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Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship History

When Amelia Earhart lost her life in 1937, Alice Hammond and Helen Montgomery of the Michigan Chapter proposed a living memorial to her, the annual “AE” Scholarship. From 1948 through 1991, 48 North Central 99s have been honored with AE Scholarships and have pursued various ratings: commercial, instrument, multi-engine, ATP, CFI/CFII, helicopter, etc. Two have received Research Scholar Awards.
 

Year Scholarship Awardees
2008 ATP
Commercial Certificate
Instrument Rating
Maule Tailwheel Award
Sheryl Rains (Northwoods)
Laurie Probst (Wisconsin)
Heather Hostert (Chicago Area); Sally Sparks (Greater Kansas City)
Christina Stark (Wisconsin)
2007 Academic Scholarship
Commercial Certificate
Commercial SES Add-on
Instrument Rating
Maule Tailwheel Award
Sarah Dooley (Indiana); Heidi Klein (Wisconsin); Jeannie Shipp (Greater Detroit)
Mary Biller (Scioto Valley); Lynn Sykes (Northwoods)
Christina Hartlaub (Wisconsin)
Sally Siebe (Greater St. Louis)
Stephanie Hahn (Greater Kansas City)
2006 ATP
Future Women Pilots
Instrument Rating
Maule Tailwheel Award
Christine Poelma (Kentucky Blue Grass)
Jeannie Shipp (Greater Detroit); Jessica Dattilo (Kentucky Blue Grass); Nancy Matras (Lake Erie)
Kristy Brooke (Chicago Area)
Laurie Probst (Wisconsin)
2005 Future Women Pilots
Instrument Rating
Multi-Engine Rating
Marisa Palacio (Kentucky Blue Grass)
Sarah Dooley (Indiana)
Erin Lamp (Kentucky Blue Grass)
2004 Future Women Pilots
Multi-Engine Rating
Elaine McLaughlin (Lake Erie)
Marcelaine Wininger Lewis (Michigan)
2003 Commercial Certificate
Future Women Pilots
Shelley Ventura (Aux Plaines)
Jacqueline D. Wahl (Kentucky Blue Grass); Kristen I. Pickworth (Lake Erie)
2002 ATP
CFI
Commercial Certificate
Future Women Pilots
Peggy Sue Figley (All-Ohio)
Cynthia S. Madsen (Chicago Area); Martha Taylor (Lake Erie)
Karen Ness (Chicago Area)
Jaime Lee McCoin (Indiana Dunes); Victoria K. Jarvis (Kentucky Blue Grass); Sally D. Sparks (Greater Kansas City)
2001 Future Women Pilots * Cheri Viterna (Kentucky Blue Grass); Janice Wilson (Women With Wings)
* The first year that the 99s offered a $1000 scholarship to Future Women Pilots!
2000 Academic Scholarship Julie Murray (Chicago Area), B.S., Aviation Administration
1999 Commercial Certificate
Instrument Rating
Multi-Engine Rating
UA Type Rating
Cynthia Madsen (Chicago Area); Kim Spath (Aux Plaines)
Jeanné Willerth (Greater Kansas City)
Betty Huck (Greater Cincinnati)
Renee Burger Bowman (Minnesota)
1998 CFII
Instrument Rating
Multi-Engine Rating
737 Type Rating
Maggie Dodson (Chicago Area); Peggy Figley (All-Ohio)
Karol Kliewer (Greater Kansas City)
Leanne Chandler (Lake Michigan)
Michelle Turner (Chicago Area)
1997 ATP
CFI
Janeen Poklar (Greater Cincinnati); Donna Stevens (Indiana Dunes)
Cheryl Cope (Illiana Cardinals)
1996 Commercial
UA 737 Type Rating
Janice Welsh (Illiana Cardinals)
Janet (Anderson) Patton (Michigan)
1995 ATP
CFII
Commercial Certificate
Jo Ellen Peters (Minnesota)
Jan Currie (Central Illinois)
Donna Moore (Women With Wings)
1994 Commercial Certificate
Instrument Rating
Gail Allinson (Chicago Area)
Karen Monteith (Wisconsin)
1993 ATP
CFI-Multi
CFII
Wendy Paver (All-Ohio),
Peggy Figley (All-Ohio); Sandra Gordley (All-Ohio)
Marie Miller (Chicago Area)
1992 CFII
Commercial Certificate
Multi-Engine
Kathryn Bauer (Central Illinois)
Donna Stevens (Indiana Dunes)
Kristina Jo “Tina” Thomas (Chicago Area); Laura Warman (Greater Detroit Area)
1991   Janet Anderson (Michigan), Audrey Cook (Greater Detroit Area)
1990   Gall Sue LaPook (Chicago Area), Laura Winkelmann (Greater St. Louis), Angela Wilkerson (Minnesota)
1989   Patricia Thomas (Chicago Area), Ann Marie Schorsch (Chicago Area), Laura Warman (Greater Detroit Area), Gail Schroeder (Indiana Dunes), * * Dorothy Niekamp (Indiana)
1988   Carol Landefeld (Greater Detroit Area), Barbara Ann Goodwin (Lake Michigan), Mary Rutherford (Indiana), Kathy Osborne (Kentucky Blue Grass)
1987   Linda Mattingly (Indiana Dunes), Dodie Jewett (Lake Erie), Lynnette Renneke-Wiest (Minnesota), Madeleine Monaco (Chicago Area)
1986   Linda Deforest (Greater Detroit Area)
1985   Deborah Kaeder (Minnesota)
1984   Suzanne Batz (Greater Detroit Area), Karen Johnson (Indiana Dunes), Theresa Ludtke (Minnesota), Constance McConnell (All-Ohio), Lawanna Steele (Greater St. Louis), * * Gayle Vail (Minnesota)
1983   Marcy Glaesemann (Minnesota)
1982   Judy Graham (Indiana), Glenda Martlew (Michigan)
1981   Terri Donner (Wisconsin)
1980   Rosalie Burchette (All-Ohio), Mary P. Monterubio (St. Louis)
1979   Janice Orr Young (Minnesota), Terry Zeidler (Minnesota)
1978   Verene Trubey (All-Ohio), * * Dorothy Niekamp (Indiana)
1976   Mary Anglin (Michigan)
1975   Pat Fairbanks (All-Ohio)
1973   Patricia Domas (Michigan)
1972   Anne Esselburne (All-Ohio)
1970   Caroline Luhta (All-Ohio)
1969   Mary Joan Reindl (Greater Kansas City), Carol Lee Wright Stephan (All-Ohio)
1966   Jean P. Reynolds (Michigan), Christine Winter (Michigan)
1965   Ruby St. Onge (Minnesota)
1964   Mary Creason (Lake Michigan), Jill McCormick (Indiana), Florence Toney (Wisconsin)
1961   Harriett Wladyke Hamilton (All-Ohio)
1954   Dorothy Woodham (Michigan)
1948   Jean Hixson (Ohio)

* * Research Scholarship

1991 Charlene Falkenberg (Illiana Cardinals), Chairman of Amelia Earhart Scholarship Award Administrators since 1988, appointed permanent Trustee

Mearle Frame, Renaissance appointed Amelia Earhart Scholarship Award Administrator

 

Last updated: 07/14/2008