Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-05-21 | Page 1 | Amelia Earhart's Life is Full One

FIRST ST WOMAN OMAN TO I MAKE HOP a 3 f j x 1 w 1 I C I I I rj r. r 1 4 t Z 4 I i. i i p I L 4 I ti 4 ff 4 w S 4 r rz z r 2 I Amelia Earhart Putnam Amelia A melia Earhart's Earhart s 's Life Is Full One Onet t I Crowds Enough Activity Into 34 Years fOIN for fOI t N Number umber of Careers By Ass Associated Press NEW V YORK May 21 Amelia 21 Amelia Earhart Putnam transatlantic transatlantic trans trans- atlantic flier has crowded enough activity Into her 34 year years S Sto to make careers for several women or men for that matter War nurse commercial photographer photographer photographer pher social worker aviation company compan executive magazine editor teacher member of or numerous aviation committees com corn are arc all part of her experience ence as well as her mastery of th the theart theart art of oC flying She was the first American woman to o be granted a license by the Federation Federa Federa- tion ion and andl is an honorary major in the aero ero squadron CROSSED COUNTRY Although she is best known as th thirst the first woman to fly lly across the Atlantic Atlan Atlan- tic ic a distinction which she gained June une 18 1928 when she crossed from fron Trepassey Newfoundland to Bury Dury- port ort Wales in the monoplane monoplane mono mono- plane lane Friendship with Wilmer r Stultz pilot and Louis Gordon mechanic mechanic me me- hanic she also has made a transcontinental round trip in an In She was born at Atchison Kan In 1898 Her father Edwin S. S Earhart is s an attorney in Los Angeles She has las one sister After graduating from Hyde Park high school in Chicago she went to Ogontz school for girls in Philadel- Philadel phia hia Before finishing her course she ic left and joined the Canadian Red Rec RedCross RedCross Cross ross in 1917 as a nurses nurse's aid for W war lr service ervice After the war she entered Columbia university to take a premedical course and nd a year ear later went to Cal California orni l. l It was in California that she became became be- be came ame interested in aviation as a alien tion She owned two planes anc and piled lied up solo hours in her aerial aeria pleasure leasure jaunts about Los Angeles STUDIED PHOTOGRAPHY While in Los i Angeles she studied commercial photographs and In partnership part part- with another girl ventured Into nto the business busine Returning cast she went vent to Boson Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton on taught a university extension course ourse at Lowell then went Into social so- so cial al service work It was from there that hat she appeared on the aviation horIzon as a transatlantic flier The sponsor of oC the flight of ot the Friendship W was lS George Palmer Put- Put nam am publisher On February 7 7 1931 Putnam and Miss Earhart were mared married mar- mar ned ried ed at the home of his mother at N Noank Conn Coon Mrs Putnam's activities In n the in interests interests interests in- in of ot aviation include positions as vice president in charge of or public re relations relations re- re lations lotions for the New York Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- Philadelphia phia and Washington airway assistant to the general traffic mana manager er of the theT T T. A. A Maddux T.-Maddux Air lines aviation editor of the Cosmopolitan magazine and memberships on committees of the National Aeronautic association and the National Glider association and other aviation organizations