WOMEN AND AVIATION

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 198, 19 May 1941, Page 4

WOMEN AND AVIATION

A Scholarship Memorial To Amy Johnson

A proposal to found an Amy J ohnson Scholarship in Aviation has been put forward in England and an appeal to this end has been sponsored by such prominent men and women as the Viscountess Astor, M.P., Col. the Rt. Hon. Lord Sempill, Sir Malcolm Campbell, Miss Caroline Haslett (who is president of the Women’s Engineering Society, of which Amy Johnson was president for three years) Miss Pauline Gower (Commandant, Women’s Section, Air Transport Auxiliary), and Mrs. Gabrielle Patterson, A.T.A, and Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators of the British Empire. These six sponsors reflect some of the various phases of Amy Johnson’s wonderful career, which was a source of vivid inspiration to her generation. Her achievements were a great contribution to civil aviation, and her epic flights helped to establish the Dominion air routes. It is proposed to invest all the money contributed for the memorial in war bonds during the war, so that the war effort will be materially assisted. The conditions which will obtain after the war can only be conjectured, but the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators of the British Empire h/ive agreed to act as technical advisers on the administration of the Amy Johnson Scholarship in Aviation, and they will assist in the selection of candidates. It is hoped, also, to establish an aviation scholarship in her memory in each of the British Dominions.

At the conclusion of hostilities it is hoped to set up a memorial in some appropriate place. The scholarship will be the first provision ever made for women to attain professional standard in aviation, except at their own expense.