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Deborah Lee Prescott and Lawrence Nix
Flights With Father Inspire Gift For Aspiring Pilots

Deborah Lee Prescott's happiest childhood memories of her father, Lawrence Nix, always involved flying. She remembers him studying huge aviation manuals and poring over maps that draped over the dining room table. "My father had one great over-arching love in his life, and that love was flying," Prescott says.

In memory of her father who died in 2007, Prescott, an associate professor of English at Palm Beach Atlantic University, has established the Lawrence E. Nix Endowed Memorial Scholarship. Her hope is that her gift will allow others to achieve their dreams of becoming pilots—something her father, who grew up in the Great Depression, made many personal sacrifices to do.

Prescott's gift, while serving as a loving tribute to her father, is also a celebration of the joy that flight can bring to those who pursue it.

"As a young girl, the best times I ever spent with my father were in flight." Prescott recalls. "I flew as my father's co-pilot in many different small planes, but the greatest of these times together was acrobatic flying in a Stearman."


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