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Charter Date: March 2, 1932
The Bay Cities Chapter is located in the greater San Francisco Bay area in California. Local airports for our members are Oakland, Hayward, San Francisco, San Carlos, Palo Alto, Novato, Schellville, Concord, Napa, Livermore, and Half Moon Bay
In 1932, Amelia Earhart was President of the Ninety-Nines International Organization of Women Pilots, and membership was growing in California. There were twelve members in California. The Southwest Section governor, Glady O'Donnell, sent Margaret Perry Cooper (Manser) to the Bay Area to suggest to the local members that two chapters be formed in the state. These new chapters would allow members to work together closer to further aviation in California. With a majority approval, the Bay Cities Chapter was formed on March 2, 1932 at the Hotel Whitcomb in San Francisco. Initially, the Bay Cities Chapter covered the geographic area of northern California, northern Nevada, and Utah. The other original 99s chapter in the Southwest Section was the Los Angeles Chapter.
Bay Cities Chapter had nine charter members and over the years has grown to its current membership of 37 members (plus the chapter has spawned off numerous other chapters over the past seventy-six years). The Bay Cities Chapter current membership includes the Ninety-Nines International Past President Joyce Wells and four past recipients of the 99s Amelia Earhart Memorial Scholarship (all four are currently employed as airline pilots). Of course, the five student pilots in the chapter and all the other diverse members are an integral part of the fellowship and fun of the Bay Cities Chapter.
Chapter Charter Members and the airports that they learned to fly at. (Note: Mills Field is now San Francisco International Airport)
| Miss Lilian Anderson Miss Janet Zaph Briggs Miss Lucy Brown Mrs. Marguerette Gerry Miss Afton Lewis Miss Ruth Marshall Mrs. Thyra Merrill Miss Phyllis Penfield Miss Marian Trace |
Oakland and Stockton Airports |