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Stimpson, Edward
W.
Edward W. Stimpson papers
1934-2009
1952-2004
9.5 linear feet
10 boxes
The Edward W. Stimpson papers comprise the archival records of a member of a prominent Bellingham family who became a leader in the field of aviation. These records document his professional life and achievements as well as aspects of his childhood and family history.
Collection materials are inEnglish.
Biographical Note
Edward W. (Watts) Stimpson was born June 18, 1934 in Bellingham,
Washington, the first of seven children to Dr. Edward K. and Catharine C.
“Kitty” Stimpson. He attended the Campus School at Western Washington College
of Education from 1940 to 1949, and graduated salutatorian from Bellingham High
School in 1952. He went on to graduate cum laude from Harvard College in 1956
with a bachelor of arts in government and received a master of public
administration from the University of Washington in 1959.
Immediately after graduation Stimpson went to work for the upcoming
Seattle World’s Fair (the “Century 21 Exhibition,”) as assistant to the
president and general manager. The following March he was assigned to serve as
the Fair’s representative in Washington D.C. Following the opening of the Fair
on April 21, 1962, Stimpson’s responsibilities included escorting VIP visitors
to Seattle. After the Fair’s closure (October 21, 1962) Stimpson became acting
director of the Pacific Science Center, overseeing its conversion from the
Fair’s United States Science Pavilion.
Stimpson met two individuals while working at the Fair whose impact
would be lifelong: these were his future wife and fellow-Fair employee, Dorothy
(Dottie) Sortor and Najeeb Halaby, a VIP visitor who would initiate his career
in aviation. Halaby – the head and Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency
(FAA) – invited Stimpson to work with him. In December 1962 he began his
position as the FAA’s Congressional Relations Officer, and in July 1965 was
named Assistant Administrator of the FAA’s Congressional Liaison Office.
Stimpson left the FAA at the end of 1969, co-founded the General
Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) on January 1, 1970, and the next day
married Dorothy (Dottie) Sorter. Originally named as vice president of GAMA,
Stimpson was elected president in October 1970. Stimpson left GAMA briefly in
January 1990 (serving as senior vice president of the international
construction company Morrison-Knudsen Corporation in Boise, Idaho), but
returned as its president at the end of 1991. In 1996 he was appointed vice
chair of GAMA and chairman of the program entitled GA Team 2000. Renamed as the
“Be a Pilot” program in 1998, this encouraged people to “Stop Dreaming Start
Flying,” and greatly boosted the number of student pilots.
Among numerous lifetime awards, Stimpson received the Wright Brothers
Memorial Trophy in 1998. He served on various governmental advisory task forces
and committees, and was a long-term member (1975-1999) and chairman (1986-1994)
of the Board of Trustees at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Embry-Riddle
acknowledged Stimpson’s contributions in awarding him an honorary doctorate in
aviation management and has named a residence hall and a laboratory in his
honor.
After appointment by President Clinton, Stimpson was sworn in on
October 5, 1999 to be United States Representative, with the rank of
Ambassador, on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization
(ICAO). Based in Montreal, the ICAO is the branch of the United Nations that
sets international aviation standards. After serving as Ambassador under two
presidents, Stimpson retired in December 2004 to return home to Boise. Early
the next year he was elected chairman of the international nonprofit Flight
Safety Foundation (FSF), and was appointed by the mayor to the Boise Airport
Commission. In October 2009 he was awarded the Flight Safety Foundation-Boeing
Aviation Safety Lifetime Achievement Award.
Edward W. Stimpson passed away on November 25, 2009, shortly following
his retirement from the FSF, and is buried in the Stimpson family plot in
Bellingham. As his father was before him, Edward W. Stimpson was memorialized
in the Congressional Record, and honors have continued posthumously. In
February 2011 the City of Boise renamed a street leading to the new airport
control tower “Ed Stimpson Way” and May 25, 2011 was, by declaration of the
Governor, “Ed and Dottie Stimpson Day” in Idaho.
The Edward W. Stimpson papers document the life, career and
achievements of an expert in the field of civil aviation. The collection
comprises personal papers and professional files spanning the period of 1934 to
2009, with the bulk of records dated between 1952 and 2004.
The collection substantially reflects the filing system created and
maintained by Stimpson, with personal papers and professional files organized
separately. Personal records include biographical and family material
(1934-1998), school and college records (1940-1959), correspondence
(1938-2003), financial materials (1963-1975), and photographs (circa
1934-1950). The majority of personal correspondence is between Edward W.
