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QUARTERLY 

Winter 2006-2007 

Burgess Collection • Annual Report

QUARTERLY 

Winter 2006-2007 

Volume 4 Number 4 

Editor 

Dick Cooper 

editor@cbmm.org 

Graphic Design/Photography 

Rob Brownlee-Tomasso 

Contributors 

Julie Gibbons-Neff Cox 

Rachel Dolhanczyk 

Robert Forloney 

Pete Lesher 

Melissa McLoud 

John H. Miller 

Stuart L. Parnes 

Kathleen Rattie 

Lindsley E. H. Rice 

Michael Valliant 

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum 

Navy Point, P.O. Box 636 

St. Michaels, MD 21663-0636 

410-745-2916 Fax 410-745-6088 

www.cbmm.org editor@cbmm.org 

The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is a private 

not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational institution. A 

copy of the current financial statement is available 

on request by writing the Vice President of Finance, 

P.O. Box 636, St. Michaels, MD 21663 or by calling 

410-745-2916 ext. 238. Documents and information 

submitted under the Maryland Charitable Solicitations 

Act are also available, for the cost of postage and 

copies, from the Maryland Secretary of State, State 

House, Annapolis, MD 21401, 410-974-5534. 

On the Cover 

Trailboards, from the collection of 

Robert H. Burgess, that have been 

acquired by CBMM. (See story, page 4.) 

Photograph by Bill Kepner. 

Happy New Year from all of us at the CBMM 

At this time of year, most of us find ourselves looking both back and forward 

in time, so it seems appropriate that this issue of the CBMM Quarterly 

combines the final report for the year 2005-2006 with stories about new beginnings 

here at the Museum. 

Last year was one of dramatic transition for your Museum. John Valliant 

announced his retirement after 19 years at the helm. His watch was 

marked by growth and achievement in almost every area of the Museum’s 

operations, and he left an institution that is well respected and much loved. 

Change can be traumatic (especially for history museum people, who spend 

their professional lives trying to keep things from changing) but it can also 

be energizing and refreshing. 

Change is in the air, and it is welcomed 

by staff and Board alike. After extensive 

renovations inside and out, the Steamboat 

Building is opening at last as the Museum’s 

new center for changing exhibitions. 

Museums have long recognized that temporary 

special exhibits and programs are 

keys to attracting more members and visitors, 

broadening the sponsorship base and 

enjoying more media attention. The upcoming 

new exhibitions (described later 

in this issue) are just what CBMM has 

been planning for. 

This issue also highlights some important 

new arrivals to CBMM. Several key 

staff positions have been filled in the past few months, bringing significant 

new energy and experience to our ranks. Kathleen Rattie is our new Director 

of Development. She works closely with veteran John Miller to oversee 

Annual Fund and grant opportunities, and also manages our membership activities. 

Robert Forloney has joined us as Director of Education. He will be 

reviewing and renewing our entire menu of educational programs for both 

adults and schools, and will be working closely with our corps of docents to 

expand their training and activity here at the Museum. Both Kate and Robert 

will be important factors in CBMM’s future success. I am delighted to have 

them here as colleagues. 

As you will also read, the Museum has finalized the purchase of the Robert 

Burgess Collection. This most extraordinary private collection of Chesapeake 

Bay artifacts will provide new content for years of research, programs, and exhibitions. 

I am grateful to the donors who generously made this significant acquisition 

possible, and I urge you to come to our Members Opening in March 

to get a first look at some of the fascinating items included in the collection. 

From my vantage point, 2007 promises to be a very exciting year. I hope 

you will visit often, take advantage of what we offer, and let us know how 

we are doing. 

Stuart L. Parnes, President 

sparnes@cbmm.org 

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Winter 2006-2007

Contents 

Contents 

(Above) Captain Mark Adams takes 

CBMM visitors for a boat ride on 

St. Michaels Harbor during the fall 

OysterFest. The Volunteer was built 

for the Museum by volunteers. 

Departments 

To the Point 

Annual Report 

Events Calendar* 

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* Events Calendar is a special pull-out 

section that can be found between 

pages 18 and 19. 

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Features 

The Collection of Robert H. Burgess 

During his life, Robert H. Burgess, the former curator of the 

Mariners’ Museum, collected all things Chesapeake. By Pete Lesher 

Waters of Despair, Waters of Hope 

A new exhibit opening explores the history and influence of 

African Americans on the region. By Lindsley E. H. Rice 

Explore & Restore 

The Horn Point Laboratory is the center for extensive research on 

oysters, blue crabs, and oxygen levels on the Bay. By Michael Valliant 

Supertanker Training on the Miles 

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The Calhoon M.E.B.A. Engineering School is a mid-career training 

facility for Coast Guard-licensed merchant mariners. By Dick Cooper 

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Museum Acquires Collection 

of Robert H. Burgess 

By Pete Lesher, Curator of Collections 

In the 1940s, Robert H. Burgess, the late curator of the 

Mariners’ Museum, looked around the Chesapeake Bay 

that he loved so much and saw major changes under way. 

The age of the steamboat was waning with the coming of 

the Bay Bridge, and the wooden sailing vessels, that had 

served so well for generations, were being abandoned to 

die slow deaths of decay. 

“Hulks could be found around the Chesapeake region 

even up into the 1950s, if you knew where to look for 

them. Earlier, many of the sailing craft, old and worn out, 

were abandoned in shallow areas close to where they were 

owned,” Burgess wrote in 1975. 1 

Instead of rot and rubble, Burgess saw historic artifacts 

that would serve as links to the Bay’s proud past. He began 

gleaning the wrecks and amassing probably the largest com- 

prehensive accumulation of Bay objects and ephemera in 

private hands. The Burgess collection has now found a new 

home with the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. 

Burgess, who died in 2003, is remembered as a prolific 

author and editor, museum curator, photographer, and historian 

as well as collector. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, 

in 1913, the son of a steamship engineer. 

As he recalled, “Ships were everyday talk in my home 

since my father and brother followed the water in merchant 

ships. Steamboats conveyed me up and down and across the 

Bay. Perhaps these factors, my association with ships, and 

an innate feeling that the Chesapeake picture was changing 

when I was a youngster, spurred me on to document it.” 2 

After graduation from Baltimore City College, he shipped 

out to Bermuda and Haiti on the four-masted schooner Doris 

continued, page 8

(Opposite, Left) Robert H. Burgess with vessel carvings 

from his collection, November 1950. Photo by William T. 

Radcliffe, Robert H. Burgess Collection 

(Right) Burgess climbed the spanker mast of the four-masted 

schooner Doris Hamlin for a view of her poop deck. Photo 

by Robert H. Burgess, Robert H. Burgess Collection 

Collection of Robert H. Burgess 

(Left) Burgess sailed on 

the four-masted schooner 

Doris Hamlin on a voyage 

to Bermuda and Haiti in 

1936, when he was 23 years 

old. Photo by Robert H. 

Burgess, Robert H. Burgess 

Collection 

(Left) Skipjacks 

dredging, viewed 

from the deck of 

the E. C. Collier, 

1948. Photo by 

Robert H. Burgess, 

Robert H. Burgess 

Collection 

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Mast Truck 

Ornamental ball attached to the 

masthead of an unidentified 

Chesapeake vessel. 

Quarter Board 

From the two-masted schooner A. H. 

Schulz, built 1872 by William E. Woodall 

in Baltimore. Obtained by exchange with 

M. V. Brewington, about 1954. 

Staunchion 

From the starboard rail near 

the stern of the three-masted 

schooner William T. Parker, 

collected from the vessel 

abandoned at Curtis Creek, 

near Baltimore, about 1954. 

Clew Iron 

Used to secure the outboard end of a large sail to 

the boom. From the William L. Godfrey sail loft in 

Baltimore; obtained by trading for some photographs.

Spectacle Iron 

Used to suspend the lazyjacks for the 

jib on a large bugeye or schooner, 

which made it easier to contain 

the sail when lowering. From 

the William L. Godfrey 

sail loft; obtained by 

trading for some 

photographs. 


What is it? 

Robert H. Burgess found beauty in sailing 

vessels and the functional things that held 

them together. Here are several pieces from his 

collection, showing how they were used and 

where they came from. 

Deadeye 

Used to keep tension on the port foremast rigging of 

the schooner Stephen Chase, built 1876 in Dorchester 

County, Maryland. Salvaged from the abandoned vessel 

in Curtis Creek, near Baltimore, in 1949. 

Trailboard 

Ornamental name carving from the skipjack Klondike, 

built 1897 in Pocomoke City, Maryland. Obtained by 

exchange with M. V. Brewington, about 1954. 

Billet Head 

Ornamental 

scroll at the end 

of the longhead, 

from the schooner 

Bohemia, built 1884 

by Thomas Kirby in St. 

Michaels, Maryland. Salvaged 

from the abandoned vessel at 

Sarah’s Creek, Virginia, about 1952. 

