Volume XX Number 2 The International Women Pilots Magazine March/April 1994 Ninety-Nine A H i s t o r y D f EXCELLENCE A F u t u r e W i t h PROMISE The Federal Aviation Administration has a history of excellence in air safety and technological superiority. Our diverse work force will continue to refine the latest technology' to lead the world in civil aeronautics and air commerce. U.S. Deportment of Transportation Discover Today’s FAA Federal Aviation Administration ■—-—— Equal Opportunity Employer The International Women Pilots Magazine Ninety-Nine March/April 1994 Vol. 20, No. 2 C o v e r 15 THE NINETY-NINES, INC. Building An Avid Flyer New Member Listing BOARD OF DIRECTORS DIANA NICHOLS President: Lu Hollander Cover photo by Jaye Howes/Cal Photo 16 Vice President: Joyce Wells Secretary: Lois Erickson Convention Speakers Treasurer: Alexis Koehler Director: Doris Abbate President’s Comments Director: Carolyn Carpp 18 Director: A. Lee Orr LU HOLLANDER Membership Director: Connie Wilds MARILYN SMITH Past President: Gene Nora Jessen SECTION REPORTERS Headquarters Highlights 19 United States: LORETTA GRAGG Legislation Mid-Atlantic: Shari Beck EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LYNN E. TRUPIN New England: Bonnie Porter New York/New Jersey: Jill Hopfenmuller North Central: Myma Stephens 20 Northwest: Anita Taylor International Report Forum South Central: Margaret Cosby CAROLYN C. CARPP MARILYN SMITH Southeast: Sara Carson Southwest: Kathleen Browne 22 East Canada: Nancy O'Neil Holden West Canada: Barbara Meredith Candidates for Election Careers: Making the Move Africa South: Sally Sandeman Position Statements to a Flying Job Arabian: Patsy Knox KAREN KAHN Australian: Barbara Sandow British: Aileen Egan 15 Caribbean: Eugena Granger Forest of Friendship Chilean: Cecilia Irrazabal FAY GILLIS WELLS Far East: Rikako Carpenter Finnish: Orvukki Kuotti India: Chanda Budhabhatti GRASS ROOTS Israeli: Rina Levinson-Adler New Zealand: Joan Campbell Misc. Chapter News 23 Achievers 28 EDITOR: BETTY ROWLEY Patric Rowley & Partners Youth Education 24 NOTAMS 28 807 N. 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Dates are 13-15 NY-NJ Section Gayl Henze 512-289-1101 perpetual until they expire or Albany, N.Y. 215-843-6456 Harriet Bregman until written notice is received 518-273-6039 of their cancellation. PRESIDENT'S COMMEN T S LU HOLLANDER “How did you happen to take up flying?” HILE PREPARING FOR A SPEECH to present at Membership campaign underway the Northwest Aviation Trade Show and Conference, Please join me and all your leaders in extending full support I’ve had occasion to spend some research to our six-month membership campaign, “1,000 time in our archives and library at International Head­ more in ’94.” quarters. What an amazing collection of information, Each of you can make a significant contribution photographs and other memorabilia we have! to the 99s by bringing just one new member into I thought you might enjoy the following item, the organization, or by contacting someone who’s excerpted from Number 27 in a series of press re­ drifted away and encouraging her to reinstate. leases about women pilots written by Clara In 1929, our founders contacted an audience of Trenckmann for the Curtiss Wright Corporation, this 117 women pilots; they gained 84 percent of that one dated March 16, 1930. available membership source to form the 99s. “Every woman pilot and flying student has at Today, we have an available audience of over one time or another been asked one certain You can make 20,000 women pilots who aren’t 99s—women we question... ‘ How did you happen to take up fly ing?”’ a significant can contact and invite to share our objectives as an Here are some of the answers given at that time. organization. At our current membership of 6,500, contribution by we comprise about 24 percent of today’s women • It’s more fun than golf or tennis or swimming. bringing just one licensed pilots. If each of us were to contact four • Flying has always fascinated me. prospective members in the next few months, we • It is the most interesting way to make a living. new member could reach all those non-99s. • Flying is the fastest way to go places. into the 99s. That’s easy! Not much of a hill for a climber, as • It is good for an inferiority complex. the saying goes. If each one of us contacts and brings • It is good for a Narcissus complex. aboard only one prospective member or reinstate­ • Flying takes you out into the fresh air. ment, we’ll have gained more than six times our goal of “ 1,000 • I fell in love with an aviator. More in ’94.” • Lindbergh flew the Atlantic. Complete details can be found in the January-February issue • You get on speaking terms with the sky, and the wind.