Stimpson and his parents, Edward K. Stimpson and Catharine C. “Kitty”
Stimpson.
Professional records begin with a section of files documenting
Stimpson’s employment at the Seattle World’s Fair (1959-1962). Materials
include a variety of planning and internal public relations files,
publications, photographs, and slides. Additional files document aspects of his
subsequent work for the Federal Aviation Administration from 1963-1969, and
contain informational material on the Super Sonic Transport (SST) program,
photographs, and correspondence. Later professional files (dated 1970-2009)
include correspondence, news articles, and photographs, many of which document
awards Stimpson received during his tenure with the General Aviation
Manufactures Association, the Morrision-Knudson Corporation, and the Council of
the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). These files include
materials about passage of the General Aviation Revitalization Act in 1994.
This significant legislation sought to boost the aviation industry by
establishing time limitations on accident liability of aircraft manufacturers.
The collection also contains papers, articles and photographs documenting
Edward W. Stimpson’s 1999 appointment as U.S. Ambassador to the ICAO, and files
containing tributes to his life and many achievements.
The Edward W. Stimpson papers are organized in accordance with the
following series and subseries arrangement:
- Series I. Personal Papers, 1934-2003
- Subseries 1. Biographical and Family Materials, 1934-1998
- Subseries 2. School, 1942-1959
- Subseries 3. Correspondence, 1938-2003
- Subseries 4. Financial, 1963-1975
- Subseries 5. Photographs, 1933-1950s
- Series II. Professional Papers, 1959-2009
- Subseries 1. Seattle World’s Fair, 1959-1962
- Subseries 2. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA),
1963-1969
- Subseries 3. Professional correspondence and other material,
1970-2009
- Subseries 4. Ambassadorship: International Civil Aviation
Organization (ICAO), 1999-2004
- Subseries 5. Biographical / Tribute, 1940-1946, 1980s-2009
All professional files (series II) are open to the public for research without restriction.
Access and use restrictions apply to records in the Childhood and Personal Papers (Series I):
- Pre-1946 materials in Series I are open to academic researchers only.
- Post-1945 materials in Series I may be accessed only with written permission from the Family Donor Committee.
- Researchers must obtain written permission from the family donor committee in order to quote, publish or display materials from Series I.
Please contact the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies for additional information regarding access and use provisions.
Childhood and personal papers are subject to both access and use (quotation and publication) restrictions. Contact repository for further details.
Edward W. Stimpson Papers, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Libraries Archives & Special Collections, Western
Washington University, Bellingham WA 98225-9123.
The Edward W. Stimpson papers were transferred to the Center for
Pacific Northwest Studies in January 2010 by his widow, Dorothy Stimpson.
The Edward W. Stimpson Papers were processed by project archivist Alison Costanza in 2011-2012. The collection reflects the original filing system and folder titles created and maintained by Edward W. Stimpson to the fullest extent possible. In some instances personal and professional papers were combined in boxes together during transfer, and were arranged separately during archival processing. A small number of personal letters and photographs were also removed from professional files by the processing archivist and organized among other childhood and personal papers. Notes documenting these actions are included in the relevant files.
Correspondence reflects Edward W. Stimpson’s filing system as far as possible. In addition to his own “correspondence files,” there are also groups of personal letters that were originally unidentified or distributed among unrelated records. Researchers should note that there is overlap between Stimpson’s correspondence files – maintained in their original order - and additional “unfiled” letters brought together by the processing archivist.
Newspapers were photocopied and then removed from the collection,
along with duplicate materials. Approximately half the “World’s Fair” materials
(all publications and ephemera) were removed from the collection due to
preservation concerns. Files specific to Stimpson’s Ambassadorship were
separated and maintained as a distinct grouping among other Professional
files.
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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
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Stimpson,
Edward W., 1934-2009--Archives
Stimpson,
Catharine C., 1907-1998
Stimpson, Catharine C., 1907-1998
Stimpson,
Edward K., 1906-1967
Stimpson, Edward K., 1906-1967
Stimpson family.
Federal
Aviation Administration (U.S.)
General
Aviation Manufacturers Association
Harvard
College (1780- )
International Civil Aviation Organization. Council
Bellingham
(Wash.)
Century 21 Exposition (1962
: Seattle, Wash.)
International Civil
Aviation Organization.
