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QUARTERLY<br />
Winter 2006-2007<br />
<strong>Burgess</strong> <strong>Collection</strong> <strong>•</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong>
QUARTERLY<br />
Winter 2006-2007<br />
Volume 4 Number 4<br />
Editor<br />
Dick Cooper<br />
editor@cbmm.org<br />
Graphic Design/Photography<br />
Rob Brownlee-Tomasso<br />
Contributors<br />
Julie Gibbons-Neff Cox<br />
Rachel Dolhanczyk<br />
Robert Forloney<br />
Pete Lesher<br />
Melissa McLoud<br />
John H. Miller<br />
Stuart L. Parnes<br />
Kathleen Rattie<br />
Lindsley E. H. Rice<br />
Michael Valliant<br />
<strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Maritime</strong> Museum<br />
Navy Point, P.O. Box 636<br />
St. Michaels, MD 21663-0636<br />
410-745-2916 Fax 410-745-6088<br />
www.cbmm.org editor@cbmm.org<br />
The <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Maritime</strong> Museum is a private<br />
not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational institution. A<br />
copy of the current financial statement is available<br />
on request by writing the Vice President of Finance,<br />
P.O. Box 636, St. Michaels, MD 21663 or by calling<br />
410-745-2916 ext. 238. Documents and information<br />
submitted under the Maryland Charitable Solicitations<br />
Act are also available, for the cost of postage and<br />
copies, from the Maryland Secretary of State, State<br />
House, Annapolis, MD 21401, 410-974-5534.<br />
On the Cover<br />
Trailboards, from the collection of<br />
Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong>, that have been<br />
acquired by CBMM. (See story, page 4.)<br />
Photograph by Bill Kepner.<br />
Happy New Year from all of us at the CBMM<br />
At this time of year, most of us find ourselves looking both back and forward<br />
in time, so it seems appropriate that this issue of the CBMM Quarterly<br />
combines the final report for the year 2005-2006 with stories about new beginnings<br />
here at the Museum.<br />
Last year was one of dramatic transition for your Museum. John Valliant<br />
announced his retirement after 19 years at the helm. His watch was<br />
marked by growth and achievement in almost every area of the Museum’s<br />
operations, and he left an institution that is well respected and much loved.<br />
Change can be traumatic (especially for history museum people, who spend<br />
their professional lives trying to keep things from changing) but it can also<br />
be energizing and refreshing.<br />
Change is in the air, and it is welcomed<br />
by staff and Board alike. After extensive<br />
renovations inside and out, the Steamboat<br />
Building is opening at last as the Museum’s<br />
new center for changing exhibitions.<br />
Museums have long recognized that temporary<br />
special exhibits and programs are<br />
keys to attracting more members and visitors,<br />
broadening the sponsorship base and<br />
enjoying more media attention. The upcoming<br />
new exhibitions (described later<br />
in this issue) are just what CBMM has<br />
been planning for.<br />
This issue also highlights some important<br />
new arrivals to CBMM. Several key<br />
staff positions have been filled in the past few months, bringing significant<br />
new energy and experience to our ranks. Kathleen Rattie is our new Director<br />
of Development. She works closely with veteran John Miller to oversee<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> Fund and grant opportunities, and also manages our membership activities.<br />
Robert Forloney has joined us as Director of Education. He will be<br />
reviewing and renewing our entire menu of educational programs for both<br />
adults and schools, and will be working closely with our corps of docents to<br />
expand their training and activity here at the Museum. Both Kate and Robert<br />
will be important factors in CBMM’s future success. I am delighted to have<br />
them here as colleagues.<br />
As you will also read, the Museum has finalized the purchase of the Robert<br />
<strong>Burgess</strong> <strong>Collection</strong>. This most extraordinary private collection of <strong>Chesapeake</strong><br />
<strong>Bay</strong> artifacts will provide new content for years of research, programs, and exhibitions.<br />
I am grateful to the donors who generously made this significant acquisition<br />
possible, and I urge you to come to our Members Opening in March<br />
to get a first look at some of the fascinating items included in the collection.<br />
From my vantage point, 2007 promises to be a very exciting year. I hope<br />
you will visit often, take advantage of what we offer, and let us know how<br />
we are doing.<br />
Stuart L. Parnes, President<br />
sparnes@cbmm.org<br />
<strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Maritime</strong> Museum Winter 2006-2007
Contents<br />
Contents<br />
(Above) Captain Mark Adams takes<br />
CBMM visitors for a boat ride on<br />
St. Michaels Harbor during the fall<br />
OysterFest. The Volunteer was built<br />
for the Museum by volunteers.<br />
Departments<br />
To the Point<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
Events Calendar*<br />
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25<br />
* Events Calendar is a special pull-out<br />
section that can be found between<br />
pages 18 and 19.<br />
C 1-4<br />
Features<br />
The <strong>Collection</strong> of Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong><br />
During his life, Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong>, the former curator of the<br />
Mariners’ Museum, collected all things <strong>Chesapeake</strong>. By Pete Lesher<br />
Waters of Despair, Waters of Hope<br />
A new exhibit opening explores the history and influence of<br />
African Americans on the region. By Lindsley E. H. Rice<br />
Explore & Restore<br />
The Horn Point Laboratory is the center for extensive research on<br />
oysters, blue crabs, and oxygen levels on the <strong>Bay</strong>. By Michael Valliant<br />
Supertanker Training on the Miles<br />
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14<br />
21<br />
The Calhoon M.E.B.A. Engineering School is a mid-career training<br />
facility for Coast Guard-licensed merchant mariners. By Dick Cooper<br />
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4<br />
Museum Acquires <strong>Collection</strong><br />
of Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong><br />
By Pete Lesher, Curator of <strong>Collection</strong>s<br />
In the 1940s, Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong>, the late curator of the<br />
Mariners’ Museum, looked around the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong><br />
that he loved so much and saw major changes under way.<br />
The age of the steamboat was waning with the coming of<br />
the <strong>Bay</strong> Bridge, and the wooden sailing vessels, that had<br />
served so well for generations, were being abandoned to<br />
die slow deaths of decay.<br />
“Hulks could be found around the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> region<br />
even up into the 1950s, if you knew where to look for<br />
them. Earlier, many of the sailing craft, old and worn out,<br />
were abandoned in shallow areas close to where they were<br />
owned,” <strong>Burgess</strong> wrote in 1975. 1<br />
Instead of rot and rubble, <strong>Burgess</strong> saw historic artifacts<br />
that would serve as links to the <strong>Bay</strong>’s proud past. He began<br />
gleaning the wrecks and amassing probably the largest com-<br />
prehensive accumulation of <strong>Bay</strong> objects and ephemera in<br />
private hands. The <strong>Burgess</strong> collection has now found a new<br />
home with the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Maritime</strong> Museum.<br />
<strong>Burgess</strong>, who died in 2003, is remembered as a prolific<br />
author and editor, museum curator, photographer, and historian<br />
as well as collector. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland,<br />
in 1913, the son of a steamship engineer.<br />
As he recalled, “Ships were everyday talk in my home<br />
since my father and brother followed the water in merchant<br />
ships. Steamboats conveyed me up and down and across the<br />
<strong>Bay</strong>. Perhaps these factors, my association with ships, and<br />
an innate feeling that the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> picture was changing<br />
when I was a youngster, spurred me on to document it.” 2<br />
After graduation from Baltimore City College, he shipped<br />
out to Bermuda and Haiti on the four-masted schooner Doris<br />
continued, page 8
(Opposite, Left) Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong> with vessel carvings<br />
from his collection, November 1950. Photo by William T.<br />
Radcliffe, Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong> <strong>Collection</strong><br />
(Right) <strong>Burgess</strong> climbed the spanker mast of the four-masted<br />
schooner Doris Hamlin for a view of her poop deck. Photo<br />
by Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong>, Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong> <strong>Collection</strong><br />
<strong>Collection</strong> of Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong><br />
(Left) <strong>Burgess</strong> sailed on<br />
the four-masted schooner<br />
Doris Hamlin on a voyage<br />
to Bermuda and Haiti in<br />
1936, when he was 23 years<br />
old. Photo by Robert H.<br />
<strong>Burgess</strong>, Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong><br />
<strong>Collection</strong><br />
(Left) Skipjacks<br />
dredging, viewed<br />
from the deck of<br />
the E. C. Collier,<br />
1948. Photo by<br />
Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong>,<br />
Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong><br />
<strong>Collection</strong><br />
5
6<br />
Mast Truck<br />
Ornamental ball attached to the<br />
masthead of an unidentified<br />
<strong>Chesapeake</strong> vessel.<br />
Quarter Board<br />
From the two-masted schooner A. H.<br />
Schulz, built 1872 by William E. Woodall<br />
in Baltimore. Obtained by exchange with<br />
M. V. Brewington, about 1954.<br />
Staunchion<br />
From the starboard rail near<br />
the stern of the three-masted<br />
schooner William T. Parker,<br />
collected from the vessel<br />
abandoned at Curtis Creek,<br />
near Baltimore, about 1954.<br />
Clew Iron<br />
Used to secure the outboard end of a large sail to<br />
the boom. From the William L. Godfrey sail loft in<br />
Baltimore; obtained by trading for some photographs.
Spectacle Iron<br />
Used to suspend the lazyjacks for the<br />
jib on a large bugeye or schooner,<br />
which made it easier to contain<br />
the sail when lowering. From<br />
the William L. Godfrey<br />
sail loft; obtained by<br />
trading for some<br />
photographs.<br />
<strong>Collection</strong> of Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong><br />
What is it?<br />
Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong> found beauty in sailing<br />
vessels and the functional things that held<br />
them together. Here are several pieces from his<br />
collection, showing how they were used and<br />
where they came from.<br />
Deadeye<br />
Used to keep tension on the port foremast rigging of<br />
the schooner Stephen Chase, built 1876 in Dorchester<br />
County, Maryland. Salvaged from the abandoned vessel<br />
in Curtis Creek, near Baltimore, in 1949.<br />
Trailboard<br />
Ornamental name carving from the skipjack Klondike,<br />
built 1897 in Pocomoke City, Maryland. Obtained by<br />
exchange with M. V. Brewington, about 1954.<br />
Billet Head<br />
Ornamental<br />
scroll at the end<br />
of the longhead,<br />
from the schooner<br />
Bohemia, built 1884<br />
by Thomas Kirby in St.<br />
Michaels, Maryland. Salvaged<br />
from the abandoned vessel at<br />
Sarah’s Creek, Virginia, about 1952.<br />
7
(Above) Hulk of the four-masted schooner Purnell T. White lying at Port Covington, Baltimore,<br />
September 21, 1951. Photo by Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong>, Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong> <strong>Collection</strong><br />
(Right) <strong>Burgess</strong> climbing aboard the hulk of the Purnell T. White. Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong> <strong>Collection</strong><br />
8<br />
from page 4<br />
Hamlin, taking some 200 photos and keeping a journal of<br />
the voyage. In 1941 he joined the staff of The Mariners’ Museum,<br />
in Newport News, Virginia, and except for a wartime<br />
tour of duty on a destroyer escort in the Pacific, he remained<br />
with the museum until his retirement.<br />
<strong>Burgess</strong> published numerous books and articles on the<br />
<strong>Bay</strong>. Unlike some other authors of historical nonfiction, he<br />
did not restrict his research to the archives. He wrote about<br />
the sailing log canoe Flying Cloud after helping her new<br />
owner, Fred Kaiser, deliver the boat from Maryland to Virginia,<br />
and subsequently crewed in an abortive attempt to<br />
deliver the boat to her next owner in New York. 3 Similarly,<br />
he wrote about oyster dredging after spending a day aboard<br />
the skipjack E. C. Collier in February 1948. 4 <strong>Burgess</strong> lectured<br />
widely on <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> and maritime topics, and he<br />
was consulted by authors and historians. He also served as a<br />
member of the Board of Governors of the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong><br />
<strong>Maritime</strong> Museum.<br />
Trailboards, the relief carvings under the bowsprit of a<br />
sailing vessel, were a distinctive ornament on commercial sailing<br />
craft on the <strong>Chesapeake</strong>. <strong>Burgess</strong> purchased or salvaged<br />
these items from <strong>Bay</strong> vessels at the end of their working years,<br />
along with interesting pieces of hull, rigging, and ironwork. In<br />
some cases he traded objects with other collectors or institutions,<br />
including maritime historian Marion V. Brewington and<br />
the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Maryland.<br />
<strong>Burgess</strong> never managed to acquire a carved paddlebox<br />
emblem from a steamboat, but he compensated for this after<br />
taking up wood carving as a hobby. He probably started<br />
carving by tackling repairs on damaged trailboards in his collection.<br />
He then turned to replicating several carvings in the<br />
collection of The Mariners’ Museum. In 1952 he replicated the<br />
paddlebox emblem from the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> steamboat Avalon,<br />
using a photograph he had taken in 1936. The finished product<br />
shows him to have been quite skillful.<br />
His collecting focused on commercial sail and steam, as<br />
well as on the shoreside industries that supported them, but<br />
not on naval history or recreational boating. As he expressed<br />
it, “Ships of the Navy, and yachts, have never inspired me<br />
even though I served two years with the former during World<br />
War II and sail the <strong>Bay</strong> for pleasure today.” 5<br />
Abandoned vessels were a prime source for his collecting<br />
activities. <strong>Burgess</strong>’ motivations were nostalgic, and he was<br />
keenly aware that as he observed them, commercial sail and<br />
steam were anachronistic and on their way to disappearing.<br />
“On shore I scoured the waterfronts of the major <strong>Bay</strong><br />
ports and the little tidewater towns, photographing scenes<br />
that are no more. At the same time I made an attempt to salvage<br />
objects of maritime history of the <strong>Bay</strong> to help keep alive<br />
the memory of the craft. Through the decades this has developed<br />
into an extensive collection of <strong>Chesapeake</strong> memorabilia<br />
made up of carved decorations from the steam and sailing<br />
craft, steam whistles that once echoed around the <strong>Bay</strong>, halfmodels,<br />
fittings, tools, log-books, and ships’ papers. The vessels<br />
from which they originated have long disappeared but<br />
their names will live on through this medium.” 6<br />
<strong>Burgess</strong> made a clear distinction between his collecting<br />
activities and that of others who he witnessed taking items
(Right) <strong>Burgess</strong> carving a relief of<br />
the schooner Doris Hamlin. Photo<br />
by William Edwin Booth, Robert H.<br />
<strong>Burgess</strong> <strong>Collection</strong><br />
off abandoned vessels. The four-masted schooner Purnell T.<br />
White was dismasted at sea in 1934 but towed back to port<br />
and ultimately abandoned at Baltimore.<br />
<strong>Burgess</strong> recorded, “I salvaged her port quarter board,<br />
where her name was carved, and it now hangs above my desk.<br />
. . . While vandals picked her bones to salvage scrap metal for<br />
monetary gain, I was intent on recovering her figurehead to<br />
help keep her memory alive.” Although he did not succeed in<br />
recovering the carved eagle head from its “lofty and almost<br />
inaccessible perch” after several attempts, he ultimately obtained<br />
it from the captain of the Vane Brothers harbor chandlery<br />
boat. 7 <strong>Burgess</strong> distinguished his efforts at preservation<br />
from “pillagers” or “vandals” that scavenged and sold items<br />
off wrecked vessels.<br />
The documentation <strong>Burgess</strong> left for these items is remarkable,<br />
with tags identifying the date and vessel of origin<br />
and other details. <strong>Burgess</strong>’ collection of photographic prints,<br />
which are also part of this collection, further support the<br />
documentation of these objects. He often photographed the<br />
hulks at the time that he salvaged artifacts from them, and the<br />
prints are typically identified and dated. His collection also<br />
shows the fruits of his partnership with Baltimore artist Louis<br />
J. Feuchter, with a large portfolio of the artist’s sketches and<br />
paintings, as well as hundreds of prints from Baltimore pictorialist<br />
photographer A. Aubrey Bodine.<br />
<strong>Burgess</strong> befriended both men and occasionally traveled<br />
with each of them by steamboat. His own photography contrasts<br />
with the work of these colleagues, however, as <strong>Burgess</strong><br />
on principle refused to retouch or enhance his photographs in<br />
the darkroom, while Bodine took the opposite approach.<br />
Feuchter, on the other hand, “had little regard for pho-<br />
<strong>Collection</strong> of Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong><br />
tography at that time. . . . He claimed that the camera caused<br />
distortion and false perspective but he learned to rely on my<br />
photographs in later years. . . . The details he wanted were<br />
recorded on my film.” 8<br />
As in his photography, <strong>Burgess</strong> was a minimalist in his<br />
approach to editing historical works. When he prepared the<br />
journals of schooner captain Leonard S. Tawes for publication,<br />
he added punctuation and paragraph breaks to make the<br />
work readable, but he took care that “none of the flavor of<br />
Captain Tawes’ writing [was] tampered with.” 9<br />
His collection will be featured in a new special exhibit,<br />
“Their Last Passage: The <strong>Collection</strong> of Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong>,”<br />
opening this March, and future exhibition plans for the collection<br />
include a display of many of the carved name boards<br />
and trailboards in the Steamboat Building auditorium. <br />
Sources<br />
1. <strong>Burgess</strong>, <strong>Chesapeake</strong> Sailing Craft, Part I (Cambridge, Md.: Tidewater Publishers,<br />
1975), 18.<br />
2. Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong>, <strong>Chesapeake</strong> Circle (Cambridge, Md.: Cornell <strong>Maritime</strong> Press,<br />
1965), ix.<br />
3. <strong>Burgess</strong>, <strong>Chesapeake</strong> Circle, 57-63.<br />
4. <strong>Burgess</strong>, “Hard Sailing for Maryland’s Oysters,” <strong>Chesapeake</strong> Skipper (December<br />
1948), 9, 32-3.<br />
5. <strong>Burgess</strong>, <strong>Chesapeake</strong> Circle, ix.<br />
6. <strong>Burgess</strong>, This Was <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> (Cambridge, Md.: Cornell <strong>Maritime</strong> Press,<br />
1963), ix.<br />
7. <strong>Burgess</strong>, Sea, Sails, and Shipwreck (Cambridge, Md.: Tidewater Publishers,<br />
1970), 9.<br />
8. <strong>Chesapeake</strong> Sailing Craft, xvii.<br />
(Left) The schooner Anna & Helen lying abandoned<br />
at Crisfield in June 1960. Photo by Robert H.<br />
<strong>Burgess</strong>, Robert H. <strong>Burgess</strong> <strong>Collection</strong><br />
9. <strong>Burgess</strong> (ed.), Coasting Captain (Newport News, Va.: The Mariners’ Museum,<br />
1967), xvi.<br />
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10<br />
Waters of Despair<br />
Waters of Hope<br />
By Lindsley E. H. Rice, Curator of Exhibitions<br />
The African-American experience and influence in the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> region is explored in the exhibition “Waters of<br />
Despair, Waters of Hope” that opens in March at the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Maritime</strong> Museum. It is the first in a series of<br />
special exhibits that will be brought to the Museum in coming years.<br />
Using artifacts, photos, and recordings, the exhibit follows a time-line narrative that tells stories both unique and<br />
universal. It looks at the struggles, achievements, and contributions of individuals and communities through the themes<br />
of slavery, freedom, war, and work. The exhibit, which opens in the Steamboat Building on the Museum campus, is on<br />
loan from the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia. It chronicles the oppression of slavery, racism and the<br />
resilient spirit of a people in a constant battle for freedom and equality. To this, CBMM has added stories told through<br />
its collections, some of which are highlighted here.<br />
The <strong>Bay</strong>, with its abundant seafood and rich farmland, has been worked and tilled by African Americans for generations.<br />
The back-breaking labors of the men who hauled nets full of menhaden are featured in the part of the exhibit<br />
about black watermen. A display on black sailmakers includes tools and equipment from the Oxford, Maryland, loft of<br />
the late Downes Curtis, who made sails for a variety of vessels.<br />
The exhibit gives insight into the integral role African Americans have played in the history of the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong>.<br />
“Rev. Joshua Thomas Preaching to the British Army on Tangier Island 1814”<br />
from Adam Wallace, The Parson of the Islands, 1861 (reprinted 1872 by J.W. Stowell)<br />
Colonial Marine at Tangier Island in 1814<br />
A “Colonial Marine”—an escaped slave or free black<br />
man fighting for the British—stands guard in the foreground<br />
while the Reverend Joshua Thomas preaches to<br />
British troops on occupied Tangier Island. Much has been<br />
made, and rightly so, of African Americans who fought<br />
for their country in U.S. wars from the American Revolution<br />
on—emphasizing, in the struggle for equality, the<br />
sacrifices that blacks have made for a country with a history<br />
of injustice. An unintended and unfortunate consequence<br />
of this is that blacks who made other choices—to<br />
fight alongside the enemies of their oppressors—have<br />
sometimes been overlooked or purposely underplayed.<br />
We praise the heroism of blacks who fought for their<br />
freedom on the Union side in the Civil War, but in earlier<br />
wars that same fight meant siding with the British. Over<br />
30,000 slaves from Virginia alone escaped to the British<br />
lines during the American Revolution, some responding<br />
to Lord Dunmore’s call for slaves and free blacks to fight<br />
their American oppressors in return for their freedom.<br />
About 4,000 slaves took a similar gamble in the War of<br />
1812, some fighting in the Colonial Marines. They trained<br />
on Tangier Island and took part in battles in Baltimore and<br />
elsewhere on the <strong>Chesapeake</strong>.
