Don't get involved in any more projects. I hope collection of funds will be long-term. We aren't wealthy enough for 2. If I were younger I would favor 2 Scholarships. Where will unspent funds go? Each year the Distinguished Speaker Program sponsors people who made a significant contribution to our nation's defense to share their experiences and insights with tomorrow's air and space leaders. This presentation provides the cadets a valuable insight into the role women played in the Air force. One thousand Cadets attended the presentation and those that could not attend had the speech piped into their class rooms.

Margaret and her daughter Marsha were met at the airport by Major Donald E. They had their noon meal with the Cadets. General Oelstrom accompanied Margaret to Mitchell Hall for her presentation. She told the WASP story, her many flying experiences and her trip around the World when she was seventy two. The last paragraph of her speech, "We live in a world of people who want success without being willing to pay the price for achieving it.

Just ask anyone who failed and they will tell you, 'Success is a matter of luck. And I can tell you, it's worth whatever it costs. You are an outstanding example of what makes this nation great. Though the course may change headings along the way just remember, the sky's the limit. Your future is bright, and it's not where you've come from but where you are going that count Photo by Larry Hulst.

The Cadets said you are the speaker that has impressed and motivated them the most in their short careers here. You are a true inspiration to these young leaders not to mention some of old officers. The room snapped to attention with a sea of blue all standing at attention in total silence while three of us walked across to our front row seats. Mom did a fantastic job telling her story and hopefully motivating the cadets. They presented her with a picture of the Thundebirds flying over the Academy and a plaque of appreciation. The wind was too strong for a ride in a glider.

The article said, "She's still flying high this grandmother that has been hooked on flying for 57 years and is still earning racing trophies with the best of them. She has lost count of her trophies and does not live in the past and cares more on what she's doing today. She has been married for 50 years and dotes on her grandchildren. She still flies and won a race in Illinois in July In November Margaret was honored as the first woman to become a pilot in Fort Wayne Margaret was featured in the November 4th edition of the National Enquirer.

A picture of her in the cockpit of her plane with the caption, "A site for soar eyes. Flight instructor Margaret Ringenberg at the controls. The Enquirer reported that folks in Fort Wayne, IN still talk about the day this pilot 'bombed' their town. Margaret was dropping 56, fliers that gave the word that Japan had surrendered and the war was over. What will be Margaret's next adventure! We must wait and see. Standing beside Tibbets was Didi Moorman, a woman who 53 years ago Tibbets taught to fly the Superfortress, at the time the largest bomber in the world.

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How the two Midwesterners met at Eglin Air Force 8ase in the summer of and their little-known, cross-country adventure on a kept an audience of former crewmen captivated Saturday afternoon. When Tibbets was summoned to Eglin in to oversee work on the bomber, he was already one of the nation's most experienced pilots, having led the first day-light bomber runs of Nazi-occupied -Europe. The was the most complicated warplane of its day.

Its electronic systems, such as a "master gun control," were a bridge between the Air Force's pre-World War II technology and the gear that would become standard equipment on later jet bombers. Under Tibbets' guidance at Eglin, crews experimented with new engine parts and worked out the kinks in the electronic gear. Tibbets also showed off the new plane to such aviation giants as Charles Lindbergh who visited Eglin. Although hundreds of 's had already rolled out of American factories, many pilots were scared to take the Superfortress into the sky.

It was the biggest airplane we had," Tibbets said. At a training base in Clovis, NM, pilots were finding reasons not to fly the planes. They were convinced that if one engine quit the bomber would crash and that the engines were prone to catch on fire. A general came to Tibbets about the pilots' fright. He didn't have to look far. Dorothea "Didi" Moorman had grown up in Nebraska and earned her pilot's license from a pre-World War II government effort to train civilian pilots. Moorman loved flying so much she quit her desk job at a savings and loan to work at a private airfield that offered her flight time in exchange for working there.

After America entered the war, the War Department started the Woman's Air Service Pilot program, an effort to teach women to fly military planes, but not into combat. Of the 23, women who applied, 1,were accepted. Moorman's wartime flying took her up and down the East Coast, ferrying airplanes and guiding radio-controlled target drones. They didn't have any place for women pilots," Moorman told the reunion audience. One morning, Moorman recalled, a colonel walked up to her.


