Skip to main content

Box 2

 Container

Contains 62 Results:

Correspondence and copy of poem, The Sound of Wings, (by Amelia Earhart) from Virginia B. Ball to Pamela S. Ritter, Director of Development, School of Technology, Purdue University, October 7, 1997

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1, Item: 24
Identifier: UA 54, Series 4, File 1, Item 24
Scope and Contents From the Series: In this series are a Purdue Aviation Technology memorandum and Air Race Classic planning notes, cards with the race route, clippings and a race program. This series also contains numerous clippings about the tragic plane crash that occurred at the Purdue Airport in September 1997, which killed Purdue Air Race Classic team member, Julie Swengel, fellow student, Anthony Kinkade and their instructor, Jeremy Sanborn. Included are Sanborn's and Swengel's memorial booklets and correspondence sent...
Dates: October 7, 1997
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fourth Air Race Classic Team - Jacqueline Battipaglia and Julie Swengel, 1997 and Plane Crash at Purdue Airport / Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Memorial Service Programs

Book review; Cheever, Susan. Husbands and Wife: The life and many loves of Dorothy Putnam, whose first spouse ran off with Amelia Earhart. The New York Times, p. 32, 1997

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1, Item: 25
Identifier: UA 54, Series 4, File 1, Item 25
Scope and Contents From the Series: In this series are a Purdue Aviation Technology memorandum and Air Race Classic planning notes, cards with the race route, clippings and a race program. This series also contains numerous clippings about the tragic plane crash that occurred at the Purdue Airport in September 1997, which killed Purdue Air Race Classic team member, Julie Swengel, fellow student, Anthony Kinkade and their instructor, Jeremy Sanborn. Included are Sanborn's and Swengel's memorial booklets and correspondence sent...
Dates: 1997
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fourth Air Race Classic Team - Jacqueline Battipaglia and Julie Swengel, 1997 and Plane Crash at Purdue Airport / Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Memorial Service Programs

Purdue's Fifth Air Race Classic Team - Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, Rookie Award Winners, 1998

 Series — Box: 2
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5
Scope and Contents

Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Dates: 1998
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers

Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Updates, 1998

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5, File 1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Dates: 1998
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fifth Air Race Classic Team - Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, Rookie Award Winners

Card with Air Race Classic route, June 23 - 26, 1998

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3, Item: 1
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5, File 1, Item 1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Dates: June 23 - 26, 1998
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fifth Air Race Classic Team - Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, Rookie Award Winners / Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Updates

Air Race Classic Newsletter, January 1998

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3, Item: 2
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5, File 1, Item 2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Dates: January 1998
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fifth Air Race Classic Team - Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, Rookie Award Winners / Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Updates

Resumes and cover letters for Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, 1997

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3, Item: 3
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5, File 1, Item 3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Dates: 1997
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fifth Air Race Classic Team - Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, Rookie Award Winners / Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Updates

Palazzolo, Jennifer. Purdue aviators to compete in race: Purdue Women in Aviation team to compete in air race in June. The Purdue Exponent, p. 3, April 9, 1998

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3, Item: 4
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5, File 1, Item 4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Dates: April 9, 1998
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fifth Air Race Classic Team - Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, Rookie Award Winners / Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Updates

Pace, Eric. Ruckins McKneely Jr. Dies; Earhart's Mechanic Was 89. The New York Times, p. A20, April 24, 1998

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3, Item: 5
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5, File 1, Item 5
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Dates: April 24, 1998
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fifth Air Race Classic Team - Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, Rookie Award Winners / Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Updates

Osborne, Carol L. Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey (obituary). International Women Pilots/99 News, p. 11, March/April 1998

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3, Item: 6
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5, File 1, Item 6
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Dates: March/April 1998
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fifth Air Race Classic Team - Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, Rookie Award Winners / Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Updates

Patterson, Amy. Student pilots pay tribute to friend. The Purdue Exponent, p. 1, May 1, 1998

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3, Item: 7
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5, File 1, Item 7
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Dates: May 1, 1998
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fifth Air Race Classic Team - Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, Rookie Award Winners / Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Updates

Priest, Jim; Webster, Jessica. (1998, May 6 - Year in Review). Sept. 12 tragic day for Purdue campus: Crash claims lives of three; campus mourns, The Purdue Exponent, p. 1, 1998

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3, Item: 8
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5, File 1, Item 8
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Dates: 1998
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fifth Air Race Classic Team - Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, Rookie Award Winners / Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Updates

