headquarters Secretary Also to explain, as much as she would was in South America! These Ninety DARLA BULLARD love to answer each note, it is such a Nines really get around! chore for her to write, it is impossible Then on to New York where DORIS Editor for her to do so. However, she as­ RENNINGER’s apartment was ‘home’. PE G ONG sures me she would love to hear from During my week there, I flew on to 2900 R ockbrook Drive each of you. Boston for the dedication ceremonies Plano, Texas 75074 As you recall, the Executive Board, of the AMELIA EARHART dam. I under RUTH DEERMAN, voted to give got to ride to the ceremony in AME­ INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS each past President a jewelled gavel LIA’S Yellow Kissell. A 1921 Sports President to go with her President’s pin. So I car. What a ride! LOIS AUCHTER- ALICE ROBERTS had the pleasure of giving BELLE’S LONIE and FRAN PORTER met me 719 Orchid Lane Phoenix, Arizona 85021 to her. She seemed so pleased. and saw to it I enjoyed to the fullest From Omaha, we flew on to Mil­ the lovely fall colors of New England. Vice-President waukee for the meeting. Congratula­ You have to see the colors to believe DONNA T. MYERS tions to DR. ANN ROETHKE for be­ it . . . on the desert, we have nothing 11603 E. 6th P lace ing the newly elected Governor of like that. Of course, we have our own Denver, Colorado 80010 the North Central Section. beauty in the mountains and valleys, Secretary Returned to Wichita where PAT Mc- and who is to say one or the other is GENE NORA JESSEN EWEN entertained me at a lovely buf­ the prettier? 741 E astridge D rive fet dinner. Enjoyed seeing all the The last business on my agenda w?s Wichita, Kansas 67207 Kansas members. the New York New Jersey Section Next, I bussed (you better believe it!) Treasurer meeting. KAY HILBRANDT is the to OKC and worked at Headquarters RUTH RUECKERT newly elected Governor of that sec­ for a few days. SUSIE SEWELL, gra­ 2037 R ivera Street tion and has a lot of plans for their San Francisco, Calif. 94116 cious as always, was my hostess. If growth and action. you are in the vicinity of OKC, do drop Visited with KAY BRICK, LOIS Executive Board in and meet DARLA BULLARD, your FAIRBANK, MARIAN LOPEZ of the LYDIELLEN “LYGIE” HAGAN Headquarters Secretary, AWTAR board. They were m o s < South 1907 Oneida Place The following week - end, GENE pleased with the filming of the TAR Spokane, Washington 99203 NORA flew into OKC, picked me up . . . I have not seen the, film yet . . . and we were on our way to Shreve­ BETTY W. McNABB so can’t make any personal observa­ 926 Third Avenue port and the South Central Section. tions. Am looking forward to the time Albany, Georgia They must not have really wanted us, it will be shown in PHX. because the weather was most un­ DORIS RENNINGER cooperative. But Saturday morning was I realize this has been a rambling 10-01 162nd Street beautiful and we had a wonderful epistle . . . hope it hasn’t bored you. Beechhurst, N. Y. 11357 time. Two more Presidents’ gavels Have tried to hit the highlights of the were given, one to EDNA GARDNER trip and am sure I have probably for­ DEADLINE FOR NEWS — WHYTE and one to RUTH DEERMAN. gotten some important item. If so, The 20th of the Month Both were surprised, but grateful. will put it in the next letter. Send Copy to: Decided I should see how things were Now, for a moment, let us consider PEG ONG on the home front, so from Shreve­ STRENGTH THRU COMMUNICA­ 2900 Rockbrook Drive port, GENE NORA flew me to Dallas TION. Have you ever watched a group Plano, Texas 75074 . . . and I flew airlines home. of ants . . . they seem to be walking A TRIBUTE . . . it necessary to resign due to the ill - W ANTED - health of her husband. In a letter to To JEANETTE another trustee she wrote at this time: I.EMPKE SOVEREIGN the “To resign from that office was one Many of our current Ninety-Nines of the hardest decisions that I have had Most Beautiful were denied the privilege of knowing to make in my life. I am not free to JEANNETTE LEMPKE SOVEREIGN go away for an overnight stay; and I AERIAL who took her last flight July 14th, 1966. feel that the Scholarship Chairman They are, therefore, unaware of her should be present at the Annual Meet­ PHOTOGRAPHS tremendous contribution t'o the Ninety- ing to keep acquainted with the mem­ Nines. Jeannette served as Internation­ bers and the activities of the Ninety- of al President from 1945-47. Prior to this Nines.” time she flew thousands of miles and That she continued her active inter­ THE FIFTY STATES many many hours in her little Stinson est in the Fund is attested to by her Voyager, and was largely responsible generous gifl of $1125.00 in 1965, a c­ & TERRITORIES for holding the organization together companied by a note requesting that and bringing the Chapters back to life there be no publicity. for the after the restrictions fo flying and or­ Jeannette was always most generous ganizational activity engendered by of her time, thoughtful and unselfish, NINETY - NINES World W ar II. and went out of her way to be help­ ful, especially t'o the Ninety-Nines. She INVITATION Let us go back a bit — never accepted Life Membership in our In 1934, Jeannette won fhe 100-mile organization although entitled to it as FOLIOS closed course race at Dayton, Ohio, a past president because “the Ninety- placed second in the 1936 Transcon­ Nines need my dues.” to tinental Ruth Chaterton Derby for We have lost' a very special Ninety- men and women, and competed and Nine. SEE THE USA placed in many others events. Eugenia Heise These folios will contain the outstand­ 1935-1937 she was Governor of the —o— ing aerial pictures selected from each North Central Section; 1940-1942 Inter­ state, plus an invitation from each gov­ national Treasurer of the Ninety-Nines; PATTER ... by Peg ernor, inviting citizens all over the 1943-1945 International V ice President. My second attempf at compiling the world to visit the USA, and his State NEWS is progressing a bit faster than While gaining laurels in competition in particular. the first . . . the 'ole experienced’ ed­ was fun, her abiding interest was in itor is now equipped with a profusion A 99 will be selected from each state the Amelia Earhart Memorial Schol­ of multi-colored marking pens, sticky 1o fly the pictures and invitations to arship. About 1949 she was elected as tape of various sizes, stapler, and a the convention, where they will be as­ one of the Trustees of the Fund, and in heaped high desk . . . all of which sembled in the handsome USA folios. 1951 was appointed by the Executive must certainly indicate the change At the International Night banquet, Committee to serve as a Permanent in rating from a beginning student June 30, these folios will be presented Trustee. The other four Trustees elect­ to at least one who has soloed! Most to the overseas 99s to take back home ed her as their Chairman and she held of tve contributors obviously read and and present to the heads of their gov­ these posts until 1958 when she found are following DOTTIE’S Memo on ernments with the compliments of the Preparation of Copy. You’ll never know 99s, on behalf o f all Am erica. just how much that ‘preparation’ Arrangements are being made for an around with no particular project in means in time and energy to this gal! exhibit’ of the outstanding pictures at mind, when all of a sudden, they line Anyone needing a copy, just whistle the convention, and then to send them up, follow each other to a certain and it will be on the way to you . . . on a tour abroad. area, group together, and accomplish ulterior motives, ya know! These SEE THE USA folios put us that which they set out to do. What Is your Chapter report missing???? squarely in the world spotlight, so they made them ‘get-together’ ? They COM­ Perhaps your reporter didn’t believe must’ be truly exciting examples of 99 MUNICATED! Where ONE ant could “the Pony Express to Plano” bit! Be­ enterprise, endeavor, and ingenuity. not move the object . . . in UNITY cause cf extra help at the printers . . . there was strength! Let’s make these the most beauti­ and the holiday mail rush, it was im­ ful aerial folios ever made of America, Consider the ant and we could easi­ portant to submit all copy to the print­ so the world can share our fabulous ly apply that object lesson to our­ er after m y mail delivery on the 21st views of the USA and its Territories. selves. One of us cannot hope to ac­ (the 20th was Sunday). I sincerely We are equal to the challenge! complish what a group of us could. hope the News is in your hands prompt - Each Chapter Chairman already has How do we let the others know we ly in spite of the holiday mail load! received details about the photographs, have an idea and would like to have Remember . . . next NEWS deadline invitations, and the Capital Fly-In. So— help with it???? COMMUNICATE!! is D ecem ber 20th. to work! See you next month, Happy holidays, Fay Gillis Wells Alice Roberts PEG. Chairman OPPORTUNITY group of participants and staff mem­ 99 Member-at-Large bers in a very unusual and tremend­ KNOCKS ___ ously exciting adventure combining Receives OX5 - "Tiny opportunities for learning and playing Broadwick" Award INTERNATIONAL AEROSPACE —for there will be plenty of free time EDUCATION WORKSHOP Each year this award is given to an for personal sight - seeing and fun! The opportunity to study aerospace 0X5 member who has contributed to This whole delightful experience is activities in a most fascinating and un­ the advancement of women in aviation. being made available for the total sum usual manner, will present itself next The 1966 chdice has made it truly an of $1250.00 for the five-week work­ summer in the form of an Internation­ international award since the recipient shop, New York City to New York al Aerospace Workshop, sponsored by is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, MISS City; with an option of extending the the Civil Air Patrol’s Aerospace Edu­ ANESIA MACHADO. BLANCHE European stay at a cost o f $20.00 per cation Association. NOYES introduced her at a banquet in day for 1 to 5 days, with August’ 17, St. Louis, Missouri, Sept. 30, 1966. This is to be a five week tour, from 1938 being the final return date. July 10, 1966 to August 12, 1966, and Past recipients of OX5 Club woman’s If you are interested in obtaining will cover parts of Europe not usually awards are: more information and details concern­ included on a tourist’s agenda. The 1962—BLANCHE NOYES. ing the tour, please writ’e: workshop will carry four semester 1963—M ELBA BEARD . MRS. JESSIE B. MILLER. Chairman hours of graduax'e credit from either 19S4—LOUISE THADEN International Aerospace Committee of two sponsoring schools, Weber State 1965—VIOLA GENTRY. Ninety-Nines, Inc. College, Ogden, Utah and Middle Ten­ Present at the banquet were the Am­ Southern Station, P. O. Box 141 nessee State University, Murfreesboro, bassador from Brazil, DR VASCO Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39401 Tennessee. Co-directors are MR. JOHN LEITAO DE CUNHA, a most engaging SORENSON, Deputy for Aerospace Ed­ speaker; the Brazilian Air Marshal, ucation, National Headquarters, Civil ANTHONY APPEL NETO, husband of Air Patrol; DR. BEALER SMOTHER- WANTED MISS MACHADO; and a large table of MAN, Director of the famous Aero­ More reports, pictures, ar­ Sf. Louis 99 members. Excerpts from ANESIA’S address space Education Workshops at Middle ticles of special interest! Tennessee; and DR. EVAN MEM- upon receiving the above award . . . S E N D to P E G O NG, MOTT, Weber State College, Ogden, “Going back into the years past I Utah. 2900 Rockbrook Dr., recall vividly the overwhelming feel­ ing that overtook me as a young girl Interesting activities such as the fol­ Plano, Texas 75074 when I flew for the first time. I was lowing “samples” will be included in a passenger with an American pilot the tour: who was barnstorming and showed up * Study and actual retracing of Coming Events at the small town where I lived in CHARLES LINDBERGH’S flight April 14-16 the interior of my home State. ORTON from New York to Paris. South Central Sectional HOOVER, who was flying a Curtiss * The thrill of participating in the Camelot Inn Oriole, became a very dear friend. celebration of Bastille Day in Paris. Tulsa, Oklahoma It was then that’ I became acquainted * Visits fo NATO and SHAPE Head­ with the OX5. quarters and a seminar with repre­ I gues that it was then that I was sentatives of the Federation Aero- April 7, 8, 9 bitten by the bug, the aerococcus, nautique International. Australian Annual Convention and never got or wanted to get rid of * The opportunity to meet members of Brisbane, Queensland it. Shortly after, in D ec. 1921, I was in the Royal Air Force of Great Brit­ the City of Sao Paulo, Capital of my ain, and of the Royal Danish Air State, taking lessons in flying. My Force, and pilots of the German June 28-July 2, 1967 solo was on M arch 17, 1922, and on Luftwaffe. International Convention April 9 I received my flying license, * A first hand observation of the Ber­ Washington, D.C. number 77, in Brazil. The plane I was lin "air - corridor” and a possible flying was an old crate, a Caudron G3 visit into East Berlin. with a rotary engine. * A study of LEONARDO 'DA VINCI July 8, 1967 You can well imagine the thrills and his work, and the influence that AW TAR that engulfed me during that short per­ it later had on aviation — in Rome. Atlantic City, N. J. to iod from the time I first flew as a * An opportunity to observe the role Torrance, Calif. passenger til I soloed and received my of UNESCO in the molding of com­ license. mercial aviation into a cultural force, I was very young and I had to fight during the stay in Geneva, Switzer­ October 21, 1967 hard. The most generous criticism I land. Fahiadies Annual received — and it actually came out This is a wonderful chance for all Indiana Race in the newspapers — was that I was persons interested in aviation and Aero­ Bloomington, Indiana a screwball. But I had the stamina space Education to join a highly select and the deterrriination to face all sorts of prejudice and criticism and fight WANTED: Air Races, had never competed in py­ my was through. lon races before. They found it ex­ .... My very first dream came true. STOCK PLANE RACE PILOTS hilarating and fun. As a matter of fact, I wanted so badly to be the first wom­ (FEMALE) it was only my second time, JUDY an to soar through the skies of my na­ WAGNER’S fourth, DOROTHY JUL- The Washington National Air Races tive land — and I did. ICH’S second, and of course, EDNA held over Labor Day at Frederick, Md. One year after I received my license, GARDNER WHYTE has many pylon the Government of my State gave me drew huge crowds. The three day event races to her credit. an airplane, a JN4 — my beautiful brought 30,000 spectators each day and It is easy to learn the procedure. Jenny and with it I did my first lo ~s at $2.00 a head it was a profitable A Race official checks each contest and spins. I wa^ so happy! spectacular. The Ladies Stock Plane ant’s technique prior to the races and But I must say that ever since my Pylon event was so popular it drew ton sharpens you up if necessary. first flights I had an obsession: that billing and was given prime time on Frankly, we lack contestants. In the some day I would fly the skies of this the final day. Washington National Air Races we wonderful country of yours, and that had difficulty rounding up six gals. some day I would fly the skies of our In 1967, the National A ir R aces are What we need is a hard core group of America, uniting North, Central, and planned in Chicago, Illinois; Houston, about 10-12 women to form a National South America on a good will flight. Texas; and again in Washington, D.C. Pylon Racing Team. It will be profit­ All this came about. Purse money for the Ladies Stock able both financially and career wise. Plane Pylon event will be a minimum In 1943, I set foot on this blessed You need not be a professional pilot of $5,000 and possibly as high as soil for the first time. I came at the to qualify for the team. The following $20,000, plus huge trophies. The R ace invitation of your government for ad­ gals will be happy and anxious to ans­ Committee will pick up the tab for vanced training, having then already wer all your inquiries and 1o check the ladies’ hotel accommodations and received my commercial license. I was you out in the art of pylon flying. Con­ there will be allowances for travel ex­ here under the sponsorship of the Inter- tact the one nearest you. American Affairs Agency and supervis­ penses. All female contestants will ion of the CAA. I took the courses share in the purse. In other words, no Edna Gardner Whyte for CAA Inspector at the CAA Stand­ matter what the finishing posilions, 3155 Willow Park ardization Center in Houston, Texas. financially a contestant will come out Ft. Worth, Texas There I received my license to fly in greenbacks ahead. The national and (817-AT4-8428) this country with Commercial, Flight world wide TV, radio, and press cov­ Judy Wagner Instructor, and Instrument Ratings. erage is fabulous. As a contestant, you 2516 Via La Selva After that I had two more months of are a celebrity and receive Red Carpet Palos Verdes, Calif. 90066 instrument' flying with Pan-America, at treatment through the race meet. (213 F R 8-2185) LaGuardia. Pylon racing is not necessarily dan­ .... Upon my arrival in R'o I was gerous. The manner in which you fly Pat Arnold aopointed by the Air Secretary as a pylon course is entirely up to the P. O. Box 294 Link Instructor for the Brazilian Air contestant. The Course is a 4% mile Elmwood, Conn. 06111 Force and was also Link Instructor oval with 3 pylons at each end marking (203 666-3600) for Panair do Brazil, a commercial the boundary of the course. The pylons Pylon racing is just getting a foot­ airline. are 75 feet high. You can fly above hold again in this country. The unpre­ One of my first cherished dreams or below them; the object being not cedented crowds at the Washington Na­ had come true: to fly here, to know to cut inside of a pylon thereby get­ tional Air Races proved it has greal this great country, its people. 1951 ting disqualified. Usually, six to ten public appeal, so why not get in on marked the fulfillment of yet another laps of the 414 mile course comprise the ground floor by joining the Nation­ great dream: that' of flying over the a pylon race. It requires about 10 min­ al Woman’s Pylon Racing Team. Let Americas on a good will tour. utes flying time. Pretty simple and us hear from you. Such has been my life: always pur­ quick way to share in $5000 or more By Pat Arnold suing a dream to make it come true. and the plaudits o f 30,000 people! Executive Secretary .... Today I feel happy in being JANE RALSTON and JANE LAMAR National Woman’s able to continue to fly even though in who raced in the Washington National Pylon Racing Team a small single-engine plane. Adverse circumstances did not permit' me to have the satisfaction of flying bigger aircraft, winning records, or being a test pilot. It seems that I started ALL CANDIDATES FOR THE AMELIA EARHART SCHOL­ too early. But I had the privilege of ARSHIPS — BE SURE THAT YOUR APPLICATIONS ARE flying at the time That aviation was just in its beginning. And now we can IN THE HANDS OF YOUR SECTION CHAIRMAN BY see that the lessons we learned, you and I, in these early days of flight, 15 JANUARY, 1967. will carry a new generation to the moon and to the stars.” A W T A R —the quantity discount which applies Amelia Earhart to FBOs and flying clubs may be ap­ Memorial Scholarship Fund Raising plies to their purchases with the Chap­ Eugenia Heise, Chairman ter retaining the difference between The Annual Report of the Scholar­ Thanks to Helen Greinke — the fol­ the List Price and the Net’ Amount and ship Com m ittee Fund for fiscal 1965- lowing: AWTAR rceiving 25% of the Net 66 is being published for your informa­ AWTAR is granted a 25% commis­ Amount. Gnapt'er should write direct tion. It is through your donations that’ sion on the sale of all books made for details. the Fund has grown from the original Helen Greinke i'o 99s o r 99-instigated orders if an Awards of $150.00 in 1941 and 1942 appropriate notation is made on the P. O. Box 394 to the present three awards of $700.00 order. This applies to quantity pur­ Bloomington, Illinois each. Actually t'he interest from the chases by FBOs as well as to individ­ Trust was so small that it was only uals. The commission is based upon through the generosity of Alma Har­ the NET Amount of the order. WANTED wood, Betty Gillies and Jacqueline Cochran that the $150.00 w as presented An additional plan is also available, More reports, pictures, ar­ in those two early years. Established ticles of special interest ! whereby the Chapters may benefit lo­ as a “Living Memorial” it has con­ cally, as well as AWTAR. If members S E N D to P E G O N G , tinued to grow through the years and wish to “pool” their orders—or pur­ 2900 Rockbrook Dr., we now have thirty Ninefy-Nines en­ chase quantities to sell to local pilots Plano, Texas 75074 rolled on the Roster of Winners. Powder Puff Derby AMELIA EARHART MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND ANNUAL REPORT — September J, 1965 to August 31, 1966 Marion Andrews Lopez, Reporter RECEIPTS: We are all very proud of a special “Certificate of Commendation” from CONTRIBUTIONS: Trust Fen I Award Fund Sect. Total the Federal Aviation Agency received by KAY BRICK, Chairman of the AW New England Section TAR Board of Directors, “In recogni­ Eastern New England Chapter $ 25.00 $ 25.00 $ 50.00 tion of her exceptional leadership of the All Woman Transcontinental Air New York-New Jersey Section Race, a competition which n:t only has Greater New York Chapter 33.00 33.00 66.00 demonstrated the safety and utility of general aviation, but which further has Middle East Section reflected the major contributions of Central Pennsylvania Chapter 25.00 25.00 50.00 women to the progress of American civil Aviation.” This was accompanied South East Section 25.00 25.00 by a letter which read in part: “Your Carolinas Chapter 12.50 10.00* 12.50 leadership of the All-Woman Transcon­ Florida Goldcoast Chapter 12.50 12.50 tinental Air Race has made the annual Florida Suncoast Chapter 10 .0 0 ** competition both efficient and exem­ Georgia Chapter 12.50 12.50 plary. The Powder Puff Derby long Memphis Chapter 12.50 12.50 has reflected the proficiency and Tennessee Chapter 5.00 5.00 180.00 achievement of women in aviation.” KAY regards this award as a tribute North Central Section to all Ninety-Nines who, through their participation in and support of the All-Ohio Chapter 20.00 20.00 AWTAR, have contributed substantially Cape Girardeau Chapter 55.84 55.84 in the progress of American civil avia­ Chicago Area Chapter 12.50 12.50 tion. As of this writing, KAY is wing­ Indiana Chapter 50.00 50.00 ing her way to Australia as co-pilot in Michigan Chapter 25.00 25.00 a Queen Air. The ship, just off the Minnesota Chapter 37.50 37.50 Beech line in Wichifa, will be used as Wisconsin Chapter 25.00 25.00 451.68 a hospital ship in the land down under. NANCY BIRD WALTON has schedul­ South Central Section ed KAY for radio and TV appearances Dallas Chapter 25.00 25.00 throughout Australia. Greater St. Louis Chapter 25.00 25.00 East' coast board members srem to High Sky Chapter 2.50 2.50 be boxing the compass these days what Houston Chapter 25.00 25.00 with KAY off to Australia, BARBARA San Antonio Chapter 5.00 5.00 EVANS just back from Europe, LOIS Tulsa Chapter 7.50 7.50 180.00 FAIRBANK now in the Bahamas and Yours Truly off to the West Indies Northwest Section come December. Alaska Chapter 13.50 13.50 Those in the New York area saw Eastern Idaho Chapter 4.50 4.50 the WCBS Powder Puff Derby Docu­ Eastern Washington Chapter 5.00 5.00 mentary Film on TV in two 25 min­ Montana Chapter 7.50 7.50 ute shows shown one week apart. Our South Dakota Chapter 12.50 12.50 girls did us proud as it was very well Southern Oregon Chapter 12.00 12.00 110.00 received by the general public. We have heard many favorable comments Southwest Section and enthusiastic interest in the PPD from ground lubbers. For scheduling of Bay Cities Chapter 7.50 7.50 fhe film in your area, write to WCBS El Cajon Valley Chapter 12.50 12.50 Documentary Division. Los A.igf les Chapter 12.50 12.50 Send in your clippings in time to be Monterey Bay Chapter 7.50 7.50 included in the PPD Scrapbooks which Phoenix Chapter 12.50 12.50 will be on display at Atlantic City in Sacramento Valley Chapter 25.00 25.00 July. Entry kits for the 21st PPD, San Diego Chapter 12.50 12.50 containing Rules and Regulations and San Fernando Valley Chapter 10.00 10.00 nertinent info, will be ready Feb. 1st. San Gabriel Valley Chapter 31.50 25.00t 31.50 Send 50c for same to AWTAR Head­ San Joaquin Valley Chapter 5.00 5.00 quarters, Telerboro Airport, Teter- Santa Clara Valley Chapter 50.00 50.00 398.00 boro, New Jersey. forw ard 765.34 720.34 1485.68 British Section 25.00 25.00 50.00 COMMITTEE TOTAL SECTION AND CH APTER CONTRIBUTIONS: 790.34 745.3.4 = $1535.68 REPORTS Contributions in mem. AIR MARKING Jeanette L. Sovereign 40.00 How does one create a climate of Contribution in mem. Joan Merriam Smith 5.00 interest and enthusiasm for one of The Ninety-Nines oldest projects, Air Mark­ Contribution in mem. ing? That is the task which your new Elizabeth Jane R eeves 15.00 Air Marking Committee has agreed Muriel Morrissey — to undertake. % proceeds sale o f book 21.00 Personal contribution — Ruth Rueckerf 10.56 We could start by telling you how Personal contribution — Eugenia Heise 25.00 this program has given our chapters a Anonymous 1.00 sense of purpose, a feeling of accom­ Columbia B roadcasting System 500.00 plishment and a unity among the mem­ Proceeds from sale of 1st Day Covers 209.00 bers. All of which makes for a strong Interest — Virginia Electric & Power Bonds 27.50 and growing chapter. The chapter as Interest? — A m erican Tel & Tel Bonds 55.00 a whole benefits while possibly help­ Dividend — 25 shrs. General M otors 33.75 ing a misplaced pilot. Dividend — 35 shrs. Standard Oil of Calif. 21.88 Now, to the next step, we suggest Dividend — 100 shrs. Lone Star Gas 28.00 that each Section Air Marking Chair­ Dividend — 40 shrs. Signal Gas & Oil 24.00 man contact the state aeronautical Dividend — 74 shrs. Pacific Gas & Electric 24.38 commissions in her area to determine Interest on Savings Accounts 1170.47 if an active program exists. If a state TOTAL R E C E IPTS 1606.34 2140.88 = $3747.22 is actively engaged in Air Marking, perhaps, The Ninety-Nines could as­ NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENT sist by locating spots that need marks. Note 1. Such an inquiry might stimulate some Section and Chapter contributions made in memoriam are listed under chap­ interest on the part of your state of­ ter contributions and are identified as follows: ficials. * in memory of Mr. J. L. Hamilton, Charlotte, N.C. Now, should your state show little ** in memory of Mr. Don Grady, Clearwater, Florida or no interest, there are several ways t in memory of Joan Merriam Smith to proceed. The Ohio Ninety - Nines Note. 2. have worked successfully with the Jun­ City Savings Association is in liquidation. The original investment of $1125.00 ior Chamber of Commerce in a joint was recovered in March 1965 by donation in this amount made by Jeanette L. effort. Certainly, if is recommended Sovereign. Further recovery is questionable so accrued interest was written down that you solicit help from other civic to $1.00 in 1965. organizations whenever possible. Note 3. Other chapters have worked inde­ Inventory is carried at a nominal value of $10.00 for record purposes. During pendently with great enthusiasm get­ the period from 9-1-65 to 8-31-66 $209.00 was received from the sale o f A m elia E a r­ ting donations for paint, lining up lo­ hart Stamp First Day Covers. cations and, at times, underwriting the Betty H. Gillies, Treasurer cost of materials as a worthwhile chap­ ter project. There is a great need for towns with­ AIR MARKING REPORT out airport facilities to have an Air ______Chapter______Section Mark on some conspicuous building. A sectional chart of your area will Location of Air Mark ______give you som e hint's on locations. Then City __ State _ follow up with a visit or letter to the □ Hangar town officials. Most airports and towns □ Airport are happy to pay for the paint. □ Runway Our first request of you will require □ Building a few minutes time of each Chapter □ City or Town □ Highway Chairman. We would like an accurate □ New Location count of the Air Markings which were com pleted in the September 1985 to □ Repaint Old Marking September 1968 fiscal year. The in­ Date Air Mark Completed: ______formation that we wish to obtain is M ail to : M ary N. Able, Rt. 4, Box 52 contained on the form below. Please Houston. Texas 77036 comply with this request immediately as we want every chapter’s efforts, regardless of how small, to be recog­ deadline of February 5t.h for proposed OUR CHARTER nized! Resolutions. In the future, upon completion of an Procedure Out-line for MEMBERS Air Mark, this same form may be submitting Resolutions: reproduced on a postcard and mailed From Our Charter Member, t'o the Air Marking Chairman, MARY 1. Review the revised Constitution and FAY GILLIS WELLS ABLE. As our president ALICE ROB­ Bylaw s in the 1966-67 R oster I will always be grateful to PRESI­ ERTS mentioned in the October News­ 2. Specify Article, Section, page, and DENT JOHNSON for making his trip letter, our COMMUNICATIONS could wording of the Constitution or By­ to the Pacific and the Far East for stand much improvement and this col­ laws to be amended it gave m e a chance to meet’ 99s, umn will be devoted to recognizing while covering his trip as White House chapters that are working toward the 3. Give a full explanation and reasons correspondent for the Storer Broad­ safety and betterment of aviation in for the proposed change—keep re­ casting Company. general. Be counted! Communicate! If sume under 200 words The first slop was Honolulu and at you have pictures, send them and the 4. Submit a copy of your suggested the airport’ to greet me was JANET Newsletter will print as many as pos­ Resolution to all three members of HITT with a beautiful white lei tied sible. the Resolutions Committee with a 99 blue ribbon. As PRESI­ Each of you has in her power the This committee will review and edit DENT JOHNSON moves fast, we only ability to make of us howling suc­ had a minute at the airport but we cesses or dismal failures as Air Mark­ all resolutions, our collected views and opinions will be summarized and then did t’alk on the phone later. JANET ing Committeewomen. We need your submitted to the Executive Board for is hoping to be back here for the Con­ h elp !! their critique at their Spring Board vention. Our thanks to BLANCHE NOYES meeting. of the Federal Aviation Agency and No 99s in Pago Pago. In Wellington Now is your chance, let us hear to FRANCES PEACOCK for their 1 got a telegram from RHONA FRAS­ from you, February 5th is the dead­ prompt replies to our pleas for as­ ER asking me to call her but a press sistance. line. aide carried it around in his pocket MARY ABLE, Chairman Your Resolutions Committee looks and didn’t deliver it to me until I forward to serving you. AUTRIE LEHR was enroute to the airport leaving Wellington. JERRY ROBERTS JOAN HRUBEC, Chairman (All-Ohio Chapter) But I had terrific luck in Australn. “ SPECIAL ATTENTION - BETTY FAUX Had a chance to talk on the phone with All Ninety-Nine Members” (Long Beach Chapter) LADY CASEY. JIMMY KOLP had cabled her I was coming and NANCY 1. Are you fully satisfied with your or­ BARBARA THISTED BIRD WALTON had written her about ganization’s Constitution and By­ Eastern Washington Chapter me. LADY CASEY doubted if she law s? — o — would be able to come to the conven­ 2. Are you in agreement' with the tion because of her official duties as practices and policies of the organ­ MEMBERSHIP wife of the Governor General but she ization ? A hearty thanks to all Membership was most interested in our plans. In 3. Do you have an idea or suggestion Chairmen and members working for Sydney the 99s were at the airport that you feel will make this a bet­ new members. You are doing a terri­ complete with signs to greet me but, ter organization for us all? fic job. Remember we have only ap­ because of the mob and police security The door is now open to all 99 Mem­ proximately 10% of the women pilots we could only wave across the barriers. bers, Chapters, and Sections to voice registered with FAA, in the 99s. L et’s Driving into town the motorcade stop­ their opinions. Your Resolutions Com­ work for a membership of 3000 for ped and I looked out the window to mittee is ready to handle this job for 1967. Flying is booming and especially see this couple frantically waving at you and we trust that each and every among women so I know we can do it. me. I was astonished to find it was one of you will give this opportunity An increase of 25% in each chapter LYNETTE BUTLER and her husband a good deal of consideration and de­ will do it. caught in the mob. They had tried to liberation. Special Request: If the name of the get to the airport but couldn’t get This organization of ours is only as M em bership Chairman is not list ed in thru the traffic jam. I had met them good as we its m em bers m ake it. A the new Directory, will the current in Washington only a couple of months Constitution that is modern, concise, Chairman be sure that the Section and before. When we got to the Sydney and flexible gives us a workable foun­ International Membership Chairman Art Gallery for PRESIDENT JOHN­ dation on which we can base our poli­ has your name and address as soon as SON’S speech, there was NANCY BIRD cies, practices, and decisions. Up-to- possible. Thank you so much. My ad­ WALTON, one of the invited guests. date Bylaws, arm us with interpretive dress is: And later when I was working in the guide-posts by which we all can carry Alberta Nicholson. temporary press room set up for the on our Active Membership. International correspondents, who should walk in but Convention is early again this year, Membership Chairman MARGARET KENTLEY, who had and for this reason your Resolutions 3450 Cleveland Circle somehow made her way in from the Committee is going to post an early Salt Lake City, Utah airport and past the security guards ed on the telephone. 1 do hope they can all come to the convention so I can thank them in person for the won­ derful reception I had in Australia. The last persons I saw in Townsville Queensland were our dynamic AM- BASSADOR CLARK and MRS. CLARK. The AMBASSADOR said he would do everything he could to make our Convention a success. So with such enthusiasm throughout the Island continent, I feel the Australian phase of the 1957 convention will be out­ standing.