Seattle. Century 21
Exposition, 1962
Seattle World’s Fair
(1962)
World's Fair (1962 :
Seattle, Wash.)
Student Life
Transportation
Bellingham
Seattle
Photographs
Series I
Personal Papers
1934-2003
Access restrictions apply to records in Series I (Personal Papers). Contact the repository for more information.
Use (quotation and publication) restrictions apply to records in Series I (Personal Papers). Contact the repository for more information.
Subseries 1
Biographical and Family
Materials
1934-1998
See also Stimpson Family papers folders 31/1 and 31/13.
1/1
Gordon, Emma K., The Gordon Readers First
Book
1910
1/2
Wilder, Thornton, Our Town: A Play in Three Acts
(includes clipping on 1959 production)
1938
1/3
“Our Baby’s First Seven Years” – scrapbook of Edward
Stimpson baby materials
1934-1939
1/4
removed from beginning of scrapbook: cards, photos,
short stories, lock of hair
1935-1945
1/5
Baptism certificate
1948 December 9
1/6
Confirmation certificate
1948 December 9
1/7
pins: “American Legion Evergreen Boys State” and
“Merit” (key) attached to “B” (1951 delegate, Annual Evergreen Boys’ State of
The American Legion)
circa 1951
1/8
“Ode to Ed” birthday scrapbook
undated
1/9
FAA Memorandum and attached Congressional Record –
noting: “Dr. Edward K. Stimpson, Bellingham, Washington, Honored” by Senator
Jackson
1967 September 22
1/10
Dedication program, Edward K. Stimpson Wing, St.
Luke’s General Hospital
1967 December 31
1/11
Bellingham Herald (St. Luke’s Stimpson wing
dedication)
1967 December 28; 1968 January 1
1/12
“The Whitmells of Crick” family tree
undated
1/13
“The Whitmells of Crick” family history
1968
1/14
House listing advertisement (115 S. Forest
Street)
1998
Subseries 2
Biographical and Family
Materials
1934-1998
See also folders 2/16 and, 2/18-2/19, Biographical / Tribute
subseries, and Stimpson Family papers folder 98/8.
1/15
“A Trio of Prize Winning Stories,” by
Edward
undated
1/16
“Stories of All Kinds," by The Third Grade Campus
School
1942-1943
1/17
removed from beginning of “Stories:” school-related
materials
1942-1951
1/18
“Flowers” biology notebook (includes pressed plant
specimens)
1950
1/19
Bellingham High School report cards and
diploma
1951-1952
1/20
Harvard: “The Freshman Register of the Class of
1956”
1952
1/21
Harvard yearbook
1956
1/22
Harvard thesis: “Regulation of Medical Practice with
Particular Reference to Massachusetts”
1956
1/23
University of Washington thesis: “A Cadet Plan for the
Seattle Police Department”
1959
1/24-1/25
University of Washington thesis: loose papers at
beginning and end
circa 1959
1/26
University of Washington Master of Public
Administration diploma
1959 June 13
Subseries 3
Correspondence
1938-2003
See also Stimpson Family papers folder 24/1.
Correspondence is mostly from parents, Dr. Edward K. Stimpson
(EKS) and Catharine C. “Kitty” Stimpson (Mimi), also “Grandady” Dr. Edward
Whitmell Stimpson and his third wife “Aunt Ella,” grandmother Maud Watts, aunts
Mabel Stimpson Wilson and Ruth Watts, uncle Arthur Watts, and siblings
Catharine R. (Dodie), Mary, Susan, Jane, Caroline, and John. “Unfiled”
correspondence denotes letters that were not obviously maintained or labeled as
part of Edward W. Stimpson’s main correspondence files. This correspondence was
brought together and organized by the processing archivist, and in some cases
separated from among professional files and unrelated materials.
Unfiled correspondence (folders
created based on date groupings)
1938-1968
2/1-2/3
Postcards to Edward
1938-1945
2/4
Correspondence (includes from EKS; from Edward to
Mimi)
1939-1944
2/5
Correspondence
1942-1944
2/6
Correspondence
1943-1945
2/7
Correspondence (includes from EKS, Jane)
1962-1966
2/8
Correspondence
1963, 1967
2/9
Letter from Kitty to Edward
circa 1964
2/10
Correspondence: from Kitty, EKS, Susan
1964
2/11
Correspondence: from Kitty, EKS, John, Dodie; photo:
Susan’s kids (Julie and Laura)
1965-1969
2/12
Correspondence: from Kitty, EKS, Loch
1966-1967
2/13
Correspondence: from Kitty
1967-1969
2/14
Correspondence
circa 1968-1969
Kitty Stimpson correspondence
files
1941-1989
bulk
1952-1972
See also Stimpson Family papers folders 16/1-16/3.
