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Soaring Personalities 

[first row of images, left to right]

You: SSA Directors at the mid-winter meeting in New York. Front row: (L to R) Treasurer E.J. Reeves, President F.J. Sweet, Secretary Paul A. Schweizer, and Jon D. Carsey. Back row: (L to R) Bob Symons, Ben Schupak, Dr. P. B. MacCready,Jr., Dr. P. B. MacCready, Sr., SAC President John Agnew, Bill Coverdale, Ted Nelson, and Howie Burr.


Bill Coverdale looks enviously at Steve Bennis! Is it the cigar or the brand new mustache?

[Row 2]



Photo: Nick Goodhart
Wave conditions appear to be conspicuous by their absence as Paul Bikle prepares for flight at Bishop.

Some of those who attended the training course at the Dubbo Gliding Club in Australia during Christmas and New Year. At right, holding the bottle, is Allan Ash, Editor of AUSTRALIAN GLIDING.

[Row 3]
Photo: Peter M. Bowers
llo Thrasher and Joe Chapman of Madras, Oregon show in their Nelson Dragonfly at Wenatchee, Washington. 

Lt. Johnson and Cadets Root and McKiernan with paid up memberships in the ASSOC. GLIDER CLUBS, presented at Torrey Pines Meet.

Photo: Peter M. Bowers
Gary Connor, first Seattle Air Scout to solo, and instructor Joe Robertson of Seattle Gliding Council.

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