In Manilla, I had the good fortune to meet the President of the Philip­ pine Airlines, DENIGNO TODA, who has the only private submarine in the world. Through his gracious Pub­ lic Relations Vice President, I met EDITH DIZON a pilot who has always wanted to be a 99. She is a concert organist and is playing in Los Angeles next June so she is coming to the con­ vention. I have already sent her an application blank so she will be a fullfledged 99 by then. EDITH is a widow with six children and is a free lance writer, so if she can find time to fly and sky dive and teach music etc., I guess we can find time to do what we have to do. The 99s in Sydney, Australia, welcome FAY GILLIS WELLS as she accompan­ ied PRESIDENT JOHNSON on his recent Pacific trip. This sign was seen on There are no 99s in Thailand or Ma­ the TV coverage of the reception by VIRGINIA THOMPSON, Washington, 1). C. laysia. I tried to find KYOUNG KIM LEE in Seoul Korea—we were only there one day, the second day we at' the door. We talked for alm ost an WALLER whom I already knew. They w ere flying up near the 38th parallel hour and MARGARET told me that are both very enthusiastic about the and down south of town to dedicate SHIRLEY ANDERSON had been in Convention. The AMBASSADOR spoke Johnson Hill. When I got back home the control tower in Sydney and had at our World Salute to Flying Friend­ I found a letter from her saying she the honor of talking Air Force One ship ceremony in 1965. called me at the Walker Hill several down. The other girls never did show When I got to my hotel in Brisbane times, but I never got a message. Any­ up but it sure was wonderful of (hem I found a beautiful orchid and a note way, am hoping she and her sister to brave the mobs to try to say a from PEGGY KELMAN welcoming me can come to the convention. friendly 99 hello. VIRGINIA THOMP­ on behalf of the 99s and the Austra­ SON said she saw the 99 sign on her lian Women Pilots’ Association. She And at our last stop Anchorage Alas­ television in Washington so it was not (old me that OLGA TARLING was on ka, there was RUTH HURST waiting in vain. MARGARET said there were duty in the radar room during the for me, even though the Presidential five 99s already who are definitely PRESIDENT’S arrival in Brisbane — motorcade didn't get to the hotel un­ planning on coming to the convention. so that m ade two 99s who helped til almost one in the morning. RUTH So if they can make it, we hope a lot PRESIDENT JOHNSON on his way. I and her brother-in-law waited for me of others closer to Washington can be didn’t get to see P E G G Y but' w e talk- while I wrote my broadcasts and tele­ there too. NANCY also has some ideas phoned them to New York; then we for getting the Australian girls to the talked until after 3 o’clock. I felt very convention. guilty about keeping her up. WANTED From Sydney to Brisbane I was one I highly recommend seeing the of the pool reporters in Air Force One More reports, pictures, ar­ world, the 99 way, even if if has to be with PRESIDENT JOHNSON, so I got ticles of special interest! sandwiched in between such a mad to meet informally with PRIME MINI­ SEND to PEG ONG, assignment as covering PRESIDENT JOHNSON on a peace crusade, with a STER and MRS. HOLT and the Aus­ 2900 Rockbrook Dr., side trip to Viet Nam. tralian Ambassador to the United Plano Texas 75074 States, KEITH WALLER and MRS. Fay Gillis Wells Announce TOP FIVE! These lucky five pilots copped trophies in the 11th Michigan Small Race at Collins Field, Alpena, Michigan, October 1. From left to right: First, seventeen-year-old LINDA MARKHAM, Battle Creek, Michigan; sec­ ond, MRS. MARETTA SIMPSON, Flint, Michigan; third, MRS. CAROLINE JONES, Plainesville, Ohio; fourth, MARY ANN NOAH, Mission, Kansas; and MRS. SOPHIA PAYTON, fifth, Indianapolis, Indiana.

AIR MEETS airport early for a hangar breakfast. rain showers. The small ones could be SMALL RACE A power failure caused quite a delay in flown directly through, but there were the feeding of the crowd and the sched­ a few big, black ones, which had to Mary Pelto, Reporter ule to be thrown off quite a bit. be circumnavigated. Some racers found a shower in progress over the The 1986 SMALL race is but a mem­ Race No. 1, MARILYN COLLETTE, Roscommon airport. Pity the poor ory. CAROL WELCH, her race board, Ohio, took off at till, and the race and the city of Alpena are to be com­ was on. spotters, for (he temperature was in mended for a big job well done. the low 40’s. The first leg of the 168.2 nm course Impound and registration were on was almost directly west across the A heading of 042 degrees took us back to Alpena with everyone watching Friday, September 30. For those able lower peninsula to East Jordan. A eagerly far a small body of water. to arrive early enough, there was a little hill obscured the little grass Beaver Lake was the reporting point sightseeing tour of the Alpena area strip until the last possible moment. for landing instructions. Many ponds with lunch in town. The majority of Several girls lost valuable time search­ and lakes in the area were misnamed racers were lodged in the Fletcher ing for the field. A sharp left turn to as the gals vied for position to cross Motel, right next door to The Grove, a heading of 153 degrees put us on the finish line. where the pre - race briefing banquet course to Roscommon. By the time the was held. race got started, our nearly perfect Box lunches handed out at the air­ Saturday morning, we arrived at the weather had developed some scattered port were quickly consumed as the December, 1966 racers waited for the final refueling. to the first six Cessnas. They went to ing aircraft and for the first time, With loud groans the pilots signed the LINDA, MARETTA SIMPSON, FAYE male co-pilots were allowed. Co-Chair­ acceptance slips for what developed to KIRK, MARY SHUMWAY from Illi­ men, MARGE BUNCH and DOROTHY be either too much or too little fuel. nois, JOANN STYPE, Ohio and MAR­ WARREN said the only mistake they AS Spark Plug sponsored a reception GARET RADKA. made was not having a tape recorder before the Awards Banquet in the Al­ Dancing ’til 1:00 am at The Grove t'o get the comments from the harried, pena Civic Center. The Besser Male completed the evening’s activities. wild-eyed, sweaty, males, when they Chorus entertained the crowd with sev­ Following breakfast and the Michi­ returned from the 347-mile round robin eral beautiful numbers before the food gan 99s October meeting the fifty-two race. This was a rally type race with was served. contestants loaded up their gear and your list of 150 clues handed to you After dinner, MR. FRED WAITE of headed home. 9 to Ohio, 4 to Illinois, just prior to take-off. You set your Ihe Michigan Aeronautics Commission 3 t'o Indiana, 2 to New York, and one own handicap for speed and gas, but gave out the trophies and prize money each to Kansas, Missouri, Florida, penalty points were assessed for each to the first five place winners. Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. minute over or under your estimate And now it’s back to work on next and for each .1 of a gal. of gas used 5th place — $50.00 and trophies — year’s race plans. We’ll be watching over or under your estimate. SOPHIA PAYTON, Indiana — Mooney for you the first week-end of October, M20C; ADELLA NEFF, Indiana MARY JANE NORRIS also received 1967. 4th place — $75.00 and trophies — a trophy for being the high scoring —o— MARY ANN NOAH, Kansas — Piper Ninety-Nine. JAN and HANK GAM- PA-28 DALLAS DOLL DERBY MELL for coming the furtheresf dis­ 3rd place — 125.00 and trophies — Hazel McKendrick, Reporter tance. Last, but not least NANCY CAROLINE JONES, Ohio — Piper PA WISE received the coveted Tail-End- The 8th annual Dallas Doll Derby, 22-150; BARBARA K N APP, Ohio Tony. sponsored by the Dallas Aero Sorority, 2nd place — 150.00 and trophies — was flagged off ax' Addison Airport on For all of us also rans, just “wait MARETTA SIMPSON, Michigan—Cess­ October 22nd. There were 24 compet­ until next year” . na 175; CARL SIMPSON, Michigan 1st place — 200.00 and trophies — LINDA MARKHAM, Michigan—Cessna 150F; ROBERT VOLLMAR, Michigan DALLAS DOLL DERBY - 1966 6th place — trophy — FAYE KIRK OFFICIAL RESULTS and HELEN WETHERILL, Michigan— Cessna 172 Questions Time Fuel 11th place in the 11th race — trophy Pilot Co-Pilot Correct Penalty Penalty Score MARGARET and ELMER RADKA— Mary Jane Norris Bob Norris 132 ( 3) ( 3) 126 Cessna 182; Michigan. Tail End Tony — PAULINE MAL­ E dna Whyte Steve Price 124 ( 0) (10) 114 LORY, Florida — Cessna 140; M ARI­ Maybelle Fletcher L arry Fletcher 126 (13) ( 2) 111 ANNE BAARS, Michigan Louise Bickford Myrl Bickford 129 (11) ( 8) n o Piper awards: Multi-engine — JEAN P eg Ong Charlotte Branum 124 ( 5) (14) 105 REYNOLDS and MARY CLARK, Mich­ Cindy Morris Jim Ryan 122 (17) 101 igan—Apache; Fixed gear — CAROL­ ( 4) INE JONES and BARBARA KNAPP, Hazel McKendrick H enry Gable 124 (17) (15) 92 Ohio — PA-22; Retractable — DORO­ Lillian Tafel Virginia Handley 118 (16) (12) 90 THY JULICH, New York—Comanche Marilyn Stoneberg Ruth Hildebrand 127 ( 0) (38) 89 The Cessna best performance tro­ Sue Andrews George Andrews 133 (17) (33) 83 phy, the CHARLOTTE CONNELLY Jan Gammell (20) 82 TROPHY, which goes to the private Hank Gammell 105 ( 3) pilot with the best score, a special Helen Wilke Kathy* Long 127 (21) (27) 79 award (a Porta-Cycle), and the Paul Elinor Johnson Hazel Corry 120 (11) (35) 74 Bunyan rotating trophy were all cap­ LuCille Wolfe Peggy McKie 112 (31) (12) 69 tured by LINDA MARKHAM in her Arl'ine Matheis Mary Jane McKillip 124 (29) (31) 64 little Cessna 150F. M ary Able Conover Able 129 (31) (43) 55 LINDA got her private pilot rating just' in time to com pete as co-pilot Marguerite Nielson John Nielson 107 (17) (45) 45 for her mother, JACKIE, in the 1966 Phyllis Emmertt Fred Emmertt 120 (39) (44) 37 AWTAR. No longer a ‘66’, LINDA Dorothy McLaurin Jean Williams 106 ( 9) (68) 29 hasn’t become a 99 yet. The Michigan Mary Kitchens Lee Kitchens 130 (52) (83) — 5 Chapter is tremendously proud of her Pauline Gibson John Gibson 114 (68) (70) —24 achievement. We know we can expect great things of this dynamic seven­ Nancy Wise A. G. Wise 119 (27) (161) —69 teen year old senior in high school. Elizabeth Hundley Posie Hundley, Jr. Did not complete Cessna gave a set' of spark plugs Susan Grossman R en e’ G rossm an Did not com plete and Missouri were ready to vie for the trophies and cash. Of special interest in the race was Evansville’s volatile TV weather girl, MARCIA YOCKEY, flying a 1942 Fleet 16-43 biplane. A special antique cate­ gory was added to the race rules ond should make an exciting addition to all future races for both pilots and spectators. Race chairman, JILL McCORMICK, kept things rolling smoothly throughout the week-end aided by 99s, 49%ers and officials from the Inlana Aero­ nautical Commission, the Evansville Chamber of Commerce, and the Evans­ ville Sports Car Club (w''o were of tremendous help in the timing). Plane No. 13 proved to be the lucky number for winner, MURIEL DY­ KEMA, flying a Cessna 175, taking First Place Trophy, the Indiana Chapter’s Traveling Trophy and $200 first place money. Her co-pilot, NOLA KEIL, was a first time racer and was just as excited as MURIEL at the win. Second place went to SOPH PAY­ TON and Co-pilot ADELLA NEFF, fly­ ing a M ooney M ark 20C. SOPH also won the Indiana Aviation Company’s Trophy for the best Mooney perform­ ance. JO ANN STYPE, Wooster, Ohio, finished third. MARSHA RINGEN- BERG, Grabill, Indiana, was fourth and HAZEL JACOBS, Tecumseh, Mich­ igan, was fifth. The new Antique Trophy was awarded to MARCIA YOC­ KEY, Evansville, Indiana. The Rookie Trophy was awarded to ELAINE BEYERSTEDT, Evansville, Indiana, Indiana Ninety-Nines, MURIEL DYKEMA and NOLA KEIL, are all smiles as who at the time had possessed her they receive the First Place Trophies for pilot and co-pilot. private pilot’s license only ten days. The race course was 192 nautical miles and took the racers from Evans­ sented a 50-star flag to the Evansville- AIR RACES ville to French Lick, Indiana, to Beck- Vanderburg Aviation Authority. KEN­ erman Field at Mount Carmel, Illinois, FAI READIES ANNUAL NY KENT, chairman accepted the flag back to Evansville, to Pierce Field INDIANA RACE from MARY ANN CLARK, Eastern at Carmi, Illinois, to Mount Vernon, Airlines ground hostess. Billie Anderson, Reporter Indiana, and then back to Evansville for WERNER JOHN GENOT, first man­ the finish. Indiana 99s added their touch of ager of what is Dress Memorial Airport The Indiana 99s have already start­ was Honorary Chief Starter for the color to southern Indiana’s fall blaze ed working on next years race with race. GENOT, the grand old man of of color by staging their first inter­ MURIEL DYKEMA as Chairman. The Tri-State Aviation, also was the special national air race on October 15, at race will be held October 21, 1967, and Evansville, Indiana. The race was speaker at the awards banquet Sat­ will start from Bloomington, Indiana’s staged in conjunction with the Indiana urday night. Airport manager JAMES newly expanded airport. Indiana 99s Sesquicentennial Celebration and an GEYER, was the Grand Marshall for open house at Evansville Dress Me­ the race. and the Indiana Aeronautical Commis­ morial Airport, and attracted more All but three entrants were able to sion are making big plans for you. than 300 spectators. “outfox” old man weather and arrive We hope that all of you throughout the Activities at the airport began at in time for the pre-race requirements. nation and where ever 99s are will 12:30 PM Saturday with a flag-raising At flag-drop, 15 planes, flown by start making plans to enter. SEE YOU ceremony when Eastern Airlines pre- girls from Indiana, Illinois, Michigan THERE! December, 1966 —13— FOR SALE 99 Medallion By El Cajon Valley Chapter Gold metal with blue and white enam­ el, Official Compass Rose Insignia. Prices: 1 to 5, $2.00 each; 6 to 12, $1.75 each; 13 to 24, $1.50 each; and 25 or ROSE BANKS looks on as HAZEL JACOBS checks over their credentials with more $1.25 each, prepaid. Ideal for MR. ROBERT WINTER, of the Indiana Aeronautics Commission, in prepara­ charms, necklaces, ear rings, or for tion for the F.A.I.R. Both women fly out of Adrian, Michigan. embedding in plastic for paper weights, pen holders, etc. Give them to your Ninety-Nines friends for Christ­ F A, L R 1966 mas. Order from DOTTIE CAMP­ BELL, 1751 El Pico Dr., El Cajon, (Evansville. Ind.) California, 92020 and make checks payable to El Cajon Valley Chapter, The Ninety-Nines, Inc. Proceeds to Race R ace Amelia Earhart Scholarship Fund. Finish No. Pilot Aircraft Type Score 1. 13 Muriel Dykema Cessna 175 98.9692 NOT AMS 2. 4 Soph Payton M ooney Mark 20C 97.7834 NEW ARTICLES FOR SALE 3. 15 JoAnn Stype Cessna 172 E 97.3054 Medallions — El Cajon Chapter Marsha Ringenberg Cherokee 160 97.1537 4. 16 Garment Bags — Dallas Chapter 5. 9 Hazel Jacobs Cherokee 180 96.2999 —o— 6. 14 Margaret Ringenberg Cherokee 160 95.7558 It’s still not too late to order the 7. 3 Sammy McKay Cessna 210 95.1647 99 gummed stamps for your holiday mailing. The proceeds tfrom these 8.. 8 Patricia Gillett M ooney Mark 20C 93.9566 stamps are going toward the sup­ 9. 11 Mary Elders Cessna 172 C 91.6745 port of your POWER PUFF DERBY. 10. 12 Katie Sage Cherokee 140 91.4711 These stamps are not limited to 11. 1 Goldie Pyle Twin C om anc :e B 91.0261 members only. The girls in Kansas 12. 7 Geradline Krause Bonanza 35 90.7685 City are selling them to friends and to their bosses for company mailing. 13. 17 Elaine Beyerstedt Cessna 150 86.8536 Mail $1.00 to 14. 2 Esther Berner M yers 200 Com m ander 86.2025 Aleah ^ ninety-nines will send Special Category Com bs, 4726 ' v you a sheet 15. 19 M arcia Y ock ey Fleet 16 B 85.3191 Skyline of gummed Drive, Mis- # ** "g, stamps for lJ Uj __ f- Z sion, Kan- £ a .1 i, 3 0 your Christ- sas, 66205 ~i I mas mail- MEMBERS - AT - LARGE and she ing. POWDER PUFF DERBY ENDORSER

In August, MISS ANESIA MACHA­ on hand to witness the presentation — o — DO, our member from Rio de Janeiro, as were other elite of Washington and WANTED presented the Smithsonian Institute the aeronautical world. THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE historical materials from the people ED Note: Article concerning ANE- WANTS YOUR PICTURE in the Nine­ of Brazil on Albert Dumas, the great SIA’s OX5 award appears elsewhere ty-Nine annual yearbook which is aeronaut. Many Washington 99s were in the News. placed in the. National Air Museum. SOPHIA PAYTON receives her race number “4” from VERDA BRITTING- HAM, Indiana Chapter Treasurer, not knowing that in a short while she would also receive the award for piloting the best Mooney.

Have you set any records, won any races, accomplished any first's for wo­ men—or anybody—in the field of avia­ tion or are you a group of charter members of a chapter Student pilot MISS “ PEACHES” PORT If your chapter’s history - making telling of her latest (and perhaps last) events in prior years were not record­ multi-engine cross-country flight. ed—let’s amend that situation. There is room for important pages in the Section Meeting annuals of earlier years. Send those old photos, clippings, etc., along with the Reports newer ones for 1965, 1966 and for the SOUTH CENTRAL SECTIONAL coming 1967 as they occur to Irene MEETING (FALL) Wirtschafter, B - 1209 Presidential Hazel 11. MeKendrick Apartments, Philadelphia 19131. T o paraphrase the Postm an’ s Creed-. Neither rain, nor fronts, nor low ceil­ ings, nor thunderstorms, shall stay the South Central Ninety Nines from Know And Abide FOR SALE their appointed Sectional Meeting in Shreveport. With Espirit de Corp that FLIGHT VALET—White plastic gar­ would rival the Marines, the staunch, By Your ment travel bag, 50” in length with devoted, dedicated, and sometimes wet full zipper opening. Imprinted in blue members of the South Central Section braved all the above elements and Limitations and gold compass Rose and “ Ninety- more, used various methods of trans­ Nines” written beneath. $3.00 post­ portation and straggled into Shreveport And Those Of paid. Dallas Chapter. Helen Wilke, on Septem ber 30fh for the fall meeting. 507 S. Manus Dr., Dallas, Texas. 75224. Several who were forced back on Fri­ Your Equipment ED NOTE — Matches Iowa Chapter’s day, got up early enough Saturday to arrive on time for the business meet­ Flight Bag to make a keen travel pair! ing. What a tfemeMous tribute to the Enthusiastic guests of the Shreveport Chapter during the South Central Section’s fall meeting, September 30, October 1, and 2.

great and stout hearted gals in our tional account and put it in the pitality suite was all ready for us section who defied all to get there. special savings account for the In­ complete with a fountain spewing For those of you who “threw in the ternational Convention fund to be punch. Our hostesses were dressed towel” , you missed a whale of a meet­ held in 1971. ante-bellum for the evening and had a ing, and we missed you . . . 4. Elected a Nominating Committee beautifully catered affair including 100 pounds of shrimp, sandwiches, stuffed The following items were discussed chaired by BRONETA EVANS and eggs, etc. Due to the lousy weather and acted upon during the short busi­ including MARY ABLE and MARI­ it was a smaller than anticipated ness meeting on Saturday morning: LYN COPELAND. crowd, but what we lacked in number 1. The Soring Sectional will be in Tul­ 5. Decided to table for further study we made up in enthusiasm. As each sa, Okla., at the Camelot Motor the advisability of electing an “Out­ new arrival appeared, they were greet­ Hotel on April 16-18, 19S7. The Tul­ standing 99 of the Section” award. ed with cheers and questions on their sa Chapter cm 5 as ladies-in-wait­ 6. Read the chapter reports. There own particular “war story” on how ing from King Arthur's Court and were 11 chapters represented at the they m ade it. invited the South Central Section meeting or about 57% of the sec­ Later our own beloved “GUV” held and the Southeast Section to hold tion. Shame on the chapters who did open house, where she served cookies, a joint meeting at the castle in not send in a report. We sure would nuts, coffee, and things while we sat Tulsa. Another invitation was ex­ like to know what you are doing. around and told lies to each other. The tended from Natchez, Mississippi for 7. Heard reports from the officers of Dallas Chapter held a caucus to re­ a joint meeting, but the vote was to the section on their activities. go to Tulsa. hearse for a song they sang a< the The fun-and-games-parf of the meet­ 2. The new and active South Louisiana ing was just great. All day lcng mem­ business meeting, but from the way it Chapter won the Governor’s Award bers of the Shreveport Chapter waited sounded they didn’t get much, done. for the highest percentage of at­ at the airport for a warm body. They Saturday morning the weather got tendance. Chapter Chairman PAT had pralines and cajun coffee all rea­ back on the right side and the gals WARD promptly called a caucus dy plus a TV cameraman. Never have flocked in from all directions to at­ and then announced that their Chap­ we been so warmly received as when tend the business meeting. ter was donating the check to the we arrived in 105PEG, a red Mustang. Amelia Earhart Scholarship Fund. The gals finally gave up and went to A bus took us to the Cross Lake Inn 3. Voted to take $100.00 out of the Sec­ the hotel for the social hour. The hos­ for lunch. Lots of door prizes, and the December 1966 big event was President' ALICE ROB­ ERTS presenting a jeweled gavel pin to former International President EDNA GARDNER WHYTE. Lots of good food later, we were entertained by some original songs and a jazzy “sing - along with JOAN’’ session. “PEACHES” PORTS told us about’ a student cross-eountry that was “ some­ thin’ else” .

Lunch was followed by a trip to the Planetarium. Don’t know where I’ve been, but’ this was my first visit and I was enchanted by it. Sometime dur­ ing our tour through the stars, former International President RUTH DEER­ MAN arrived with her own story of two nights in Mineral Wells.

Back to the hotel for some rest and ready for dinner at the Petroleum Club. They had two tables marked 80 and 100 oct'ane. Don’t know the dif­ ference, but obviously our Section is all high performance because the 100 octane got the biggest play. RUTH DEERMAN was presented her jeweled gavel pin at dinner. The speaker was MARION COLE of Cole Brothers Aero­ batics group. He is a great speaker and is sort'a the H erb Shriner or Will PRESIDENT ALICE ROBERTS shown presenting immediate Past Presi­ Rogers type speaker. He had dia­ dent RUTH DEERMAN her jeweled gavel pin. Looking on is South Central grams on basic aerobatics and also Governor, ARLENE WALKUP. Not present for this picture was EDNA GARD­ brought along two films on aerobatics. NER WHYTE, International President 1955-57, whose gavel pin was awarded Sunday morning was “go home” earlier in the day by Alice. time and by noon most everyone had departed and brought to a close a Teal great swinging weekend.

To the girls in fhe Shreveport Chap­ ter who worked so hard, we salute you and say “ Thanks-Thanks-Thanks.” These gals are just great! They smiled with tears in their eyes as the ceiling lowered on Friday and with great heart carried on when fhe crowd was smaller than expected. I’m sure they will be eating shrimp for breakfast for many moons. This was a well-planned and well-organized weekend. The activities, the original “ Peaches Port” script, the original songs, costumes, door prizes, and everything connected with it, points to a talented bunch of gals, who gave their all for this Sectional Meeting. For those of us lucky enough to be there we know they came through like “gang busters.”

AE SCHOLARSHIP The new officers of the New York-New Jersey Section who were installed at the Fall Sectional, LaGuardia Airport. L to R: PEG WAHL, Vice-Governor; KAY CANDIDATES HILBRANDT, Governor; ALICE ROBERTS, International President; DOTTIE D E A D L IN E Jan. 15th BOCK, Secretary; and MINA ELSIINER, Treasurer. December, 1966 —17— Attending the N.Y.-N.J. Fall Sectional meeting were 9 past Governors of the Section, and the newly installed Gov. Mil- bran.lt. They are L. to K. MARION LOPEZ, SELMA CRONAN, PEG NORRIS, DORIS RENNINGER, the retiring Gov­ ernor ALICE ROBERTS, International President, KAY HII,BRANDT, KAY BRICK, JEANNA SPIELBERG, MARJORIE GRAY, LOIS FAIRBANK, and IRENE KEITH.

