2020 Mary Shea Wright Flight Memorial Scholarship
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My name is Vinnie Melling and I’m the assistant manager at Northampton Airport. I’m was also a fellow flight instructor with Mary Shea at Northampton airport. In partnership with with the Wright Flight organization we are once again raising funds for a second year through Go Fund Me and direct donations. Funds will be placed in the Mary Shea Memorial Scholarship Fund bank account and then distributed to Northampton Airport to pay for scholarship related lessons and associated flight training costs.
The MSWF Memorial Scholarship was awarded for the first time in 2019 to Adele Jordan, who is currently a junior at Northampton High. She is a busy 17 year old playing soccer and running track, enrolled in multiple Advanced Placement classes, class president, oh, and she’s working on getting her private pilot’s license.
This scholarship was created in an effort to assist young women attending Northampton High School or Smith Vocational Tech, in obtaining their private pilot’s license. The scholarship includes everything needed to obtain a private pilot’s license: ground instruction, flight instruction, materials, medical certificate, and flight test. Preference will again be given to a young woman who exhibits determination, focus and clarity towards achieving a goal. The candidate is willing to commit the time and determination required to become a pilot.
As of 2018, only 7% of all US pilots are held by women. Mary would be proud to have her name attached to a scholarship that would increase that percentage.
Mary Shea was a lifelong educator. She taught English at Hopkins Academy and held her CFI, CFII, MEI and IGI ratings. She loved sharing her wealth of knowledge with her students. She could often be found at Northampton Airport on weeknights holding ground school with her primary and instrument students, and then would be back at it again on the weekends teaching “Sunday School” to a packed room, full of interested pilots.
Always an educator, Mary enjoyed her time teaching aviation history to our summer campers as well as our middle school after school STEM program, Northampton Airport Wright Flight.
Mary was a member of the 99s and Vice President and volunteer instructor of Northampton Airport Wright Flight. In 1990 the FAA awarded her the General Aviation Flight Instructor of the Year and in 2014, she received the Wright Brothers “Master Pilot” Award, recognizing her for contributions to building, promoting and practicing safe flight operations for more than 50 consecutive years.
Please follow this link to the Northampton Airport website to learn more about Adele’s Story
The MSWF Memorial Scholarship was awarded for the first time in 2019 to Adele Jordan, who is currently a junior at Northampton High. She is a busy 17 year old playing soccer and running track, enrolled in multiple Advanced Placement classes, class president, oh, and she’s working on getting her private pilot’s license.
This scholarship was created in an effort to assist young women attending Northampton High School or Smith Vocational Tech, in obtaining their private pilot’s license. The scholarship includes everything needed to obtain a private pilot’s license: ground instruction, flight instruction, materials, medical certificate, and flight test. Preference will again be given to a young woman who exhibits determination, focus and clarity towards achieving a goal. The candidate is willing to commit the time and determination required to become a pilot.
As of 2018, only 7% of all US pilots are held by women. Mary would be proud to have her name attached to a scholarship that would increase that percentage.
Mary Shea was a lifelong educator. She taught English at Hopkins Academy and held her CFI, CFII, MEI and IGI ratings. She loved sharing her wealth of knowledge with her students. She could often be found at Northampton Airport on weeknights holding ground school with her primary and instrument students, and then would be back at it again on the weekends teaching “Sunday School” to a packed room, full of interested pilots.
Always an educator, Mary enjoyed her time teaching aviation history to our summer campers as well as our middle school after school STEM program, Northampton Airport Wright Flight.
Mary was a member of the 99s and Vice President and volunteer instructor of Northampton Airport Wright Flight. In 1990 the FAA awarded her the General Aviation Flight Instructor of the Year and in 2014, she received the Wright Brothers “Master Pilot” Award, recognizing her for contributions to building, promoting and practicing safe flight operations for more than 50 consecutive years.
Please follow this link to the Northampton Airport website to learn more about Adele’s Story
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