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(Above) Hulk of the four-masted schooner Purnell T. White lying at Port Covington, Baltimore, 

September 21, 1951. Photo by Robert H. Burgess, Robert H. Burgess Collection 

(Right) Burgess climbing aboard the hulk of the Purnell T. White. Robert H. Burgess Collection 

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from page 4 

Hamlin, taking some 200 photos and keeping a journal of 

the voyage. In 1941 he joined the staff of The Mariners’ Museum, 

in Newport News, Virginia, and except for a wartime 

tour of duty on a destroyer escort in the Pacific, he remained 

with the museum until his retirement. 

Burgess published numerous books and articles on the 

Bay. Unlike some other authors of historical nonfiction, he 

did not restrict his research to the archives. He wrote about 

the sailing log canoe Flying Cloud after helping her new 

owner, Fred Kaiser, deliver the boat from Maryland to Virginia, 

and subsequently crewed in an abortive attempt to 

deliver the boat to her next owner in New York. 3 Similarly, 

he wrote about oyster dredging after spending a day aboard 

the skipjack E. C. Collier in February 1948. 4 Burgess lectured 

widely on Chesapeake Bay and maritime topics, and he 

was consulted by authors and historians. He also served as a 

member of the Board of Governors of the Chesapeake Bay 

Maritime Museum. 

Trailboards, the relief carvings under the bowsprit of a 

sailing vessel, were a distinctive ornament on commercial sailing 

craft on the Chesapeake. Burgess purchased or salvaged 

these items from Bay vessels at the end of their working years, 

along with interesting pieces of hull, rigging, and ironwork. In 

some cases he traded objects with other collectors or institutions, 

including maritime historian Marion V. Brewington and 

the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Maryland. 

Burgess never managed to acquire a carved paddlebox 

emblem from a steamboat, but he compensated for this after 

taking up wood carving as a hobby. He probably started 

carving by tackling repairs on damaged trailboards in his collection. 

He then turned to replicating several carvings in the 

collection of The Mariners’ Museum. In 1952 he replicated the 

paddlebox emblem from the Chesapeake steamboat Avalon, 

using a photograph he had taken in 1936. The finished product 

shows him to have been quite skillful. 

His collecting focused on commercial sail and steam, as 

well as on the shoreside industries that supported them, but 

not on naval history or recreational boating. As he expressed 

it, “Ships of the Navy, and yachts, have never inspired me 

even though I served two years with the former during World 

War II and sail the Bay for pleasure today.” 5 

Abandoned vessels were a prime source for his collecting 

activities. Burgess’ motivations were nostalgic, and he was 

keenly aware that as he observed them, commercial sail and 

steam were anachronistic and on their way to disappearing. 

“On shore I scoured the waterfronts of the major Bay 

ports and the little tidewater towns, photographing scenes 

that are no more. At the same time I made an attempt to salvage 

objects of maritime history of the Bay to help keep alive 

the memory of the craft. Through the decades this has developed 

into an extensive collection of Chesapeake memorabilia 

made up of carved decorations from the steam and sailing 

craft, steam whistles that once echoed around the Bay, halfmodels, 

fittings, tools, log-books, and ships’ papers. The vessels 

from which they originated have long disappeared but 

their names will live on through this medium.” 6 

Burgess made a clear distinction between his collecting 

activities and that of others who he witnessed taking items

(Right) Burgess carving a relief of 

the schooner Doris Hamlin. Photo 

by William Edwin Booth, Robert H. 

Burgess Collection 

off abandoned vessels. The four-masted schooner Purnell T. 

White was dismasted at sea in 1934 but towed back to port 

and ultimately abandoned at Baltimore. 

Burgess recorded, “I salvaged her port quarter board, 

where her name was carved, and it now hangs above my desk. 

. . . While vandals picked her bones to salvage scrap metal for 

monetary gain, I was intent on recovering her figurehead to 

help keep her memory alive.” Although he did not succeed in 

recovering the carved eagle head from its “lofty and almost 

inaccessible perch” after several attempts, he ultimately obtained 

it from the captain of the Vane Brothers harbor chandlery 

boat. 7 Burgess distinguished his efforts at preservation 

from “pillagers” or “vandals” that scavenged and sold items 

off wrecked vessels. 

The documentation Burgess left for these items is remarkable, 

with tags identifying the date and vessel of origin 

and other details. Burgess’ collection of photographic prints, 

which are also part of this collection, further support the 

documentation of these objects. He often photographed the 

hulks at the time that he salvaged artifacts from them, and the 

prints are typically identified and dated. His collection also 

shows the fruits of his partnership with Baltimore artist Louis 

J. Feuchter, with a large portfolio of the artist’s sketches and 

paintings, as well as hundreds of prints from Baltimore pictorialist 

photographer A. Aubrey Bodine. 

Burgess befriended both men and occasionally traveled 

with each of them by steamboat. His own photography contrasts 

with the work of these colleagues, however, as Burgess 

on principle refused to retouch or enhance his photographs in 

the darkroom, while Bodine took the opposite approach. 

Feuchter, on the other hand, “had little regard for pho- 


tography at that time. . . . He claimed that the camera caused 

distortion and false perspective but he learned to rely on my 

photographs in later years. . . . The details he wanted were 

recorded on my film.” 8 

As in his photography, Burgess was a minimalist in his 

approach to editing historical works. When he prepared the 

journals of schooner captain Leonard S. Tawes for publication, 

he added punctuation and paragraph breaks to make the 

work readable, but he took care that “none of the flavor of 

Captain Tawes’ writing [was] tampered with.” 9 

His collection will be featured in a new special exhibit, 

“Their Last Passage: The Collection of Robert H. Burgess,” 

opening this March, and future exhibition plans for the collection 

include a display of many of the carved name boards 

and trailboards in the Steamboat Building auditorium. 

Sources 

1. Burgess, Chesapeake Sailing Craft, Part I (Cambridge, Md.: Tidewater Publishers, 

1975), 18. 

2. Robert H. Burgess, Chesapeake Circle (Cambridge, Md.: Cornell Maritime Press, 

1965), ix. 

3. Burgess, Chesapeake Circle, 57-63. 

4. Burgess, “Hard Sailing for Maryland’s Oysters,” Chesapeake Skipper (December 

1948), 9, 32-3. 

5. Burgess, Chesapeake Circle, ix. 

6. Burgess, This Was Chesapeake Bay (Cambridge, Md.: Cornell Maritime Press, 

1963), ix. 

7. Burgess, Sea, Sails, and Shipwreck (Cambridge, Md.: Tidewater Publishers, 

1970), 9. 

8. Chesapeake Sailing Craft, xvii. 

(Left) The schooner Anna & Helen lying abandoned 

at Crisfield in June 1960. Photo by Robert H. 

Burgess, Robert H. Burgess Collection 

9. Burgess (ed.), Coasting Captain (Newport News, Va.: The Mariners’ Museum, 

1967), xvi. 

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Waters of Despair 

Waters of Hope 

By Lindsley E. H. Rice, Curator of Exhibitions 

The African-American experience and influence in the Chesapeake region is explored in the exhibition “Waters of 

Despair, Waters of Hope” that opens in March at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. It is the first in a series of 

special exhibits that will be brought to the Museum in coming years. 

Using artifacts, photos, and recordings, the exhibit follows a time-line narrative that tells stories both unique and 

universal. It looks at the struggles, achievements, and contributions of individuals and communities through the themes 

of slavery, freedom, war, and work. The exhibit, which opens in the Steamboat Building on the Museum campus, is on 

loan from the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia. It chronicles the oppression of slavery, racism and the 

resilient spirit of a people in a constant battle for freedom and equality. To this, CBMM has added stories told through 

its collections, some of which are highlighted here. 

The Bay, with its abundant seafood and rich farmland, has been worked and tilled by African Americans for generations. 

The back-breaking labors of the men who hauled nets full of menhaden are featured in the part of the exhibit 

about black watermen. A display on black sailmakers includes tools and equipment from the Oxford, Maryland, loft of 

the late Downes Curtis, who made sails for a variety of vessels. 

The exhibit gives insight into the integral role African Americans have played in the history of the Chesapeake Bay. 

“Rev. Joshua Thomas Preaching to the British Army on Tangier Island 1814” 

from Adam Wallace, The Parson of the Islands, 1861 (reprinted 1872 by J.W. Stowell) 

Colonial Marine at Tangier Island in 1814 

A “Colonial Marine”—an escaped slave or free black 

man fighting for the British—stands guard in the foreground 

while the Reverend Joshua Thomas preaches to 

British troops on occupied Tangier Island. Much has been 

made, and rightly so, of African Americans who fought 

for their country in U.S. wars from the American Revolution 

on—emphasizing, in the struggle for equality, the 

sacrifices that blacks have made for a country with a history 

of injustice. An unintended and unfortunate consequence 

of this is that blacks who made other choices—to 

fight alongside the enemies of their oppressors—have 

sometimes been overlooked or purposely underplayed. 

