Oral History Interview with Edna Gardner Whyte, February 8, 1979

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Interview with Edna Gardner Whyte, a competitive pilot and flight instructor from Garden City, Minnesota. Whyte discusses her family history, her childhood and education, moving to Oregon, her initial interests in flying, her training in nursing, taking up flying, winning her first race, teaching others to fly, becoming a flight instructor full-time, Prohibition bootlegging, races, a crash, Amelia Earhart, the growth of women in aviation, service as a Army Air Corps nurse during World War Two, being a flying salesman, flying helicopters, and building the Aero Valley Flying School.

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144 p. ; 28 cm.

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Jenkins, Floyd & White, Edna Gardner February 8, 1979.

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Interview with Edna Gardner Whyte, a competitive pilot and flight instructor from Garden City, Minnesota. Whyte discusses her family history, her childhood and education, moving to Oregon, her initial interests in flying, her training in nursing, taking up flying, winning her first race, teaching others to fly, becoming a flight instructor full-time, Prohibition bootlegging, races, a crash, Amelia Earhart, the growth of women in aviation, service as a Army Air Corps nurse during World War Two, being a flying salesman, flying helicopters, and building the Aero Valley Flying School.

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144 p. ; 28 cm.

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Interview conducted in 1979 for the Texas Business Oral History Project, North Texas State University Oral History Collection. Interviewer: Floyd Jenkins, Professor of Business Administration, North Texas State University.
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  • Accession or Local Control No: Number 28
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  • OCLC: 44070375
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc1529243

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Jenkins, Floyd & White, Edna Gardner. Oral History Interview with Edna Gardner Whyte, February 8, 1979, book, February 8, 1979; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1529243/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.

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