Eleanor Lay Ross Photographs

This collection consists of photographs of Eleanor Lay Ross over the years, including childhood photographs and her Civil Air Patrol portraits. There is also one newspaper article from 1933 detailing her trip to Olynthus, Greece.

Eleanor Lay Ross ( 1908 - 1981) was an early women pilot and a charter member of the Ninety-Nines. She attended Syracuse University, graduating in 1929, and received her Masters of Arts in 1930. She earned her pilot license (8343) on August 15, 1929, and while an undergraduate started a flying club on campus. In 1931 and 1932, Ross was a graduate assistant in the Department of Archaeology at Syracuse under Dr. Perley M. Place. She traveled to Greece in 1934 as part of a Johns Hopkins excavation with Dr. David Robinson, head of the Johns Hopkins University Archeological Department. Ross was hoping to be able to fly over the excavation site in Olynthus, Greece, to aid the archaeological work. During that excavation, Ross assisted with the terracottas found during the excavation. During the 1940s, Ross was part of the Civil Air Patrol in Syracuse, New York.