We praise the heroism of blacks who fought for their 

freedom on the Union side in the Civil War, but in earlier 

wars that same fight meant siding with the British. Over 

30,000 slaves from Virginia alone escaped to the British 

lines during the American Revolution, some responding 

to Lord Dunmore’s call for slaves and free blacks to fight 

their American oppressors in return for their freedom. 

About 4,000 slaves took a similar gamble in the War of 

1812, some fighting in the Colonial Marines. They trained 

on Tangier Island and took part in battles in Baltimore and 

elsewhere on the Chesapeake.

“Crab Pickers in St. Michaels,” Ruth Starr Rose, c. 1940, gift of Historical Society of Talbot County 

Ruth Starr Rose Crab Pickers 

This lithograph shows African-American women picking 

crabs, probably at the Coulbourne & Jewett Seafood Packing 

Company in St. Michaels, Maryland. Coulbourne & Jewett 

was founded in 1902 by African-American entrepreneurs 

William H. T. Coulbourne and Frederick Jewett on Navy 

Point and closed in 1964. It is remembered by some as “a 

Godsend” for the African-American community in the area, 

and by 1920 was the largest employer in St. Michaels. Frederick 

Jewett is credited with developing the idea of grading 

crabmeat by type, originally backfin, claw, and regular. A 

million pounds of crab meat were packed there each year for 

five years by about 200 crab pickers. 

Mitchell House 

The left side of this house, which stands on the Museum 

grounds across from the Steamboat Building, was 

the home of the slave Eliza Bailey Mitchell and her free 

black husband, Peter Mitchell, when they worked on Perry 

Cabin Farm. Eliza’s brother was Frederick Douglass (having 

changed his name from Bailey to avoid capture after his 

escape to freedom). He lived in St. Michaels from 1832 to 

1836 when he and Eliza were both slaves to Thomas Auld, 

and probably visited Eliza in this house when he returned 

to St. Michaels in 1877. The Mitchells’ home was half of 

a four-room house built in 1830. It was split off after the 

Civil War and moved to Lee Street in St. Michaels. The 

house was moved to the Museum in 1981. 

Slave Fishing 

Enslaved African Americans worked in Chesapeake Bay 

fisheries for their owners. They also took advantage of the 

Bay’s natural wealth to augment their diets and, when possible, 

their incomes. In spring and fall, George Washington’s 

slaves worked along side borrowed or rented slaves from 

other plantations, indentured servants, and hired hands to 

seine for herring and shad in the Potomac River, and to salt 

the catch for keeping. The slaves at Mount Vernon ate salted 

fish as a regular part of their diet, but most of the fish were 

packed—predominantly by the women in the winter—and 

sold to the West Indies to be eaten by slaves there. One-anda-half-million 

herring were caught, salted, and packed in 

the single year of 1772. Archaeological evidence at Mount 

Vernon indicates that in addition to fishing herring and shad, 

Washington’s slaves caught and ate as many as 14 other species 

of fish. 1 

1. Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association website 

“A Big Haul,” drawn by W. P. Snyder, engraved by P. Meeder, Harper’s New 

Monthly Magazine, Vol. LX, 1880 

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State of North Carolina Protection No. 172, 1860, courtesy of Mystic Seaport, 

Isaiah Larabee Collection, G.W. Blunt Library, Mystic, CT, #Coll 255 

Seaman’s Protection Certificate 

Seaman’s Protection Certificates were issued as a sort 

of passport for American sailors, proving their nationality 

on the seas or in foreign ports. Issued under the 1796 Act 

for the Relief and Protection of American Seamen, the 

certificates were intended to protect sailors from being 

pressed into the British Royal Navy. They were issued to 

black and white seamen alike. This had the ironic effect 

of declaring black sailors U.S. citizens long before their 

rights as citizens were granted by the Fourteenth Amendment 

in 1868. Black sailors could therefore claim the 

benefits of American citizenship outside the nation’s borders, 

even while being denied those benefits at home. 2 

These certificates were put to use by African Americans 

on American shores to support the legal case for 

citizenship. Black sailors used their certificates in place 

of freeman’s papers to prove their status in southern ports 

where free blacks were often forced into slavery. Frederick 

Douglass understood this when he borrowed the 

certificate of a free friend to make his escape dressed in 

sailor’s garb. Douglass wrote about using the certificate 

on the train to Philadelphia. To Douglass’ relief, the conductor 

shared the “kind feeling which prevailed in Baltimore 

and other seaports at the time, towards ‘those who 

go down to the sea in ships.’” 

Seeing that I did not readily produce my free papers, 

as the other colored persons in the car had done, he [the 

conductor] said to me in a friendly contrast with that 

observed towards the others: “I suppose you have your 

free papers?” To which I answered: “No, sir; I never 

carry my free papers to sea with me.” “But you have 

something to show that you are a free man, have you 

not?” “Yes, sir,” I answered; “I have a paper with the 

American eagle on it, and that will carry me round the 

world.” With this I drew from my deep sailor’s pocket 

my seaman’s protection, as before described. The merest 

glance at the paper satisfied him, and he took my 

fare and went on about his business. 

—The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 1881 

2. Drake, Kelly S., “The Seaman’s Protection Certificate as Proof of American 

Citizenship for Black Sailors,” The Log of Mystic Seaport, Vol. 50, 

No. 1, Summer 1998, p. 12. 

Preserving 

By Bill Lohmann 

KILMARNOCK, Va. — His handshake grips like 

a workshop vise, his biceps bulge beneath his shirt. At 

75, James U. Carter’s still got it. 

Forty years of hauling fishing nets will do that to 

a man. 

“You know how John Henry was a steel-driving 

man?” said Carter. “We were net-pulling men.” 

In days gone by, Carter and his mates, the stout men 

of the menhaden fishing boats, stood shoulder to shoulder, 

pulling in nets heaving with thousands of pounds of 

fish. It was brutal, back-breaking, finger-cracking work 

that lasted from sunrise to sunset. They survived with 

their toughness. 

And their singing. 

The fishermen sang work songs called chanteys 

that helped coordinate the pulling and also helped 

ease the burden. 

“They would sing to raise the heavy loads, and they 

would sing just for the camaraderie of singing,” said Lloyd 

Hill, 66, who comes from a family of singing watermen. 

“The shared hardship would not seem as hard.” 

Simply put, said Elton Smith Jr., another fisherman 

who went on to become a school principal and 

superintendent, the songs represented “many hands

a Hard Life in Song 

The Northern Neck Chantey Singers, a group of seven former watermen, sing the songs used to help coordinate hauling a net full of fish. 

The group keeps alive the traditional African-American chanteys. Photo by Alexa Welch Edlund. Copyright, Richmond Times-Dispatch. 

pulling together.” 

The introduction in the mid-20th century of hydraulic 

power blocks to pull up the nets began sending the large 

fishing crews and their work songs into the shadows of 

history. But the African-American tradition of chanteysinging 

is being kept alive by groups such as the Northern 

Neck Chantey Singers, former watermen who perform 

around the country. 

Seven men deep into retirement gather weekly in Elton 

Smith’s living room in Kilmarnock to recapture the past by 

singing the chanteys. They gather in a circle, hold hands 

and say a prayer. Then they sing in heavenly harmony. 

These are the Northern Neck Chantey Singers, now 

a group of men—mostly in their 70s and 80s—who first 

gathered in the early 1990s to sing at a Fourth of July program. 

They’ve been performing ever since. 

“You heard that song ‘We’re Together, Right or 

Wrong’?” asked Carter, with a smile. “That’s us.” 

The men laugh easily and speak matter-of-factly about 

their lives on the water, chasing schools of menhaden up 

and down the Atlantic coast and even into the Gulf of 

Mexico. From spring to fall, they were gone from home 

weeks at a time. 

Menhaden are bony, oily fish not fit for human con- 

sumption, but they have had plenty of practical uses in 

products such as fertilizer and animal feed, paint, cat food 

and fingernail polish. Reedville, on the Northern Neck, has 

long been the center of the menhaden processing industry, 

although the industry has declined in recent years. 

Menhaden travel in large schools, meaning it’s most 

efficient to catch them in nets. Efficient, but not easy, particularly 

in the days before machines pulled the nets onto 

boats. That’s where the net-pulling men came in. 

“Those fish were heavy,” said Christopher Harvey, 71. 

“I mean heavy.” 

A large net brimming with fish could take a group of 

brawny men an hour or more to drag into the boat with 

the steady rhythm of chantey-singing playing an important 

role in the success of the catch. 

African-American work songs are an ancient tradition 

in themselves, having a history in mining, logging and 

the construction of railroads and highways. The songs 

are largely traditional tunes, highly personalized for the 

specific task at hand. Many of the chanteys sung on the 

open water were bawdy in nature; those lyrics have been 

cleaned up for festival audiences. 

“They sang about their shared interests,” said Hill. 

‘They sang about pay, they sang about the boss, they sang 

about ladies.” 