“Crab Pickers in St. Michaels,” Ruth Starr Rose, c. 1940, gift of Historical Society of Talbot County<br />
Ruth Starr Rose Crab Pickers<br />
This lithograph shows African-American women picking<br />
crabs, probably at the Coulbourne & Jewett Seafood Packing<br />
Company in St. Michaels, Maryland. Coulbourne & Jewett<br />
was founded in 1902 by African-American entrepreneurs<br />
William H. T. Coulbourne and Frederick Jewett on Navy<br />
Point and closed in 1964. It is remembered by some as “a<br />
Godsend” for the African-American community in the area,<br />
and by 1920 was the largest employer in St. Michaels. Frederick<br />
Jewett is credited with developing the idea of grading<br />
crabmeat by type, originally backfin, claw, and regular. A<br />
million pounds of crab meat were packed there each year for<br />
five years by about 200 crab pickers.<br />
Mitchell House<br />
The left side of this house, which stands on the Museum<br />
grounds across from the Steamboat Building, was<br />
the home of the slave Eliza Bailey Mitchell and her free<br />
black husband, Peter Mitchell, when they worked on Perry<br />
Cabin Farm. Eliza’s brother was Frederick Douglass (having<br />
changed his name from Bailey to avoid capture after his<br />
escape to freedom). He lived in St. Michaels from 1832 to<br />
1836 when he and Eliza were both slaves to Thomas Auld,<br />
and probably visited Eliza in this house when he returned<br />
to St. Michaels in 1877. The Mitchells’ home was half of<br />
a four-room house built in 1830. It was split off after the<br />
Civil War and moved to Lee Street in St. Michaels. The<br />
house was moved to the Museum in 1981.<br />
Slave Fishing<br />
Enslaved African Americans worked in <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong><br />
fisheries for their owners. They also took advantage of the<br />
<strong>Bay</strong>’s natural wealth to augment their diets and, when possible,<br />
their incomes. In spring and fall, George Washington’s<br />
slaves worked along side borrowed or rented slaves from<br />
other plantations, indentured servants, and hired hands to<br />
seine for herring and shad in the Potomac River, and to salt<br />
the catch for keeping. The slaves at Mount Vernon ate salted<br />
fish as a regular part of their diet, but most of the fish were<br />
packed—predominantly by the women in the winter—and<br />
sold to the West Indies to be eaten by slaves there. One-anda-half-million<br />
herring were caught, salted, and packed in<br />
the single year of 1772. Archaeological evidence at Mount<br />
Vernon indicates that in addition to fishing herring and shad,<br />
Washington’s slaves caught and ate as many as 14 other species<br />
of fish. 1<br />
1. Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association website<br />
“A Big Haul,” drawn by W. P. Snyder, engraved by P. Meeder, Harper’s New<br />
Monthly Magazine, Vol. LX, 1880<br />
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State of North Carolina Protection No. 172, 1860, courtesy of Mystic Seaport,<br />
Isaiah Larabee <strong>Collection</strong>, G.W. Blunt Library, Mystic, CT, #Coll 255<br />
Seaman’s Protection Certificate<br />
Seaman’s Protection Certificates were issued as a sort<br />
of passport for American sailors, proving their nationality<br />
on the seas or in foreign ports. Issued under the 1796 Act<br />
for the Relief and Protection of American Seamen, the<br />
certificates were intended to protect sailors from being<br />
pressed into the British Royal Navy. They were issued to<br />
black and white seamen alike. This had the ironic effect<br />
of declaring black sailors U.S. citizens long before their<br />
rights as citizens were granted by the Fourteenth Amendment<br />
in 1868. Black sailors could therefore claim the<br />
benefits of American citizenship outside the nation’s borders,<br />
even while being denied those benefits at home. 2<br />
These certificates were put to use by African Americans<br />
on American shores to support the legal case for<br />
citizenship. Black sailors used their certificates in place<br />
of freeman’s papers to prove their status in southern ports<br />
where free blacks were often forced into slavery. Frederick<br />
Douglass understood this when he borrowed the<br />
certificate of a free friend to make his escape dressed in<br />
sailor’s garb. Douglass wrote about using the certificate<br />
on the train to Philadelphia. To Douglass’ relief, the conductor<br />
shared the “kind feeling which prevailed in Baltimore<br />
and other seaports at the time, towards ‘those who<br />
go down to the sea in ships.’”<br />
Seeing that I did not readily produce my free papers,<br />
as the other colored persons in the car had done, he [the<br />
conductor] said to me in a friendly contrast with that<br />
observed towards the others: “I suppose you have your<br />
free papers?” To which I answered: “No, sir; I never<br />
carry my free papers to sea with me.” “But you have<br />
something to show that you are a free man, have you<br />
not?” “Yes, sir,” I answered; “I have a paper with the<br />
American eagle on it, and that will carry me round the<br />
world.” With this I drew from my deep sailor’s pocket<br />
my seaman’s protection, as before described. The merest<br />
glance at the paper satisfied him, and he took my<br />
fare and went on about his business.<br />
—The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 1881<br />
2. Drake, Kelly S., “The Seaman’s Protection Certificate as Proof of American<br />
Citizenship for Black Sailors,” The Log of Mystic Seaport, Vol. 50,<br />
No. 1, Summer 1998, p. 12.<br />
Preserving<br />
By Bill Lohmann<br />
KILMARNOCK, Va. — His handshake grips like<br />
a workshop vise, his biceps bulge beneath his shirt. At<br />
75, James U. Carter’s still got it.<br />
Forty years of hauling fishing nets will do that to<br />
a man.<br />
“You know how John Henry was a steel-driving<br />
man?” said Carter. “We were net-pulling men.”<br />
In days gone by, Carter and his mates, the stout men<br />
of the menhaden fishing boats, stood shoulder to shoulder,<br />
pulling in nets heaving with thousands of pounds of<br />
fish. It was brutal, back-breaking, finger-cracking work<br />
that lasted from sunrise to sunset. They survived with<br />
their toughness.<br />
And their singing.<br />
The fishermen sang work songs called chanteys<br />
that helped coordinate the pulling and also helped<br />
ease the burden.<br />
“They would sing to raise the heavy loads, and they<br />
would sing just for the camaraderie of singing,” said Lloyd<br />
Hill, 66, who comes from a family of singing watermen.<br />
“The shared hardship would not seem as hard.”<br />
Simply put, said Elton Smith Jr., another fisherman<br />
who went on to become a school principal and<br />
superintendent, the songs represented “many hands
a Hard Life in Song<br />
The Northern Neck Chantey Singers, a group of seven former watermen, sing the songs used to help coordinate hauling a net full of fish.<br />
The group keeps alive the traditional African-American chanteys. Photo by Alexa Welch Edlund. Copyright, Richmond Times-Dispatch.<br />
pulling together.”<br />
The introduction in the mid-20th century of hydraulic<br />
power blocks to pull up the nets began sending the large<br />
fishing crews and their work songs into the shadows of<br />
history. But the African-American tradition of chanteysinging<br />
is being kept alive by groups such as the Northern<br />
Neck Chantey Singers, former watermen who perform<br />
around the country.<br />
Seven men deep into retirement gather weekly in Elton<br />
Smith’s living room in Kilmarnock to recapture the past by<br />
singing the chanteys. They gather in a circle, hold hands<br />
and say a prayer. Then they sing in heavenly harmony.<br />
These are the Northern Neck Chantey Singers, now<br />
a group of men—mostly in their 70s and 80s—who first<br />
gathered in the early 1990s to sing at a Fourth of July program.<br />
They’ve been performing ever since.<br />
“You heard that song ‘We’re Together, Right or<br />
Wrong’?” asked Carter, with a smile. “That’s us.”<br />
The men laugh easily and speak matter-of-factly about<br />
their lives on the water, chasing schools of menhaden up<br />
and down the Atlantic coast and even into the Gulf of<br />
Mexico. From spring to fall, they were gone from home<br />
weeks at a time.<br />
Menhaden are bony, oily fish not fit for human con-<br />
sumption, but they have had plenty of practical uses in<br />
products such as fertilizer and animal feed, paint, cat food<br />
and fingernail polish. Reedville, on the Northern Neck, has<br />
long been the center of the menhaden processing industry,<br />
although the industry has declined in recent years.<br />
Menhaden travel in large schools, meaning it’s most<br />
efficient to catch them in nets. Efficient, but not easy, particularly<br />
in the days before machines pulled the nets onto<br />
boats. That’s where the net-pulling men came in.<br />
“Those fish were heavy,” said Christopher Harvey, 71.<br />
“I mean heavy.”<br />
A large net brimming with fish could take a group of<br />
brawny men an hour or more to drag into the boat with<br />
the steady rhythm of chantey-singing playing an important<br />
role in the success of the catch.<br />
African-American work songs are an ancient tradition<br />
in themselves, having a history in mining, logging and<br />
the construction of railroads and highways. The songs<br />
are largely traditional tunes, highly personalized for the<br />
specific task at hand. Many of the chanteys sung on the<br />
open water were bawdy in nature; those lyrics have been<br />
cleaned up for festival audiences.<br />
“They sang about their shared interests,” said Hill.<br />
‘They sang about pay, they sang about the boss, they sang<br />
about ladies.”<br />
Going home was another shared interest. “See you<br />
when the sun goes down” is a common refrain.<br />
The songs are “narrative histories in themselves,” said<br />
Harold Anderson, a folklorist and ethnomusicologist who<br />
has researched chantey-singing and will introduce the<br />
Northern Neck group at the festival.<br />
“They represent an African-American tradition that<br />
people don’t tend to think about anymore because there<br />
aren’t too many situations where you can hear people<br />
singing that music,” Anderson said. “They also represent<br />
something special: guys who worked really, really hard to<br />
send kids to college and provide for their families. They’re<br />
pretty amazing. They may be rough in some ways, but they<br />
represent an ideal of people who valued education and<br />
worked hard.”<br />
Rehearsed in a living room or performed onstage, the<br />
a cappella chanteys convey an almost soothing tone, belying<br />
the labor that accompanied them in the boats of<br />
yesteryear.<br />
Does the singing make the singers feel nostalgic for<br />
that part of their lives?<br />
Not exactly, said James Carter.<br />
“I sing them now to forget the hard work,” he said<br />
with a laugh.<br />
Copyright, Richmond Times-Dispatch, reprinted by permission.<br />
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Explore & Restore<br />
Horn Point Laboratory’s Mission on the <strong>Bay</strong><br />
By Michael Valliant, Director of Marketing<br />
To gain access to one of the richest oyster-producing areas<br />
along the <strong>Bay</strong>, it’s easiest to take a car.<br />
The oyster hatchery at Horn Point Laboratory outside<br />
Cambridge, Maryland, produced 350 million oysters last year,<br />
grown in a series of 10,000-gallon tanks of water from the<br />
Choptank River.<br />
Pointing to one of the tanks, the hatchery’s program director<br />
Don “Mutt” Meritt notes, “There are 482.4 million oysters<br />
in that tank. We know how many there are; we’ve got to count<br />
them to make sure there aren’t so many that we lose them all.”<br />
The Horn Point team grows, feeds, and spawns more oysters<br />
than any other hatchery on the <strong>Chesapeake</strong>. They are actively<br />
looking for ways to address the declining oyster population<br />
and to research the <strong>Bay</strong> oyster, Crassostrea virginica, and<br />
the Asian oyster, Crassostrea ariakensis.<br />
Their work with oysters is one example of their <strong>Bay</strong>-wide<br />
research and its applications. Their science mixes the world of<br />
geeky clinicians in white lab coats with that of watermen in<br />
salt-stained slickers as they address issues vital to exploring<br />
and restoring the <strong>Bay</strong>.<br />
One of three laboratories that comprise the University of<br />
Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES), Horn<br />
Point’s faculty centers its research on nutrient cycles, oceanography,<br />
and restoration ecology. There are 28 faculty members,<br />
154 total staff, and 24 graduate students working on an<br />
840-acre campus along the Choptank River. Along with oyster<br />
(top) Oysters are grown by the millions at the Horn Point<br />
Laboratory. (above) Don “Mutt” Meritt oversees the<br />
culturing of oysters at the lab.<br />
research, the blue crab, and the low oxygen in the <strong>Bay</strong> are<br />
other projects underway at Horn Point, which have garnered<br />
national attention.
