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Ode to a Volunteer June Is WSPA Membership Renewal Month. Please May, 2018 THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE WOMEN SOARING PILOTS ASSOC. Www.womensoaring.org IN THIS ISSUE The following written in beautiful calligraphy was presented to me at the end of my 29 years as volunteer in the Newport News school system. Page 2 Frauke Special Achivements President’s Note From the Editor Page 3 Prospective participants in Ode to a Volunteer the next WWGC Many will be shocked to find when the day of judgement nears, Page 4 That there is a special place in heaven, set aside for volunteers. Flyer for Funding of our Furnished with big recliners, satin couches and foot stools. Women WWGC participants Where there is no committee chairman, no group leaders or car- Page 5 pools, No eager team that needs a coach, no bazar and no bake sale. The 1993 WSPA Seminar There will nothing to staple, not one thing to fold or mail, Club Trainers for Denmark Telephone lists will be outlawed, but a finger snap will bring Page 6-7 Cool drinks and gourmet dinners and rare treats fit for a king. You ask, who will serve these privileged few and work for all they’re On the Other Side of the worth? Fence Why, all those who reaped benefits and not once volunteered on Page 8 earth. Soaring Again Author unknown Page 9-10 Winning the Racing Class in the Multi Class NZ Nationals Page 11 April was Volunteer Month Miscellaneous June is WSPA Membership Renewal Month. Please submit your payment to Alexis Latner (address on page 2) or by Pay Pal. page 2 May, 2018 THE WOMEN SOARING PILOTS ASSOCIATION (WSPA) WAS Special Achievements (no Badge listings this time) FOUNDED IN 1986 AND IS AFFILIATED WITH THE SOARING Cindy Brickner: first female to have a jet-selflaunch glider endorse- SOCIETY OF AMERICA ment listed on her pilot license. BOARD Maryam Ali at age 15 has become the youngest ever editor of a major soaring club newsletter. You can see her outstanding work at Mary Rust http://skylinesoaring.org/NEWSLETTER/current.pdf. From the editor: President Maybe Maryam could be our next Hangar Soaring editor 26630 Garret Ryan Ct. Some of you who care to read Hermet, CA 92544-6733 the newsletter might have seen President’s Notes the notice, that WSPA started a Charlotte Taylor Dear WSPA Members and Associates: fund drive to support three of our Vice President The Women’s Soaring Seminar, July 23 to 27, pilots planning to go to the next 4206 JuniataSt. 2018: Women World Championships, St. Louis, MO 63116 I am very excited about the upcoming Women’s which will be held in January 20- Soaring Seminar in Truckee, California, near Lake 20 in Australia. We posted a call Joan Burn Tahoe, which is the largest Alpine lake in the USA! for help as a poster at the Con- Our hostess, Marianne Guerin, and our Vice- Secretary vention and as a lure had a bowl President, Charlotte Taylor, have negotiated terrific pricing at the airport with cookies next to it. It brought 212 Marian Ct. just for us; and they have put together three clubs to enable us to fly a us $746 in donations. Members of Hockessin, DE 19707 wide variety of medium to advanced gliders, along with expert pilots to my club, the Tidewater Soaring fly them with you. There will also be trainers (beginning gliders) to fly at Society (TSS) so far have donat- Alexis Latner a reduced rate for the students. ed close to $1000, including my Treasurer Marianne has organized a list of expert speakers on mountain donation. 2400 N Braeswood #333 soaring, both for the morning and evening sessions, and they have Houston, TX 77030-4345 obtained authorization for us to use the beautiful Truckee-Tahoe Airport T h e l a t e s t i s s u e o f Meeting Center for our evening speakers. The generous Truckee-Tahoe SOARINGNZ, the New Zealand Laura Radigan Airport District also has donated three $1000 scholarships for local wom- soaring magazine, features the en under 18 years old who would like to attend our seminar. Our Schol- story of one pilot and his efforts to At Large arship Committee Chair, Phyllis Wells, is working with them now on the 1632 Gable Ct. raise money to participate in the selection of these three young women. finale of the Grand Prix Racing, Meritt Island, FL 32953- As usual, all meals are included with your registration during the which took place in Chile last 3189 five official seminar days, Monday through Friday. Nobody ever goes year. The following are excerpts hungry at WSPA Seminars! (Note: if you are bringing along a non-flying from that report: Lora