Removed from family home after Kitty’s death in 1998, some
letters rubber banded with note (indicated by quotes in folder title).
2/15
To Kitty from Edward (photos: John and Caroline,
1952; siblings, circa 1950s)
1941-1989
2/16
To Dr. and Mrs. Stimpson (EKS and Kitty): reports
cards; Dodie
1946-1956
2/17
To Dr. Stimpson (EKS) from a doctor
1951-1952
2/18
Harvard: progress reports, photos, House
Supplement
1952-1956
2/19
Edward’s letters from Harvard (includes to Dr. E.W.
Stimpson with class papers)
1953 spring
2/20-2/25
Edward’s letters from Harvard
1952-1956
2/26
From “Edw. U. of W.”
1957-1959
2/27
“Edward’s letters from “M. Lady”
1957 summer
2/28
From “Edw. Summer internship Washington
D.C."
1958
2/29
From “Edw. Century 21 1960-”
1960-1962
3/1
From Edward “Wash. D.C."
1963
3/2
From Edward “Wash. D.C."
1964
3/3
From Edward
1964-1965
3/4
From John
1965 summer
3/5
From Edward (1 from John)
1966-1968
3/6
From Edward
1966-1969
3/7
From Ed and Dottie to Kitty
1970-1972
3/8-3/9
Postcards to Kitty from various
circa 1969, 1974,
1977-1980
See also Stimpson Family papers folder 59/4.
Correspondence removed from
elsewhere in collection
3/10
Birthday card to Ed from John
undated
3/11
Letters from Mary (from folder 7/6)
circa 1963, 1964
3/12
Card from Jane (from folder 8/6)
undated
(post-1970)
Files Edward kept of family
correspondence
circa 1951-1998
3/13
EKS (from EKS, Kitty; news clippings; memorials
list; photo)
circa 1960-1968
3/14
Family (Kitty, EKS, siblings; memorials
list)
circa 1965-1967
3/15
Mommy’s Letter
1951-1968
GP stock certificate; from Kitty, EKS, siblings; from Sen.
Magnuson on dedication for EKS
3/16
Sudden Valley / Mannings Camp
1947, 1970-1987
note from Grandaddy and Aunt Ella; Kitty biography, speech,
timber sale agreement, Geneva-Lake Louise Zoning Amendment draft with Kitty’s
notes
3/17
Kitty Current
1969, 1983-1989
speech; Apropos magazine, August 1987; St. Luke’s Center for
Rehabilitative Medicine program; Mannings Camp; ancestry
3/18
Kitty file
1946, 1982-1984
includes “Time Passes Fast On Waldron Island,” by June Burn,
1946 with Stimpson family visit photo
3/19-3/20
Kitty File
1990-1991, 1998
Apropos magazine, May and October 1991; Whatcom Awareness
magazine, December 1992; The Bellingham Herald, March 25, 1990 Centennial
Edition
3/21
Kitty History Acknowledged w. Press Clip (negatives;
photos (girl; family, 1967)
1990-1998
Files of correspondence to
Edward and Dottie, kept with Professional files
1990-2003
3/22
Joke (from Dottie and colleagues; Susan to siblings
on nature reserve)
1998-2003
3/23
EWS Personal
1954, 1993-1998
1994 article on Dodie; niece’s obituary; family photo in
newspaper, 1954; party for Jim Coyne
3/24
“I Hate Filing”
1950s, 1990-2003
Stimpson Reserve in Whatcom Land Trust newsletter; family
portraits, 1951, c.1953; Dottie’s run for National Committeewoman to Democratic
National Committee; article on Dodie; general investing information from Dad,
1997; Steven R. Rivkin article, 1994; news clipping on John’s 10th STP ride;
cards/letters: from Dottie, Dottie’s 1994 year-end letter, holiday card from
the Clintons, Ryan Dicks’ 21st Birthday party invitation and postcard from him
to “Uncle Ed and Aunt Dorothy,” Susie Dicks, Thank Yous, personal letter from
Harvard classmate, Bob
3/25
correspondence removed from folder 8/1 (includes
1997 family contact information)
1994-1998
3/26
Personal Letters
1993-1997
Articles on others; Dodie’s 1994 article; retirement;
photos: family, friends (including Norm Dicks) in 1996; Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University Edward W. Stimpson Lab
Subseries 4
Financial
1963-1975
3/27
Financial materials
1963-1965
3/28
Trust Fund (for Kitty) – Witter statement
1969
3/29
Trust Fund (for Kitty) – bank statements, cancelled
checks
1971-1975
Subseries 5
Photographs
1933-1950s
See also throughout the collection and Stimpson Family papers
boxes 26-28.