Kouros, Georgette. Airplane accident investigation continues. The Purdue Exponent, p. 15, May 6, 1998

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3, Item: 9
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5, File 1, Item 9
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Dates: May 6, 1998
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fifth Air Race Classic Team - Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, Rookie Award Winners / Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Updates

Correspondence, to "Pamela" from Eileen Skudberg, June 10, 1998

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3, Item: 10
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5, File 1, Item 10
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Dates: June 10, 1998
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fifth Air Race Classic Team - Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, Rookie Award Winners / Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Updates

Air Race Classic general information and results, June 1998

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3, Item: 11
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5, File 1, Item 11
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Dates: June 1998
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fifth Air Race Classic Team - Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, Rookie Award Winners / Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Updates

Purdue University Competition Team, '98 Air Race Classic, 'UP-DATE, authored by Mary Ann Eiff, Advisor, June 17 - 24, 1996

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3, Item: 12
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5, File 1, Item 12
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Dates: June 17 - 24, 1996
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fifth Air Race Classic Team - Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, Rookie Award Winners / Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Updates

Program, 22nd Air Race Classic Banquet, June 28, 1998

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3, Item: 13
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5, File 1, Item 13
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Dates: June 28, 1998
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fifth Air Race Classic Team - Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, Rookie Award Winners / Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Updates

Fassnacht, Nicole. Purdue team earns rookie award in Air Race Classic: First time's a charm, serves as inspiration for young women. Journal and Courie, p. B2, June 30, 1998

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3, Item: 14
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5, File 1, Item 14
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Dates: June 30, 1998
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fifth Air Race Classic Team - Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, Rookie Award Winners / Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Updates

Wolff, Christine. Females only...family only: 3 generations fly in 1 plane. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Includes a photograph of Amanda Zerr. page unknown, undated

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3, Item: 15
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5, File 1, Item 15
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Dates: undated
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fifth Air Race Classic Team - Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, Rookie Award Winners / Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Updates

Patterson, Amy. Purdue pilots return from race with award. The Purdue Exponent, pp. 1-2, July 1, 1998

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3, Item: 16
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5, File 1, Item 16
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Dates: July 1, 1998
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fifth Air Race Classic Team - Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, Rookie Award Winners / Clippings, Correspondence, General Information and Updates

Program, 22nd Air Race Classic, Sante Fe, New Mexico to Batavia, Ohio, June 23 - 26, 1998

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: UA 54, Series 5, File 2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Included are an Air Race Classic newsletter, card with race route, clippings about the Purdue team and their race updates, general race information, banquet program and an Air Race Classic program. Also included are one year anniversary newspaper clippings honoring those killed in the Purdue Airport plane crash in 1997. Miscellaneous items include an obituary for Amelia Earhart’s mechanic, Ruckins McKneely Jr. and Earhart's sister, Grace Muriel Earhart Morrissey.

Dates: June 23 - 26, 1998
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's Fifth Air Race Classic Team - Amanda Zerr and Raegan Frazier, Rookie Award Winners

Purdue's 2004 Air Race Classic Team - Tina Lukas and Allison Martin, 2004

 Series — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: UA 54, Series 6
Scope and Contents

This series only contains one newspaper clipping about the team from the local J&C Weekly.

Dates: 2004
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers

Clipping, 2004

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: UA 54, Series 6, File 1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series only contains one newspaper clipping about the team from the local J&C Weekly.

Dates: 2004
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's 2004 Air Race Classic Team - Tina Lukas and Allison Martin

Voravong, Sophia. On Top Of The World: Two Purdue students place 11th in annual air race. J&C Weekly, p. 1, July 5, 2004

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5, Item: 1
Identifier: UA 54, Series 6, File 1, Item, 1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series only contains one newspaper clipping about the team from the local J&C Weekly.

Dates: July 5, 2004
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers / Purdue's 2004 Air Race Classic Team - Tina Lukas and Allison Martin / Clipping

Purdue's 2005 Air Race Classic Teams - #5, Tina Lukas and Katherine Conrad and #6, Sarah Andersen and Kirsten Korkus; Purdue Hosts Race

 Series — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Identifier: UA 54, Series 7
Scope and Contents

This series contains clippings about the Purdue teams and Purdue serving as hosts for the Air Race Classic. Also included are race updates provided by Mary Ann Eiff, advisor to the teams.

Dates: 1994 - 2005
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Purdue Air Race Classic Team papers