Greater St. Louis Ninety-Nines

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September 2013

September meeting and Chapter Birthday Party:  September 28, 2013
Place and time to be announced.

(As of 9/23/13)
As mentioned in the Newsletter, September is our Chapter's 72nd birthday. We will be celebrating at noon on Saturday, 28 September, at noon at Jean Murry's house, 33 Oakland Hills, Chesterfield MO. This will be a pot luck, so please bring a covered dish to share. Please let Jean Murry know if you plan to attend the meeting: 314-469-3541. Birthday cake and ice cream will be provided.

 

Please mark your calendar for the September meeting.  This will most likely be the last membership meeting prior to the NCS Fall meeting at the DoubleTree from October 11-13.  We will be stuffing the goody bags and discussing the scheduling for the hospitality room.  By that time we should know how many people will be registered for the pizza party and Creve Coeur museum tour, and can plan transportation to these venues.   This will also be our Chapter Birthday party pot luck, so we hope to have a large turn-out of members.

NCS Fall Meeting:
If you have not already done so, please get your registration for the NCS Fall meeting to Martha Norman, 160 Cedar Lane, Ironton MO 63650.   You only need to register for those events you actually plan to attend, and full registration is just $99 for Chapter members.  Registration forms are available on the NCS website: www.ncs99s.org .  If you have any questions please contact Martha at 573-546-7472.

We need items for the Silent Auction.  Please bring new or lightly used  aviation books, aviation jewelry, or other items that you would like to donate, to the Chapter meeting in September or to the NCS meeting in October.  We will have the Silent Auction set up all day Saturday in the fly market room.  “Winners” will be announced at the end of the banquet on Saturday evening.

There are three changes to the meeting schedule.  1)  Jean and I will be at the hotel early on Friday and registration will be open from about 10 am to 5 pm.  2)  Wanda Johnston will be selling her Ninety Nines logoed merchandise at the fly market and we will have the fly market open from 10 am to 5 pm on Friday and before the business meeting and after the luncheon until about 6 pm on Saturday.  3)  The luncheon speaker will be Ed Guinness, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University.  He will be speaking on “exploring the surface of Mars with Rovers – Opportunity and Curiosity.  Our banquet speaker is former astronaut Sandra Magnus, Ph. D.

Chapter News:
The Chapter has been invited to participate in two events in November, so mark your calendars.

On Saturday, November 16 the Greater St. Louis Business Aviation Association (GSLBAA) is sponsoring their 1st annual trivia night to benefit the GSLBAA Educational Foundation and the Wings of Hope.  It will be held at CBC High School, 1850 La Salle Dr. at I-64 and I-270.   Doors open at 6 pm and trivia begins at 7 pm.  Bring your own snacks and drinks.  The cost is $25 per contestant or $200 for a table of 8.  We would like to have at least one table of Ninety Nines.  

On Wednesday, November 20, the NGA (Defense Mapping Agency) will dedicate a conference room to the GSL Ninety Nines first chairman and former WASP, Del Scharr.  We have been invited to attend the dedication ceremony.   I will let the chapter know as soon as we get place and time information.  Members wishing to attend will need to let us know in advance since the NGA will need to get clearances prepared for us individually.  

Nine members and guests attended our luncheon meeting at Creve Coeur Airport on July 21. As you can see from the photo below, Nelda Lee looks really great following her therapy.  A photo of the happy lunch group is attached to the newsletter.

Ninety Nines News:
he Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Fund Trustees have announced a new program with awards up to $3000 for student pilots to complete their Recreational, Sport Pilot, or Private Pilot certificate in any aircraft.  Formerly called the New Pilot Award, the Trustees will now give up to four Fly Now Awards each year, two with an application deadline in September, and two with a deadline in March.  Applicants must be an Associate Members of The 99s to apply and must have a demonstrated need for financial assistance.  In addition, the applicant must have a formal Mentor from her Chapter for support and guidance. The financial awards are given in stages as the student reaches certain milestones in her training.  Full information is available at http://www.ninety-nines.org/userfiles/file/Fly%20Now%20brochure.pdf

Member News:
Vivian Waters has photographs displayed at the Metrolink main office at Laclede’s Landing until December. 

Here is a photo of the happy lunch group at Creve Coeur Airport, 21 July 2013.  Front row:  Marge Nulsen, Libby Yunger, Martha Norman, Gussie Freese.  Back row:  Ruth Bohnert, Jean Murry, Vivian Waters, Nelda Lee, Mary Kinnaw

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July meeting:  July 21 at noon – Lunch at Creve Coeur Airport

Over lunch we’ll touch base on where everything is for the NCS section meeting that we are hosting in October.  With luck CAVU will prevail and there will be a lot of interesting aircraft on the field.   

