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CLASS NOTESWAGS TO WAFS

DEL SCHARR wore her uniform at the banquet.NANCY LOVE has sold her airplane. The girls enjoy

participating in horse shows, while Nancy and herhusband are sailing most of the summer InMartha's Vineyard.

BETTY GILLIES and BARBARA LONDON flew to Cin-cinnati in Betty's Baron to attend the reunion.

43-1MARY LOU COLBERT NEALS received notice of the

WASP reunion just 5 days before the 13th. Theletter finally found her in California.

MARJORIE KETCHAM DEACON passed thr~ugh Cin-cinnati just one week later on her vacatIOn. Theword was too late for her to rearrange her plans.

43-2CA"1HERINEVAIL BRIDGE hopes to kee p in touch

for future plans.RUTH FRANKLING REYNOLDS has guests after the

reunion at her farm in New York. The guests:tEWISE COLEMAN ADIE and MARTHAWAGANSEIL DAVIS both 43-2 class. The 3 havenot been together since disbanding.

MARGARET KERR BOYLAN, named special assistantto William J. Schulte (Asst. Administrator forGeneral Aviation, FAA). Margaret is daughter ofthe late Sen. Robert Kerr (D. Okla.) and just re-cently returned to USA after 10 years foreign ser-vice duty with Mr. Boylan.

MARY TROTMAN O'BRIEN missed seeing old friendsagain.

43-3LAURINE (RENE) NIELSEN lives in Palmer, Alaska.

43-4NANCY LEEBAKER is in Fairbanks, Alaska.GINNY HILLWOOD and CELIA HUNTER are operating

a camp in Alaska. If you want a vacation i~ therugged wilderness from June 1 - Sept. 10 wnte.:Camp Denali, Box D, College Alaska for details.

CONSTANCE LLEWELLYNHOWERTON writes thatsince deactivation 10 gals from 43-4 class havekept a round robin letter going. That's 20 years!

ROSA LEAFULLWOODMEEK brought favors to thebanquet from Mooney Aircraft. She is a Mooneydealer in Kerrville, Texas.

MARY JANE STEPHANS MEIKLE has moved toNebraska.

43-5JILL McCORMICK was one of the winn~rs of the 1964

Amelia Earhart Scholarship at the Nmety-Nme

NEWSLETTEROdober 1964

Convention. She is also on the FAA Women'sAdvisory Committee. Presently Jill is teachingin the Aviation Dept. at Purdue University.

HELENTURNER HOLLANDwas in Canada at the timeof the reunion. Hopes to find more Wasps close toNorman, Oklahoma.

JO PITZ EGAN was vacationing in Florida August 13th.Major Yvonne Pateman is stationed in Anchorage,

Alaska.MARJORIE SANFORD THOMPSON toured Europe inAugust, but won't miss the next reunion.

43-6CAPT. MARIAN TIBBETTS is stationed at what

used to be Big Spring Air Field, now calledWebb AFB. She is with the pilot trainingprogram.

MAURINE BRUNSVOLD WILSON was very sorryto be unable to see everyone in Cincy.

43-7SAMMY CHAPIN HASSEN had a lovely pool party

for those attending the Wasp reunion. Thevery next day the family (Sammy, Charlesand their two sons) flew to Massachusetts Intheir Cessna 310.

CARO BAYLEY BOSCA attended the reunion. Shewas an aerobatic champion in the 40's.

43-8CAPT. DORIS WILLIAMS is back in the states for

a new assignment in Westover AFB, Mass.She was on leave in California in August.

LOIS DOBBINAUCHTERONIE is Governor of theNew England Section of the 99's.

44-2FRANCES LARAWAY SMITH hopes to make the

1969 reunion. She has a family of six.FRANCES SMITH TUCHBAND was on vacation

during August with her family.DORIS ELKINGTON KAMAKER sailed with her

husband, Cdr. USN, July 23rd for Naples,ha~. . .

RUTH M. PETRY lives in PhoenIX, Anzona.44-3

JEANNE WAGNER SIMPSON hopes ~asp contactswith one another could lead to Informationand publication of the acti vities of t.hose for-mer Wasps still contributing to the held ofaviation.