Going home was another shared interest. “See you 

when the sun goes down” is a common refrain. 

The songs are “narrative histories in themselves,” said 

Harold Anderson, a folklorist and ethnomusicologist who 

has researched chantey-singing and will introduce the 

Northern Neck group at the festival. 

“They represent an African-American tradition that 

people don’t tend to think about anymore because there 

aren’t too many situations where you can hear people 

singing that music,” Anderson said. “They also represent 

something special: guys who worked really, really hard to 

send kids to college and provide for their families. They’re 

pretty amazing. They may be rough in some ways, but they 

represent an ideal of people who valued education and 

worked hard.” 

Rehearsed in a living room or performed onstage, the 

a cappella chanteys convey an almost soothing tone, belying 

the labor that accompanied them in the boats of 

yesteryear. 

Does the singing make the singers feel nostalgic for 

that part of their lives? 

Not exactly, said James Carter. 

“I sing them now to forget the hard work,” he said 

with a laugh. 

Copyright, Richmond Times-Dispatch, reprinted by permission. 

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Explore & Restore 

Horn Point Laboratory’s Mission on the Bay 

By Michael Valliant, Director of Marketing 

To gain access to one of the richest oyster-producing areas 

along the Bay, it’s easiest to take a car. 

The oyster hatchery at Horn Point Laboratory outside 

Cambridge, Maryland, produced 350 million oysters last year, 

grown in a series of 10,000-gallon tanks of water from the 

Choptank River. 

Pointing to one of the tanks, the hatchery’s program director 

Don “Mutt” Meritt notes, “There are 482.4 million oysters 

in that tank. We know how many there are; we’ve got to count 

them to make sure there aren’t so many that we lose them all.” 

The Horn Point team grows, feeds, and spawns more oysters 

than any other hatchery on the Chesapeake. They are actively 

looking for ways to address the declining oyster population 

and to research the Bay oyster, Crassostrea virginica, and 

the Asian oyster, Crassostrea ariakensis. 

Their work with oysters is one example of their Bay-wide 

research and its applications. Their science mixes the world of 

geeky clinicians in white lab coats with that of watermen in 

salt-stained slickers as they address issues vital to exploring 

and restoring the Bay. 

One of three laboratories that comprise the University of 

Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES), Horn 

Point’s faculty centers its research on nutrient cycles, oceanography, 

and restoration ecology. There are 28 faculty members, 

154 total staff, and 24 graduate students working on an 

840-acre campus along the Choptank River. Along with oyster 

(top) Oysters are grown by the millions at the Horn Point 

Laboratory. (above) Don “Mutt” Meritt oversees the 

culturing of oysters at the lab. 

research, the blue crab, and the low oxygen in the Bay are 

other projects underway at Horn Point, which have garnered 

national attention.

The new Aquaculture and Restoration Ecology Laboratory 

at Horn Point is part of the University of Maryland. 

There aren’t many scientists named “Mutt.” But there 

aren’t many former Chesapeake Bay watermen who hold 

PhDs in marine estuarine environmental sciences. A St. Michaels 

native, Meritt began working at Horn Point in the 

1970s. Growing up, he worked on the water—and might still 

be there—were it not for St. Michaels High School teacher 

Dick Kleen, who inspired Meritt’s curiosity for observing the 

natural world. His background gives him a rapport and credibility 

with local watermen not afforded to many in the scientific 

community. 

As program director for Horn Point’s 5,500-square-foot 

oyster hatchery, Meritt oversees the growing of both the Bay 

and Asian oysters. The major question being asked by resource 

managers and stakeholders is whether or not to introduce 

the Asian oysters to the Bay. Though he has grown, 

studied, and written about both varieties, it is not a scientist’s 

job to conjecture whether or not to introduce a foreign species 

of oysters into the Bay. A scientist needs to talk about 

what he has observed. When asked what his observations 

have yielded, Meritt says, “I have not seen anything to date 

that is a deal breaker.” 

He points out that when contemplating 

this kind of ecological 

decision, there are easy answers 

and hard answers. 

“The easy answer is if somebody 

finds something that will 

bring a pox on the Bay, or you 

put non-native oysters in and all 

the blue crabs catch a disease. No 

one is going to do something like 

that,” he says. 

The hard questions come 

when the research doesn’t give 

any indication that something bad 

will happen. 

“Then the question is, did you 

not find it because you didn’t look 

Elizabeth North conducts cutting-edge research on 

oysters and blue crabs. Photo by Cheryl Nemazie 

for it in the right place, at the right time, in the right way, or is 

it that it just wasn’t there,” says Meritt. “People want a guarantee, 

but you’re not going to get it.” 

Part of the research the hatchery has conducted on Asian 

oysters focuses on the behavior of the larvae. This research 

has helped Elizabeth North create a model for larval dispersal 

patterns. 

Creating an accurate model to predict where Asian oyster 

larvae will go is an important factor in whether or not to introduce 

non-native oysters into the Bay. A report North wrote is a 

part of the environmental impact study that is currently being 

conducted by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. 

North’s model looks at the dispersal patterns of Bay oysters 

and Asian oysters side-by-side to show how the larvae could 

be influenced by wind, tides, salinity, and other circulation patterns. 

The kind of mathematical modeling program that she 

uses was developed at Horn Point, where scientists adapted an 

ocean modeling program to the grid of the Chesapeake Bay. 

This model simulated the water of the Bay, on top of which 

North put her model for oyster larvae behavior. 

A debate as controversial as the introduction of Asian 

oysters to the Bay is not standard territory for a mathematical 

modeler. 

“Ultimately, it is gratifying to work on something that so 

many people care about,” she says. “It is also challenging. A 

lot of the work we completed along 

the way didn’t even make it to the 

final report because we hold it to the 

highest standards.” 

With her report on the Asian 

oyster in the hands of the DNR, 

North’s attention is now focused 

on the blue crab and how wind and 

flow patterns affect its population. 

North’s work on the blue crab is 

garnering attention and funding. 

The Sea Grant programs for Delaware, 

Maryland, and Virginia are 

co-sponsoring the project. North 

sees the collaborative nature of 

the project, along with its ultimate 

practical applications to be a part of 

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Horn Point’s charge. 

“As a state university, we need to 

communicate scientific research in a way 

that can inform management decisions,” 

she says. 

Horn Point’s work on oysters and blue 

crabs is finding a number of audiences 

around the Chesapeake watershed. The 

work they are conducting on the overall 

water quality and health of the Bay is receiving 

national attention and earning scientists 

Bill Boicourt and Horn Point Director Mike Roman 

research trips to New Orleans. 

Scientists at Horn Point have spent a number of years 

studying the low oxygen zone in the Chesapeake Bay. 

“When Captain John Smith sailed up the Bay there was 

probably a low oxygen zone,” says Roman. “Every estuary, 

when you have fresh water going over salt, the bottom gets 

separated from the top.” 

He said nutrients are brought in from the rivers and sink 

to the bottom “like a giant compost heap and it uses up the 

oxygen. So our ‘dead zone,’ as they call it, has grown in size 

and it’s also grown in duration. About 7 to 10 percent of the 

Bay’s volume doesn’t have enough oxygen to support life. 

The same thing is occurring in the Mississippi River 

and the northern Gulf of Mexico. It’s a big enough concern 

that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 

(NOAA) has awarded $2.25 million in multi-year grants to 

study the Gulf’s “dead zone.” 

Roman said the zone in the Gulf region 

is roughly the size of Rhode Island. It 

is large and relatively new, having formed 

within the last 50 years. So Horn Point’s 

scientists will be joining groups from 

Michigan, Ohio, and Florida, to study how 

the zone affects the distribution of marine 

life in the fisheries of the Gulf. 

“We did a similar study on Chesapeake 

Bay,” Roman notes. 

In addition to bringing research and 

experience to New Orleans, the Horn 

Point scientists also brought the Scanfish. 

Resembling an airplane wing, the Scanfish 

travels up and down underwater with sensors 

that measure the temperature, salinity, 

oxygen, and the amount of plankton 

in the water. 

“We were the first in the country to 

get the Scanfish and right away it revolutionized 

our thinking about the Bay,” says 

Boicourt. “It’s like HDTV; there are a lot of things that have 

been there the whole time, but we have never been able to 

see them before.” 

Boicourt and Roman loaded the Scanfish and took it to 

New Orleans at the end of last summer for a research cruise. 

They will meet with the same national group of scientists to 

review and discuss their findings later this year. 

At home on the Bay, Boicourt finds ways to collaborate 

with other stakeholders to share data. In 

1991, he brought a group together to start 

the Chesapeake Bay Observing System 

(CBOS). It now gives real-time data on 

Bay tides, temperature, salinity, and other 

statistics at the website www.cbos.org. 

CBOS has become a Bay-wide collaborative 

that includes NOAA, the National 

Ocean Service, the National Weather Service, 

and the U.S. Geological Survey. 

“Resource managers need answers,” says 

Boicourt. “They need to make decisions very 

quickly and they will make it with or without 

the science if it is not there in a timely manner.” 

