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Quote of the Day ‘Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting diffi culties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.’ - Samuel Johnson “Che ©amtcocb Friday, March 3,2000 ' WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH by Ann Marie Miani ETCETERA EDITOR Amelia Earhart was a daring tomboy in her youth and never gave up that zeal for action. Earhart became one of the most famous names in the field of aviation, with such accomplishments as being the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Earhart was bom to Edwin and Amy Earhart in Atchison, Kan., on July 24, 1897. Her sister Muriel was bom two-and-a-half years later. The girls’ father got a job at the Rock Island Line Railroad, so their parents moved to Des Moines, Iowa. The girls stayed in Kansas with their grandparents, who made it possible for them to at tend private school and enjoy many luxuries in life. The sisters finally moved to Iowa when Earhart was 10. That same year, she saw her first airplane. Airplanes and aviation would quickly become her passion. Soon after, Earhart’s father began to drink heav ily, and he lost his job with the railroad company in 1914. Her parents separated that year, and Ariiy moved the girls to Chicago. Amy had inherited a trust fund and gave her daughters a good educa tion. While visiting her sister at college in 1917, Earhart became a nurse’s aide in Toronto. She worked with the Red Cross during World War I, and when the war ended, she began study as a pre-med student at Columbia University in New York City. Although she was doing well in her studies, Earhart dropped out of school and moved to Cal ifornia to join her newly reunited parents. This move to the West Coast would change her life for ever. In July 1920, Earhart bought her first airplane, a prototype Kinner called “The Canary.” During her early years of flying, she had many accidents, most of which could probably be attributed to the planes’ unreliability. Two yean later, she began a crusade to break aviation records. She set a record for women’s al titude at 14,000 feet, only for it to be broken a few weeks later. Between 1922 and her first trans-Atlantic flight in 1928, Earhart sold her plane and moved to Boston with her mother. While in Boston, she became a social worker at the Denison House, but more im portantly, she became an advocate for flying, es pecially for women. She invested in a company that would build an airport and joined the National Aeronautic Asso ciation. The Boston Globe called her “one of the best women pilots in the United States.” On April 27, 1926, H.H. Railey asked Earhart if she would like to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. It was an opportunity that Earhart cotridn’t pass up. She would only be a pas senger on the flight because she had no experience with multi-engine planes. Her official title on the flight was “commander.” Also at this time, she met her future husband and greatest supporter, Geoige Putnam. The trans-Atlantic flight left from Halifax, No va Scotia, on June 18,1928, landing in South Whies. After that flight, Earhart became known as “La dy Lindy” because of her resemblance to aviator Charles Lindbergh. She became a celebrity and toured the United States, giving lectures and publicizing her book about the flight, “20 hours, 40 minutes.” Earhart also became assistant to the general traffic manager at Transcontinental Air Transport. Her main responsibility was attracting women pas sengers, but she also oiganized the Los Angeles to Cleveland Women’s Air Derby, also known as “the Powder-Puff Derby,” and established and served as first president for the “Ninety-Nines,” an orga nization for female pilots. In the midst of all this, Earhart and Putnam’s relationship was growing closer. When he and Earhart met, Putnam was married. His wife, Dorothy, left him, and they divorced in Decem ber 1929. Earhart and Putnam were married Feb ruary 7,1931. On May 20,1932, Earhart again made history by becoming the first woman and the second per son to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She al so broke the records for longest nonstop distance and shortest crossing time. Earhart returned to New York to a ticker-tape parade and was presented with the Special Gold Medal from the National Geographic Society. She was also voted Outstanding Woman of the Year. Her next endeavor was a trans-Pacific flight in early 1935 from Hawaii to California to Wash ington, D.C. The Last Flight “I have a feeling that there is just about one more good flight left in my system and I hope this trip is it. Anyway when I have finished this job, I mean to give up long-distance ‘stunt’ flying,” Earhart said before the flight. However, two years after successfully making the flight, she began formu lating her greatest adventure yet: a flight around the world. Earhart and her navigator, Fredrick Noonan, left for the first leg of the flight, from California to Hawaii, on March 17,1935. When she was taking off from Pearl Harbor, she had an accident that severely damaged the plane. It was sent back to California for repairs, and Earhart changed her flight plan from westward to eastward. She made her next attempt on May 21,1937, taking off from California and flying to Florida. However, the attempt officially began on June 1, 1937, when she and Noonan left Miami and head ed east. Earhart and Noonan first flew to San Juan, Puer to Rico, then on to northeastern South America, Africa and the Red Sea. On June 17, they flew from the Red Sea to In dia and then on to Rangoon, Bangkok, Singapore and Bandoeng. When they arrived in Bandoeng, they en countered weather problems and were delayed sev eral days, during which time the plane under went some repairs. The flight resumed on June 27, bound for Aus tralia. From there, they flew to New Guinea. They had flown more than 22,000 miles. Earhart and Noonan left New Guinea on July 2 at 00:00 Greenwich Mean Tune with about 1,000 gallons of fuel. At 21:14 GMT, the last voice transmission was received from Earhart. Search procedures began, and it was determined that the plane went down between 35 and 100 miles off the Howland Is land coast. The search, authorized by Putnam and Presi dent Franklin Roosevelt, lasted four months and was then abandoned. After the search was