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Internal Memorandum
ALLIED
Bendix Aerospace

Bendix International
Service Corporation

Date: 13 AUGUST 1985
Letter No. JMF/CMD/M698
To: LAURA OVERSTREET
From: JOHN FULLER
Subject: FRANK FULLER - BENDIX RACE
Reference:

LAURA - 

I have put my mother in charge of this project and the following is mostly a quote of her letter to me.

Frank was born on July 9, 1901 and is now 84. His wife, Adrienne, died in 1982.

Frank was graduated with a law degree in 1924 from Stanford where he was a great sportsman. He was President of the San Mateo-Burlingame Polo Club, and a 4 goal player (I assume that you know that "4 goal" refers to your handicap, and that's good).

He was Secretary and Director of the W.P. Fuller & Co. paint manufacturing firm in San Francisco founded by his grandfather and a member of the Executive Committee.

He had the first flying license ever issued in the Territory of Hawaii. His sister, Margaret Fuller Dorst, was the second woman in the U.S. to receive an instrument rating. So many members of the family flew and had planes that they became known in the local papers as the "Famous Flying Fullers".

The three Bendix people who visited Frank saw the album with all the race information. He won in '37 and '39, Jacqueline Cochran won in '38.

Frank was Director of United Airline from '37  to '41 when the war broke out.

He was Chairman of the Central Aviation Committee for the 1939 San Francisco Exposition (World Fair) on Treasure Island. He was known as their "Chief Pilot" and Flying Envoy. In his Seversky P-35 he established speed records from S.F. to eleven western states at the same time bearing invitations to the governors to attend the Exposition. 

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