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Monday, March 25. 1991 / University Daily Kansan
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Award helps student aim high
Scholarship goes toward flight lessons
By Nedra Beth Randolph
Kansan staff writer
Ron Drake always has wanted to be a pilot.
Drake, Golden, Colo., junior, will be able to get closer to his dream, thanks to a new scholarship at the University of Kansas.
The Willis A Waas Memorial Scholarship is a $500 award given each spring to a KU student working toward a private pilot's license. The award goes directly toward the cost of flight lessons.
Ron Drake, Golden, Colo., junior, stands by a Cessna 150 trainer plane. Drake is the first recipient of the $500 Willis A. Waas Memorial Scholarship, which is awarded to a student earning a private olgt's license.
Drake is the first recipient of the scholarship.
"I have always planned on having a career in aviation," he said. "This scholarship will help me obtain my license faster than if I didn't have the money from the award. It will really accelerate my learning."
Drake, a member of the KU flying Club, said that he already had been working on his license but that it was time to move. "Because if case flight lessons were expensive
Flight lessons cost about $50 an hour. A private pilot's license requires 40 hours of instruction.
"I had to take fewer lessons because of the cost," Drake said. "It was going to take me a long time to get my license. With the scholarship money, I hope to have my license by the end of the school year."
Drake's flight instructor, John Roper, Kansas City, Kan. senor and president of the KU Flying Club, said he would see Drake win the scholarship
"I wanted to do something in memory of Dad, to make him live on," she said. "He always wanted to help others fly."
Was died in 1987 in a small plane crash caused by a mechanical failure. Loethen, who has a private
"Ron has been working with me toward his license for a while," he said. "He deserved it."
The Waas scholarship was created last fall by Andrea Waes Loethen, a 1980 KU graduate, in memory of her father, a 1951 KU graduate
plot's license, donated $10,000 of the settlement from her father's accident to establish the scholarship
To qualify for the scholarship, the applicant must be at least a part-time KU student have a current flight medical certificate and have at least five hours of flying time with an instructor, she said.
the scholarship money stay with KU students.
Loethen said she was pleased to see
Since the scholarship winner's night instructor is also a KU student, the money stays with KU people, the students I've liked that KU meant a lot to him
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