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CONTEN'l'S Order' of Fifinella Publisher Betty J. Williams President Irene I. Crum Secretary-Treasurer ItDodie I. Aspell Vice-President Hally Stires Executive-Sec. Editorial-Cover Girl 3 R.A.F. to Get Women Pilots 3 Department of Misinforma tioD 3 Jacqueline Cochran Wins Harmon Trophy 4 WASP in World Air Show 5-6 1947 Convention 7 Phyllis Ryder in Broadway Hit 7 New Helicopters 8-9 National Air Tour Week 10 Wasps in the News 10 Thought You'd Like to Know 11 Dateable Salesman 11 The Right Atitude 12 Versatile WASPs-Congratulations12 New York and Texas Chapters 13 Los Angeles & Washington" 14 Cupids Logbook 15 Mr. Stork's Logbook 15

These officers compose the Executive Committee, and are also members of the Advisory Board.

Anne Berry Editor

Advisory Faith F. Buchner Mickie Carmichael Betty Haas Mary E. McFadden Elizabeth Watson) Dorothy Avery )

Board

Illinois Texas New York Washington, Los Angeles


II II

D.C.

The WASP NEWSLETTER is published bi-monthly by the Order of Fifinella. This organization was formed prior to the inactivation of the Women's Airforce Service Pilot Program, December 20, 1944. It is legally incorporated under the corporate seal of California. This publication is devoted primarily to the activities of the WASPs and other pertinent information regarding Itwomen in aviationll

National

Headquarters

3633 Lavell Drive Los Angeles 41, Calif.

Editorial Office 417 E. 9th Street Apt. 14 New York 3, N. Y.

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EDITORIAL COVER GIRL Editorship of the WASP NEWSLETTER is a pleasant responsibility and one thnt I em grateful for the opportunity of aaswning. Other than our training-and-service-born esprit d'corps, and the cammon nostalgia that creeps over us a little at the sound of en airplane engine, the Newsletter is one of the major bonoa that holds us together, and that bo~d ahould be strengthened and made more firm continually. To do just that is the aLn of the Editorial staff. A good baginning along thia lina wea made by our retiring Editor, Betty Jane Williams, now our National President. Betty end her staff did a truly commendable job of keeping a newsy, informative, stimulating publication coming to you every two months. I'm fortunate that Betty and the other girls so largely responsible for the Newslstters, Ruth Petry, Clara Jo ~rsh Stember, to name two -- there are others, all within shouting distance of me, and more than once I've had to give a loud, lusty call for hel~. In fact. were it not for them, this issue probably would not go to press on time (she said, as confidsntly as if she were sure it WAS going to press on time.) I hope that the next edition can be better organized, becsuse this tL~e we'vs had to shuttle bits of news from Betty's and Ruth's end Hellie's and Clera's mailbox to mine, from LA to New York, and then hope that evarthing was going to get put together in tine. From DOW on, you all know the right address--send your Newsletter materisl to Anne Berry 417 E. 9th Street New York 3, N. Y. The sooner you get it in the better, but the deadline is the 20th of the month before we go to press. The Newslett~r schedule for the remsinder of 1947 is August, October, and December. That means eny news should be in by July 20, and so on. send in: 1) covering Chapter re~orts. You can send in one report two meetings if you like. all Some nice qu1st warm s\llllmsray out at Muroc Lake th is d 1947, a military pilot will attempt to get s new world in a P-8~. jet plene. At

The comely Miss Powers model,

on our cover this month, a tnilitary) Aviation's P-84, WThunderjet."

is Republic

She takss over where the WThunderbolt" ried during service) left off.

tneny a WASP-fer-

If you flew the "Thunderjet", be wearing a crash hebast

little nASPie,

you'd

-- and your parachute

and you seat.

would be on top of a cannon-catapult The P-84's powerplante, compreesor. greater than 600~ph

type ejector

speed comes from the new turbojet with axial interesting lights

known as a through-flow Starting procedure

sounds most

-- a switch is turD8d which lights the spark which the jet which puts a helluva (estimated to be the'quiTalent

lot of power hehind you of 6,400 hp at 600 mph).

spesd record mark over a measured present this record

course

is held by a British

Authentic

Reprint

fran the New York Times

(The World's

Most Authentic

Newspaper):---

2) Report all Chapter functioAs, including aims and ambitions of the Chapter, new appointments, atc. Let us have all possible information about Chapter members, such as new members, and the marriages, births, new jobs, and outstanding things being acc~nplished. Most of this information will be used separately from the regular Chapter meeting write-up, and as much of it as possible should be mailad as soon as possible, maybe a batch of news each menth. Put the marriages and births in one section, under separate headings, and personal items in another. 3) No particular style or form is required, just whatever is easier for the reporter. However, the better written the reports, the less work for the Editor. If you can type the article, ewell. Double apacing ia preferred. Be sure to include all facts, such as names both married and maiden clesses, dates, tines, and pIeces. If vou're copying a newspeper notice or sending a clipping, n~te the neme and issue date of the paper. Keep the material coming, for more than the ~ditor, you contributors are the ones to whom ectual credit should go for whatever ends the Kewsletter will eccomplish toward cementing our organization and keeping it strong. The Editor is just 8 person behind e blue pencil who puts on the finishing touches to the articles you send in. With us all working together, we can show that the WASPS were and are a great bunch of gals and more than butterfly-brained "social pilots", the Remspeck Can;"ittee end Columnist Drew Pll8Tson notwithstanding.

