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NAVA 14

NAVA 14: St. Louis, Missouri

Saint Louis University
October 3–6, 1980
Details and group photo of those attending NAVA 14: NAVA News Vol. 14, no. 1 p. 1 (1981)

The NAVA 14 Flag: Dorothy Clayborne based the design on the NAVA flag, defaced in the bottom center by a blue fleur-de-lis within a yellow circle, a reference to the host city's flag.  According to the flags designer "...the blue fleur de-lis on the golden bezant (bezant being the heraldic term for coin, thus standing for the Louisiana Pur­chase) from the St. Louis City flag is at the base of the chevron.  More than the Gateway Arch at the Riverfront or the Statue of St. Louis IX in Forest Park, the fleur de lis symbolized the city of St. Louis to me."

Meeting flag description from Flag Research Quarterly 11: The Flags of NAVA


Organizing Committee Chair: Dorothy H. Claybourne.

Announced Awards and Honors:

  • Captain William Driver Award: Emmet V. Mittlebeeler J.D., Ph.D.

Fiscal Sponsor:

Driver Award: National Flag Foundation.

Attendees: (43)

(Partial list of those attending NAVA 14)
Phil Allen
Rita Blitt
Charles E. Brannon
Thomas J. Carrier
Dorothy H. Claybourne
Grace Rogers Cooper
Robert P. Dickson
Jeanette Doetsch
Peter Edwards
James F. Ferrigan III
Robert S. Gauron
Maisel Gauron
Burke Gordon
Betty J. Goss
Marilu Hardin
A. Zach Hirsch, Jr.
Florence Hutchison
Kenneth R. Huff
Lynn Knights
Mary Knights
John V. Lowe
Dorothy Murphy
Edward Murphy
David E. Ott
Horace E. Ott
John M. Purcell
"Woody" Ridgway
AIice Smith
Phillip H. Smith
Whitney Smith
John R. B. Szala
Flag image drawn by Clay Moss – Flag photo from Flag Research Quarterly 11: The Flags of NAVA