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It was Tibbets but the name didn't mean anything to her. He was looking for women who hadn't flown a four-engine plane. Even today, it's hard for Moorman to express her excitement about the offer to pilot a In less than a week, Tibbets had Moorman and Daugherty flying the bomber and commanding its enlisted male air crew.

During the lessons, Tibbets and his two students flew out of 8irmingham, Ala. After a week, Moorman and Daugherty flew a home to Eglin. There wasn't a third day. Word came down from War Department to stop. You have accomplished the mission," Tibbets told Moorman and Daugherty. Moorman went on to work as a general's aide and co-pilot based at Grand Isle, Neb. When the War Department announced it was ending. Tibbets went on to become commander of the secret Air Force mission to drop atomic bombs on Japan.

Daugherty stayed with Tibbets and helped fly test missions involved with planning the attacks.


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  • Tibbets still bristles at the National Air and Space Museum's efforts a few years ago to mount an exhibition about the nuclear bomb attacks on Japan that he and many others believe portrayed Japan as the victim, not as an imperial power that attacked Pearl Harbor, China and the South Pacific islands. The house was as close to the water as we are to that wall," Tibbets said pointing to a wall about 10 yards away. A grandson is an Air Force pilot and commander of a B-2 stealth bomber. Tibbets and Moorman hadn't seen each other since the war until three weeks ago, when they were reunited in Texas at a Confederate Air Force show.

    Moorman and most of the reunion participants had no idea Tibbets would appear Saturday until he walked into the Holiday Inn ballroom. He was greeted by a standing ovation. Can you imagine preparing a sit-down dinner for over ? My roommate, Jane Cunningham's arrival at our motel was a bit late and so she and I did not arrive at the Gala until after some of the opening ceremonies. John Hamre and the tribute offered by Tipper Gore. In her remarks she mentioned that when General Vaught was a little girl, she was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up.

    Tipper Gore also pointed out that it took some 30 or 40 years to complete the Washington Monument but that General Vaught completed ours in just 8 years. This function lasted from 3 p. This statement in spite of the fact that every forecaster predicted rain. The following day, October 18th, sure enough, no rain but cold with a very low overcast. The hour ceremony was attended by about 30, with many dignitaries and speakers. A special message was televised from President and Mrs. Clinton and Vice President Gore was there in ":. Among the many speakers was the Hon.

    She then went home and prayed to God for no rain - and SHE heard her. Eileen Collins was one of the speakers. There were 32 cutting the ribbon. Scheduled for part of the ceremony was a fly-by of a C with an all woman crew and our own Dawn Seymour as passenger. Vi Cowden had gotten a flight in the C the day before. However, the ceiling was too low to allow this flight. There was a candle-light march in the evening which I did not attend because of the cold weather. But those who did were very impressed with the service at which Janet Reno was one of the speakers. The grand finale was a spectacular display of fire-works.

    The entire celebration was one that I wish all could have attended. All the services were complemented and honored by so many. Looks as if women have finally found a place of honor. The WASPs were represented by the following: Three of the five have an active part in the P organization. There were several enjoyable tours of historic San Diego, views of the Navy facilities, a visit to the famous Aerospace Museum in Balboa Park, and a trip to Tiajuana. These plus a welcoming cocktail party, the members meeting and banquet contributed to a pleasant renewal of friendship with the Mustang pilots and made an enjoyable backdrop for the mini-mini-WASP reunion.

    The extensive photo panel that adjoins the dining rooms has displayed aviation celebrities Until now, the one token woman has always been Amelia Earhart. Tallichet owns the Proud Bird as well as numerous other aviation-theme restaurants. They were hosted by the City of Mobile and the Veterans. Brown said, "What a grand Veteran's Day celebration! And to think we were so honored! It was a memory I shall long treasure. Hospitality was great and enjoyed meeting the Mayor of Mobile, the host committee and others. The sixty two Junior ROTC units marching in the parade, and all the children waving flags along the parade route was most impressive.

    The program at the museum was the highlight of the day, music was beautiful and the 4th grade children marching in carrying flags was something I shall remember forever. Each WASP received a plaque that reads. She accepted the Patriot of the Year Plaque. The ancient Greeks believed that the sky was female and they left us with a wonderful legacy of images and stories. Perhaps the most important gift was the idea that if we can dream something, we can do it.