N.Y. N.J. FALL SECTION MEETING The “Omni Clinic" presented by MR. CRONAN, PEGGY NORRIS, DORIS October 15, 1966 J. PATRICK MURPHY of Airwork, RENNINGER, KAY HILBRANDT, Sheraton Tenney Hotel — Inc. made it seem that, with good KAY BRICK, JEANNE SPIELBERG, La Guardia Airport radio equipment and the “know-how” MARJORIE GRAY, LOIS FAIRBANK of using it properly, flitting around the and IRENE KEITH. That sure adds Betty Patten, Reporter Metropolitan area is purely a snap — up to a number of years of service October found almost one hundred in the air (hat is! and devotion to the Ninety-Nines. Ninety-Nines of the N.Y.-N.J. Section * At the luncheon, we found that all The installation ceremony found gathered together on the edges of La four of our Chapters were well repre­ DORIS RENNINGER stepping out to Guardia Airport for our big “Fall Sec­ sented, and our Connecticut visitors do big things on the Executive Board tional.” An Omni Clinic, an installa­ were with us too. Chapter Chairmen and KAY HILBRANDT moving into tion luncheon, and a business meeting .TUI IE VON SAAL, ELLIE MeCUL- the Governor’s seat. Telegrams of con­ made it a real flying day. We were LOUGH, and GAY MAHER had excel­ gratulation to both DORIS and to KAY so honored by the presence of our In­ lent followings. PEG WAHL represent­ were sent by a couple of other Gov­ ternational President ALICE ROB­ ernors by the names of ROCKEFEL­ ERTS, which added such a very special ed the folks “way out West” in New York State and promised that we LER and HUGHES. They, along with touch to the day. shall be hearing more from them. all of us, wish our new Governor suc­ The program was one of GOVER­ cess^ NOR DORIS RENNINGER’s excellent Exciting, too, was the presence of presentations that I fear we have ten Governors of the N.Y.-N.J. Section. PEG WAHL becomes the Vice Gov­ grown used to and now expect. They were MARION LOPEZ, SELMA ernor, DOTTIE BOCK will handle the December 1966 Secretary’s job and MINA ELSHNER Annual Flying Petticoat Proficiency Two new members joined us from moves over into the Treasurer’s spot. Derby. We were honored to have Huntsville. They are PENNY DICK­ ALICE ROBERTS graciously installed BETTY MicNABB race with us. ERSON and ELAINE BRO'WER. We the new officers. NANCY BEELAND held her first had two gueSts; MARTHA TOBY, our The next big treat was the Ninety- meeting, as Chairman, in Oct. in Southeast Section Governor flew in Nines’ film “The Stamp of Friendship’’ Greenville. Four 99’s, from Huntsville, to visit with us and we were delighted which we felt was beautifully done. climbed aboard KATHLEEN to see her. She brought POLLY DUN­ The New York Chapter hopes to buy VAUGHN’S new 172, determ ined to CAN with her! Also from HUNTS­ it so perhaps we shall see it again. win the ETA Trophy for KATHLEEN. VILLE, came another prospective To wind up the busy day, DORIS The conversation in the plane went member, LYDIA PICKUP. We are all RENNINGER conducted her final busi­ something like this. “KATHLEEN, waiting for LYD IA to gelt 'her license. ness meeting and left KAY HIL- we’re too early over this checkpoint, F ive planes flew in loaded with BRANDT with a few little tidbits to slow down!” Ten minutes later. 13 members, two guests, a reporter be concerned about—such as prepara­ “KATHLEEN, we’re going too slow, from the Tuscaloosa News, and two speed u p !” This wenit on all the way. tions for the International Convention 49%ers. A great meeting! The navigator was so busy watching in ’69 and perhaps a race terminus. Our Christmas party will be held the clock that she forgot to watch It's all right, KAY—we'll all help. in Montgomery. We are bringing our where we were going. 49%ers and gifts. During the party We landed just 5 seconds off the we are planning to have a ceremony ETA, but our gas consumption was and initiate all the 49%ers. way off. Hmnim, could it have been Alabama has great plans for the all of those different throttle settings? future, following is a list of our new Who won the trophy? KATHLEEN. chairmen. Air Space Education — Hers was the only plane that flew in! BENNIE PETERS, Air Marking — NANCY arranged for a weather­ DICEY MILLER, Airport Beautifica­ man, from Montgomery, to speak to tion — DONNA WILLARD, Flying Acti­ us. He gave us a very educational talk, ALABAMA CHAPTER vities — LAVINIA SPILMAN. It’s a and then asked us what services we start anyway. Read about our pro­ DONNA WILLARD, Reporter wanted better briefing on. We wanted gress! SUE WITT invited us to have our meeting at her farm in August. SUE’S PERSONAL PATTER: NANCY and Is your Chapter sponsoring an farm, in Greensboro, turned out to be 49%er JEFF BEELAND have been 2,000 acres of beautiful cattle and farm­ AE Scholarship Candidate? flying to the football games in Tusca­ land, complete with swimming pool loosa and Birmingham. GERRY ,and race horses. No one wins without trying ! CHASE flew up to Knoxville, Tennessee The whole family was invited. Twen­ in 1:20 and then hiked 5 miles to ty four attended with six airplanes more accurate information on winds Mt. Le Cante in 3:15 and then hiked flying in. This was our idea of a aloft. He advised us to ask for actual up to Charlies Bunion. BETTY FER­ meeting! Each of us brought a picnic winds. If we don’t ask for actual RELL flew commercially to San Juan, lunch, spread it out on a picnic table winds the briefer will give us computed Puerto R ico and St. Thomas. She re­ and ate Smorgasbord style. Home­ winds, which are not always accurate. ports that private flying abounds in grown watermelon were stacked up We also asked why the weathermen that region. DICEY MILLER is con­ like cannon balls in the front yard didn’t give us the tops of clouds, and centrating on her Instrument rating, and were yummy eating. We all decid­ were informed that this problem is be­ about 30 hours last month. The rest ed that “this was the place we’d ing worked on. of the hours she flies commercial to most like to get weathered in.” BENNIE PETERS was our host for such places as Orlando, Fla., Mari- The Alabama Chapter has a revolv­ the November 6th meeting at the Tus­ ette, Ga., and Memphis, Tenn. KATH­ ing ETA plus gas consumption trophy. caloosa Airport. MR. MEADOWS, from LEEN VAUGHN is on her way to NANCY BEELAND won it for the third the local FAA Station was on hand to Nassau for Thanksgiving. MARION time. She was one minute off on her show us a film about the Flying Farm­ MAY is staying home three days study­ ETA. We also have a Merit Award ers. As we all sat watching the Fly­ ing for her Commercial. LAVINIA Trophy that will be won by the pilot ing through South America, a plan SPILMAN is studying for her Corm who up-grades her license the most form ed in m any minds. After the mercial. Instrument and going to and who gives the most service to her movie we discussed the possibilities of ground school. Our newest member, chapter. our Section planning a flying vacation ELAINE BROWER recently flew to Our new officers were announced together. You will be hearing more Atlanta for the Society of Women and are as follows — Chairman, about this later. Engineers Section meeting. LYDIA NANCY BEELAND; Vice-Chairman, NANCY BEELAND won the ETA PICKUP, also a member of the SWE BETTY FERRELL; Secretary, JERRY Trophy for the fourth time. She at­ accompanied her. CHASE; Treasurer, SUE WITT. tributed her win as the result of ask­ Our September meeting was in­ ing the weather bureau for the adtual CAROLINAS CHAPTER cluded with the Sectional meeting in winds aloft instead of the computed KAY NISBET, Reporter Atlanta. winds. We learned that lesson last The Carolinas Chapter has voted In September, The Flying Petti­ meeting. Good for you NANCY, you’re to purchase a copy of the film about coats of Huntsville, held their Second the only one who remembered! the flyaway of the Amelia Earhart First Day Cover. The film will be was over. Pardon me while I praise GEORGIA CHAPTER rented to any interested group trrough him a bit. Wasn’t he wonderful to do BETTY W. McNABB, Reporter Chairman BEBE RAGAZ. that messy job for us? OCTOBER: Drive-in! Weather Carolinians LOUISE SMITH, PAGE Our November meeting was at grounded everybody, but LOIS and SHAMBURGER, VIRGINIA RILEY, Craig Airport in Jacksonville. We had GEORGE LACY and daughter LOU, EMILY KELLEY, and BEBE RAGAS very good attendance as usual. CY MYRTLE and WALT CAGLE, CAROL flew to the Southeast Section meeting BEERS, BETTY SHERMAN, ANN and AL HARPE, MARY LEE NIX, in Atlanta, Septem ber 10-11. CONWAY, BARBARA and guest ESTHER GRUPENHAGEN (whom we In October, the Carolinas Chapter LOUISA TAMM from the Ormond- stole recently from Florida Space had a joint meeting with the Petti­ Deytona area; MARY BLACKWELL Porlt), and JEAN VOYLES drove down coat Pilots in Raleigh. Everyone was and guest BOBBY STEEN and DOT to Griffin, to be guests of brand-new greatly impressed with their organi­ MACNAMARA from Orlando; JOAN members ELLEN CASWELL and BET­ zation and enthusiasm for flying. DAVIS and BETTY TRACY from Vero TY JO ALLISON for luncheon at EL­ [SARA SHONK, still with the U. S. Beach and Melbourne; hostesses K. L E N ’S home. State Dept., is now in Saigon. RILEY and CHARLOTTE CORBIN Then to Hampton, Ga., to tour At­ BEBE RAGAZ and KAY NISBET, were from Jacksonville. lanta Center, always an eye-opening along with AUTRIE LEHR and MARY BLACKWELL gave us an­ experience. CLARA THARPE of the All-Ohio other Instrument lesson, this time PERSONALITIES: D 0 L O R E N E Chapter, ferried four Cherokees from principally on holding patterns. She LOWE has moved to Dallas. Grab her, Vero Beach to Santa Monica. In spite makes it sound much easier than the Dallas Chapter, you have a worker of bad weather, head winds, smoke and AIM does! Gotta get out there and here—CFI—CAP—good gal and LIKES haze, they had a great time all the practice. to work. way! The December meeting will be a BETTY McNABB flew to Clinton Io­ A new book on Monoplanes by the joint meeting with the Sun Coast and wa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (dined with Carolinas’ favorite author, PAGE Gold Coast Chapters of the 99s together DEEDO HEISE, FLORENCE TONY, SHAMBURGER, was released in Oct­ with the Grasshoppers at Grasshopper RAMONA HUEBNER, AND — and — ober. FAY BLACKSTONE ’S ranch northeast another Wisconsin Ninety-Nine) (My New ratings; Helicopter — LOUISE of Sarasota. She promises us a weiner head is bowed in shame). Then home SMITH (also grandmother) roast, hay ride, horseback riding and via Edwin, Tenn., collecting a non- Commercial — KAY NISBET. all the fun of a day in the country. birdman passenger named HAROLD The October meeting was held at M cNABB. FLORIDA SPACE PORT CHAPTER the home of JOAN DAVIS in Vero BETTY and HOLLY SMITH flew DOT MACNAMARA, Reporter Beach. JOAN just recently moved from in the annual Flying Petticoat Derby The big news this month is our Orlando to Vero Beach. Nine mem­ in Huntsville, Alabama, won third Air Marking program. And when I say bers, ANN CONWAY, CY BEERS, place — it’s a real tun-race most of big, I mean it! CY BEERS, ANN CON- JOAN DAVIS, OLGA WILKINSON, the participants Ninety-Nines. Copilots, WA Y, BETTY SHERMAN, OLGA BETTY TRACY, RICKY CUNNING­ delightfully, get duplicate trophies. The WILKINSON, K. RILEY, CHARLOTT HAM, BARBARA HAZARD, BETTY race was about 180 miles overall, 4 CORBIN, and DOT MACNAMARA, as­ SHERMAN, MARY BLACKWELL, DOT stops and a spotlanding, time enroute sisted by 49%ers DON BEERS, ROGER MACNAMARA with guests JOSELYN and fuel consumption the deciding MACNAMARA, and two CAP Cadets, BRONSON, LOUISA TAMM, EVELYN factors. gathered Saturday, November 12 to EDSON and one prospective member, NOVEMBER: Fly-in for luncheon mark a taxiway at Ormond Beach. MARDA SALISBURY, whom we voted at the excellent Terminal restaurant on The city officials who furnished the into our Chapter at that meeting, were Macon’s municipal Airport. MYRTLE paint, didn’t know the 99s so they in attendance. and WALT CAGLE, CAROLYN and didn’t finish laying out the letters be­ MARY BLACKWELL gave us a les­ BIFF KENNEDY (bringing CAROL cause they were so sure none would son on weather. JOAN didn’t need to LOWERY and son JODY from Albany), come to paint; and they thought if we attend because she had just gotten her LOIS, GEORGE, and LOU LACY, did cvome, we wouldn’t get past the Advance Ground School rating. Con­ JEAN VOYLES, MARY LOU NIX, M in Ormand. Not only did we get past gratulations to JOAN. MARY assures and prospective JOYCE FOX. the M, we finished Ormand by shortly us that all the MEAs, MOCAs, Cumu­ JEAN is having fun with the after noon. Sixty gallons of pairit were lus, Cirriform, etc. will straighten out VOYLES’ Cub, the Cessna 210 being put on 60 ft. high letters (a small por­ in our minds. I surely hope she is reserved for business and cross-coun­ tion was inadvertantly put on other right! try. CAROLYN ran out of a vacuum 99s). When I say “we” painted, I OLGA WILKINSON, MARGARET pump enroute home, had to stop in use “we” loosely because it was late STANNAH, MARDA SALISBURY, and Americus and leave the Comanche, when we got to Ormond. Orlando Hern­ DOT MACNAMARA flew to the Grass­ continuing in a Sky Hawk. don Airport was so busy Saturday hopper meeting in Leesburg. Four Ninety Nines participated ias morning it took twenty minutes to get Just in case you haven’t heard our instructors in the AOPA flight clinic airborne. Someone pointed out we could new officers are: Chairman, CY at Callaway Gardens, Georgia — 90 have driven faster. However, we got BEERS; Vice-chairman, ANN CON­ students, 80 airplanes, 30 instructors home and faster and besides flying is WAY; Recording Secretary, JOAN (half a dozen female types) ONE safer than driving! DAVTS; Corresponding Secretary, RUNWAY AND NO TAXI STRIPS. My 4912 er exonerated my lateness BETTY SHERMAN and Treasurer, But a sharp FAA temporary-tower by cleaning the rollers after the job BETTY TRACY. control cf(?W and a smart organizer who had us all funnel in at a given JUNE PENTECOST, Linda Arnold and BEE REED, Secretary; IRENE FLE- speed and altitude from a point six Tris Buchanan. TRIS flew a Cherokee WELLEN, Treasurer; and EDNA miles south of the field kept every­ 160 to Jacksonville, Florida for a DAVIS, Reporter. thing under perfect control. surprise visit with her husband who Our Chapter would like to be hos­ Ninety-Nines who instructed in the is stationed there with the Navy. Sur­ tess to a 99 from one of our foreign clinic were NORMA WORLAND, Ken­ prise it was! He didn’t even know she chapters after the convention at Wash­ tucky Chapter Chairman, VELTA was taking flying lessons. On the way ington D. C. BENN, veteran AOPA clinic partici­ down bad weather forced TRIS to The old Island Airport in Knoxville pant, CHRIS WINZER, AE Scholar­ spend the night on a duster strip in has a new terminal and a new name, ship winner, and BETTY McNABB. the middle of nowhere. Her husband “ Downtown Airport.” There will be a bravely accompanied her back to three-day program to dedicate the Then BETTY departed on a four- Memphis, however, departing Jackson­ airport. About six hundred pilots are day CAP search for a Sky-Raider ville at 1500 feet on clim b-out, he ner­ invited as guests of the airport. Our down in the North Florida swamps or vously informed her thal was high Chapter will be hostess .at the dedica­ the Gulf, and hopefully reports that enough. tion and have an exhibit there. We several girls in that area are interest­ DR. BEN and JUNE PENTECOST will include som e clippings of past ed in forming a new chapter. Now, made a week-end flying jaunt in their Powder Puff Derby races. GENIE says BETTY, to whom do I report Skyhawk to the Stockholm Smorgas­ RAE O’KELLEY is in charge. this information? Gold Coast? Sun bord restaurant located on the air­ Coast? Sky Port? Maybe I’d better We are happy to report that BEE port at Heber Springs, Arkansas and REED has her Instrument rating. just tell ALBERTA. highly recommend the flighl and the DECEMBER meeting: Joint with Three df our members attended the food. Southeast section meeting in Atlanta; Alabama, Huntsville. Y’all come, if MARTHA and FRANK TOBEY made LADY McREYNOLDS, RUTH THOM­ you're in our neighborhood! New Georgia Treasurer: LOIS a trip to Philadelphia to visit relatives. AS and EDNA DAVIS. LACY. It seems headwinds were so stiff they In November, we will be hostess had to go around the mountains in­ Anybody for RON kits? for the dedication of a new pilots’ stead of over. lounge in the Chattanooga airport. JOANN HALL is now the proud MEMPHIS CHAPTER Eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) is possessor of a Multi-Engine rating. ANN HATTEN, Reporter being spent on this lounge. It is to be IFR weather forced us to the high­ There were thunderstorms in the used by pilots of private airplanes. ways instead of the airways for our Memphis Metro Passport Room Octo­ EVELYN BRYON JOHNSON is now November meeting in Wynne, Arkan­ ber 15 or at least that was the topic teaching ground school at Morristown sas. Our hostesses planned a most of the slide talk given by MR. JOE air-port to approximately thirty stud­ enjoyable luncheon m eeting at the WALKER of the Weather Bureau at ents. EVELYN, with her thousands Wynne Country Club. Guest Speaker, the Annual Dutch Treat luncheon given of hours in the air, had a new flying REVEREND E. E. BOONE, former in honor of prospective members. thrill recently. She was invited to ride SAC pilot, presented a most informa­ in Knoxville’s first 727 jet, owned by MARY STANLEY kept our end of the tive presentation on Air Rescue and United Air Limes. In all o f her licenses, table wide-eyed with a most descrip­ included some humorous tips on how there is not ore for hunting, so she tive narrative on the Stanley trip to to make a safe and graceful emer­ broke the hunting law and caught a Guthrie, Oklahoma where her 49%er gency landing in the top of a forest buzzard in the front-end of her Bonanza. acquired a Commercial Glider license. full of trees . . . well the birds to it! The buzzard was of no value, but the (A winch tow must be second best damage to the front of her plane was only to a Gemini blast-off). MARY TENNESSEE CHAPTER expensive. Being the pilot she is, she STANLEY FIELD in Augusta, Ark­ EDNA DAVIS, Reporter had no trouble bringing the buzzard ansas is now the home base for a and the airplane in for a safe landing. 4-place Schweitzer 232 glider. Before The Tennessee Chapter met in Knox­ departing for a two month stay in ville at McGhee Tyson Airport for lunch Philadelphia where she will be busy end a very pleasant business session. in research a tthe University of Penn­ Those present were LADY McREY- sylvania Medical Center, DR. CHRIS NOLDS, RUTH THOMAS, GENIE RAE NO. CENTRAL BROWN took a hop in the Schweitzer O’KELLEY, EVELYN BYRON JOHN­ 232 and brought back most enthusias­ SON, GLORIA CAROWAN, MARY SECTION tic comments to back up MARY’S JANE QUARRELS and IRENE FLE- stories of silent flight. WELLEN. Our visitors were LON MER­ ALL-OHIO CHAPTER BILL and GERRY BAKER now CER from Chattanooga, BETTY Mc­ EDY MAXIM, Reporter have a Skyhawk and are busy getting NABB, Albany, Ga., who was on her acquainted with it. way home from Milwaukee, and JANE All-Ohio’s 1966-67 officers are: Chair­ INA WALKER and LOIS O’NEAL WEINSLOGEL from Cincinnati, who man — MARION BETZLER, Vice- flew to an air show in Dyersburg, was on her way to Ashville, North Chairman — CLARA THARPE, Secre­ Tennessee. INA flew a Mooney Exe­ Carolina. tary — MARILYNN MILLER, and cutive and LOIS a Super Mooney. We Now for some things we did and Treasurer — JOHN STYPE. understand the turnout of the local will be doing soon. New officers were AUTRIE LEHR is serving on the populus far exceeded expectations. elected: LADY McREYNOLDS, Chair­ International Air Marking Committee. A hearty welcome to new members man; RLTTH THOMAS, Vice Chairman; In the North Ceneral Section, EDY occasionally does a longer trip to Florida to ferry back a Piper from the factory.) JOAN/EDY continued to Cleveland Lakefront Airport, from where JOAN took a cab to her office. EDY flew “Pee-Wee” to Cleve­ land. Hopkins (7 minules) to her office. At 5 o’clock, back into the Tri-Pacer and down to Lakefront to meet JOAN again. Airborne again and off to Strongsville (1-2 minutes) to home port. A different way to com­ mute around town,, but it was a time- saver! Lots of Ohio teams at the SMALL RACE. Congrats to CONNIE JONES/ BARBARA KNAPP, who flew a “tired” Tri-Pacer and placed 3rd. CONNIE also received the Piper trophy for the best fixed-gear score. DOTTIE AN­ D E R SO N /N E V A PA IN TER placed 7th. JOANN and RO Y STYPE placed 10th and received a set of spark plugs. Also 1966 All-Ohio Chapter Achievement Awards. CONNIE JONES (left) 1st place flying the interesting “ occasional show­ winner in 1965 presents 1st place rotating trophy to EDY MAXIM. 2nd place ered” course were MARILYN COL­ LETTE and MARK SAVAGE (who was award was presented to AUTRIE LEHR, Srd MARILYN COLLETTE- 4th- getting a man’s view of the Race CONNIE JONES, 5th-CLARA THARPE. The 49Detroit on way home to ticing on two local pilots and flying was great, hunting was great, and the spend Sunday with friends and BOBBIE several charters—such as one to Ark­ flying was wonderful. And this gal can returned to C.iicago with her 49%er ansas to pick up ambulances. BAR­ cook too! JOE. BARA JENISON had a period of turn BETTY RIDDLE and 49/er HO­ YOURS TRULY and JOHN also have around; started for Stowe, Vermont- WARD just returned from National been busy flying. Enjoyed the Section­ bad weather, started for Meigs-bad Business Aircrhft Convention in St. al at Milwaukee, flew in the Michi­ weather; drove to Michigan to help Louis and were glowing about wonder­ gan Small Race and then went on to her mother move to Illinois. MAR­ ful hospitality they received from 99 a family wedding in Philadelphia, Pa. JORIE KELLY is so thrilled over her LORETTA SLA VICK while there. LOR­ Got weathered in one night in Mans­ grand-daughter soloing that she ETTA really showed them around and field, Ohio, but when tops are 20,000 doesn’t worry about when she flys. they were most appreciative. (That’s with embedded thunderstroms and She gave her grandmother the shirt what we like to hear about our 99’s!) freezing level is 9,000, the SHUM- tail piece at the Milwaukee Sectional. ALICE and JOHN HAMMOND and WAYS no go! HAPPINESS is getting She and her father were there as their Mooney “Susie Q”, flew to weathered in once in a while and en­ MARJORIE’S guests to hear JERRIE Philadelphia from the Micigan Small joying it! GREATER KANSAS CITY CHAPTER Joy Morrison, Reporter Response has been great to the 99 POWDER PUFF DERBY gummed stamps. From your support, we have been able to send AWTAR $500 since July toward the 1968 POWDER PUFF DERBY. Send your money in anytime to ALEAH COMBS, 4726 Skyline Drive, Mission, Kansas, 66205. You can use these stamps on all forms of communi­ cations, not just your personal mail. Order all you want, we have plenty. The Greater Kansas City Chapter initiated BILL KING’S new hangar at the Olathe City Airport on October 1. The hangar took on the appearance of a nightclub, complete with a floorshow and combo. The Chapter sold approxi­ mately 400 tickets; proceeds went to AWTAR and air marking. In appreciation for the cooperation of the CAP during the last year, MARY Silver Anniversary Banquet of the Greater St. Louis Chapter held Sept. 17, ANN NOAH, SARAH GORELICK, 1966 at Executive International Inn, St. Louis, Mo. From I. to r. REV. FATHER RUTH STAFFORD and COLEEN GOR­ RAYMOND McKEE of the Redemptorist Order, originator of “Dial-A-Saint” DON flew 28 cadets on orientation rides program and member of the National Association of Flying Fathers; MRS from the Olathe City Airport. For the A. J. CERVANTES, and the IION. A. J. CERVANTES, Mayor of St. Louis; majority, it was their first airplane JERRIE MOCK, guest speaker; ROCK ROGERS, M.C.; IRENE RAWLINGS, ride. The pilots gave them a briefing Chapter Chairman, and her 49'/2er, ERWIN RAWLINGS; and DONNA MYERS, along with the ride. International Vice-President. SARAH GORELOCK, outgoing gov­ ernor of the North Central Section, was foot were able to catch a ride with ber of the President's Women’s Ad­ presented a Kansas City Skyline charm RUTH STAFFORD in her Apache. visory Board on Aviation. from the members of the Kansas City KAY CAIN brought a guest who was SHORTY MACHADO was accompan­ chapter. delighted with the idea of flying to ied to St. Louis by her husband, AIR OMA for lunch. If the races had been COLEEN GORDON was elected to MARSHALL A. APPEL NETO, of on, the ladies would still be there. the Board of Directors of Kansas City Brazil, and SENOR VASIL DE CUN- Don’t forget to send your money for Aero Club. She and MARY ANN HAO, Brazilian Ambassador to the U. NOAH, Vice President, are the only the stamps. The Greater Kansas City S. The OX-5 Club awarded her the women on the board. Their over-all Chapter wishes you a happy holiday Tiny Broadwick Award. While not a goal is to maintain Municipal Airport and here’s hoping for good flying 99 TINY BROADWICK was, neverthe­ as a field for light aircraft, if and when weather in the winter months. less, one of early aviation’s outstand­ MCI is developed for commercial ing women, since she was the first travel. GREATER ST. LOUIS CHAPTER woman to make a parachute jump She recently received her Helicopter Amy Laws, Reporter and her career included daring stunts rating, becoming No. 107 in the Whirley St. Louis had its own ‘aviation w eek’ like wing-walking. Now white-haired Girls and is, at press time, Missouri’s as September slid into October. For but still sparkling-eyed, TINY is the only female helicopter pilot. the NBAA convention, airplanes by living example of the dauntless spirit MARY ANN NOAH and STELLA the dozen flew into Lambert Field that Is in all these pioneer pilots of LEHMAN entered the Michigan from all over the world, for an ex­ the OX-5 Club—all of them truly ‘for­ SMALL Race and placed fourth in the citing statis display. At the same time ever young.’ field of 52 participants. the OX-5 held its convention with The Greater Kansas City Chapter many famous names attending. Seen Our Installation of Officers was held brought home the silver attendance at the banquet Friday night were ait the Sunset Hills Country Club at bowl from MIKE, winning it from (he some Well-known 99’s — ANESIA a joint luncheon given by the National Greater St. Louis Chapter and by the PINIERO MACHADO (Shorty) from Pilots Association and St. Louis Chap­ way, St. Louis, you can expect an en­ Brazil who was the honored guest ac­ ter 99’s. LORETTA SLAVICK was hos­ graving bill from us soon. claimed as “Dean of Women Pilots of tess, BLANCHE NOYES and PAUL The domestic engineers took time the World,’’ BLANCHE NOYES, Char­ VANCE, Monsanto’s pilot - salesman off from their household duties to fly ter member of the 99’s and FFA’s were guest speakers, BLANCHE’S talk to OMA for their October fly-out. Head of Air Marking; VIOLA GEN­ covered subjects like air-marking, MARGARET WRIGHT and NITA IR­ TRY and MELBA GORBY BREAD, al­ which is dear to her heart, and air­ WIN were almost scratched from so 99 Charter members; and JIMMIE port beautification finishing with an in­ lunch but due to their swiftness of KOLP, Ft. Worth Chapter, and mem­ spiring prayer. She then installed our 1966-67 officers: VAL JOHNSON, Chair­ EDITH and AL OLOVITCH were flew to Florida in a Sabre-liner to pick man; RUTH TAKSEL, Vice-Chairman; hurt seriously in an automobile acci­ up Peabody Coal Co. exec. Girls got to and BETTY WILLISTON, Treasurer; dent. At last report they were home bask in sunshine a few hours and home (KIT HE ACOCK, Secretary, was ab­ from the hospital and 'on the mend.’ in time to cook their youngsters sup­ sent due to illness.) IRENE RAWL­ VAL JOHNSON held a breakfast per that night. It was MERLE’S sec­ INGS, retiring Chairman, handed the Board meeting with her officers re­ ond trip in one weekend. gavel over to VAL, and presented each cently and had to fly in winds gusting Have to mention how proud I am of of her outgoing officers with a long­ to 40 knots. LOIS SHAFER braved ‘what’s happening’ in our family! Num­ stemmed rose. BLANCHE also pinned same winds in her Cherokee. LOIS is ber One daughter, BONNIE, who has our newest member, NORMA flying charter for the Pohlman Corp. been with Ozark Airline as a Hostess BRAUCH. out of Fostaire Field where her 49%’er since July, is now engaged. Number Attending the North Central Section is teaching ground school and flight One man-of-the-house, 49%’er JACK, meeting at Milwaukee, Wise, this fall ins-tructi ng. Also teaching ground has been appointed to the Municipal were ROSE JOLY, JON POCOCK, and school over at Interstate Airmotive at Airport Com mission of the City of St. IRENE RAWLINGS in ROSE’S Cessna Lambert Field is SUE HARRIS, a Louis. 172; and VAL JOHNSON. RUTH TA K ­ potential member. Received a phone call from ELEAN­ SEL and AMY LAWS in VAL’S Bon­ MARY MCKILLIP and SUE MATH­ OR BAILEY of the Montana Chapter anza. Compliments to the girls of the IAS flew to Dallas, Texas and entered who was in town for a week-end. I was Wisconsin Chapter who did such a the Dallas Doll Derby. While they happy to find her a baby-sitter for fine job, especially in the attendance didn’t win, they reported they had a two-year old nephew in the person of prize department. Practically every wonderful time. SUE and JOAN LAMB Number Two daughter, DENISE, so girl received one. This reporter got have started their own weekly fly-ins ELEANOR and husband, and sister and lucky and went home with a beautiful to various towns in a hundred mile brother-in-law, could go out to din­ tweed suit by Junior House. We were radius—lunch and cross-country exper­ ner at our famous Gaslight Square. also duly impressed by the wonderful ience. Next day we had a grand chat and I hospitality of the Piper Dealers of GOLLY MINER flew to Ft. Wayne, learned that ELEANOR lives in Cal­ Tufts-Edgecumbe, Inc. who not only Toledo, .and Monroe to visit her grand­ gary, Ontario and is helping organize chauffered us around town to find a children. She plans to go to San Fran­ the renowned Calgary Stampede to be place to eat (an enchanting restaurant cisco to a convention soon by plane ami held there this summer. Proof again with the unlikely name of ‘Dutch’s then drive to Carmel and Los Angeles. that to be a 99 means to belong to Sukiyaki House’) but who also gave a sisterhood of some of the world’s JAN POCOCK was pleased to enter­ us a demonstration ride in a Twin- most interesting women. tain BETTY RIDDLE of the Chicago Commanche. Chapter who was in STL at the NBAA Heard that LAURA SELLINGER has It was coming back from this ride convention with her husband who is received a nice promotion at Pet Milk that we witnessed one lady pilot cause Chief Pilot for Sundstrand Corp. JAN Corp. Her job involves handling trans­ an airliner to make a go-round rather works for the Lambert Field office of actions and stock transfers in con­ than chew her up on final, while at Monsanto Chemical Corp. and is busy nection with all new companies being the same time another female-type helping them plan their proposed move purchased by her company. Del pilot (who shall remain nameless) to Spirit o f St. Louis Airpark. Also in SCHARR who flew a lot in August is landed in disgust on a taxiway after the making are plans for a Flying too busy now teaching forty-five 8th giving up trying to get the tower’s Club there, utilizing up to date air­ graders at Lowell School, and taking attention when she couldn’t see the craft—anyone interested call JAN. additional courses at Harris Teachers rather small blacktop runway to which College and Washington University, to Also making the switch to ‘Spirit’ she had been cleared. Even more hil­ get behind the wheel for awhile. is ROSE JOLY who has accepted a arious was the offended growl of the Missing at the November meeting position of secretary at the Mark Aero airliner’s Captain, “I thought the Air held at JEAN LENNERTSON’S home Corp. who will base their executive Show was last week.” Orchids to the were RUTH TAKSEL and VAL JOHN- planes there. Unshakeable tower man who after son who with their husbands have “It’s a Girl’ painted on the runway seeing they were all home-safe, did gone off to the Bahamas to participate at St. Charles Airport announced to the only thing he could — he ignored in the annual Treasure Hunt. Also the world that FRAN and AUGGIE them and cleared us to land. (Note to going to island-hop are the LENNERT- 99’s: better bone upon controlled-field HENKE are the proud parents of a SONS. They plan to be there for baby daughter, born Oct. 31, 1966. Con­ landings. These incidents make funny Thanksgiving, and to celebrate a wed­ gratulations to them! It’s a cinch that hanger-flying talk, but they don’t help ding anniversary. JEAN says she is being bom into a flying family such our reputation any as femme fliers.) celebrating because she has been mar­ as the HENKES insures her future as ried as many years as she has been a 99’er som eday. FLYING ACTIVITIES single, or half her life a wife. She KIT HEACOCK, home from the hos­ GRACE COVYEAU flew her non- wouldn’t say how long she has been pital after an operation, reports her pildt husband to Chicago for a Hallo­ married though. Doctor has grounded her from aero­ ween party recently and plans to make RUTH TAKSEL attended the Beech batics until Spring. Meanwhile she is it New Orleans for New Year’s. Company’s “Sales Spectacular” of working at Collinsville Airport and Jet-set yet! — MERLE FRAME their new Beech aircraft models at plans to teach aerobastios as soon as (who was hostess at Oct. meeting) and Wichita, Kansas. She came back raving she gets the medical okay. BETTY WILLISTON and their 49%’ers about the wonderful hospitality there. Also the courtesy she received as a We hope to soon be able to offer our November — off to Bluegrass Field in member of the Aviation Press in being story for the use of the other chapters Lexington for some edification and edu­ invited to witness Boeing’s B & W, a in our section for the cost of postage cation on “Winter Flying Hazards,” replica of the first plane built by the and shipping. courtesy MR. CHARLES HARDY, company fifty years ago, fly at Mc­ Also, on the weekend of Nov. 5, the Chief Meteorologist of the Lexington Connell Air Force Base. Des M oines 99s are generously inviting Weather Bureau. W e’ll take in new Hurrah! Five new members voted the Iowa Chapter to come to Des members, BARBARA HEALY and in this month: JOAN LAMB, GRACE Moines for a cocktail party and buffet MARY HILLIARD, both of Lexington, OOVYEAU, GEORGIA KNOWLTON, supper. Plans call for us to stay over­ at that meeting. Don’t know how mem­ GUSSIE PATRICK and FANNIE JEN­ night and hold our November meeting bership Chairman PAT HUDGENS NINGS. Welcome girls! Potential mem­ the next day. This promises to be a finds the time, but she keeps produc­ bers and recent guests at our meet­ wonderful weekend, to say the least! ing such wonderful prospective 90s. ings are LORNA JAMES, JEANNE Our congratulations and best wishes We’re growing! REUSSEAU of Columbia, 111., and go to CARMA MOHLER who recently Chairman NORMA WORLAND and MARY LOWE of Greenville, 111. all became Mrs. E. E. AUGUSTINE and BOBBIE K LE T TE R (W ays anil Private Rots. now lives in Ankeny Iowa! Means), accompanied by 49%ers, flew Due to the length of this newsletter to Milwaukee in the Aztec for Fall which started actually in September, KENTUCKY BLUEGRASS CHAPTER Sectional. They came back fired up with enough enthusiasm to be 198s, so I find it is lime now to wish you all Nancy Craig, Reporter a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Except: for a 13” (count ’em) snow more of us will see you at the next Year. Would you believe . . .? Happy in early November and a few deluges Sectional. The KLETTER’S Aztec is Holidays! now and then, just to keep the FAA one plane that makes all the Fly-Ins, weatherman honest, it’s been bright and BOBBIE’S usually in the left-hand front seat nowadays. IOWA CHAPTER blue flying weather this fall for us Mary Lou Ballensky, Reporter 99s of Kentucky Bluegrass. We’re new MAJ. MARY ARMSTRONG, whom and slow, so we opened our ballots for we’ve adopted, had a busy fall in her Iowa was showing off her loveliest 1966-67 officers just after the deadline Cherokee 160, ferrying three Fort Knox fall colors as we gathered in Ottumwa, for the last News, but here they are: Aero Club members to Vero Beach, October 9th, for our regular meeting. NORMA WORLAND, Chairman; DOR­ Florida to pick up their new Cherokee One would have been tempted to ask IS SHAKE, Vice-Chairman; MARIE 180, and then off to Janesville, Wiscon­ for an adjournment in favor of a trip REISS, Treasurer; NANCY CRAIG, sin to combine business and pleasure. along the Mississippi to take advan­ Secretary. NORMA WORLAND, in early Novem­ tage of the trees dressed in their bright­ “You all” don’t 'know what you’re ber, left us and our snowy taxi-ways est hues, but a cool front moved missing if you haven’t been to one of (runways, (fortunately, were scraped), through on strong northwesterly winds, our Fly-Ins. In October we flew-in to traveling to Pine Mountain Georgia to and pleasure turned to work for any­ Fort Knox as the guests of MAJOR instruct in a AOPA clinic there — two one who' had to be airborne for very MARY ARMSTRONG (Phoenix Chap­ 360’s and a Pinchhitter course. Best long. ter), COL. JAMES CHILDERS, Air­ of all, her surprise room-mate at the BEA JOBE and LENELLE HUNT field Commander, COL. DAN BRIGGS, motel there was BETTY MCNABB, hosted a lovely dinner at the Ottumwa Chief of Airport Operations, and the former International Secretary, whose Country Club for ten 99s, six 49%ers, Fori Knox Aero Club. It sounds im­ typewriter1 produced our new charter and four guests. pressive, and it was as we branched this past summer. While the men watched the last game at the O fficer’s Club and then split up MARIE REISS is improving her fly­ of the World Series, LOIS GRANGE either to tour the Patton Museum ing skills, same instructor but bigger took up her new duties as Chairman (acres of tanks, etc) or MARY’S de­ and faster airplanes — co-piloting to to preside over our meeting. partment at Ireland Army Hospital. Mansfield and Zanesville, Ohio recent­ SHIRLEY HARTMAN of Bloomfield Despite ominous notices re: “ firing in ly. Skill-building for RUTH SELLEY, was invited to become our newest progress” and “keep west of the Re- too, who’s being checked out in a member, and it was announced we are tricted Area,” we all made it in and Comatnche 180. She and 49% er DOUG gaining a transfer from the Phoenix out of Godman Field without giving flew down to Lexington for Homecom­ Chapter, GERALDINE WALKER, now the military controllers anything more ing, U. K. vs. Houston. When JENNIE at Waterloo, Iowa. exciting than the pleasure of our fem­ LEE VANDERTOLL’S not going shop­ As the final touches are being made inine voices on their tower frequency ping via airplane, she and 49x/2er JAY to our “slide story’’ of the 99s, we dis­ — and I think all military personnel take in the football games; the latest cussed plans to show the story to concerned were impressed as JUDY is a j.aunt to Knoxville, Tenn. for the women attending the annual Pilot’s SHORT and MARY HILLIARD arrived UK-Tennessee game. Seminar at Ames on Nov. 5th. The from Lexington in JUDY’S Hughes 300 JOANN KINNISON is working away Iowa Aeronautics Commission is anx­ helicopter. (For those of you who at Instrument ground school, and fly­ ious for us to be hostesses to the knew and admired JUDY as we did, ing 172’s again, too, often with DORIS women who accompany their husbands she was killed, tragically, in a heli­ SHAKE, our early-bird breakfast flier. to the Seminar, and of course, we copter accident several weeks ago.) What is it about coffee and doughnuts couldn't pass up the chance to tell Our busy Program Chairman, SKIP os “Sunken Lunken” (Cincy) that them about the 99s and the satisfaction GUMBERT and RITA LENEAVE, DORIS likes them better than those of being pilots for themselves. have planned another fine Fly-In for in Louisville? 49% er GEORGE GUMBERT is Pres­ “To TeU the Truth” on CBS-TV on land to the National Pilots Association ident-Elect of the Flyiing Physicians— O ctober 4th, that was our BERNICE meeting. It was an 'instrument flight so SKIP will be busy next year. Busy STEADMAN eluding the panel. both ways, with a side trip to Hough­ right now is our Beaumont, Texas LIBBY SCHUCKER, 49% er JIM, and ton. By the way, they were still under member, VIVI ANDERSON. It's hard their three children flew West to Pike’s gross! to keep track of just what all she is Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park, The November meeting of the Michi­ doing, but she’s teaching private Jackson, Wyo., tand Yellowstone Na­ gan Chapter was held in Jockson, with ground school and recovering from an tional Park. All that in one week, MARY CLARK our gracious hostess. energetic All-Texas Air Tour taken thanks to flying. Say, isn’t that great! The attendance was well in excess of with 49%er DON in October. Check During the airline strike, MARILYN 75, with many members bringing with her about, a unique 'traffic pattern SIDWELL flew “Playmate of the guests. We were treated to a viewing used on the Tour; it gets lots of dif­ Y e a r,” ALLISON PARKS, to St. Louis. of the movie on the Stamp of Friend­ ferent type aircraft into practically ALLISON is a student pilot in Arizona. ship, about the Stamp commemorating any field quickly, expeditiously, and DOROTHY BREWER and family Amelia Earhart. Our- Chapter owns this safely. flew to Abilene for a week to visit her copy of the film and we are willing to NANCY CRAIG and 49%er RAY flew mother. Then she and GAL flew 66, rent it out to interested groups. If in­ to St. Louis to McDonnell Aircraft for HELEN SOULE and her husband JIM terested, write MARY CLARK. a National Computer Services Seminar to Madison, N. C. to pick up their WILL CONNELLY presented LINDA —lots of work and not nearly enough brand new Cherokee 140. DOROTHY MARKHAM, the CHARLOTTE CON­ flying. NANCY’S standing in line for a with CAL and JIM piloting the 140 NELLY trophy which she won by com­ helicopter ride when RAY gets his com­ back. DOROTHY wasn’t really keen on ing in first in the SMALL race. Each mercial. Home from the hospital and mountain flying with 3 to 4 miles visi­ year, MR. CONNELLY awards the convalescent is VIRGINIA CHAMBER- bility due to haze. private pilot with the best score a LAIN; we hope she’ll be airborne aga'n MARY CREASON reports four new trophy in memory of his wife CHAR­ very soon. women students with one recent solo. LOTTE. Would you believe what came out of Her Co-pilot in the SMALL race was New 99s accepted at this meeting a Cessna 150 the Other day at Bow ­ JEAN WARDEN, of New Era, with were LINDA MARKHAM, Battle Creek, man Field? Wigs — the latest item three hours dual, so far. and EVELYN BORST, Kalamazoo, and 'in air cargo, property of our own 99 The Michigan Airport Managers As­ PAT COMAR, Adrian. We’re proud to stylist, MARY ANNE BRANGERS; she sociation awarded WGHN, Grand have you all. keeps us lovely and coifed, despite Haven, this year’s award for broad­ On prospective 99, DOROTHY DOU­ wind and weather. Speaking Of weath­ casting most beneficial to avialion. CETTE of Howell, received her private er, RITA and DOUG LENEAVE have Women’s Director, GINNY GROAT, pilot rating on 9-9-66. Significant? temporarily left our sometime IRF presented a weekly series on flying CLAIRE .and KEITH OJALA spent type for the sunny skies of St. Peters­ lessons featuring the voice of MARY three weeks in September touring Ger­ burg, said trip in on Apache they’re CREASON. Since the programs were many, Austria, Switzerland and Italy thinking about adding to their family. submitted for the award, GINNY has in a Volkswagon. They met some peo­ If you all are still with us, w e 99s soloed under the expert guidance of ple at a flying club in Hoff an, Austria of Kentucky Bluegrass wish all our MARY. and did some flying around the Aus­ friends a Merry Flying Christmas and JULIE AUERBACH had her first ex­ trian Alps in a French Morrone Co­ a Happy Landing New Year! perience with weather. Her plans 1o manche. travel through the South visiting friends HAZEL JACOBS and ROSE BANKS MICHIGAN CHAPTER and relatives were stymied on all sides cam e in 5th in the F air Lady-Indiana MARY PELTO, Reporter by weather. She was delayed four days Race. They were awarded a trophy The October meeting of the Michi­ on this end due to a pocket of bad and check. SHIRLEY GRADOLPH gan Chapter was held in Alpena in weather in Tenn. When she finally got went along to keep the girls in line. conjunction with the SMALL race. Fol­ there and on to Montgomery, she was DICK JACOBS had to go down with lowing breakfast at The Grove, ALICE held on the ground so long, she had the girls, due to instrument condi­ DAVIS called the meeting to order. to cancel plans to fly to Tuscaloosa, tions, and BOB GRADOLPH arrived in Prospective 99, EVELYN BORST, Sarasota, and Dothan. She did make it plenty of time for the banquet. from Kalamazoo was introduced by to Atlanta, which she found exquisite P A T and FRAN Clark flew 2,600 ELOISE SMITH and 66 BARBARA in the afternoon sun, and back to miles on the Texas Air Tour, making FISHER was presented by MARGE Nashville. But there she sat behind 26 stops. Lost the paint on the landing HATFIELD. BARBARA is from De­ a stationary front until the Instrument edge of the wings in weather and were troit. rated owner of the plane came down presented a can of paint for having JULIA MEEKS was “pinned” and and got her back to Detroit. Just in the worst looking plane on the tour. welcomed. Incidentally, JULIA just time for JULIE to change her clothes KARNA CLARK attended the meet­ passed her Instrument flight test on and leave for the SMALL race, Rumor ing with her parents. She’s home en­ Sept. 26. has it that she can be found studying route between her year’s turn of duty Other recent successes are MAISIE a volume on instrument flying. with VISTA a Durango, Colorado and STEARS, Instrument written, and PAT CLARK and MARY PELTO a new assignment in Washington, D. C. MARILYN SIDWELL, Basic Ground In­ along with their husbands and four I’m much relieved to be able to say structor. of their children climbed aboard a I’ve finally got Flight Instructor In close you happenfed to be watching Cherokee Six and flew to Mackinoc Is­ rating I’ve worked so hard for all sum­ mer. From my non-flying days of only three and a half years ago, I’ve made a big step—and couldn’t be gladder. The Kalamozoo County Pilots As­ sociation honored ELOISE SMITH on Septem ber 10th with a day of flying activities and a dinner. We’re all proud of her many accomplishments. CAROLYN GOETCHEUS has been in 15 states in the past 3 months. She flew her 172 solo to the OAPA Plan­ tation Party, experienced carburetor ice, anoxia, .and delay due to rattle­ snake on the runway. How’s that again ? MARION NEWMAN, Kalamazoo and CAROL BOWEN becam e 66s. NAOMI WEITZMAN, Lansing, pass­ ed her Instrument written and Com­ mercial exams. ALICE DAVIS was unable to attend this month’s meeting. She went com­ mercial to Pennsylvania. The tower operator was nearly over­ whelmed with our departure from Jackson. Since the weather was abso­ Attending the Pine Bluff meeting were Arkansas Chapter members left to lutely ideal, most of us flew to the right; Nancy FRITH, MARY DUKETT, DONNA HALE, BETTYE BOLLEN, meeting — must have been 25 planes ALINE NEUTH and JANE BERRY. taking off one after the other. We need more of that kind of weather! tive home states, with a stop in Phila­ las, CINDY participated in the Dallas delphia. They brought home very good Doll Derby. movies, including shots of Niagara MARGE NIELSEN, 49%, and chil­ Falls and Martha’s Vineyard. They had dren flew their Apache to New York a lay-over in Paducoh due to weather. $0. CENTAL to visit relatives. MARGE was Arkan­ DELORES MITCHELL and 49% sas delegate to the convention in Seat­ SECT m flew their Debonair to Texas for the tle, participated in AWTAR and the football game. BETTYE BOLLEN and Dallas Doll Derby. The Dallas race 49% flew their 182 to Fayetteville for was very well organized and very suc­ cessful, thanks to DOROTHY WARREN ARKANSAS CHAPTER the football game at Razorback Stadi­ and MARGE BUNCH, who really did Margie Nielsen, Reporter um. They also took a vacation in the 182 to Florida. RUTH McADAMS stays a job superb. The banquet was terrific Arkansas is happy to report four busy flying her Commander to all with HILARIOUS HAZEL McKEND- brand new members, NANCY FRITH, points North, East, South and West. We RICK stealing the show with her in­ transferred from Oklahoma Chapter, have been missing PAT LACY at the terpretation of the race. MARGE also teaches Physical Education at Little meetings but hope she will make the appeared on KFSA-TV Noon On Five Rock University, and placed third in next one. show for an interview about The Pow­ Skylady Derby, Mena, Arkansas. First der Puff Derby and the Dallas Doll lesson August, 1966. Solo flight 1,378 ALINE NEUTH has been flying com­ Derby. miles in September. Private .and Ninety mercial lately. New York on business. Nine in October. Whooo Pig Sooie! Los Angeles fishing in Salton Sea and JANE BERRY, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Pacific. ALINE flew to Cape Kennedy AUSTIN CHAPTER Cessna dealer. DELORES MITCHELL, in A ir F orce C-124 with Civil Air Patrol S. I’ . Tapley, Reporter Sallisaw, Oklahoma very active Girl and teachers of Aerospace Education One of our members, MARY SMITH, Scout leader. Welcome Aboard! Coach­ for briefing on the Gemini flight and was invited to accompany the party man Inn Little Rock. New officers in­ tour of Cape Kennedy, Dallas, Texas of former Texas Governor ALLEN stalled. DONNA HALE, Chairmon; for a week of work in Dallas Apparel SHIVERS to Woodville, Texas for the BETTYE BOLLEN, Vice Chairman; Market. Dallas, again for a national dedication of a plaque, a historic NANCY FRITH, Secretary; MARY board meeting and Skylady Derby marker honoring MR. SHIVERS for DUKETT, Treasurer; ALINE NEUTH, meeting in Fort Worth. his part in Texas history. MARY has and RUTH McADAMS, Membership; SALLIE SIMMONS flew to Canada helped make some history as well as MARGIE NIELSEN, Reporter. to visit friends. We regret SALLIE has watching it made. MARY DU KETT, 49V2, and two moved to Kansas City, but, we are HARRIETT MATLOCK and her fam­ small daughters flew their Skyline to happy she is still a member of our ily have purchased .a Comanche 250 New York and Massachusetts, respec­ chapter, as is CINDY MORRIS of Dal­ and have shown her some Texas- Louisiana thin air . . . some soupy air too, we hear, including a one-sided argument with a line of Texas-size thundershowers. Patience is a virtue reserved specifically for Ninety-Nines. BEVERLY GREGG has met an Abi­ lene Ninety-Nine; this while the one was logging hours, the other flying in for an Austin lunch. BEVERLY herself buzzed off to Pont Aransas, had lunch, motored round the island and returned on another day. At our first meeting, IRENE B1L- BROUGH gave us a lour of Cambridge Tower Apartments from ground-level swimming pool to rooftop garden. Of­ ficers selected by vote and appointment are: Chairman, PEGGY DOUGAL; Vice-Chairman, IRENE BILBROUKH; Secretary-Treasurer, HARRIETT MAT­ LOCK. IMIE PRIDDY logged 23 sunny hours to Breezy Point, Minn, with a Some of the Colorado Chapter Ninetv-Nines beaming over a job well done, late pal. Sounds like a dandy way to while away summer days. Remind your October, when they airmarked JEFFCO Airport (Jefferson County Airport, at earth-bound comrades what a soaring Broomfield, Colorado, northwest of Denver. Standing left to right 24 3/4 er gcod time one can have on just such LEIGH ANN BLUE, HELEN CHOUN, MARGE BLUE, CAROL TILFORD, days. Children love it, babies sleep BARBARA MARIAN; Front Row, AL HARRY of Jeffco Airport and chief paint through it . . . lot’s go flying! pourer, DONNA MYERS, GAIL MITCHELL (she and BARBARA are fin- Colo. Airmarking Committee, and made all the templates) and GWEN CRAVEN. COLORADO CHAPTER Paint, courtesy of MR. BILL HUNTSBARGER, Mgr. of Jeffco Airport. Helping celebrate the Colorado Chap­ ter’s “Twenty-Five Sky Blue Years” at luncheon October 22nd at Crossroads West, Stapleton International Airport were three charter members, DONNA MYERS, JANE NETTLEBLAD and RUTH WOODWORTH WEBER (the lat­ ter only recently returned to Denver.) MR. RAY WILSON, early-day aviation pioneer, airfield and flight school oper­ ator, founder and former president of Monarch Airlines (now Frontier) was our guest speaker. He spoke of the growth of aviation in our Rocky Moun­ tain Region and of the exciting things in store for us in the future. There were 33 m em bers and guesits present to help blow out the candles and cut: the cake. Nice to have VIP ILLOVENE POTTER, Governor of NW Section with us. Thanks to all other Ninety-Nines and former Colorado members who sent greetings. “The Search for Amelia Earhart” was reviewed by Author FRANK GOERNER October 19th at the Denver Women’s Press Club. FRAN K IE 1966 N.I.F.A. Meet, Boulder, Colorado. DORIS LANGHER- Colo. Chapter, pre­ WAITS (Dallas Chapter now residing sents the Arlene Davis Memorial Trophy, sponsored by the All-Ohio Chapter, to in Denver) invited the Chapter to re­ NANCY FRITH, Oklahoma State University and Okla. Chapter. view. Our MARGE BLUE introduced MR. GOERNER, what a fine speaker CHOUN, JO DENNIS, and MARILYN MARION and GAIL MITCHELL got us this gentleman is and what an exciting NORDSTROM :are still talking about the off on our Air Marking this fall with a story he told in his book of his search book and MR. GOERNER’S review. big splash October 27th at Jefferson for AE. DONNA MYERS, HELEN Our new Airmarking Chairman BARB County Airport. As the accompanying and SUE GROSSMAN. SUE ANDREWS reported on the All Texas Air Tour and gave all kinds of advice about flying an Air Tour with a baby. Whew! ! ! ! PAT JETTON announced that MARION and BOB AUEURN would show movies on their Trip to M exico, at A ir Haven on Sept. 26th and everyone was invited. It was voted to reactive the tele­ phone committee in hopes of getting better attendance. The next meeting lo be held at HELEN WILKE’S. So-o-oo-o-o! The October meeting was held at HELEN WILKE’S house and the fol­ lowing committee chairman were ap­ pointed: Membership, Pat Jetton; Scrapbook, Lit Taffell; Aerospace Ed., Elinor Johnson; Fund Raising, Helen Wilke; Hostess, Billie Scott; Program, Mary Kitchens; Flying Activities, Su­ san Grossman; Air Marking, Betty Hundley; Public Relations, Charlotte Bbanum; Telephone, Hazel Corry. The OFFICIAL 99 GARMENT BAG is going great guns. They are white with a blue and gold 99 emblem on them and are $3.00. W rite Helen Wilke 507 S. Manus, Dallas, Texas 75224 and send her $3.00. She will forward the bag and pay the postage! You just can’t beat a deal like that. Our 49%ers have already said they wanted one als.o so we are checking on that and will let you know more later. ELINOR JOHNSON and HAZEL Mc- KENDRICK were nominated for the Amelia Earhart Scholarship funds. 1960 N.I.F.A. Meet, Boukler, Colorado. FREDDA TURRILL, Colo. Chapter, ELINOR wants her Instrument, Instru­ presents the Achievement Award, sponsored by The Ninety-Nines, Inc., to ment Instructor, and Instrument JEAN DISTIN, University of Colorado. Ground Inspector ratings. HAZEL wants her Multi-Engine, and all Ground photo attests — they did a beautiful Oklahoma City, to Mile Hi Denver. All Instructor ratings. We wish these gals job and as you can see they are a neat lunched with Colorado Ninety-Nines lots of luck! looking crew. Well done, gals. Thanks O ctober 10th at Top of The Rockies. It was decided that the November to MARIE ENGLEMAN for publicity December 3rd the Colorado Ninety- meeting would be a fly-in to Lake and pictures in the Free Dispatch on Nines, 49%ers, and guests will gather Way Inn on Lake Travis (just outside this. at Woolhurst Country Club for our an­ of Austin). Had two successful financial adven­ nual Christmas dinner party. So to CHARLOTTE BRANUN has volun­ tures this last month. Our stars or each of you our very best Holiday teered the conference room of South­ galaxies or whatever must be right. Greeting from all the Colorado Chapter. western Typographies for use as a First our annual rummage sale Oc­ meeting place instead of meeting in tober 7th — nice profit and November DALLAS CHAPTER homes. This is .a centrally located site 10th box supper auction at DONNA Hazel H. McKendrick, Reporter and would be easily accessible to all. MYERS home. Many, many clever The Dallas Doll Derby was a real The suggestion was tabled for further boxes and lots of good food and an­ blast. See Special Report. study and will be voted on at the next other nice profit. This is a joint report for the Septem­ meeting. Piper Aircraft Convention brought ber and October meetings, so we will To stimulate attendance, the Dallas Ninety-Nines SHELIA SCOTT, Gover­ deal with a bit of past business and Chapter :has decided on a monthly news nor British Section; CHARLOTTE present business. letter to all our members announcing DODSON, Portland, Oregon; FRAN September meeting held at PHYLLIS the coming events and reminding them EERRA, Long Beach; TONY PAGE, EMMERTS house and we welcomed to come. PAT JETTON will write this Ft. Worth; and ELIZABETH SEWELL, two new members, BETTY HUNDLEY and if a^y of you have any ideas to from Arlington State University and BILL, gave her her first plane ride. LTV was camping at her doorstep. She Shortly afterward they moved to El is now their new Editor of Technical Paso where her husband was appointed Writing Division. Airport Manager in 1949. It wasn’t un­ We welcomed two prospective new til two sons, two grandchildren, and members SUSIE CHARLTON1 and BEV­ fifteen years later that MARTHA got ERLY TAYLOR. BEVEHLY is rather a chance to “scratch that flying bug unique in that she flies an airplane, itch.” She is now half-owner of a 172. out does not drive a car. Her husbano Son CHARLES, JR. lives with his wife drives a car, but does not fly an air­ and two children in Fort Worth where plane, so they make quite a swingin’ he attends. The Baptist Seminary, 16 team. We also welcomed a transfer year old RICHARD attends high school. member, NORMA KUDRESY from the Besides carrying on the family busi­ El Baso Chapter, who has transferred ness, MARTHA is learning to tran­ her membership to Dallas while she scribe Braille. is in school in Denlon. We are sorrj to delay until next Plwans are underway to airmark the month, biographies of new members airport at Hillsboro and for the pilots DOROTHY BLACK, WANDA GARSON, who were flying around last Saturday and VIRGINIA PETERSON. during the Doll Derby this will be a International Flying Farmer Queen, big welcomed thing. Just wish they had El Paso Chapter’s ELLEN JANE AN­ done it before! ELINOR JOHNSON, Dallas Chapter DERSON in a new plane (Centurian) AE Scholarship ‘co-candidate.’ has covered many air miles carrying EL PASO CHAPTER out her duties. From Yorkton, Sas­ Mary Olmstead, Reporter katchewan, where she was speaker and We cordially welcome Ihe following helped with the crowning of their new new members: VIRGINIA KAY BOND Queen, MILDRED BEAMISH, a piolt of Las Cruces, who transferred from who is now working for rer IR; on to Albuquerque Chapter, DOROTHY Bakersfield, Cal., with their Queen, BLACK, CORINNE BRACKETT of Ala­ LILLIE RUSSELL, a student pilot, who mogordo, WANDA GARSON, MARTHA with ELLEN JANE, had a helicopter MOORE, ond VIRGINIA PETERSON. ride to their motel. Then on to Niagara KAY BOND (MRS. CALVIN) is a Falls, Ontario, Where ELLEN JANE native of St. Louis, Mo. She soloed at spoke at the Ladies Luncheon, to the Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she November workshop at Wichita, where was a member of the Sandia Base she was Official Hostess assisted by Military Flying Club along with her International Duchess TRICIA SMITH. pilot husband, a native of Hamlin, One of the speakers on this program Texas. He is a retired Lieut. Comdr. was GENE NORA JESSEN, our Inter­ USN, who is now working for Zio Corp. national Secretary. There were also on the Apollo project. The BONDS have trips to the Anderson Colorado ranch three sons — ages 17, 15, and 6 and a and to their winter El Paso home. 9 year old daughter. Only the oldest Among the many guests at South son seems interested in following his West Air R angers’ 25th Anniversary parents’ hobby. KAY and CALVIN are Open House were Albuquerque Chapter now members of the White Sands Test Ninety Nines; Chairman, ELIZABETH Facility Flying Association at Las- HAWES; Secretary, NADA BORDER One of the 2 Dallas Chapter AE Schol­ Cruces Municipal Airport. and Air-Marking Chairman, MEG arship candidates, HAZEL McKEN- CORINNE BRACKETT, a native of GUGGLOS. From Long Beach Chapter, DRICK. New England, has lived in Boston and BETTY MILLER, who flew the Pacific New York, soloed at Gulfport, Miss., in a Piper, came for a Reunion with help stimulate attendance, please let and lived several years in Lubbock, Mr. Piper, Senior. her know. Texas before moving to Alamogordo, EDNA GARDNER WHYTE and JIM­ Our beloved editor was out flying New Mex. CORRINE is Flight Instruc­ MIE KOLP, both members of Fort recently and landed at Majors Field, tor for Desert Airways at Alamogorda Worth Chapter recently RON’d with Greenville, Texas and ran into a Municipal Airport, and, being current past International President, RUTH couple of gal pilots, Betty English, and in all single-engine planes, is mighty DEERMAN, RUTH has been busy hav­ Mrs. Roger White. They eiter went busy while her husband is in Viet Nam ing hangar sessions with 66’s at her to join our Chapter or form a chapter serving with Airborne Communication®. home and taking them on tours of of their own. The Dallas Chapter is MARTHA MOORE (MRS. CHARLES) RAPCON and the Control Tower. She going to assist them in trying to form a native of Dallas, Texas, lived in Al­ reports that there are thirty-five 66’s their own chapter. This will be one of buquerque where she graduated from in our area — and 14 of them are our projects for the coming year. the University. The flying bug bit her prospective 99’s. Next month there will ROWENA BURNS recently graduated when VIRGINIA CUTTERS husband, be more news about our 66’s. BETTY ROGERS flew a Cherokee to Brownsville with RUBY TATMAN relaxing in the co-pilot seat and the rear seat occupied by two non-pilot passengers, for one it was her very first plane ride. They attended an In­ surance Convention. RUBY will be in Hallendale, Florida when she reads this. Hopes she says “Thanks” to RUTH F'LEISHER for those kind words she had in her letter to RUTH DEER- MAN. Know how anxious RUTH FLEISHER must be for the day her husband returns from Viet Nam. Wish space allowed for CATHERINE MA- GRUDER’S Skymjaster trip to Lake Tahoe, Reno, Las Vegas and Palm Springs and for listing all the 99’s and 66’s who attended the Alamorgorda Air­ show.