The new Aquaculture and Restoration Ecology Laboratory<br />
at Horn Point is part of the University of Maryland.<br />
There aren’t many scientists named “Mutt.” But there<br />
aren’t many former <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> watermen who hold<br />
PhDs in marine estuarine environmental sciences. A St. Michaels<br />
native, Meritt began working at Horn Point in the<br />
1970s. Growing up, he worked on the water—and might still<br />
be there—were it not for St. Michaels High School teacher<br />
Dick Kleen, who inspired Meritt’s curiosity for observing the<br />
natural world. His background gives him a rapport and credibility<br />
with local watermen not afforded to many in the scientific<br />
community.<br />
As program director for Horn Point’s 5,500-square-foot<br />
oyster hatchery, Meritt oversees the growing of both the <strong>Bay</strong><br />
and Asian oysters. The major question being asked by resource<br />
managers and stakeholders is whether or not to introduce<br />
the Asian oysters to the <strong>Bay</strong>. Though he has grown,<br />
studied, and written about both varieties, it is not a scientist’s<br />
job to conjecture whether or not to introduce a foreign species<br />
of oysters into the <strong>Bay</strong>. A scientist needs to talk about<br />
what he has observed. When asked what his observations<br />
have yielded, Meritt says, “I have not seen anything to date<br />
that is a deal breaker.”<br />
He points out that when contemplating<br />
this kind of ecological<br />
decision, there are easy answers<br />
and hard answers.<br />
“The easy answer is if somebody<br />
finds something that will<br />
bring a pox on the <strong>Bay</strong>, or you<br />
put non-native oysters in and all<br />
the blue crabs catch a disease. No<br />
one is going to do something like<br />
that,” he says.<br />
The hard questions come<br />
when the research doesn’t give<br />
any indication that something bad<br />
will happen.<br />
“Then the question is, did you<br />
not find it because you didn’t look<br />
Elizabeth North conducts cutting-edge research on<br />
oysters and blue crabs. Photo by Cheryl Nemazie<br />
for it in the right place, at the right time, in the right way, or is<br />
it that it just wasn’t there,” says Meritt. “People want a guarantee,<br />
but you’re not going to get it.”<br />
Part of the research the hatchery has conducted on Asian<br />
oysters focuses on the behavior of the larvae. This research<br />
has helped Elizabeth North create a model for larval dispersal<br />
patterns.<br />
Creating an accurate model to predict where Asian oyster<br />
larvae will go is an important factor in whether or not to introduce<br />
non-native oysters into the <strong>Bay</strong>. A report North wrote is a<br />
part of the environmental impact study that is currently being<br />
conducted by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.<br />
North’s model looks at the dispersal patterns of <strong>Bay</strong> oysters<br />
and Asian oysters side-by-side to show how the larvae could<br />
be influenced by wind, tides, salinity, and other circulation patterns.<br />
The kind of mathematical modeling program that she<br />
uses was developed at Horn Point, where scientists adapted an<br />
ocean modeling program to the grid of the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong>.<br />
This model simulated the water of the <strong>Bay</strong>, on top of which<br />
North put her model for oyster larvae behavior.<br />
A debate as controversial as the introduction of Asian<br />
oysters to the <strong>Bay</strong> is not standard territory for a mathematical<br />
modeler.<br />
“Ultimately, it is gratifying to work on something that so<br />
many people care about,” she says. “It is also challenging. A<br />
lot of the work we completed along<br />
the way didn’t even make it to the<br />
final report because we hold it to the<br />
highest standards.”<br />
With her report on the Asian<br />
oyster in the hands of the DNR,<br />
North’s attention is now focused<br />
on the blue crab and how wind and<br />
flow patterns affect its population.<br />
North’s work on the blue crab is<br />
garnering attention and funding.<br />
The Sea Grant programs for Delaware,<br />
Maryland, and Virginia are<br />
co-sponsoring the project. North<br />
sees the collaborative nature of<br />
the project, along with its ultimate<br />
practical applications to be a part of<br />
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Horn Point’s charge.<br />
“As a state university, we need to<br />
communicate scientific research in a way<br />
that can inform management decisions,”<br />
she says.<br />
Horn Point’s work on oysters and blue<br />
crabs is finding a number of audiences<br />
around the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> watershed. The<br />
work they are conducting on the overall<br />
water quality and health of the <strong>Bay</strong> is receiving<br />
national attention and earning scientists<br />
Bill Boicourt and Horn Point Director Mike Roman<br />
research trips to New Orleans.<br />
Scientists at Horn Point have spent a number of years<br />
studying the low oxygen zone in the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong>.<br />
“When Captain John Smith sailed up the <strong>Bay</strong> there was<br />
probably a low oxygen zone,” says Roman. “Every estuary,<br />
when you have fresh water going over salt, the bottom gets<br />
separated from the top.”<br />
He said nutrients are brought in from the rivers and sink<br />
to the bottom “like a giant compost heap and it uses up the<br />
oxygen. So our ‘dead zone,’ as they call it, has grown in size<br />
and it’s also grown in duration. About 7 to 10 percent of the<br />
<strong>Bay</strong>’s volume doesn’t have enough oxygen to support life.<br />
The same thing is occurring in the Mississippi River<br />
and the northern Gulf of Mexico. It’s a big enough concern<br />
that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<br />
(NOAA) has awarded $2.25 million in multi-year grants to<br />
study the Gulf’s “dead zone.”<br />
Roman said the zone in the Gulf region<br />
is roughly the size of Rhode Island. It<br />
is large and relatively new, having formed<br />
within the last 50 years. So Horn Point’s<br />
scientists will be joining groups from<br />
Michigan, Ohio, and Florida, to study how<br />
the zone affects the distribution of marine<br />
life in the fisheries of the Gulf.<br />
“We did a similar study on <strong>Chesapeake</strong><br />
<strong>Bay</strong>,” Roman notes.<br />
In addition to bringing research and<br />
experience to New Orleans, the Horn<br />
Point scientists also brought the Scanfish.<br />
Resembling an airplane wing, the Scanfish<br />
travels up and down underwater with sensors<br />
that measure the temperature, salinity,<br />
oxygen, and the amount of plankton<br />
in the water.<br />
“We were the first in the country to<br />
get the Scanfish and right away it revolutionized<br />
our thinking about the <strong>Bay</strong>,” says<br />
Boicourt. “It’s like HDTV; there are a lot of things that have<br />
been there the whole time, but we have never been able to<br />
see them before.”<br />
Boicourt and Roman loaded the Scanfish and took it to<br />
New Orleans at the end of last summer for a research cruise.<br />
They will meet with the same national group of scientists to<br />
review and discuss their findings later this year.<br />
At home on the <strong>Bay</strong>, Boicourt finds ways to collaborate<br />
with other stakeholders to share data. In<br />
1991, he brought a group together to start<br />
the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> Observing System<br />
(CBOS). It now gives real-time data on<br />
<strong>Bay</strong> tides, temperature, salinity, and other<br />
statistics at the website www.cbos.org.<br />
CBOS has become a <strong>Bay</strong>-wide collaborative<br />
that includes NOAA, the National<br />
Ocean Service, the National Weather Service,<br />
and the U.S. Geological Survey.<br />
“Resource managers need answers,” says<br />
Boicourt. “They need to make decisions very<br />
quickly and they will make it with or without<br />
the science if it is not there in a timely manner.”<br />
Horn Point<br />
Horn Point’s success in bridging the gap between the academic<br />
and the applicable has not been an accident. They are<br />
relevant by design.<br />
Roman points out that when they evaluate their scientists<br />
every year, they look at a number of factors. They consider<br />
what they have done in the way of discovery. They look at<br />
how they have worked with state managers. They evaluate<br />
what faculty members have done for public outreach, and what<br />
they have done for education—teaching not only graduate students,<br />
but interns, high school, and grade school students.<br />
Roman also has high hopes for a new initiative at Horn<br />
Point: the Ecological Restoration Institute. The thinking behind<br />
the institute is using what they know about the <strong>Bay</strong> and<br />
how to fix it in small sections.<br />
Horn Point scientist Bill Boicourt (left) and Horn Point Director Mike Roman<br />
(center) join a research team on the Gulf of Mexico. Photo courtesy of Horn Point.<br />
“We know how to make things better,” Roman said. “You<br />
stop farm runoff, you upgrade sewage treatment plants, you<br />
put in buffer strips.<br />
“By taking a more holistic approach, it’s going to make<br />
a difference.” <br />
For more information about Horn Point Laboratory, visit<br />
its website at www.hpl.umces.edu.
To the Point<br />
CBMM is Hub for Gateways<br />
Network System<br />
The National Park Service’s <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> Gateways<br />
Network Welcome Center will be opening at the Museum in<br />
late February.<br />
The Center will orient visitors to the Gateways Network,<br />
a system of 150 parks, refuges, museums, historic communities,<br />
and water trails throughout the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> region,<br />
where the public can learn the <strong>Bay</strong>’s diverse stories, experience<br />
its history, and enjoy its natural beauty. As one of the<br />
Network’s prominent sites, the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Maritime</strong><br />
Museum is featured in the Center’s exhibits, encouraging<br />
visitors to begin their journey at the Museum.<br />
The exhibits include two films, “Under the <strong>Chesapeake</strong>”<br />
and “The <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> Gateways Network,” as well as a<br />
wall-size map and photographs depicting the entire Network<br />
of sites, with a computer where the public can access information<br />
about each.<br />
Visitors can travel from one site to another by paddling<br />
a water trail, riding on a ferry, biking, or driving a scenic<br />
tour route. Managed by many different partners, these sites<br />
each tell a part of the <strong>Bay</strong> story. Together, as the <strong>Chesapeake</strong><br />
<strong>Bay</strong> Gateways Network, they provide a way for experiencing<br />
and understanding the <strong>Bay</strong> as a whole. The Network<br />
connects people to these sites through a website, brochures,<br />
maps, and educational publications.<br />
The vision of the Gateways Network, as conceived by<br />
recently retired Maryland Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, goes<br />
beyond tourism. He believed, as we at the Museum do, that<br />
changing how people perceive the <strong>Bay</strong> by interpreting its<br />
resources is a meaningful step toward creating a broader<br />
commitment to <strong>Bay</strong> restoration and conservation. To learn<br />
more about the Gateways Network on the web, go to www.<br />
baygateways.net<br />
— Melissa McLoud, Vice President of Program<br />
New Faces on<br />
CBMM’s Campus<br />
Kathleen Rattie is the new Director of Development.<br />
She is responsible for fund-raising and membership programs<br />
at CBMM, including annual giving, grant writing,<br />
and government relations. Kate was the Business Development/Marketing<br />
Manager for the Peninsula Regional Health<br />
System in Salisbury, Maryland, and Seaford, Delaware. She<br />
has held executive marketing and communications positions<br />
in the health care and non-profit industries, and is a member<br />
of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.<br />
Kate has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications<br />
Dots highlight some Gateways sites around the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong>.<br />
from American University<br />
in Washington, D.C., and<br />
has completed masters level<br />
course work in marketing,<br />
strategic planning, and fund<br />
development at New York<br />
University and Fordham<br />
University.<br />
Robert Forloney has<br />
been named Director of<br />
Education. He has worked<br />
in museum education for<br />
Robert Forloney is the Director<br />
of Education.<br />
Kate Rattie is the Director of<br />
Development.<br />
nine years: as the Manager<br />
of School and Volunteer<br />
Programs at the Museum<br />
of the City of New York, as<br />
Collaborative and Special<br />
Needs Educator at South<br />
Street Seaport, and in a variety<br />
of museum education<br />
positions at The Morgan Library,<br />
The Brooklyn Museum<br />
of Art, and the American<br />
Museum of Natural History.<br />
His Master’s degree is in<br />
Humanities and Social Thought from New York University.<br />
In addition to his experience in museum education, Robert<br />
also brings an extensive network of professional contacts in<br />
the museum field as well as a strong record of publications<br />
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and presentations at museum<br />
conferences.<br />
Rachel Dolhanczyk<br />
joined CBMM as the new<br />
Youth Programs Coordinator.<br />
She came to the Museum<br />
from the Cape May County<br />
Historical & Genealogical<br />
Society, where she was the<br />
administrator and curator.<br />
She also has experience in<br />
the field, serving as a Grant<br />
Administrator for the Cape<br />
May County Division of Culture & Heritage and as a Board<br />
Member of the New Jersey Association of Museums. Rachel<br />
received a B.A. in History from Wheaton College and a<br />
M.A. in Museum Education from the University of the Arts<br />
in Pennsylvania.<br />
Rachel will be coordinating school programs both at the<br />
Museum as well as in the schools, acting as a liaison between<br />
CBMM and the school system, and overseeing the<br />
sailing program.<br />
Cristina Calvert is the<br />
new Special Events Coordinator.<br />
She oversees the<br />
Museum’s special events,<br />
festivals, cultivation events,<br />
the Boating Party, and other<br />
advancement activities. She<br />
will also assist the marketing<br />
department with various duties.<br />
Cristina was the Events<br />
Cristina Calvert is the Special<br />
Events Coordinator.<br />
Manager of the Virginia<br />
Community College System<br />
in Richmond, Virginia.<br />
A 2005 graduate of Ran-<br />
dolph-Macon College, Cristina holds a Bachelor’s Degree in<br />
Economics and Business. She is pursuing an Events Management<br />
Certificate through The George Washington University’s<br />
School of Tourism.<br />
Dick Cooper has been<br />
named editor of the CBMM<br />
Quarterly magazine. Dick<br />
is a career journalist, spending<br />
28 years as an editor and<br />
reporter at The Philadelphia<br />
Inquirer. Prior to his time<br />
in Philadelphia, Dick won<br />
a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for<br />
his coverage of the Attica<br />
Prison riots in Upstate New<br />
York. He is a 1969 graduate<br />
of Michigan State University<br />
and a University of<br />
Rachel Dolhanczyk is the Youth<br />
Programs Coordinator<br />
Dick Cooper is the editor of the<br />
Quarterly.<br />
Michigan Journalism Fellow.<br />
Dick has sailed the <strong>Bay</strong><br />
for 30 years.<br />
Susan Harrison is our<br />
new Dockmaster/Assistant<br />
Manager in the Visitor Services<br />
Department. Susan<br />
started working in Visitor<br />
Services earlier last year and<br />
has been promoted, recognizing<br />
her exceptional customer<br />
service and knack for<br />
addressing and exceeding<br />
the needs of our boaters. Susan has years of experience in the<br />
restaurant and hospitality industry. She has been manager of<br />
the Tilghman Island Inn and has worked at Harbour Lights and<br />
Shore Restaurant.<br />
Michael Valliant has<br />
become CBMM’s Director<br />
of Marketing & Media<br />
Relations, leaving his former<br />
post as Editor and Director<br />
of Communications.<br />
Michael has been on staff<br />
at the Museum for just under<br />
five years. He has led<br />
and edited the Quarterly<br />
Michael Valliant is the Director of<br />
Marketing & Media Relations.<br />
Susan Harrison is the Assistant<br />
Manager of Visitor Services and<br />
Dockmaster.<br />
for three-and-a-half years,<br />
overseeing the redesign of<br />
www.cbmm.org. He has ed-<br />
ited Museum books, including From Pot Pie to Hell and Damnation:<br />
An Illustrated Gazetteer of Talbot County, and worked<br />
on the “Oystering on the <strong>Chesapeake</strong>” school curriculum. As<br />
Director of Marketing, Michael will be working to increase<br />
CBMM’s visibility and broaden its audience, while overseeing<br />
communications, visitor services, and special events.<br />
Prior to working at CBMM, Michael was Public Relations<br />
and Development Coordinator at the Academy Art Museum in<br />
Easton, Maryland. He is a graduate of <strong>Chesapeake</strong> College in<br />
Wye Mills and Washington College in Chestertown.<br />
Visit our store at cbmm.org<br />
The Museum Store has gone electronic, offering<br />
secure, online purchases of a wide variety of<br />
merchandise. Just go to www.cbmm.org and click<br />
on the “Store” link to view the online catalog.<br />
Now you can buy CBMM wear, boat models,<br />
jewelry, maritime books, and gifts with the click<br />
of your mouse. While you are on the Museum’s<br />
site, check out the calendar to keep up with<br />
upcoming events.<br />
<strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Maritime</strong> Museum Winter 2006-2007
Edna is Back in the Water<br />
The Edna E. Lockwood is back in her berth after more<br />
than two months of repair work by the Boat Yard crew.<br />
Boat Yard Manager Richard Scofield said that when<br />
Edna E. Lockwood, the flagship of the Museum’s floating fleet,<br />
returns to the water after receiving some extensive repairs.<br />
the Edna was hauled on the marine railway for a routine<br />
checkup in October, they found a nine-foot-long section of<br />
rot in her hull.<br />
He said that when Vessel Maintenance Manager Marc<br />
Barto started to check her wooden hull with his knife, “chunks<br />
started to come off.”<br />
“It was pine from her rebuild in the 1970s, and it had<br />
gone real bad,” Scofield said.<br />
The Edna was built in 1889 on Tilghman Island by<br />
famed <strong>Chesapeake</strong> boat builder John B. Harrison and is the<br />
last nine-log bugeye in existence. She was used for oyster<br />
dredging most of her life, was retired in 1967, and donated<br />
to CBMM in 1973. In 1975, the 58-foot, 8-inch vessel was<br />
stripped down to her logs and rebuilt.<br />
Tug to Get a New Stern<br />
Vessel Maintenance Manager Marc Barto’s current task is<br />
the restoration of the 1912 tug boat Delaware. Barto said that<br />
the stern of the 40-foot boat will be carefully taken apart so<br />
that each piece can be used as a pattern for its replacement.<br />
The Delaware was built in Bethel, Delaware, by William<br />
H. Smith and was worked on the upper Eastern Shore until<br />
the 1980s. It was donated to the Museum in 1991.<br />
To the Point<br />
Delaware’s restoration is well under way.<br />
The Boat Yard crew has replaced the cabin top and restored<br />