    These are the thoughts that were on my mind that stunning September morning when the purple crepe was pulled off of Dot Lewis' wonderful statue. There will be a picture or two, perhaps the text of Attorney General Janet Reno's speech. But we who were there know the magic of the moment. Naturally, it was wonderful to be surrounded by friends, to see the flag, to hearthe speeches and to bask in the applause of four thousand or more young cadets.

    Really, the sky was as blue and crisp as you remember it. But now the festivities are over.

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    Will the intended message of duty, honor and country ring true? Wili this memorial endure? Do statues and stamps and stickers and archives matter? Long after the paper which these words are printed on crumbles, the bronze and granite will stand tall. Made of metal and stone, forged by fire-the most basic elements in the cosmos-your statue will stand tall. Young cadets marching through the gate which declares: Patriotism, service and leadership know no sex. You have proclaimed loud and clear that the hard work of freedom can and should be done by all American citizens. So one day a millennium or two from now when the documents and photographs we hold so dear to us today are dust, the historians will still be able to look to this time in history and know that you were something special.

    They will see the awe in the heaven-turned face of this simple, graceful sculpture. And they will be able to tell the story of the brave young women who dared to dream the dream of flight and freedom Deanie Bishop Parrish, W-4 If you are into 'surfing the net', you might want to log on to http: My daughter, Nancy, created this site over a year ago. It started out as just a small site to educate visitors by sharing one WASP' experiences, but it soon exploded! E-mail started coming in from around the world, and as she expanded the information on the website, so did the email, the awards, and the visitors from 24 foreign countries so far.

    Some of the most gratifying email has been received from teachers and from members of the Armed Services who had never before heard of the WASP. Encouraging comments, praise for the WASP' service, and requests for information are common, Sumple requesls: Also, if you know someone that would consider this site worthy of their sponsorship, ask them to please take a look at this site and judge its worthiness. She has never asked for or received any financial help with this project.

    It would be great to find a sponsor who believes in this project--recognizing the immediate educational benefits of this site and its potential unlimited use as a resource in the field of education. If you don't have an Internet connection, check out your public library or a local university Iibrary--they are connected and most would be more than willing to share, I hope you stop by and visit, because each of you has been an inspiration for this project. In August she went to San Antonio, Texas for interviews. We are extremely proud of this collection and we want every WASPs story.

    Each and every one of you have a truly unique story to tell. Two new displays featuring loaned items are currently being exhibited at the Ft. Uniforms, insignia, photographs, pilot logs and Fifi ephemera are just a sample of the many items borrowed by both museums. An important outcome form this collaboration are ready-made WASP photos available for loan. Call us for details. Exhibits will be customized to reflect WASP living in that particular geographical location. In the last three months we had seven in-house researchers and fifteen e-mail or phone research requests.

    Research requests range from basic information about the WASP to ones like Wand Langley from Georgia who came for a week in December to gather information for a young adult book she's writing. Here's who have been kind enough to remember The Woman's Collection in We appreciate and treasure each and every one of our WASP. From all of us at the Woman's Collection, thank you so very much for allowing us to preserve your special memories and history.

    A newspaper article mentions a white satin girdle as being standard issue. We would love to add one to our uniform collection! Present at this ceremony: Lest we think this too bold a step, she shared with us how easily this might be done in the stages: Let's work to leave our Legacy where our place in history will be maximized!

    Following this presentation there was a fly-by of a B and three AT-6's who enjoyed themselves so thoroughly that they emulated the famous Energizer Bunny, making round after round to everyone's delight. She served on the initial committee selected by the Veterans Administration with June Willentz as chairman to explore this idea. I thought no one would be better in the job, and she has proved this to be so. She said the move is being negotiated "because it's a good offer.

    It's a more reasonable means for us to expand, rather than for us to build somewhere," she said. McDonald believes the change would be good for the museum as it will mean "a new start. Office Manager Margie McDonald said the museum's board decided at its last meeting to renegotiate a contract with Burke Lakefront Airport a concourse in the downtown airport terminal, not far from the new football stadium being built and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

    Photo by Charlie Perez Anniversary Celebration - Betty Shipley center , receives a little help in cutting a cake celebrating the Air Force's 50th anniversary during a special retreat ceremony Sept. Richard Mentemeyer, 12th Flying Training Wing commander. The dedication ceremony will begin at 1: The dedication has been approved as an Air Force Reserve 50th Anniversary activity. In one of the barracks was converted into a small chapel with seating for 60 persons. Work was begun in to restore the chapel to preserve it as a link with the past and to make it available for civic events.