HIGH SKY CHAPTER Evelyn Hershey, Reporter The slate of officers for 1966-67 are the same as last year and since you have just received your new roster I’ll not go inlto detail on this matter. DOLL DERBY WINNERS from Houston Chapter. Left to right, LOUISE BICK­ On to the news of our Chapter, some FORD, fourth place; MARY .JANE NORRIS, first place, Cessna Award Winner, good, some bad and some on the thrill­ 90 Award Winner; and M AYBEIXE FI,ETCHER, third place. ing side. MILDRED GOODSON, Treas­ urer of South Central Section, father make it their third year to participate. HOUSTON CHAPTER passed away. We were so sorry to hear We are proud of them and wish them Martha Akins, Reporter about that but MILDRED is doing much luck. “Pie in the Sky” was the heading well. Also her broken ribs have healed BETTY HENRY and husband, J. W. the Houston Post gave to a very nice and she is looking for another air­ (SHOTGUN), just purchased a new feature complete with pictures LOUISE plane. Piper Aztec licensed “SG” which really BICKFORD and our publicity chair­ The High Sky Crapter did not have confuses the tower boys because when man, SALLY COX came up with the any members represented at South BETTY is flying she gives the call idea of having a press party, a joint Central Section meeting in Shreveport; number “Sugar Girl” (SG) and when effort of 99s and Petticoat Pilots. It but, RUTH DEERMAN, the past In­ her husband is flying he gives the call turned out to be quite a success. In­ ternational President of the 99’s, and number “Shot Gun’ ! ! ! With the new vitations were sent to all news media WIN GRIFFIN RON’d in Midland on Aztec she acquired her Multi-Engine in the area to attend the party on their way home from El Paso and gave rating. a Saturday afternoon at Houston North­ our Chairman, VELMA LEE COPE­ VELMA LEE COPELAND will have west Airport. MR. and MRS. CHARLES LAND, particulars of the meeting, her Commercial by the time this is in HOOKS, owners of the airport did a sounds like we really missed a good print and then on to the Instructor’s. wonderful job getting things ready. thing! She is starting to climb and is going Their cook, AMELIA, makes the very Pat Petosky, our Sec.-Treas., partici­ all the way to the top. delicious pies served at the airport pated in the Civil Air Patrol, Search EVELYN HERSHEY is doing what and cook she did to serve plenty of pie and Rescue Operation held in Odessa, all good wives never do but is being at our press party. It just fits for Texas. This was a state-wide test given coerced into being the Instructor to someone with this name to work at an by FAA to see how proficient you are her Sam. This 49%er is getting ready .airport. Anyway the Post thought so at flying within five (5) miles of down­ to catch EVELYN with his Commer­ and gave us some of the best publicity ed aircraft. PAT is doing well with her cial and Instructor’s. Then they are we have had. Two large tables were flight instruction and is living in Big planning on their son being next in line. covered with all the trophies and Spring, Texas. At the last two meetings we have awards the girls have won and they CHARLOTTE HUNTER, NANCY had a visitor, a former WASP, and if spoke quite well of the flying our girls ERUMLOW, and LIL LURTING are any ex-WASP’s are around we would ■have done. We also had generous tele­ all busy with many projects, family, like to help JERRY BADGER as she vision coverage on 6:00 P. M. and flying, businesses etc. is planning on reJentering aviation. If 10:00 P. M. news. JAN (JOANNE) BRYANT is still you can help us, please holler ! ! ! Five planes from the Houston Chap­ talking about flying the last AWTAR Until next time my fine fellow fly­ iter flew the Dallas Doll D erby Oct. with BETTY HENRY. They plan on ing females . . . we High Sky-ers are 22 and you should see the lovely troph­ flying it again next year, which will off and flyinnnnnnggggg...... ies given this year. Three of the top four places w ere won by Houston 99s. MARY JANE NORRIS, co-pilot 49y2er BOB NORRIS took first place. Second place was EDNA GARDNER WHYTE, co-pilot STEVE PRICE, both from Font Worth. MAYBELLE FLETCHER, co­ pilot 39%er LARRY FLETCHER were third. Fourth place was LOUISE BICK­ FORD, co-pilot 49%er C. M. BICK­ FORD. The other two entrants were MARY ABLE, co-pilot 49%er CONNIE ABLE, and MARILYN STONEBERG, co-pilot RUTH HILDEBRAND. The girls reported the best Doll Derby yet and are looking forward to next year. The October meeting was held in the FFA offices with V'irgie Ellison our hostess. MR. I. W. HARPER from the Houston FAA office gave pointers on winter operation of aircraft which was especially interesting since Houston has such mild climate. We do not often have the opportunity to fly in sub­ zero temperatures. We also viewed Dressed in full regalia of the Sioux' tribe, Scottsbluff’s DALLAS DECORY pre­ slides on accident prevention. sents the “ Pipes of Peace” to Nebraska Chapter member DONNA BRI MMER The November meeting was held in ami her 49!/ier MAYNARD of Lincoln.—Photo by JOY LANE, Christian Studio, the home of ALICE SEABORN with tiering, Nebr. IRA MORTON ROSS as co-hostess. Speaker was DR. GIESELL, ond FAA tion was held in a covered wagon which SHARON MEYER, PEGGY STROMER, medical examiner who discussed 1he had been loaned for the event by the JOY LANE, EVELYN SEDIVY, BER- responsibilities of a medical examiner. Platte Volley Council of Camp Fire NIE BAUER, PAULINE PERRY, MARILYN and CHUCK STONE­ Girls. A coffee was served in the home FRANCES ROSE and 49%er, PAU­ BERG along With RUTH and TOM of PAULINE and JOHN PERRY and LINE HAWKS. MIMI HAYWORTH and HILDEBRAND flew the All-Texas-Air- later a luncheon at Big John’s Bar- 49% er, VERDAYNE MENZE and Tour in which 85 airplanes participated. B-Que Pit preceded tours to the Scott s 49%er, BETH HOUCHIN, MILLIE During their stop-over in Houston, Bluff National Monument and other BARRETT, MARTHA PURDY, SHIR­ MARY ABLE did a fine job coordin­ points of local interest. Miniature cov­ LEY AMEN, FLORENCE BORING and ating transportation to the motel from ered wagons were table favors. Hos­ LOIS DURHAM. Houston’s Hobby Field. tesses were: PAULIE PERRY, JOY December will find us in our best JOAN TH ORN BERRY is now 2ND LANE ond DOTTIE ADCOCK. Attend­ bib and tucker at our Christmas party. LT. JOAN THORNBERRY, a nurse in ing were: DONNA BRUMMER and Our party begins with canapes at the U. S. Air Force. LOUISE BICK­ 24V2er, SHIRLEY AMEN, 49y2er, and MIMI H AYW ORTH ’S and on to Eiast FORD got to fly a 1935 Stinson Re­ 2 sons; MARION LARMON, JEANNE Hills for dinner and dancing on De­ liant which was quite a thrill. I am GIVEN, MARTHA PURDY, MARY cember 3rd, and ends with a meeting sorry to report the recent death of LOU PHELPS, BETH HOUCHIN, and and flyaway on the 4th. Cards and JEAN ALLISON, husband 6f RHEA guests JAN NIELSEN, MR. and MRS. m aps will be in the mail shortly. HURLEE ALLISON. BILL HEILIG, all of Scottsbluff, and Uppermost in most Nebraska fans MABLE EDITH OLIVER, Airmark­ PAULIE’S 49%er and 3 children, through these days is the winning Corn- ing Chairman, reports a new Air Mark­ JOY’S 49%er and her son, and DOT- husker team, and almost all of the 99’s ing job at Chambers County Airport. TIE’S 49y2er and her daughter. here are loyal fans who follow tile Next target is Jasper. Our new slate November brought out the winds and team, Colorado, Wisconsin, Iowa, and of officers have started their reign 22 brave souls to the Compass Room Kansas games found the 99’s well with a bang and are looking forward in Lincoln, FLORENCE and MILLIE represented in the traffic pattern, and to a very exciting year. had arranged for a lovely lunch, and when JEROME took JEANNE GIVENS' the topic of the day seemed to be ‘get plane to Kansas, she and VERDAYNE NEBRASKA CHAPTER acquainted.’ We welcomed ANN AB­ took MENZE’S and went to Iowa for Lois B. Durham, Reporter. BOTT, PEGGY STROMER, new mem­ a flight seminar. PAULINE PERRY On hand to welcome members of the bers, and BETH HOUCHIN, a transfer- ferried a Super Cruiser to Montana. Nebraska Chapter for their October in from Wisconsin. We also had as Johnny and she had a brief vacation meeting in Scottsbluff was DALLAS guests, EMILY FARRENS and HELEN because of it, and returned to Lincoln DECORY, Sioux Indian and student of SELLETIN, both TOGA graduates, and to have JOHN elected VP of the Res­ Indian lore. He presented each pilot FRANCES WRIGHTMAN. Present a't and passenger with a ‘Peace Pipe’ as this meeting were: JEANNE GIVEN, taurant Association of Nebraska. EER- a memento of the occasion. Registra- ANN ABBOTT, MARY LOU PHELPS, NIE BAUER has been filling all of her days instructing, chartering, and keep­ ing the twin-ratting current. EVELYN SEDIVY is circling the field with thirty-some first graders, but seems to find the pattern fun and stimulating. PEGGY STROMER dropped ERIC in Lincoln and paused long enougr to join us for lunch on her woy to Wash­ ington, D. C. to speak for the TOGA program. FRANCES ROSE has been flying between Omaha and Kansas City building up hours, and JEANNE GIVEN is working on the Instructor rating. HELEN NESTLE ERLICH and JOHN headed west on their second honeymoon, and VERDAYNE and BILL MENZE flew to Oklahomo to meet the new grandson. MIMI HAYWORTH is attending graduate school in her spare time, and SHIRLEY AMEN keeps a shift at the Blood Bank. BONNIE YORK didn’t make it this time, but the new store is open and consuming all of their extra time. We’re all concen­ trating on our project for next year, so water out all you unbeautiful air­ ports .... here we come! From the Opelousas, Louisiana, Daily World, taken on October 15th. Chairman of the South Louisiana Chapter, PAT WARD, arriving at the Opelousas Airport SAN ANTONIO CHAPTER and being received by member JIMMIE LAFLEUR.—Photo by Daily World. Marion Burke, Reporter The San Antonio Chapter enjoyed a we received from you lovely people GEORGE took the instrument instruc­ luncheon meeting at the Dobbs House who were here. We appreciated hear­ tion for his commercial rating from Co*ffee Shop on Nov. 12. Plans were HELEN HEWITT, SARAH has been discussed for a chapter Christmas ing from you . . . it made all our effort worth while! It was strictly I.C.R. the busy on her own . . . she soloed the party. Sounds like fun. night we gathered at CORINNE 140 and flew to North Carolina. SARAH, BETSY HOGAN has been spending STRICKLAND’S for that meeting and we heard you muttering about the a lot of time ot Lake Travis at Austin CORINNE topped t':e evening off by steerable tail wheel on the 140 having lately. The HOGANS just purchased turning out the lights and serving flam­ a mind of its own . . . and a contrary some acreage and cabin at Lake Travis ing cherries jubilee . . (we know the one at that! and are having great fun fixing things MARTHA CHRISTY, who’s been tak­ up for a weekend rouse. editor doesn’t want menus, but this one was so spectacular, I just had to try). ing a hit of teasing about the flying We have several new gal flyers in she’s been dding for a local funeral the area who have been attending Ed. Note (OK This Time!) In the busy week before the Section­ home, flew a couple of livelier Cscuse meetings. We hope that they wifl soon al HELEN HEWITT received her In­ the expression) passengers recently . . have a private certificate and can join on the occasion of daughter BROOKS’ our group. strument Instructor’s rating. Her first student was fellow 99, HELEN WRAY, birthday, MARTHA took BROOKS and Holiday time almost here, lots to do who’s also been busy trying new air­ her house guest for an aerial view of . . . so enough news for now. The San Shreveport. Antonio Chapter wishes eocr and every planes on for size . . . she soloed the Ercoupe and flew to Memphis to 99 a very merry Xmas and a Happy JOAN CARROLL flew with her have lunch with her daughter. New Year. Think safe . . . Fly safe and 49tier DAVE to a Geological Conven­ lets have the safest hohday ever. j e n n y M cW i l l i a m s flew co-pilot tion in Lafayette, La. While there they With 49% er DON to Baton Rouge . . flew out over the Gulf to view inter­ SHREVEPORT CHAPTER All the way on instruments. JENNY esting geological formations . . par­ Evelyn Snow, Reporter also buzzed down to the annual fly- ticularly the salt domes. Our Fall Sectional held here at in at Tallulah, La., where our con­ JERE SAUR and her 49%er HENRY Shreveport was successful and well at­ vention speaker, MARION COLE, gave took his grandmother to Mississippi tended . . . we wish to commend ah an exhibition of his aerobatic skill. recently. HENRY’S Grandmother is 84 you persevering pilots who made it in Hearty congratulations to JUDY and years young and thinks flying is the spite of no cooperation from the weath­ DAVID MOORE, who are the proud greatest! er man on arrival day! We really en­ parents of a G pound 9 ounce Future EVELYN SNOW and 49%er DAN joyed the opportunity to show you our 99, DARINDA K A Y ! The baby took son DAVID on a flight to Lake southern hospitality. At our October thoughtfully waited until the sectional of the Pines and Texarkana on his 14th meeting, we spent a very enjoyable eve­ was over to make her debut. birthday. DAVEY got his first “stick ning reading aloud the notes of thanks While SARAH HENLEY’S 49%er time” and is farin’ to go for his license. Picture appearing in the Opelousas, Louisiana, Daily World on the occasion of the fifth member of LAFLEUR family receiving his Private License on his 17th birthday. Left to right: RICHARD, JOHN with his new certificate, 49'/2er DOC LAFLEUR, South Louisiana Chapter 99 JIMMIE LAFLEUR. Lower right is CLAUDE, also licensed.

