Thomas F. Bomar Papers 1930-1975

Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937

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Amelia Mary Earhart (AE) was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, the first daughter of Amy (Otis) Earhart and Edwin Stanton Earhart. Her sister, Grace Muriel, was born three years later. The family moved several times (to Kansas City, Kansas; Des Moines; St. Paul; Chicago) during AE's childhood as her father tried unsuccessfully to establish a profitable legal career. AE graduated from Chicago's Hyde Park High School in 1916. ESE's increasing reliance on al...

Ryan School of Aeronautics.

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Bomar, Thomas F.

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Biographical / Historical Notes Thomas Bomar was born in Sherman, Texas in 1896. He graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT in 1918. After several years of working in the industrial engineering industry, Bomar moved to San Diego in 1928. That same year he became the manager of the Industrial and Aviation Department of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce. He served as the San Diego Kiwanis Club president in 1938. In 1942, w...

Smith, C. R. (Cyrus Rowlett), 1899-

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President of American Airlines, 1934-1968; U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1968-1969; and Chairman of the Board of American Airlines, 1973-1974. From the description of Papers, 1926-1979. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 25210469 Aviation company executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Cyrus Rowlett Smith : oral history, 1960. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122512911 ...

American Airlines, inc

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San Diego Highway Development Association.

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Claude, Ryan T.

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Wallace, Peaches

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Alexander, Ruth

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Kiwanis Club (San Diego, Calif.)

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United States. Naval Reserve

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On Aug. 19, 1916, with the prospect of World War I looming, the Navy Reserve Force was formally organized. The first official U.S. Navy Reservists hunted enemy U-boats from the cockpits of biplanes. When World War II erupted on September 1, 1939, the Navy Reserve was ready. By the summer of 1941, virtually all of its members were serving on active duty, their numbers destined to swell when Japanese planes roared over Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Over the course of the ensuing four years, th...

San Diego Chamber of Commerce

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Organized in 1870, the second chamber established west of the Rockies, the Chamber has fostered economic development of the greater San Diego area. From the description of Records, 1826-1980. (San Diego State University Library). WorldCat record id: 42770357 ...

Fleet, Reuben Hollis, 1887-1975

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