Earhart

Amelia Earhart's name is back in the news these days with the recent release of the Hollywood biopic "Amelia," starring Hilary Swank as the ill-fated flier, and Richard Gere as George Putnam, her husband, publisher and public relations executive. Critics have not exactly given soaring reviews to this film treatment of the pioneering aviator's life and accomplishments. "The filmmakers spend so much time turning her into a dopey romantic figure that they never give her the animating, vital will or even much of a personality that might explain how a Kansas tomboy turned Boston social worker took to the skies and then, through her deeds and words, encouraged other women to chart their own courses," Manohla Dargis wrote last month in The New York Times.

MOVE OVER, AMELIA Bedelia -- Westminster Baptist Church members recently took wordplay to new heights during their annual Mother Daughter Banquet.Using a pun-filled script created by church member Donna Gault, several women and men participated in a fashion show that would make Amelia Bedelia author Peggy Parish proud.With bouncy music in the background and Gault narrating, Terri McMichael was the first to step up on the platform, wearing a potato sack dress."Note Terri's necklace," Gault narrated.

Moya Anonson,82, one of the first female pilots and a member of the "99 Club" started by Amelia Earhart, died Friday in Port Salerno, Fla. Mrs. Anonson, who got her pilot's license at 16, was a Women's Air Force Service Pilot during World War II, an elite group of women fliers who ferried planes, pulled gliders and towed targets in the United States.Pub Date: 1/13/97

Amelia Earhart's "prenuptial agreement" with her husband, George Putnam, whom she married in 1931 when she was 32, drew a flurry of attention this week. Los Angeles writer Amanda Hess posted the letter on her Tumblr page after running across it in the online library of Purdue University, which houses Earhart's papers. "On our life together I want you to understand I shall not hold you to any midaevil [sic] code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly," Earhart wrote.

On January 22, 2004, RUTH ROSENBAUM (nee Butler); beloved wife of the late S. Joseph Rosenbaum; loving mother of Michael Rosenbaum, of El Cerrito, CA and the late Marilyn Rosenbaum Earhart; adored sister of H. Carl Butler, of Baltimore and the late Henry A. Butler; loving grandmother of Philip DeMario and Dr. Jessica Grubb and Jacob Rosenbaum; loving great-grandmother of Lia DeMario. Services at SOL LEVINSON AND BROS, INC., 8900 Reisterstown Road at Mt. Wilson Lane on Friday, January 23, at 3 P.M. Interment at Baltimore Hebrew, Berrymans Lane.

On February 12, 2006, TERRI LYNN JONES-ARNOLD (nee Stine), beloved wife of Matthew C. Arnold; loving mother of Lynzie, Jeffrey Jr. and Gabriel Jones; devoted daughter of Lou Ann Stine and the late Raymond Stine; loving sister of Kelly Earhart, Buffy Stine-Weitzel and the late Timothy Neighoff. Also survived by many nieces and nephews. Friends are invited to call at the Burgee-Henss-Seitz Funeral Home Inc., 3631 Falls Rd., on Wednesday from 7 to 9 and Thursday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Services on Friday at 10 A.M. Interment in Woodlawn Cemetery.

Suddenly, on August 11, 2008 LOU ANN STINE (nee Fenters) beloved wife of the late Raymond E. Stine; loving mother of Kelly Earhart, Buffy Stine-Weitzel and the late Terri Lynn Jones-Arnold and Timothy Neighoff; devoted daughter of Richard and Betty Fenters. She is survived by grandchildren Lauren, Alexis, Lynzie, Joshua, Jeffrey, Gabriel and Tony, Jr. and five brothers and sisters. Friends are invited to call at the Burgee-Henss-Seitz Funeral Home, Inc., 3631 Falls Road on Saturday from 3-5 and 7-8 at which time funeral services will be held.

On April 21, 2005, TIMOTHY DAVID NEIGHOFF; beloved husband of Angela L. Neighoff; devoted son of Shawn R. and Jacqueline A. Neighoff (nee Brewer); loving father of Timothy J. Neighoff, Amanda M. Listman and Heaven L. Snow; beloved brother of Todd J. Neighoff, Alex Brown, Kelly Earhart, Buffy Weitzel and Terri Stien. Friends are invited to call at the Burgee-Henss-Seitz Funeral Home, Inc., 3631 Falls Road, on Sunday and Monday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9. Services on Tuesday at 10 A.M. Interment in Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Nineteen women have flown aboard U.S. spacecraft, starting with the celebrated Sally Ride in 1983.But when Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins buckles herself into her seat aboard the space shuttle Discovery this week, she alone will realize the crowning achievement of female aviators.Colonel Collins is a female spacecraft pilot, the world's first.The women before her were astronauts, but they were passengers aboard their shuttles, there to conduct scientific experiments or operate payload equipment.

"Cinderella," "Snow White," "Little Red Riding Hood" -- all classic tales with sound lessons of just deserts and possibilities, but also all tales of female characters waiting for someone else to pave the way -- for someone else to rescue them. If you have daughters, or sons, you might want to introduce them to a different kind of heroine -- the kind who does the rescuing. Kathleen Odean, a librarian and former member of the Caldecott and Newbery Award selection committees, has compiled a list of more than 600 titles into "Great Books for Girls" (Ballantine, 1997)