Horn Point 

Horn Point’s success in bridging the gap between the academic 

and the applicable has not been an accident. They are 

relevant by design. 

Roman points out that when they evaluate their scientists 

every year, they look at a number of factors. They consider 

what they have done in the way of discovery. They look at 

how they have worked with state managers. They evaluate 

what faculty members have done for public outreach, and what 

they have done for education—teaching not only graduate students, 

but interns, high school, and grade school students. 

Roman also has high hopes for a new initiative at Horn 

Point: the Ecological Restoration Institute. The thinking behind 

the institute is using what they know about the Bay and 

how to fix it in small sections. 

Horn Point scientist Bill Boicourt (left) and Horn Point Director Mike Roman 

(center) join a research team on the Gulf of Mexico. Photo courtesy of Horn Point. 

“We know how to make things better,” Roman said. “You 

stop farm runoff, you upgrade sewage treatment plants, you 

put in buffer strips. 

“By taking a more holistic approach, it’s going to make 

a difference.” 

For more information about Horn Point Laboratory, visit 

its website at www.hpl.umces.edu.

To the Point 

CBMM is Hub for Gateways 

Network System 

The National Park Service’s Chesapeake Bay Gateways 

Network Welcome Center will be opening at the Museum in 

late February. 

The Center will orient visitors to the Gateways Network, 

a system of 150 parks, refuges, museums, historic communities, 

and water trails throughout the Chesapeake Bay region, 

where the public can learn the Bay’s diverse stories, experience 

its history, and enjoy its natural beauty. As one of the 

Network’s prominent sites, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime 

Museum is featured in the Center’s exhibits, encouraging 

visitors to begin their journey at the Museum. 

The exhibits include two films, “Under the Chesapeake” 

and “The Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network,” as well as a 

wall-size map and photographs depicting the entire Network 

of sites, with a computer where the public can access information 

about each. 

Visitors can travel from one site to another by paddling 

a water trail, riding on a ferry, biking, or driving a scenic 

tour route. Managed by many different partners, these sites 

each tell a part of the Bay story. Together, as the Chesapeake 

Bay Gateways Network, they provide a way for experiencing 

and understanding the Bay as a whole. The Network 

connects people to these sites through a website, brochures, 

maps, and educational publications. 

The vision of the Gateways Network, as conceived by 

recently retired Maryland Senator Paul S. Sarbanes, goes 

beyond tourism. He believed, as we at the Museum do, that 

changing how people perceive the Bay by interpreting its 

resources is a meaningful step toward creating a broader 

commitment to Bay restoration and conservation. To learn 

more about the Gateways Network on the web, go to www. 

baygateways.net 

— Melissa McLoud, Vice President of Program 

New Faces on 

CBMM’s Campus 

Kathleen Rattie is the new Director of Development. 

She is responsible for fund-raising and membership programs 

at CBMM, including annual giving, grant writing, 

and government relations. Kate was the Business Development/Marketing 

Manager for the Peninsula Regional Health 

System in Salisbury, Maryland, and Seaford, Delaware. She 

has held executive marketing and communications positions 

in the health care and non-profit industries, and is a member 

of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. 

Kate has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications 

Dots highlight some Gateways sites around the Chesapeake Bay. 

from American University 

in Washington, D.C., and 

has completed masters level 

course work in marketing, 

strategic planning, and fund 

development at New York 

University and Fordham 

University. 

Robert Forloney has 

been named Director of 

Education. He has worked 

in museum education for 

Robert Forloney is the Director 

of Education. 

Kate Rattie is the Director of 

Development. 

nine years: as the Manager 

of School and Volunteer 

Programs at the Museum 

of the City of New York, as 

Collaborative and Special 

Needs Educator at South 

Street Seaport, and in a variety 

of museum education 

positions at The Morgan Library, 

The Brooklyn Museum 

of Art, and the American 

Museum of Natural History. 

His Master’s degree is in 

Humanities and Social Thought from New York University. 

In addition to his experience in museum education, Robert 

also brings an extensive network of professional contacts in 

the museum field as well as a strong record of publications 

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and presentations at museum 

conferences. 

Rachel Dolhanczyk 

joined CBMM as the new 

Youth Programs Coordinator. 

She came to the Museum 

from the Cape May County 

Historical & Genealogical 

Society, where she was the 

administrator and curator. 

She also has experience in 

the field, serving as a Grant 

Administrator for the Cape 

May County Division of Culture & Heritage and as a Board 

Member of the New Jersey Association of Museums. Rachel 

received a B.A. in History from Wheaton College and a 

M.A. in Museum Education from the University of the Arts 

in Pennsylvania. 

Rachel will be coordinating school programs both at the 

Museum as well as in the schools, acting as a liaison between 

CBMM and the school system, and overseeing the 

sailing program. 

Cristina Calvert is the 

new Special Events Coordinator. 

She oversees the 

Museum’s special events, 

festivals, cultivation events, 

the Boating Party, and other 

advancement activities. She 

will also assist the marketing 

department with various duties. 

Cristina was the Events 

Cristina Calvert is the Special 

Events Coordinator. 

Manager of the Virginia 

Community College System 

in Richmond, Virginia. 

A 2005 graduate of Ran- 

dolph-Macon College, Cristina holds a Bachelor’s Degree in 

Economics and Business. She is pursuing an Events Management 

Certificate through The George Washington University’s 

School of Tourism. 

Dick Cooper has been 

named editor of the CBMM 

Quarterly magazine. Dick 

is a career journalist, spending 

28 years as an editor and 

reporter at The Philadelphia 

Inquirer. Prior to his time 

in Philadelphia, Dick won 

a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for 

his coverage of the Attica 

Prison riots in Upstate New 

York. He is a 1969 graduate 

of Michigan State University 

and a University of 

Rachel Dolhanczyk is the Youth 

Programs Coordinator 

Dick Cooper is the editor of the 

Quarterly. 

Michigan Journalism Fellow. 

Dick has sailed the Bay 

for 30 years. 

Susan Harrison is our 

new Dockmaster/Assistant 

Manager in the Visitor Services 

Department. Susan 

started working in Visitor 

Services earlier last year and 

has been promoted, recognizing 

her exceptional customer 

service and knack for 

addressing and exceeding 

the needs of our boaters. Susan has years of experience in the 

restaurant and hospitality industry. She has been manager of 

the Tilghman Island Inn and has worked at Harbour Lights and 

Shore Restaurant. 

Michael Valliant has 

become CBMM’s Director 

of Marketing & Media 

Relations, leaving his former 

post as Editor and Director 

of Communications. 

Michael has been on staff 

at the Museum for just under 

five years. He has led 

and edited the Quarterly 

Michael Valliant is the Director of 

Marketing & Media Relations. 

Susan Harrison is the Assistant 

Manager of Visitor Services and 

Dockmaster. 

for three-and-a-half years, 

overseeing the redesign of 

www.cbmm.org. He has ed- 

ited Museum books, including From Pot Pie to Hell and Damnation: 

An Illustrated Gazetteer of Talbot County, and worked 

on the “Oystering on the Chesapeake” school curriculum. As 

Director of Marketing, Michael will be working to increase 

CBMM’s visibility and broaden its audience, while overseeing 

communications, visitor services, and special events. 

Prior to working at CBMM, Michael was Public Relations 

and Development Coordinator at the Academy Art Museum in 

Easton, Maryland. He is a graduate of Chesapeake College in 

Wye Mills and Washington College in Chestertown. 

Visit our store at cbmm.org 

The Museum Store has gone electronic, offering 

secure, online purchases of a wide variety of 

merchandise. Just go to www.cbmm.org and click 

on the “Store” link to view the online catalog. 

Now you can buy CBMM wear, boat models, 

jewelry, maritime books, and gifts with the click 

of your mouse. While you are on the Museum’s 

site, check out the calendar to keep up with 

upcoming events. 


Edna is Back in the Water 

The Edna E. Lockwood is back in her berth after more 

than two months of repair work by the Boat Yard crew. 

Boat Yard Manager Richard Scofield said that when 

Edna E. Lockwood, the flagship of the Museum’s floating fleet, 

returns to the water after receiving some extensive repairs. 

the Edna was hauled on the marine railway for a routine 

checkup in October, they found a nine-foot-long section of 

rot in her hull. 

He said that when Vessel Maintenance Manager Marc 

Barto started to check her wooden hull with his knife, “chunks 

started to come off.” 

“It was pine from her rebuild in the 1970s, and it had 

gone real bad,” Scofield said. 

The Edna was built in 1889 on Tilghman Island by 

famed Chesapeake boat builder John B. Harrison and is the 

last nine-log bugeye in existence. She was used for oyster 

dredging most of her life, was retired in 1967, and donated 

to CBMM in 1973. In 1975, the 58-foot, 8-inch vessel was 

stripped down to her logs and rebuilt. 