WH.A.F. to Get Wanen Pilots LONDON, March 18, (UP)--Wanen will perform non-combatant flying with the Royal Air Force for the first time, Air Minister Philip Noal-Baker di~cloaed in the House of Commons today. During the war the Wanen's Auxiliary Air Force was organized for clsricel end other ground work. Mr. Noel-Baker aaid wanen would be trained at the start for communications work and othtJr flying duties. The Government also planned a reserve flying branch for qualified women pilots, he said." Mr. Noel-Baker seems to be quite a champion of the 1IOIIIenn England today. My thought is that many a home i town newspaper probably hes just such a champion on its staff who might editorialize the above by adding: Ths WASPs in this country who flew planes during the wer are not allowed in the Air Farces Reserve of the U.S. nor did they enjoy their Government's protective insurance li~their Mtish flying sistera did thnlUghout theirlOlspectiYe flying service. If it's right for the British women pilots to have this privilege, it occurs to this WASP that the shoe fits the othsr foot on this side of th~ Atlantic too.

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DEPAR'lUENT OF MISINFORMATION Nancy Baker and Dottie Swaim did sClllesleuthing the other dey in s large departlllent store in New York Cit,' where Hancy happened to know of a Section Head who told wild stories about her days as a "Captain in the WASPsI"

:rr you know Nancy at ell, you know abe would be Just the mouse to enjoy going up to a character like thi nd asking all sorts of questiona, never once letting t:eacat out of the bag about who really was the WASP in the conversation piece. Dottie and Kanoy .ere 80 taklln aback by the dame's unmitiga.ted lieing, they're still thinking over sane fonnal plan of attack to expose her.

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J"ACQUZLIlil!: COCHRAN WINS HARMON TROPHY

(llisa Cochran 1& shown abaTe in the cockpii ot her tmnous P-5l which finished tranacontinental race last year.)

second in the Bendix

GIVEN COVETED AlfARD FOR FOURTH TIME

IASHINGTON, D. C" June 2--Colonel Charlea Wayne Kerwood, president of the Ligue lnternationale des AViateurs, announced todey that the Ligue Harmon Trophy for outstanding achievement in aviation by a women has bean awardad to Jacqueline Cochran for the yeara 1940-46. The praaentation will be mada at a date to be announced later, Colonel Kerwood said. Miss Cochran, America's outstanding women pilot, hee already received the Harmon Trophy three times before. In each case the award was preeented by Mrs. Franklin D. Rooeevelt. The Harmon Trophy for 1946 goes to Jacqueline Cochran tor her service to America in the critics 1 days preceding end during World War II when she took urgently-needed flying personnel to Englsnd snd for her "outstending leadership, patriotism, unselfish devotion to tha security and economic progress ot tha United states." This ie the first sward ot the famous aviatrix since the war. trophy

Miss Cochran was the first woman to assist in ferrying a bombing plane across the North Atlantic--in June, 1941, for the Royal Air Force Ferry Command from Canada to Great Britain. She was head of the WASPs for the Army Air Forces during the war. Prior to the for.nation of this American women pilot organization, she took to England 25 knerican women pilots and served with the British Air Transport Auxiliary as a Flight Captain. Miss Cochran was awarded the American Distinguished service Medal for her outstanding contribution to the war effort and is the holder of many air records. Prominent membere of the Ligue are Lieutenant General James A. Doolittle, Vice Admirel Richard E. Byrd, Clyde Pangborn, Roscoe Turner, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, Colonel Bernt Balchen, Clayton Knight, Howard Hughes, A. P. de Seversky, Juan.Trippe, Dean Cullen Smith, Dick Merrill, Fred K. E. King, Bernarr MacFadden and many others who have ranked high in the annals of aviation.

W.4SP in ,-J

The three-day WORLD AIR SHO~ was Philadelphia's first graat aeronautical evant and to make it even greater there was a representative WASP showing. The ahow took place on Northeast Airport, with-Army, Navy, Marine and famous civilian pilots participating. New 1947 modele were previewed for the grand stends by WASPs in a Fly-By event. Ann Shialds (came all the way fraD Florida) flew the Ercoupe; Key Mengea demonstrated the new Luecombe; no less conspicuous was Betty Williams in a Cess08; Alice Jean Way flew the spiffy Navion; Ruth Shafer (now in Northeast Control Tower) flew the Bonanza; lucky Nancy Baker flew a Stinson Voyager 165. And Dot SWaim, the Ophelia Butts of Air Show fame, put on her ect in a Piper Cub. The program had pictures of Betty Haas and Gloria Heath who buzzed the field each day of the show in their P-39 and AT-&, reapectively.

II :05 TO II :30-TAKE OFFS FOR flIGHT PARAOE OF PLANES OVER GETTYSBURG PRIOR TO TALK THERE BY PRESIDENTTRUMAN
planes: The five lead planes in this group will be piloted by outstanding women fliers, all of whom served as Women Air Service Pilots during
PrTsOflal

the waf. Transport planes: This section will include latest types now in service on the airlines, and AAF C-97, which type is being converted into

the
the the

Boeing Stratocruiser. Fighters: These will include the Army Air Forces P-80 jets, the Navy's Phantom jet and Chance Vought

Corsairs. Air Reserves:


take off from

Units of Navy and AAF reserves will


their own bases and join in the operation.

Juat To Show What Company

We Were Keepingl

3:35 TO 3:45-WOMEN

FLIERS

Former Wasps. now representing the Order of Fifinella, will perform in swift fighter' types of planes.

3:35 TO 3:40-COMEDY
By member of
W3SpS

FLIGHT BY WASP
Flight Team in
'3

Piper Cub.

BETTY

lIAAS.

President

of

New

York

Ch~pt('r

of

Fifinel1u.

In Her Own P-39 Swain.

Dottie Look for an early issue far ahota of Dot'e

of .Skyways" ect.

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3:40 TO 3:55-WOMEN FLIERS
Former Wasps, now representing the Order of Fifinella, will perform in persomll and executive type planes.

