Introducing the 2020 First Flight Society Board of Directors

KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. - Feb. 27, 2020 - PRLog -- The First Flight Society would like to announce its Board of Directors for 2020.All of the directors are from North Carolina, except two  who are from Virginia.

The newly elected Executive Committee consists of:
President-Mike Fonseca
1st Vice President-Dr Charles Davidson
2nd Vice President-Lisa Ellstrom
Treasurer-H Taylor Sugg
Secretary-Blake Sauls

The rest of the 2020 board consists of :
Paul Carr, Sara Lou Copeland, Danny Couch, M. Roy Daniels, III, David Daniels, William "Bill" Douglas, Judith Fearing, Orestes Gooden, Terry Gray, Paul Wright Jameson, Arthur J. Lamothe, Geneva Perry, Blake Sauls, Doug Seay, Mike Smith,
Penny Leary Smith and Peregrine White.

Joe Lamothe, Mike Smith and Geneva Perry are former presidents of the 93 year old Society that started out as the Kill Devil Hills Memorial Society..

Without the First Flight Society there wouldn't be a Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. The Kill Devil Hills Memorial Association, later named First Flight Society, began as a group of local businessmen who successfully petitioned the US Congress to fund and build a monument to the Wright Brothers' 1903 achievement.

The FFS plans an annual celebration at the Wright Brothers National Memorial on December 17^th mandated by their bylaws to memorialize the work of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, NC.

They created the Paul E Garber Shrine in 1966 to honor individuals and groups for achieving significant "firsts" in aviation development since 1903. (Charles Lindbergh, Tuskegee Airmen, Mary Feik, John Glenn, Katherine Johnson (Hidden Figures) and most recently Colonel Gail "the Candy Bomber" Halvorsen among others.

First Flight Society promotes aviation education through an Aviation Education Committee to expand the knowledge of the Wright Brothers' legacy by bringing aviation education programs to students in Dare County. They also offer an annual FFS Scholarship through Outer Banks Community Foundation for students pursuing aviation education in North Carolina.

More information about the First Flight Society can be found at https://firstflight.org