Amelia Earhart
Published on Nov 06, 2015
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After working with the Voluntary Aid Detachment in Toronto, Earhart took premed classes at Columbia University in 1919. She made good grades, but dropped out after just a year. Earhart re-enrolled at Columbia in 1925 and left school again.
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She took summer classes at Harvard, but gave up higher education for good after she didn't get a scholarship to MIT.Neta Snook was the first woman to run her own aviation business and commercial airfield. She gave Earhart flying lessons at Kinner Field near Long Beach, California in 1921, reportedly charging $1 in Liberty Bonds for every minute they spent in the air.
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She named it The Canary. The used yellow Kinner Airster biplane was the second one ever built. Earhart paid $2000 for it, despite Snook's opinion that it was under powered, overpriced, and too difficult for a beginner to land.
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Earhart's mom used some of her inheritance to pay for The Canary. She was a bit of an adventurer herself—the first woman to ever climb Pikes Peak in Colorado.
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