the beaded paneling in the cabin ceiling. The Gray Marine 671<br />
diesel, an antique in its own right, has been pulled and is also<br />
scheduled to be rebuilt. The removal of the engine revealed<br />
that large rocks were packed into the bilge for ballast.<br />
Barto said he expects the hull work to be completed<br />
by spring.<br />
New Emphasis on Education<br />
Robert Forloney and Rachel Dolhanczyk, the new education<br />
team at the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Maritime</strong> Museum, want to<br />
do more than just teach visitors to the Eastern Shore about<br />
skipjacks, wooden boats, and trot lines.<br />
They want to emphasize the people and communities of<br />
the <strong>Bay</strong>, viewing the <strong>Bay</strong>’s unique cultures as a focal point<br />
for programming.<br />
Forloney, the Director of Education, and Dolhanczyk, the<br />
Youth Programs Coordinator, are extending an invitation to<br />
residents of the region to join them in the exploration of a<br />
distinct and important part of America’s heritage, the living<br />
history of the <strong>Bay</strong>.<br />
“We want people to realize that we act as caretakers of<br />
their artifacts and their culture, and that we are here to tell<br />
their stories,” Forloney said. “We would like the community<br />
to participate in the interpretative process and also have a<br />
personal investment in the institution; to realize that CBMM<br />
is theirs.”<br />
He said by including diverse voices in the Museum’s offerings,<br />
local history can be presented in the most engaging<br />
and meaningful way.<br />
“I see the Museum as a place to promote dialogue<br />
among groups of people with diverse viewpoints and as a<br />
center for civic engagement, not just a storehouse of objects<br />
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To the Point<br />
Rachel and Robert demonstrate tonging for oysters on Waterman’s Wharf.<br />
and images. The collections are valuable in that they act as a<br />
catalyst for research and provide the opportunity for insight<br />
about a place and its people.”<br />
Forloney, who has worked at many cultural institutions<br />
including the Museum of the City of New York and the South<br />
Street Seaport Museum, and Dolhanczyk, who directed the<br />
Cape May County Historical and Genealogical Society, both<br />
said they were drawn to CBMM by the diverse opportunities<br />
it offers to tell the stories of the <strong>Bay</strong>.<br />
Melissa McLoud, the Museum’s Vice President for Program,<br />
is delighted with Robert’s and Rachel’s arrival.<br />
“They see our communities as major resources; they know<br />
that working with residents to recognize and explore the <strong>Bay</strong>’s<br />
history and culture—incorporating the communities’ diverse<br />
voices into this Museum’s collections, research, exhibitions,<br />
and public programs—is the way to make this Museum excel.<br />
They come from museums that also take seriously the role<br />
their programs play in their communities and they see CBMM<br />
as a resource for community residents.”<br />
Forloney said, “Here you can interpret the history of the<br />
<strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> in so many ways. You are not tied to one specific<br />
genre. You are not forced to view the collections through<br />
one particular lens but can take a historical, scientific, cultural<br />
or even aesthetic perspective.”<br />
Forloney and Dolhanczyk are starting their new jobs by<br />
expanding the programs CBMM offers. They believe that the<br />
Museum has enormous potential for engaging visitors in a va-<br />
riety of ways. They will work to find<br />
different ways of making the Museum’s<br />
collections and stories accessible<br />
to everyone from pre-schoolers to<br />
99-year-olds. Their plans include expanding<br />
hands-on activities for youth<br />
and families, increasing the number<br />
of <strong>Chesapeake</strong> People and docents<br />
to facilitate dialogues with visitors in<br />
exhibits, and providing on-the-water<br />
experiences for visitors.<br />
“CBMM has an extraordinary collection<br />
of artifacts, vessels, and historic<br />
buildings, in addition to a rich repository<br />
of oral histories from which<br />
it has created strong programs in the<br />
past.” Forloney said, “We would like<br />
to build on this by improving and expanding<br />
current programs as well as<br />
introducing new types of offerings.”<br />
Dolhanczyk said the <strong>Bay</strong>’s story<br />
is not just a faded memory.<br />
“The really great thing here is that<br />
history is still current. You still have<br />
watermen and crab pickers,” she said.<br />
“You don’t have to go back in time<br />
because it is still all around us. You<br />
do not have to have re-enactors to bring you back.”<br />
They both hope to get more members of the local communities<br />
to come in and tell the Museum staff and visitors<br />
what they think is important. Dolhanczyk said they want<br />
to make the Museum a place where visitors—from teachers,<br />
school groups, scouts, children to families—return frequently<br />
because they know they will find something engaging<br />
and exciting.<br />
She said the Museum is in a unique situation because it<br />
can help children maintain contact with the water, a connection<br />
that is slipping away because of economic and development<br />
pressures on the entire <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> waterfront.<br />
“We would also like to work more closely with the<br />
schools,” Dolhanczyk said. “Ideally we would like to further<br />
develop relationships with teachers so that we are involved<br />
with their classes throughout the school year. Professional<br />
development training for teachers will help them incorporate<br />
the Museum and its resources into their class studies.<br />
Forloney said, “We would like to help the school system<br />
teach the history of the region. Local history is extremely<br />
important. Once students begin to understand their own history<br />
and the impact that history has on their family, friends,<br />
and community, then they can start to understand how they<br />
fit into the national and global stories.”<br />
— Dick Cooper, Editor<br />
<strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Maritime</strong> Museum Winter 2006-2007
Supertanker training<br />
on the backwaters of the Eastern Shore<br />
By Dick Cooper, Editor<br />
Captain Scott Conway walks the bridge of a supertanker<br />
heading through the rock-bound Valdez Narrows en route to<br />
pick up 93 million gallons of Alaskan crude. The expansive<br />
deck of the 1,050-foot-long vessel pitches and rolls in front of<br />
him as a fast-moving thunder storm crashes around the ship<br />
and lightening splits the sky.<br />
The tanker is moving at 10 knots as visibility drops to<br />
almost zero, obscuring the ice shelf to starboard and the cargo<br />
ship passing to port. Conway calmly points out the instrument<br />
array, detailed radar display, and electronic chart-plotter<br />
that help deck officers keep track of their surroundings.<br />
Although the bridge rises more than 10 stories above the<br />
sea, the length of the deck and height of the bow greatly reduces<br />
his line of sight.<br />
“From here I have a 4,000-foot dead spot,” he says.<br />
As he explains the functions of the various instruments,<br />
including a joystick no larger than an index finger simply<br />
marked “Port” and “Starboard” that can be used to steer the<br />
ship, the weather clears and a helicopter passes overhead. The<br />
seas flatten to a calm as the tanker eases into the busy harbor.<br />
With the ship under control, Conway leads the way out a<br />
back door of the bridge and steps into a long hallway lined with<br />
computers and flat-panel screens on the Eastern Shore of the<br />
<strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong>, 4,333 miles from Valdez. At the end of the hall<br />
MEBA<br />
is a view of<br />
the campus<br />
of the Calhoon<br />
M.E.B.A. Engineering School on the banks of the Miles<br />
River, between Easton and St. Michaels, Maryland.<br />
“We can simulate 65 to 70 different ships and 25 ports<br />
around the world,” said Conway, a licensed commercial captain<br />
and manager of the Deck Officer Training Department at<br />
the school. The computer-generated simulator used to sharpen<br />
ship-handling skills that he has just demonstrated is so<br />
accurate sailors who have plied the Alaskan waters can often<br />
pick out landmarks, he said.<br />
Ten simulators, some with actual instruments and others<br />
set up at smaller computer workstations, can be linked at one<br />
time to give students a feel for working with other ships, tugs,<br />
and barges under tight harbors conditions.<br />
All of the navigational aids of the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> and<br />
the intricacies of the ports of Norfolk, Baltimore, and Phila-<br />
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Scott Conway teaches advanced ship handling to MEBA deck officers and<br />
engineers using life-like simulators.<br />
delphia, complete with the cities’ skylines, are part of the<br />
simulators’ repertoire.<br />
The Calhoon School, a mid-career training facility for<br />
the merchant marine officers of ocean-going vessels, is an<br />
anomaly on the Eastern Shore, where workboats and pleasure<br />
craft dominate the <strong>Chesapeake</strong>’s backwaters.<br />
Tucked behind a tall stand of trees and a field of wildflowers<br />
off the St. Michaels Road, the 680-acre-campus, once the<br />
site of a colonial plantation, is owned by the Marine Engineers<br />
Beneficial Association (MEBA), the country’s oldest<br />
maritime union, with a membership of more than 4,000 licensed<br />
officers who work on U.S.-registered ships.<br />
According to the school’s history, former MEBA president<br />
Jesse Calhoon, working with the federal government<br />
and shipping industry, formed Operation Licensed<br />
Engineers Apprentice Program to train officers for the<br />
merchant marine during the Vietnam War. In 1966, the<br />
program name was changed to the Calhoon MEBA Engineering<br />
School, based in a Baltimore hotel. Its intense<br />
program graduated cadets who had spent a year at sea as<br />
part of their education.<br />
Louis A. Marciello, who was named director of the school<br />
in December, is a 1971 graduate of the program. He said that<br />
at its peak the school was graduating a class of 15 to 20 engineers<br />
every month. He said that his first sea duty almost<br />
changed his career.<br />
In August,<br />
1969, he was<br />
sent as a cadet<br />
to his first berth<br />
on a cargo ship<br />
bound for Japan<br />
that was being<br />
readied at the<br />
docks of New<br />
Orleans. A week<br />
later, with Hurricane<br />
Camille on its way, his ship headed out into the Gulf<br />
of Mexico. For the next two days, the ship fought its way<br />
through the horrific Category 5 storm, with winds reaching<br />
190 miles an hour. (By contrast, Hurricane Katrina was a Category<br />
3 with winds up to 125 miles an hour.) When the ship<br />
returned to New Orleans, Marciello came close to becoming<br />
a landlubber. “I said to hell with this.” But he completed the<br />
trip to Japan and then another to Vietnam before finishing his<br />
studies at MEBA and going to sea.<br />
In the 1970s, the school purchased the estate on the Miles<br />
River that had been the home of Kirkland Hall Junior College<br />
and included the ruins of the great house of Perry Hall, a<br />
plantation that dates to 1659. The school later acquired a third<br />
estate, known as the Peach Orchard, to complete the campus<br />
that now has a mile of riverfront.<br />
In the late 1980s, with industry<br />
demands changing, the school ended<br />
the cadet program, and by 1991 it<br />
was transformed into a mid-career<br />
learning center specializing in updating<br />
the skills of Coast Guard-licensed<br />
engineers and deck officers.<br />
Academic Affairs Manager<br />
Chuck Eser said at any given time,<br />
about 70 sailors are attending classes<br />
and about 1,400 individual enrollments—some<br />
union members attend<br />
more than one session—are recorded<br />
during the course of a year. The<br />
courses range from a week’s lessons<br />
in learning how to read electronic<br />
charts to a six-week session in advanced<br />
diesel mechanics.<br />
Most of the classes are handson<br />
with clear pass/fail results. In the<br />
electrical trouble-shooting class, students<br />
must determine what is wrong<br />
The engineering school’s campus<br />
covers 680 acres near Easton, with<br />
more than a mile of waterfront.<br />
Photo courtesy of Calhoon MEBA.
(right) MEBA engineers learn the intricacies of diesel<br />
mechanics on this three-story slice of a ship’s powertrain.<br />
with a junction box attached to a motor and make repairs.<br />
When the task is completed, the motor has to run. For a<br />
class in onboard emergencies, a steel cargo container has<br />
been modified inside to replicate bulkheads in a ship. Students<br />
are sent down a hatch to solve a range of simulated<br />
problems, from broken pipes to major leaks. As they work,<br />
the container is slowly flooded. A spillway is cut in the container<br />
wall about five feet from the floor.<br />
“If the water gets that high, you fail the course,” said<br />
Barry VanVechten, assistant director for academics, who<br />
trains students to handle a variety of emergencies including<br />
onboard fires.<br />
A dozen welding booths make up the welding lab and<br />
rows of lathes fill the machine shop, where students have to<br />
turn blank steel blocks and rods into finely-made tools. The<br />
highlight of the diesel shop is a real, three-story slice of a<br />
diesel engine with a cylinder bore of almost a meter.<br />
In the Olympic-sized pool with a view of the campus,<br />
students practice emergencies by jumping into the deep end<br />
and struggling into survival suits. They climb into life rafts<br />
that are then flipped over, so they practice righting and reboarding<br />
tactics. Still other courses teach crowd control,<br />
waste management, and small arms training.<br />
The campus includes a ball field, tennis courts, an outdoor<br />
pool, and dockage for small boats. In 2005, the school dedicated<br />
the 235-seat Newberry Auditorium which is dominated<br />
by a 12-foot, by 35-foot mural of Liberty ships anchored off<br />
Normandy Beach following D-Day in 1944.<br />
The school is fully funded by the MEBA training trust<br />
fund, Eser said. Union members attend classes free of charge<br />
and receive a $50-a-day stipend and meals. They stay free in<br />
the school’s “dormitory” which looks more like a spacious hotel<br />
on a secluded cove. One of the sights from the rooms is the<br />
life-boat practice station. A gleaming white boat is suspended<br />
from ship’s davits 30 feet above the cove, ready for action.<br />
Marciello said the shipping business changes so rapidly<br />
that MEBA members frequently have to retrain once or twice<br />
a year to keep pace. He said<br />
that with the steady reduction<br />
in the size of a ship’s<br />
crew—currently it takes<br />
a crew of 18 to operate a<br />
supertanker or containerized<br />
cargo ship—more and<br />
more work is falling to the<br />
licensed officers.<br />
Eser said that while only<br />
2.5 percent of the cargo<br />
that comes into the United<br />
States is transported on ships flying the Stars and Stripes,<br />
U.S.-licensed officers are required on ships that are involved<br />
in military sealift operations. Marciello said the federal Jones<br />
Act requires that ships carrying cargo and passengers between<br />
U.S. ports be registered in the U.S.<br />
(below) Union members return to the school for mid-career training.<br />
(below) Life-boat training includes practice on the real thing.<br />
(left) MEBA’s newly named director, Louis Marciello.
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Mural of Liberty Ships unloading at Normandy Beach<br />
dominates Newberry Auditorium.<br />
Chief Engineer Russ Nugent, originally from the Boston<br />
area, but now living in New Hampshire, has been sailing since<br />
1979. He has been to MEBA several times over the years.<br />
“In today’s day and age it is constant training, things<br />
move so fast, unless you make an effort to keep up,” he said<br />
over lunch between classes in the school cafeteria. “With<br />
all the systems, with all the automation, they are demanding<br />
more of the engineers. We need to have more information<br />
to plow through.”<br />
He said he is typically at sea for six to seven months at a<br />
time with five to six months off between jobs. Crewmembers<br />
on modern ships do not have a lot of downtime, often working<br />
12 to 16 hours a shift, week in and week out. “You work<br />
six months, but I figured it out once, you are working a year,<br />
year-and-a-half in those six months.”<br />
Nugent’s classmate Joseph DiBenedetto, a 1981 graduate<br />
of the MEBA cadet program, agreed. “They keep changing<br />
and adding more requirements with safety and security. So<br />
you have to come here for different courses to take, just to<br />
get certain jobs. Like working on a government vessel, you<br />
have to have classes in damage control, hazmat, firefighting,<br />
which are all good to have. We get pretty good vacations, but<br />
you spend half your vacations here.”<br />
DiBenedetto, a chief engineer from New York who now<br />
lives in Florida, said he hopes to retire from the sea in a year.<br />
“My Dad was a doctor and I didn’t want to go into medicine<br />
because I saw him constantly going to school to stay<br />
on top of this and learn that,” he said. “I figured I would get<br />
into something I would enjoy and see the world. Now it is<br />
turning more and more into what I saw my Dad having to<br />
do, constantly going to school. They have taken all of the fun<br />
out of it.”<br />
Nugent nodded, “If you want to get the edge, you have<br />
to put the time in. The course we’re taking now, they told<br />
us up front, it is a college semester course that they<br />
are cramming into two weeks. You’re not going to<br />
able to get away from these schools. These schools<br />
are going to have to expand.”<br />
Eser said that when the shipping industry has<br />
new equipment, or if the Coast Guard changes the<br />
licensing requirement, the school tailors its curriculum<br />
to fit the need. He said the faculty of 10 full-time<br />
and about 25 adjunct instructors is made up of licensed<br />
officers who teach from experience. He said that a lot of<br />
the adjunct instructors are still active sailors and will teach<br />
classes between berths.<br />
One of the more recent additions to the campus has been<br />
the construction of the 10-acre MEBA Merchant Marine<br />
Memorial. A stone pathway outlines a merchant ship, its<br />
pointed black bow and five-ton anchors illuminated at night<br />
just off the St. Michaels Road. At its stern a 23-ton, sixbladed<br />
propeller is reflected in a flag-lined pool. The memorial<br />
was dedicated in 2005 to pay tribute to lost seamen<br />
and ships. Its stated mission is to “provide an opportunity to<br />
honor the courageous men and women who form the heritage<br />
of the United States Merchant Marine.”<br />
For Chief Nugent, the quiet, pastoral campus offers more<br />
than just a place to cram in new learning.<br />
“When I come down here, for me it’s like a monastery. I get<br />
out of the loop, chill out, and focus on what I have to do.” <br />
For more information about the Calhoon M.E.B.A. Engineering<br />
School, go to www.mebaschool.org. To arrange a tour of<br />
the school and bridge simulator, call 410-822-9600 ext. 306.<br />
Contact Dick Cooper at editor@cbmm.org.<br />
Massive ship’s propeller at the MEBA Merchant Marine<br />
Memorial.