When Alice Jean May isn't danonstrating for a sale THERE'S more than meets when women fliers go by -- but not if you're concentrating on the the eye or ferrying

a Navion

one (for you know what) she's just as in an air show fly-by Show.) The Bonanza by Ruth Shafer by vocation. (her did

apt to participate in the Philadelphia thoroughly

was

ships and chances are the crowd was when this Cessna level flight by our own level-headed As for Ercoupes when flown by Ann Sh lelds the .pectators .urely consider flying'. President. Betty Williams. 140 was croised by in

demonstrated

who is a control

tower operator

Last but not least on this page is the spot light on Kay Mengee (who doubles as Governor of the 99's in this area) Silveire a worthy occu-

and finds flying the Luecombe pation for them too. Daytona Ann usually instructs down Thus ends our pagaant Beach way, but Philadelphia in the May 30th show. of ~SPs in any air show.

in personal

aircraft.

Main Line got a break

A good pair were Nancy Baker and the Stinson Voyager the crowd. airplane personal The Voysger from Republic aircraft even so, says Nancy. 165 which she flew by ie a stable. tine P-47's to the Stinson

is no let-down

All three, Betty, Ann and Nancy, have spent and do epend considerable tUne instructing Participation of the WASPs in this show was srranged for by Gloria Heath. The express purpose was to collect remuneration for their flying, which in turn would be placed in The Memorial Fund. When sccounting is completed, New York Chapter eXpects to turn over about $250 other Chapters are invited to match this ~oneyed" performance I It's that good that it bears repeating again and yet again.

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li~7 CONVENTION NEIlS

Plans

for the Second

National

WASP Convention

are

in the embryro

stage as this goes to press but the genupon. ~e'll let you in on sheet

eral plan has been decided this much,

as of now, but a epecial giving

information

will be forthcoming Because WASPs

the Wlegal-

word on it.

live thither

and yon we have decided this year to skirmBy

on a plan which will bring tha locale where ishes having

the convention

70 per cent of our membership and points

(Texas, California, the convention

in between).

in two parte

we figure

on COTerin

ing the ground the Southwest, fODaation

thoroughly, probably

viz: Part

I -- somewhere

PonCa City, Oklahoma.

The inmailPHYLLIS RYDER, 4,4-1, HA.S LEAD IN BROADWAY HIT THE VOICE 01"THE TURTLE

sheet which

will come to you in separate definitely,

ing will announoe dates, although

the location

as w.ll as of Aug(Borrowed

it will be in the neighborhood 2B inclusiT8.

fran the 'Turtle' program.) Ryder is the latest in sn ever-growing

ust 24 through Ohio, during

Part II -- et Cleveland, Dates will run oon-

Phyllis list of brilliant

the National

Air Races.

young actreeses -I played

who will be able to say Sally Middleton." of the

seoutively Cleveland cerned. 1mpression

so the gals from Ponoa

City can come up to is con-

to their grandchildren, Though Turtle

and tie in the two as far ae bueiness It is believed by appearing

only three years old "The Voice

that the lU.SPs can make a good in -convention their serious fora- at Cleveobjectives at a time any-

has had such f8lUOUS playere Martha Scott

ss ',\argaret Sullavan, in the lead-

Betty Field, ing feminine

and K. T. Stevens

land, and can indicate and place where way.

role and now Miss Ryder latest discovery. Michigan

enters the ranks as

some emphasis

is naturally

focussed

Mr. de Liagre'e

A Muskegon, Ire want as many ex-WASPs ettending as we can locate! it,

product,

V.iss Ryder

left

there for the big city end to make her wey in the theatre but Was convinced ing her college York. by her fsther before of the wisdan she seriously snd ~sjored of co~plcttackled New

We're

operating

on the theory

that if they know sbout

end have the t1me, they can and will find their way to Ponoa City and/or Cleveland for grand, sunshi~ days

education

She went back to Ann Arbor, of Michigan, out.

in dr8lUa at

of some flyin', plain WA8Pin'.

sClllefeastin', Soooo,

sClae aleepin'

and some just like

the University

all set to come to New York aBeoause she was s licensed

registration

will be something

gain when the war broke pilot, Mise Ryder at Cochran

$10 for mSlllbers at the 1"ifin811& organization for ex-lrASP1as who hays no psid any dues matically drafting ye dues-straglers at our fiscal

snd $12.:SO

joined the WASPs and tested Army planes !lot even the USPs in the theatre, sought out until she

in 194,7 (auto-

"'ield in '~acon, Georgia.

back into the fold this is

could keep her from IIOme activity the Little Theatre

for the remainder not official. teresting

year) -- again

Group there and wee busy acting Fla. for B-2e

If it is at Ponoa City we have sCllleinthat ars sure-fire tun. -event-

waa transferred

to Ft. Myers,

training. to New She

pranises

When the WASPs were disbanded York and went overseas spent 6 months troops. with a USC troupe and Germany

ehe returned

At C1STeland there a dinner Air Races Races

we plan to have the special evening

of "Dear Ruth.Allied

satvrday

of the second day of the events in the Air

in France

entertaining

to honor all women entering gueet the winnsr All for now.

Gn her return ~hyllie

took over the ingenue

role in

-- with honor

of the Halle Trophy

-You Touched

Me-, and went on the road with the show. for the sU!llller.)

(it better

be a IUUiP!).

(She's going home to Michigan

the

crew
con,

A'1'-.
eo:
ina].;

A Sikorsky S-51 piloted by a company test pilot "performing over onlookers at the 3rd Annual Forum of the American Helicopter Society at Central Airport in Camden, New Jersey.

.asecki XHRP-l. the first of tentranaport-type helicopters to be delivered to Navy_ Capable of transporting 8 pesse~r8 (or seyen hospital litters) plus a ~o--or a comparable load, the XBRP-l remains as the first bus-type machine to be ied in the United states. Though powered by an R-l~ engine, which is used in .N trainers, the twin rotor helicopter performs admirably_ The craft pictured : empennage. redesigned rotor heads and many integral yariations over the origtriIRental craft of this type.