    Jeanne, who was a native of Columbus, Indiana, was stationed at Shaw Field, Sumter, South Carolina, where she served as an engineering test pilot. On October 16, , she was killed in the crash of a BT she was testing. The museum will be open after the chapel dedication ceremony. Everyone planning to stay overnight should contact the director's Office as soon as possible for information about area motels and room reservations. Register for the Omaha Conference Sept.

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    The proposal made was that he paint a picture from which a limited number of prints would be made for sale by the WASP. Bee Haydu, then President of the organization, was asked to suggest the content of the painting. The resulting painting even has the Wishing Well which can be seen with the help of a magnifying glass. He was very distressed over a business deal that had gone awry involving all of his paintings. He took a knife - no, he did not cut off his ear - and slashed the original painting.

    Any copies of the original are now more valuable. Did you fly for the Russians? Reservation Bloc confirmation number In order for members of your party to place their reservations we suggest the call our Group Department at and identify themselves as members of the WASP WWII party, Reservation Bloc confirmation number is If you plan on attending the lunches and trip to Fantasy of Flight, please contact Connie Reynolds - phone or Ethel Finley There is no registration fee for this event. Shutsy-Reynolds or Betty Smith, Reg.

    Airshow, parade and military wreath laying ceremony. We would appreciate you printing a notice of the reunion in your next publication. For information, Please contact: Box , Seymour, IN Phone: Sit in on some of the forums to hear the tales about these record-setting Cubs and their pilots. The new Piper Aviation Museum is now open to tell the Piper history story. For registration or accommodation information contact Madelyn Blesh at Double Tree Hotel Dodge St. It's really shaping up to be a good one.

    The theme is going to be "Fightertown USA. We plan for lots of fighter demos during the day Saturday along with several specialty acts. As a first, we also plan for some night flying on Saturday night. Sunday will be the traditional CAF Airpower Demonstration during which many of the major battles will be reenacted. Just this week, we learned that there is a chance that the Red Arrows the British jet demo team will be here-we will know for certain in March. It's a wonderful ceremony including much pageantry, a sit-down dinner and a pre-dinner reception. Have your Credit Card ready.

    The Deadline is September 1. Contact Ethel Finley for further information. Williams The following programs for the '98 year have been planned for your enjoyment. With this schedule you will now be able to plan your personal activities Delicious Buffet Luncheon will follow.. Eileen Worden, Price per person: Have selected a Monday, so out of towners can travel to the area on the previous Sunday, if they choose. Details will be sent later in the year. Embassy Suites, Highway , Palm Desert. Attendance at the Palm Springs Follies is scheduled Her mother was one of my classmates, Virginia Spear.

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    Her father Clay Spear, had been an instructor at Sweetwater. The young woman Marilyn, had flown in from Florida hoping to find someone who had known her mother. What an unexpected treat to meet her. Blue skies, Elaine Harmon. Buchner Richard, Hope you don't mind this email out of the blue. My interest in the Women Airforce Service Pilots began years and years ago when Shutsy said that if anyone knew, it would be you.

    If you have any information that you would like to share, I would be most grateful. I am hoping to write some historical based articles for the local paper as a start and eventually, perhaps, a chiJdrens book on aviation on Long Island. I have been fascinated with the subject ever since I can remember, maybe because I have always been surrounded by it.

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    Thanks so much for your time. It is great with pictures, narrative and songs. If "Deanie" hasn't sent a separate article, , suggest you call her for details. The Web Site is: They have many hits and interesting correspondence. They also have another project going concerning a video WASP collection. Nancy is a professional and has an excellent presentation but still needs funding. Best Wishes, Millie Dalrymple. Each and every WASP: The plaque quotes the simple and eloquent words of General Arnold. You inscribed at the bronze base those words old and ever new: It is a special pleasure to me to see Dot Lewis each year as she is the person who turned my dreams of flight into a reality Many years ago, I was a biology student of Dot's at the Orme School in northern Arizona.

