Unofficial Listing of the Soaring Society of America Awards and Badges: Silver Badges for 1960


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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.


 460 Lloyd P. Hunter
 459 William P. Stewart
 458 Robert L. Scheurer
 457 Osceola O. Davies
 456 Leonard A. Niemi
 455 Robert M. Long
 454 Robert W. Forker
 453 Harry C.. Green
 452 Robert R. Moan
 451 Dannie D. Snyder
 450 Alf C. Modahl
 449 Gordon A. Wheeler
 448 Horace E. Jensen
 447 Walter S. Buslik
 446 Warren Kniepkamp
 445 Carlin W. Brinkmann
 444 C. William Brinkmann, Jr.
 443 Faye E. Edwards
 442 Harry M. Sims
 441 William E. Smull
 440 Norman K. Jacobshagen
 439 John F. Kray
 438 James R. Lloyd
 437 Tom C. Davis
 436 Erwin F. Jones
 435 Richard V. Hawker
 434 W. Benjamin Harlamart
 433 Marquand S. Gorton
 432 Marcus L. Bates
 431 Stanley W. Welles
 430 Cecil H. Wilkinson, Jr.
 429 Norman L. Kennedy
 428 Joseph F. Dobronski
 427 Everett S. Williston, Jr.
 426 Clark M. Rosenblum
 425 Stanley W. Brower
 424 John W. Petre
 423 Karl Nassauer
 422 William Schweizer
 421 Sara Jane Jednacz²
 420 William E. Doherty, Jr.
 419 Nathan J. Frank
 418 Theodore W. Sanford, Jr.
 417 John S. Delaney
 416 Joe F. Emons
 415 Roberto Sada Salinas
 414 Albert R. Gregg
 413 William Carl Walters
 412 F. Edwin Barnes
 411 Terence Roach
 410 John M. Lowenstein
 409 Donald N. Brockhurst
 408 Siegfried L. Feuersanger
 407 James C. Reilly
 406 William R. Padgett
 405 Alden G. Wilson
 404 Frederick H. Matteson
 403 Stephen G. Orban
 402 Hollister Nelson
 401 Robert F. Hupe
 400 Jean Louis Baker
 399 Gerald H. Shea
 398 Wallace E. Wyatt
 397 Norman K. Sanders
 396 Paul J. LaFrenier
 395 Joe W. Richardson
 394 Robert P. Greenbaum
 393 Bernald S. Smith
 392 Ronald E. Deip
 391 Miles T. Bennett
 390 J. Robert Gravance
 389 Konstantin J. Hanitzsch
 388 George D. Asdel
 387 Harold H. Thurston
 386 L.A. Denson
 385 Frank E. Stergar
 384 James R. Freesa
 383 Leonard V. Pratt
 382 Keith A.M. Allen
 381 Irving O. Prue
 380 Clayton E. Hartman
 379 Howard I. Weissleader, Jr.
 378 Clifton M. McClure, III

² WSPA

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