SOUTH LOUISIANA CHAPTER for $25, which we turned over to the bers, 7—49V2ers, and 2 new 66’s. Guest New officers for 1966-67: Chairman AE Sckolaship Fund — and acknow­ speaker was MR. J. H. PEARSON, PAT WARD, Vice-Chairman DEE ledge with great pride the lovely white aviation insurance agent of the Comay COMEAUX, Secretary MARY JEAN gfavtel, engraved with our Chapter Agency in Lafayette, with a most in­ PRESTRIDGE, Treasurer PATSY name and date of charter, presented formative interesting talk and question JONES. Appointed positions: Activi­ to us by the SHV Chapter. In a word, period. We met in the lovely home of ties NITA DELARODERIE, Publicity IT WAS GREAT! GINNY SMITH and enjoyed coffee and FOY WEST, Statistics MOLLY STOCK- Our O ctober 15th meeting, held in sweets. WELL, Membership JAN PHILLIPS, Opelousas was attended by 8 mem­ We welcome three new members: Scrapbook HELEN HOOKS, Air Mark­ bers, 2—66’ers, and 3 49%ers. We were BARBARA TEER of Baton Rouge, ing GLORIA W ARD. guests of Opelousas Flying Service for ILENE WEBER of Lafayette and PAT First of all, let us say that this lunch at The Inn, courtesy of its own­ CHRIST of Houma. And three new 66’s: Chapter thoroughly enjoyed the SC ers, JIMMIE LaFLEUR and her 49er LENORA McWILLIAMS of Opelousas, Section meeting in SHV! Attending “Doc.” Following the luncheon we reld MARGARET RUTH of Lafayette and from our Chapter, through rain and our business meeting- at the airport CAL MEREDITH of Houma. BAR­ water and hours of driving were MOL­ and engaged in a Computer Contest— BARA and ILLENE are former 66’s. LY STOCKWELL, MARY JEAN 10 questions. A set of Cessna cocktail Our D ecem ber meeting will be held PRESTRIDGE, NITA DELARODERIE, glasses was won by GLORIA WARD. in BTR at the home of FOY and PHIL her 49’,2er, and son; PAT WARD, JAN And JIMMIE LaFLEUR bakes the PHILLIPS, YVONNE RYDER. We REST CAKES! WEST — a covered dish Christmas were especially proud to have won the Our N ovem ber 13th meeting, held in meeting, on D ecem ber 10th. FOY and Section Attendance Award — a check LaFayette, was attended by 12 mem­ PHIL toured Europe this past summer and 'have some delightful slides to touch (!!) down. It had been cracked them to work! Good lady pilots we are, show us. This is also when we will before, unknown to the new owners, and second to none — but good piaint brush initiate 49tiers in their own solemn made an awful noise on the runway— operators we ain’t. Help! On some FEW cerem ony. but not nearly as much noise as the things we have to admit, the fellows do com e in bandy. And we have been flying! MOLLY passenger-owners made with the rib­ STOCKWELL made her first ferry trip bing they gave PAT. She hopes they Til* OF TEXAS CHAPTER to the Cessna Factory in ICT on Oc­ enjoyed their flight, because it was Eluine Needham, Reporter tober 8th, her first flying in almost the last time she will pilot the airplane MERLE DUNNAM just hasn’t stop­ 3 years. Brought back a new Skyhawk with the other 3 OWNERS looking on. ped all summer and fall . . . first, on a very windy, rainy day. We all The LaFLEURS report that their No. Europe, New York, California, and ended up, at 11:00 that night, grounded 2 son, Claude, has become a sooring then to ‘quaint’ Big Bend, Texas. because of fatigue and IFR weather in enthusiast. You may recall in the Oc­ ARDAT'H McCREERY and family BTK, at Esler Airport in Alexandria, tober News that it was stated that the had two glorious trips to Colorado and 78 knots from home. Very good start LaFLEURS are a 100% flying family. then to Ruidos, New Mexico via the for MOLLY, but followed by three JIMMIE started flying in 1958 when Skymaster . . . ARDATH says flying more trips to CAVU weather! She also her 49% er, DOC, bought a Cessno 120 the family plane is some different than flew a demonstrator to Houma for a and was working on his Private. JIM­ an Air Race. dealer 'show and made the acquaint­ MIE started hanging around the air­ PAT McNEIL and husband are just ance of PAT CHRIST and CAL MERE­ port instead of being left at home. sold on the Lear Jet — “ just lets us do DITH on this trip. After he got bis licenses, JIMMIE de­ so much more than the Baron and DEE COMEAUX and 49%er BILL cided just to learn how to land one, istill tim e for 99 activities.” Their have have been checking out in the for safety sake, and “got the bug.” daughter Sue is being married Thanks­ Aero Commander 200 this fall. Then She was soloed in 1959, a month be­ giving; SUE has been a Braniff Hos­ DEE and PATSY made a trip to the fore DOC bought a Cessna 170B (N44- tess. factory in Albany to ferry back a new 28B). She got her license in January, News of LUCILLE VAN TYNE re­ Aero Commander 100. They reported 1961, and to date has flown 450 hours. covery after being in the 'hospital two absolutely horrible weather, even for She lists her occupation as housewife, months is wonderful. ducks, and got weathered in at Ever­ but is active in the Woman’s Auxiliary “ . . .so they say ...” the 99 flight green, Alabama, of all places. The sil­ 'to the A. M. A. and the Ladies Altar rides for Corpus Chrisli Aviation Day ver lining on the dark clouds was the Society and 'is a member of AOPA were the best of all and we are per­ very nice people in Evergreen who DOC is an MD in general practice and manently invited to participate. AR­ turned an unpleasant experience into they are owners df Opelousas Flying DATH flew up from McAllen and toted a nice one. DEE called on her re­ Service (see October News. They have passengers all afternoon. Our new sources as a CAP member and called 5 boys. RICHARD, 21, Com m ercial prospective member, ALICE ROCK­ the Evergreen Squad Commander, Pilot, CDAUDE, 18, Private, JOHN, 17, WELL, moving here recently from COL. LEE SMITH, who graciously pro­ Private, THOMAS, 15, passed his Pri­ Buffalo, N. Y., really did a fine job. vided them with transportation during vate written and working toward solo, “but I’m tired,” she says. PAULINE their stay, as did the Game Warden, PHILLIP, 11, loves to fly and is biding GLASSON, LENA JACKSON and W. A. THAMES. A MR. BYRON WAR­ time until he is old enough. The three ELAINE NEEDHAM have already REN, Warren Ford Co., who owns a oldest boys all soloed on their 16th scent a portion of the intake by Air Cessna 140 was kind enough to gather birthdays and received their private Marking Six towns and traveling 325 some aviation fuel for them and ar­ licenses on the 17th, all in N4428B. m iles in two days. ranged for them to cash a check, and JIMMIE is organist at church and LENA and PAULINE have had two MAYOR HENRY SESSION offered his plays piano, paints, loves to cook and trips to Cincinnati the past month and assistance. These things have a way sew, swim, shoat and collects rocks, in between PAULINE had -a visit w'th of putting obscure plaices on the map limited to precious and semi-precious the hospital for surgery. This is time for those who happen upon them. stones which 49%er enjoys cutting and for LENA’S annual hunting trip . . . polishing. DOC is the FAA medical ex­ And the WARDS have a new addi­ but by Jeep rather than the 172. aminer in their area and they attended tion: a Cessna 170B— N338B— of which ELAINE NEEDHAM let no grass the seminar in OKC in late September, they are especially proud. It is fully grow under her feet-recently on a trip which gave JIMMIE an opportunity to instrument equipped and With a cross- to Austria, Switzerland and France; visit 99 Headquarters and meet ALICE wind gear which is proving to be a then on to California . . . now, to ROBERTS, who hanDened to be there real ball, especially for PAT and teach those little first graders. at the same time. With 5 pilots in the GLORIA who are mostly conventional Our newest member, JEAN BECK, family, they are quite aviation minded gear pilots. PAT’S first instruction was has really neglected her Skylane fo’’ and active enthusiasts of the 99s, a in a Cessna 140 but this is G LO RIA’S Pistol Matches . . . the newspaper real asset to our Chapter. first experience with a tail wheel. No wouldn't look natural without JEAN’S problem at all for PAT’S 49% er January meeting is tentatively picture modeling something. Just you ROGER, nor for DAVE HOLMES (part planned for Houma, an invitation from wait, JEAN, when you start working owner and GLORIA’S boy friend). But, our new member, PAT CHRIST. We on your Instrument written . . . well . . of course, PAT was the lucky one Who will discus further our air marking VADA TENNENT has just returned happened to be flying when they land­ projects at that time. Yes, the Decem­ from a visit with her Motrer at Colo­ ed in Lafayette for the November meet­ ber meeting will be an excellent time rado Springs . . . this time by Jet. ing and the tailwheel spring broke on to initiate our 49%iers! Then we’ll put Geologist LOUISE CLARKSON and husband, FRANCIS, also a Geologist, Airmen’s Association. A couple of HURST. Although MRS. WELLS was are in Aloska on a field trip, but how weeks later, they flew to Kenai for a extremely busy with telephone and do you manage going from a 90 degree fly-in breakfast and a parachute drop typewriter, she found time to speak temperature to a 6 degree below? display. After Labor Day, CATHY with RUTH about the upcoming Inter- earned more hours by flying to Circle nationol Convention to be held in Wash­ TULSA CHAPTER Hot Springs (30 miles south of the ington, D. C. in June of 1967, and e- Jean Engler, Reporter Arctic Circle) for a few days of swim­ couraged attedance by Alaska mem­ Tweedle-dum. Not a thing to do ming in the heated indoor pool. bers. but conjure up a Spring Sectional. LAVELLE BETZ flew to Skwentna Will close with a reminder to start We’re starting our money raising proj­ with CATHY for a nostaligc visit to making your plans to visit us at the ects and projects need people. So call­ the F. F. A. Station where LAVELLE, Sectional in September of next year. ing all Chapter Ninety-Nine and every­ and her husband, DICK, lived nineteen one else who can come up with ideas years ago. This was her first visit MONTANA CHAPTER that add up to folding green. I here in m any years. Beverly Ledbetter, Reporter It would be nice to make this a real PAT McGEE attended a breakfast The Montana summer lasted longer group effort, so why nol give Colleen wilh the Alaska Aviation Committee then usual this year and was appre­ a call and roll up your sleeves. One where plans were formulated for the ciated by all of us but by this date of our ideas, thanks to TRISH SMITH, Ninety-Nines to sponsor the Air Pio­ the planes have all been winterized is our post cards. All Ninety-Nines neers Banquet on June 24th for the ond the snow and cold have come to should want these. MARY SHADDOCK Centenial Aviation week. Keep watch­ slow things down a bit. Much of the will be most happy to baby-sit with ing for more information on our Cen­ news this month comes from ELSIE your well-spent dollar. tenial plans. CHILDS and others who were kind We had a good turn out at JAN CATHERINE KIPPENHAN made a enough to keep their ears open and MAURITSON'S last meeting and we fall fishing trip to the Wood River area, send me news of the two meetings I are ever grateful to ANNAHLEE and north of Dillingham (Bristol Bay area) missed. Lying in a hospital bed is nol JIMMY JONES for letting us come up in her Cessna 140. She didn’t catch a my idea of how to spend a 99 meeting to the Double-J Ranch at Grand Lake thing but her fishing parlner, ,a guest day. I’m among the living again and for the weekend. With all the eafing, from Minnesota, caught a 21% inch ready to attend at least one meeting riding, soiling and flying we didn’t do rainbow trout, weighing 3% pounds. a week. Also caught a 24-inch Arctic Char much “ Ninety-Nine-ing.” The Billings meeting was attended (Eastern brook trout) and an 18-inch Please, Please, Please let’s do our by 36 members and guests. Inter­ Grayling. Just an example of what share and make our Spring meeting national Vice President, DONNA MEY­ NW Section members have to look for­ one of the good ones. See you later. ERS was there along with Executive ward to when they convene in Anchor- Board Member LYGIE HAGEN (who oge for their Sectional in September of brought along Mont. Charter member 1967. NORTHWEST MILLIE SHINN) and our new Section Happy Suntan to RUTH O'BUCK, Governor, ILOVENE POTTER, who is SECTION who is spending N ovem ber in Florida, Whirly Girl No. 58. much to the chagrin of other Anchor­ Contestants of Big Sky No. 3 pre­ age members, who are rapidly becom­ sented Co-Chairman PEARL MAGILL ing snowbound as the winter gets and me with silver 99 pins. Many started. thanks to all of you from both of us. ALASKA CHAPTER KATHRYN WAYER is waiting for a We will wear them wilh pride and Kathryn Wills Wayer, Reporter sturdy slate of ice 1o form on Big many fond memories. Fortunately, but unusually, we Lake so as to go forward with the have had a beautiful long fall, enabling construction of the family cabin. Committee appointments for the our enthusiastic pilots to get into the RUTH HURST, representing profes­ Chapter made by ELSIE for the com­ air and enjoy many outings, viz. sional pilots, and RUTH O’BUCK, ing year include, KAY WIDMER, Mem­ bership Chairman; PAT JOHNSON, In her Super Cub on floats, RUTH representing flight instructors, are Air Age Education; MARY STEVEN­ O'BUCK took JESSIE DODSON and her members of the first General Aviation SON, AE Scholorship Chairman; and two and one-half year old daughter, Committee to be organized. It con­ BEV. LEDBETTER Reporter. PUD MARGUERITE, to Coghill Lake which vened in Anchorage October 18th. It LOVELACE was appointed to the In­ is near Prince William Sound. It was was generally successful and many are ternational Nominating Committee. a bright beautiful day — perfect for thankful that General Avation, through a picnic! this committee, has the ear of the The October meeting held in Boze­ BLANCHE KRAGER and MARION Federal Aviation Agency. man held in the Administration build­ ZAEGEL shot a few ducks on the When President Jornson arrived in ing at the airport was hosted by DOR­ Susitna duck flats, with nary a broken Anchorage November 1 from the Far OTHY SABO, PUD LOVELACE, KAY landing gear or other casualty—just East, enroute to Washington, one of WIDMER, and PAT ECTO'N. Fourteen ducks. the news reporters in the entourage members were present although they NANCY KESLER and CATHERINE was 99 Charter Member FAY GILLIS were all compelled to fly low and slow KIPPENHAN flew to Fairbanks in WELLS (MRS. LINTON). She was met by automobile due to snow and bad KATHY’S Cessna 140 to help sell raffle after arrival at Elmendorf AF Base weather that day. Coming the greatest tickets for a Cessna 172 for the Alaska by Alaska Chapter Chairman, RUTH distance was MARTHA GAUNCE from Williston, N. D. who had stopped by you believe ? ? . . . they were weather­ WALKUP and CHARMIAN BYERS- Jordan to pick up VIVIENNE ed in a day at Reno . . . JONES passed their written Instru­ SCHRANK. PEARL MAGILL and Montana Flying Farmers held their ments. CHARMIAN has been to New DOROTHY CRAIG rode down with convention in Shelby. LAULETTE Hampshire TWICE this past summer. BOEBY KRAMER, NORMA ROWLAND HANSEN, retiring State Queen, VER­ CHARMIAN, ROSETTA VENELL, and ANN HAFER completed the group NA WOOD, and ELEANOR GREEN­ ROSE MARIE STOLSIG, and BETTY from Billings. HELEN and ELSIE ar­ ING enjoyed a visit with the Inter­ GROVES flew to Reno. At Salem, LOU rived from Helena. There was discus­ national Flying Farmer Queen, ELLEN WICKS gave us a quiz on frequencies, sion about next year’s race and other JANE ANDERSON, a member from maps, and things all good pilots should business. AE scholarship time is here El Paso Chapter. LAULETTE spoke at know. BONNIE BRADFORD was again and selections must be com­ the queen’s luncheon, and showed films given a bouquet of red rose buds and pleted soon. taken of the race this summer. GLENN a silver vase with an inscription as CHILDS provided the film. first President of our Chapter. BIG SKY FLYING LUELLA and KEN Nelson have Our next meeting was in Lebanon Welcome to three new members, traded their shiney Aircoupe for a with the lunch served by the ladies of MARY COMBS, Billings; MADONNA Mooney. They made their first cross­ a local church. DORI LOHR talked SMITH, Lewistown; and PHYLLIS country trip in it when Ithey took their about Venezuela and showed slides PODMORE, Billings. freshman and sophomore daughters to of their visit there with a prominent A week of concentrated flying by East Lansing, Michigan where they family. BETTY STARKER, a Corvallis PEARL MAGILL at Billings resulted attend the Univ. of Michigan. BEVER­ Cherokee pilot, was a guest. in her obtaining her Instrument and LY NELSON, a sophomore, has been A few days ago, we met near the Instrument Instructors ratings. Con- accepted as a member of the Honors Albany airport. TERRI SOULEK, a gratulatios. One highlight of the week’s College where an A-minus average is student pilot from Springfield, was our study period was a cross-country un­ required for admission. KEN and LU guest. IMOGENE CHAMBERLAIN has der the hood to Pendleton, Oregon with enjoyed the flight across Lake Michi­ a new AMEL rating. She ferried a an IRF approach at Walla Walla, Wash. gan and appreciated the Coast Guard new Cessna 150 from St. Louis, pick­ Shie was flying a V-35 Beechcraft Bon­ “lake watch” system they provide. ing up a friend in Kansa City and giv­ anza. The flight was m ade at 17,500 The AOPA Plantation Party in Palm ing her 25 hours of dual instruction on ft. and she had her first experience Springs gave CAROL and JOE ORLEY the way back. BETTY GROVES and of using oxygen. DOROTHY CRAIG .an excuse to get away in their Bon­ her 49%er flew to Reno for a weekend and ANN HAFER presented her with anza. Such a large gathering of flying recently. That’s all for now — this a corsage and a small coffee party to enthusiasts and so much fun and sun. Oregon rain certainly slows down our celebrate her success. PEARL plans PEARL and BRENT MAGILL va­ flying time. to conduct ground school classes this cationed in Boulder and Denver, Colo­ winter and one of her students just rado with family and friends. They WYOMING CHAPTER passed his Private flight check. BOB­ spent two days weathered in before Dorothy Misner, Reporter BIE KRAMER was lucky enough to returning home. MABEL ANESI, Chapter Chairman, get to go along as passenger on the CAROL and JOE FRASER and fam­ greeted NIKI WEAVER, Vice Chair­ trip to Pendleton with PEARL. ily flew to Rapid City in their Co­ man and her daughter ANN when they ROSELLA BJORNSON, one of our manche where they added a new mem­ arrived alt Lander in their Cessna 172 Canadian members who we see far too ber to their family. They picked up a for the October Air Marking meeting. seldom, was recently featured in a Collie puppy that should be the “boss” Where was everyone else? Not in Lan­ write-up in the Calgary Herald. RO­ by now. der, and MABEL and NIKI can vouch SELLA attends the University of Cal­ The December meeting will be held for that. However, this did not deter gary, where last year, she helped or­ in Great Fdlls. It is close enough for MABEL and NIKI; they pilched right ganize a flying club on campus. As me to make it flying or driving and I in and the Lander Airport is now Air far as she knows, she Is the youngest hope to thank personally all of you Marked. woman pilot in Alberta. Two years ago who sent me cards and good wishes Wednesday, October 26th is a day when she obtained her license at the during my hospital stay. Wyoming 99’s will remember. We had age of 17, she was the youngest person a wonderful visit with ILLOVENE in Canada to obtain that rating. She WILLAMETTE CHAPTER POTTER, Seattle, new Governor of our flys a Cessna 170 and has built up the Jane Capizzi, Reporter Northwest District. She and her hus­ 200 hours required for the Commercial We have had three meetings since band flew in to Worland in their Piper rating, after which she plans to work t’"e last report. In Salem, MR. BOB Aztec and spent the day getting ac­ for her Instructors rating. She has taken DUNN and MR. RALPH McGINNIS of quainted. up Glider flying just for the fun of it. the State Board of Aeronautics met NIKI WEAVER, MARIE ENGEL- The M PA Fall Fly-In held at the with us, to report on new airports and MAN, and BETTY ADAMS were inter­ Viking Lodge in Whitefish found DOT­ improvements to existing ones. They viewed recently on radio station KWOR TLE PAYN E, RO SEM ARY BOWMAN also discussed Air Markings with us. on the Women’s Hour program. The and ELEANOR GREENING in attend­ We decided to keep the same officers station has invited them to return to ance. The PAYNES and BOWMANS since we have only been a Chanter a tell the public more about the Ninety- and two other Great Falls couples en­ short while. Nines and wom en in flying. joyed the Reno Air Races. They spent JAN AMUNDSON received her Com­ PAULINE POWERS, now checked one nite in Tahoe where JIM PAYNE mercial license and recommends it in out in a Cessna 180 and a M ooney, ar­ “lost his shirt” literally that is. Would order to be a better pilot. VIOLA rived in Worland for the November schedule this last summer, spending one week in Honolulu as consultant at the Aerospace Education Workshop. Plus two weeks in Montgomery, Ala­ bama to assist with the pilot high school Aerospoce Education program wrich will go into effect in 23 schools this fall throughout the United States. In addition, ALTHEA also conducted an Aerospace Woikshop in Ellensburg, Washington and one day at the Aero­ space Workshop in Walla Walla, Wash­ ington. Busy girl! Already in the preliminary planning stage, is Oregon Chapter’s revival of their annual Petticoat Derby for sum­ mer ’67. More about this to come. CHARLOTTE DODSON has just re­ turned from a flying trip to Denver, Colorado as a guest of the Piper Air­ craft Corporation at the Piper Inter- Northwest Section Governor ILOVENE POTTER, Seattle (on wing) visits nationol meeting. She had a fine visit Wyoming Chapter. On hand to greet her were I. to r. PAULINE POWERS, with SHELIA SCOTT and lunched with Greybull; DOROTHY MISNER, Worland; ELAINE MONCUR, Powell; MABEL the Colorado Chapter while there. MAX ANESI. Cliapter Chairman from LANDER; VIRGILEA SWORTS, Thermopolis; CONRAD was also present at the Piper and NIKI WEAVER, Worland. meeting. However, CHARLOTTE says it seemed more like a meeting of the meeting in her Mooney. MAEEL to O.M.S.I. by West Coast Airlines for 99’s than a Piper meeting. ANESI and VIRGILEA SWORTS flew use as an exhibit. Earlier, on the same RUTH DOLAND and her 49 tier, in in M ABEL’S Cherokee 235 and were day there was an Antique Airplane FLOYD, made a flying trip via Tri­ greeted at the airport by BETTY AD­ Show with many thrills being provided pacer to Minnesota and Iowa in Au­ AMS, MARIE ENGELMAN, and NIKI by MIRA SLOVAK with his aerobatics. gust visiting friends and relatives. RUTH W IKANDER, well, RUTH is WEAVER. ELAINE MONCUR got Our August meeting as a fun affair always flying you know, had just re­ roped into clerking for a horse sale, on the Oregon coast at Florence. Every­ cently returned from a flying jaunt to NIKI had to leave and make a flying one ventured out for some “wild” rides Las Vegas with DR. “GILLIE” GILLI­ trip to Cheyenne, I was having a bout in a Dune Buggy over the Sahara-like LAND to attend a Flying Physicians witr the flu, so the rest of the 99’s went Sand Dunes. LUCY DRUCKER says Convention. This summer, RUTH was to MARIES for their meeting and then she’d rather do spins any day than flying passengers to Vancouver, B. C., lunch at the Washakie Hotel Matador some of those dives down the sand Sonoro, California and weekly trips to Room. BETTY presented an interest­ dunes. ing program in the use of the com­ North Bend and Ocean Shores, Wash­ Oregon Chapter had two AWTAR en­ puter. Everyone journeyed home laden ington with vacationers. trants this year. LUCY DRUCKER as with “Poly Wogs,” (candy we hope to pilot and RITA GINN, as co-pilot in sell to swell our treasury). one and RUTH WIKANDER as pilot Since this will probably appear be­ in the other. RUTH remarked, that af­ SOUTHWEST fore the Holidays, from Wyoming ter flying the AWTAR with the weather Ninety-Nines to all Ninety-Nines, “ Mer­ encountered enroute and on return, if SECTION ry Christmas, Happy New Year. anyone Lears her complaining about Oregon weather, please give her a good BAKERSFIELD CHAPTER OREGON CHAPTER kick. RITA GINN and LUCY DRUCK­ Marianne Laxngue, Reporter Patti English, Reporter ER verify this with “one doesn’t fully We are busy working on our Avia­ Oregon Chapter’s October meeting appreciate the ‘built-in natural air con­ tion Education project. JUNE ED­ held at Troutdale Airport was one of ditioned weather’ here on the Oregon WARDS, our chairman has been doing catching up on all the past summer’s coast until you have a try at hot a great job on this project and has activities. The main event of the sum­ weather flying across the country dur­ made a lot of progress. JUNE ED­ mer season was the chicken and ham ing the summer. WARDS, RHODA THOMPSON, and Hanger Dinner-Dance, Co-Chairmaned By the way, all the beautiful roses MARIANNE LAXAGUE have been ap­ by GRETCHEN FRASER and CHAR­ at the International Convention were pointed to an Advisory Council to the LOTTE DODSON, held at Hillsboro furnished by the Oregon Chapter and Bakersfield College along with other Aviation’s large hanger in late August. from our own MARGARET TEUFEL'S local aviation people, to determine the Altogether, about $350.00 was raised rose nursery. Also, supplied were the type of aviation subjects to be added for the benefit of the Oregon Museum Archway cookies and Sowyer color to the curriculum. We will have more of Science and Industry (OMSI) to slides for the AWTAR goodie bags. news on this next month. EARL SAMS build a ramp up to the DC-3 dpnaied ALTHEA ADAMS really had a full of the State Department of Education was our speaker at our November luncheon meeting. We have three new members; FLO­ RA DARLING, SUZANNE BECKHAM, and BETY TREGONING. SUZANNE is one of five chief women Pharmacists in Bakersfield. B'ETTY is working on her twin-engine rating. RHODA THOMPSON has obtained her Glider rating and LAURINE WHIT- MER'S sons JIM and MIKE, ages 17 and 18, obtained their Private Pilot’s licenses. ALICE and ROY PEMBERTON flew to Menache Meadows for the closing days of the fishing season and caught a nice limit of trout.

