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Curtiss Southern. Born in mount Carroll IL, Neta Snook moved with her family to Ames Iowa. She enrolled in a flying school in which the students built their plane. Each got a Little time in the air before the plane crashed said her son named for air plane builder Glenn Curtiss. In 1917, Glenn Curtiss was running an aviation school in Newport News VA. Mrs. Southern determined to Fly, dropped out of Iowa state University and enrolled in the school.
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