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TO PRESENT MISS Y. C. LEE [?] A WELOCME DINNER

  The only Chinese member of America's exclusive "Caterpillar Club," and a women at that, is busily preparing to fly throughout the United States with an appeal for suffering Chinese women and children.

  Miss Ya-ching Lee, the young and charming lady in question, in 1935 won her Caterpillar membership in San Francisco Bay. Thrown out of a stunting plane, Miss Lee's first parachute jump was her stunning flying, though unable to swim, she managed to remain afloat until a navel outter picked her up twenty minutes  after she had settled into the water.

  This, however, was but another of the customarily unusual events in Miss Lee's cosmopoliter existence.

  She is the first Chinese women flyer to receive te privi-lage of giving public demonstrations in China. This she received during the campaign, in observance of Gonoralassmo  Chiang Kai-shek's fiftieth birthday, to raise funds for the purchase of fifty additional fighting plans for China's national defense in 1936. 

  On her return to China in 1936, Miss Lee carried with her a private license and diploma from the Boaing School of Aeronautics of Oakland, California, the first and only woman students. Her American training there in navigation and in cross-country, and instrument-flying,completed her aeronautical education which began in Geneva, Switzerland.

  Miss Lee was the only one of her sex on the staff of the Shanghai Municipal Air School before the outbreak of war caused its close.

  Prior to her entry into aviation, this amazing woman flyer attended St. Stephen's School in Hongkong, and from 1922 to 1927, Hetyre, an American-Chinese missionary school in Shanghai. She pursued private studies in England until 1930, when she returned to her homeland for several months.

  Miss Lee's next European trip was via Siberia. This time she found the opportunity to visit the U. S. S. R., Germany, France, Italy, and Switzerland, in which she took up residence after another return to China in 1932.

  In October, 1933, Miss Lee began her flying career in the Crontran-Koole d'Aviation, in Geneva. The private license, which she merited upon the completion of her course at L'Eccle in 1934, was also the first ever granted to a woman student.