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
2005-2006<br />
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<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> 2005-2006<br />
<strong>Report</strong> to Our Members<br />
Because of your loyalty, generosity, and dedication, the<br />
Museum had a banner year in fiscal year 2005-2006.<br />
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<strong>•</strong> Membership reached 6,900 – the highest number of<br />
paid memberships on record<br />
<strong>•</strong> Paid attendance reached 65,705 – an increase of<br />
8,425 over the previous fiscal year<br />
<strong>•</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> Fund exceeded its $400,000 goal, achieving<br />
an all-time high of $412,000.<br />
Such numbers show that the Museum is strong and vital.<br />
We are deeply indebted to you and every member. Thank<br />
you! Very few museums today can boast this breadth of<br />
involvement and level of commitment from its Membership.<br />
Looking back, this past fiscal year marked the start of a<br />
significant transition for the Museum from a construction,<br />
hard-hat growth mode, into an outreach, enlivenment<br />
mode. We began shifting from big construction jobs<br />
and additions to the physical plant into making this<br />
institution the most interesting maritime museum anyone<br />
has ever seen. Our challenge in the new fiscal year will<br />
be to continue to utilize our refurbished and enhanced<br />
campus to develop new programming and educational<br />
opportunities that will help grow Museum attendance<br />
and membership.<br />
More than ever, we are devoted to collecting, preserving,<br />
and exhibiting important pieces of the <strong>Bay</strong>’s rapidly<br />
vanishing heritage. Our growing collections of art,<br />
artifacts, boats, and buildings are rich and fascinating.<br />
They are invaluable pieces of <strong>Bay</strong> history. Visitors tell<br />
us that they continue to be intellectually stimulated by<br />
the exhibits and educational programs that take place<br />
here. And that our education work has never been more<br />
critically important.<br />
The fiscal year was also remarkable in that we achieved<br />
so many goals at a time of significant change. After 19<br />
years of distinguished service, President John R. Valliant<br />
announced his intention to step down in order to accept<br />
a wonderful opportunity as President of the Grayce B.<br />
Kerr Fund of Easton, Md. The Board of Governors, under<br />
the able leadership of my predecessor, Jim Peterson,<br />
conducted an intense search for John’s successor, a<br />
process that resulted in the selection of Stuart L. Parnes<br />
as our new President. Thanks to our Members, Staff,<br />
and Board of Governors, CBMM moved forward during<br />
this transition without missing a beat, a testament to<br />
the Museum’s strength and dedication, energized by its<br />
compelling vision for the future.<br />
We are well poised to realize this future, a future defined,<br />
in part, by upgrading and improving permanent exhibits,<br />
adding a changing exhibits program, providing interactive<br />
exhibits for children, and enhancing education programs<br />
for everyone.<br />
Thank you for continuing to be our partners in preserving<br />
the cultural and maritime heritage of the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong>.<br />
You are absolutely vital to us, and we are most grateful.<br />
Fred C. Meendsen<br />
Chair, Board of Governors
<strong>Annual</strong> Fund Donors<br />
Gifts to the <strong>Annual</strong> Fund support the Museum’s annual program of member and visitor services and<br />
projects. We extend our sincere appreciation to the Museum members listed here who supported<br />
CBMM with gifts of $412,000 to 2005-2006 <strong>Annual</strong> Fund between May 1, 2005 and April 30, 2006.<br />
(Gift recognition here does not include Membership gifts.)<br />
Admiral of the <strong>Chesapeake</strong><br />
($25,000 and up)<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Griffith<br />
Dorothy A. Metcalf Foundation<br />
Admiral of the Fleet<br />
($10,000 - $24,999)<br />
Mr. William L. Davenport &<br />
Mr. Bruce Wiltsie<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David J. Martinelli<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Paul B. Prager<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William D. Smith<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Jack P. Stoltz<br />
Admiral<br />
($5,000 - $9,999)<br />
Harold & Marla Baines<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Batza, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James Osborne Burri<br />
Chevy Chase Bank<br />
Fair Play Foundation<br />
Mrs. Dagmar D.P. Gipe<br />
Mrs. Nancy C. Hickey<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Lea, Jr.<br />
Gerry & Marguerite Lenfest<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Sumner Parker<br />
James & Nanette Peterson<br />
Mrs. J. Thomas Requard<br />
Sand Family Fund<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Sener, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Henry H. Spire<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Stevens, Jr.<br />
Thomas H. Hamilton Foundation, Inc.<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Charles H. Thornton<br />
Van Dyke Family Foundation<br />
Commodore<br />
($2,500 - $4,999)<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Duane W. Beckhorn<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles C. Fichtner II<br />
Ms. Nancy R. Hammond<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hewes III<br />
Drs. Wayne & Marietta Hockmeyer<br />
Mrs. Margaret D. Keller<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Breene M. Kerr<br />
Mr. & Mrs. George V. McGowan<br />
Fred & Nancy Meendsen<br />
Reverends Mark & Abigail Nestlehutt<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Perkins<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Norman H. Plummer<br />
J. W. & Vicki Ricketts<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Snowdon<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Edmund A. Stanley, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James Thorington II<br />
Don & Dorothy Whitcomb<br />
The Widgeon Foundation<br />
Captain<br />
($1,200 - $2,499)<br />
Academy for Lifelong Learning<br />
at CBMM<br />
Mrs. Hannah J. Alnutt<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce P. Bedford<br />
Mr. Robert W. Bennett<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Terence R. Blackwood<br />
Constellation Energy Group, Inc.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas V. Croker III<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Albert A. Del Negro<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Finan, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Granville<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William H. Guier<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Keith Hoffman<br />
Mr. & Mrs. L. David Horner III<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Kimberly<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Donald T. Lewers<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Ellice McDonald, Jr.<br />
The Hon. Juliette C. McLennan<br />
Mr. & Mrs. W. Scott McSween<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Peter B. Moss<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John Nyland<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Hamish Osborne<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Peck<br />
Mr. John M. Pinney &<br />
Mrs. Donna F. Cantor<br />
The Hon. S. Jay Plager<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Phillip E. Ratcliffe<br />
Dr. Daniel L. Ridout III<br />
Mr. & Mrs. W. Rembert Simpson<br />
Ms. Lucy I. Spiegel<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Guy T. Steuart II<br />
Dr. Peter B. Stifel<br />
Tidewater Yacht Sales, Inc.<br />
The Robb & Elizabeth Tyler<br />
Foundation<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew J. Weisburger<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John R. Whitmore<br />
Commander<br />
($500 - $1,199)<br />
Anonymous<br />
Judge & Mrs. George H. Aldrich<br />
Cecil & Candace Backus<br />
Mr. Arthur A. Birney<br />
Michael & Heather Brennan<br />
Dr. Katharine M. Brown<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Byers<br />
Peter & Jane Chambliss<br />
Constellation Energy Group, Inc.<br />
Crawley Family Foundation<br />
Mrs. Alonzo G. Decker, Jr.<br />
W. Scott & Joanne Ditch<br />
Mr. F. Eugene Dixon, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Irenee duPont, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. J. Orin Edson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Philip F. N. Fanning<br />
Fidelity Investment Charitable<br />
Gift Fund<br />
Georgetown Yacht Basin, Inc.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Lucien Girard<br />
Mrs. Shirley S. Gooch<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Barry P. Gossett<br />
H&R Block Foundation<br />
Dr. & Mrs. John A. Hawkinson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Donald F. Hewes<br />
Mr. William H. Holdford<br />
Elizabeth S. Hooper Foundation<br />
Dr. Gordon A. Hughes<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Irish, Sr.<br />
Israel Family Foundation<br />
CBMM’s Boat Yard staff often serve as mentors giving<br />
children hands-on experience.<br />
Mr. George F. Johnson<br />
Grayce B. Kerr Fund, Inc.<br />
Ed & Linda Langley<br />
Capt. & Mrs. Richards T. Miller,<br />
USN (Ret.)<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Francis A. Morgan, Jr.<br />
Mr. Jon Mullarky<br />
Tuck & Beth Nason<br />
Mr. Robert D. Nobel &<br />
Dr. Cecilia V. Nobel<br />
North Star Asset Management<br />
Mr. Terry R. Peel<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Petty, Jr.<br />
Mr. Donald L. Rice &<br />
Ms. Elizabeth S. J. Loker<br />
The Frederick W. Richmond<br />
Foundation, Inc.<br />
The Ross Foundation<br />
Schluderberg Foundation, Inc.<br />
Tom & Alexa Seip<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William S. Stafford<br />
Mr. Jeff Strider<br />
Mr. & Mrs. W. Scott Tompkins<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel M. Trippe<br />
Vida Van Lennep<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Philip J. Webster<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Clifton F. West, Jr.<br />
Mrs. Joan D. West<br />
Mr. Phillip W. Worrall<br />
Sailing Master<br />
($250 - $499)<br />
Anonymous<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John E. Akridge III<br />
Mr. Daniel F. Attridge<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Barry<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Marion W. Bevard<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Bliss<br />
Capt. Ralph Bloom, Jr., USN (Ret.)<br />
Blue Crab <strong>Bay</strong> Company<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Boggs, Jr.<br />
Capt. & Mrs. J. Hollis Bower, Jr.<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Broadie<br />
Capt. & Mrs. John S. Burrows<br />
USNR<br />
Jim & Peggy Calvert<br />
David and Katherine Cockey<br />
Gary & Kathleen Danler<br />
Colin C. Ferenbach<br />
Drs. Jelles & Kathryn Fonda<br />
Tom & Karen Frana<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Giles S. Gianelloni<br />
Ms. Janet M. Grissom<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Roger M. Gruben<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick C. Haab<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Ford Hall, Sr.<br />
Jim & Pam Harris<br />
Mr. Benjamin G. Heilman<br />
Winifred H. Hobron<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence T. Hoyle, Jr.<br />
John & Jennie Hyatt<br />
IBM Corporation<br />
Mr. Erik T. Jensen<br />
Ms. Paula J. Johnson &<br />
Mr. Carl Fleischhauer<br />
Johnson & Johnson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Kohls III<br />
Mr. Mark J. Levine &<br />
Dr. Sara L. Imershein<br />
Mrs. Diana Q. Mautz<br />
Ms. Julie Parker McCahill<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John L. McShane<br />
Michael & Tina Meegan<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Meister<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Harry C. Meyerhoff<br />
The Hon. & Mrs. James R. Miller, Jr.<br />
Mr. Jeffery E. Miller &<br />
Dr. Gabrielle E. Miller<br />
Donald & Grace Mulvihill<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John H. Murray<br />
Mr. Robert D. Nobel &<br />
Dr. Cecilia V. Nobel<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John L.S. Northrop<br />
Carl & Gwen Oppenheim<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Arthur W. Patterson, Jr.<br />
Bill & Liz Platt<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Ray<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Reynolds, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John H. Riehl III<br />
Donald & Karen Santa<br />
Mrs. Ralsey B. Scofield, Jr.<br />
Mr. John Seifarth<br />
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<strong>Annual</strong> Fund Donors<br />
28<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Norman M.<br />
Shannahan III<br />
John & Lisa Sherwood<br />
Dr. Eva M. Smorzaniuk<br />
Mrs. Richard A. Springs, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. George E. Stewart<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William C. Storey<br />
Bruce L. Summer<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James Thomasson<br />
Mrs. R. Carmichael Tilghman<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Valliant, Jr.<br />
RAdm. E.K. Walker, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John C. Warfield<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Hugh E. Whitaker<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John R. Williams<br />
Norman & JoAnne Willox<br />
Boatswain<br />
($100 - $249)<br />
Anonymous (2)<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John F. Aigeltinger, Jr.<br />
Ms. Lucy B. Alexander<br />
Maj. Gen. & Mrs. Andrew H.<br />
Anderson<br />
J. Pierce & Molly Anderson<br />
Capt. & Mrs. Al Aus<br />
Robert J. Austin<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Bailey<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William Baker<br />
Mr. H. Furlong Baldwin<br />
Mr. Barry G. Balmer<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Jack Bannister<br />
George & Patricia Barbis<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William H. Barker III<br />
Mrs. Daniel P. Barnard V<br />
Robert & Marilyn Barrett<br />
Mr. Gerald W. Bechtle<br />
Mr. Peter Behringer<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Jerry K. Bell<br />
Mr. David M. Bennett<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David G. Benson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Berg<br />
Bettina Billingslea<br />
Ed & Patti Bird<br />
Dr. & Mrs. James M. Bisanar<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Bissell<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald A. Blackwell<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Sylvester P. Bollinger<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Perry J. Bolton<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bonsteel<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Stuart M. Bounds<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David C. Bramble<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Norman H. Brown<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Bruehl<br />
Mr. Joseph H. Budge<br />
Larry & Andrea Buel<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Burns<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Callahan III<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Cannistraro, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Canzoniero<br />
Mr. Charles J. Carpenter &<br />
Mrs. Tiffany Porter-Carpenter<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph T. Casey<br />
Tim & Pat Casgar<br />
Mr. Richard Clausen<br />
Dennis & Kerry Clough<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Adam D. Cockey<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Alan C. Coho<br />
Mr. Mike Connolly<br />
Capt. & Mrs. Rob Cook<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Roger B. Copinger, Jr.<br />
Mrs. D.D. Coyle<br />
Ms. Julie H. Crudele<br />
Mr. Gerald G. Cully<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Clyde E. Culp III<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David H. Cushwa<br />
Carol Davis<br />
Mr. Edward L. Davis, Jr.<br />
Mike & Trish Davis<br />
Capt. & Mrs. Walter C. Davis, Jr.<br />
Capt. Michael J. Deane<br />
Ms. Jean DeBell-O’Neal<br />
Edwin & Ruth Decker<br />
Mrs. Jeanne C. DeVries<br />
Jack & Mary Doetzer<br />
Mr. John S. Dombach<br />
Mr. George Domurot<br />
Dr. James J. Donahue<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Donald B. Doolittle<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David G. Draut<br />
Mr. Nicholas H. Dryland &<br />
Ms. Sandra L. Richardson<br />
Mr. William S. Dudley<br />
Mr. & Mrs. C. Kenneth Dulin<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William H. Dunton<br />
Peggy & Frank Emmet<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Randal B. Etheridge<br />
ExxonMobil Foundation, Inc.<br />
Mr. Rogers M Firth<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Peter L. Flaherty<br />
Joseph & Mary Elizabeth Flanagan<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James A. Flood<br />
John & Peggy Ford<br />
Mr. W. Thomas Fountain<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Clark French<br />
Victor & Nancy Frenkil<br />
Mr. Robert C. Frey<br />
Capt. & Mrs. Peter H. Friedman<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald W. Fuchs<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce H. Gallup, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Gamble<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Pedro Garcia<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William R. Gawne<br />
Mrs. Samuel R. Gay, Jr.<br />
Mr. Philip Geyelin<br />
Ken & Wendy Gibson<br />
GlaxoSmithKline Foundation<br />
Capt. & Mrs. Donald J. Goodliffe<br />
Mr. Jim Gorman<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Gould<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John L. Graham<br />
Mrs. Evelyn M. Graybeal<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Gribben<br />
Bernard L. Grove<br />
Harold & Phebe Guckes<br />
Mr. John F. Harper &<br />
Ms. Karen L. Roth<br />
Mr. James A. Hash<br />
Mr. Franklin Hawkins<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David C. Hazen<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Heiss<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Cortland P. Hill<br />
Steve & Mary Hiltabidle<br />
Mr. Walter D. Hoffman, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James B. Holler<br />
Ms. Patricia A. Holloway<br />
Rich & Suzanne Hood<br />
Jerry & Jacque Hook<br />
Mr. & Mrs. C.A. Porter Hopkins<br />
Ms. Marian B. Hopkins<br />
The Hon. William Horne<br />
Ms. Martha Filbert Horner<br />
Dr. Gary D. Hughes &<br />
Ms. Kathryn Harrington-Hughes<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Howard C. Hughes<br />
Mr. John J. Hughes<br />