44-2ESTHER NOFFKE is employed at Pal-Waukee Air-

port on northwest edge of Chicago.EUNICE BOARDMAN owns and operates a 48-foot

kitch out of Marina Cay in the British VirginIslands.

44-4LOUISE BRAND HYDE spent the month of August

at Martha's Vineyard. She still flies and racesin the Powder Puff Derby each year~.

44-5'AT KENWORTHY NUCHOLS lives in Dogwood

Farm, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Shehas many guests during the summer.

44-6EDITH CRAGIN DALEY sent a letter in hopes to

get a report of the Wasp reunion.44-7

BETTY TO STREFF REED flew to the reunion withher' husband in their Mooney. They live inDenver. See you in 1969.

BEVERLYFRISBIE CARRUTH is waiting for B.FulkHaydu to give her an account of the reunion.

BEA FULK HAYDU flew to Cincinnati in a Cessna172.

BONNIE DORSEY SHINSKI lives in Lemon Grove,California, and could not make the trip toCincinnati.

LOIS McMURDIE is lucky the questionaire foundher. The letter went to her mother's homein Spokane which had been sold six yearsago. She couldn't attend because it washer husband's birthday.

fERI FULK CROOK and her husband Iive nearShaw, AFB, South Carolina. They have2 teenage daughters. Jeri works for 2 Brig.Generals at Shaw.

rOT FISHER WISE is in the real estate businesswith her husband. They have a fourth in-terest in a Cessna 172, a dachund and 2teenage children. Ironically, they wereweathered in for a few days near Cincin-nati 3 weeks before the reunion. They livein Tallahassee, Florida.

44-9MICKEY McLERNON BROWN at present is living

in Austin, Texas. Her husband is working onhis doctorate in education at the Universityof Texas. They have 4 children 6-12 yrs.Her permanent address in San Antonio, Texas.

3ETTY MARTIN RIDDLE sent a telegram to thebanquet because she could not attend. Shelives in Rockford, Illinois and an active 99.

44-10PATRICIA DISSTAN COLEMAN, her husband and

their 3 children were on a ranch in Wyomingin August. She will definitely make the 25threunion.

MARTHA BLAIR GAUNCE came to the reunionvia camping trip. She left the family andcamp at Cleveland, flew to Cincinnati forthe dinner; then joined them again the nextday to return to North Dakota.

COMMENTS OVERHEARD AT THE SHERATON-GIBSON"Deadie is just as cute and vivacious as sheever was!""Who is she" I really didn't recognize her? And tothink we were bay-mates. ""Do you realize that between the 4 of us, we have26 children"?"Just give me a Bloody Mary for breakfast. ""Imagine that - they can both wear their uniforms"

Reunion Spotlight2 Wo.menAviafor

BY MARION S. HODGSONCINCIJ\'NATI, Aug. 13 (Spl)-Two record.shatteri

women aviators shared the spotlight Thursday night at treunion banquet of the WASP (Women Airforces Serv

Pilot~l. . Former fh'in" buddies of hlDr Dora /)oughe.rty of 3616 here includ~ Is~hel Fenton 5t

Landy Lane. Fort Worth. wa~ a son. who came all the way fnfeatured speaker along WIth \Vt'slfieJd. :\'Iass .. \\:ith her fcworld-ramou.s .Jacqueline Coch. l'hile!ren to aUelle! the reuni(r~ne. war'tlme boss of the ~Irs. Stinson's memories\\'ASP, fJi2ht trainin2 days at Swt'Dr. Dougherty. an aviation \\'~ter ar~ enliwnmg the ..

ps~'choJogist with Bell Helicop- membrr when" ('ontest thattel' Company, was greeted by under way.women she fh:w with 20 yt'ars She remembers when a rIaago during World War II. mate at Sweetwater was soShe holds world's helicoptt'r jng an open.cockpit trainer Sf

rt'cords for womt'n. But she is eral thousand feet in the 2more interested in talking ahotlt "She wanted to get a suntwhen she •.••as a Wasp helping while she was alone up thewith the war than discussing so she took off her shirt," Mhe:- records. Stinson says.