BAY CITIES CHAPTER Loretta Gabrielson, Reporter “HAYWARD” painted in seventy- five foot letters in black and yellow now adorns the cross-wind runway at Hayward Airport. With the layout crew starting at 7:00 A.M. on October 15, and the painters, refreshment crew, Beading left to right during presentation of plaque — MARY FIELDS, ADELE equipment chairman, publicity, and paint crew starting around 7:45 AM— CHASE, ELLY .JONES, .JOSEPH W. CHAUDET, GLENN PLYMATE, HIA­ the painting was accomplished by 3:45 LEAH BEILICH, PJITH KFECKERT. FM. We had a wonderful crew of Air Explorer Scouts (13) to assist us and over to get action pictures. The pilot Except having to take off through a did they work! They obviously do not was C. W. (SKID) MISENER, 49V2er hole over San Francisco, the weather belong to the teen-age set that run of WRAY MISENER. was beautiful. Orange County 99’s were around and see how much trouble they The committee chairman for the wonderful hostesses and a good time can cause. They worked right along marking were: Airmarking Chairman, was had by all. We learned a lesson with the adults and did a tremendous GLADYS COBB; Layout, HELEN the hard way thuogh, we could have iob of mixing and hauling paint as well KELTON; Publicity, ELLY JONES; had the trophy for the most Air as helping with the painting. Then Equipment, MIRIAM BRUGH; Re­ Marking if we had sent our report they asked when we were going to freshments, RUTH MAGILL; and in soon enough. (Not take it to Sec­ do another marking and could they Painters, MARY FIELDS. Assisting tional! ) They did more markings than help again. The members of Air HELEN KELTON for the Layout Com­ we did but we covered more square Squadron 634 of the San Francisco mittee were HIALEAH and HARRY feet. Oh well, better luck next time. Bay Area Council of Boy Scouts of REILICH, LORETTA GABRIELSON, Just before school started, HIALEAH America were: GARY CENTONI, RUTH RUECKERT, PHYLISS Mc- REILICH and GLADYS COBB took BILL GRIFFITH, RICK McANULTY, CLOUD, JUDY DONOVAN, and two student friends (housewives) of ROY GROSHONG, TED GROSHONG, BRUCE BIGELOW, Other members HI’S to Monterey for lunch. These are KEN MAYER, DENNIS LONG, taking part were JAUNDA BIGELOW, women who have “always wanted to CHUCK ROTHACHER, BILL ADDI­ DOROTHY GARLIEPP, FRAN fly.” It was a gorgeous day—and SON, CHUCK GERTON, BILL GRANT, GAIL LANE, CAROLINE they flew along the coastline. “Con­ HARRY, BOB JONES, GLENN BIG­ SCHUTT, ETHEL SCHAFFER and grats” to the Monterey Chapter, that LER, and MR. CENTONI, their ad­ DONI PEREZ. Prospective members 1-a-r-g-e airmarking MONTEREY visor. They are sponsored by Air­ were NANCY WALLIS, PAT KROE- PENINSULA looks great!! craft Pilots bf Metropolitan Oakland. LER, GINNY PRITCHARD, MARY JAUNDA BIGELOW flew to Tono- The Airport Commission members DUVALL, BETTY and daughter pah, Nevada on Oct. 15 with her son, came out in suits and ties and served KATHY MARQUARDT from APMO. BRUCE, as passenger/navigator. They coffee to as well as the Air National Altogether, it was a very successful flew in the exciting “Base Race” Sun­ Guard (based at Hayward airport) in day and the marking looks beautiful day and her charming hostess took dress uniform. They couldn't help paint from the air. It covers 20,269 sq. ft. — first place, but “charming hostess’ or but they sure could — and did — serve 10,692 ft. yellow and 9,577 ft. black, net, JAUNDA tried and came home coffee to (he painters. Coffee flowed all using 85 gallons of black paint and 120 with the second place trophy. day. MR. FRANK WHITCOMB, Air­ gallons of yellow paint. Due to recent modification to her port Manager, secured the paint from JAUNDA BIGELOW and MYRTLE “empennage” (removal of tail bone) the city of Hayward. He also provided WRIGHT flew to Newport Beach with ELLY JONES hasn’t piloted much late­ a pilot to fly our photographer GLADYS COBB for the Fall Sectional. ly. However, she did manage to get 30 min. of dual in a glider at Sky- BELLE McCRAE, and as delegates, SANDERS from our Chapter; BETTY sailang, what a thrill!! BOO CHRISTENSEN, BARBARA HILL, WHARTON and ELEANOR RICHARD­ CAROLINE SCHUTT and 49%er BARBARA TUCKER and DOTTIE SON from the San Diego Chapter on HENRY flew to Palm Springs for the SANDERS. It was gratifying that our the 15th and by BOO CHRISTENSEN, AOPA Convention. HENRY took the new member, LYNN, was the recipi­ ISABELLE McCRAE, DOTTIE DAVIS, Pinch-hitter course in their S-Bonanza. ent of a wonderful door prize of a VHF DORIS RITCHEY and again DOTTIE CAROLINE took the No-Engine course radio to be installed in her car to CAMPBELL, LYNN COULTHARD and and went on to get her Glider rating receive aircraft frequencies through DOTTIE SANDERS on the 16th. $852.14 at Tehachape. She was winner of one her car radio. Now she says that she was raised and distributed among the of the daily door prizes; a King Solid- can pretend she is flying when it is operators in accordance to the num­ State Microphone. During the con­ necessary to drive to Imperail ber of pounds flown by each one. At vention they 'took “time out” to fly County in connection with her pro­ 3:30 PM on Sunday, October 16th, to Blythe and see “DEE” SOUTHARD fession as a dental hygenist. BOO the Display and Trophy Case was who transferred from San Francisco CHRISTENSEN and DOTIE SANDERS officially presented to the County of International Flight Service Station to were appointed to join MADINE PAR- San Diego for its wonderful support the Blythe FSS the firslt of Sept. They SEL of Orange County Chapter to read and the complete cooperation of all were her first visitors and were made and approve the minutes of the Section­ San Diego County Officials and Gil­ most welcome. The SCHUTTS, on al Business Meeting. Thanks to Orange lespie Field Personnel by DOTTIE another weekend, took 3 Explorer County Chapter for a wonderful time SANDERS for the Chapter. It was Scouts to Boonville on Sat., where they and for their perfect choice of the accepted by MR. HENRY BONEY visited the Mendocino County Fair and Newporter Inn for the meeting! representing the County Board of Su­ pervisors. A message from Kay Apple Festival. The next day, they IDA GAY hopes to have a “swing­ BRICK, Chairman of AWTAR, was also flew again to Boonville to pick up ing” year for our Chapter and has read by MR. JERRY HOLLINGS­ the Scouts and return them to Oak­ appointed the following Committee WORTH, Chairman of the Aviation land after their camp-out. Another Chairmen: AE Scholarship, BARBARA Committee of the Chamber of Com­ flight was made to Usibelli for lunch TUCKER; Publicity, BOO CHRISTEN­ merce. Trophies won by AILEEN with the APMO. They also flew to SEN; Air Marking, LYNN COUL­ SAUNDERS in the past Powder Puff Tetoachapi to CAROLINE could get THARD; Scrap Book and Newsletter, Derbies and by DOTTIE SANDERS, her glider rating—but it was too turb­ DOTTIE SANDERS; Ways and of the Powder Puff Derby Start in ulent so they returned the following Means, AILEEN SAUNDERS; Tele­ 1965, and our certificate from, AWTAR Saturday, stayed all night and bright phone, DOTTIE DAVIS; Membership, of successful participation. In addi­ and early Sunday, she began soaring BARBARA HILL; Flying Activities, tion, AILEEN SAUNDERS was one of and completed the requirements and ISABELLE McCRAE; Aerospace Edu­ the judges for trophies presented to flight test the same day. Lots of fun! cation, BARBARA ALMAND; and the Experimental Aircraft; 49%er An unofficial presentation of the Nominating Committee, LEAH JOHN TUCKER received First Place JOAN MERRIMAM SMITH plaque to LIERSCH. LYNN COULTHARD is al­ — and ii wasn’t fixed either! The event the Oakland Airport wias m ade to ready selecting possible sites for air­ was a complete success. JOSEPH W. CHAUDET, President of marking places in the back country as the Board of Comissioners of the Port well as places in the Imperial Valley Correction: In a former issue, your df Oakland, and to GLENN PLYMATE, to work with members df Coachella reporter erroneously advised that MAC Assistant Manager of the Oakland Air­ Valley Chapter. So with a spark plug HUNTINGTON had started her own port of General Aviation, by Vice- such as she, we hope to become active flight school, naming it Fisher Air­ Chairman HIALEAH REILIGH on in Air Marking this year. craft at Lindbergh Field—it is “ MAC'S AVIATION”, with flight training at Sept. 21st. Those attending the pre­ Holding a membership in the El both Lindbergh Field and Gillespie sentation were MARY FIELDS, Cajon Chamber of Commerce, and Field. At Lindbergh she does occupy ADELE CHASE, ELLY JONES, RUTH serving on the Aviation Committee, our the space which was formerly Fisher RUECKERT and HIALEAH REIL- Chapter aided in the first Annual Air- Aircraft. Sorry about that MAC. ICH. The plaque will not be hung un­ Cade at Gillespie Field October 15-16. til the JOAN MERRIMAM SMITH It was a display of 1967 models of Our October meeting was held at LOUNGE is completed at the airport. aircraft, as well as antique and ex­ the home df DOTTIE SANDERS with The lounge will be for the use of gen­ perimental models, and 1967 models of a program presented by Flight In­ eral aviation pilots only. The plaque automobiles. To repay the operators structor NED POWERS showing was designed and created by ADELE for their cooperation when raising slides and narrating on his experience CHASE, a ceramist and former 99. funds for the 1965 Powder Puff Derby of flying in the Sudan country, wilth Start, we conducted the 2c-per-pound emphasis on the way of life of f-e EL CAJON VALLEY CHAPTER flights, the operators furnishing the 'natives and the problems involved Dottie Sanders, Reporter airplanes and pilots and receiving all in building an air strip and teaching Ten of our members attended the proceeds from the flights. IDA GAY the natives to fly. most successful Fall Sectional Meet­ was Chairman of Ithis portion of the LCDR. DOROTHY GREEN, USN activities and was assisted by DOTTIE ing sponsored by the Orange County presented forms .and explained the Chapter at the Newporter Inn at New­ CAMPBELL, LYNN COULTHARD, effort being made to have a commem­ port Beach, California, September 23- BARBARA HILL, AILEEN SAUN­ 25: DOTTIE DAVIS, AILEEN SAUN­ DERS, our prospective member orative stamp for JOAN MERRIAM DERS, BARBARA ALMAND, ISA­ FLORENCE FRASER, and DOTTIE SMITH issued. Guests attending were FRIEDA E'REISE, our prospective member who kept her new license a secret since July, and members from the San Diego Chapter. LOIS BARTLING, EVELYN BRIGGS, HELEN DICK, JUNE HICKOX and BETTY LAMBERT —’twas good to see everyone again.

