women for service to their country in time of need. The Women’s Air Reserve of California is another specialized group.
Among non-professional clubs is the Women’s National Aeronautic Association, with chapters in nearly every state. This group has done especially appreciated work in providing comfortable quarters at many airports for other women who arrive by air.
Because there are still comparatively few of these, facilities for feminine comfort are all too often overlooked at flying fields. To me, it is sometimes worth going a hundred miles out of the way to land at ports like Akron, Ohio, where the Women’s Aeronautic Association has furnished a pilot’s lounge complete with everything from powder puffs to showers. Usually when pilots and passengers are so well treated, motors and airplanes can find adequate care, also.
In any discussion of women and aviation, the means by which some of the pilots have earned their licenses should be included.
Many and varied these have been. Perhaps more have labored within the ranks of the industry than outside, for sometimes a connection, even on the fringe, has made possible special encouragement in the way of rates or use of equipment. Often just being with a group who doesn’t think flying strange, is a help in itself. Jean La Rene of Dallas, one of the best known southern fliers, dem-
