Committee to choose a site for the new Municipal Airport included members of Lancaster Chamber of Commerce, American Business Club and Lancaster Aero Club. Pictured left to right are Jesse P. Jones, Sumner L. Brown, George P. Luckey, A.D. Howry, John H. Carter, Charles B. Weise, F.K. Brinkman, W.S. Raub, H.M. Hersh, William D. Grant, S.R. Slaymaker and G.W. Birrell. Photo take December 7, 1929. William Grant, Christiana businessman and president of Lancaster Airways, Inc. was killed in an auto accident three days later.
This picture was donated by Bob Stevenson. He estimates it was taken between 1954 - 1956, at the time of Pettengill's first Audobon Lecture in Hensel Hall. Pictured, from left, are: Bob Stevenson, Mary Grace Helm, John Maddox, Bill Tawzer, Pettengill and Dr. Arthur Shively.
