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THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE WOMEN SOARING PILOTS August 2021 ASSOCIATION. .https://womensoaring.org/ IN THIS ISSUE PAGE 2 Badges President’s note From the Editor PAGE 3 Letters. New Members, In the News PAGE 4 In Memoriam Dale Roberts, Hans Werner Grosse, Einar Enevoldson, PAGE 5 Annual Treasurer’s Report 2021 Women Cross Country Camp, Moriarty, NM PAGE 6 1st Women Cross Country Top: Marianne Guerin Camp. Bottom: Connie Buenafe (back) Laura Hohenshelt (front) What’s the Point? PAGE 7 X-Country Silver Distance PAGE 8 Famous Woman Pilot: Beate Uhse PAGE 9-11 The 2003 Paper Glider Project page 2 August 2021 THE WOMEN SOARING PILOTS Badges ASSOCIATION (WSPA) WAS Recorded through July 2021 FOUNDED IN 1986 AND IS AFFILIATED WITH THE SOARING SOCIETY OF AMERICA B Badge Natalie Hoeschle, TX BOARD Cathy Williams From the editor President I am still overwhelmed by the PO Box 336 effort of some of our WSPA mem- Laporte, PA 18626 President’s Notes bers to get me to this year’s semi- nar. I had all but given up, with LindaLee Laberge Newport News, VA (my hometown) Vice President Although the 2021 soaring season is entering and Springfield, VT (locale of the 8150 East Indian Hill Rd. the end of summer, WSPA members still have seminar) being on either side of the Norman, OK 73026 some important events on the calendar. end of the world concerning travel It is not too late to join us in Springfield, Ver- between the two. I could get as far mont for the annual seminar. Five busy days of as Boston, an odyssey by air Gail Schippers classes, instruction, demo cross country flights, (would have taken as long as going Secretary cross-country mentoring, and shared meals. It all to Europe, with changing planes 403 Collier Ave. begins on August 16. There is no deadline for and long layovers). But since I Longmont, CO 80501 registration, and all WSPA full and associate mem- don’t drive long distances anymore, bers are welcome. (Ed. note: also, men and women who want to join the I saw no way of getting from Bos- Margarett Roy organization are welcome). ton to Springfield. Then Colleen Treasurer We offer help with various airport and hotel transfers - you would not Koenig from New Mexico sprang PO Box 1197 need a rental car. Many of us will be camping. Check out the seminar infor- into action offering to fly to Boston Central Islip, NY 11722- mation on the WSPA website. Consider taking a last-minute New England (attending the seminar) picking me vacation with your soaring sisters. Margarett Roy and Kathy Keller have up and to drive together to Spring- 0950 been working hard to make this a special opportunity for us. You would not field. Travel time and costs discour- be disappointed! aged that plan. Then came the Dani Cerne Historically, the WSPA annual meeting is held during the seminar with suggestion: what about traveling by Scholarship Director only seminar participants in attendance. Last year, with no seminar, we train when Cathy (Keller) can pick 508 Adams Ave held a ZOOM general membership meeting with many enthusiastic at- you up and let you stay at her Los Banos CA 93635 tendees. For the 2021 meeting all members are invited to join us by Zoom house for a night or two and then as we gather for the meeting at the seminar. drive to Springfield together. Sud- Ute Kaden The 2021 ANNUAL GENERAL MEMMBERSHIP MEETING will be denly a window of opportunity Membership Director held on Thursday, August 19th at 7:30 PM. (that is 1830 Central, 1730 opened: there is a train that goes 2174 Penrose Lane Mountain, 1630 Pacific, 1530 Alaska and 0130 German) I am sorry that straight from Southeast Virginia to Boston and at a cost that was Fairbanks, AK 99709 the seminar schedule makes it impossible to have a time when our Europe- an members can realistically join us! We will do better next year. A ZOOM affordable. It’s a 12-hour train ride, invitation will be sent to the entire membership a few days before the meet- but I am used to this having criss- Ulrike Franz ing. crossed western Europe by train International Director This is the time to begin making plans for next year. The 2022 SSA several times and loving it. So, a Friederich Ebert Str. 9 Convention will be in Reno on February 24, 25, and 26. There is much to new adventure will take place: a 72762 Reutlingen see and learn plus so many friends to visit with. WSPA always has a well- long train ride in the US and I will Germany attended breakfast and a booth on the exhibit floor. There will be a presen- be at the seminar. *** tation that shares the excitement of the 2021 Women's Cross