Lewis friend or family member, please register them at “A round trip to Chile with my At Large www.womensoaring.org at the reduced rate, which covers all their own glider was going to cost $45k 3910 Saywood Ct. meals, their seminar T-Shirt, and the Briegleb Scholarship annual dona- to $50k (I guess NZ currency, Palm Harbor, FL 34685 tion of $20, which goes toward a new first-time woman to attend next ed.). How could I afford to justify year’s seminar.) this?” He contacted the hosting Lodging: Marianne and Charlotte have negotiated a reduced Elke Fuglsang-Petersen (Int) Chilean soaring club, exploring WSPA price at the local Hampton Inn and Suites, plus several past and At Large the possibility of a house swap. current Board members have rented entire houses for lodging, which “Within three days, I had three Dorfstr.17 they are willing to share. See our web page for more details. people lining up saying they would 24613 Aukrug like to come to NZ”. He ended up Germany Our Annual WSPA Meetings: doing a house swap with a lovely *** As always, we will hold our annual WSPA Board Meeting and Gen- Chilean family. “That deal provid- Scholarship Chair eral Meeting(s) at the seminar. We begin with the Board of Director’s ed us with a four-bedroom home Phyllis Wells meeting on Sunday Evening, 6 PM at a house Rental that I was able to with swimming pool, one minute PO Box 278 procure. The General Meeting, which is for all WSPA members, will be drive from the glider club, two cars Aguila, AZ 85320 split into 4 shorter (15 – 20 min) sections at our Monday through Thurs- and a full time maid, who did all day evening presentations in the Meeting Center. On Friday night we our washing, kept the house, HANGAR SOARING IS PUBLISHED hold the seminar awards ban- cooked us breakfast and dinner FEB, MAY, AUG, NOV. quet. each night if we needed it. Ac- [email protected] commodations sorted out and OR The SSA Convention in $10k saved”. FRAUKE ELBER, EDITOR, Reno, NV – March 1-4, 2018: Shipping the glider was another 1002 Old Denbigh Blvd #206 Our booth, and a “sold hurdle. There were no gliders to NEWPORT NEWS, VA 23602 out” breakfast, at the SSA rent in Chile. While the Europeans Convention were both ex- had the costs of shipping paid by Colleen Koenig, Webmaster tremely popular this year! We the organizers of the Grand Prix [email protected] Photo: Mark Montague had a very nice turn out of finals, there was no money left for Mary at the WSPA booth visitors and members who a lone Kiwi. At a social function May, 2018 page 3 he bumped into a person who The prospective three Sylvia Grandstaff (formerly Kathy Fosha knew the managing director of the Szarfaczyk). Kathy learned to fly while in Maersk Shipping Line and this pilots. Sylvia attended for the College in Colorado. In summer of man passed the story on. The first time a WSPA seminar in 2003, WSPA was offered the use managing director liked the story Sarah Arnold 2002 at Caesar Creek in Ohio. of a sailplane by a pilot who was and offered to ship the glider to Sarah doesn’t need any Sylvia was a high school senior temporarily grounded. Kathy was Chile and back in a 40 ft container introduction to WSPA or SSA then working on her glider li- the lucky recipient of the Pegasus at no costs. The pilot’s law part- members. She has flown in 3 cense. She attended Rice Uni- and at the 2003 Seminar in Mori- ners and some other funding took World Championships ( 2013 FAI versity in Texas with the intend arty, NM, she made good use of care of the entry fees and tows. championship in Argentina) and at to study Medicine. But fate had the plane. That summer she flew Thus, the Kiwi pilot was able to go the 2013 and 2017 Women’s other plans for her. Sylvia joined her Silver and Gold C and flew in to Chile and participate in the World Championships in France the Army and learned to fly heli- contests. prestigious Grand Prix Finale. (finishing with Bronze Medal) and copters. She had two tours to Kathy was selected to fly in the Czech Republic (finishing with Afghanistan. Afterwards she the 2007 Junior World Champion- This story shows, what is pos- Silver Medal). She has won sever- attended the Army Testpilot ships in Italy. sible with a bit of creative thinking, al Regional and and National school from which she graduated Kathy is an aeronautical action, a portion of good luck and Championships. In 2017 Sarah with honors. Sylvia is now based engineer in California and flies in just going out to ask for help. was inducted into the Tennessee in Huntsville, Alabama.
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