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PERPETUAL CALENDAR 2010 OCTOBER JUNE 1 Joint Section Meeting for North Central 99 News Section and Southeast Section, Double 1 Due date for 99 News submissions for July/ Tree Downtown Nashville, Nashville, August/September 2010 issue. Tennessee. “Two Sections, One Grand Ole 18-20 International Forest of Friendship, Atchi- Time” hosted by Aux Plaines Chapter and son, Kansas. The focus is on Forests and Southeast Section Board. Contact Shelley To list your 99s events Flying. Visit ifof.org for more information. Ventura, [email protected]. on this calendar page, 22-25 Air Race Classic, Fort Myers, Florida to NOVEMBER send information to: Frederick, Maryland, www.airraceclassic. 6-7 Honoring of Women in Aviation Con- The 99 News org. 4300 Amelia Earhart Dr ference, Mumbai, India. Organized by India Section and the Indian Women Pi- Suite A JULY lots Association. For information contact Oklahoma City, OK 5-9 Ninety-Nines International Conference [email protected]. 73159-1140 2010, Kona, Hawaii. Sheraton Keauhou Email: Bay Resort and Spa on the Kona Coast. For DECEMBER more information and registration, visit [email protected] 1 Due date for 99 News submissions for ninetynines.net/hawaii2010. Online Form: January/February/March 2011 issue. ninety-nines.org/ 19- 23 34th Annual Women Soaring Seminar 99newsreports.html sponsored by the Women Soaring Pilots As- 2011 Please indicate the sociation (WSPA), Reno, Nevada. Contact name and location Neita Montague, [email protected], and JULY visit womensoaring.org for further details of the event, the 13-17 Ninety-Nines International Conference, about the seminar and scholarships offered contact name and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. the phone/fax/email. by WSPA. 26- EAA AirVenture 2010, Wittman Regional Aug. 1 Airport, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. For more information visit airventure.org. Correction The New Horizons article for Rita Orr On the Cover SEPTEMBER in the January/February/March 2010 issue 1 Due date for 99 News submissions for the was written by Kay Fate of the Faribault Iza Bazin, French Sec- October/November/December 2010 issue. Daily News and not Janice Pelletti as stated. tion Governor, prac- tices steep turns in the Druine Turbi while her husband Arnaud, in the rear seat, experi- ments taking photos from innovative points of view. “He managed to hold the camera up in the air against the wind — and he didn’t let it go, allowing us to discover a series of really nice On the Cover shots in the evening that took us back in the sky for a dreamy The Druine Turbi was designed in the 1950s as a low cost aircraft. Iza Bazin’s husband’s Turbi, F-PSPL, was homebuilt in the late 1990s and is a “ticket for travelling back in time, for flying short flights that feel like moment,” says Iza. truly sharing the sky with the birds, hair in the wind,” says Iza, adding that the Turbi was the only airplane out in the snow this winter. 2 99 News –April/May/June – 2010 99 News published by THE NINETY-NINES® INC. 99 News International Organization of Women Pilots A Delaware Nonprofit Corporation The Official Magazine of The International Organization of Women Pilots Organized November 2, 1929 (ISSN 1548-565X) April/May/June 2010 Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved Volume 36, Number 2 INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS 4300 Amelia Earhart Dr, Suite A Oklahoma City, OK 73159-1140 USA 405-685-7969 or 800-994-1929 FAX: 405-685-7985 Email: [email protected] Website: www.ninety-nines.org PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE Susan Larson Jody McCarrell Patricia Theberge Kristine Irvin-Herron Donna Crane-Bailey, Marie Fasano, Lu Hollander, Marion Nauman, Pamela O’Brien, Janice Pelletti, Bobbi Roe Bobbi Roe: Editor-in-Chief Danielle Clarneaux: Associate Editor, Graphics Jacque Boyd, Diane Pirman: Staff Writers AVIATRIX PUBLISHING, INC. 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Oklahoma City, OK 73159 USA 99 News – April/May/June – 2010 3 Inside: Women Who Made a Difference 99 News April/May/June 2010 Hawaii 2010 6 by Martha Phillips Rita Ann Orr — Passing the Legacy of 8 Aviation to Her Daughter 8 by Janice Orr Pelletti Claire Walters Was the Ultimate Fundraiser Rita Orr 12 In Creating the 99s Museum of Woman Pilots by CJ Strawn Charlene Falkenburg — As an AEMSF Trustee, 16 Her Touch Will Carry On Far Into the Future by Jacqueline Boyd AEMSF Judges 18 19 by Jacqueline Boyd Proudly Getting the Gold Claire Walters 21 by Bobbi Roe Flying Over Cape Cod 22 by Ruth Richter Endowment Fund: $30,000 Matching Challenge 24 by Mary Wunder EAA/Airventure Oshkosh 2010 22 24 by Rita Adams Charlene Falkenburg French Section member A m a n d i n e H i v e r t IN EACH ISSUE with Marie Macke, Mirage 2000 Fighter 5 President’s Message pilot, at Le Bourget. 7 Careers/Pro 99s Amandine is wearing the French Air Force 15 New Members uniform that belonged 20 Touch & Go to her grandfather, Book Review 49½ Roger Hivert. 25 He and his wife Linda 25 Ratings and Wings Mae Draper, Southwest 26 Grass Roots Section Governor, were behind the initial idea to 27 30 New Horizons reestablish the French Section. 4 99 News –April/May/June – 2010 President’s Message BY SUSAN LARSON, International President 18,135 and counting — hours that is — and more specifically, volunteer hours.