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Proclamation
July 14, 2018
WHEREAS: Gene Nora Jessen maintains a residence in the City of McCall; and
WHEREAS: Gene Nora Jessen served as President of the Ninety -Nines, Inc. International
Organization of Women Pilots promoting aviation, and women in aviation on a worldwide stage
through education, scholarship and mutual support; and
WHEREAS: Gene Nora Jessen is a renowned author of aviation themed books to include
The Fabulous Flight of the Three Musketeers, The Powder Puff Derby of 1929, and Amelia was
Right; and
WHEREAS: She assisted in the founding of two aviation museums, has served on numerous
aviation boards and councils; and
WHEREAS: Gene Nora Jessen was one of the "Mercury 13; " a group of 13 women who
passed the required qualification tests to become an astronaut; and
WHEREAS: She is the keynote speaker for the 2018 Airport Open House,
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Jackie' Aymon, Mayor of the City of McCall, with the consent of
the McCall City Council, do hereby proclaim July 14th, 2018 to be:
Gene Nora Jessen Day
In the City of McCall, Valley County, State of Idaho.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my
hand at McCall City Hall in the City of McCall,
Valley County, on this fourteenth day of July, the
year two -thousand and eighteen.
ckie J. Aym ,, Mayor