OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN PILOTS Champion Citabria built by Bellanca Aircraft Corp. On location at Ponce de Leon Golf Course, St. Petersburg, Florida Two Jacks Will Pay CASH For Your CONTACT: Airplane Jack Adams Sr. Ron Johnston BANK REFERENCE: Mr. Paul Pope, Vice President Jack Adams Jr. Commercial & Industrial Bank Buddy Butler Memphis, Tenn. (901 ) 523-2492 Jan Mann We own a large inventory of top-quality airplanes. May we include your Phyliss Bayliff name on our mailing list? Sandra Sorrells Two Jacks, Inc. Open Saturdays and Sundays Box 88 Area Code 901 Arlington Airport 867-2991 Arlington, Tenn. 38002 h ie BB b b ib s MARCH-APRIL 1972 Volume 14 Number 34 President's Column THE NINETY-NINES, INC. Will Rogers World Airport International Headquarters Oklahoma City. Oklahoma 73159 Return Form 3579 to above address 2nd Class Postage pd. at North Little Rock. Ark. Publisher .....................................................Lee Keenihan HOPE you're thrilled with the New News. KNOW what you think about the roster. Managing Editor Hazel McKendrick Jones Magnifying glasses, anybody? Art Director ..............................................Lucille Weeks More and more Ninty Nines are making public presentations to civic clubs, Production Manager.................................. Ron Oberlag school groups, aviation and others. PLEASE DO KNOW YOUR SUBJECT, YOUR Circulation Manager .............................. Loretta Gragg FACTS, AND YOUR TIME LIMITATIONS. Your are being asked to speak because Contributing Editors people think you have something contributory to say. Make it interesting too — Arliene Dando Darlene Gilmore and BRIEF. Becky Thatcher Lois Feigenbaum Backward glance: Am still chagrined because I mislaid the October Prez Virginia Thompson Barbara Bonnett message I had written full of bouquets for the SW section at Yosemite. It was won­ Dottie Sanders Edith Denny derful and productive and fun. (You should see your Prez play a washboard. And Hazel Jones Mona Budding what fun to fly left seat in the Betty-Jo Allen Smith Mooney back to Phoenix!) Eleanor Bailey Ruth Thomas On the 747 flight out, did I tell you that it was announced to the passengers that Director of Advertising Paula Reed the 99 Prez was aboard? Then the copilot, who turned out to be Flying Rebel Jim Hansen from Atlanta, went on to tell knowledgeably what and who 99s are! As to what they are — wonderful, says your Prez. I went off on a short consulting trip recently, got home 7 days later. Weather, weather, would you believe over 5 in­ Contents ches of rain in one night? 99s to the rescue — North Georgia meeting in Atlanta, Susan Oliver Flies Prez the honor guest — she had to leave 24C there, but Georgia 99 Nancy Peter­ son flew her back to Falcon Field where Lois Lacy keeps her Mooney, Lois relayed for Easter Seals.....................................2 her to Atlanta, and then enroute Panama City, THUNDERSTORMS, so RON In- diana-Floridian Virginia McKee at Marianna, and a pleasant evening with the “Liz Leaps” .................................................2 McKees and Joyce Toman McKee, Georgia chapter, and her 49 1/2er Joe. My turn. Weathered in, anybody? Profile of a Convention C ity ................. 5 We hope all chapters are saving files of their newsletters. They are WOMEN-IN- AVIATION History. Your prez loves getting them — for instance, Betty Hicks tells AWTAR Ways and Means ..................... 7 in Santa Clara's "Wind Sock" that the January meeting was held aboard a Boeing TWA 747. On the ground, regrets Betty. This chapter distributed safety brochures Powder Puff Derby ...................................7 at numerous airports recently. Our moon-mapper, Dee Stuart-Alexander, earned her multi-engine rating on a volcano-chasing expedition in Mexico. Safety Seminar on the docket. Betty's WACOA article in International News this month, REGULAR FEATURES we hope. Claudia Carlson, FAA controller, off for an assignment in Spain! Long Beach MC-ing a Flight Instructor Revalidation Clinic. (Editors are Jan President's Column.........................................1 McFarren and Karen Sherman.) Headlines from H azel..................................... 2 Diane Tribble, Long Island, just flew a '40’s vintage Cub transcontinental. Sue Andrews, Dallas Redbird News, says her chapter is collecting "cool whip" Ninety-Nine News Award............................... 3 labels and Joy bottles for a project. Send her a few? Kathy Long and Helen Wilke Coming Events................................................ 