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News of Clubs
AUG 25 1940
by Gertrude P. Wixson

Journal-American Photo. Photo by Morrall.

First American woman pilot and member of "Early Birds," Blanche Stuart Scott (right), will be honor guest of Women Flyers of America at a Hotel Warwick luncheon Thursday. Ruth Haviland (left), who was the first woman sky writer, is secretary-treasurer of the organization and will be one of the hostesses.

Women Flyers of America Will Honor Miss Scott 

Women Fliers of America (Miss Chelk Janis, founder-president), which was organized less than two months ago, will honor the famous flier.

Blanche Stuart Scott, at luncheon at the Hotel Warwick Thursday.

Ruth Havilard, first woman sky writer and secretary and treasurer of the organization, will be one of the hostesses. Guests will include Mrs. Ogilvie Druce, a passenger with Orville Wright in 1907. Twenty flying members of the New York Corps will comprise the reception committee. 

Miss Scott has a number of "firsts" in a long and spectacular record. She was the first woman pilot, the first woman to drive an automobile across the United States at a time when only 510 miles of improved roads existed, an first woman to make a long distance flight at a time when the world altitude record was 3,000 feet. She is the only woman Glen Curtis ever took as a student. 
Women Fliers of America, a self-supporting club, already has more than 1,000 members, including housewives, stenographers, debutantes, clerks and licensed pilots, and expects 5,000 by Sept. 1. Any woman interested may communicate with Miss Janis at Plaza Hotel, Room 368. 

Said Miss Janis: 
"We don't want to put our girls behind machine guns, because we know they are not fitted for that. In the same way, we don't want the Government to make any investment in a member until she has proved her aptitude and sincerity by learning to fly." 

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