Please call Jean Murry at 314-469-3541 if you plan to attend so she can give an approximate headcount to the folks at Creve Coeur Airport.

Chapter News:

IT’S TIME TO RENEW CHAPTER DUES.   Chapter dues are again $10.  If you would like a paper copy of Waypoint mailed to your home, please include $10 for the Waypoint subscription.  Waypoint can be accessed electronically free of charge at the North Central Section web site:  www.ncs99s.org.  Dues should be sent to Martha Norman, 160 Cedar Lane, Ironton, MO 63650.

Ninety Nines News:

The 2013 Ninety Nines International Conference is taking place this weekend in Bozeman, Montana, July 9-14.  Minnetta Gardinier of the Iowa Chapter will vote our proxies since nobody from the chapter was able to attend.

The Ninety Nines International Board of Directors has reduced its funding of NIFA (National Intercollegiate Flying Association) to $500 this year.  In order to cover the NIFA sponsorship fee of $1500, an anonymous donor made up the difference this year.  In addition the Ninety Nines sponsors the Women’s Achievement Award at the National SAFECON each year.  In May this year, additional awards of $700, $500, and $300 were made to three deserving women.  The Board of Directors is asking the Chapters and individual Ninety Nines to consider donating to NIFA in the next fiscal year.  Checks should be made payable to the Ninety Nines, Inc. but note NIFA Donation or Women’s Achievement Award on the memo line. 

Member News

Anne Mongiovi will be spending the week at AirVenture Oshkosh and would like to connect with other members who are also attending.  You can contact her at amongiovi@charter.net or look for her at the Soaring Society booth.

Speaking of AirVenture, June Tonsing sent a link to Livestream where  daily educational programs on aviation topics aimed at young people will be broadcast daily during AirVenture.  Check it out at http://new.livestream.com/DiscoverAviationTV .

Aviation News:

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

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January 2013

January meeting: Saturday, January 26, 2013

Midwest Aviation Conference and Trade Show – 9 am

Ninety Nines meeting – 1 pm

Location: Maryland Hts Centre, 2344 McKelvey Rd. 314-738-2599

Directions to the Maryland Hts Centre: The Centre is located just west of I-270 between I-70 and Dorsett Rd – you can actually see the Centre from the highway. Get to I-270 by your favorite route. Exit at Dorsett Rd and take Dorsett Rd west to the first light (McKelvey Rd.). Turn right on McKelvey Rd, go north about ½ mile and turn right on Ameling Rd. Ameling ends in McKelvey Rd, turn left and go about 0.2 miles. The Centre will be on your right. There is abundant free parking.

This is the event schedule for Saturday morning MACTS:

9:00 Welcome and Introductions: Master of Ceremonies – Mike Young

9:00-9:50 Runway Safety Games – Al Gorthy, Central Region FAA Office of Runway Safety

10:00-10:50 Don’t Let Human Factors Bite You – Cathè Fish, National Accident Prevention Counselor & AOPA Air Safety Institute Instructor

11:00-11:50 Pilots Bill of Rights – Congressman from NW Missouri & Active Pilot, Sam Graves

12:00-12:50 What you need to Know About Aviation Medicals – Sara Newton, FAA Medical Division

There will also be an Awards Banquet and Silent Auction at the Maryland Hts. Centre from 6:15-9:00 pm Saturday evening. On Sunday from 1:00-3:00 pm, also at the Maryland Hts. Centre, Learn to Fly – Adult and Youth Programs featuring Craig O’Mara, program director, and Dave Desmond, Chief F-18 Test Pilot, Military Tactical Flight Operations, The Boeing Company.

We will again be raffling a goodie basket to earn money for the Del Scharr Scholarship Fund. We already have two bottles of wine for the basket so no additional wine is needed. However, if you have small cheeses, candies, crackers, cookies, non-perishable sausages, etc., please get them to Jean Murry (314-469-3541) before Thursday so she can complete the basket.

Our meeting will be a planning session for the Fall North Central Section meeting that we are hosting at the DoubleTree Hotel in Chesterfield, 11-12 October 2013. We have a small Chapter and we need everyone to participate if at all possible.

