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El Paso Woman Leads Ninety Nines Flying Club
Ruth Deerman of El Paso elected president of Ninety-Nines International, an organization of licensed women pilots. She learned to fly in 1944 at Jud Field, flies weekly from Champs Aviation, and won the 1954 Powder Puff Derby with co-pilot Ruby Tatman.
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EL Paso
Ruth Deerman
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Ninety- Nines, Inc. International Organization of Licensed Women Pilots
Ruby Tatman
Deerman
Ninety-Nines
Ninety - Nines
Amelia Earheart
Aviatrix
Ninety- Nines
United States
Oklahoma City
Country Club
Ars. Deerman
Women’s Department
el Paso Chamber of Commerce
Eastern Star
Daughters of the Nile
Providence Hospital Women’s Auxiliary
Providence
el Paso Country Club
First Baptist Church
Women’s Missionary Union