Monterey Bay Ninety-Nines
"If you
are a woman, and are coming to the flying field seeking stimulation,
excitement and flattery, you had better stay away until flying
is a little bit safer.
If you are thinking that flying will develop character; will
teach you to be orderly, well-balanced; will give you an increasingly
wider outlook; discipline you, and destroy vanity and pride;
enable you to control yourself more and more under all conditions;
to think less of yourself and your personal problems, and more
of sublimity and everlasting peace that dwell serene in the heavens
- if you seek these latter qualities, and think on them exclusively,
why - FLY!"
-- Margery Brown, 'Flying' magazine, 1929.
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Monterey Bay Chapter received its charter on August 14, 1965. International President Ruth Deerman described the duties of each officer. Our International Vice President conducted installation services and the Governor of the Southwest Section gave each member her pin. Bay Cities and Sacramento Valley were co-sponsoring chapters. The welcoming speech was made by Betty Gillies, charter member of The Ninety-Nines and commander of the WASP.
Our
chapter activities started off at full throttle by airmarking
both the Monterey and Salinas Airports and having a team in the
Powder Puff Derby in our first year. Since then we have hosted
three Section Meeting (1968, 1972 and 1986) with another one
scheduled for Fall 2000, painted many more runways, hosted the
start of the Powder Puff Derby (1970), sponsored many Pilot Safety
Clinics and Right Seat Seminars, and flown hundreds of non-pilots
in Pennies-a-Pound fundraisers. We have added a scholarship
program and a great mentoring program
for our Student Pilots.
Charter members were:
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