Marion Rice Hart was a sportswoman and author.

Hart was one of six children of Isaac Rice

Isaac Rice

Isaac Leopold Rice was a U.S. inventor and a chess patron and author.- Biography :...

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Hart was the first woman to graduate in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

 and received a masters in geology from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

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As an aviatrix, Hart made seven solo flights across the Atlantic Ocean and was awarded the 1975 Harmon Trophy

Harmon Trophy

The Harmon Trophy is a set of three international trophies, to be awarded annually to the world's outstanding aviator, aviatrix , and aeronaut...

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Books by Hart

Hart is the author of:

• Who Called That Lady a Skipper? (1938) describing her voyage on the ketch
  Ketch
  A ketch is a sailing craft with two masts: a main mast, and a shorter mizzen mast abaft of the main mast, but forward of the rudder post. Both masts are rigged mainly fore-and-aft. From one to three jibs may be carried forward of the main mast when going to windward...
  
   Vanora (ISBN 0-7812-8169-5).
• How to Navigate Today (1940) a treatise on celestial navigation
  Celestial navigation
  Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is a position fixing technique that has evolved over several thousand years to help sailors cross oceans without having to rely on estimated calculations, or dead reckoning, to know their position...
  
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• I Fly as I Please (1953, Vanguard Press
  Vanguard Press
  The Vanguard Press was a United States publishing house established with a $100,000 grant from the left wing American Fund for Public Service, better known as the Garland Fund. Throughout the 1920s, Vanguard Press issued an array of books on radical topics, including studies of the Soviet Union,...
  
  ) describing her aerial adventures.