abandoned, Putnam pub lished Earhart’s letters to him in a book, “Last Flight,” which ended with a note Earhart wrote him. “Please know I am quite aware of the haz ards ... I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” Daytona Beach career fair to take a break * by Derek Catron College Press Exchange DAYTONA Beach - Spring break has often found ways, almost all of them bad, to put Daytona Beach in the national spotlight - pool deck parties on MTV, drunken balcony falls, the occasional shoot ing. About the only good publicity tourism officials could count on was the career fair, when sunburned college students stepped off the beach long enough to fill out applications and sit for brief interviews with corporate recruiters. Tourism officials learned this week that the ca reer fair will be, well, taking a break, at least for this year. Mike Jiloty of Jiloty Communications, the Holly Hill advertising firm that built up the career fair, broke the news Wednesday to members of the Halifax Area Advertising Authority at their month ly meeting. Jiloty said a company had agreed in January to sponsor this year’s event, but organizers thought that was too late to adequately promote it. The company, which asked not to be identified, has shown interest in sponsoring the event next year but won’t be able to commit until completing its annual budget. “Hopefully, in June or July they will be able to make a commitment for next year,” Jiloty said before the advertising authority meeting. Throughout its five-year history, the career fair had been funded by the advertising authority, which oversees the spending of hotel bed-tax money to market tourism in the area. The two-day event cost the board $50,000 last year. Its spring break mar keting committee decided that was too much, con sidering the career fair does little to fill hotel beds. Supporters said the importance of the event couldn’t be measured in numbers. An intangible benefit was that the career fair allowed Daytona Beach to keep spring break while telling the world it promoted something more responsible. The career fair attracted about 50 employers, including IBM and the U.S. Secret Service, and about 1,000 students a day. The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and other newspapers across the country wrote stories about the event. “I think it’s agood thing,” Daytona Beach May or Bud Asher said recently. “These young people have an opportunity to talk to prospective em ployers while they’re enjoying themselves here on spring break. I’d like to see it continue in Daytona Beach.” Ironically, the career fair is ending at a time when corporate recruiters are scurrying for job can didates. “It was a useful event when we introduced it, but it was still kind of a novelty event,” Jiloty said. “Now, all of a sudden, the demand for the best col lege students is better than ever. We’d like to think the students who are going to give up part of their spring break to do this are among tire best out there.” IT...“Toil / SPENT \ * . — . f'forr'otanol offer f»Si renewyl tiVf will be ?Hc fir*.! ffiday fcllowm : ^ • Computer Systems w/Printers • Stereos! * Portable Stereos • Big Screen TV’s |_ -**..and More!m m . xmv. A feel better. Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah is _^ the picture of success. This Level I Trauma Center is part of Memorial Health, affiliated with the Medical College HL of Georgia, the Emory University School of Medicine. and Mercer University School of Medicine. New Grads Apply Now! RN Summer Residency Program Offering 10 weeks of preceptor experience in the medical/surgical area of your choice. Full benefits and hourly pay upon hire. 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Tire letter should be addressed to professor Lori Thontbs. chair of the Amoco Com mittee, Department of Statistics, USC. Tire deadline is Friday. Tire winner will be announced at the spring general fac ulty meeting and will receive a check and certificate, and the winner’s name will be engraved on a plaque. Homecoming 2000 will hold meeting Homecoming 2000 will hold a brief informational meeting at 6:30 p.m. March 13 in the Golden Spur. Any group inter- ' ested in participating should send one representative to this meeting. For more information, call Carolina Productions at 777-7130. Camp Burnt Gin recruiting staff Camp Burnt Gin is recruiting counselors for this summer. Sessions will be from May 30 to Aug. 2, and there will be sched uled days off between sessions. Coun selor to camper ratio will be approxi mately 1:2. For more information, contact Marie Airnone at (803) 898-0455 or by e-mail at aimone@columb60.dhec .state.sc.us. RAD class to have weekend session There will be a Rape Aggression De fense class for females March 18-19. March 18, the class will meet from 9:45 a.m. to 6 p.m. March 19, it will meet from 1-5 p.m. The USC Police De partment, Marriott and the Housing De partment sponsor the class. Tuition is $12.50. Call Henry Garbade at 777-0855 to register. Beta Alpha Psi will offer tax assistance Beta Alpha Psi will offer volunteer in come tax assistance from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesdays and from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays through April 13 at the Rus- - sell House. Criminal justice will offer study abroad The College of Criminal Justice is of fering students the opportunity to study in Russia from May 11 -27 at one of Rus sia’s leading criminal justice academies - the Volgograd Law Institute. The ap plication deadline is March 31. For more information, call Rob Rinkerat 777-7097 or e-mail asstknh@gwm.sc.edu. Applications available for Women of Year Applications for Outstanding Women of the Year at USC are due March 13. They are available in the Campus Activities Center in the Russell House and Office of Women’s Studies. For more informa tion, call 777-6688. ■ CORRECTIONS A story in etCetera on Wednesday should have said the Drop-In Meditation Work shop meets Mondays from 4-5 p.m. TZiv&i&ettct rtfuzntmettfr' Fitness Center • Computer • Fax and Modem Station Linked to Campus Study Hall • Library • Lounge Area Catering to Students Currentlv Ieasina for the Fall Semester ^_■ — — Propecia I (finasteride) l Ask your doctor about this pill ! from Merck. For more information, call i 1-888-MERCK-74. I CT) O) o> © www.propecia.com »■ t .XI.