Included in family photographs are Maud, Ruth, and Arthur Watts,
Mabel Stimpson Wilson, and the following Stimpsons: Dr. Edward Whitmell, Dr.
Edward K., Catharine C. “Kitty,” Edward Watts, Catharine R. (Dodie), Mary,
Susan, Jane, Caroline, and John.
3/30
Photographs (family)
1933-1940
3/31
Portrait: Edward and Dodie
1937 January
3/31
Portrait: Edward
1940 November 24
3/31
Portrait: Edward
circa 1945
3/32
Photograph album: classes at Campus School, family;
all the children
circa 1937-1944
3/33
Photographs (most unidentified)
circa 1950s
Senior class photos with notes (from Rogan Jones and Paul);
school; with Margaret Gray; man in military uniform; men posed at a table;
Dodie
Series II
Professional Papers
1959-2009
Subseries 1
Seattle World’s Fair
1959-1962
4/1
PRO folder: press releases, correspondence, clippings,
Monorail, concessions, exhibits
1959-1961
4/2
PRO folder: press releases, brochures, Official Guide
Book, exhibits
circa 1962
4/3
Century 21 Exhibition folder: press
releases
1961
4/4
Century 21 Exhibition folder: press releases and
articles
1961
4/5
Century 21 Exhibition folder: press releases and
articles
circa 1961
4/6
Century 21 Exhibition folder: Status Report and
brochures
1961-1962
4/7
Century 21 Exhibition folder: exhibitor regulations,
brochures
circa 1960-1961
4/8
Century 21 Exhibition folder: exhibitor and
concessionaire rules and regulations
1960-1962
4/9
Century 21 Exhibition folder: booklets and exhibitor
rates
circa 1961-1962
4/10
United States Travel Service folder
circa 1961-1962
4/11
Official Press Book: Seattle World’s Fair (attendance
to mid-June; plus foreign exhibitors list, telephone directory)
1962
4/12
Press Information (attendance to
mid-August)
1962
4/13
report folder: Production Division: Organization and
Schedules
1959 October
4/14
report folder: Century 21 Exposition, Inc.: Operating
Planning Budget
1959 December
4/15
report folder: Century 21 Exposition (includes
photo)
circa 1959
4/16
report folder: Speaker’s Bureau: (Slide Script)
Background Information; Progress Report
1961 July
4/17
report folder: Speaker’s Bureau: Slide Script
Background Information; Progress Report
1961 October
4/18
report folder: Slide Script (appeal to potential
foreign exhibitors)
undated (pre-4/1961)
4/19
Status Reports (for media by Public
Relations)
1961 August; 1962 January
4/20
Fountain Competition (City of Seattle
sponsored)
1960
4/21
Century 21 Exposition - Selected Planning Factors -
Confidential, by Economic Research Associates
1961 January
4/22
Booklets, ephemera
circa 1960-1962
4/23
Hecht Company advertisement for model
exhibit
1962 March 21
4/24
Brochures (were in a plastic bag)
circa 1962
4/25
Monorail (includes letter of recommendation,
photo)
1961-1962
4/26
Correspondence: Thank Yous
1962
4/27-4/28
Magnuson, Jackson, Mueller (Publicity photos
(duplicates); correspondence-copies)
1960-1962
4/29
Certificate of appreciation
1962 October 21
4/30
“Artists’ Sketchbook of the Seattle World’s
Fair”
circa 1962
4/31
Photograph: Edward Stimpson, Senators Warren G.