.• .• .• "She got the suntan all rig."THE LUCKIEST break I but her shirt blew away."

ever had as a Wa~p was when The student radioed inJ got to fly the B-29," she 'says, help. The message was relay"They wanted two girls to fly from the tower to Mrs. Caround the country on demon. Deaton of Wichita FaJls, "hou;stratiolJ hops. and of course we mother" of the trainees.all volunteered. • • .•"We had to draw straws. Dee. MRS. DEATON rushee! to t

dee Johnson :\lorman of Sioux flight line with a blanket, tFalls and 1 were the lucky ones. not before a curious carand I guess we were the first ',whose ship had a radio) zenwomen in the world to pilot a in on the red.faced Wasp aB-2!!." flew formation with her.

IN MEMORIAM

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* 43-6***43-7***WAFS*44-6**

Kay AlspachMary M. BeritichMargaret BrunsMichie CarmichaelJane ChamplinSusan ClarkM. Joy Jehl DaCostaMargie L. DavidPatricia DickersonKatherine Dussaq", Staff Exec.Marjorie D. EdwardsEllen EndacottElizabeth EricksonGrace E. EverettCornelia FortVirginia GrantHarriet GriggsFrances GrimesJanice R. Tate HarrisMary HartsonHayden HeadAnnie J. HenryEthel D. HoskinsLevona Lillian HoveMary"H. HowsonMargaret M. HurlburtEdith KeeneKathryn B. LawrenceHazel Ying LeeMitchell I. LongPaula LoopAlice LovejoyLea Ola McDonaldHelen McGilveryPeggy MartinMatie N. MitchellVirginia Moffatt

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,Beve~iy,Moses~ Dorot,hy.NicholsCharlotte NilesJeanne L. NorbeckMargaret OldenburgShireen M. PhelpsHazel J. RainesMabel RawlinsonHelen RicheyGleanna RobertsBetty ScottDorothy ScottMargaret J. SeipHelen J. SeversonMarie SharonEvelyn SharpEthy1 Sheehy,Field Rep. to WASP Dir.Betty P. StineHarri et M. ThysonMarion ToevsGertrude TompkinsMary WebsterBonnie Jean WelzMary L. WigginsBetty T. Wood

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ROSTER CORRECTIONS - September, 1964

Adams, Kate Harris, 4536 Momosa Drive, Bellaire, TexasAdie, Lewise Coleman, 142 Riverview Drive, Marietta, OhioBessent, Mrs. Clarice, 2301 Santa Clara Drive, Las Vegas, NevadaBorn, Martha Bevins, R. R. 1, Morning View, KentuckyBrickford, Betty Bechtold, 4603 Wood Street, Willoughby, OhioCampbell, Martha Duncan, 239 E. 33rd Street, New York 16, N. Y.Christansen, Marjorie Redding, Rt. 1, RFD Box 59, Cedar City, UtahClark, Elizabeth Carsey, Sugar Hill Road, Zepp, VirginiaCoakley, Virginia McPike, 31 Chester Drive, Rye, New YorkColeman, Patricia Disston, 1054 Rock Creek Rd., Bryn Mawr, Pa.Cronan, Selma, 209 Hillcrest Ave., Leonia, New JerseyDavis;. Martha Wagenseil, 1624 Shoreline Drive, Santa Barbara, Calif.deLaet, Mary Waters, 620 Darrell Road, Hillsborough, CaliforniaDoerr, Virginia Warren, c/o Breslauer & Warren, Kenora, Ontario, Can.Dunkle, Jean Livingston, 3701 Court St., Sioux City, IowaGaunce, Martha Blair, 514 W. 13th Street, Williston, North DakotaGibson, Patricia, 2070 Hoover Avenue, Oakland 2, CaliforniaGustavson, Frances Dias, 510 West A Street, Fallon, NevadaCol. Oscar A. Heinlein, USAF, P. O. Box 1525, Vandenberg AFB,Calif.

