Women´s History Month

Amelia Earhart went to Central high school from 1915-1916. Also in 1916 she moved to Hyde Park Academy High School .For college she attended Columbia University from 1919-1920 then transferred to Pen State Abington. When Amelia was at college she studied pre-medicine.

Sadly Amelia Earhart died at the age of 39 years old on July 2 1937. We recognize her as a brave and  independent woman for all her major  accomplishments. May she rest in peace.

Accomplishments and awards 

In 1932 Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and the first person to fly across the Pacific Ocean in 1935. Her trip across the Pacific took about a day to accomplish. In 1922 Amelia set the women's altitude record for 14,000 feet high. In 1932 Amelia received the National Geographic Society's gold medal from president Herbert Hoover. Amelia received the medel because of her nonstop trip across the Atlantic Ocean solo.

Amelia Earhart  parents were Amelia Otis Earhart and Samuel Stanton Earhart and her siblings were Muriel Earhart Morrissey.  Samuel Earhart Amelia's father's occupation was a lawyer and her mother worked as a liberal homemaker and heiress.