1921 WWII pilot, June
1921 WWII pilot, June Ellington Petto, stationed at the Camp Davis Army Air Field in North Carolina during the war. Photo: TWU Special Collections TWU Libraries is home to the official archive of the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs). > 2024 TWU will begin preparing the next generation of pilots Fall 2024. Want to know more? Send us a note at advancement@twu.edu THEN AND NOW THE SKY ISN'T THE LIMIT It’s our destination TEXAS WOMAN’S University has a long connection to women aviators. The TWU libraries' Women’s Collection is a repository of documents and artifacts of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), and scholars come to TWU to study the WASPs. Now, TWU will prepare pilots. This fall, TWU will open the Doswell School of Aeronautical Sciences to train new generations of pilots. It’s a program urgently needed to address an international pilot shortage. While senior pilots were reaching mandatory retirement, the airlines, facing financial strain because of the pandemic, offered early retirement to the next generation of pilots. However, when the world emerged from the COVID shutdown, a pilot deficiency was exposed. The TWU program will not just address that scarcity, it will create a more diverse group of aviators. The school will have its own aircraft and conduct flying lessons from a Denton-area airfield. 14 TEXAS WOMAN’S
BOLDLY GO > TORION LEWIS ’24 Nutrition major in the College of Health Sciences TEXAS WOMAN’S 15