* Henry, Helen Parks, 609 Henderson Falls Road, Toccoa, Georgia43-2 Hooks, Helen Ricketts, 505 N. Wilson, Hammond, Louisiana43-3 Howard, Jean Ross, 2900 Connecticutt Ave., NW, Apt 243, Wash. DC.43-4 Howerton, Constance llewellyn, 649 N. San Marcas, Santa Barbara, Cal44-9 Jones, Mary Regalbuto, Timbridge Trail, Gates Mills, Ohio43-3 Kidd, Louise E., 6427 S.W. 10th Terrace, Miami 44, Florida44-10 Kimport, Julia Loufek, 206 New Castle Way, Madison 4, Wisconsin44-10* Kurtz, Mary Anne Hoyt, 1692 Hillwood Drive, Dayton, Ohio44-6 Lemley, Joan Michaels, 5917 S. Oak Creek Dr., Apt.2, Okla. Cy. ,Okla.43-4 Martin, Betty Naffz, Box 179, Rt. 7, Florence, Alabama44;-10 Miller, Thelma Hench, 3 Central Blvd., Norwalk, Ohio43-3' Mitchell, Dorothy Christenson, 4122 Taney Ave., Alexandria, Va.43-4 Minton, Madge Rutherford, 4840 E. 77th St., Indianapolis, Indiana44-10 Morrison, Jane, Long Beach, Mississippi43-1 Neale, Mary Lou Colbert, 24463 Wayman St., Newhall, California44-7 Reynolds, Muriel Rath, 716 Orange Ave., Nevato, California43-6 Ricci, Lola Perkins, 3876 Reklaw, Studio City, California44-9 Riddle, Betty Martin, 1320 Verble PI., Rockford, Illinois43-3* Rueckert, Ruth Nevada, 2037 Riviera St., San Francisco, California44-5 Rountree, Martha Harmon, 4717 Winthrop E., Fort Worth, Texas43-4 Starr, Alice May, 705 Orange Court, River Vale, New Jersey43-5 Springer, Jean Mohrman, 3439 Berry, Cincinnati, Ohio43-6 Sullivan, Elizabeth McGeorge, Mt. Crest Orchards, Orrtanna, Pa.43-3 Trasky, Bertha Link, Grand Rapids, Michigan44-3 Wahlborg, Evelyn Taylor, 242 Castle Drive, Atwater, California43-4 Watry, Virginia Harris, 6017 Morse Drive, Oakland, California43-4 Watson, Ann Howell, 1118 3rd Street, Dover, Delaware43-8 Williams, Capt. Doris,Hq. Eastern Comm Region, Westover AFB, Mass.43-6 Wilson, Maurine Brunsvold, 5947 Copperfield St., Riverside, Calif.

*Non-Graduates

WASPSATTENDING REUNION BANQUET, August 13, 1964

Wifs Betty GilliesDel ScharrKatherine RawIs ThompsonBarbara Erickson London

43-1 Marjorie GrayByrd H. GrangerMaJ. Ann JohnsonEvelyn GreenblattDorothy Young

43-2 Marion Scharr BetzlerHelen S. StoneHelen Ricketts Hooks

43-3 Dr. Dora DoughertyIsabel Fenton StinsonEsther Poole BernerVirginia CrinklawKay Menges BrickDorothy Christianson Mitchell

43-4 Madge Rutherford MintonHelen SchaeferFaith Buchner RichardsViola Thompson MasonVirginia Malany MelonyRosa Lea Fullwood MeekRucy Mullins Menshing

43-5 Martha Thomas CampbellGeraldine Hardman JordanAnn Karlson KenneyMargaret Ray RingenbergJill McCormickMarion Stegeman Hodgson

43-6 Elizabeth McGeorge SullivanLola Perkins Ricci

43-7 Sammy Chapin HassanCaro Baylay Bosca

43-8 Lois Dobbin Auchterlonie44 -1 Betty Bechtold Brickford

Alberta Hunt Nicholson44-2 Marjorie Gilbert Stewart

Joanne Wallace OrrMary Ellen Keil

44-3 Betty Jane Hanson Erenberg44-4 Jeanette C. Kapus

Grey Allison DunlapRuth Shafer Fleisher

44-5 Jennie Hill Mosley44-6 Jean Hixson

Sue Delano ParishMary Helen Gosnell ChappellBarry Vincent Smith

44-7 Bee Falk HayduBetty Jo Streff ReedBetty Pettitt NicholasAlberta Paskvan KinneyBetty Overman BrownPeg Parish Garland