BARBARA ALMAND, our Chapter’s Aerospace Education Chairman, is Working very hard in this field, The current project is a five-sided display fftf;-: - | board at the San Diego Aerospace Museum in Balboa Park covering Women in Aviation and The Ninety- Nines. Her plans are very thorough and well thought out, and when com­ t pleted will be a credit to the history of women in aviation. Charter mem­ bers of The Ninety-Nines, as well as I P # # others making history for women in #• aviation are being contacted for pits Airport at Tonopah, Nevada, a favorite gas stop between Reno and I,as Vegas. tures—if anyone has any, please send Site of the October 16th races and holder of the nation’s record for bringing them to BARBARA with name and explanation of the part she has played in the largest number of lost airplanes. in aviation. Each side of the display will have a different background color —red, AMELIA EARHART and found­ ers of the Ninety-Nines; yellow, a history of air races; green, overseas members; white, local women in avia­ tion business; Ninety-Nine blue, an .air chart and m em bership scroll. Y our writer had an opportunity to visit the museum and found that many people see all of the displays. They are all very worthwhile, and she believes that all efforts in this direction are very beneficial in acquainting the public with aviation, especially women who have had a part in its’ history. Our Chapter has a group membership, as well as many individual members of the Chapter. ISABELLE McCRAE is a member of the Board of Direc- tore of the museum. BARBARA ALMOND was our charming hostess at our November DE BAER and JOYCE BEAII. busily keeping up with the announcing and tim­ meeting in San Marcos, (a little ground ing duties at the Tonopah, Nevada Races. navigational problem to her home.) We welcomed FLORENCE FRASER FALLON CHAPTER demonstration. Tonopah has located as our newest member and gave trib­ Elaine Brown, Reporter and talked in more lost planes than any ute to LEAH LIERSCH in the form of We seem to be involved in a last station in the country. One glance at a Ninety-Nine pin with a gavel in minute fly-in scramble before the win­ the enclosed photo of the airport may appreciation for her fine leadership ter storms set in. And what a won­ give you a faint idea of the vaStness of during her term as Chairman for the derful idea! The first one of the fall the area and why Tonopah holds this year 1965-66. Our Aux Tank was won season was at Tonopah, Nevada on dubious honor. Between real emer­ by our new Chairman IDA GAY. O ctober 16th, arranged for by our gencies, BERTHA uses her 175 to (Maybe- it was a bribe for continuing Chapter Chairman, BERTHA CLINE, “get lost’’ in, just to keep the F.A.A. the fine job she is doing as chairman and given primarily for 99’s, their boys in practice. And speaking of this year.) husbands, and guests. The fly-in practicing, BERTHA must be doing All of us wish all of you the merriest breakfast included pylon races and just that as she took 1st Place in the of Christmases and a New Year filled flour bombing contests plus an added flour bombing contest with a score of with lot of flying and happy landings! attraction of a lost airplane location 275. 2nd P lace wone to JACK PARD- their little T-Craft, JOYCE is back to LARSON, Chairman; RUTH DIBIASE, work on their Stinson. She hopes to Vice-Chairman; NANTSY MARSE- have it all covered by Christmas. She NICH, Secretary; and NORMA GUN­ says the wings and control surfaces of DERSON, Treasurer. the Meyers are completed and that We .also welcomed Idaho transferee it should be in the air in a few weeks. B. J. WAYNE and hope she and her How does she do it? family will be happy in Las Vegas. Our last meeting was at the home of BETTY SLATER of the Phoenix LOIS WILLIAMS where we met pri­ Chapter was a guest at our October marily to lay plans for the San Diego luncheon meeting at the Tropicana to Reno Fun Race (a continuation of Country Club. Plans for the coming the Fallon Fun Race, only 60 miles months including fly-ins and holiday East!) We did, but also managed to festivities were discussed. consume a most delicious lunch and We would like to extend our thanks hear an interesting lecture from ED to the 99s of Northern Arizona for their BLALOCK, (Gliding Instructor) on the efforts in regard to the November disastrous effects of the roter cloud. Grand Canyon fly-in. Unfortunately The sky was accomodating, with sev­ only two of our members, LOIS ANN eral excellent examples. A rare op­ LARSON and NORMA GUNDERSON portunity and something all mountain were able to attend. However they BEIiTHA CLINE, Chairman of the pilots should be aware of. returned with glowing reports of the Fallon Chapter who placed first in Just yesterday, Nov. 12th, we man­ day’s activities. both the flour bombing and women’s aged to get over to Carson City, Nev­ Glad to know DAWN OPAT GRAN­ pylon race in Tonopah, Nevada on Oc­ ada for their fly-in breakfast, spot G E R is back in the area and hope to tober Ifitli. landing, flour bombing contest and see her at future meetings. parachute record seeking jumps. It was Don’t forget when you’re in Las ICK, and 3rd was a three way tie be­ the only half way decent day we’ve had Vegas to check flight service. They tween FRAN GUSTAVSON, LOIS lately so we decided to take the scenic have our local roster posted and we’d BROWN and LOIS WILLIAMS, all with route—The Piper J-3 Cub! Forty-five love to have a cup of coffee with you. a score of 100. The pylon races were minutes for a normal twenty minute really exciting with BERTHA CLINE hop, and worth every long, relaxing LONG BEACH SECTION again in 1st Place, JAUNDA BIGE­ (minute of it. Loved m y 49% er’s com ­ Katee Moskow, Reporter ment as we passed over Waishoe Lake. LOW (Bay Cities Chapter) taking 2nd, Our chapter is becoming quite pro­ “Hey! Is this airliner equipped for and LOIS WILLIAMS in 3rd. The men’s fessional on handling “Two Cent a overseas flights?” While over in Car­ pylon race was a sagebrush sweeping Pound” (formerly “Penny a Pound” ) son, we were met by ORA DESTREE, affair with MIKE BROWN swooping rides and selling hot dogs and re­ and saw LOIS and DAVE WILLIAMS in 1st, RICK BLAKEM ORE (Tono­ freshments. Since our first kick off in with student pilot son, DAVE JR., pah base operator) 2nd, and GUS June was a great success, LEE TITLE LOIS BROWN and children in the twin GUSTAVSON 3rd. A few couples flew and MARY PINKNEY saw an oppor­ Comanche and her 49y2er, MIKE, in down the night before; FRAN and tunity to do it again. They were able t'-e Sea-Bee. We were only sorry that GUS GUSTAVSON, LOIS and MIKE to persuade the manager of the Tor­ we couldn’t stay to hear the results or BROWN. ELAINE .and STAN BROWN rance Airport to let the Long Beach oven wait for our' num ber to com e up with their guests, JUDY and DUANE Chapter handle the concessions for in the flour bombing contest, but there COLE (Executive Secretary of the their Airport Days in September. Reno National Championship Air was that “long trip” to Re’o to con­ Weather and patrons couldn’t have sider. We did present a dry wash near Races) and JAUNDA BIGELOW and been much better, allowing a short her son. A wonderful spot for a fly-in Washoe Lake with three strategically period Sunday afternoon, but it didn’t and an exciting day, cold wind, gray placed sacks of flour. Anyone know of dampen the spirits of pilots or passen­ skies and all! a bomb site to fit a J-3? gers. They patiently munched hot dogs DOROTHY and CARROL STAUFF All for now. Remember, it’s not too with or without buns, while waiting couldn't make it to Tonopah as they early to start planning to enter the t'-eir turn. Many thanks to the LOS and their lov-a-lee new Cessna 210 took San Diego-Rieno Fun Race. We have ANGELES CHAPTER, our own a trip to San Francisco where CAR­ some exciting times in store for you 49%err, and all the fixed base oper­ ROLL took his exams for the Board while you’re staying at the Spark’s ators donating time, aircraft, and fuel. of Internal Medicine. They also spent Nugget. Circle the date, June 10th. The Chanter presented a solo trophy a week-end in Santa Barbara, of which to JANET WITHERSPOON at the ban­ DOROTHY says, “Lovely city, but LAS VEGAS VALLEY CHAPTER quet following Airport Days. She foggy!” Must do something about that Gerry Whitton, Reporter soloed in one day as Avion Air Flight gals! A very Merry Christmas to each and Schools promotion taking 8 hours 6 JOYCE BEAIL says she had a every one of you. minutes. wonderful trip to Tonopah with DE The LW C of 99s began its new year CAROLE DUNN has been busy again BAER in her Musketeer. JOYCE adds, in September with a dinner at Fongs organizing the “49%er Race” . She re­ “We did a switch. Husband, BOB, Cardens at which time we welcomed ceived a great deal of help from the flew us down and back.” After selling our new officers. They are LOIS ANN Fallon Chapter and the Fresno Chap- ter. The race this year began at Fallon, KEE, MARY ANN KASLOW, TILLIE MONTEREY BAY ,SIXTION who graciously hosted and very active­ ELEMENTS, REBECCA HELD, ANN Dorothy M. Ban/.haf, Reporter ly entertained the entrants. LOUCIEL LODWIG, RACHEL BONZON, and Most of our members make a “good FREEMAN handled the inspection of AILEEN PICKERING. The weekend show’’ at the business meetings. aircraft very thoroughly. Fresno was well organized, and we had a Chairman HELEN SHROPSHIRE has Chapter took care of timing those great time. Thank you, Orange County managed to arrange interesting social flying-by, as well as those stopping girls. gatherings, interspersed with informa­ for a quick cup of coffee. And then Some of our girls assisted the Long tive and knowledgeable knack of selec­ on to Orange County Airport. The Beach Chapter with their hot dog tion for both speakers and central lo­ results were as follows: 1st BUD stands and 2c a pound airplane rides cations for the meetings. Meetings CHANDLER: 2nd MICHAEL BROWN, at Torrance Airport Day, and some have been filled with subjects that in­ co-pilot EARL BUCHANAN; 3rd ROB­ also assisted with the San Fernando terest members: Engine Emergency ERT PINKNEY, co-pilot JOHN NITZ- Valley Chapter’s rides at Burbank. Procedure, Trouble Shooting, to ways EN; 4th ROBERT CENICEROS; 5th At our October business meeting, and means of raising money. Outside GUS GUSTAVSON; 6th PAU L T. held at the Kitty Hawk Restaurant on chapter challenge from Santa Clara DODGSON, co-pilot CAL MACPHER- Santa Monica Airport, it was decided brought’ all Monterey Chapter sharp SON; 7th JACK W OREL. c o - p ilo t to change the location of our gala pilots into battle form when JACKIE CLIFF PORTERFIELD; 8th NED December 3 dinner. MARY DORR has PETTY offered to compete in a spot- CANTILLON, co-pilot GEORGE GRIF­ most graciously invited us to hold this landing contest. SANDRA FORREST FITH; and 9th PH ILIP REAM ES. event at her home, 24840 Pacific Coast and JACKIE must be commended for October meeting was held at EMMA Highway, Malibu. Detailed news will their helpful hands during our toil with MCQUIRES’ home. After all business reach neighboring Chapters and other paint and brush during swabbing of was discussed, CLAIRE WALTERS friends directly, and we hope that Monterey and Salinas Airport Marking. entertained us with movies she had many of you will be able to join us Chairman SHROPSHIRE spreads the taken on her Australian ferrying trip on this occasion. good word at Shriners meetings where via Honolulu. She admits better than It was our pleasure on October 14 to aviation enthusiasts contacts are filed 'fifteen hours in one jum p is a bit meet and entertain at dinner a mem­ away for promotion Of the location, for rough, and that’s a mighty vast ocean, ber of the Australian Section of Ninety- raising money and cementing relations the Pacific. She’s back to making quick Nines, RHONDA STEWART. Sixteen insofar as a base for possible Ninety- trips to Wichita picking up Cessna 150’s members and 49%ers of the L. A. Nine, Inc. Sectional in fall of ’67. to stock her school flightline with new Chapter greeted RHONDA, who spent a SALLY PLUMMER has earned a aircraft. little time here on her extended trip Multi-Engine rating this month. DELL CAROLE DUNN flew an Aerobatic around the world, and brought us HINN has covered many air miles Exhibition at Daggett Airport in her greetings and information from Down recently. A flight to Mexico to attend Citabria. JOYCE FAILING of LVS Under. a medical convention with 49% er Chapter was one of the hostesses for LINA BLACKMORE has recently GEORGE and a flight to San Diego to Barstow Chamber of Commerce for become MRS. STROUP. We all send attend a graduation at the Marine the Buffalo Barbecue Dinner and Air­ congratulations and best wishes to base. Two aspiring Ninety-Nine mem­ show Annual Weekend. MR. and MRS. STROUP. bers, JOAN HUSTED, a new pilot, JOAN DILLEY and 49%er were LYNN OPPER has recently become and SUE JOHNSON from Hollister called back to N. Dakota on a 2-hour Grandma, and BOB the proud Grandpa will be welcome within the ranks soon. notice, due to family illness. Decided of little DION. FRITZ I (HEANEY) MARY ELLEN EISEMANN has the could beat airliner time in their OLSON is Grandma to little FRANCES. been hostess in her lovely Colonial Cessna 172. Not quite the vacation they CAROL and BERNIE LEWIS have home in Salinas on occasion of general intended. outfitted a trailer to keep over at meetings but will be home to all mem­ RUTH NITZEN and JOHN had a the Colorado River, where then enjoy bers for a gala Christmas fest this nice flying vacation to Kamaloops, frequent fishing trips. year. On the agenda will be initiation B.C. Canada and spent a week fish­ We are happy to welcome new mem­ rites for our 49%ers. Mystery cloaks ing at Rainbow Chain Lakes. On week­ bers ELOISE BREESE, MARY DORR. the scene but happy co-pilots will ends you can find them flying to Lake BETH KAISER, and SUSAN OLIVER. em erge. Havasu for boating and fishing. JEAN IVANOFF flew to t' e Reno A bid for Fall Sectional and plans to DORIS M INTER, 49y2er, and three Air Races, and reported a very good sponsor a Member At Large elect next children spent the summer flying from time. One of thie highlights was the year are interest spawning grounds Santa Monica, Dallas, New Orleans, photo finish of the Aero Commander of the future. This year sponsors of the Memphis, St. Joe, Rapid City, Jackson 200 race, in which one of our m em ­ Camp Fire Girls, the busy members Hole, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and bers, SUSAN OLIVER, placed a very have on the agenda, a Penny-a-Pound home in their Cessna 210. They flew close second, some ten seconds, behind event and participation in the third 4600 m iles in approxim ately 29 hours. JAMES FRANCISCUS. SUSAN also annual antique fly-in at the Watsonville received her Instrument rating in Oc­ Airport in May of 1967. LOS ANGELES CHAPTER tober. Congratulations, SUSAN! Rachel Bonzon, Reporter LARRY and RACHEL BONZON flew ORANGE COUNTY CHAPTER Seven members of our Chapter at­ to Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Ann Cantillon, Re[H>rter tended the Southwest Sectional Meet­ on November 11, and tried out the deep Palm Springs, the land of the sun ing at the Newporter Inn: BEULAH sea fishing. worshippers will be the haven for Orange County’s annual Christmas thank EDNA for the quick work she back following a long absence partly Party. This year we decided to make did gathering our flight time so we due to illness was MARY WEAVER, it a real affair by inviting four other could win the “Sectional Flight Time who related how long it took to ob­ chapters to join us in a “fly-in” to the Trophy” this year. tain a new engine for their Debonair. Desert Aire Hotel. Lest I forget, the second annual JESSIE WIMMERS had just return­ Shame department for old “Buffs". 49% er race (now labeled the Rogues’ ed from a three week cruise to ELLY AYOUB, one of our newest Race) held at Fall Section time was Hawaii. NOLA EARL, prospective members with a brand new pilot’s won by our own BUD CHANDLER member, and her husband JOE; certificate and total hours of 45 recent­ flying his Skymaster. There was a 49%ers JOE STORM and ELGIN ly took the Instrument written and little mixup in the scoring, but BUD NEWELL; and MIRIAM GEBBIE were passed. Boy, how does that grab ya? finally came out on top. Then at the there in addition to Chapter members. Some of us have been trying for ages other end we had GEORGE GRIF­ Our November business meeting was just to wade through the books. No1 to FITH and NED CANTILLON placing held at the breathtakingly beautiful put GINNY CHANDLER in second last in N E D ’S (not mine) 235 Chero­ home of MARY RATTLEY in Paradise place, she took the written and passed, kee. All in all, the fellows really had Valley. The program, arranged by but sorry GINNY you fall into the a fun time, and surely can tell belter JEANNE MORRIS, was both enter­ Buff category. stories than any of us. taining and educational thanks to CARL NANCY CREWS has been swearing At long last we get to mark our air­ SWANSON JR. of FFA Tower, ad IKE port. KAY MALICK worked like a for years that some day she was going ELLIS, of FAA TRACON. Other guests beaver, not only with our Airport Com­ to build an airplane. Her garage is were JODY VOLL, JO SCHUSTE, mission, but contacting other chap­ now the base of operations with two GEORGE VIAL, STAN VIAL, strapping sons and one willing hus­ ters that have had the experience of (MARY’S son, who has since passed band helping her. From what I can air marking. Through all of this, we his test for private license), ART did decide one thing: We wish Orange gather, she has purchased an old BATTY and KEITH SASSER. New County Airport had a name like TAFT Taylor Craft, stripped it, and is now members present were EVELYN SAS­ or SUN. I’ve never seen so many let­ in the long process of dolling it up. SER, SUE HARPER (who is taking ters. Knowing NANCY, she will do the lest an aerobatic course in a Citabria), flying too. I have just had the opportunity to and MAY DAVIS (who just purchased Until next month, a Happy Thanks­ write an article on ALICE ROBERTS a Sky lane 182). giving to all. for the Air-Age News. It was real fun JUANITA NEWELL invited MELE'A to write about such an active and in­ BEARD and WILMA BLAND to fly PHOENIX CHAPTER teresting person. to Grand Canyon for the flight to meet Marjy Crowl, Reporter the LAS VEGAS and Northern Arizona MYRNA SHANFIELD and MADINE The Cactus Room at the Ramada Chapters. ELGIN NEWELL was a PARSEL have been making regular Inn was the scene of the Installation guest (busman’s holiday!) MARY trips into Mexico flying doctors and Luncheon arranged by JUANITA NEW­ VIAL flew up solo. Same weekend medical supplies into the villages. Plans ELL in honor of our outgoing Presi­ JUNE KAISER and MARJY CROWL are now in the mill for our Chapter dent, TRU DY M URPH Y. DOTTT were in Yum a attending the State to make our annual trip in February. PETERSON from Eugene, Oregon, Aviation Conference. JUNE bad flown Our November luncheon meeting TRUDY’S sister, was present and the down with RUTH REINHOLD on Fri­ was held at the home of ANN CAN- Chapter’s gratitude w,as aptly ex­ day in the Excalibur which RUTHIE TILLON, where 20 members and pressed by MARY VIAL. A 99 com­ flies for and with BARRY GOLD- guests had the opportunity to meet pact had been selected as the “some­ WATER (singly and in combination), and listen to JUDY WILLIS who had thing to remember us by.” No reason who was a prominent speaker at the just returned for a year in Korea. to elucidate, in the publication anyway, convention. FREDA and MICKEY JUDY was hostess for Flying Tiger why we were especially happy to have TOLIVER flew to Los Machis, Mex’co Airlines and had visited the Orient our own ALICE ROBERTS, Inter­ for a week-end of rest on the beach, which she found quite exciting so de­ national President, back home to in­ later look the children for the week­ cided to return to work in Korea with stall our Chapter Officers for’ the end. MARY LOU BROWN flew the a Special Service Organization. Not coming year. Conducting an impres­ Geological Survey’s T-34 to Hanks- only did JUDY have exciting tales to sive, solemn, and pleasant ceromony, ville, Utah. tell, but brought slides along to illu­ ALICE impressed MARY VIAL, as strate her story. Chairman: JEANNE MORRIS, as Vice- MYLES RUGGENBERG of the FAA MARY BERTHA, a prospective Chairman; SUSAN STORM, Secretary; was the highlight of the October busi­ member has just returned from tre and MARJY CROWL, reporter with ness meeting held at home of JO ANN Piper factory in Vero Beach, Florida their responsibilities to the Chapter in WINTERLING. His comments on the whee she picked up a Cherokee for particular and the 99s in general, BEV subject made the film on “Wake Tur­ Martin Aviation. MARY will be taking PERIMAN, Treasurer, was unable 1o bulence” much more valuable and her check-ride N ovem ber 17, it will be present. MARY BRADLEY, nation­ significant. Couldn’t catch all the be a pleasure to welcome her into our ally known as a dog handler and chatter but here’s the gist of some of Chapter. judge, in addition to conducting the it: BETH USHER flew with Northern EDNA STENNETT sold her Tri- De Valley Obedience Dog Training Arizona Chapter of their Pemny-a- Pacer. EDNA just won’t seem like Classes, demonstrated her adroitness Pound Airlift. SUSAN STORM has EDNA without her little bug. Also by presenting seven dogs and their been ferrying husband and his fellow I know that whole Chapter Wants to handlers from her classes. Welcomed 49%er, VAL, have been checking pos­ sible camping sites for church youth PHIL just recently purchased a Cher­ Southern California and the other is groups from 3000 feet (via Cessna okee 235. Maybe we’ll see her at the stationed in Florida. The pilot train­ Skyhawk). MARY and ART EATY airport more often now. ing for a blimp is an eight month flew to Palm Springs to AOPA Plan­ Our November meeting was held course. Goodyear has ten pilots. The tation Party. MARY BROWN is check­ at LOUISE MONTARO’S lovely rest­ blimp was here in Sacramento for the ing out in the Geological Survey’s aurant Sonoma Joe’s in Petaluma. It State Fair. DeHaviland Beaver. The WINTER- was raining so most of us drove. On a Lady Bug flight to Willits a LING family went to the Northern LOUISE picked up two guests at the few weeks ago, the weather turned Arizona 99s meeting and fly-in break­ Petaluma airport and brought them bad, so the girls headed for Oroville. fast at Holbrook, JUANITA and ELGIN over to the meeting. They were RAY Our newest Lady Bug is HELEN NEWELL flew to their ranch in Cali­ JEAN NORTON, a student pilot, and MORGAN from the Ohio Chapter. She fornia in their Bonanza to visit JUAN­ her husband FRANK. just moved into our area and we are ITA’S 95-year-old mother. They also Members present were ANITA enjoying her good company. Ohio’s flew to KAIBAB for the 3-day wild MONTARO, MYRTLE WRIGHT, ANNA loss is Sacramento gain. Nice to have turkey shoot—had their turkey shortly BRENNER, BECKY LIGHTFOOT, you with us HELEN. I hear tell after sunrise opening morning. (Stan­ SANDY, and PHYLLIS CANTRELL. EDITH BREWER is one of our best dard procedure for those two!) South­ HILDA CASEY has accepted the of­ navigators. ETAs down to the last west Sectional at Orange County, Cali­ fice of Secretary for the next year. minute. She never misses! fornia was attended by Chairmlan It’s nice to have you back HILDA. Another Lady Bug flight this month MARY VIAL, retiring Southwest Gov­ Meeting was adjourned with plans was to M odeso .and to tour through the ernor, PAT LAMBART, (RICK and to meet again at Sonoma Joe’s in Gallo winery. One tour was conducted PATRICK), SUE HARPER, MARY December for our Christmas Party. by MRS. GALLO and MRS. ROSSI. LOU BROWN, MARJY CROWL, Merry Christmas This was one of our more interesting TRUDY MURPHY, JESSIE WIM- days. We saw everything from the MERS, and JUNE KAISER. SACRAMENTO VALLEY CHAPTER time the trucks brought in the grapes Virginia Townsend, Reporter from the fields, to the time the wine REDWOOD EMPIRE CHAPTER Our September meeting, which was was shipped. Space won’t allow me Phyllis Cantrell, Reporter a blast, was held in the home of to tell you everything we saw, includ­ Our October meeting was held at CLAIRE RALEY, pot luck dinner, ing the making of their own bottles, but Cameron Park, Calif., about 35 miles swimming and picture taking by for myself, I was certainly impressed! northeast of Sacramento. This was the CLAIRE. During the meeting our new Each and everyone of us received a airport dedication day and we en­ officers were selected. They are LaRUE bottle of pink Champagne. To top off joyed the complete tour of this unique BROWN, Chairman; VIJA BERRY, the day, the Gallo people treated the subdivision. The airport is 6000 feet Vice chairman; VIRGINIA TOWNS­ Lady Bugs to lunch at one of Modesto’s long —hard surfaced and has adjacent END, Secretary; LILLIAN GRAY, finest, Cot’e D’ Oro Restaurant—“um lots so you can taxi your plane to your Treasurer; JUANITA BOWLER, News good.” Believe me, not one of us were own home, plus a lovely country club Letter. We have a good crew going out watching calaries. The Lady Bugs on with an 18 hole golf course. Members and a good crew coming in. Good luck this flight were CLAIRE RALEY, present included ANITA WOREL, to all! DOROTHY HENDERLONG, DONNA BETTE SMITH, PAT STOUFFER, This being vacation time and good MARTIN, CAROL HAMMOND, ADELE MYRTLE WRIGHT, HILDA CASEY, weather, the Brewers, EDITH, her INGOGLIA, FLORENCE BREEN, and and yours truly. 49% er belonging to 49%er JIM, and their two girls flew her sister FERN COBB, EDITH WOREL, SMITH, CASEY and CAN­ to Greenville, 111. in a 250 Comanche. BREWER, MARILYN JAKS, CE­ TRELL came along too. Two weeks of fun so says EDITH. LESTE SWANSON, VIRGINIA TOWN­ EETTE SMITH has been more ac­ VIJA BERRY and her 49%er HASK­ SEND, MARrAN RIGGS, MRS. GER­ tive in her flying lately. She flew to ELL flew to Mexico for a fun-filled ALD HENDERSON, RUTH LUMMIS, (he Southwest Sectional meeting at week. RUTH WAGNER and her 49%er HELEN MORGAN, VIJA BERRY, and Orange County in her Cessna 140 with AL spent several months in Europe. MRS. LOWELL SWETZER. Five air­ ANITA WOREL as co-pilot, and also Should have some interesting stories planes and one car made this trip. took a trip to Fresno for a few days. and pictures to tell and show. Many Our many thanks to MRS. GALLO and ANITA and JACK WOREL just more I’m sure just haven’t heard. MRS. ROSSI for a day we will never bought a Bonanza, and are very proud Last month McCellan Field and the forget. Real nice people. How one indeed, (who wouldn't be?) It’s an­ ‘’Connie’’. This month some of were group of gals have so much fun I other step up from their Cessna 170, lucky enough to get a ride on the don’s know, but I’m glad we do. which they still have and would like Goodyear blimp. FLORENCE BREEN to sell—Anyone in the market for a and her 49%er JACK, LARUE BROWN SAN DIEGO CHAPTER good 170? Being new owners, the and her 49%er NORM and yours truly Evelyn Briggs, Reporter WORELS take in just about all the were some of the lucky people to get Our September meeting included a weekend get-to-gethers and fly-ins, one a ride. Thanks to the BREENS, CAR­ scrumptious pot luck dinner at TERRY being the Placerville fly-in breakfast OL HAMMOND and her 49%er for VASQUEZ’ lovely new Mt. Soledad two weeks ago where ANITA won the the flight FRED, and EDITH BREW­ 'home, and an excellent color film trophy for being the youngest flying ER. This blimp, that so few of us df the 1966 San Diego-Fallon Fun Race. grandmother. were lucky to get a flight in, belongs Our thanks to DR. GERALD BANKS Another new aircraft owner is our to the Goodyear Tire Co. They have (MARIAN’S husband), who made this BECKY LIGItTFOOT. She and 49%er two. One here on the West Coast in very professional looking film with Corps Officers’ Club—Cocktails 7:00, Dinner at 8:00. MARIAN is down in Mazatlan to fly her husband back from crewing a sailboat race from Long Leech.

SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY CHAPTER Helen McGee, Reporter Continuing our emphasis on the so­ ciability of flying, 11 members of our Chapter and three guests flew in to Columbia for our October meeting. After a tour of the state historical park, HELEN MCGEE hosted the group for lunch and a short business meeting at her home on Sonora. Piloting planes were JEAN MUR­ RAY, Stockton; MARIE McDOWELL, Gustine; MARTIE GRAHAM, Antioch; and GEORGE ANN GARMS, Palo Also. Passengers were SHIRLEY MILLER and EVELYN JOHNSON, Stockton; DOROTHY KOEBEL, Gustine; BILLIE WYATT, EV HENDLEY and LAURA MAY CRAWFORD, Modesto; and Fun Installation of new officers of the San Diego Chapter. President, RUTH IRENE NEALON, Hillsborough. EBEY, Vice President, LYNN BRIGGS. Secretary, MARGARET MOODY, IRENE PIGATI, a private pilot from Treasurer, JUNE HIOKOX. Antioch, DORIS CONTANTZ, Portola Valley, and MARGE SMITH, Palo exciting musical accompaniment, and mony. BETTY WHARTON, peppy Alio, were guests along with BETTY to JOHN MULLEN, (MARTHA’S hus­ Membership Chairman, surprised us STRAND, wife of Le FBO at Colum­ band) who helped with the showing. each with winged necklaces holding bia, and ALICE FARIS, a student JUNE and JIM HICKOX had a storm appropriate appendages for each office pilot from Sonora, who helped wilh chasing trip to Illinois. They kept —on RUTH'S wings was a watch; on the ground transportation. catching it and having to sit down LYNN’, a compass; on MARGARET’S, We combined our November meet­ and wait a bit. Returning, they had a pencil; and on JUNE'S, a minia­ ing with a mst successful rumage sale terrific winds out of Winslow which ture check book. As she presented in Modesto. The Modesto gals made forced them to make a 180. MARTHA each officer with her decoration, she the arrangements with everyone try­ and JOHN MULLEN, MARIAN and read clever and amusing admonitions ing to work ait least one of the days. GERALD BANKS, each couple in their which she had composed. MARGARET ANDREWS, recovering own plane, flew to Harlingen, Texas While BETTY LAMBERT was on a from a recent illness, stood by to nick up anyone flying in. Helping were to the Confederate Airforce Airshow. family vacation in Ontario, she man­ JEAN, CHARLOTE RYAN, LAVERNE It was ont of the most enjoyable air aged to get into Toronto long enough GUDGEL, ELAINE SMITH, MARIE, shows they have seen. BETTY WHAR­ to pick up her Canadian tourist license, BILLIE, JEANENNE THOMPSON, TON and her 49V2er CLAUDE flew and so could enjoy sea-plane trips LAURA MAY, EV, PAULINE CHRIS­ on another breakfast hop to Catalina over that beautiful part Of the world. Island, and on Veteran’s Day to Las TENSEN, DORTHA BRIDGEFORD, MARGARET and MURRAY GOOD­ Vegas where she made her first night SHIRLEY, HELEN and JEAN’S moth­ RICH are flying their Bonanza to landing. Hard-working MARGARET er, MRS. GLENN CUPP. There’s noth­ Boulder, Colo, to share a turkey with LANG helps regularly at the San Diego ing like a rummage sale for sociability. relatives for Thanksgiving. Aerospace Museum where plans are These last months have been meeting being completed for the building of a RUTH EBEY, BETTY GILLIES, time for many of our members. replica df the Spirit of St. Louis, hoping RUBY KEAVENY, BETTY WHAR­ MARIE and her husband, ALAN, and to have it done by M ay 22 for the 40th TON, STELLA HARDIN, ELEANOR GEORGE ANN with RENE, LA VERNE anniversary celebration. LOIS and RICHARDSON and guest, KITTY and guest DOROTHY McALLISTER HARRY BARTLING. ELSIE and ED SCHIEDING, thoroughly enjoyed at­ flew to the Southwest Sectional at the WATSON, MARGARET and JIM tending the Southwest Sectional at the Newporter Inn. Valuable pointers were MOODY all attended the AOPA Plan­ Newporter. They were full of enthusi­ picked up for the next Fall Sectional tation Party at Palm Springs. ELSIE asm for the hostesses and the ideas which our Chapter will ho~t in Stock­ and ED also flew to the Barstow- gained there. They happily announcd ton. Just hope we can do as excellent Daggett Fly In. we had won third place for air mark­ a job as the Orange County gals. At our October dinner meeting at the ing. MARIE and ALAN also attended the Marine Corps Officers’ Club, our new Husbands and guests are invited Dec. California Flying Farmer’s conven­ officers were installed at a fun cere­ 9 to our Christmas party at the Marine tion in Bakersfield along with VI and AL LAERUCHERIE and PAULINE and BILL CHRISTENSEN. Flying down to the AOPA Plantation Party in Palm Springs were CHAR­ LOTTE and husband, BILL, and VI and AL. BILLIE’S been attending meetings of the California Aviation Association on legislative matters. JEAN and her husband, HARLEY, took part in the Stockton Aeronautical Association’s test of skill in naviga­ tion and spot landings, ending with breakfast in Los Banos. DORTHA’S recent flying experience has been confined to the traffic pat­ tern at Stockton Metropolitan, helping check out customer’s planes. We’ve welcomed two new members recently. IRENE NEALON of Hills­ borough received her Private Pilot’s license April 27th and has m ore than 75 hours. She recently checked out in a Bonanza and will be flying that from now on. RENE is the mother of four girls, ages 12 to 20, and her husband, also a pilot, is an engineer with Bech­ tel Corporation. SHIRLEY MILLER, Stockton, re­ ceived her Private Pilot’s in August and has already passed her Commer­ cial written as well. To build up hours, she takes friends on a flight regularly every week. She and her contractor husband have four small children.