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NATIONAL AIR TOUR WEl!X llASPS IN THE NE"S

The Order of F1tinella has Joined with aeronautical organizations and clubs over the country to help push to a llUccesstul concluslon the National Air Tour Week, .Tune 22 to 28, sponsored by the United Pilots &. Mechanics Association. Others taking part in plans for the event are the Ninety-Nines, National Aeronautics Association, Nationsl Aseociation of State Aviation Officials, National Aviation Trades Association, and etate privete flyers associatione. The purpose of National Air Tour Week is to demonstrate to the public the tremendous importance non-scheduled aviation hes assumed in the econo::lic and eocial life of the nation. Th1e ie the first time in the history of aviation that an effort has been made to coordinate air toure on a natlonal ecele. CongreSsnBn Evan Howell of Illinois haa introduced House Resolution No. 201 in Congress to give official sanction to National Air Tour Week. Early estimates or the number of planee that will partiCipate in the Tour range upward from 25,000. Itineraries will include as many airports ss possible in each etate and most of the tours wl11 lest two or three days. The organizational msetinge of ths etate camnittses have already been held in nearly halt of the states. Entry blanks for the Tour are being furnidled by the United Pl10ts and Mechanics Association to all airports, fixed base operators end flying echoole.

Two of the nicest write upe about the WASPs in particular and women in aviation in general came to my attention recently, though one article was published way beck in 1944. An account of the WASP organization, written with an unsentimental but sympethetio tone, was carriad in the Revised Edition of the National Ceographic Magazine, December 1, 1944. The antire edition 18S devoted to the military services. The article, written by La Verne Bradley, is on page 195 and well worth reading. Miss Bradley presents us in a true perspective, telling a little of the kim of training ~e got, the kind of work we did, and what we tried to do. She manages, without using s Hollywood style of glamourization, to get across the impression that the organization wes one dedicated to serious buelnese. Here are a few quotes: Most highly specialized of all women in military service were the Womene Airforce Service Piloh They played en important role in the drama of the expanding Army Air Forees end were a colorful part of the passing parade of uniformed wanen at wer They took their training at Avenger Field, Texas, where wind, dust and heat kept consort with whining engines, drill fields and hot classrocms. Ihatever glamour may have been attached to the idea of woman flying milits~ planes vanished for the women themaelves in the long hard pull through training and in the weather drawn, travel worn, routine flying days to follow Theile women had to be good and stay !!pod and their record was good. (She gives our safety record.) But it le well to r8lllember in the finel mention of the liASPs that 38 gave their lives for the privilege of flying briefly for the AAF. The .800nd article deels with wanen ih aviet iOIl in genersl but it carries several paragraphs about the ~SPS and is so understanding toward wanen's ambition to fly that one is pr~pted to look up Mr. Frederick R. Neely end buy him a drink. The story 18 in Wing Talk, Collier's, May 17 of this year. Here'. a little of what he 118id about us. But read the entire article. It's one you'll wemt to paste in your scrap booll:~ With the formation or the "omen's Airforce Service Pilots in 19'2, woman pilots es a group got their first break. They fulfilled a critical nesd for home-front military flying. They ferried primary trainers, four-engined bombers and red-hot fighters from factories to Army air bsses snd thereby released combat pilots for ths global battlefront. The cauae of equality in the air might have achieved its goal had the WASPs been allowed to finish out the war, but Congress d18continued their services a few months bsfore V-E Day and broke hundreds of brave and courageous feminine hearts. (That's verbatim, I swear I) He then goes on about the struggle women have had trying to gain recognition in the field of av1et{on and devotes two peragraphs to Marge Hulburt' e triumph at the All-"oman Air Show in Tampa on lJarch leo (Plus char:ning picture of Marge I)

It may bs too late to have thia plane for the Natione! Air Tour Week romp, but there's fair weather chapter and good flying for ticket. plenty of

daye ahead. and details.

See your A new

president

Piper Cub .T3 will go a lot of places well be the lucky one behind

snd you may ss

that stick.

HE

L P I

Does anyone know where any of the girls listed below ere at the present time??? Ye Roster Editor is still trying to locate them, but without succesa. Any help would be much BPvreciated. Sem information to: Ruth Mary Petry, 108-01 Ditmars Boulevard, E. Elmhurat, L. I., N.Y. It\FS Burchfield, 43-3 43-2 43-4 44-4 44-5 iAFS 44-5 Hanrahan, Lamer, Phylllll Marion

Zelda Mary Alice

L'Holmledieu, Moore, Nesbit, Rhonie, Richarda,

*
Two pagas or 80 of interesting reeding are in the book Glrls at Work in Aviation, by Dickey Meyer. They quote a report of a ferry trip written by Florine Miller, one of the "AFS. We rated two paragraphs in Air Transport at War, by Reginald Ill. Cleveland. Mr. Cleveland 88YS: "So pressing did the demands far ferrying pilots became thet the services of the WAFS--later the WASP--were enlisted. These women pilots did an outstandingly good Job under the command of .Tacqueline Cochran, the noted woman speed flyer. They received specisl cOllll!l8ndationrom General Arnold for their contribuf tion to the war effort."

Madge ~ Mary H. Aline Bette N.

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DID YOU EVER SEE A DATEABLE
THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNO\'!

SALESMAN?

