Greater St. Louis Ninety-Nines

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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