TUCSON CHAPTER Pat Nolen, Reporter Tucson 99s had another successful Penny-a-Pound Airlift on October 23. We carried 167,981 pounds of enthusi­ astic humanity. Vital statistics: 24 donated aircraft flown by 34 volunteer pilots. Tucson Airport Authority bought* 1380 gallons of gas. Tucson Tower reported this ninth year to be the best organized airlift of all. SHIRLEY MARSHALL holding the Lady Hay Drummond-Hay Trophy. In New York, on September 25fh, SHIRLEY MARSHALL received a sig­ SHERRY BOICE received her Instruc­ ticn company in the Nogales area. nal honor from the Women’s Inter­ tor Rating; MIRZA CLARK passed SYLVIA BARTZ, SHIRLEY MAR­ national Association of Aeronautics; her Commercial written; and WENDY SHALL and PAT NOLEN from Tuc­ the Lady Hay Drummond-Hay Trophy BLANCHARD has put her new Instruc­ son, and JUNE KAISER and RUTH for 1966! Our chapter is honored by tor Rating to work in the WDC area. REINHOLD from Phoenix attended having SHIRLEY join such an illus­ MARY ARMSTRONG was featured the 2nd International Hangar Session trious group of women in aviation. in a Louisville newspaper magazine in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, Novem­ ber ll-13th. GOVERNOR ENCINAS, of N ovem ber 11th m arks a m ilestone section with good pictures and a diary Sonora, and SENATOR BARRY GOLD- in the flying career of DOROTHY JEN­ of her participation in the ’66 AWTAR. WATER opened the Conference, which KINS. It is the 30th Anniversary of her CAROL EWING has a new prospec­ was aimed at solving border-crossing Commercial/Instructor Rating. DOT tive 99, but was back among us to problems, and arriving at a higher has been a part of the amazing prog­ do a terrific job with the loading ress that aviation has made in our crew for Penny-a-Pound. degree of mutual understanding. lives. FRAN FRANCIS has been doing PAT GILBERT and her 49y2er, We have news of new ratings: Charter and Ferry flying for an avia- CHARLIE, have moved into their new December 1966 jewelry store and PAT has promised in San Diego the first day and also Flying in from Las Vegas was Chair­ to come t'o our next meeting now that visit with their boy who is serving a man NORMA GUNDERSON in her 172, she has recovered from the serious mission and presently living in Orange. with her was LORI ANN NELSON. injuries she received in an automobile LYLE BECKSTRAND, our new Chap­ MARY VIAL flew solo from Phoenix, accident last year. ter Chairman, made it in time for also a Chapter Chairman. From Phoe­ the Saturday luncheon and business nix too, JUANITA NEWELL, 49%er, meeting, and MARJ and DON MACKEY ELGIN, MELBA BEARD, and WILMA UTAH CHAPTER and LOUISE and KEITH ANDERSON BLAND. JUANITA flew a Bonanza. Our Alberta Nicholson, Reporter came for the evening festivities (and Chairman MARY LIKEN and daugh­ LUCILE CHRISTOPHERSON, our ap­ itook home a door prize). It was ter, LORI in their 172 Sky hawk from pointed Reporter, wrote to me aboard great fun. Holbrook. I flew our Skylane with DOT TWA enroute fo Europe, saying she The October meeting was held at the WARD as co-pilot. LOIS WARD flew had left Provo and had forgotten to spacious home of another new Ogden a 140 from Prescott. JUNE ELY and mail the Utah Chapter news, and member, IRENE DeMARS, which daughter CAROLE drove from Williams would I pinch-hit for her, so here it turned out to be an interesting prob­ and took us to and from Moqui Inn, is. All is not play for LUCILE for she lem in navigation since if sets in a where we had lunch and talked flying. is in Europe to set up a tour for the secluded area far off the main road We all had fun. it’s always fun to Christopherson Travel. She plans to in the foothills surrounding the city. meet' nd talk with 99s from other visit the 99 M em bers-At-Large as she Due to an early snow, check points Chapters. Let’s do it again soon. goes through England, Scotland, Hol­ such as the miniature golf place re­ Three Chapters were represented at land, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and mained closed, bul the girls perse­ Norway. This is nice work if you can this meeling with all three Chairmen vered and all arrived safely for fhe get it. I rem em ber the delightful time present. That should be some sort of showing of MAUREEN’S slides of her I had making the acquaintance of DR. trip to Alaska in a group of three record, I think. LUCIE WYMANS and JAC COUSINS Super Cubs, which was both interest- O ctober 9th found 99s and 491/2 ers just a few years ago in Holland and winging their way to Holbrook for Brussels, breakfast. We eouidn’t have picked a The gorgeous Indian Summer wea­ AE SCHOLARSHIP better day, the air was smooth as ther we have been having is the great­ could be. DOT flew a club plane with CANDIDATES est for flying and everyone is taking JUNE ELY and ROBERT KNOTT, 66 advantage of it. The Utah State Uni­ D E A D L IN E Jan. 15th JEAN KNOTT’S son; JEAN, daughter- versity sponsored a Fly-in and Seminar in-law JESSYE, my 49%er BILL and at Logan right when the leaves were I flew in our plane; LOIS WARD from so brilliant. MAXINE NIELSON flew ing and educational (which is a real Prescott; JO WINTERLING and fam­ some of ALBERTA’S Air Explorers accomplishment for home slides). ily from Phoenix; and NAIDA BORDER since her plane was grounded and she The phone rang in the office one and family from Albuquerque; they flew with KAY BEER who was still day and to my great surprise il was were returning from a vacation in at the solo stage. After returning fo none other than our International Trea­ Hawaii. They were at the Prescott SLC, MAXINE flew on over 1o Price surer, RUTH RUECKERT. She was airport when LOIS was leaving so to spend the week-end. MAUREEN here with mate, FRED, who came 1o she invited them to fhe breakfast. Real RICHARDS and two of our four new deer hunt with his three brothers who nice meeting her and so glad they members from Ogden were there and live here. We were lucky to have her came. Holbrook airport manager, JIM although their flight was great, they come over for Coffee Sunday morn­ ROACH and his wife JEANNE, MARY really thought the speakers were great, ing to meet the Utah members and ELLEN, WARREN and LORI LIKEN, too. MAUREEN, along with JOAN give them an opportunity to get ac­ and JIM TANNER completed the list WILLIAMS and ELOISE WILLIAMS of quainted with one of their International of those present. Not quite, JEAN Clearfield, have embarked on a ven­ officers. We enjoyed your visit, RUTH. DECK drove from Winslow. ture which they hope will give them NANCY REULING had another in­ We went back to the airport for more flying and at the time will im­ teresting trip to Peoria, Illinois and I our business meeting. MARY ELLEN prove their flying technique. They plan understand she and GINI STREETOR named JEAN DECK, Fund Raising to take additional instruction for in­ have been doing a lot of flying down and Air Marking Chairman; JEAN strument flying, plus training in several around the fabulous Southern Utah KNOTT will work with JEAN on Air different types of planes. They have country. Marking. DOT WARD, Air Age Edu­ had one session in a Cherokee 180, a cation Chairman; DOT did a wonder­ Comanche 250 and several in Cubs. NORTHERN ARIZONA CHAPTER ful job of organizing our Pennies-A- They will meet twice monthly to formu­ Ruth Smith, Reporter Pound; more about that later. CARO­ late plans. Eleven 99s, l-49%er and 2 potential LYN SHOEMAKER, Historian; Our Congratulations to the Orange Coun­ 99s, we hope, met at Grand Canyon Scrapbook was passed around at this ty Chapter for a terrific Fall Sectional. on N ovem ber 5th. Las V egas Chapter meeting. JUNE ELY did a great job ALBERTA and WALT NICHOLSON gals were planning a fly-in there and the first year and ROSEMARY KAHLE flew down early, so as to attend their asked that we join them, so that was followed it up. I’m sure CAROLYN boy’s graduation from the Marines our meeting for the month. will do a good job too. BETH is our Membership Chairman and I’m re­ GWEN CALDWELL, was recently in porter again. America on a trip with her husband Be sure to look for items for sale and was very happy to meet BETTY BRITISH from our Chapter in the new roster. MILLER. I managed to have a few Cigarette lighters and book matches. words of greeting with BETTY’S hus­ SECTION Don’t only look—ORDER. band CHUCK, on a recent trans-Pacif- We think our Pennies-a-Pound was ic delivery flight he made. Do hope a huge success. 451 people were flown we will see them both back again one This report in note form to save for a total of 46,263 pounds. 13 planes day soon. GWEN was very thrilled spice! October meeting at DIANE took part and the temporary tower when SARAH GORELICK was able BARNATO WALKER’S flat; subject; reported a total of 348 takeoffs and to fly BILL and herself to Kansas plans for Thanksgiving Eve Party. landings during the nearly ten hours City in her Commanche when they Members there; ELIZABETH OVER­ it was in operation. The whole day encountered an Airline Strike on their BURY (chairing meeting in SHEILA went' very smoothly, thanks to the travels. SCOTT'S absence), PAMELA HUNT- previous experience some of our gols ROSEMARY ARNOLD made a fly­ LY, MARGO McKELLAR, YVONNE had when they helped the Tucson ing visit to Brisbane recently to ap­ POPE, BETTY CONES, GILLIAN chapter with their PAP. We plan to pear on a local TV program “What’s CAZALET, DIANA BARNATO WALK­ have another one next year with pos­ my Secret?” While here she also made ER, SUE PHILLIPS, LEMINA GOR­ sibly a longer trip over beautiful Oak a flight' in a Bell Helicopter. As you DON, ANN WELCH, and myself: also Creek. know ROSEMARY is our only Aus­ prospective members DAPHNE POYN- Congratulations to HELEN LAW­ tralian Whirly Girl. She and I are TER and DELPHINE GREY-FISK, RENCE, our newest Commercial pilot. interested in coming to the USA next “Sixty Six” BARBARA CANNON, and That makes 4 Commercial pilots in our year to enter in the Powder Puff most welcome addition: CAROL KOC- ranks with 2 of them holding the Derby. Once we solve the financial ZON from Garden State Chapter. rating of Instructor; BETH and DOT. angle of this prospective venture, the CAROL spending about 6 months in ROSEMARIO PHILLIPS is the other rest should be easy. England, has joined famous Tiger Commercial Pilot. The next meeting of the Australian Club, currently familiarizing herself JUNE and LARRY ELY are plan­ with Tiger Moth prior to taking Tiger ning their annual trip to Mexico next Club acceptance test. We look forward month. They plan to go down to Yuca­ CONSIDER CHANGES TO THE to having her join in our activities tan this year. We all enjoy hearing while she’s in this country. Just have JUNE’S account at our January meet­ CONSTITUTION & BY-LAWS to mention wonderful dinner DIANA ing. gave us after the meeting—absolutely Next meeting will be at Flagstaff on delicious food and wine—many thanks, December 4th at the airport Cafe. Ninety-Nines will be held in April next DIANA. Since this will be our December year during the Annual General Meet­ Members’ journeyings in last couple Issue—MERRY CHRISTMAS! ing of the Australian Women Pilots’ of months: MARJORIE DYKES' and Association. Next year Queensland will 49%er JOHN t'o Sardinia and Tunis in be the hostess State and women pilots their Cessna. FREYDIS and TIM Australian from all over Australia will gather at SHARLAND to their villa on a remote the “Gold Coast” 60 miles south of Greek island, lucky people. YVONNE ★ Brisbane. POPE to Minorca (Mediterranean Section I was very sorry not to be able to island) with her two sons. BETTY meet FAY GILLIS WELLS during her and ERNIE CONES toured the con­ South Pacific tour as a member of tinent in their Morris Oxford, specialty Olga Tarling, Secretary PRESIDENT JOHNSON’S Press Party, converted for sleeping in as well as I guess as Secretary of the Austra­ but I was on duty at the Radar site driving! lian Section Ninety-Nines, I had better for the President’s arrival and wasn’t Belated congratulations to NANCY give you some more news from this off-duty ’til 3 a.m. the next day. PEG BIRD WALTON on her O.B.E.! When part of the world. If is now closing KELMAN and I sent an orchid and NANCY was in this country to receive on another busy year and we will all our greetings to her hotel. She man­ the honor from the Queen, members soon be planning for 1937 activities. aged to ring PEG the following morn­ of British Section gave her a lunch­ After all the midyear Rating Exams ing early before the President de­ eon to celebrate: viz, SHEILA SCOTT. in Air Traffic Control and also having parted for Townsville, so at least we ELIZABETH OVERBURY, FREYDIS completed my Radar Course, life seem­ did make some contact. SHARLAND, and MARGO McKEL­ ed to subside to a more leisurely pace Well, I think that’s about all my LAR. We’re all so pleased about the until our family decided to buy a new present news. Our Governor MAR­ honor, which could not be more de­ home. We are now just about settled GARET KENTLY seems to have cov­ served. and I am planning a Christmas and ered most of our members’ activities House Warming Party in December in the last issue of the Newsletter Great news re: BERYL SANDERS. to put us underway. —so till next time— She’s passed the written exams for One of our Australian Women Pilots. Cheers to all from “Down Under.” Airline Trattspdrt Pilots License. These are very tough (much more so than U. S. ATR exam!) and it’s quite rare to pass them first time, as BERYL’s done. Very many congratulations from us all! BERYL will have her ALTP automatically as soon as she’s logged the rest' of the required hours. GILLIAN CAZALET’S out of luck again. Gregory Air Services closed down operations at Newcastle—GIL­ LIAN “redundant” along with other Gregory pilots. Last company GIL­ LIAN worked for in Newcastle went into liquidation, left her with no job and large chunk of back salary owing, never received to this day. However, still shortage of pilots in spite of winter season looming up; so we think and hope GILLIAN will be working again shortly. More details on illustrious new mem­ ber ANN W ELCH: learned to fly 1934: ferried all manner of service aircraft' during war in Air Transport Auxiliary; since war ANN has been prominent figure in gliding world, jobs including Chairman of British Gliding Associa tion Instructors Panel, Manager of British Gliding Team for 7 years, Di­ rector of World Gliding Championships 1965, and Director of all National Championships since 1985—all these time-consuming jobs being on volun­ tary basis. Awarded M.B.E. for “ser­ vices to gliding and work with the British Team; has also received Royal Aero Club Silver Medal and 0. P. Jones Cup for her contributions A URIEL MILLER of Durban at the South African Flying Championships for to gliding. In “spare time” (?) writes private pilots. books! 49tier LORNE also very well known in gliding world. now our local Ninety-Nine Headquar­ ters. A party will be held at the Flying Club which is located between Pre­ Welcome toria and Johannesburg, to mark the and SOUTH AFRICAN occasion and it is hoped that all the girls will be able to attend. Congratulations Here, in her own words, is a history SECTION of AURIEL MILLER’S flying. to our newly formed “My flying started off on a bursary awarded by the Durban branch of the South African Yvonne Lourens, Reporter Women’s Aviation Association — given Section At last South Africa has become a for winning an essay competition (on Section of the Ninety-Nines. Unfor­ why we would like to fly), and then tunately, despite endless efforts to get being put' through an elem entary flying to Seattle, none of our members could test. This bursary paid for all my flying twice. This was because of a) flying up to the Private Pilot’s test. be at the 1966 Convention to receive stalls (which I find mild now) and the Charier personally, but it arrived I went solo in 6% hours and was b) spins—they frightened the life out safe and well in the post! then duly presented with a lovely of me. (How could I possibly ever This Charter will be handed over bronze figure depicting a woman pilot, manage them by myself When my eyes to Grand Central Flying Club, the given by Commercial Air Services for largest and most active club in Africa, first solo. Then before seeing even were shut tight!) for safe-keeping, as Grand Central is 20 hours flying, I nearly gave up Then, when I had about 22 hours, I had occasion to be observer in an Aero-Commander piloted by the Presi­ dent of Aero Club of S. A.—Grahan Wulff. The plane developed engine trouble in the air and as we were returning fo Virginia Airfield the en­ gines cut, and we were forced to crash into the sea. Besides a few cuts, a thorough wetting, a short swim, and somewhat shaken we were none fhe worse for wear. From that rather un­ usual— experience we became eligible for membership of an exclusive inter­ national club—the Goldfish Club. Five months after starting the flying, I got my Private Pilot’s license, and licensed to fly Cessna 150s and 172s, and Cherokee 180. The Tiger Moth will be next, I hope. The South African flying champion­ ships were held in Durban over fhe 9th and 10th July this year, and I was talked into entering. The weather was good to us, and I was lucky enough to be placed second in the champion­ ships and found three Women’s Avia­ tion trophies presented to me. These being:—Brits floating trophy for best S.A. woman pilot, Marie Mills trophy for best forced landing, and Bertha Solomon trophy for best under 60 hours pilots (mine being 55 hours). As far as what I do for a living Left to right: Outgoing Chairman, CHRIS WINZER; new member- TRINA goes, pharmacy is my line. So study­ JARISH; and incoming Chairman, PRIL LOVERIDGE. ing has kept me busy since I left school. Always keen on sport and out­ HORTON. CHRIS WINZER and guest, fo the management of our group this door life. Although representing the NINA HETMAN were off to New York year. CHRIS recently was awarded school in hockey, tennis, swimming for the Greater New York Chapter the Amelia Earhart Scholarship and and netball teams, I now only man­ installation. has a full year ahead. Our new Chair­ age league squash and hockey. And SHARON SIMMONS worked most man anticipated a productive and busy flying of course!’’ arduously toward preparing our own year. Our congratulations go to AURIEL, installation banquet on October 22nd; RUTH BUCKLEY pinned our new­ who with comparatively little exper­ and she was fortunate in obtaining est member, TRINA JARISH, with a ience in flying, came second in the TED WINZER as guest speaker. He corsage of white flowers tied with S. A. championships for men and presented highlights of his professional royal blue ribbon, in the tradition of women. career as a pilot and now, jet captain. the Chapter. Members and friends at­ For the installation itself, CHRIS WIN­ tending the installation were as fol­ ZER passed along the gavel of chair­ lows: CYNTHIA and BUD KEMPER, man to PRIL LOVERIDGE and named MARY and KEN HORTON, EVELYN EVELYN MURCH as Vice-Chairman, NEW ENGLAND and DICK MURCH, BETTY SAGAN. while CYNTHIA KEMPER retains the CHRIS and TED WINZER, PRIL SECTION office of secretary and BETTY SAGAN LOVERIDGE, JERRY GARDINER, remains as our Treasurer. The Chapter RUTH BUCKLEY, GINNY and DICK CONNECTICUT CHAPTER presented CHRIS with a silver Revere CARRICATO, SHARON SIMMONS. bowl, thanking her for the long hours Ruth P. Buckley, Reporter PEGGY and DON DAVIDSON, MARI­ and lively participation she has given Along came four—CHRIS WINZER, LYN and JOHN HUBBELL, ELLEN PEG DAVIDSON, EVELYN MURCH, and TOM PURDY, prospective mem­ ber KAY LITTEN and husband BASIL; and PRIL LOVERIDGE attended the Is YO UR chapter report New England Sectional in Lawrence, also, three girls from the Conn. Wo­ Mass., on a gorgeous fall day and in the NEW S? men’s Flying Club: LOIS OLDS, had a marvelous time! And again CAROL LABINSKI and IRENE BATES, If not, W H Y not ? ? ? ? came four—RtJTH BUCKLEY, MARY as well as several guests. The November meeting will be a PARKE. At the end of the course each of Liberty donated by Helaire Copters luncheon given by PEG DAVIDSON girl received a Certificate of Com­ Limited, and RUTH BLISS won the and EVELYN MURCH at PEG’S home pletion, several overhaul manuals, and Helicopter ride donated by the Port in North Haven, and December will a piston as a remembrance. The girls of New York Authority. Lucky girls, bring our Christmas party at EV'S recommended this course very highly all! GUILFORD abode. Few reports have to anyone who has the opportunity 1o MINA ELSCHNER and DOLORES been relayed about flying activity. attend. MADDEN are planning a trip to Flor­ Perhaps, after reading this the mem­ The Garden State Chapter has ac­ ida in D OLORE’S Cessna 150, the name bers will be encouraged to speak up. cepted the responsibility as the Host­ of the plane being “Bent Wing” . Must Chairman’s note: “To those of you ess Chapter for the Start of the Powder be a story behind that one. whom I have not seen personally since Puff Derby in Atlantic City in July BETTY PATTON is a member of my taking of office—thank you for 1967. JUDY MELTSNER has been (he Paramus Flying Club at Teter- your confidence. And I would like to appointed Chairman of the Start and boro Airport, and is presently arrang­ say briefly that we have been asked she will keep you informed of all the ing an assembly program on aviation by the Florida Women Pilot’s Assoc, developm ents in the months 1o com e. a1 Ihe Dwight Morrow High School to manage a U. S. entry race stop Activities planned for our Chapter in Englewood, N. J. include a Christmas Party on Decem­ in Hartford for the IAR next May, MARION LOPEZ’s painting of the and we have accepted. More about ber 17 at Flying W Ranch. This date Blue Angels is now on tour around it next month! ” is also the anniversary of the first the country, and has been exhibited piloted airplane flight. On January at Gimbles in New York and at an 15, we are having another Box Lunch exhibition in Philadelphia. Auction at Morrisville Airport. SELMA CRONAN has a new book The Garden State Chapter has an­ N.Y. - N. J. appearing this fall, titled “A Heli­ other future 99. FAYE STRICKLER copter Can Be”. Published by Ran- of Brigantine had a baby girl in Sep­ SECTION dam House, it’s for beginning readers. tember and has already had her up Publishing dale is November 15. for her first airplane flight. GARDEN STATE CHAPTER MARGARET LAUDENSLAGER and Thai’s all the news for this month Nancy Smith, Reporter 49%er WALTER flew their daughter The Garden State Chapter is very to her college in Indiana and were promptly weathered in. Not being cur­ busy these days. On September 18 we AE SCHOLARSHIP “kicked off" the fall season with a rent on the instruments, they sat it brunch at Flying W Ranch and made CANDIDATES out for five days. Finally son PHILLIP came to the rescue, via Commercial our plans for the coming year. In D E A D L IN E Jan. 15th October, many of our members at­ and flew the family Comanche 400 tended the New York-New Jersey Fall home to Red Bank, N. J. Section Meeting at LaGuardia Air­ but keep posted for details of the IRENE KEITH, a Pan American port. Then on November 13, we met Start of the Derby and other coming Dispatcher, had a wonderful flight in in Atlantic City for a luncheon meet­ events. September to Rio de Janeiro for five ing. Our speaker was JOHN A. MC­ days; then on via Brazilia to Port DERMOTT, Chief Controller of I he GREATER NEW YORK CHAPTER o f Spain. F.A.A. Air Traffic Control Tower at Charlotte M. McCollum, Reporter On Septem ber 26th the New York Atlantic City Airport. He discussed A greal many members of our chap­ area had two international 99 visitors problems that pilots have when op­ ter enjoyed the Section meeting on arrive on the same day at Kennedy. erating in and around a controlled O ctober 15th at the Sheraton Tenney From Australia, via England, was airport, particularly busy airports. One Inn, La Guardia Airport. International RHONDA STEWART of Lidcombe, who important point he emphasized, never President ALICE ROBERTS was on is on a six month tour of three con­ he afraid to ask the tower to “say hand io bid good-bye to out-going Gov­ tinents. The evening arrival was SHE­ again” . ernor DORIS RENNINGER, and hello ILA SCOTT, Governor of the Great Several o f our 99s and 66s, along to incoming Governor KAY HIL- Britain Section. On hand to meet with members from the Eastern Pen- BRANDT. Before the installation meet­ SHEILA and RHONDA were DORIS nyslvania Chapter, attended a Basic ing, the “Omni Clinic” presented by RENNINGER, MINA ELSCHNER, Engine School at AVCO Lycoming Di­ MR. J. PATRICK MURPHY was a JULIE VOM SAAL, SELMA CRONAN vision in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. most informative program, well worth and KAY HILBRANDT. The day was Those attending were MARY JUNE seeing and hearing. spent: at Kennedy including a visit LOCH, JUDY MELTSNER, ANN Prospective members at. the Sec­ to the tower for RHONDA, then din­ WHISTON, FLORENCE WALSH, tion meeting included DOT KIRBY, ner at Trader V ic’s in Ihe city for all. MADELINE WILCOX, MARGE BRY­ Warren Township, N. J.; DORIS MINA also ran into MARIE D'AL- ANT, and JOAN BERTLES. The course STOLL, Chappaqua, N. Y.; and LYNN TERIO, Governor of the Middle-East dealt mainly with the 0-320 and 0-360 CHALMERS TWAITE, New Rochelle. Section, at Gabby Renninger’s Fly-In engines and included complete tear- BETTY PATTON won the Channel at Pottstown, Pa., airport the end down and reassembly. Their instructor Master Radio, GAIL BROWNLEE won of September. In this five day course was CH ARLES the Helicopter ride around the Statue BARBARA BROTHERTON’S new address is R. R. 1, Limehouse, On­ tario, Canada. BARBARA is still a members of our Chapter, preferring for the moment to remain so, rather than becoming a member-at-large. Good luck in your new home and new location, BARBARA! And I thank those responsible for getting the news to me this month, mainly MINA ELSCHNER, JULIE VOM SAAL, and RUTH BLISS. With­ out' them this would have been m ighty short!

LONG ISLAND CHAPTER Honey Kate Trattler, Reporter

Biggest news this fall: our highly successful Penny-A-Pound held on Oc­ tober 29th at Long Island-M acArfhur Airport. Over three thousand people turned up, and we were able to give rides to seven hundred and fifty. The chapter made about nine hundred dol­ lars—not' bad for our first airlift! We all worked mighty hard, and were New Lonj; Island Chapter officers at the installation luncheon. Left to right: fortunate in having help from hus­ RUTH DOBRESCU. Secretary; HONEY KATE TRATTLER, Vice-Chairman; bands, friends, fixed base operators, RITA GIBSON, Chairman; and JOAN FLEISCHMANN, Treasurer. and the airport tower and manage­ ment personnel. Everyone really pitch­ the new restaurant in the Douglas the MEEKER residence. The trick or ed in to make it a memorable day. MacArthur terminal building. frcaters present were PEG WAHL, Next in December is the Christmas ETHEL FEDDERS, DORITA NORTON, On October 22nd, just one week be­ party—this year to be held at the NAOMI MEEKER, and TERRI PIR- fore the Pcnny-A-Pound, our Installa­ Continental restaurant in Syosset on RUNG. tion luncheon was held at the Marc- Friday, December 9th. Festivities be­ pierre restaurant in Farmingdale. ETHEL and PEG flew by jet 1o New gin at 8 p.m. Guest of honor, GOVERNOR KAY York for the Fall Sectional. PEG in­ Newest Long Island Ninety-Nine is HILBRANDT, installed the new officers vited the Section to Western New York HELEN MOXIM, with a year of flying —Chairman, RITA GIBSON; Vice- for the Spring meeting. This is some­ and 137 hours tucked away. Welcome, Chairman, HONEY KATE TRATTLER; thing we have all been wanting to do HELEN. We’re delighted to have you Secretary, RUTH DOBRESCU; and for some time. now. NAOMI, ETHEL, with us. Treasurer, JOAN FLEISCHMANN. and TERRI were lucky enough to see HANK BORNER, Transportation Edi­ More news: ELLIE McCULLOUGH Ihe program that PAT MURPHY puts tor of the “Long Island Commercial received the Amelia Earhart medal on when it was sponsored by one of Review” , and one of our special guests, from the “Long Island Early Flyers” the Buffalo fixed-base operators. received a handsome identification for her AWTAR entry. The medal was We were glad to see our Chairman, bracelet as a token of appreciation for presented by charter Ninety-Nine mem­ DORITA back to her old chipper self all his help to the new Chapter. Then ber, VIOLA GENTRY. ELLIE also after a bout with a bug she picked outgoing Chairman ELLIE McCUL- became a member of the “Interna­ up during her travel to Russia and LOUGH was presented with a Ninety- tional Order of Characters,” nickname: Israel. Said she couldn’t even think Nine costume pin. There were some GERONIMO—and a Merry Christmas about flying for a couple of months. audible sighs of relief as she put it and Happy New Year to you all. We’re looking forward to seeing her on—RITA GIBSON had selected the pictures taken on the trip at a meet­ one pin ELLIE didn’t have. It was WESTERN NEW YORK CHAPTER ing in the near future. a lovely luncheon! Terri Pirrung, Reporter PEG said the latest Airmarking in Now some December dates to note: the Dunkirk-Fredonia area has been The Long Island Ninety-Nines and Cider, doughnuts, and some business on the roof of a Fredonia high school. Sixty-Sixes will model clothes, suitable was the program for our November We would like to say a belated wel­ for flying, at Long Island Airport on meeting held on Halloween night at come to HARRIET MILLER and Sunday, December 4th at 3 p.m. This FRANCES MURRAY, our newest mem­ will be co-ordinated with an aircraft bers on the other side of the state. CONSIDER CHANGES TO THE exhibit set up on the ramp—and the Hope you will be able to come over whole show celebrates the opening of CONSTITUTION & BY-LAWS our way for a meeting sometime. - 5 4 — able meeting place imaginable! !x0! the great whole, no matter how small.” kJlM IOOLE EAST —JACQUIE SMITH'S private landing She fold us of nominating ANESIA strip at Accokeek, Maryland. What a MACHADO as “Woman of the Year— SECTION pleasant surprise and thrill to see this for the 0X5 Club.” ANESIA MACH­ hidden paradise so close to Washing­ ADO, 99 member-at-large, recently pre­ CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ton, where he were afforded a private sented historical documents and orig­ CHAPTER air show by some of her friends— inal papers to the Smithsonian Insti­ Marion Dunlap, Reporter particularly including SKIP SHEP­ tute from the country of Brazil in Everyone had a good time ax’ The HARD. And, how lucky could the stunt- commemoration of ALBERT DUMAS, Middle East Section meeting at Wil­ ers be?? 49%er BILL JACKSON had fam ous aeronaut. While in St. Louis, liamsport, Pennsylvania. Friday eve­ just retired from the FAA prior to BLANCHE was on several radio pro­ ning a tour was made of Avco Corp. witnessing the show! grams and a beautiful luncheon was manufacturer of Lycoming aircraft en­ Planning—Ideas for fund raising and given in her honor attended by the gines. Following this, the girls met fun and surprises for the convention President of Zonta International, Mis­ in the Susquehanna Room of the Ly­ were (he chief topics for discussion. souri Valley Pilot’s, NAA and members coming Hotel for a Get Acquainted Members wearing their Ihinking caps, of the press. After the luncheon Party which was a delightful affair. besides the new officers included: BLANCHE installed the new officers Saturday morning brought quite a NANCY LYNAM, MARYANN JESSUP, of the Greater St. Louis Chapter of few of the girls flying in IFR as the JACQUELINE SMITH, BEA WILDER. the 99s and pinned their newest m em ­ weather was not too cooperative. HELEN MURPHY, JANE RALSTON, ber. The Section business meeting began RUTH FRECKLETON, H ED Y Vacations—Yankee BEA WILDER at 10:00 a.m. with the election of the JAFFEE, LAURA JERENER, NELLIE flew to her hometown for vacation— following officers: KATE McCARIO, JACKSON, HAZEL DWIGGINS, WEN­ CAPE COD—and had a marvelous Governor: HAZEL BARTOLET, Vice DY BLANCHARD, VELTA BENN, time, even though she took with her Governor; HAZEL DWIGGINS, Trea­ DORIS WHITE, MITZIE KELLER, an acquired southern Virginia accent. surer; and BARBARA FARQUHAR- LIL CHESNES, ADELE COTTON, Som e of the 49M>ers present at SON, Secretary. VIRGINIA THOMPSON, BLANCHE JACQUIE SMITH'S included: COMDR. Many fine things are being planned NOYES and JEAN ROSS HOWARD. DONALD LYNAM, PHILIP JESSUP, for the Im’ernational Convention in GILBERT KELLER, AL CHESNES, Washington, D. C. next year. Everyone KEN WHITE, and guest’s JERRY should make this a must on their lists CONSIDER CHANGES TO THE SCOTT, JOHN KELLY, MAJOR of events. CONSTITUTION & BY-LAWS CHARLES WILLIAMSON, CAPTAIN VIRGINIA THOMPSON, Chairman of JOHN MICHAEL O’CONNELL (Ma­ the Section Nominating Committee rine Pilot) and GUNNERY SERGEANT congratulated our Chapter on 1he many SHIRLEY MARSHALL graced our at­ MORRIS BEACH—the latter three from accomplishments during our first year. tendance by coming all the way from the 13th Infantry Battalion. They show­ After the business meeting everyone Tucson, Ariz. Other visitors included: ed a thrilling set of pictures about enjoyed a good lunch at which time, DOTTIE REESE, JUDY PATON, and Viet Nam, from where they recently prizes were presented to lucky re­ JEAN HOWARD'S Mother and Aunt returned. If any of you would care cipients. HAZEL BARTOLET was pre­ —to say nothing of baby DAVID to pep up your meetings, contact sented with a floral arrangement. WHITE. MAJOR WILLIAMSON and really do A new film called Stamp of Friend­ New Chapter—We shall miss ALICE some good for the Marine Reserve ship was shown after the luncheon. FUCHS and NANCY TIER, Who are CARE Fund, at 1028 Connecticut Ave­ This is the story of AMELIA EAR- transferring to other Chapters. RUTH nue, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20036. HART’S and JOAN SMITH'S Flights FRECKLETON announced her return They will have someone interesting around the World. This was a grand now that the Maryland Chapter is well attend your affair to show the films. finale to a wonderful weekend. on its way, and she is working to or­ We have so many glamorous activi­ ganize a new Chapter near Richmond, ties of an international flavor in Wash­ MARYLAND CHAPTER Virginia. ington going on at all times, that it EDITOR NOTE: ADA MITCHELL Congratulations—Go out to FRAN­ is difficult for us to attend them all. has successfully undergone a kidney CES NOLDE, who was in charge of JEAN ROSS HOWARD was busy at operation and is recuperating. She is the Women’s Race in the National Air the Army Helicopter Convention, but the organizer of Maryland Chapter and Show over Labor Day week-end at found time to have our International formerly member of Washington. Frederick, Maryland, to our racer President ALICE ROBERTS and In­ JANE RALSTON, and to MITZI KEL­ ternationa] Treasurer RUTH RUECK- WASHINGTON, I). C. CHAPTER LER, who has received her twin ERT in a receiving line at her home. Ruth Freckleton, Reporter rating! I arrived when most of the guests 1967 CONVENTION CITY 0X5 Meeting—BLANCHE NOYES (al­ were leaving as my little PUG (Freckle- Off We Go Into the high blue yonder ways preparing for another fabulous lon's Aero Queen) won in the Dog —and it was indeed gratifying for the trip as an executive of the FAA), Show that day. Gracing the tea table Washington members to rally around quoted something AMELIA EARHART and pouring for JEAN was BLANCHE their new officers at the most desir­ said: “Satisfaction is being a part of NOYES, swapping stories in between cups with ELSIE McBRIDE, KATE WELLS, Chairman of the activities other hotel arrangements; ADELE MACARIO and MARIE D’ALTERIO (and her co-Chairman VIRGINIA COTTON, Capital Fly In; JANE RAL­ from Philadelphia. I managed to cor­ THOMPSON, who was unavoidably ab­ STON, “Get Acquainted Party”; ner the Honorable MRS. ALBERT sent from the meeting). NANCY LYN­ HAZEL DWIGGINS; LIL CHESNES, THOMAS, Congresswomen from Texas, AM sparked the nearby Chapters of Award Luncheon; BLANCHE NOYES. who is serving her husband’s unex­ the Middle East Section to attend the Smithsonian; VIRGINIA THOMPSON, pired term. MRS. THOMAS is sold on Washington Chapter meeting at ADELE Reservations; HEDY JAFFE, Trans­ aviation and helicopters, and incidental­ COTTON'S residence—and what a de­ portation, “Thank Yous”, Central ly I suspect JEAN was instrumental lightful hostess she is! Represented Chapter; and FRANCES NOLDE will in getting a heliport in downtown were JOYCE ROGGIO, REA WELCH, take care of the Banquet, as well as Washington this week. Hurrah! Hand­ IRENE WIRTSCHAFTER, ELSIE Mc­ aerial Photos. Incidentally, all I can some GENE NORRIS of the AIA, was BRIDE, KATE MACARIO and BAR­ reveal now is that the theme will be chaperoned by his wife, JAN, who was BARA FARQUHARSON from the East­ an International one and you will be the third gal in Colorado to receive ern Pa., Chapter; CAROLYN HAR- receiving all kinds of information be­ her private ticket. Let’s get her flying BOLIS from Central Pa., Chapter; fore long. Inquiry and/or suggestion with us!! Maybe we can get a new LOIS BATY and LEAH STINCHCOMB from any one of you is welcome. Wash­ Washington member?? MAYETTA (with their 49%ers), from the Mary- ington is such an exciting place to BEHRENGER (formery from Santa live—and almost as grand to visit. Clara Valley) and more recently from PLAN NEXT SUMMER’S TRIP NOW. Peru with her Navy Commender hus­ Next News D E A D L IN E We heard that MAYETTA BEH­ band, is my neighbor at Andrews Air December 20th RINGER (who visited our meeting) Force Base. Impeccable fashion-plate has had a flight with the Blue Angels NANCY LYNAM, on hand with (on Navy Day). COMDR. DONALD LYNAM, her war­ land Chaoier; as well as HEDY JAFFE, Congratulations go out to the girls rior, greeted everyone as if her trip LAURA ZERENER, JANE RALSTON, who are working lor their Instrument from the AOPA Plantation Party at BETSY WEEKS, NANCY LYNAM, Rating, including MARYANNE SHEL­ Palm Springs, California, was just FRANCES NOLDE, HAZEL DWIG- LEY JESSUP. nothing at' all. She and VELTA BENN GINS, BEATRICE WILDER, MARY- It was a toss-up with the Amelia represented us as instructors at the ANNE JESSUP, ADELE COTTON, and Earhart Committee t'o select two from AOPA Clinic. RUTH FRECKLETON, from the Wash­ three: HAZEL DWIGGINS, NANCY I spent a minute saying “hello” to ington Chapter. LYNAM and WENDY BLANCHARD— ADELAIDE TINKER, just back from, FAY, whom you will recall did suc’t and the first two have been selected overseas, and there was such a furor a terrific job on the Amelia Ear­ for the final evaluation at Sectional of VIRGINIA THOMPSON’S friends hart Commemorative Stamp program, and National. gathering around, I grabbed my cam­ guided the gals up to the flight line. RUTH FRECKLETON is encourag­ era and left-—having time only to The following people “volunteered' ing a group of women in Richmond, say “welcome” to FAY GILLIS their assistance for committee work: Virginia to form their own Chapter— WELLS. II was nice lo see ALICE, JOYCE ROGGIO, International Pub­ and now awaiting sanction by Section RUTH, and all the others so happy. licity; RUTH FRECKLETON, local and. Headquarters, before the new The HOWARD teas are famous. Washington; LEAH STINCHCOMB and Charter is issued. Faced with the prospect of the 99s LOIS BATY, Women in Washington Christmas Party meeting will be International Convention next year, the area; Ways and Means—MITZI KEL December 10 at HEDY JAFFE'S home Washington area members have started LER; JO EDDLEMAN will handle at five o’cl:ck. If you are nearby, spinning their props around FAY Decorations, Governors Party, and fly in' 99 MEMBERSHIP LIST SOUTH CENTRAL SECTION Sawyer, Jacoy Whitesides (Mrs. Robert Berry, Eleanor Jane Drake) New P. O. Box 874 Arkansas 1417 Beacon Drive Utah Pine Bluff. Ark. 71601 Salt Lake City, Utah OCTOBER 1966 JE 5-3460 486-1603 Hughes, Eva. (Mrs. Bill) CANADIAN SECTION P. O. Box 455 Arkansas Charles Elizabeth (Mrs. Joseph R.) Mena, Ark. 71953 ‘ ‘ R El NSTATE M E NTS” 15 Dustan Crescent Canada 394-2363 NEW ENGLAND SECTION Toronto 6, Ontario, Canada Mitchell Delores O. (Mrs. Bob G., M.D. GA 13088 412 South Dogwood St. Arkansas Adams, Virginia A. (Mrs. F. 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