Mary Ceyanea Wagner writas from Crystal City, Texas that she'd like to mention her hane for a WASP nest for eny XC's in that vicinity. "We have only a barn for a house to offer but we could bunk: them up at Warren's psr~nts big house and thsn during the day I could offer them horseback riding, sWUmning, flying or put 'em to work ferming." Halen Payna was chosen Queen of the ~ashington at the Hybla Valley Air Show on May 11. Air Derby

Skipper Seunders, 44-2, is busy fitting into the projects of the local Rio Grende Valley Fliers Association--elso is trying to sell airplanes and associated items. Plug: Official Air Day in Texas will be celebrated linger in October. at Har-

Marie Adler is being a bus,. bee in Sen Antonio and is getting together with Twilis E. Anderson and Kay Piper for lunch. Starley Grone is up efter e recent illness.

Joyace White Jones ond her husband Jerry (former Avenger instructor, I think. ed note) are settled in their new home in Bryan, Texas where Jerry is continuing instructing es well as going to A & M school. If anyone wants a coin-opereted redio, see Sazel J. Raines and Sissy Sieber Automatic ~~, Rsines, General Manager--for hotels, motels, and BEEG parties, we're reliably informed. The compeny stationery, yet, has the address as 1305 N. Hudson, Oklahoma City. Irene Crum is helping out on the deal, too. Okie City, you is being takenl Jean ~helan, 44-2, is a flieht examiner Senta Monica, Cal. at Clover Field, (This story "e lifted verbatim, end also word f~ word, from Bulaero, the official publication of the Grand Central. Airport Company and its essociated companies. It ran in the March issue.) Mary Abbie Quinlen, former WASP pilot, is now associeted with Volador, lnc., California Ercoupe distributors, in the capecity of 8ales~Qmen. She is believed to be the only women currently associEted with an eircraft orgenizat ion in that capacity. Mrs. Quinlan first sterted fling with Carl Knare, Sky Harbor Air Service ,Phoenix, Arizona, 1n 1941 end obteined her private license at the Arizona school in 1942. Accep~ ed by the WASP in O~tober 1943 she completed her training et S"eetwater, Texas. She dre" Love Field, Texas for her first ferry assign-cent and piloted advenced trainers to bases throughout the states. At the time the WASP "as disbanded in December 1944, she 1I8S stationed st Enid, Oklahoma. where she was e test pilot for besic trair.ers. r'or the past year and e half Mrs. Quinlen has been l1rr.i ting her flying to privete craft and the scope of her operations to Southern California. She lives with her husband at 84 Short way, South Pesadena, California. (Mary Abbie
1I8S

Mary Burke, 43-7, is still at Vail Field, Los Angeles. Don't know W~ry's official title, but she's one of the main cegs in the Coffin Flying Service. Mardo Crane, 44-1, is now back in Santa Monica after a winter sojourn in the desert near Palm Springs. She is busy as ever digging up news for hsr sheet, tha Aviation News Beacon. Eileen Evens, 44-3, is instructing Link: in a GI program at 'lan Nuys Airport, in the Sen Fernando Valley, end is demonstrating Aeroncas on the side. Dot Kielty, 43-7, cont inues to win golf tournaments right and left. At last report she was one of the finalists in the trens-Mississippi tour&ament. (May 23, '47) Edvthe Carlton Lusk, 44-6, and her husband Freeman, are on a&' e1.tenaed vacation -.:iththeir trailer and their ne" studebaker. They spent so~e time in the. Lake Tahoe and Heno arees, and may be vacating on through the summer. From Mary Edith Engle: "I would like to axtend an invitation to all WASPs coming through Lexington, Ky., to stop and visit awhile. ?hone 5659-JM, address 221 Lincoln Avenue. Since ~ost people think I am referring to an aircraft carrier when I mention the ~ASP I wes glad of the opportunity Jan. ~ to ~eke a fifteen minute radio telk on my fsvorite subject, the "AS?.what they did, how and why." Shirley Bush, 44-3, is in New York, working She is in the Operations branch. with the CAA.

in 44- 3)

AN

OUNC

Nancy Baker, has been National Convention Chainnan up to the date of her move from New York City to Daytona Beach, Florida. In Daytona Beach Nancy w11l team up 111 th Dottie Swaim for sCille fancy instructing on the Municipal AiJ1lort there. Betty Williams, your National President, announces thst Gene Landman (address: 37 East 35th Street, New York 16, New York) will "emcee" the reunion details, taking over for Nancy. send questions, suggestion. and publicity notices to Gene. (And drop by to see Nancy and Dottie if you're down thatany I)

Marjorie Ketcham Deacon is now working at an airport about 50 miles south of Dover, Delaware and would welcome any ex~~SPs who might be flying in or around Sussex Airport at frankford, Delaware. Ann Craft Moss, 44-2, and her husband Arthur are making plans to acquire a cabin in Canada far the summer. Ruth Ad~s, 44-2, in New York. i8 working hard on her pre-mad studies

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THE RIGHT

ATTITUDE At that, the man threw it over mumbled,


"Hmllllll,

to Gee who read it and

Do you WliJ1ta flying job? This is the formula for getting one b.Y refusing to lllOvea little finger, in fact, b.Y saying Iio! Iio! Iio! - i don't want it! it started when Gene Landman, 44-5, who has IIlOreinformation about openings in aviation than a~one else in New Iork outisde of Betty Williams mentioned the fact that a compa~ was looking for a girl to fly around the country demonstrating sewing IIlB.chine attachments. 'Twas all very interesting but either those present were tied up with jobs that required a month's notice or else like Doris Gee, 43-8, were fully occupied with projects for IIlB.king million dollars. a A week later IiJ1 ad appeared in the l1ll.!. ~ this Female Help Wanted PILOT with cOllllllercialicense l and mechanical ability. This looked too good to be true - someone actually advertis-ing for a ~ pilot! So we decided to write a letter. lio one else being free at the time, it was lo~ical we si~n Gee's name. She had no objections, just said, "Iou're wasting your time, you know. it's in the wrong umn." that col~

not bad, but it doesn't as much,"

say I have a commercial." IlIallasped. g


1 didn't

"You implied write

the poor defeated said Gee,

"I didn't imply a~ing," the letter." He gave up!