Tug to Get a New Stern 

Vessel Maintenance Manager Marc Barto’s current task is 

the restoration of the 1912 tug boat Delaware. Barto said that 

the stern of the 40-foot boat will be carefully taken apart so 

that each piece can be used as a pattern for its replacement. 

The Delaware was built in Bethel, Delaware, by William 

H. Smith and was worked on the upper Eastern Shore until 

the 1980s. It was donated to the Museum in 1991. 

To the Point 

Delaware’s restoration is well under way. 

The Boat Yard crew has replaced the cabin top and restored 

the beaded paneling in the cabin ceiling. The Gray Marine 671 

diesel, an antique in its own right, has been pulled and is also 

scheduled to be rebuilt. The removal of the engine revealed 

that large rocks were packed into the bilge for ballast. 

Barto said he expects the hull work to be completed 

by spring. 

New Emphasis on Education 

Robert Forloney and Rachel Dolhanczyk, the new education 

team at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, want to 

do more than just teach visitors to the Eastern Shore about 

skipjacks, wooden boats, and trot lines. 

They want to emphasize the people and communities of 

the Bay, viewing the Bay’s unique cultures as a focal point 

for programming. 

Forloney, the Director of Education, and Dolhanczyk, the 

Youth Programs Coordinator, are extending an invitation to 

residents of the region to join them in the exploration of a 

distinct and important part of America’s heritage, the living 

history of the Bay. 

“We want people to realize that we act as caretakers of 

their artifacts and their culture, and that we are here to tell 

their stories,” Forloney said. “We would like the community 

to participate in the interpretative process and also have a 

personal investment in the institution; to realize that CBMM 

is theirs.” 

He said by including diverse voices in the Museum’s offerings, 

local history can be presented in the most engaging 

and meaningful way. 

“I see the Museum as a place to promote dialogue 

among groups of people with diverse viewpoints and as a 

center for civic engagement, not just a storehouse of objects 

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Rachel and Robert demonstrate tonging for oysters on Waterman’s Wharf. 

and images. The collections are valuable in that they act as a 

catalyst for research and provide the opportunity for insight 

about a place and its people.” 

Forloney, who has worked at many cultural institutions 

including the Museum of the City of New York and the South 

Street Seaport Museum, and Dolhanczyk, who directed the 

Cape May County Historical and Genealogical Society, both 

said they were drawn to CBMM by the diverse opportunities 

it offers to tell the stories of the Bay. 

Melissa McLoud, the Museum’s Vice President for Program, 

is delighted with Robert’s and Rachel’s arrival. 

“They see our communities as major resources; they know 

that working with residents to recognize and explore the Bay’s 

history and culture—incorporating the communities’ diverse 

voices into this Museum’s collections, research, exhibitions, 

and public programs—is the way to make this Museum excel. 

They come from museums that also take seriously the role 

their programs play in their communities and they see CBMM 

as a resource for community residents.” 

Forloney said, “Here you can interpret the history of the 

Chesapeake Bay in so many ways. You are not tied to one specific 

genre. You are not forced to view the collections through 

one particular lens but can take a historical, scientific, cultural 

or even aesthetic perspective.” 

Forloney and Dolhanczyk are starting their new jobs by 

expanding the programs CBMM offers. They believe that the 

Museum has enormous potential for engaging visitors in a va- 

riety of ways. They will work to find 

different ways of making the Museum’s 

collections and stories accessible 

to everyone from pre-schoolers to 

99-year-olds. Their plans include expanding 

hands-on activities for youth 

and families, increasing the number 

of Chesapeake People and docents 

to facilitate dialogues with visitors in 

exhibits, and providing on-the-water 

experiences for visitors. 

“CBMM has an extraordinary collection 

of artifacts, vessels, and historic 

buildings, in addition to a rich repository 

of oral histories from which 

it has created strong programs in the 

past.” Forloney said, “We would like 

to build on this by improving and expanding 

current programs as well as 

introducing new types of offerings.” 

Dolhanczyk said the Bay’s story 

is not just a faded memory. 

“The really great thing here is that 

history is still current. You still have 

watermen and crab pickers,” she said. 

“You don’t have to go back in time 

because it is still all around us. You 

do not have to have re-enactors to bring you back.” 

They both hope to get more members of the local communities 

to come in and tell the Museum staff and visitors 

what they think is important. Dolhanczyk said they want 

to make the Museum a place where visitors—from teachers, 

school groups, scouts, children to families—return frequently 

because they know they will find something engaging 

and exciting. 

She said the Museum is in a unique situation because it 

can help children maintain contact with the water, a connection 

that is slipping away because of economic and development 

pressures on the entire Chesapeake Bay waterfront. 

“We would also like to work more closely with the 

schools,” Dolhanczyk said. “Ideally we would like to further 

develop relationships with teachers so that we are involved 

with their classes throughout the school year. Professional 

development training for teachers will help them incorporate 

the Museum and its resources into their class studies. 

Forloney said, “We would like to help the school system 

teach the history of the region. Local history is extremely 

important. Once students begin to understand their own history 

and the impact that history has on their family, friends, 

and community, then they can start to understand how they 

fit into the national and global stories.” 

— Dick Cooper, Editor 


Supertanker training 

on the backwaters of the Eastern Shore 

By Dick Cooper, Editor 

Captain Scott Conway walks the bridge of a supertanker 

heading through the rock-bound Valdez Narrows en route to 

pick up 93 million gallons of Alaskan crude. The expansive 

deck of the 1,050-foot-long vessel pitches and rolls in front of 

him as a fast-moving thunder storm crashes around the ship 

and lightening splits the sky. 

The tanker is moving at 10 knots as visibility drops to 

almost zero, obscuring the ice shelf to starboard and the cargo 

ship passing to port. Conway calmly points out the instrument 

array, detailed radar display, and electronic chart-plotter 

that help deck officers keep track of their surroundings. 

Although the bridge rises more than 10 stories above the 

sea, the length of the deck and height of the bow greatly reduces 

his line of sight. 

“From here I have a 4,000-foot dead spot,” he says. 

As he explains the functions of the various instruments, 

including a joystick no larger than an index finger simply 

marked “Port” and “Starboard” that can be used to steer the 

ship, the weather clears and a helicopter passes overhead. The 

seas flatten to a calm as the tanker eases into the busy harbor. 

With the ship under control, Conway leads the way out a 

back door of the bridge and steps into a long hallway lined with 

computers and flat-panel screens on the Eastern Shore of the 

Chesapeake Bay, 4,333 miles from Valdez. At the end of the hall 

MEBA 

is a view of 

the campus 

of the Calhoon 

M.E.B.A. Engineering School on the banks of the Miles 

River, between Easton and St. Michaels, Maryland. 

“We can simulate 65 to 70 different ships and 25 ports 

around the world,” said Conway, a licensed commercial captain 

and manager of the Deck Officer Training Department at 

the school. The computer-generated simulator used to sharpen 

ship-handling skills that he has just demonstrated is so 

accurate sailors who have plied the Alaskan waters can often 

pick out landmarks, he said. 

Ten simulators, some with actual instruments and others 

set up at smaller computer workstations, can be linked at one 

time to give students a feel for working with other ships, tugs, 

and barges under tight harbors conditions. 

All of the navigational aids of the Chesapeake Bay and 

the intricacies of the ports of Norfolk, Baltimore, and Phila- 

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Scott Conway teaches advanced ship handling to MEBA deck officers and 

engineers using life-like simulators. 

delphia, complete with the cities’ skylines, are part of the 

simulators’ repertoire. 

The Calhoon School, a mid-career training facility for 

the merchant marine officers of ocean-going vessels, is an 

anomaly on the Eastern Shore, where workboats and pleasure 

craft dominate the Chesapeake’s backwaters. 

Tucked behind a tall stand of trees and a field of wildflowers 

off the St. Michaels Road, the 680-acre-campus, once the 

site of a colonial plantation, is owned by the Marine Engineers 

Beneficial Association (MEBA), the country’s oldest 

maritime union, with a membership of more than 4,000 licensed 

officers who work on U.S.-registered ships. 

According to the school’s history, former MEBA president 

Jesse Calhoon, working with the federal government 

and shipping industry, formed Operation Licensed 

Engineers Apprentice Program to train officers for the 

merchant marine during the Vietnam War. In 1966, the 

program name was changed to the Calhoon MEBA Engineering 

School, based in a Baltimore hotel. Its intense 

program graduated cadets who had spent a year at sea as 

part of their education. 

Louis A. Marciello, who was named director of the school 

in December, is a 1971 graduate of the program. He said that 

at its peak the school was graduating a class of 15 to 20 engineers 

every month. He said that his first sea duty almost 

changed his career. 