On Saturday we need to make the following decisions

1. Theme for the meeting

2. Activities:

• Suggested for Friday evening (this will be part of the registration fee) – pizza party at Wings of Hope
• Suggested for Saturday morning (guest and 49½ activity during the NCS general meeting) – Tour of the museum at Creve Coeur Airport
• Suggested for the Saturday afternoon activity (everyone)
• Tour of the TRACON in Weldon Springs
• Forest Park – Choice ot
• Zoo (Libby Yunger could do a 45 min docent tour)
• Art Museum
• Science Center and IMAX Theater
• MO History Museum
• Faust Park Butterfly House and Carousel

Other suggestions are welcome. Note that the TRACON and Forest Park Museums would be free except for transportation and Libby Yunger may have enough free passes for interested people to attend the IMAX Theater at the Science Center.

3. Hospitality Room venue: Do we want to rent a suite in the hotel for two days for the hospitality room or use one of the conference center rooms? Using a hotel suite would add about $5 to the meeting registration fee but would allow us to have coffee makers, hot plates, crock pots, or other heating appliances available. We could also bring in wine and/or beer to have available for guests. There would be running water and rest room facilities. The Chapter could use the bedroom (which is a separate room) for storage and overnight accommodations. If we had the hospitality room in a conference room there would be no additional cost for the room. However, we could not have anything that heats in the room so we would have to bring in coffee in a thermos. We could have water, sodas and juices but no alcoholic beverages; they would need to be purchased at the Lounge. The room would have tables and chairs but no comfortable furniture. Rest rooms would be down the hall.

We need volunteers for the following jobs (if you don’t volunteer, you might be assigned a job)

1. Activities Committee – activities will need to be finalized for the Spring and Summer Waypoint issues and for Libby to announce when she hands out registration forms at the NCS Spring meeting in Cleveland in April. We hope to decide the activities at the meeting on Saturday, but this committee will make all arrangements with the venues and transportation arrangements (as needed)
2. Airport Committee – work with management at Spirit Airport to arrange reduced fuel prices, free tie-downs and reduced rates for rental cars for members flying into KSUS.
3. Silent Auction Committee – we need folks to beat the bushes for donated silent auction items and set up and administer the silent auction
4. Bags and Badge Holders – we need folks to find a company or group to donate bags and badge holders (preferably badge holders on a lanyard rather than with pins) for all registrants.
5. Fly Market – we need a contact person for groups selling merchandise at the fly market and to meet the vendors and make certain they have everything they need..

The following committees have already been established:

Hotel – Libby Yunger (lead), Jean Murry, Vivian Waters

Publicity and Artwork – Martha Norman (lead), Vivian Waters (artwork)

Speakers – Vivian Waters, Sue Mathias, Nelda Lee

Registration Desk – Jean Murry, Martha Norman

Financials – Martha Norman

Hospitality Room – Anne Mongiovi, Barbara Cunningham

Since the hospitality room committee will also need to get food, beverages, and supplies for the room, as well as to make certain these things are available and do not run out during the conference, we need one or two additional people for this committee.

Chapter News:

The library exhibit has been removed from the Richmond Hts. Library and Libby Yunder now has all the items at home. If anyone would like to get their items back at the meeting on Saturday, please contact Libby at girlpilot@sbcglobal.net. Otherwise they will be used for the Women in Aviation exhibit at the GSL Air & Space Museum (see following item).

Carmelo Turdo has asked if the Ninety Nines would like to develop a program for Women in Aviation Week, March 4-10, 2013. We will use some of the items from our Library exhibit for a new exhibit under the Amelia Earhart route map at the GSL Air & Space Museum. Carmelo also suggested that we prepare talks or another type of program. Libby will try to contact Carmelo before Saturday for more information about this proposed program.

Ninety Nines News:

The North Central Section Spring meeting is at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in the Old Arcade in downtown Cleveland from 19-21 April. See the video about meeting on the NCS web site: www.ncs99s.org

 The 2013 Ninety Nines International Conference will be in Bozeman, Montana, July 9-14.

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Aviation News:

Libby Yunger will be giving her talk, A Century of Women in Aviation, to the Trailblazers at St. John’s Lutheran Church on February 25 and at Clayton OASIS on Monday, April 15 from 10:30 am-noon. Rhonda Hamm-Niebrugge, director of St. Louis Lambert International Airport will be speaking at Forest Park OASIS on Thursday, March 7 from 1:00-2:30 pm. OASIS talks are open to the public and cost $10. You must be registered to attend. To Register, call 314-862-4859 ext. 24. The Course No. for Libby’s talk is Clayton OASIS 142 and the Course No. for Rhonda Hamm-Niebrugge’s talk is Forest Park OASIS 427. The Clayton OASIS is in the Center of Clayton, 50 Gay Ave, at the south end of Gay Ave off Maryland Ave in Clayton. The Forest Park OASIS is in the Forest Park Visitor’s Center, 5595 Grand Drive in Forest Park.

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