"remember

"All right, you didn't write the letter. The next time I suggest you and your friends get to~ether when you answer an ad. lIeanwhile, you start Monday at nine 0' clock."

liIe The last I heard Gee had started ioIonday. Whether nine or a quarter after eleven I haven't discovered. ---Win Wood, at

43-7

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THESE VERSATILE WASPs!

Beverly Carruth (Frisbie, 44-7) is a very busy young lsdy these days--at least that's what e complacent, lezy, holderdowner of just one job gathered tram resding two n.ws stories about her. The Chicago Aviation News, April 15, carried a nice article, with pictures, about Beverly's latest (up to that time, at least) venture--that ot technical sdvisor for an eviation comic strip . According to the news story, Ayer Lane, the comic drawn for the Chicago Sun and other newspapers by Dale Ulrey, will get the benefit of Beverly's varied experience as a WASP, airline hostess, writer and broedcsster. In the latter t"O cetegories, Beverly and her husband, Hill, have inaugurated the first aviation naws program on !vanston, Illinois' r~station, WEAW. They are heard each Friday aftarnoon at 5:45. They also were scheduled to begin a program over WAIT on Saturday evening at 6:30, a North Shore paper reported. Beverly flew B-25's during her time with the WASP. husband was s parachute field artillery spotter. Her

Despite that, the letter was composed listing all the qualifications that could possibly be included. The mention of the WASPs figured prolllinently. Gee didn't seem to care what was said, in fact, she didn't even read the letter. A week passed, - nothiI~ was neard, which wasn't surprising. The next day, a message from Gee to see her. Something amazing had happened. She got the job!!!! would The man called she come up. and ssid her letter sounded good and

"Oh," 66id Gee, trying he meant, "When?" "Nine o'clock Saturday",

vainly

to think of what letter

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ea.me tha answer. CONGRATULlTIONS !

"Can't possibly make it at nine. I don't get up that early," said Gee, tninking of her morning beauty sleep. "Well, make it when you can." went something like this.

So she did and the interview

All the gels who attended the WASP National Reunion in Lock Haven, Pennsylvanie last year will remember Bill Strohmeier, the nice blond tellow who was always right there to sae that things were operating smoothly snd that the WASPS were getting a good desl and having s good time. Bill was working with a publicity agency at that time but ~as now opened a business of his own. Hia good right arm in the new enterprise is Gene Landman, 44-5, formerly an associate editor with Skyways magazine. Beat wishes to Strohmeier Associates tram the WASP.

The "little feller" told her all about the job which naturally turned out to be flying around the country in a Super Cruiser, demonstrating sewing machine attachments. "But 1 don't know a~thing ments," said Gee. "That's a lllinorproblem. you can learn," he arbued. "I can't possibly Gee tried again. about sewing IIlB.chine attach-

11' you

have mechanical

ability

~et here at nine o'clock

every morning"

"Sure you can, if you try," he encouraged. "Well, maybe, - but this ousiness of . orki~ fr~m nine to five isn't good. And besides I don't want a Job. "But it is the job for you," was the reply. "Now understand, we can get pilots a dime a dozen, but this will be a different idea."
LONGACRE

WILLIAM
ANNOUNCES

D. STROHMEIER
THE FORMATION OF

STROHMEIER
PUBLIC RELATIONS, SALES

ASSOCIATES
PUBLICITY AND PROMOTION

5.3219

SUITE 632 55 WEST 42NO NEW YORK 18.

STREET

N.

Y.

"I'm a pilot, sure," said Gee, grasping straw, "but I don't have my cOllllllercial." "Iou said you did in the letter." "No, 1 didn't it say?" - I didn't write

at the last

the letter.

l\hat does

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Firat ro,,: Elsie Dyer, 43-3, and Rene Neileen, 43-3. Second ro,,: Beverly Friebie Carruth, 43-7, Mary Baritich, 43-3, Ruth Kutner, 44-10, and Julie Ke~orth. Back ro,,: Betty JO Strett, 43-7, Lee oook, 43-5, Dora Dougherty, 43-3, Faith Buchner, 43-4, Joyce Sherwood Secciani, 43-3, and Muriel Moran, 44-10 NEW YORK The New York Chapter held its regular monthly meeting for March in a private roam ot Child'a Resturant on 43rd street and Laxington Avenue, Preaident Betty Haas preaiding. The lIlBeting was primarily a social one and after dinner the girla adjourned to another room where they were given a private showing or two tilma, one aponsored by Pan American Airwaya and the other by a glider company. Pan Am's movie, ~Clippers At War~, was in tachnicolor and ahowed the important role Pan American played in the early days ot World War II whan their established world wide airways wera used tor military routea until the Army and Navy could gat their own Air Corps tunctioning. It also pictured the manitold duties Pan Am's shipa and pilota and ground tacUi ties pertonlled throughout the war. The glider tilm was an intereating ineight into the actual construction ot a glider trom the designer's board until it ie in the air. Shots ot gliders in WW II showed the versatility of the anginelees craft and had several of the gale enthused as to the possibility of checking out. (Marge Needham, 44-2, flew for eome time for the Kaufmann Glider firm-I think--at St. Louis after we were disbandsd.) On the 14th of June, the New York Fifi's are planning a big weiner 'roast and bear picnio at the Saxon Wooda Park picnic grounds which are located about 22 milaa north of New York City, in Weetcheeter County. Each gal will provide her own man. A big time ia anticipated, with ee the invite sta. ed ell the beer you can drink, andth. added warning ~t~ous last worda. ~ Girla present at the March meeting were: Betty Ashwell Lotowycz, Nancy Lee Baker, Virginia Coakley, Lauretta Darcy, Margaret Callahan Grant, Joan (Sootty) Gough, Betty Haes, Peg Helburn, Gloria Heath, Marianne Beard Nutt, Leonora (Nonnie) Horton, Kay Mengea, Vivian Gilchriet Namhauser, Ruth Petry, Betty Pettit, Sylvia Miller Reich, Ruby Rosenthal, Betty Williams, Alice Jeeal May, Martha Gallantar, and Anne Berry. Chicagolalld WASPs have been oatohing their ahare of etardust of late. Firstly, Miea Cochran flew her Lockhaed to our windy city on March 16th and invitad us to her suite in the Stevans Hotel for cocktaila. We were honored to meet Mre. Jackson, wife of the fOnller chief juatice of the SUpreme Court, who 1& traveling with Misa Cochran. We had a wonderful time and were goggle eyed at exper1ences of the woman we know who flew and plsced in the Bendix. Next, the 99'e and Naval Airmen were invited to our February meeting. Our program, namely one Frank Swain the handsome, Frank Swain the galant, Frank Swain the wonderful captain and check pilot on United Air Linea, who believea in WASPs, talked of recent developments in airline equipment and mathoda. We love him and wiah he could come to each meeting already he is invited to our next December 20 party. Our March meeting was held at the hOlllBof Faith Buchner, our ebullient president. Our numbers were lII1allas you can see in the photo (compliments Chris Christensen Photo Service, 43-5) since the flu had invsded our hsppy circle, but the eats were good aDd there was much talk of Alaska for "Rene &; Elaie ~, 43-5, stopped thru on their way to the land of short nights. If any or youall come thru CG be sure to give us a buzz end get in on some of our meetings--we'd love to See you.