44-8 Anne Dailey Marshall44-9 Betty Stagg Turner

Lillian Dixon KelleyMary Regalbuto Jones

44-10 Sara Payne HaydenNancy MayesJune Wolfe LeckieJean Terrell MoreoCapt. Nona MorrisonLouise Magoon ThokeyMarty Martin WyallAnn AtkeisonVirginia McPike CoakleyMartha Blair GaunceThelma Hench Miller

Eileen Bristol - Establishment OfficerMrs. Leni Deaton, Staff Exec. OfficerMiss Jacqueline Cochran, WASP Dir.

Non-GraduatesHelen Parks HenrySelma CronanMartha Duncan CampbellRuth Nevada RueckertVirginia Flugel KeeferJean Nelson Bonar

COMMITTEE OF WASP BANQUET

Marion Betzler - DecorationsJean Hixson - PublicitySammy Hassan - Swimming Party & ProgramAnne Marshall - Reservations & Hotel ArrangementsCappy Morrison - ProgramBetty Nicholas - Door PrizesFrancie Meisner Park - Name TagsMarty Wyall - RosterBetty Turner - Treasurer

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Later, Dr. Dougherty flewcargo in C.465 and C-47s atWindol'er. ljrah, with the groupthat was training there for drop-,ling the atomic bomb at Hiro-shima."But 1 didn't know what they

were training for. and neitherdid they." she says.The Russians boast llf the

first woman cosmonaut, but Dr.Dougherty beat them on dis-tance and altitude records ina helicopter. She set new rec-ords f which stilt sland \ in 1961,when she had only nine hourssolo in a helicopter.

• * .,SHE IS LICE:'iSED as Whirly-

girl :'\0. 27, has an instrumentrat ing in fixed wing aircraft.as well as an airline transportlicense-the sixth woman in theworld to hold this high rating,The 5-foot-5 brunet is a mem-

ber of President Johnson'swoman's advisory committeeon aviation."The thing I'm proudest of

right now is being an ex-Wasp,"she says,

A Si Iver Anniversary for the 25THReunion IS scheduled for 1969 atDenver.

Another graduate from Sweet-wat~r's Avenger Field who isattending the reunion is HelenSchaefer. who flew in from SanBruno, Cal. She is a policedispateher.

MRS. CLIFF DEATONHelen Parks, wife of a sur-

geon in Toccoa, Ga., flew herf'to the reunion even though shenever finished training as aWasp because of splef'nectomy,"But even after all these yearsI'm a Wa~p at heart," she says."I h'iJd to see all these wonder-ful women again."

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heutetcd Miss Cochran and two WASPs look over the Generalnd Electric dis pIa y at the Convention. Miss Cochran

holds a mockup of the ]79 with which she has setworllf recorqs.

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Betty Gillies, WAFSJean Ross Howard, 43-3Dora Dougherty, 43-3

FAA WOMEN'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ONAVIATION

The 32-member FAA Women's AdvisoryCommi ttee on Aviation is a new ly formed groupto advise and make recommendations to the FAA.The members serve two years, receive no pay,but are reimbursed for expenses incurred in at-tending the meetings. They are tentativelyscheduled to meet semi-annually. Chairmanof the group is Mrs. Jane Hart, 99 and wife ofSen. Philip A.Hart, D-Mich. The Vice-Chair-man is Mrs. Jerrie Mock, the first women tofly around the world solo, and 1st to fly insingle engine aircraft.Seven members of the group are former WASPs:Dorothy Young, 43-1Jean Pearson, 43-3Louise Hyde, 44-4Jill McCormick, 43-5

Jacqueline Cochran flew to thereunion at the controls of herown Lockheed Lodestar.

Jean Terrele44-10

Now Mrs. Earl Moreo

And Mother of 10!

Please send clippings and pictures for the scrapbook toOrder of Fifinella, P. o. Box 2912, Fort Wayne, Ind.