We had 12 aviatrices in attendance to re-elect Sue Royce as Chair, Val Westen as Vice Chair, Cindy Pickett as Treasurer and Meaghan Bertram as Secretary.  Cindy gave us a treasurer’s report and suggested we donate some of our funds to a worthy local recipient. It was suggested, voted and approved to donate $1,000 to the STEM Marin/Pegasus project, where Gnoss Field Community Association is sponsoring the construction of an RV 12 with the seniors at San Marin High School.  

We discussed our upcoming Girl Scout Badge Class scheduled for March 30.
Barbara O’Grady and Sue Royce will be holding the class at the Civil Air
Patrol room at Gnoss from 10 a.m. – noon with lunch following.  This will be our third Girl Scout Badge class in the last year, where we cover aerodynamics, parts of an airplane, understanding a flight sectional and do
a pre-flight on Sue’s Cherokee 180.  We then take them up on the Observation Deck at Gnoss where we review the runways, taxiways, airport traffic patterns and radio calls.  

The Southwest Section Spring meeting will be held on April 4 – 7.  Sue Royce will be there to represent our Marin Chapter. Diane Root and Micki Jones represented our chapter at the Women in Aviation conference in Long Beach last week and gave us a full report on events/speakers.  

Several of our Marin 99s will be volunteering for upcoming EAA/Young Eagle fly days scheduled for April 20 and May 18. 

In photo from left:  Barbara O’Grady, Rita Merker, Vicki Martinez, Val Westen, Diane Root, Marielle Coeytaux, Micki Jones, Sue Sarmir, Margy Boyle, Gretchen Kah, Cindy Pickett and Sue Royce

It’s that time again!

Don’t forget, our annual Holiday Potluck is tomorrow (December 8) from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Scanlon Aviation hangar. EAA chapter 1232 is providing the turkey(s) this year, GFCA is providing the entertainment, Sue Royce is providing the wine and Ken Mercer is providing the beer and soft drinks. Check the invitation, below, for your potluck assignment.

This is always a fun event, and this year the entertainment will be provided by Ukelele Family Ohana (UFO), a group of native Hawaiians and Marinites with the sounds (and dances) of the islands. Wear your Island attire!

A group of women from the Marin 99s presented information about female aviators at at the Novato Space Station Museum on September 22nd celebrating “women making history”.

Click on the image below for a wonderful video about the Marin 99s

Thanks to our 99 member, Alyssa Abbey, we were treated to another fabulous

seaplane ride over the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco.  After the

flights, Val Westen and Dan Bedford hosted a lovely meal for all of us.  The

photos speak a thousand words!!

24 Girl Scouts from two local troops attended a 2 hour class today given by
Barbara O’Grady, which included aerodynamics, reading a flight sectional,
preflight of an airplane, traffic patterns at an airport and a great lunch
afterwards in Sue’s hangar.   Good chance we will be seeing many of these
girls in a few years for flight training, as they seemed pretty excited
about the idea of flying an airplane.

Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship Fund is already organizing for 2019 distributions. The International meeting is mostly about giving out the awards and introducing all the winners. There are lots of winners! If you are in the process of attaining a rating please consider applying for this award. What they are looking for is how you will use your new rating to ‘make the world a better place’.  We all share our love of flight and how it enables us to be better people and give back our gifts. The deadline for applications to the chapter is Jan 1, 2019. Go online, to the 99s website, to get the info for the application. I’d be happy to help you with your application. Cindy Pickett