Unofficial Listing of the Soaring Society of America Awards and Badges: Silver Badges for 1958


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The Silver Badge is intended to develop the self-reliance of the new soaring pilot.   Earning the Silver Badge requires that the pilot complete a flight over a straight course of at least 50 km, an altitude gain of at least 1,000 meters, and a duration flight of at least five hours.


 336 Gleb Derujinsky, Jr.
 335 Harold R. Jost
 334 Joseph E. Kohler
 333 Edwin M. Salkeld, Jr.
 332 Martin R. Beck
 331 Jack E. Gretta
 330 Vernon W. Oldershaw
 329 Nelson S. Bailey
 328 R. Terry White
 327 Gervais R. Nolin
 326 Roy R. Winn
 325 Willi Geiselmann
 324 Harold Drew
 323 Yowland D. Gilbert
 322 Jack H. Lambie
 321 James E. Jackson
 320 James W. Turnbow
 319 Walter F. Briggs³
 318 Robert S. Gomes
 317 Guenther H. Christiansen
 316 Dorothy Jean Arnold²
 315 Marion S. Griffith, Jr.
 314 Raymond W. Proenneke
 313 Robert A. Maiden
 312 Dean Svec
 311 John E. Oates
 310 Bertha M. Ryan²³
 309 James P. Meckoll
 308 William L. Fisher
 307 Paul G. Pallmer, Jr.
 306 Edwin D. McClanahan, Jr.
 305 Clyde W. Campbell
 304 Laurence E. Edgar
 303 Thomas Page
 302 Rudolph T. Allemann
 301 P. Heasley Entz
 300 Virginia D. Campbell²
 299 George C. Tweed, Jr.
 298 Frank R. Green

² WSPA
³ All badge legs flown in a 1-26

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