Junior Birdmen

March 7, 1960, Twin City News-Record

Here are some proud kids showing off their bird house technique, placing in the competition sponsored by the Menasha Rec Department.  

(For the unititiated, the title of our blog post is a jab at The Junior Birdmen of America which was a national organization for young people interested in aviation and model plane building.  It was founded in 1934 and promoted by the Hearst newspaper chain, with the cooperation of the U.S. Bureau of Air Commerce.  Over time, the newpspaer chain divested itself of the club and an organization separate from the papers took up the matle.  By 1939, the whole thing had gone belly up, unfortunately.  But for that five year period of time, it was a hot ticket, to include it's own newspaper columns and a song "Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen", which has been sung with a variety of lyrics over the years to mock would-be or inexperienced aviators.)

Addendum to the comments:

To be done, while singing the song.