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Haas Pfister was born Elizabeth Haas in Great Neck, New York, the second of three children of Merle (née Simon) and Robert Kalman Haas Sr. (son of California retailer Kalman Haas). [1] [2] [3] She expressed an interest in aviation from an early age, [2] and she began taking flying lessons while attending Bennington College in Vermont. [3]
Nancy was the daughter of Art Pfister, who made a fortune when he turned his family cattle ranch into the Buttermilk Ski Resort in 1958. Her mother, Betty Haas Pfister, was a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in World War II, who in later years flew a helicopter, which she was notoriously known for parking in the family's driveway.
Betty Mullis: 2006 Navy Women Navigators of WWII (WAVES) [9] 1997 Ruth Nichols (1901–1960) 2009 Phoebe Omlie (1902–1975) 2015 Deanie Parrish (1922–2022) 2015 Nancy Parrish: 2015 Betty Haas Pfister (1921–2011) 2001 Peggy A. Phillips: 2022 Audrey Poberezny (1925–2020) 1996 Harriet Quimby (1875–1912) 1998 Sally Ride (1951–2012) 2014 ...
The Haas family is a prominent American business and philanthropic family. Pages in category "Haas family" ... Betty Haas Pfister; Murder of Nancy Pfister
Betty Gillies was the first woman to show up for training. [31] On October 6, Gillies was made an executive officer and second-in-command of the WAFS. [32] Gillies was familiar with drill and command techniques which she had learned at finishing school. [14] The first WAFS assignment was run by Gillies on October 22, 1942. [33]
Westchester County prosecutors have two new suspects in a controversial 1996 double murder of an upstate millionaire that spawned five trials and an overturned conviction — but no answers.
In 1882, Haas married Harriet Fatman; they had three children: [3] George Charles Haas, Edith Joan Haas Elser, and Robert Kalman Haas Sr. (director of Random House and co-founder of the Book of the Month Club). [6] Haas died in 1920. [2] His granddaughter was aviator Betty Haas Pfister.
Betty Haas Pfister/Elizabeth Pfister/Betty Pfister, WASP and lifelong career person in aviation, , , , Dessie Smith Prescott, first woman pilot in Florida, served in women's army corps in WWII, Florida Women's Hall of Fame; Pyun Bo Ra, air force officer and one of 3 to become South Korea's first women fighter pilots