Katharine Stinson papers, 1937-2001 [manuscript]
Related Entities
There are 7 Entities related to this resource.
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rc7w70 (person)
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...
Stinson, Katharine, 1917-2001
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63f85gm (person)
Katharine Stinson was born in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina on September 18, 1917. She became interested in aviation as a child and took her first plane ride at age ten with famed World War I pilot Eddie Stinson (no relation). This initial experience with flight made her determined to become a pilot. As a teenager, Stinson assisted mechanics at the Raleigh Airport and received flying lessons as payment. While working at the airport, she met Amelia Earhart, who encouraged her to obtain an aeronau...
Friday, William C. (William Clyde)
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69k5dh2 (person)
William Clyde Friday was born in 1920 in Raphine, Va., and grew up in Dallas, Gaston County, N.C. He graduated from the Law School of the University of North Carolina in 1948, after which he served as assistant dean of students and was named assistant to University President Gordon Gray in 1951. Friday was appointed secretary of the University in 1955, named acting president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina (North Carolina State College (Raleigh), the University of North Carolina...
Riddick, Wallace Carl.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6md8k4d (person)
Monteith, Larry K. 1933-
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mc97t8 (person)
Larry King Monteith enrolled at North Carolina State University in 1956, receiving a BS (1960) in electrical engineering. He then recieved an MS (1962) degree and a PhD (1965) from Duke University in electrical engineering. After holding positions at Bell Telephone Laboratories, analyzing the NIKE missile system, and participating in a semiconductor research group, Monteith joined the faculty of North Carolina State University's Electrical Engineering Department. He became department head in 197...
Nixon, Pat, 1912-1993
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60h4852 (person)
As the wife of the President Richard Nixon, Thelma Catherine “Pat” Ryan Nixon was First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974. She was an avid supporter of charitable causes and volunteerism. Born Thelma Catherine Ryan on March 16, 1912 in Ely, Nevada, “Pat” Nixon acquired her nickname within hours. Her father, William Ryan, called her his “St. Patrick’s babe in the morn” when he came home from the mines before dawn. Soon the family moved to California and settled on a small truck fa...
United States. Federal Aviation Administration
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j4312m (corporateBody)
Legislative history of Public Law 89-670, which established the Department of Transportation. The department was set up to coordinate and manage transportation programs, provide leadership in the resolution of transportation problems, and develop national transportation policies and programs. The history documents the process from just prior to the introduction of the bill into the 89th Congress until after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law on October 15, 1966. From the ...