In August, 

1969, he was 

sent as a cadet 

to his first berth 

on a cargo ship 

bound for Japan 

that was being 

readied at the 

docks of New 

Orleans. A week 

later, with Hurricane 

Camille on its way, his ship headed out into the Gulf 

of Mexico. For the next two days, the ship fought its way 

through the horrific Category 5 storm, with winds reaching 

190 miles an hour. (By contrast, Hurricane Katrina was a Category 

3 with winds up to 125 miles an hour.) When the ship 

returned to New Orleans, Marciello came close to becoming 

a landlubber. “I said to hell with this.” But he completed the 

trip to Japan and then another to Vietnam before finishing his 

studies at MEBA and going to sea. 

In the 1970s, the school purchased the estate on the Miles 

River that had been the home of Kirkland Hall Junior College 

and included the ruins of the great house of Perry Hall, a 

plantation that dates to 1659. The school later acquired a third 

estate, known as the Peach Orchard, to complete the campus 

that now has a mile of riverfront. 

In the late 1980s, with industry 

demands changing, the school ended 

the cadet program, and by 1991 it 

was transformed into a mid-career 

learning center specializing in updating 

the skills of Coast Guard-licensed 

engineers and deck officers. 

Academic Affairs Manager 

Chuck Eser said at any given time, 

about 70 sailors are attending classes 

and about 1,400 individual enrollments—some 

union members attend 

more than one session—are recorded 

during the course of a year. The 

courses range from a week’s lessons 

in learning how to read electronic 

charts to a six-week session in advanced 

diesel mechanics. 

Most of the classes are handson 

with clear pass/fail results. In the 

electrical trouble-shooting class, students 

must determine what is wrong 

The engineering school’s campus 

covers 680 acres near Easton, with 

more than a mile of waterfront. 

Photo courtesy of Calhoon MEBA.

(right) MEBA engineers learn the intricacies of diesel 

mechanics on this three-story slice of a ship’s powertrain. 

with a junction box attached to a motor and make repairs. 

When the task is completed, the motor has to run. For a 

class in onboard emergencies, a steel cargo container has 

been modified inside to replicate bulkheads in a ship. Students 

are sent down a hatch to solve a range of simulated 

problems, from broken pipes to major leaks. As they work, 

the container is slowly flooded. A spillway is cut in the container 

wall about five feet from the floor. 

“If the water gets that high, you fail the course,” said 

Barry VanVechten, assistant director for academics, who 

trains students to handle a variety of emergencies including 

onboard fires. 

A dozen welding booths make up the welding lab and 

rows of lathes fill the machine shop, where students have to 

turn blank steel blocks and rods into finely-made tools. The 

highlight of the diesel shop is a real, three-story slice of a 

diesel engine with a cylinder bore of almost a meter. 

In the Olympic-sized pool with a view of the campus, 

students practice emergencies by jumping into the deep end 

and struggling into survival suits. They climb into life rafts 

that are then flipped over, so they practice righting and reboarding 

tactics. Still other courses teach crowd control, 

waste management, and small arms training. 

The campus includes a ball field, tennis courts, an outdoor 

pool, and dockage for small boats. In 2005, the school dedicated 

the 235-seat Newberry Auditorium which is dominated 

by a 12-foot, by 35-foot mural of Liberty ships anchored off 

Normandy Beach following D-Day in 1944. 

The school is fully funded by the MEBA training trust 

fund, Eser said. Union members attend classes free of charge 

and receive a $50-a-day stipend and meals. They stay free in 

the school’s “dormitory” which looks more like a spacious hotel 

on a secluded cove. One of the sights from the rooms is the 

life-boat practice station. A gleaming white boat is suspended 

from ship’s davits 30 feet above the cove, ready for action. 

Marciello said the shipping business changes so rapidly 

that MEBA members frequently have to retrain once or twice 

a year to keep pace. He said 

that with the steady reduction 

in the size of a ship’s 

crew—currently it takes 

a crew of 18 to operate a 

supertanker or containerized 

cargo ship—more and 

more work is falling to the 

licensed officers. 

Eser said that while only 

2.5 percent of the cargo 

that comes into the United 

States is transported on ships flying the Stars and Stripes, 

U.S.-licensed officers are required on ships that are involved 

in military sealift operations. Marciello said the federal Jones 

Act requires that ships carrying cargo and passengers between 

U.S. ports be registered in the U.S. 

(below) Union members return to the school for mid-career training. 

(below) Life-boat training includes practice on the real thing. 

(left) MEBA’s newly named director, Louis Marciello.

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Mural of Liberty Ships unloading at Normandy Beach 

dominates Newberry Auditorium. 

Chief Engineer Russ Nugent, originally from the Boston 

area, but now living in New Hampshire, has been sailing since 

1979. He has been to MEBA several times over the years. 

“In today’s day and age it is constant training, things 

move so fast, unless you make an effort to keep up,” he said 

over lunch between classes in the school cafeteria. “With 

all the systems, with all the automation, they are demanding 

more of the engineers. We need to have more information 

to plow through.” 

He said he is typically at sea for six to seven months at a 

time with five to six months off between jobs. Crewmembers 

on modern ships do not have a lot of downtime, often working 

12 to 16 hours a shift, week in and week out. “You work 

six months, but I figured it out once, you are working a year, 

year-and-a-half in those six months.” 

Nugent’s classmate Joseph DiBenedetto, a 1981 graduate 

of the MEBA cadet program, agreed. “They keep changing 

and adding more requirements with safety and security. So 

you have to come here for different courses to take, just to 

get certain jobs. Like working on a government vessel, you 

have to have classes in damage control, hazmat, firefighting, 

which are all good to have. We get pretty good vacations, but 

you spend half your vacations here.” 

DiBenedetto, a chief engineer from New York who now 

lives in Florida, said he hopes to retire from the sea in a year. 

“My Dad was a doctor and I didn’t want to go into medicine 

because I saw him constantly going to school to stay 

on top of this and learn that,” he said. “I figured I would get 

into something I would enjoy and see the world. Now it is 

turning more and more into what I saw my Dad having to 

do, constantly going to school. They have taken all of the fun 

out of it.” 

Nugent nodded, “If you want to get the edge, you have 

to put the time in. The course we’re taking now, they told 

us up front, it is a college semester course that they 

are cramming into two weeks. You’re not going to 

able to get away from these schools. These schools 

are going to have to expand.” 

Eser said that when the shipping industry has 

new equipment, or if the Coast Guard changes the 

licensing requirement, the school tailors its curriculum 

to fit the need. He said the faculty of 10 full-time 

and about 25 adjunct instructors is made up of licensed 

officers who teach from experience. He said that a lot of 

the adjunct instructors are still active sailors and will teach 

classes between berths. 

One of the more recent additions to the campus has been 

the construction of the 10-acre MEBA Merchant Marine 

Memorial. A stone pathway outlines a merchant ship, its 

pointed black bow and five-ton anchors illuminated at night 

just off the St. Michaels Road. At its stern a 23-ton, sixbladed 

propeller is reflected in a flag-lined pool. The memorial 

was dedicated in 2005 to pay tribute to lost seamen 

and ships. Its stated mission is to “provide an opportunity to 

honor the courageous men and women who form the heritage 

of the United States Merchant Marine.” 

For Chief Nugent, the quiet, pastoral campus offers more 

than just a place to cram in new learning. 

“When I come down here, for me it’s like a monastery. I get 

out of the loop, chill out, and focus on what I have to do.” 

For more information about the Calhoon M.E.B.A. Engineering 

School, go to www.mebaschool.org. To arrange a tour of 

the school and bridge simulator, call 410-822-9600 ext. 306. 

Contact Dick Cooper at editor@cbmm.org. 

Massive ship’s propeller at the MEBA Merchant Marine 

Memorial.

Annual Report 

2005-2006 

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Annual Report 2005-2006 

Report to Our Members 

Because of your loyalty, generosity, and dedication, the 

Museum had a banner year in fiscal year 2005-2006. 

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• Membership reached 6,900 – the highest number of 

paid memberships on record 

• Paid attendance reached 65,705 – an increase of 

8,425 over the previous fiscal year 

• Annual Fund exceeded its $400,000 goal, achieving 

an all-time high of $412,000. 

Such numbers show that the Museum is strong and vital. 

We are deeply indebted to you and every member. Thank 

you! Very few museums today can boast this breadth of 

involvement and level of commitment from its Membership. 

Looking back, this past fiscal year marked the start of a 

significant transition for the Museum from a construction, 

hard-hat growth mode, into an outreach, enlivenment 

mode. We began shifting from big construction jobs 

and additions to the physical plant into making this 

institution the most interesting maritime museum anyone 

has ever seen. Our challenge in the new fiscal year will 

be to continue to utilize our refurbished and enhanced 

campus to develop new programming and educational 

opportunities that will help grow Museum attendance 

and membership. 

More than ever, we are devoted to collecting, preserving, 

and exhibiting important pieces of the Bay’s rapidly 

vanishing heritage. Our growing collections of art, 

artifacts, boats, and buildings are rich and fascinating. 

They are invaluable pieces of Bay history. Visitors tell 

us that they continue to be intellectually stimulated by 

the exhibits and educational programs that take place 

here. And that our education work has never been more 

critically important. 

