"little haywire school of aviation" (as my aunt, Helen Kay Schunck, described it in a Saturday Evening Post article, 1927) that may have been started by B. Ward Beam of Celina Ohio. Such schools were often small in the number of students and facilities, but they produced some of the early giants of aviation. I've found five such people already with regard to the "Beam School of Aviation" in Celina.
I can corroborate little of the following so any corrections and updates are very much appreciated. Ward Beam (who may have been born Bert W. Bean 11-18-1892) may have started the Beam School in 1913. It probably folded in 1920-21 when Mr. Beam went to Toledo where he is credited with inventing the auto thrill show. During the teens, he had become famous for air thrill shows in the midwestern U.S. He eventually wound up in New York State and ended his career with his "Ward Beam Agency" in Goshen, Orange County, NY. He died there in September 1979.
Ward MAY have been married several times... and probably had two children by his first wife Kethryn (sic). They were Arthur (b. 1916) and Ruth (b. 1917)
John Thorn (of Thornpricks fame and a legendary sports historian) helped me research Beam's auto career. For instance, I found out he launched the "Congress of Daredevils" in Toledo, 1923, and may have moved to Albion NY in 1931. Ward continued his daredevil shows at least into the 1950s.
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