Newletter - January 2008

Greater St. Louis Ninety-Nines Newsletter
January 2008


January meeting: Saturday, January 19, at 2:00 pm
Midwest Aviation Conference and Trade Show (MACTS)
Ninety-Nines booth at the Trade Show
Busch Student Center, St. Louis University
20 N Grand Avenue
St. Louis MO 63103

Park in the SLU garage on the southwest corner of Grand and Laclede.

The MACTS will be scheduled differently this year than in the past two years. The Super Safety Seminar has been reinstated and will be held from 8 am to 12 noon on Saturday, January 19, at the Busch Student Center. The Trade Show will be held from noon to 5 pm following the Super Safety Seminar – they will not be running concurrently. Booth traffic should slow down by 2 pm and allow us to hold a meeting in the booth area.

We will again be selling luggage tags and auctioning off a goodie basket. Jean Murry has asked that each of us bring a goodie (bottle of wine, crackers, cookies, candy, room temp cheese or sausage, etc) for the basket. She will provide the basket and the wrapping materials.

The MACTS schedule is attached. Additional information and a campus map are available at www.macts.org.


Ninety-Nines Awards: The January 15th deadline is rapidly approaching for submitting nominations. Chapters, individual members, or groups of members can submit nominations and the nominees can be living or deceased, and from any country. The contribution may have occurred at any time, past or present, and may be a single action or series of events. For additional information contact: Corbi Bulluck, International Awards Chairman, 919-387-6664, mcbulluck@aol.com. The Award of Achievement is given to a 99 (or a group within the 99s, such as a chapter, section, Trust, etc.) in recognition of contributions made to The 99s or to aviation in general (such as aviation history, education, science, exploration, etc.). The other two awards are presented to non-99s. The first one, the George Palmer Putman Award, is given in recognition of support of The 99s. The other award, the Award of Merit, is given to recognize a contribution(s) made to aviation in general. Each of these awards may be presented to an individual or an organization. Individual winners may be male or female.

Each nomination should be a one-page letter and should include the name, address, and phone number of the nominee (or the nominee’s next of kin, if the nominee is deceased). Three additional pages of substantiating material (resume, newspaper articles, letters of endorsement, etc.) may be attached.

WAYPOINTS: The January issue of Waypoints has been distributed electronically to everyone with an e-mail address and should have been sent to everyone without e-mail. Congratulations to editor Sally Siebe for producing a very professional-looking magazine and to the contributors for their well-written articles.

Air Marking: Our chapter is planning to paint the compass rose at Greenville Airport in April or May. Libby Yunger has the Air Marking Manual from the Mid Atlantic Section and will also contact the chapters in the North Central section that are experienced Air Markers. Volunteers are needed to gather materials and oversee the project. If you would like to serve on the air marking committee, please contact Libby at girlpilot@sbcglolbal.net or 314-725-0428. .