EARLVILLE – Elizabeth Lewis of Earlville, a Pilot -in Training and a student at Sherburne-Earlville Central School was given a scholarship to attend the Experiment Aircraft Association’s 2007 Advanced Air Academy to be held this summer at EAA Headquarters in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.  Elizabeth was sponsored by the local Chapter 1204 of the EAA located at Lt. Warren Eaton Airport in Norwich.

The scholarship for $1000 was presented by Robert Benton of the Benton Foundation of New York.  The scholarship is in memoriam of Roxanne Benton, a woman pioneer in Aviation.  Benton states that Elizabeth Lewis was chosen because “of her interest in and dedication to Aviation and Aerospace Sciences and that she emulates the drive and determination of Roxanne Benton”.