It's a risky venture for 17-year-olds to get on an airplane and fly to Mobile having no idea what they're getting themselves into.' 'I was wondering what I was getting myself into,' Whitenack recalled last week from her home in Scottsdale, Ariz. The 17-year-old was on her way with her parents to a town she had barely heard of to compete in a scholarship competition she knew little about.
In the spring of 1958, Phyllis Whitenack climbed aboard an airplane in her hometown of Bluefield, W.Va.