Magnuson, Henry M. Jackson
circa 1961
4/32
Ephemera (includes Whatcom County Public Library
Reading Club)
1959-1962
4/33
Official Guide Book: Seattle World’s Fair
1962
4/34
Licensing and underwriting (blank), Investor’s
Prospectus
circa 1960-1962
5/1-5/2
Slides: A5-T7, misc., and 8 packets by Morley
Studios
circa 1962
5/3
Slides: A5-T7
circa 1962
5/4
Slides from “Cb-14” box
circa 1962
5/5
Davis, Norman, Fine Arts Exhibition: Seattle World’s
Fair, Edward W. Stimpson engraved
1962
5/6
Letters from Ewen Dingwall, Seattle World’s Fair
general manager (from folder 3/13)
circa 1960-1962
5
Two slide boxes: Seattle and World’s Fair
circa 1962
6
Impressions: United States Science Exhibition Seattle
World’s Fair [Presentation Copy]
1962
6
The New York Times Advertisement: Seattle World’s
Fair
1961 October 22
6
The Seattle Times Color Rotogravure Sunday
Pictorial
1961 December 3
6
The Seattle Times Seattle World’s Fair Souvenir
Edition
1962 April 8
6
Scrapbook of Seattle World’s Fair photographs and
memorabilia
circa 1962
Subseries 2
Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA)
1963-1969
7/1
“SST Briefing Book”
1966 August 1
7/2
FAA, “U.S. Supersonic Transport (SST) Economic
Feasibility Report”
1967 April
7/3
Miscellaneous poems and quotes
circa 1960s
7/4
FAA and U.S. Congressional materials
circa 1961-1965
FAA Administrator appointment; photos: 1964 earthquake
destruction in Kodiak, Rev. Frederick Brown Harris, Senator Magnuson with
President Kennedy
7/5
confidential memo to President on SST contacts;
Congressional Record
1967
7/6
SST Favorable Newspaper Articles (Congressional
reports)
1960-1968
7/7
“The United States Supersonic Transport
Program”
1968 summer
7/8
The Boeing Company Commercial Airplane Group, SST
Division, “The SST: A General Description”
1969 September
7/9
The Boeing Company Commercial Airplane Group, SST
Division, “The SST in Commercial Operation”
1969 May
7/10
The Boeing Company Commercial Airplane Group, SST
Branch, “The SST Program and Related National Benefits”
1969 February 17
7/11
Floor Debate (SST: reports, confidential pre-vote
tally 4/1967)
1960-1969
7/12-7/13
FAA –Edward W. Stimpson –Asst.
Administrator
1961-2006
SST reports, pre-vote tally, memos on lobbying, 1977 Harvard
case study; biographical materials, circa 1999-2006; note from Sen. Magnuson
with $1; candy canes removed from holiday greeting; photos, circa 1960s
Subseries 3
Professional correspondence and
other material
1970-2009
See also Ambassadorship and Biographical / Tribute
subseries.
Records during employment with the General Aviation Manufactures
Association (GAMA), Morrision-Knudson (MK) Corporation, and the International
Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), includes material on the passage of the
General Aviation Revitalization Act (GARA). Folders 8/19-8/30 had been in
several boxes with various other materials, file order maintained.
7/14
Correspondence, news release, photos
1970-1981
7/15
Correspondence
1969-1971
7/16
Correspondence, news releases, photo
1974-1977
7/17
Man of the Year Letters
1977
7/18
Letter from Senator Jennings Randolph
1981 February 12
7/19
Thank you notes, photos
1977-1980
8/1
Correspondence, photos
1995-1999
Biographies of others; Hong Kong trip; speeches; photos:
Clinton signing GARA, August 17, 1994
8/2
Speeches (and photos)
1971-1991
8/3
Thank you letters (including from Ronald
Reagan)
1982-1983
8/4
“General Aviation Is…” (brochure)
1999 January
8/5
Key Correspondence (someone else’s resume;
award)
1991-1996
8/6
Cards
circa 1993-1994
8/7
Signature (from Kitty on Bellingham resident’s death;
MK; NASA consultant position)
1992-1995
8/8
GAMA report on GARA; United Aircraft & Transport
Corporation, “First Annual Report to Stockholders”
December 31, 1929,
1993-1997
8/9
Brewer Trophy Letters
1982
8/10-8/11
Ed’s Correspondence (GAMA)
1996, 1998-1999
Wright Brothers Trophy; from Tom Daschle, the Doles;
photos
8/12
Photograph, folded: plane over Statue of
Liberty
1980