TEXAS CHAPTER

Wickie Carmichael writes that we need not worry about getting a write-up on their last reunion, which evidently was to have been at Dude Ranch, Corpus, for there was not enough response to warrant those few girls who could come traveling all the way from Oklahoma and surrounding statee. Mickie thought the affair was a grand idea--husbands, children and dogs invited--but not enough kids could make it. According to questioneires sent out, the biggest obatacle toward a reunion or gathering of any kind is job and distance.

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LOSANGELES CHAPTER

morning Mr. Lincoln took a group on a tour of the ranch, and it's quite a place--eome 800 acres, in citrus. wheat, and grazing land--to 88y nothing of a dandy 2500 toot flight strip. Although the weather "s perfect at Yuoaipa, the Los Angeles llIII:>g prevented take-off of the only two planes that were scheduled to fly out. However. sane 2& WASPs and guests drove out, and thoroughly enjoyed themselves n1m::l1ng. sunning, eating. sunning--snd a few ambitiws ones even indulged in a bi t of baseball. All 10 all 1t "s e perfect day. Mr. Lincoln and family showed the gals a tine t 1me. and he has invited the group to repeat the party next year. That won't take any coaxing. June plans call tor WASP partlci?ation 10 the NAALadies Night program. July is set up for a get-together 11' ith the San Francisco group.
It any ot you eels living in the Los Angeles vicinity have not been contacted by the Chapter, and want to learn mare about the Chapter doings, please get in touch with Membership Chairman &!myDrUllllD:lnd Address: 15219 Stagg Street. Van Nul's. California. Telephone ST 52435, TR 9334. EmJqy will be glad to give you all the dope.

WhyWorry Den (Stires Csbin) Crestline, California February 22, 23, 1947. Rear Rank: Bobbie Wskeham,Dot Avery. Betty Williams, Eileen Wright, Allaire Bennett, Pam Carr, Irene Crum, Bev Beesemyer, Liz Watson. Front rank: Cath McGrath. Mrs. Stires, Hally Stires. (halt hidden) Doole Aspell. Jean McCart. Marge Christianson, Emmy Dr1JlllllOnd, Becky Me Sheehy , and PUge Haskins. The LA Chapter ill trying a new system this year. with a program outlined in advance far the whole year--slternsting busineu meetings, plealillre meetings. and halt and half meetinge. Program Chairman Jean McCsrt is keeping the ball rolling. snd 80 far everything has worked out quite nicely. The year Btarted out with a business rooeting in January at the Mayfair Hotel. BusineBs &Ii primarily concerned with getting the Chapter orgBn1zed CIII functional bas1s, a developing the year's progr8lll, deciding upon a "ASP Nest or Headquarters as first local project. and discussing ways of raising funds. Beverly lleesemyer was sppo1oted WaysBe Meens Cha1.rms.n fill the gap made by the resignation to of Maur1ne lI'11son. February found 27 JrAS?sweek-end 1ng at Hally St ires' mounta1o cab in, ft1lhyWorry Den" at Crestline. California. Alt1tude 5000 feet, temperature above zero. dew point variable, w1nd breezy, ceiling and visibility unl1mited at start (varied directly with dewpoint), snow five milee to the east. The anow proved quite an attraction to the ski addicts, but moat of the gals spent most of the time hangar flying round a roaring fire, with spasmodic attempts at bridge and poker. I'e were happy to have with us all three or the newly elected nationsl 001 ofticsrs--Betty Williame. Dodie Aspell, snd Irene CrlJDl. Betty gave us a preview of same of the plana for 1947, and got everyone excited about a proposed mass BT flight. That is BUll henging fire. A cembined 99-llNAA-oOF dinner rooeting in the Aviation Roam of the Holly-Roosevelt Hotel furnished the March gettogether. Same 22 WASPs ade a good representation m out ot a total attendance of 43. Speaker of the evening was wellknown Waldo lfatellllan. originator and developar ot the Aerobile. Intarest10g revelstion or the evening came when Waldo exposed our Chapter Secretary, Jane Scott, es beving been marooned with him in the desert during the early war yearsas secretary, he said. Callie Kurten's home in Monrovia furnished the setting for the April businesB meeting. Highlight of the evening was the drawing for the prizes in our so-called Benefit Drawing (raffls to you). The Chapter cleared about $1&5.00 on the deal. and Becky McSheehy in San Diego won the first prize of s tsble model radio. The other two prizes went to non-lf4SPs. Results of a survey of airports for WASP Nest revealed thres good possibili ties--to be decided upon later when all dstails svsilsble. May was stric tly a pleasure meeting. and what a pleaBUrell Ann Lincoln Dennis and her father. Mr. W. S. Lincoln, ware hosts at a super barbecue and swim party at the Lincoln Ranch near Yucaipa, Calitornia on Sunday, May 18. In the