    One day, sitting in her class, we were studying birds and Dot started to explain how birds could fly and introduced us all to the concept and mysteries of the airfoil. Although she was usually an animated and very interesting teacher, it was obvious that she had an exceptionally strong passion for this particular subject so after class I went up to her to talk some more about wings. The discussion slowly drifted toward her flying days completely unknown to us previously and we were held spellbound as Dot modestly told us of her adventures in the Women's Air Service Corps.

    A birth to the present day account of these Women Flyer's lives. Photos of reunions from in Cincinnati to Disneyland Class books written, or to be written. This book will not interfere with any books, articles, or class books written about the WASP. It is to be a condensed history of your life,' put together to let you old friends, classmates, the young and elderly, interested in what the women in the WASP did with their lives after that exciting time they spent as a WASP in World War II.

    I would appreciate any help about the lives of those who have died, that you may know. They too, should have their lives in our history story. Please send your story to me as soon as you can. Let me worry about that. The sooner I can get it into my computer, edited, and sent back to you, for your approval, the sooner I can get this book finished. A lot of work I know, and I accept that for a history that our children, and future generations will enjoy reading. I thank you for your co-operation, and will appreciate any suggestion that will make this a better book.

    Thank you and God bless, Betty Turner, 5 of us who wanted to learn to fly, and arranged through another student who's dad ran an FBO in neighboring Prescott, to borrow an old hand-propped J-3 Cub to use on the ranch's short dirt strip. We borrowed a bulldozer from the ranch to tidy up the runway a bit then Dot donated her valuable time after school hours to teach us to fly.

    I think we always hold a special place in our hearts for people that touch our lives by igniting a passion and opening the window of possibilities. For me, Dot is that person.

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    Forty years later, managing a business involved in assisting others to realize their dreams of flying, I look back with love and gratitude for this wonderful and creative woman who saw the spark and fanned the flame of flight within me. May God bless this incredible person!

    Best regards to you and all the Wasp sisters, Ethel. You may send your story on tape of you wish. Mostly, I would like your life story after deactivation. Date of birth and place of birth What got you interested in flying? Where you were stationed and planes flown. Did you continue flying and where. Where you worked if not in flying. If you married, where you met your husband and his name. What were your special achievements. Tall tales and town stories are as much a way of life as a pint and good conversation at the local pub.

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    Greeley, Emerald Magic contains fourteen wonderful stories of legend and lore, including: A group of pub regulars set out to discover the truth behind a local song and answer that age-old question: Just how fast does a person sink in a bog? In an age long ago, a warrior sailing for vengeance happens upon an island ruled by a woman like no other. But if he is to continue his quest, he must choose between her and his duty.

    A woman who finds and reads her grandfather's diary unleashes the specter of an old debt that, even in today's modern age, must be paidone way or the other. In the late eighteenth century, an Irish author encounters a being that he will turn into his greatest literary creation. A lonely girl neglected by her parents finds an unexpected friend in the alley behind her homeone that may be more than it first seems.

    Even in twenty-first-century America, it is still not wise to anger the spirits of the world, as a young musician discovers when a butter-spirit who had cursed him nine years earlier comes to claim his soul. The ship has been retrofitted, retooled and renovated numerous times over the years, resulting in some cumbersome working conditions. The elevators that move ordnance stored below decks pass through a general mess deck, where the crew eats.

    When bombs need to be moved in a hurry, sailors have to clear out anyone who might be dining there, then flip the tables out of the way. Sarah Self-Kyler, a spokeswoman for the ship. After the reactors are removed and most equipment is offloaded in Newport News, the ship will be hauled to the West Coast and cut into scrap metal. Brill returned to the Enterprise this week and shot video of flight operations from the same spot for one final story on the old warship.

    It has been an incredible success story for peace. Ted Carter, commander of the Enterprise carrier strike group, said he takes a lot of pride in guiding the ship through its final mission. Carter, a career aviator who flew F Tomcats off the Enterprise in the s, suited up Monday to fly in the backseat of the last jet to ever make a nighttime landing on the Enterprise. The Super Hornet touched down under pitch black skies that were spitting rain.

    Two days after pulling through the Suez Canal last week, the ship encountered rain for the first time since it left Norfolk in March. Members of the crew rushed from work stations and mess halls to get a glimpse or feel the moisture. A handful of sailors splashed through puddles on the flight deck as months of caked-on brown desert dirt streamed off the ship.