David & Sherry Jeffery<br />
Ms. Barbara G. Johantgen<br />
Laurie & Richard Johnson<br />
Mr. Timothy C. Johnson<br />
Mrs. Toulson Johnston<br />
Mr. V. Brewster B. Jones<br />
Mrs. Adine C. Kelly<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Allan G. Kenzie<br />
Grayce B. Kerr Fund, Inc.<br />
Capt. & Mrs. Fred K. Kieser<br />
Mr. & Mrs. G. Rex Kilbourn, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Kilbourne<br />
Watson & Sybil Kime<br />
Mr. Jules Korner<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Nevin E. Kuhl<br />
Mr. Marc E. Lackritz &<br />
Ms. Mary B. Deoreo<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Frank Lambert, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Land<br />
Mr. & Mrs. H. Ray Landon<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William L. Lane, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John J. Langan, Jr.<br />
Mr. Harold O. Leinbach<br />
Bruce & Julie Leinberger<br />
Dr. & Mrs. David E. Leith<br />
Mr. Ronald E. Lemieux<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Lesher, Sr.<br />
Dr. John M. Levinson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Long<br />
Mr. Robert H. Mackey<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Gordon H. Mansfield<br />
Mr. Richard Manzer<br />
David & Kirsten Martin<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Dwight W. Martin<br />
Brenda J. Martin<br />
Mr. Stanley Martin<br />
Max & Ruth Matteson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Mattingly<br />
Mr. Richard G. McCauley<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Michael McClane<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. McKelly, Jr.<br />
Frank & Bette Meyerle<br />
Mr. Bill Millar<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William W. Millar<br />
Mr. David F. Miller<br />
Arthur & Martha Milot<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Mitchell<br />
Capt. Stephen H. Morris<br />
Mel & Marlies Mraz<br />
Al & Margaret Naeny<br />
CBMM’s sailing program helps children build<br />
confidence on the water.<br />
Edgar & Leigh Nash<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Nees<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Maurice E. Newnam III<br />
Mr. John Noble<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard T. Nolker<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John Northrop, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. J. Gregory Norton<br />
Milton G. Nottingham, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James R. O’Connell<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John Orzechowski<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John A. Pagenstecher<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William M. Passano III<br />
Mr. & Mrs. A. William Patterson III<br />
David & Mary Patterson<br />
J. Marshall Patterson<br />
Drs. James & Jeanne Patterson<br />
The Pfizer Foundation<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James K. Pickard<br />
David & Chloe Pitard<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William T. Poole, Jr.<br />
Capt. John C. Porter<br />
Mr. Sydney Porter &<br />
Ms. Barbara Opper<br />
Mary Anne & Richard Rathmann<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Brent Raughley<br />
Ms. Norma Redele’<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Reed III<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Don Regenhardt<br />
Ms. Mary A. Reiley<br />
Capt. Robert B. Reinbold<br />
Harlan & Linda Robinson<br />
Madeline L. Robinson<br />
Ms. Margaret E. Roggensack<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Haskell C. Royer<br />
Evan Rudderow<br />
Mr. David Rutherford<br />
Mrs. Harrison S. Sayre<br />
Julia R. Schen<br />
Mr. A.G. Schmitz, Jr.<br />
Mr. Richard Schubert, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Schuerholz<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles P. Schutt, Jr.<br />
Mr. Frank Elward &<br />
Mrs. Linda L. Settle<br />
Paul & Jane Seymour<br />
Mr. Steve Sharkey<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Gary Sikkema<br />
Mr. Peter A. Silvia<br />
Ms. Joan H. Simmons<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Wilbur E. Simmons, Jr.<br />
Rev. Dr. John W. Simpers, Jr.<br />
Edward & Nancy Sipe<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David A. Sirignano<br />
Mr. John Skocz<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Albert L. Smith<br />
Mrs. Edgar C. Smith<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel R. Snyder<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Reynolds Somers<br />
Mr. James Stansbury<br />
Roger & Sally Stobbart<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William Stockman<br />
Nick & Joan Stoer<br />
Ms. Craigie S Succop<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Custis B. Swope<br />
Jack & Joan Swope<br />
Mr. Richard Tager<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Edward T. Taws, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John K. Taylor<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Evan Thalenberg<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James A. Thomas<br />
Mr. James E. Thompson<br />
Bill & Carolyn Townsend<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Barclay H. Trippe, Jr.<br />
Robert & Randi Turner<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Norman S. Tyler<br />
United Way of Tri-State
<strong>Annual</strong> Fund Donors<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John R. Valliant<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Valliant<br />
Mr. & Mrs. O. Ray Vass<br />
Verizon<br />
Mr. & Mrs. W. Moorhead Vermilye<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Carl E. Wagner, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Waln<br />
Mr. Russell H. Ward<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Seth L. Warfield<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John Alan Watson<br />
Mr. David V. Way &<br />
Dr. Ruth Sanchez-Way<br />
Drs. Charles & Ann Webb<br />
Mr. Dennis C. Weisberg<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Welch<br />
Mr. William Welch<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. White<br />
Mr. Harvey T. Whittington<br />
Mr. Raymond J. Wiacek &<br />
Ms. Nancy E. O’Connell<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David E. Wilford<br />
Mrs. Esther J. Wilson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John F. Wing<br />
Mrs. Beth N. Winkler<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Clyde S. Wisner<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Worns<br />
Ms. Magenta Yglesias<br />
Don & Joyce Young<br />
Bob & Esther Ziegler<br />
Crew<br />
(up to - $99)<br />
Anonymous (2)<br />
Mr. James H. Adams<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Theodore C. Aepli<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Larry S. Allen<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Allen<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Ed Alvarado<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Herbert L. Andrew III<br />
Mr. John Andrew<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Rasmus N. Apenes<br />
Eric & Lori Applegarth<br />
Capt. Benjamin N. Armiger<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James E. Arnold<br />
Mr. & Robert C. Arnold<br />
Charles & Beverly Austin<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence F. Awalt III<br />
Baltimore Community Foundation<br />
Mr. Charles W. Barber<br />
Mr. Samuel Barnett<br />
Ms. Jane A. Barrett<br />
Donald & Norma Berlin<br />
Mr. & Mrs. J. Douglass Berry<br />
Mr. & Mrs. George H. Blood<br />
The Hon. & Mrs. E.U. Curtis Bohlen<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James E. Bonan<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John Borneman<br />
Drs. Arlene & Stephen Bowes<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John H. Boyden<br />
Mr. Michael A. Boylan<br />
Mr. Bob Brenner<br />
Mr. Claude F. Brice, Jr.<br />
Ronald & Linda Brock<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Spencer J. Brock<br />
Mr. R. Paul Brooks<br />
Ms. Ann J. Broomell<br />
Mrs. John A. Brown<br />
Rob & Dawn Brownlee-Tomasso<br />
Marion Brozowski<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Brunetti<br />
Mr. John A. Bruno<br />
Mr. Michael L. Brustein<br />
Mrs. Ruth L. Buescher<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John G. Burfeind<br />
Mr. & Mrs. George Burke<br />
Mrs. Claire T. Burkelman<br />
Mrs. Eleanor L. Campbell<br />
Mr. John J. Carey<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William B. Carleton<br />
Lynda & George Carlson<br />
Mr. Thomas L. Caswell<br />
Frank & Gail Cavanaugh<br />
Mr. Larry Chandler<br />
Ms. Sharon B. Chilcoat<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Chlan<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William S. Clarke<br />
Ms. Phyllis Clingan<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Clum<br />
Doug & Debbie Collison<br />
Paul & Vera Colon<br />
Cathy & Patrick Connelly<br />
Capt. & Mrs. Harvey C. Cook<br />
Mr. Stephen K. Coons<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Lindley M.<br />
Cowperthwait, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David M. Cox<br />
Mr. Roger T. Craig<br />
Mrs. Charles H. Crane<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Crowley<br />
Mr. John Csady<br />
Craig Damon<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Davidson<br />
Mr. Michael K. Davis &<br />
Ms. Elizabeth A. Petersilia<br />
Mr. Joseph W. Dean<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. DeBarr<br />
Mrs. Carolyn R. Decker<br />
John & Susan Devlin<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Kevin M. Digan<br />
Capt. Paul G. Dix<br />
Mr. Henry L. Dodson, Jr.<br />
Mr. William L. Dodson<br />
Lewis & Ann Doom<br />
Mr. John Downin<br />
Mr. Joseph A. Doyle<br />
Michael & Carol Droge<br />
Bill & Shobha Duncan<br />
Mr. William M. Edgett<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John C. Ehmann<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Engle<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence M. Englert<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Gary Epstein<br />
Capt. & Mrs. David Etzel<br />
Mrs. L. Clark Ewing<br />
ExxonMobil Foundation, Inc.<br />
Mrs. Charles L. Fairbank, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John L. Fairbank<br />
Mrs. Brenda L. Faulkner &<br />
Mr. Robert W. Alexander<br />
Mr. Rick Ferrell<br />
Mr. Thomas G. Fish<br />
Capt. Michael T. Flaherty<br />
Ralph & Charlotte Fleischman<br />
Mr. George B. Flynn<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Ford, Jr.<br />
Ms. Joanne Nicole Frank<br />
Mr. W. Ben Fulton<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Larry Funk<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Brice R. Gamber<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Spencer L. Garrett<br />
Ed & Linda Gerner<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John M. Gerty<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Morton Gibbons-Neff III<br />
Mr. Jeffrey N. Gibbs & Ms. Jody Katz<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Rudolph W. Gleichman<br />
Ms. Melissa Y. Godfrey<br />
Sheldon & Myra Goldgeier<br />
Mr. Andrew Gray<br />
Mr. Robert L. Gray III<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Russell Gray<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Milton Gregson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Steven K. Griffith<br />
Mr. George H. Gronde<br />
Mr. Louis E. Guerrina<br />
Mrs. Mary Frances Haddaway<br />
Mr. Gilbert Hahn &<br />
Ms. Barbara T. Benezet<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew W. Hait<br />
Lana W. Harding<br />
Mr. James A. Hash<br />
Mr. Christian Havemeyer<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Nelson M. Head, Jr.<br />
Dr. & Mrs. John J. Healey<br />
Mr. Robert J. Heitzman<br />
Mr. & Mrs. A. Carl Helwig<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Fraser C. Henderson<br />
Mr. Stephen D. &<br />
Kathleen C Hendry<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William G. Heron<br />
Mr. Joseph L. Holt<br />
Ms. Martie K. Holtje<br />
Mr. Richard B. Hopkins<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Francis Hopkinson<br />
Mrs. David A. Horning<br />
Mr. Jeffrey H. Horstman<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph F. Huber<br />
John & Elizabeth Hughes<br />
Ms. Diane Humphrey<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Frank C. Hurley<br />
Mr. John I. Hutchison<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Hyde<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Hynson, Jr.<br />
IBM Corporation<br />
Mr. Ronald Ieva<br />
Wallace & Jane Jansen<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Harold L. Jones<br />
Mr. Matthew M. Jones<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Arnold J. Jules<br />
Mr. C. Philip Kable<br />
Mr. Joseph H. Kaisler<br />
William & Mary Kalis<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Brian Kane<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Don C. Katzenberger<br />
Mr. Thomas P. Keating<br />
Brenda E. Keener<br />
Gerhart & Violet Keller<br />
OysterFest visitors get out on the water aboard Mister Jim.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Hall A. Kellogg<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Kelly, Jr.<br />
Norman & Jeanne Klug<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Knowles<br />
Dr. Shepard Krech, Jr.<br />
Richard & Ann Leahy<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Leaver<br />
Ms. Eleanor C. Leh<br />
Ms. Vara Jean Lehrkinder<br />
Pete & Mariana Lesher<br />
Mr. Christopher Levey<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Lockett<br />
Ms. Leslie M. Londeree<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel C. Loveland, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Horace M. Lowman<br />
Mr. & Mrs. H. David Lunger<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Madary<br />
Mr. Hugh Mahaffy<br />
Mr. Marshall Mandell<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John W. Mann, Jr.<br />
Ms. Virginia D. Martus<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Edward E. Masters<br />
Mr. W. Christopher Maxwell<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William B. May<br />
Mr. Newell J. McCalmont<br />
Mr. & Robert McGee<br />
Mr. & Mrs. F. James McGrath<br />
Harold A. McInnes<br />
Mr. Ronald L. McKee<br />
Mr. William M. McLin &<br />
Mr. Sam McKeon<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Jack Meyerhoff<br />
Mrs. Mary E. Michael<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Albert E. Miller III<br />
Dr. John H. & Emily T. Miller<br />
Mr. Manny H. Miller<br />
Ms. Shirley Miller<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Lynn K. Millikin<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Ladson Mills III<br />
Arthur & Martha Milot<br />
Betty G. Mitchell<br />
Lucy Mitchell<br />
Mr. & Mrs. R. Shane Moore<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick H. Morgan<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Morison<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Carl A. Morsey<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William Munch, Jr.<br />
Mr. Mark D. Murray<br />
Jim & Peggy Nallo<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Newberg<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Theodore L. Newberg<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas W. North<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Norman L. Northcott<br />
Mr. & Mrs. J. Gregory Norton<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Ober<br />
Mr. Michael D. Odell<br />
Mr. John G. O’Donnell III<br />
Mr. & Mrs. E. <strong>Bay</strong>ly Orem, Jr.<br />
Mrs. Cynthia Paalborg<br />
Mrs. Mary Jane Pagenstecher<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Albert Parr<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James V. Pasquarelli<br />
Mr. & Mrs. A.H. Passarella<br />
Mr. John E.C. Patmore<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Roman Pawlowski<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Royce A. Peabody<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard R. Pelliconi<br />
Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Pfaff<br />
Mr. & Mrs. George J. Pillorge<br />
Mr. & Mrs. R. Alan Platow<br />
Mr. Sydney Porter &<br />
Ms. Barbara Opper<br />
Mr. Robert K. Price<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Prouse<br />
Mr. James F. Rampe<br />
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Mr. & Mrs. William B. Read III<br />
Mr. Walter Reed<br />
Mr. Robert J. Reynolds<br />
Jonathan & Lindsley Rice<br />
Miss Claire A. Richardson<br />
Mr. Robert H. Richardson<br />
Richland Homes<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Warren E. Ringler<br />
Ms. Nina M. Roark<br />
Ann & Donald Roe<br />
Mrs. Martha B. Roe<br />
Captain & Mrs. Thomas S. Rogers,<br />
USN (Ret.)<br />
Mr. Samuel Rothberg<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Rutledge<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Edward C. Santelmann<br />
Leigh Ann & Edward Schaefer<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Schneider<br />
Mr. Richard Schubert, Jr.<br />
Dr. Jean D. Seder<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David O. Segermark<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William D. Service<br />
Mr. Bruce Shaffer<br />
Edward L. Sherrer, USAF (Ret.)<br />
Mr. William E. Shortall<br />
Mrs. Dewees F. Showell<br />
Mrs. Katherine R. Simpson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David A. Sirignano<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Skalsky, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Smith<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Scott Smith<br />
Mr. Turner Smith<br />
Mr. & Mrs. C. MacNair Speed<br />
Ms. Diana F. Stager<br />
Mr. C. William Stamm<br />
Mr. Eugene P. Stastny<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Philip Stein<br />
Dr. Robert Stern<br />
Mr. & Mrs. G.E. Stewart<br />
Ms. Phyllis Stonebrook<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Gregory J. Strauch<br />
Mr. Bruce L. Summer<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Sigmund R. Suskind<br />
Dr. David F. Sutter<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Alex A. Sydnor<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tardif<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Edward T. Taws, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. W. Stuart Thompson, Jr.<br />
Mr. Wayne Thompson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James S. Toedtman<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John P. Tokarz<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Tompkins<br />
Mr. Dennis H. Truesdale &<br />
Ms. Jerilyn M. Levi<br />
Mrs. Barbara Trunkhill<br />
United Way of Tri-State<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Valliant<br />
Helen M. Van Fleet<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Alan F. Van Winkle<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Herbert E. Von Goerres<br />
Ms. Margaret C. Wallace<br />