Country Camp Thank you, Colleen and Scholarship Chair at and WSPA seminar. Cathy, without your input I would Alice Palmer Scholarship applications are due in March. You will find scholarships not have attended the seminar. scholar- for all ages and experience levels described on the WSPA website. There Our life here at the retirement [email protected] were very few applicants this year and only three awards. I hope WSPA community has returned to normal, has the opportunity to provide financial support and mentors to more all restrictions are lifted, and all HANGAR SOARING IS PUBLISHED of our members in 2022. I encourage you to apply! activities have resumed. I hope it FEB, MAY, AUG, NOV. The Cross Country Camp will be held again at Moriarty next stays that way. All of us residents [email protected] were fully vaccinated in January spring. The 2022 seminar is planned for late July in the Schwabisch and our management kept us virus OR alps of southwest Germany, near Stuttgart. (Ed. note: the Schwabisch alps free during the long lock-down. But FRAUKE ELBER, EDITOR, are not the high, rugged mountains we associate with the name “alps”, but a 1002 Old Denbigh Blvd #206 I was very disturbed to learn that more “rolling hill” countryside) More details coming in the fall. one of our members will not attend NEWPORT NEWS, VA 23602 Soaring is such a remarkable sport with a place for all who are lucky the seminar, because of the vac- enough to discover its many facets. Challenges at the level you desire, cination request. Looking back, I Colleen Koenig, Webmaster accomplishments that grow confidence and satisfaction, friends who share [email protected] have gone through several mass (President’s notes on page 4) August 2021 page 3 vaccinations: the first one at age publications, In the News three was against Smallpox (they Each issue I read inspires me to are gone now thanks to the vac- be more creative in doing the Polish pilot Patrycja Pacac (25) made history by becoming the first cine). Then after the war came job of editing and producing the woman in history to win the World Glider Championship in Advanced vaccines against Typhus and 1-26 Association Newsletter. I Aerobatics Diphtheria which were rampant hope you will feel free to critique then, now only heard of in under- this effort, and any future efforts. Sarah Arnolds developed countries. In my early The work you all do seems Sarah Arnold has been selected for the U. S. Soaring Hall of Fame for school years, most of us children much better; so, I think the best 2020. Her induction and banquet will be held here at the National Soaring came down with the Measles. thing I can add is that I look Museum on Wednesday evening, November 3, 2021. She has selected Now, there is a vaccine for this, forward to meeting you soon yet this date so as to not conflict with her business and competition responsi- and they have been almost eradi- this year to compare notes. bilities. She has requested that Roy McMaster, 2019 HoF inductee, also cated. In the early 50ies, our state be recognized on this occasion. Sarah has firmly established herself as in Germany (then part of France) The Blue Ridge Soaring Soci- an excellent competition sailplane pilot. In 2011, she was the first woman was put under quarantine for a ety (BRSS) asked to put the selected to represent the U.S. in a world soaring competition and brought whole summer, because of a following into the next Hangar home a bronze medal. In that same year, Sarah also won the U.S. Open devastating Polio outbreak. We Soaring ( I worked there as Class Nationals and in 2020, she became the first American to win a missed a whole month of school ground crew for almost 45 Women’s World Championship. When she is not flying in contests, Sarah and when schools reopened a years). and her husband, Jason, operate their soaring operation in Benton, Ten- new vaccine had come on the nessee. market, which then was adminis- Region 4 South- Newcastle, tered on sugar cubes, not by VA contest. Cathy Williams shots. How often do we see Polio September 18-25 was recognized as Region 2 most active instructor now? Register at SSA site or at Therefore, I have become a Jim Cole, Co-manager at Ute Kaden believer in vaccinations. I get the [email protected] received her Power CFI on May 17 flue shots regularly, had shots <mailto:[email protected]> against Pneumonia and Shingles. I think we can get the present New Castle International is a Wally Funk pandemic under control with vac- jewel of a gliderport and worth- On July 20, 2021, 52 years after the first moon cinations.

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