Aviator Speech

Fraidon:

Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24th, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas in the home of her grandfather. Earhart was the child of Amelia Otis Earhart and Samuel Staton Earhart.

Tiava:

At the age of 10 Amelia saw her first aircraft at the Iowa State fair. She described it to be a thing of rusty wire and wood that did not look interesting to her at all.

Fraidon:

Earhart graduated from Chicago's Hyde Park High School in 1916. She kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings about successful women.  She began junior college at Ogontz School in Pennsylvania, but did not complete her program.

Tiava:

In Long Beach, on December 28, 1920, Earhart and her father visited an airfield where Frank Hawks gave her a ride that would forever change Earhart's life.

Fraidon:

Another pioneer female taught Amelia Earhart how to fly a plane. On May 21st Amelia accomplished her goal of flying solo across the atlantic ocean. She took off from Newfoundland, Canada, at 7:12 p.m. on May 20, in her Lockheed Vega. At one point she dropped almost 3,000 feet.

Tiava:

Sadly Amelia Earhart’s adventures came to an end when she disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937.