Ksrdo Crane has been appointed Public Relations Representative fram the LA Chapter. Incidentally, far thos8 of you who don't know it. Merdo is the WASP behind the WASP in the News (Beacon, that is.) The Aviation News Beacon is a progressive little aviation lIllekly that is developing quite a large circulation across the country. Kardo is the \lemen's Editor, has full charge of the page entitled Women With WingS and writes a eyndieeted (?) col\lllll of juicy tidbits and meaty morsels. There's a hard-working gal for you--and Msrdo makes a nell Publicity Chail'lllBnfor the LA Chapter, the Order of Fit1oelle, and in fact. for all _n in aviation.

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WASHING'l\?N CHAPTEll On Thursday, May 15, the chapter had a Spring Party at the home ot Mary McFadden, pres1dent. Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres lIere served. As it was mare ot a party than a business meeting. no business intruded on the tun. Those attending were Margaret Vaughn, Daisey Vaughn. Betty Bailey, Helen Payne, who 1I'8S chosen queen of the Washington Air Derby at the Hybla Valley Air Show on May 11. Dorothy Sweeney, who will .aon turniSh an item for Mr. Stork's logbook, Elaine Harmon, who expects to contribute a like item. Edt th Barth and Lucile Dall, who has just recently made an appearance in Washington. l4ary Kay lIill18 1I'8S unable to attend as she was entertaining her maid of honor and bridesmaids. Her wedding is to take place June 11 to Robert Henr7 MacGill at the Presbyterien Church at Chevey Chase Circle and a reception follows at the Columbia Country Club at Chevey Chase. Plana were discus88d on the torthcoming on May 25 to Mattaponi Sky Club. breakfast flight

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CUPID'S LOGBOOK

EngagemeDt of Jane E. Waite, 43-4, to Cheater H. Fliesbach of Sllottsbluff,~ Nebraska, 1I8S announced Christmas Day, lll~. Babette DeMoe, 43-7, married Jemes Edinger on August 7, 11146. Both re assigned to the aame weather Squadron in '45. e He was a weather pilot and station inspector, and Babette was a iiA.SPaerial chauffeur. Both now attending UCLA where he is doing graduate work in meteorology. Engagement of Betty Wall, 44-1, to Phillip HansElIl was announced Dec. 21, 11146. They probsbly will be merried this summer. Nadine Virginia Canfield, 44-11, was married men, Kansas to Lt. ~'rancis Nagle, Jr., AC. April 13 at Chap\ I

Elizabeth If. Davis, 44-9, married John Henry Banscm, a native of Clearwater, Florida, on February 7 lest. She states: "Our houee, 311 Hi~land Avenue, Clearwater, bae a bedroall just penting for WASP visitors. I BIll working, too, in Juvenile Court and Probation Office for the county. I was teeching groual. school at night on a GI Program until I was married." Esther Reinholdt Walters, 43-4, married a boy she met at Sweetwater, a cadet of 43-H. They have been living in Ruston, La., Ie he has been attending Louisiall8 Tech. hi Justine Flet'her, 44-6, ie no Mrs. Ransom B. Woods, end her husband were mrried last spring in Auetrie. Jr. She

Pat Chadwick, 43-2, writes, ~ ne name will be Mrs. Carl Ev~ld Erickeon the 20th of June. The 'knot tieing' business is pretty exciting. I am having Barbara Donahue (Ross), my CO at Rcmulus, Marjorie KetchUIII (Deacon), and Grace Clark, both Ramulus WASPs, as three of my four bridesmaids. It will be a Swedish wedding, the gowns being fashioned after the traditional Svenska gown." Then on and on in a rapturous tone about The Man, a blond Swede whom she met at the Le ieton Auburn }(aine Air Show last September. He co-owns a small airl1ne there Royal Airlinea and Pat gueases she will be flying for him so.on. Dottie Swain, 44-5, has announced her engagement to Albert Zelius Le of Daytona Beach, Florida. is The wedding will take place in June in Aeheville, N. C. Dottie is now instructing at the DaytOM Beach, Fla Municipal Airport. Her future hus"and was one of her students, taking flying under the 01 Bill.

MR. STORK'S

LOGBOOK

Patty Collins ruary. Sylvia Ellis,

Hughes,

44-6, has a little

boy born last Feb-

Barter, 43-7, introduces us to six-months-old Andrew her second child. (Note Sylvia's poem on page ). of a daugh-

Allsa Connolly ViTiano, 44-10, announces the birth ter, Kathleen Ann, on Dscember 25, 1946.

June Bent, ~-3, writes, "We are no the proud parente baby girl, Janet Micheel, born November 24."

of a

Mary Gilmore Walton, 44-3, hss been busy the last few months getting her ne bsby and household all mOTed and settled in New Jersey. You oughts eee my parents They'ra proud enough to burstl They're aure that I'm an angel I s'pose 'cause I'm their ftrstl the arri vel of Meria Ann Madden, daughter of Ann 43-6, and Paul Madden, on May 16.

announces Criswell,

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Dalrymple announce the arrival of Dennis Allen Dalrymple on February 14. Mrs. D was formerly Millie Davidson, 44-4.

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