inscribed: “To Ed Stimpson, “T211”, For your continuing
support and encouragement, thanks, John Adams, Pres., Adams Ind Inc,
7/7/1980”
8/13
Resume
1996-1997
National Aeronautics Association’s Elder Statesman of the
Year, photo; letter from John McCain
8/14
Kassebaum S-67 Big Bill
1991-1996
General Aviation Accident Liability Standards Act; S-645; GAMA
report on GARA
8/15
E.W.S. Correspondence (articles; Congressional
testimony)
1992-1999
8/16
General Aviation News & Flyer
1994 September
8/17
“Partners in Aviation Progress: Shaping
Policy-Touching Lives: The 51st Annual Wright Memorial Dinner”
(program)
1998 December 11
8/18
Ed Press (Wright Trophy)
1998 December
8/19
Letters –Leaving GAMA (including from members of
Congress; photo)
1989-1990
8/20
EWS Resumes
1975-2009
Tributes; ambassadorship; Dodie’s Statement for Campus School
Reunion; photos, portrait on CD
8/21
Miscellaneous Correspondence (card;
articles)
1999 October
8/22
Miscellaneous Correspondence
1996-2003
Ambassadorship: articles; friends: articles on, to Ed and
Dottie; photographs: Reagan
8/23
Political pictures
circa 1990s
Ed, Dottie, Dick Gephardt, Tom Daschle, Dan Quayle, Dirk
Kempthorne; dirt runway near mountains, 1998 (negatives in original sleeves);
Ed with “ES” Skyline plane
8/24-8/25
Retirement information (from MK)
1988-1994
8/26
Photographs
circa 1990s
portrait; with industry members; Col. Paul Poberezny; (mounted
photo and photos with Sen. Steve Symms were in folder with-in folder)
8/27
Photos
circa 1950s, 1970s,
1990-2000s
Ed, circa 1950s; lady with kids, circa 1970s; Ed with:
unidentified couple, circa 1970s; President Ford, circa 1974-1977; Madeline
Albright, 1990; Najeeb Halaby; President Clinton, 1994; Ed and Dottie,
ambassadorship
8/28
FSF –Boeing Award (includes prayer for Ed)
2009 September-October
8/29
EWS Presentations: 2005-> (speech cites Dodie’s
2006 “Going Global,” included)
1999-2008
8/30
Invitation to presidential inauguration
2009 January 20
Subseries 4
Ambassadorship: International
Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
1999-2004
See also Professional correspondence and other material
subseries.
9/1
Letters of Recommendation (ICAO)
1999 February-April
9/2
EWS – Bio Information (awards; talking points in
support of if nominated to ICAO)
1999
9/3-9/4
Pre Aug 2 Pre-Nomination Process-General
1999 April-August
9/5
Letters on ICAO (nomination)
1999 June-August
9/6
Nice Letters –Ambassador (including from Al
Gore)
1999 September-November
9/7
EWS –Ambassadorship (folder was inside “Nice Letters”
folder)
1999-2000
9/8
Swearing-in Ceremony, ICAO
1999 October 8
9/9
Photos (United Nations orientation)
1999
9/10
President Clinton letter, oath, Ambassadorial Seminar,
resignation / reappointment
1999-2001
9/11
Letters and articles
2001-2004
9/12
ICAO retirement; recognition in UW newsletter;
Aviation Spotlight magazine
1998, 2001, 2004-2005
Subseries 5
Biographical /
Tribute
1940-1946,
1980s-2009
See also Professional correspondence and other material
subseries.
2009 binder includes a comprehensive list of lifetime
awards.
10
VHS tape – “Edward Stimpson: NAA Awards,
1997”
1997
10
VHS tape – Personal Congratulations to Ed
Stimpson
1998 December 7
10
VHS tape – “A Tribute to the Honorable Edward W.
Stimpson"
2005 March 2
10
Binder
1940-1946, circa
1980s-1990s
progress reports: Campus School (Grades K-6), 1940-1946
photos: with political officials, circa 1980s-1990s
10
Binder
circa 1998
Aviation Spotlight magazine, December 1998; photos: at work at
GA Team 2000, Wright Memorial Dinner, Embry-Riddle University and Stimpson
Hall, circa 1998
10
Scrapbook of photographs and ephemera from “A Tribute
to Ed Stimpson”
2005 March 2
10
Binder of Stimpson biographical materials
2009
funeral program; CD (2 copies): celebration of life at
National Air and Space Museum; biography; list of awards; memorial articles;
articles, speeches, photos, letters; re: awards, 1998-2009
10
Binder of memorial service materials
2009
Compiled by Dottie Stimpson.