Regina Trice Hawkins

Background

Regina Trice Hawkins was born on June 11, 1938, in Macon, Georgia, United States. She is the daughter of Reginald and Frankie Raines Trice.

Education

Regina Hawkins received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Emory University.

Career

Regina Hawkins held a position of the referral agent at Buckhead Brokers in Atlanta.

In 1994 she began to catalog the remarkable collection of letters of her aunt who was an American pioneer aviator and flight instructor with the Civilian Pilot Training Program. The result of these letters was a book entitled Hazel Jane Raines, Pioneered Lady of Flight which was published in 1996.

Achievements

• As a result of Regina Hawkins's work with the letters, logbooks, and memorabilia of her aunt Hazel, readers got to know a lot of facts about Hazel Jane Raines and about her career.

Works

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  • Hazel Jane Raines, Pioneered Lady of Flight

    (A collection of letters home by one of 25 American women ...)

    1996

Views

Quotations: “My writing process was an unusual one. As I read my aunt’s letters, I wrote the book, not knowing where these letters would lead me. A limited number of comments and quotations were added from newspaper articles about Hazel and from contacts with her contemporaries” - about writing the book Hazel Jane Raines, Pioneered Lady of Flight.

Membership

Regina Hawkins is an honorary member of the Air Transport Auxiliary Association. She is a member of the board of directors at Georgia Women of Achievement and a past member of the board of directors at the historical society Tullie Smith.

Connections

Regina Hawkins has married Jack Milton Hawkins on October 9, 1959. They have three children: Frankie Hawkins Hobbs, Jack Milton Jr., and Mark Abbott.

Father:

Reginald Trice

Mother:

Frankie Raines Trice

child:

Frankie Hawkins Hobbs

child:

Jack Milton Jr.

child:

Mark Abbott

husband:

Jack Milton Hawkins

aunt:

Hazel Jane Raines

Hazel Jane Raines was an American pioneer aviator and flight instructor with the Civilian Pilot Training Program. During World War II, she was part of the first group of United States women to fly military aircraft, which they did in a war zone for the civilian British Air Transport Auxiliary.