WASP Museum » Show on Home Page http://waspmuseum.org Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:40:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Run for the WASP http://waspmuseum.org/2010/07/09/run-for-the-wasp/ http://waspmuseum.org/2010/07/09/run-for-the-wasp/#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:46:11 +0000 admin http://waspmuseum.org/?p=285 Lace up your Nikes or tighten your Velcro for the first ever Run for the WASP 5K race/1.3 mile walk benefiting the National WASP WWII Museum. The starting gun will fire at 1:00 pm on Saturday, November 13th for participants in seven male and female categories.

Cost is $25 per person/$20 for students and military personnel.  Cost on race day is $25  for any runner or walker.

Register here: www.timingspecialist.com/register/index.php?event_id=1279306255

The Museum will be open for participants and their families as well as other visitors. Special guests will include active-duty Air Force pilots and hopefully, a WASP, who will be available for autographs and pictures. Watch for a fly-over by a WWII airplane at the start of the race.

Timing Specialists of Big Spring will provide expert timing.  Awards for the overall male and female runner and the seven classes in ten year age groups will be given shortly after the race’s end.

Enjoy a flat and fast course around the Sweetwater Texas State Technical College (TSTC) campus or the walk from the Museum to the WASP wishing well, located on the TSTC campus.

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Exhibit donor Geneva Gordon-Derr and Jacqueline Cochran became friends in the Hollywood social scene. Geneva’s husband, the mayor of Riverside, served as the Director of Parks and Recreation with Disneyland within his realm of authority.  Geneva stood in for Jackie at events on occasion, even wearing her medals when representing her. Geneva sang on some of Bob Hope’s USO tours, too. Jacqueline Cochran’s interest in beauty products through her cosmetic line and the fact that Geneva Gordon-Derr was a beautiful model also brought them together.

The National WASP World War II Museum greatly appreciates this gift by Geneva Gordon-Derr and James Adams.

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 Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce

 Wal-Mart

 Creative Graphic Solutions

 Dyess Air Force Base Personnel

 Brookshires Food Store

 Longhorn Liquor

 Jack’s Liquor

 Higginbotham-Bartlett Co.

 State Representative Susan King

 Sweetwater Floral

 Sweetwater Reporter News

 Sweetwater Woman’s Forum

 Sweetwater Machine & Welding

 Sweetwater Municipal Band

 All of our Great Volunteers

Sponsors for Homecoming 2010

Gold Medal Sponsors

Dodge Jones Foundation

Lawrence Brothers

McCoy’s Funeral Home

Texas National Bank

Silver Medal Sponsors

Altezza, Inc.

Van Baucum Real Estate

Bennett & Associates

Jeannette & Loren Bryant

Carol & John Paul Cain

Cox Jewelry

Kathy Dickson

First Financial Bank

Peter Fox

Linda & Bill Hunter

JoAnne & Marvin Keenan

Kathy & Allen King

Ludlum Measurements

Mustang Tire

Rolling Plains Hospital

Sandra Spears

Beth & Homer Taylor

Texas State Technical College

Micki Wright & Sharron Davis

Thank You WASP for Coming Home

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Avenger Field

Meriem Anderson   44-4                                       Jean McCreery  44-10       

 

Marie Shelton Bray  44-4                                     Betty Jo Streff Reed  44-7

 

Edna Modisette Davis  43-5                                 Florence “Shutsy” Reynolds  44-5

           

Mary Helen Chapman Foster  44-3                       Flora Belle Smith Reece  44-4

 

Eleanor “Gundy” Gunderson   44-7                      Mary Alice Putnam Vandeventer 44-7   

                                                                                                                                               

Ann Morgan Hazzard  43-7                                   Pauline Cutler White  44-5

 

Elaine Harmon   44-9                                             Lucille Doll Wise  44-7

 

Dot Swain Lewis  44-5                                          “Marty” Martin Wyall  44-10

 

Lillian Lorraine Yonally  43-7

]]> http://waspmuseum.org/2010/01/14/wasp-homecoming-2010/feed/ 0 Fundraising for Expansion Project Underway! http://waspmuseum.org/2010/01/14/fundraising-for-expansion-project-underway/ http://waspmuseum.org/2010/01/14/fundraising-for-expansion-project-underway/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:11:30 +0000 admin http://waspmuseum.org/?p=170 A climate-controlled addition is needed at the National WASP WWII Museum to preserve the many precious artifacts and display them properly. Great progress has been made in the last five years bringing Hangar One alive with the WASP story, but there is still much to be done. The legacy these courageous women left us must be shared with all generations. We have a great story to tell and we need to keep moving forward, improving upon what has been accomplished, and we need your support!  Call Sharron Davis at 325-235-0099 or email her through the website to learn how you can help.

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