Visit Of American Air Hostesses

Press, Volume C, Issue 29638, 7 October 1961, Page 2

Visit Of American Air Hostesses

Three air hostesses of Pan American Airlines will arrive in Christchurch on Sunday evening to begin a fbur-week tour of New Zealand showing fashionwear ih city stores.. They are Canadian-born Miss Sharon Leale, Miss Nanna Wenke, whose birth place is Hanover, and Miss Jane Emiko Sakata, who was born in Hawaii of Japanese parents.

They will be given a civic reception in Christchurch on Monday morning. Tall, blonde Miss S. Leale, aged 22, was at junior high school in Vittoria, British Columbia, when her family moved to San Francisco. There she attended the University of California. Early this year she was appointed by the airline for stewardess service. After training in New York she was assigned to San Francisco on the airlines’ jet clippers. Her hobbies are water skiing, swnnminng, dancing and hunting. Miss Leale says being an air hostess has literally opened up a “whole new world” for her. The two other hostesses agree. From Hanover From her Mexican grandmother, Miss Wenke has inherited her dark beauty and a fluent ’command of Spanish. Aged 22, she has packed much adventure into her life. After finishing high school she studied French in Belgium and English in the Berlitz School in Hanover. She was accepted as a stewardess on the airlines’ inter-German flights, trained in New York and was later sent to San Francisco for Pacific flights. Miss Wenke was recently awarded the title of “Queen

for San Francisco’s Airport Day.” She enjoys swimming, ski-ing and riding and is also taking a television drama course. Between flight assignments she does modelling in San Francisco. Petite Miss Sakata was born at Waianae, Hawaii, 26 years ago. She was educated at Waianae Intermediate School and at Waiapahu High School. Before becoming an air stewardess in 1957, she worked as a teller-book-keeper in a bank in Hawaii. The clothes they will model in leading New Zealand stores are made by an American firm whose fashions are also made under licence by a well-known Christchurch flrm.