-
Acknowledgments
- The University of Alabama Press
- Chapter
- Additional Information
Acknowledgments Nancy Batson Crews’s three children have worked with me, in full cooperation , throughout my research and the writing of this book. My heartfelt thanks to Paul Crews Jr., Radford Crews, and Jane Crews Tonarely. My thanks also to other members of Nancy’s family for their help: her late sister Amy Batson Strange; her niece Elizabeth Strange Simpson; her nephew Luther Strange; and her cousin, Ken Coupland. Katherine Price “Kap” Garmon provided me with the written history of Camp Winnataska as well as personal memories of, and observations about, the camp Nancy loved so very much. In addition, several of Nancy’s aviation friends in Birmingham have been enthusiastically supportive throughout the entire process: Chris BealKaplan , Dr. James A. Pittman, Lt. Col. Joseph L. Shannon (USAF ret.), and Dr. Edward W. Stevenson. I would also like to acknowledge assistance from the Southern Museum of Flight and the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame in Birmingham; the Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame located at Judson College in Marion; the International Women’s Air and Space Museum in Cleveland, Ohio; and the WASP Collection, the Woman’s Collection, Texas Woman’s University in Denton. Lastly, to the eight WAFS (Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron) who survived Nancy—all of whom I met through her—my admiration, my respect, and my thanks: Bernice Batten (deceased 2004), Phyllis Burchfield Fulton, Teresa James (deceased 2008), Gertrude Meserve Tubbs LeValley, Barbara Jane “B.J.” Erickson London, Barbara Donahue Ross, Barbara Poole Shoemaker (deceased 2008), and Florene Miller Watson. Sarah Byrn Rickman ...