Evening star., 1935-04-01
I M|NNESOTANS
LEAD FLYERS HERE
College Aviators Gathering
Here for First Annual
Conference.

Led by the University OF Min
nesota, with a delegation of II men,
bers of its 1884 championship flying
club, representatives of college and
university flying clubs from all parts
of the country were assembling here
today for the first annual Intercol-
legiate Flying Club Conference, to
open tomorrow at the Lee House.
The University of Minnesota. which
won the Grover Looming intercollegiate
Flying Trophy last year, also hopes to
win the conference prize for the larg-
est delegation. Miss Jean Barnhill,
only feminine member Of the club,
who came here few months ago to
receive the Looming Trophy for her
club, did not accompany the group.
Richard Jacobs, who, with Miss Barn.
hill, attended the trophy presentation,
is serving as a member of the Com
mittee on Organization. John AcKer-
man, head of the aeronautlcal en-
sineering department Of the Uni
versity of Minnesota, accompanied the
club members.
Women Flyers Arrive.
Miss Mary Kimball, president of
the Smith College Flying Club, only
all-feminine group of college flyers,
and Miss Annis Reed, a member OF
the club, are here to represent their
club. Miss Kimball. who holds a prl-
vate pilots license, is sister of Miss
Kirohon pnStnr1 frQnSn0rt
pilot. The club shares Taylor Cub
training airplane with the Amherst
Flying Club.
r. E. Hiatt of the Purdue University
Flying Club is en- route here from La
fayette, Ind, in the clubs plane and
will be met by local aviation and
college club officials on his arrival.
Max w. DOMAIN led group Of four
members Of the William and Mary
Flying Club from Williamsburg. Va.
This club finished second last year
in the intercollegiate trophy competl-
ton.
Amherst Delegates Here.
Delegates from the Amherst club
arriving today included Randall Bar
ton, son of Bruce Barton; William
Crosby and Girvan Snider. Other
New England representatives on hand
include Thomas Foley of Dartmouth,
John Howe of Norwich University,
George Fox, Sd and A. W. Nelson OF
Harvard and Henry r. Palmer, lr.. OF
Brown, president of the New England
intercollegiate Flying Club.
Representatives of Southern and
Midwestern colleges and from Penn
sylvania and New York educational
institutions are on the way here. N.
I. Shapter and r. L. Auburn arrived
by airline from the University of
Michigan, Thomas Kelley and j. B.
Simonds from the University OF De-
troit and Kenneth Benson and Willis
Sperry from the University of Akron
Delegates also are en- route from
Princeton, New York University Cor
nell, Virginia Military Institute, the
University of Pennsylvania and other
colleges. The University Of Maryland
and George Washington University
also will send delegation.
The conference will open unoflcially
with a smoker and reception at 8
UOlllkllU dI U1lC Ndt1OIld1 f1ClO-
nautic Association headquarters, Du-
pont circle. The Aero Club of Wash
tngton will act as host to the visitors
Grover Looming to Speak.
The delegates will register at the
Lee House, Fifteenth and L streets,
between and am. tomorrow and
the opening session will be called to
order at $50 am. Addresses of well
come will be made by representatives
of the National Aeronautic ASSoci-
alton, Army Air Corps, Navy Bureau
OF Aeronautics, Bureau of Air Com
merce, Aero Club of Washington and
the Washington Air Derby Associ-
alton. Grover Looming also will speak.
The first business session, from 10
am. to noon tomorrow, will be fol-
lowed by luncheon at the Lee House
During the afternoon, the delegates
will visit display arranged by the
National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics at the National Academy
of Sciences and will inspect Boiling
Field and the Anacostia Naval Air
Station. They will be taken on a
sightseeing tour as guests of the local
derby association. Tomorrow's pro-
gram will close with a dinner and
ball at the Shoreham Hotel.
Wednesdays program will include
talks on the Commerce Department
light airplane program, air mass
weather forecasting and naval avi-
alton, a second business session, at
tendance at Rotary Club luncheon,
inspection of the Smithsonian Insti-
tution's aeronautical museum and a
closing business session.