On august 31, Betty Skelton Frankman will be inducted into the National Corvette Museum Hall of Fame, becoming the first woman so honored. This is entirely appropriate considering that Betty is widely known as "The First Lady of Firsts." She earned this nickname the hard way, struggling against the establishment to overcome prohibitions against women participating on equal footing with men in business and sports.
    Betty was born only a few years after American women gained the right to vote. When she was growing up during the Great Depression, females were expected to stay home and tend to their families. In the following decade, the harsh realities of war would make the transition of