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August 3rd 16, 02:25 AM
On Wednesday, October 4, 2000 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, John H. Campbell wrote:
> Interesting challenge. No direct counter-claims, but some related thoughts:
>
> 1) I thought that the Toledo Glider Club was active ca 1929 via Ed Knight
> and the Funk brothers, contemporaneously with other nearby groups like the
> Akron Glider Club, Gliders, Inc., etc.
>
> 2) Maybe "forwards" is the way to search. For instance, E. W. Teale's "The
> Book of Gliders": (pub. 1930) had a list of American glider clubs. Which of
> these are still in existence today, if any--with a continuous lineage?
>
> 3) Many American colleges have a history of glider clubs going way back,
> although "continuous existence" is awful hard to come by for a campus
> student group. For example, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor had
> official student-organization clubs (re)started in 1984, 1951, 1933, 1928,
> and 1911. The Cornell Glider Club first appeared in Ithaca in 1909. The
> world's first "glider contest" was Memorial weekend 1911, hosted by Harvard,
> attended by MIT, Tufts, Cornell and many more, sanctioned by the
> Intercollegiate Aeronautical Association out of U. Penn.
>
> John H. Campbell
> Collegiate Soaring Association
> www.win.net/~greeley/coll/home.htm
The historic Southern California Soaring Association, was responsible for some of the Sierra wave project. I am not sure just how long it's existence goes back, certainly well before the war. The famous "Exploring the Monster" publication has some details about these pioneers.
Although they merged with the Douglas Soaring Club about fifteen years ago, now the new name is The Southern California Douglas Soaring Association.
Sadly this club now is going through a merger once again due to inactivity.
> Interesting challenge. No direct counter-claims, but some related thoughts:
>
> 1) I thought that the Toledo Glider Club was active ca 1929 via Ed Knight
> and the Funk brothers, contemporaneously with other nearby groups like the
> Akron Glider Club, Gliders, Inc., etc.
>
> 2) Maybe "forwards" is the way to search. For instance, E. W. Teale's "The
> Book of Gliders": (pub. 1930) had a list of American glider clubs. Which of
> these are still in existence today, if any--with a continuous lineage?
>
> 3) Many American colleges have a history of glider clubs going way back,
> although "continuous existence" is awful hard to come by for a campus
> student group. For example, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor had
> official student-organization clubs (re)started in 1984, 1951, 1933, 1928,
> and 1911. The Cornell Glider Club first appeared in Ithaca in 1909. The
> world's first "glider contest" was Memorial weekend 1911, hosted by Harvard,
> attended by MIT, Tufts, Cornell and many more, sanctioned by the
> Intercollegiate Aeronautical Association out of U. Penn.
>
> John H. Campbell
> Collegiate Soaring Association
> www.win.net/~greeley/coll/home.htm
The historic Southern California Soaring Association, was responsible for some of the Sierra wave project. I am not sure just how long it's existence goes back, certainly well before the war. The famous "Exploring the Monster" publication has some details about these pioneers.
Although they merged with the Douglas Soaring Club about fifteen years ago, now the new name is The Southern California Douglas Soaring Association.
Sadly this club now is going through a merger once again due to inactivity.