Mr. & Mrs. D.G. Waugh<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Gregory A. Weiss<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Murray W. Weiss<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Weisshaar<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Whalen<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Whitehead<br />
Ms. Sally K. Whittington<br />
Mr. & Mrs. C.H. Whittum, Jr.<br />
Mr. Harry W. Wickard<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Harry M. Will<br />
Jan Williamson<br />
Mr. Peter L. Woicke<br />
Mr. William H. Woodward<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Wright, Jr.<br />
Mr. Roy A. Wright, Jr.<br />
Dr. Sanford T. & Margaret L. Young<br />
Kurt & Margaret Zuehlke<br />
Quartermaster<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Valliant<br />
Gifts in Honor of<br />
Mr. Robert South Barrett<br />
Theo B. Bean Foundation, Inc.<br />
Miss Avery Bailey Joseph<br />
Dr. & Mrs. John H. Miller<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Breene M. Kerr<br />
Ms. Kay Adair<br />
Ms. Lucy Mitchell<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Kevin G. Zegan<br />
Mr. John R. Valliant<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Alnutt<br />
Amazon Hose & Rubber Company<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce C. Armistead<br />
Cecil & Candace Backus<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Batza, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Duane W. Beckhorn<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce P. Bedford<br />
Mr. Robert W. Bennett<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Stuart M. Bounds<br />
VAdm. & Mrs. James F. Calvert<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald K. Cassidy<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Clarke<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William H. Combs<br />
Mr. & Mrs. C. Paul Cox II<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas V. Croker III<br />
Mrs. Jeanne C. DeVries<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Frank S. Dudley, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. W. W. Duncan, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Irenee duPont, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Finan, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Albert B. Gipe<br />
Mrs. Shirley S. Gooch<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John L. Graham<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Griffith<br />
Ms. Nancy R. Hammond<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David C. Hazen<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hewes III<br />
Mrs. Nancy C. Hickey<br />
Drs. Wayne &<br />
Marietta Hockmeyer<br />
Mr. George F. Johnson<br />
Ms. Paula J. Johnson &<br />
Mr. Carl Fleischhauer<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Del Joiner<br />
Mrs. Margaret D. Keller<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Breene M. Kerr<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Kimberly<br />
Mrs. Nancy B. Kirby<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Frank D. Kittredge<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William L. Lane, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Lea, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. H. F. Lenfest<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Donald T. Lewers<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Long<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel C. Loveland<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Mason<br />
Dr. & Mrs. John F. Mautz<br />
Ms. Julie Parker McCahill<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Ellicott McConnell<br />
Mr. & Mrs. George V. McGowan<br />
The Hon. Juliette C. McLennan<br />
Capt. & Mrs. Richards T. Miller,<br />
USN (Ret)<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Francis A. Morgan, Jr.<br />
The Hon. & Mrs. John C. North II<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Sumner Parker<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Perkins<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James K. Peterson<br />
Mr. John M. Pinney &<br />
Mrs. Donna F. Cantor<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David L. Pyles<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Ray<br />
Mrs. J. Thomas Requard<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H.<br />
Reynolds, Jr.<br />
The Frederick W. Richmond<br />
Foundation, Inc.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John J. Roberts<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Paul D. Rust<br />
Mr. & Mrs. W. Rembert Simpson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William D. Smith<br />
Ms. Lucy I. Spiegel<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Henry H. Spire<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Stevens, Jr.<br />
Dr. Peter B. Stifel<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Jack P. Stoltz<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James E. Thomas<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James Thorington II<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Charles H. Thornton<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel M. Trippe<br />
Mrs. Katherine T. Trout<br />
Mrs. Jane Tucker<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Van Dyke<br />
Mrs. Joan D. West<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Wheeler<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John R. Whitmore<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Donald F. Wierda<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Yonkers<br />
Business, Foundation, and Government Support<br />
Business & Corporate<br />
Support including<br />
Matching Gifts<br />
Blue Crab <strong>Bay</strong> Company<br />
Chevy Chase Bank<br />
Constellation Energy Group, Inc.<br />
Exxon-Mobil Foundation, Inc.<br />
Fidelity Investment Charitable Fund<br />
Georgetown Yacht Basin, Inc.<br />
GlaxoSmithKline Foundation<br />
H&R Block Foundation<br />
IBM Corporation<br />
Johnson & Johnson<br />
North Star Asset Management<br />
Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc.<br />
The Pfizer Foundation<br />
Richland Homes<br />
Tidewater Yacht Sales, Inc.<br />
Verizon<br />
Government/Non-Profit<br />
Institute of Museum and<br />
Library Services<br />
Maryland Department of Business<br />
and Economic Development<br />
Maryland Department of<br />
Natural Resources<br />
Maryland Historic Trust<br />
Maryland State Arts Council<br />
National Park Service <strong>Chesapeake</strong><br />
<strong>Bay</strong> Gateways Program Office<br />
Talbot County Arts Council<br />
United Way of Tri-State<br />
Foundations<br />
Amazon Hose & Rubber Company<br />
Baltimore Community Foundation<br />
Theo B. Bean Foundation, Inc.<br />
The Museum is a bustling social hub.<br />
The Concordia Foundation<br />
ExxonMobil Foundation, Inc.<br />
Fair Play Foundation<br />
Fidelity Investment<br />
Charitable Gift Fund<br />
Thomas H. Hamilton Foundation, Inc.<br />
Elizabeth S. Hooper Foundation<br />
IBM Corporation<br />
Israel Family Foundation<br />
Grayce B. Kerr Fund, Inc.<br />
Dorothy A. Metcalf Foundation<br />
The Pfizer Foundation<br />
The Frederick W. Richmond<br />
Foundation, Inc.<br />
The Ross Foundation<br />
Sand Family Fund<br />
Schluderberg Foundation, Inc.<br />
The Robb & Elizabeth Tyler<br />
Foundation<br />
Van Dyke Family Foundation<br />
The Widgeon Foundation
Donors to Program, Capital Projects & Endowment<br />
The Museum is grateful for the outpouring of support from the many individuals, foundations and<br />
corporations listed here.<br />
Program and<br />
Capital Support<br />
Anonymous<br />
Benson & Mangold<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David M. Cox<br />
James T. Dunn Memorial<br />
Foundation<br />
Mrs. Nancy C. Hickey<br />
Mrs. Margaret D. Keller<br />
Grayce B. Kerr Fund, Inc.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John H. Kimberly<br />
Ms. Sandra F. Kirch<br />
The Lyric Foundation, Inc.<br />
The Hon. Juliette C. McLennan<br />
Monday Night Shipshape Group<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Norman H. Plummer<br />
Mrs. J. Thomas Requard<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Henry H. Spire<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Stevens, Jr.<br />
Theo B. Bean Foundation, Inc.<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Charles H. Thornton<br />
Gifts in Kind<br />
The Museum thanks the businesses<br />
and corporations that supported<br />
its education, capital and visitor<br />
programs with gifts-in-kind.<br />
Cadmus Journal Services<br />
<strong>Chesapeake</strong> Seafood Caterers<br />
Crab Claw Restaurant<br />
David Wheeler Volvo<br />
Dover Rent-All<br />
Fawcetts Boat Supplies, Inc.<br />
Higgins Crab House<br />
Inn at Perry Cabin<br />
Kelly Distributing<br />
The Lumberyard, Inc.<br />
Miles & Stockbridge, LLC<br />
PeachBlossoms, Inc.<br />
Quinn/Evans Architects<br />
Tiller Publishing<br />
Town & Country Liquors<br />
West Marine<br />
<strong>Collection</strong>s Acquisition<br />
Highlights<br />
Listed below are a few highlights<br />
of items acquired by the Museum<br />
and added to its collection of<br />
<strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> artifacts. The<br />
Museum extends its thanks to all<br />
who have contributed to<br />
the <strong>Collection</strong>.<br />
<strong>•</strong> Officer’s commission and<br />
privateer’s license for Oakley<br />
Haddaway of Talbot County,<br />
1782, near the end of the<br />
American Revolution. Gift of<br />
Robert G. Shannahan<br />
<strong>•</strong> Roulette wheel used on the<br />
Betterton entertainment pier.<br />
Gift of Margaret M. Harris<br />
<strong>•</strong> Model of the sailing log canoe<br />
Edmee S. made by Robert P.<br />
Mason. Gift of the model maker<br />
<strong>•</strong> <strong>Collection</strong> of powerboat racing<br />
trophies won by Louis Van<br />
Rossum of Edgewater, Maryland.<br />
Gift of Calvert Marine Museum<br />
<strong>•</strong> 8mm films of the Berg Boatyard<br />
of Georgetown, Maryland, and<br />
cruises on the family schooner<br />
yacht Roscoe S. Miller. Gift of Mr.<br />
and Mrs. Dennis Berg<br />
<strong>•</strong> Shipbuilder’s tool chests and<br />
tools including a tar ladle used<br />
in a Salisbury shipyard in the<br />
1930s. Gift of Ann Suthowski in<br />
memory of Arthur C. Brittingham<br />
Gifts to the <strong>Collection</strong> and<br />
Deeds of Gifts<br />
The Museum thanks the many<br />
individuals and businesses who<br />
donated a variety of items during<br />
2005-2006 including watercraft,<br />
historic maps, books, paintings,<br />
photographs and other <strong>Chesapeake</strong><br />
<strong>Bay</strong> related items.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Duke Adams III<br />
Mr. Guy Adams<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Herbert L. Andrew III<br />
Antique & Classic Boat Society -<br />
<strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong><br />
Mrs. Emily Austin<br />
Cecil & Candace Backus<br />
Mrs. Gordon R. Baer, Jr.<br />
Mr. Michael Balduzzi<br />
Mr. John F. Banghart IV<br />
Mr. Timothy Barnum<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Bateman<br />
Dr. Ronald Batistoni<br />
Mr. Richard Bemis<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Berg<br />
Ms. Sandra N. Berlin<br />
Ms. Catherine C. Blackwell<br />
Mr. Michael Boicourt<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Brigham<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Briskman<br />
Mr. Chad Brown<br />
Ms. Janet Buck<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Eugene F. Callaghan<br />
Mr. George Callaghan<br />
Calvert Marine Museum<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Warren A. Campbell III<br />
Mr. Roger L. Cason<br />
Ms. Donna L. Cassel<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Peter C. Chambliss<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Laurence G. Claggett, Sr.<br />
Mr. Pierre Collet<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Cornwell<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David M. Cox<br />
Mr. Charles Crady<br />
Mr. Mark Darcy<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Davis<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James B. Deerin<br />
Ms. Maude N. DeFrance<br />
Mr. Kenneth C. Diffenderfer<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Walter F. Dominick, Jr.<br />
Kids learn about working the water on Waterman’s Wharf.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Walter F. Dominick, Jr.<br />
Mr. Peter A. Doyle<br />
Eastport Yacht Club<br />
ECO, Inc.<br />
Mr. Michael D. Efford<br />
Ensign Press<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Lars K. Erickson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John L. Fairbank<br />
Ms. Doris G. Fink<br />
Mr. Edward Fiss<br />
Freedom Rowers<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald W. Gaston<br />
Mr. Morton Gibbons-Neff, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Wallace F. Glass<br />
Mrs. Shirley S. Gooch<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gray<br />
Mr. Geoffrey Hamlin<br />
Mrs. Alexandra D. Hanks<br />
Ms. Margaret M. Harris<br />
Mr. Richard H. Harryman<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Laurence Hartge<br />
Dr. & Mrs. John A. Hawkinson<br />
Mr. Ken Herlihy<br />
Mr. Harold G. Hernly<br />
Mr. Halsey C. Herreshoff<br />
Herreshoff Marine Museum<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Hook<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Hook<br />
Ms. Elizabeth Ann Hopkins<br />
Mr. Douglas Hotchkiss<br />
Ms. Martha Hudson<br />
Ms. Edythe Humphries<br />
Mrs. Barbara W. Jablin<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Edwin A. James<br />
Mr. R. Samuel Jett, Jr.<br />
Jobson Sailing, Inc.<br />
LTC & Mrs. Maurice R. Keiser,<br />
USA (Ret.)<br />
Ms. Karen Kelpy<br />
Mr. & Mrs. D. Brooke Kinney<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Koch<br />
Mr. Albert J. Kubeluis<br />
Mr. Thomas N. Kyle<br />
Mr. Larry Lauterbach<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Alvin L. Lawing<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Lea, Jr.<br />
Mrs. Annabel E. Lesher<br />
Mr. Pete Lesher<br />
Mr. & Mrs. J. VanCleve Lott<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Claude B. Maechling<br />
Makita U.S.A., Inc.<br />
Ms. Virginia D. Martus<br />
MAS Epoxies<br />
Mr. & Mrs. L. Edward Mason<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Mason<br />
Mr. Ronald A. Mason<br />
Mr. William Peak &<br />
Dr. Melissa McLoud<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew J. Michalak<br />
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William C. Millar<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick H. Morgan<br />
Mr. John Owen Mullen<br />
Mr. Peter J. Narbonne<br />
Mr. Gary Nylander<br />
Okuma Fishing Tackle Corporation<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald K. O’Mara<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Sumner Parker<br />
Mr. Jerry Patterson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William C. Pfingst<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John D. Phillips<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Norman H. Plummer<br />
Constantine Powers<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Sergio V. Proserpi<br />
Mr. Michael J. Pynn<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Reed III<br />
Mrs. J. Thomas Requard<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William U. Reybold III<br />
Mr. & Mrs. George W. Richards III<br />
Ms. Carol Rowan<br />
Mrs. Eleanor Hempstead Savage<br />
Mr. Robert Schaefer II<br />
Mr. Michael J. Scherer<br />
Dr. Arnold Schuring<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Alex Schuster<br />
Mr. Richard G. Scofield<br />
Mr. William Shipley III<br />
Mrs. Samuel H. Shriver, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. W. Rembert Simpson<br />
Mrs. Robert O. Smith<br />
Dr. Eva M. Smorzaniuk<br />
St. John Company Store<br />
Mr. George W. Steggles<br />
Mr. W. Wallace Stone<br />
Ms. Ann Suthowski in memory of<br />
Arthur C. Brittingham<br />
Mr. Robert M. Swarm<br />
Mr. David L. Tag<br />
Mr. Robert G. Target<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Simon Theriot, Jr.<br />
Dr. James P. Thompson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Tompkins<br />
Mr. Ryuji Ueno<br />
Mr. Wilmer J. Waller<br />
Mr. Keith Walters<br />
Mrs. George B. Walton<br />
Mrs. Robert Weller<br />
Mr. John H. Whitehead III<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Winslow Womack<br />
Mr. Timothy M. Zulick<br />
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Memorial Gifts<br />
Gifts given in memory of a loved<br />
one are placed in the Endowment<br />
Fund and support the Museum in<br />
perpetuity. The Museum expresses<br />
its sincere sympathy to family and<br />
friends who have made contributions<br />
to the Museum in memory of loved<br />
ones named below.<br />
Mr. Robert Appleby<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David J. Martinelli<br />
Mr. Lawrence T. Bailey<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Donald S. Bennett<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William W. Brooks<br />
Dr. Charles P. Craig &<br />
Mrs. Pamela M. Devereux-Craig<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charlie Craig<br />
Ms. Janice Craig<br />
Ms. Elizabeth J. Currier<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John L. Flynt<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John Franckhauser<br />
Mr. C. Philip Kable<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William A. Naugle<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Steven Shea<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Glenn F. Sykora<br />
Mr. David B. Baker, Jr.<br />
Mrs. Eleanor B. Baker-deCamp<br />
Mrs. Margaret D. Keller<br />
Mr. Daniel P. Barnard V<br />
Dr. Christine H. Block &<br />
Mr. Jeffrey J. Schaufer<br />
Mr. Edward Gould Brownlee III<br />
Mr. John B. Carson<br />
Ms. Gina Marziani<br />
Romaine F. ”Mike” &<br />
Dorothy Button<br />
Mr. & Mrs. George A. Jackson<br />
Mr. R. Augustus Clark<br />
Sailing Club of the <strong>Chesapeake</strong><br />
Mr. William D. deCamp<br />
Mrs. Margaret D. Keller<br />
Master Jack Nichols English<br />
Ms. Sandra F. Kirch<br />
Mrs. Samuel R. Gay, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Edward C. Schaefer<br />
Maj. Gen. Samuel R. Gay, Jr.<br />
Mrs. Samuel R. Gay, Jr.<br />
Mrs. Ray Gladhill<br />
William & Mary Kalis<br />
Mr. Thomas R. Herman<br />
Mrs. Lois Cichantek<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Larry Freeman<br />
Mr. Tolbert H. Konigsberg<br />
Rosenthal Honda<br />
Mr. Richard F. Schubert<br />
Mr. John B. Mencke<br />
Mrs. Margaret D. Keller<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Mackin<br />
Dr. Ted J. Noffsinger, Jr.<br />
Mrs. Gordon R. Baer, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Martin Noffsinger<br />
Life Members & Planned Gifts<br />
Life Members<br />
The Museum is very pleased to<br />
welcome the following individuals<br />
who joined the Museum as Life<br />
