Thu, Oct 07, 2004
ANN's Own Rose Dorcey Steals The Show
Rose Dorcey, President of the Board of Directors of the
Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame (WAHF), was the guest speaker in
Sparta Wisconsin for the Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bike
Museum's first tea time of the season, Bit of Wisconsin, September
30, 2004.
Rose, a member of WAHF's speakers' bureau, began her
presentation to over 60 attendees by explaining the mission and
goals of the Hall of Fame. She continued with Wisconsin
aviation history with the first pilots, including Ruth Harmon.
Ruth was a fascinating persistent young woman, she saw an
airplane fly when she was 18 years old, in 1931, and decided right
then and there to learn to fly. She sold her cherished
bicycle for $10.00 to pay for her first flight lesson. She
then sold her old toys, clothes, and even last winter's coat to pay
for additional lessons. After high school, she used monetary
graduation gifts and took a factory job to continue her flight
training. She earned her pilot's certificate on March 16,
1932. By 1936 she had earned commercial and flight instructor
certificates, "I wanted to teach others to fly because I loved it
so much myself," she said. In 1940 she became the first woman
to manage a Wisconsin airport, the Kenosha airport.
The Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bike Museum hosts 4-5 fund
raising tea times per year. All teas include educational
programming plus taste tempting varieties of teas and scrumptious
menus of tea sandwiches and desserts. For more information on
the tea times or Museum, contact Kay Bender at 608-269-0033.
For more information on the WAHF and WAHF speakers' bureau, contact
Rose Dorcey at 608-836-9840
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