Greater St. Louis Ninety-Nines
Newsletter
August 2012
Newsletter
August 2012
11 AM Saturday, 18 August
The museum is located at 116 East School Street in Bonne Terre. Curator Earl Mullins will be our tour guide. The museum website is: www.space-mo.org. The folks at the museum say there are several good restaurants in Bonne Terre, so we will plan to have lunch in town after the tour. GUESTS ARE WELCOME.
Several of us will meet at Jean Murry’s house in Chesterfield, MO, at 9 am on Saturday to ride together down to Bonne Terre. Jean lives at 33 Oakland Hills Dr. That is in the Four Seasons development on the west side of Woods Mill Rd just south of the Dierberg’s shopping center at Olive and Woods Mill. Some of you would probably prefer to drive to Bonne Terre on your own and you should plan to meet us at the Museum at 11 am. To get to Bonne Terre, go to I-55 south by your favorite route. At Festus, exit I-55 onto US-67 south toward Bonne Terre/Farmington. Exit US-67 onto MO-47 north into Bonne Terre (the road is actually going west, at this point, but it is MO-47 north). After about 0.5 miles, take a slight left onto Park Avenue and at the second intersection turn left onto Fite St. The Museum is at Fite and School St. Bonne Terre is approximately 50 miles south of the I-55/Jefferson Barracks Bridge (I-270) interchange. We need to let the Museum know approximately how many people are coming, so please let Jean Murry (314-469-3541) or Libby Yunger (girlpilot@sbcglobal.net) know if you plan to attend. Also let us know if you will be joining the group that is traveling from Jean’s house so we know to expect you and whether or not we will need a van.
Chapter News:
I received the following e-mail from Keith Mueller: I have a nontraditional career specialist here at SWIC (Amy Markus) who is able to be at Scott on Saturday Sept 15th for sure, possibly also Sunday the 16th. We are trying to promote aviation to the women’s groups and need to have someone here to help us be able to provide information. Scott typically draws more than 50,000 people and this is great opportunity to promote aviation with the women’s groups. SWIC is working with Trans States Airlines to recruit students for training programs and pilot and aviation management personnel for the airline. Definitely want to get more women into the career path.
We are also setting up a safety seminar at Mid America in the late fall, again we are needing representative from the women’s groups, trying to make this a combination safety seminar, young eagles event, fly in, introductory flights, Jr ROTC etc group event. Neither Jean Murry nor Libby Yunger will be available the weekend of 15 September. Is there someone from the Chapter who would like to represent the Ninety Nines at the Scott Open House that weekend? Please contact Keith Mueller directly at keith.Mueller@swic.edu for further information.
I hope all of you have been thinking about ways we can become more visible in the aviation community, particularly to female student pilots. We will be brainstorming ideas at our Chapter Birthday party. The party is tentatively scheduled for September 29 since our chairman will be out of town for most of September and the Chapter anniversary is in September. However, we could skip the September meeting altogether and have our Chapter party at our October meeting on Saturday, October 20. This will be a pot luck luncheon at Jean Murry’s house followed by cake and ice cream and, with luck, some really good ideas. Please let Libby or Jean know which date you would prefer for our Chapter party.
Ninety Nines News:
Lightspeed Aviation Foundation Pilot Choice Award Competition: The Ninety-Nines and the Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Fund are one of 20 aviation nonprofit finalists in the 2012 Lightspeed Aviation Foundation annual grant competition. The five aviation nonprofits receiving the most votes will receive $10,000 grants. Please have your friends, family and everyone you know vote for The 99s and the Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Fund at:http://www.lightspeedaviationfoundation.org/content.cfm/Voting/Get-to-know-the-2012-finalists/The-Ninety-Nines.
The North Central Section fall meeting will be in Marquette, Michigan, from 21-23 September.
Member News:
As many of you already know, Delia Greer left us quite unexpectedly last month. She died on July 23 in her home of a massive stroke just 9 days after she and Jean Murry had received the Ninety Nines award for humanitarian service for their work with Wings of Hope. Our Chapter will be sending a donation to Wings of Hope in her memory. A memorial service is being planned but has not yet been scheduled. I have included with the Newsletter an article on Delia and Jean that appeared in the July 27 issue of Ladue News: (http://www.laduenews.com/living/fly-girls/article_d67e9390-d73a-11e1-919c-001a4bcf6878.html )
For members who receive only the paper copy of the newsletter, I have also included the article on Delia from the St. Louis Business Journal that was included with the e-mail announcement of Delia’s death: http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2006/10/09/focus15.html?page=all
Jan Pocock is in rehab at Surrey Place following a fall recently during a trip to the supermarket. She is reportedly very perky and doing quite well. Jan celebrated her 83rd birthday on August 7 – Happy Birthday Jan! If you would like to send greetings to Jan, her address as Surrey Place is 14701 Olive Blvd., Chesterfield, MO 63017.
If you know of internship opportunities in education or hospitality, Susan Van Matre would like to hear from you as she completes her for a M.Ed. in Adult and Higher Education Management. She is looking for internships at colleges or other fun and interesting places in the area for next Spring. You can contact Susan at slvanmatre@gmail.com .
Ruth Bohnert’s has moved to St. Charles. Her new address is 27 Gum Tree Place, St. Charles, MO 63301. Her home phone number is 636-925-1405 and her cell phone number is 314-616-3185.
Aviation News:
A lot of airport Open Houses and aviation events are planned during the next three months:
25 August – Open House at Sullivan Airport from 8 am – 4 pm. Pancake breakfast, lunch, lots
of family-friendly events.
1 September – Fly-in Breakfast at Mt. Vernon Airport, 8-11 am
15-16 September – Air Show at Scott Air Force Base with the USAF Thunderbirds
15 September – CAF Hangar Dance at St. Charles County Airport from 7-11 pm
Tickets are $16 in advance and $20 at the door.
22 September – Airport Fun Day and Open House at Cape Girardeau Regional Airport
6 October – Fall Fly In/Drive In at the Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum, sponsored by the
Museum and EAA 64, from 9 am – 3 pm
27 October – Third Annual Airport Day at St. Charles County Airport. Pumpkin Drop at St.
Charles Flying Service. EAA will have a lunch concession from 12-5 pm and the
Corvette Club will have vintage and current Corvettes on display.
27 October – Memorial Service for Carl Cochran, former Ozark Pilot and FBO manager, at
Washington Airport
Are you looking for something aviation-related in the area. Find what you’re looking for in the St. Louis Aviation Calendar: http://stlaviationcalendar.com/home.html