Members in fiscal year 2005-2006.<br />
Mr. Jeff T. Abell<br />
Mrs. Hannah J. Alnutt<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Jerry E. Baker<br />
Mr. Thomas K. Berger<br />
Heidi & Steven Berman<br />
Dr. Jeffrey H. Etherton<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Fox<br />
Laurie & Richard Johnson<br />
Mr. Robert C. Kettler<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David J. Martinelli<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John Monsky<br />
Ms. Katherine Preben Ostberg<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles O. Rossotti<br />
Ann & Paul Rybon<br />
Mrs. Diane Simison<br />
Perpetual Mariners Society<br />
Estate & Planned Gifts<br />
We are pleased to recognize those<br />
individuals who have supported<br />
Mr. Philip E. Nuttle, Sr.<br />
Mrs. Margaret P. Nuttle<br />
Mr. Franklin K. Peacock<br />
Sailing Club of the <strong>Chesapeake</strong><br />
Mr. J. Thomas Requard<br />
Classic Yacht Club of America, Inc.<br />
The Hon. Juliette C. McLennan<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Sumner Parker<br />
Mrs. Mary Ruth Robertson<br />
Ms. Paulanna C. Gerhardt<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick H. Sny<br />
Mrs. Ann Rybon<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David M. Cox<br />
Grayce B. Kerr Fund, Inc.<br />
Mr. William M. McLin &<br />
Mr. Sam McKeon<br />
Mr. W. Mason Shehan, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Frank E. Anderson<br />
Anhut & Associates Inc.<br />
Mr. Joseph H. Bachtiger<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Blevins<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Guy Cianci<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Curt Cramer<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James L. Crothers<br />
Ms. Michele L. Duke<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald M. Finch<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Elliot Fox<br />
The Hon. & Mrs. Harry Hughes<br />
Kaufman, Rossin & Co.<br />
Lubitz Financial Group<br />
Mr. Thomas H Marshall, Jr.<br />
The Hon. James R. Miller, Jr.<br />
Murray Feiss Import Corp.<br />
the Museum through a bequest or<br />
planned gifts which help ensure<br />
the future of the Museum in<br />
perpetuity.<br />
Among the Museum’s education programs is<br />
“Crab Cakes,” featuring Alice Palmer.<br />
Ms. Barbara Provost<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Elmer M. Pusey,Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Fred O. Snyder<br />
St. Andrews Society of the<br />
Eastern Shore<br />
Ms. Barbara Stevens<br />
Mrs. William G. Story<br />
Mr. David W. Swetland<br />
Mr. & Mrs. W. Stuart Thompson, Jr.<br />
Mrs. Rolf G. Thyrre<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John K. Todd, Sr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David C. Walters<br />
Weems Brothers, Inc.<br />
William B. Bergen Foundation<br />
Mr. Robert Owen Smith<br />
Air Products Foundation<br />
Mr. Charles F. Stein III<br />
Sailing Club of the <strong>Chesapeake</strong><br />
Mr. Francis M. Waters, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. George Waters<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Waters<br />
Western Connecticut SCORE<br />
Danbury Branch<br />
Mr. George W. Wilson, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Sumner Parker<br />
Mr. Richard L. Young<br />
Ms. Mary W. Battin<br />
Mr. & Mrs. George H. Cleaves<br />
Mr. Dennis T. Gallagher<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Green<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Taylor<br />
Mr. McKenny W. Anderson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David L. Benfer<br />
Mrs. Ralph Bloom<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James O. Burri<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Peter C. Chambliss<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence M. Denton<br />
Mr. & Mrs. W. Scott Ditch<br />
Mr. Alfred Fittipaldi &<br />
Ms. Patricia M. Coleman<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Gillmer<br />
Mr. William F. Grovermann<br />
Mrs. Sarah P. Hall<br />
Mr. & Mrs. George W. Marshall<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Harwood G. Martin<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Fred C. Meendsen<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Norman H. Plummer<br />
VAdm. & Mrs. William L. Read<br />
Mr. William L. Renfro<br />
Ms. Margaret E. Roggensack<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Henry H. Spire<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Stevens, Jr.<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Richard F. Tyler
Endowments<br />
Named endowment funds have<br />
supported the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong><br />
<strong>Maritime</strong> Museum since the first<br />
fund was established in 1969.<br />
Persons considering making<br />
additions to these funds or<br />
creating a similar fund by a<br />
current or planned gift are<br />
encouraged to contact Dr.<br />
John H. Miller at the Museum<br />
for additional information.<br />
Operating Endowments<br />
The David B. Baker, Jr. Memorial<br />
Endowment<br />
The Bedford Family Fund Operating<br />
Endowment<br />
The Bruce Ford Brown Memorial<br />
Operating Endowment<br />
The Buildings & Grounds<br />
Endowment<br />
The C. Thomas Clagett, Jr.<br />
Operating Endowment<br />
The Edward B. Freeman Memorial<br />
Operating Endowment<br />
The James & Marianna Horner<br />
Operating Endowment<br />
The Constance Stuart Larabee<br />
Operating Endowment<br />
The Dundas Leavitt Memorial<br />
Operating Endowment<br />
The Peter Max Operating<br />
Endowment<br />
The Memorial Operating<br />
Endowment<br />
The Fred & Nancy Meendsen<br />
Endowment<br />
The Museum extends it sincere<br />
appreciation to all who made<br />
gifts to the Museum’s endowment<br />
funds. These gifts support ongoing<br />
programs and collections of the<br />
Museum such as the Hooper Strait<br />
lighthouse, the sailing program,<br />
the apprentice program among<br />
many others.<br />
Ms. Kay Adair<br />
Adele M. Thomas Charitable<br />
Foundation, Inc.<br />
Air Products Foundation<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Frank E. Anderson<br />
Anhut & Associates Inc.<br />
Mr. Joseph H. Bachtiger<br />
Mrs. Eleanor B. Baker-deCamp<br />
Ms. Nancy H. Bare<br />
Ms. Mary W. Battin<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Batza, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Donald S. Bennett<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Marion W. Bevard<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Gordon K. Billipp<br />
Mr. J. Andrew Billipp &<br />
Dr. Susan H. Billipp<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Blevins<br />
Dr. Christine H. Block &<br />
Mr. Jeffrey J. Schaefer<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Born<br />
Michael & Ella Bracy<br />
The Members Operating<br />
Endowment<br />
The John B. Mencke Memorial<br />
Endowment<br />
The Sumner & Frances Parker<br />
Endowment<br />
The J. Thomas & Eleanor Requard<br />
Endowment Fund<br />
The J.W. Sener, Jr., Endowment<br />
The Ralph Simmons Operating<br />
Endowment<br />
The Linda & Hank Spire Operating<br />
Endowment<br />
The John R. Valliant President’s<br />
Discretionary Endowment<br />
The Vane Brothers Company<br />
Endowment<br />
Education and Curatorial<br />
Endowments<br />
The Boatbuilding Apprentice Fund<br />
The Howard I. Chapelle Memorial<br />
Library Endowment<br />
Gifts to the Endowment<br />
Master craftmen are often invited to share their skills<br />
with the Boat Yard crew.<br />
Mr. Karl E. Briers<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William W. Brooks<br />
Mr. John B. Carson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Guy Cianci<br />
Mrs. Lois Cichantek<br />
Classic Yacht Club of America, Inc.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. George H. Cleaves<br />
Dr. Charles P. Craig &<br />
Mrs. Pamela M. Devereux-Craig<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charlie Craig<br />
Ms. Janice Craig<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Curt Cramer<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James L. Crothers<br />
Ms. Elizabeth J. Currier<br />
Ms. Michele L. Duke<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald M. Finch<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John L. Flynt<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Elliot Fox<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John Franckhauser<br />
Larry & Charlotte Freeman<br />
Mr. Dennis T. Gallagher<br />
Ms. Rachael E. Gaynor<br />
Ms. Paulanna C. Gerhardt<br />
Mrs. Shirley S. Gooch<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Green<br />
Mrs. Jean M. Heyn<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William M. Heyn<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Hoober<br />
The Hon. & Mrs. Harry Hughes<br />
George & Theresa Jackson<br />
Mr. C. Philip Kable<br />
The <strong>Collection</strong> Acquisition<br />
Endowment<br />
The Curatorial Endowment<br />
The J. Douglas Darby Memorial<br />
Education Endowment<br />
The J. Douglas Darby Library<br />
Endowment<br />
The Davenport Family Foundation<br />
Endowment<br />
The Education Endowment<br />
The Fichtner Community Sailing<br />
Endowment<br />
The Claiborne W. Gooch III<br />
Memorial Endowment<br />
The Maintenance for Floating<br />
Exhibits Endowment<br />
The Jean McIntosh & William<br />
Carveth Heyn Endowment Fund<br />
The George F. Johnson Endowment<br />
Kaufman, Rossin & Co.<br />
Mrs. Margaret D. Keller<br />
Grayce B. Kerr Fund, Inc.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Kimberly<br />
Mr. Tolbert H. Konigsberg<br />
Lubitz Financial Group<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Mackin<br />
Mr. Thomas H. Marshall, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David J. Martinelli<br />
Ms. Gina Marziani<br />
The Hon. Juliette C. McLennan<br />
Ms. Mildred H. McQueen<br />
The Hon. & Mrs. James R. Miller, Jr.<br />
Murray Feiss Import Corp.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William A. Naugle<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Martin Noffsinger<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John L.S. Northrop<br />
Mrs. Margaret P. Nuttle<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John B. Owens<br />
Norman G. Owens Foundation<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Sumner Parker<br />
Ms. Gretchen Heyn Porter<br />
Ms. Barbara Provost<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Elmer M. Pusey, Jr.<br />
Rosenthal Honda<br />
Sailing Club of the <strong>Chesapeake</strong><br />
Mr. Richard F. Schubert<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Sener, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Steven Shea<br />
Mr. & Mrs. H.C. Bowen Smith<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Fred O. Snyder<br />
The Program Endowment for<br />
the Kerr Center for<br />
<strong>Chesapeake</strong> Studies<br />
The Kimberly Clark Endowment in<br />
Memory of Robert J. Kimberly<br />
The Lenfest Foundation Lecture<br />
Series Endowment<br />
The Lighthouse Endowment<br />
The James Michener Intern<br />
Endowment<br />
The Phillip E. Nuttle Waterfowl<br />
Endowment<br />
The Sumner and Frances Parker<br />
Endowment<br />
The David & Susan Pyles<br />
Community Sailing Endowment<br />
The Sailing Club of the <strong>Chesapeake</strong><br />
Sail Training Endowment<br />
The <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> Log Canoe<br />
Trophy Endowment<br />
The Ralph Simmons Operating<br />
Endowment<br />
The C.V. Starr Scholarship<br />
Endowment<br />
The Barbara Stewart Museum Store<br />
Endowment<br />
The Ernest and Jane Tucker<br />
Apprentice Endowment<br />
The George Harry Wagner<br />
Memorial Scholarship<br />
Endowment<br />
The Webster Endowment<br />
The Ralph H. Wiley Education<br />
Endowment<br />
Fred & Carolyn Snyder<br />
St. Andrews Society of the<br />
Eastern Shore<br />
St. Michaels Marina, Inc.<br />
The Starr Foundation<br />
Ms. Barbara Stevens<br />
Mrs. William G. Story<br />
Mr. David W. Swetland<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Glenn F. Sykora<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Taylor<br />
Mr. & Mrs. W. Stuart Thompson, Jr.<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Charles H. Thornton<br />
Mrs. Rolf G Thyrre<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John K. Todd, Sr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John R. Valliant<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Wagner<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David C. Walters, Jr.<br />
Mr. & Mrs. George Waters<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Waters, Jr.<br />
Weems Brothers, Inc.<br />
Western Connecticut SCORE<br />
Danbury Branch<br />
The Whiting-Turner<br />
Contracting Company<br />
Ms. Eunice M. Whitney<br />
Mr. Roger S. Whitney<br />
Mr. Simon Whitney &<br />
Ms. Judy Levison<br />
William B. Bergen Foundation<br />
33
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> 2005-2006<br />
Financial Data and Information<br />
34<br />
Statement of Financial Position Year Ended April 30, 2006<br />
ASSETS<br />
Cash and Cash Equivalents<br />
Accrued Investment Income<br />
Accounts and Grants Receivable<br />
Short Term Investments at Fair Value<br />
Split-Interest Receivable<br />
Contributions Receivable<br />
Tax Credit Receivable<br />
Inventories at Lower of Cost or Fair Value<br />
Pre-Paid Expenses<br />
Planned Gifts Investments at Fair Value<br />
Long Term Investments at Fair Value<br />
Land, Buildings and Equipment (Net of Depreciation)<br />
TOTAL ASSETS<br />
LIABILITIES<br />
Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses<br />
Deferred Income and Deposits<br />
Notes Payable<br />
Long-Term Debt<br />
TOTAL LIABILITIES<br />
NET ASSETS<br />
Unrestricted<br />
Temporarily Restricted<br />
Permanently Restricted<br />
TOTAL NET ASSETS<br />
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS<br />
2006<br />
$840,458<br />
20,220<br />
32,964<br />
213,480<br />
671,102<br />
220,445<br />
0<br />
327,287<br />
24,274<br />
15,334<br />
13,612,487<br />
13,853,620<br />
$29,831,671<br />
2006<br />
$730,681<br />
73,924<br />
7,929<br />
3,660,872<br />
$4,473,406<br />
2006<br />
$17,107,815<br />
430,590<br />
7,819,860<br />
$25,358,265<br />
$29,831,671<br />
2005<br />
$916,230<br />
18,205<br />
30,638<br />
238,491<br />
673,835<br />
449,859<br />
403,000<br />
315,195<br />
52,745<br />
14,854<br />
10,875,532<br />
12,891,207<br />
$26,879,791<br />
2005<br />
$504,541<br />
45,985<br />
7,929<br />
2,337,555<br />
$2,896,010<br />
2005<br />
$16,109,382<br />
580,511<br />
7,293,888<br />
$23,983,781<br />
$26,879,791<br />
A copy of the current financial statements of the <strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Maritime</strong> Museum is available by writing P.O. Box 636,<br />
St. Michaels, MD 21663-0636 or by calling 410-745-2916 ext. 238. Documents and information submitted under the Maryland<br />
Charitable Solicitations Act are also available from the Maryland Secretary of State, State House, Annapolis, MD 21401,<br />
410-974-5534. Registration with the Maryland Secretary of State is not, and does not imply, endorsement of any solicitation.<br />
Other Income: 3%<br />
Education/Publication: 3%<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> Fund: 13%<br />
Store Gross Profit: 8%<br />
Contributions and Grants: 25%<br />
Operating Income<br />
Endowment<br />
Distribution: 18%<br />
Membership: 14%<br />
Admissions and<br />
Special Events: 16%<br />
Functional Expenses<br />
(All Funds)<br />
Program: 74%<br />
Fundraising: 10%<br />
Administration: 16%
Statement of Activities Year Ended April 30, 2006<br />
REVENUES<br />
Contributions<br />
Contributions<br />
Membership<br />
TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS<br />
Grants<br />
Special Event - Boating Party<br />
Admissions<br />
Education Programs<br />
Change in Value of Split Interest Agreements<br />
Investment Income<br />
Realized Gain on Securities<br />
Unrealized Gain on Securities<br />
Museum Store Gross Profit<br />
Rental Income<br />
Miscellaneous Sales<br />
Other Income<br />
Assets Released from Restriction<br />
TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS & REVENUE<br />
Expenses<br />
Program Expenses<br />
Administrative Expenses<br />
Fundraising Expenses<br />
TOTAL EXPENSES<br />
CHANGES IN NET ASSETS<br />
NET ASSETS, BEGINNING OF YEAR<br />
NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR<br />
Unrestricted<br />
$502,894<br />
414,272<br />
917,166<br />
-<br />
152,289<br />
481,440<br />
85,233<br />
258,085<br />
618,088<br />
1,635,475<br />
242,936<br />
30,787<br />
339,589<br />
7,261<br />
531,235<br />
5,299,584<br />
3,168,251<br />
692,522<br />
440,378<br />
4,301,151<br />
998,433<br />
$16,109,382<br />
$17,107,815<br />
Fundraising: 10%<br />
Visitor Services: 20%<br />
Publications &<br />
Communications: 4%<br />
Temporarily<br />
Restricted<br />
$87,681<br />
-<br />
87,681<br />
293,633<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
(531,235)<br />
(149,921)<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
0<br />
(149,921)<br />
$580,511<br />
$430,590<br />
Operating Dollars at Work<br />
Curatorial & Boat Yard: 18%<br />
Administration &<br />
Marketing: 23%<br />
Permanently<br />
Restricted<br />
$493,235<br />
-<br />
493,235<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
32,737<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
525,972<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
0<br />
525,972<br />
$7,293,888<br />
$7,819,860<br />
Buildings, Grounds &<br />
Exhibits: 19%<br />
Education: 6%<br />
Total<br />
2006<br />
$1,083,810<br />
414,272<br />
1,498,082<br />
293,633<br />
152,289<br />
481,440<br />
85,233<br />
32,737<br />
258,085<br />
618,088<br />
1,635,475<br />
242,936<br />
30,787<br />
339,589<br />
7,261<br />
-<br />
5,675,635<br />
3,168,251<br />
692,522<br />
440,378<br />
4,301,151<br />
1,374,484<br />
$23,983,781<br />
$25,358,265<br />
2005<br />
$1,614,340<br />
400,930<br />
2,015,270<br />
610,865<br />
161,939<br />
466,883<br />
103,137<br />
32,862<br />
237,794<br />
278,137<br />
167,561<br />
219,496<br />
30,694<br />
360,021<br />
1,401<br />
-<br />
4,686,060<br />
2,696,647<br />
506,536<br />
350,003<br />
3,553,186<br />
1,132,874<br />
$22,850,907<br />
$23,983,781<br />
35
Mystery Photo<br />
Can you identify the location where this photograph was taken on the <strong>Bay</strong> a hundred<br />
years ago? The answer and the names of the readers who got it right will appear in<br />
the next issue of the CBMM Quarterly. Send your answers to editor@cbmm.org.<br />
We gratefully recognize Mercantile Eastern Shore Bank for its generous support of this publication.<br />
<strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Maritime</strong> Museum<br />
Navy Point PO Box 636<br />
St. Michaels, MD 21663<br />
Non-Profit Org.<br />
U.S. Postage Paid<br />
<strong>Chesapeake</strong> <strong>Bay</strong><br />
<strong>Maritime</strong> Museum