3 making DRF flights. Editor Hazel talking to Little Rock Zontas. Backward Glance.............................................4 First Canadian and all the rest of Canada talking convention, convention, com­ mittee committee, and DO use their pretty maple leaf stickers on your correspon­ Safety T ip s ........................................................6 dence! Committee R ep orts.........................................8 Gerry Bettz says St. Louis was much impressed by a film on Wings of Hope, en­ Chapter Reports.............................................10 joyed the Zonta Amelia Earhart luncheon. Wichita Falls’ Ruth Renton reprinted the story by a 10 year-old boy about why he watns to be a pilot — he concludes "I hope I don't get airsick, because then I couldn't be a pilot and would have to go to work!" INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS Interesting Central Pennsylvanian, reports Boots Husted, editor of "Plane Talk", P resident...................................................................»• • • Betty W. McNabb 3114 Beachwood Dr> Panama City. Fla. 32401 is Mary Foley. She writes for an encyclopedia! Vice President............................................................................Susie Sewell Indiana will present three 25 year pins in 1972, says editor Pauline in her c/o Catlin Aviation Co. "Pireps," the pins to Sophia Payton, Margaret Ringenberg, Mildred Hurt. Will Rogers Station. Oklahoma City. Okla. Sandra Klock, editing Chicago Area's letter, lists helpful tips for "99 Meeting Secretary..........................................................................................Pa* J©hon Airport Flying School Hostesses", plus dates, committee members for each meeting. She might share Addison Airport. Dallas. Texas the tips. Treasurer.....................................................................................Virginia Britt And there are Maryland’s Crabpot Intersection (Joan Bates), Ann Catlin's Com­ 6121 Cypress Rd.. Plantation. Fla. 33313 ments from Oklahoma, a sprightly newsletter from Phoenix — many more. Wish I Executive Board .......................................................................Pa' McEwen 16206 E. Central. Wichita. Kan. 67230 could quote from them all. Edith Denny Meanwhile, anybody for Scandinavia? Australia? Unless something dire hap­ 439 Temagami Cres.. Pt. Credit. Ont.. Canada pens, your Prez will go on the Australian Fly-it-Yourself, complete with 49 1/2er. So Joan Hrubec 16902 Dartmouth Ave.. Cleveland. O. 44111 if you have urgent correspondence during April, please address it to Vice Published monthly, except bi-monthly July-August and January- President Susie Sewell! February Annual subscription rate is $4.50 and is included as a part of the annual membership of The Ninety-Nines. Inc. Betty M cNabb, President Mailing Addresses Headquarters: Will Rogers World Airport Oklahoma City. Oklahoma 73159 Editorial Office: P O. Box 38499 This issue of NINETY-NINE NEWS has a MARCH-APRIL dateline on it. (It's Dallas. Texas 75238 really your MARCH issue.) This is for advertising purposes only. The next issue Advertising Office: P 0 . Box 4228 will be dated MAY. YOU WILL STILL GET 10 ISSUES PER YEAR. North Little Rock. Arkansas 72116 ________________________________________________________________ Susan O liver Flies for Easter Seals 0 £ * o ° N m e m OS? Movie and television actress Susan Oliver, a noted aviatrix, has been named REpORTS? . Flying Am bassadress for the 1972 National CORRECTIONS! Editor Easter Seal Campaign, February 28-April 2. Piloting a small plane, Susan plans a fly­ ing tour to a number of cities in the country to focus attention on the annual appeal for public support of Easter Seal services to 380,000 handicapped children and adults. Susan volunteered for a similar assign­ ment in 1967, flying into nine cities in ten days to promote that year’s campaign. “ It gave me an opportunity to meet many As the new magazine gathers more ads, heartwarming examples of children being and the country sheds its winter coat, it helped by Easter Seals all over the coun­ Susan Oliver, actress and top-rated aviatrix, seems the activities of the Ninety Nines ga­ try." has been named Flying Ambassadress for thers more momentum in doing meaningful Susan recently was named a member of the 1972 National Easter Seal Campaign,- things in aviation. I received a letter from the Federal Aviation Administration’s February 28 - April 2. Here Miss Oliver of­ the FAA Accident Coordinator in the Sou­ Women’s Advisory Committee on Aviation. fers some flying tips to Jo Ann Schaffer, thern Region telling of a project by the Soloing in October, 1964, she received her National Easter Seal Child. Miss Oliver North Georgia Chapter. Headed by Pauline private license in April, 1965; her comm er­ plans a "fly -in " to various U.S. cities to aid Mallory they are checking each airport in cial license in April, 1966; and her instru­ the annual Easter Seal campaign for funds the state of Georgia for hazards