The fiscal year was also remarkable in that we achieved 

so many goals at a time of significant change. After 19 

years of distinguished service, President John R. Valliant 

announced his intention to step down in order to accept 

a wonderful opportunity as President of the Grayce B. 

Kerr Fund of Easton, Md. The Board of Governors, under 

the able leadership of my predecessor, Jim Peterson, 

conducted an intense search for John’s successor, a 

process that resulted in the selection of Stuart L. Parnes 

as our new President. Thanks to our Members, Staff, 

and Board of Governors, CBMM moved forward during 

this transition without missing a beat, a testament to 

the Museum’s strength and dedication, energized by its 

compelling vision for the future. 

We are well poised to realize this future, a future defined, 

in part, by upgrading and improving permanent exhibits, 

adding a changing exhibits program, providing interactive 

exhibits for children, and enhancing education programs 

for everyone. 

Thank you for continuing to be our partners in preserving 

the cultural and maritime heritage of the Chesapeake Bay. 

You are absolutely vital to us, and we are most grateful. 

Fred C. Meendsen 

Chair, Board of Governors

Annual Fund Donors 

Gifts to the Annual Fund support the Museum’s annual program of member and visitor services and 

projects. We extend our sincere appreciation to the Museum members listed here who supported 

CBMM with gifts of $412,000 to 2005-2006 Annual Fund between May 1, 2005 and April 30, 2006. 

(Gift recognition here does not include Membership gifts.) 

Admiral of the Chesapeake 

($25,000 and up) 

Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Griffith 

Dorothy A. Metcalf Foundation 

Admiral of the Fleet 

($10,000 - $24,999) 

Mr. William L. Davenport & 

Mr. Bruce Wiltsie 

Mr. & Mrs. David J. Martinelli 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul B. Prager 

Mr. & Mrs. William D. Smith 

Mr. & Mrs. Jack P. Stoltz 

Admiral 

($5,000 - $9,999) 

Harold & Marla Baines 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Batza, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. James Osborne Burri 

Chevy Chase Bank 

Fair Play Foundation 

Mrs. Dagmar D.P. Gipe 

Mrs. Nancy C. Hickey 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Lea, Jr. 

Gerry & Marguerite Lenfest 

Mr. & Mrs. Sumner Parker 

James & Nanette Peterson 

Mrs. J. Thomas Requard 

Sand Family Fund 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Sener, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Henry H. Spire 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Stevens, Jr. 

Thomas H. Hamilton Foundation, Inc. 

Dr. & Mrs. Charles H. Thornton 

Van Dyke Family Foundation 

Commodore 

($2,500 - $4,999) 

Mr. & Mrs. Duane W. Beckhorn 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles C. Fichtner II 

Ms. Nancy R. Hammond 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hewes III 

Drs. Wayne & Marietta Hockmeyer 

Mrs. Margaret D. Keller 

Mr. & Mrs. Breene M. Kerr 

Mr. & Mrs. George V. McGowan 

Fred & Nancy Meendsen 

Reverends Mark & Abigail Nestlehutt 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Perkins 

Mr. & Mrs. Norman H. Plummer 

J. W. & Vicki Ricketts 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Snowdon 

Mr. & Mrs. Edmund A. Stanley, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. James Thorington II 

Don & Dorothy Whitcomb 

The Widgeon Foundation 

Captain 

($1,200 - $2,499) 

Academy for Lifelong Learning 

at CBMM 

Mrs. Hannah J. Alnutt 

Mr. & Mrs. Bruce P. Bedford 

Mr. Robert W. Bennett 

Mr. & Mrs. Terence R. Blackwood 

Constellation Energy Group, Inc. 

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas V. Croker III 

Dr. & Mrs. Albert A. Del Negro 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Finan, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Granville 

Mr. & Mrs. William H. Guier 

Mr. & Mrs. Keith Hoffman 

Mr. & Mrs. L. David Horner III 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Kimberly 

Dr. & Mrs. Donald T. Lewers 

Mr. & Mrs. Ellice McDonald, Jr. 

The Hon. Juliette C. McLennan 

Mr. & Mrs. W. Scott McSween 

Mr. & Mrs. Peter B. Moss 

Mr. & Mrs. John Nyland 

Mr. & Mrs. Hamish Osborne 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Peck 

Mr. John M. Pinney & 

Mrs. Donna F. Cantor 

The Hon. S. Jay Plager 

Mr. & Mrs. Phillip E. Ratcliffe 

Dr. Daniel L. Ridout III 

Mr. & Mrs. W. Rembert Simpson 

Ms. Lucy I. Spiegel 

Mr. & Mrs. Guy T. Steuart II 

Dr. Peter B. Stifel 

Tidewater Yacht Sales, Inc. 

The Robb & Elizabeth Tyler 

Foundation 

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew J. Weisburger 

Mr. & Mrs. John R. Whitmore 

Commander 

($500 - $1,199) 

Anonymous 

Judge & Mrs. George H. Aldrich 

Cecil & Candace Backus 

Mr. Arthur A. Birney 

Michael & Heather Brennan 

Dr. Katharine M. Brown 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Byers 

Peter & Jane Chambliss 


Crawley Family Foundation 

Mrs. Alonzo G. Decker, Jr. 

W. Scott & Joanne Ditch 

Mr. F. Eugene Dixon, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Irenee duPont, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. J. Orin Edson 

Mr. & Mrs. Philip F. N. Fanning 

Fidelity Investment Charitable 

Gift Fund 

Georgetown Yacht Basin, Inc. 

Mr. & Mrs. Lucien Girard 

Mrs. Shirley S. Gooch 

Mr. & Mrs. Barry P. Gossett 

H&R Block Foundation 

Dr. & Mrs. John A. Hawkinson 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald F. Hewes 

Mr. William H. Holdford 

Elizabeth S. Hooper Foundation 

Dr. Gordon A. Hughes 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Irish, Sr. 

Israel Family Foundation 

CBMM’s Boat Yard staff often serve as mentors giving 

children hands-on experience. 

Mr. George F. Johnson 

Grayce B. Kerr Fund, Inc. 

Ed & Linda Langley 

Capt. & Mrs. Richards T. Miller, 

USN (Ret.) 

Mr. & Mrs. Francis A. Morgan, Jr. 

Mr. Jon Mullarky 

Tuck & Beth Nason 

Mr. Robert D. Nobel & 

Dr. Cecilia V. Nobel 

North Star Asset Management 

Mr. Terry R. Peel 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Petty, Jr. 

Mr. Donald L. Rice & 

Ms. Elizabeth S. J. Loker 

The Frederick W. Richmond 

Foundation, Inc. 

The Ross Foundation 

Schluderberg Foundation, Inc. 

Tom & Alexa Seip 

Mr. & Mrs. William S. Stafford 

Mr. Jeff Strider 

Mr. & Mrs. W. Scott Tompkins 

Mr. & Mrs. Samuel M. Trippe 

Vida Van Lennep 

Mr. & Mrs. Philip J. Webster 

Dr. & Mrs. Clifton F. West, Jr. 

Mrs. Joan D. West 

Mr. Phillip W. Worrall 

Sailing Master 

($250 - $499) 

Anonymous 

Mr. & Mrs. John E. Akridge III 

Mr. Daniel F. Attridge 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Barry 

Mr. & Mrs. Marion W. Bevard 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Bliss 

Capt. Ralph Bloom, Jr., USN (Ret.) 

Blue Crab Bay Company 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Boggs, Jr. 

Capt. & Mrs. J. Hollis Bower, Jr. 

Dr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Broadie 

Capt. & Mrs. John S. Burrows 

USNR 

Jim & Peggy Calvert 

David and Katherine Cockey 

Gary & Kathleen Danler 

Colin C. Ferenbach 

Drs. Jelles & Kathryn Fonda 

Tom & Karen Frana 

Mr. & Mrs. Giles S. Gianelloni 

Ms. Janet M. Grissom 

Mr. & Mrs. Roger M. Gruben 

Mr. & Mrs. Frederick C. Haab 

Mr. & Mrs. Ford Hall, Sr. 

Jim & Pam Harris 

Mr. Benjamin G. Heilman 

Winifred H. Hobron 

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence T. Hoyle, Jr. 

John & Jennie Hyatt 

IBM Corporation 

Mr. Erik T. Jensen 

Ms. Paula J. Johnson & 

Mr. Carl Fleischhauer 

Johnson & Johnson 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Kohls III 

Mr. Mark J. Levine & 

Dr. Sara L. Imershein 

Mrs. Diana Q. Mautz 

Ms. Julie Parker McCahill 

Mr. & Mrs. John L. McShane 

Michael & Tina Meegan 

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Meister 

Mr. & Mrs. Harry C. Meyerhoff 

The Hon. & Mrs. James R. Miller, Jr. 

Mr. Jeffery E. Miller & 

Dr. Gabrielle E. Miller 

Donald & Grace Mulvihill 

Mr. & Mrs. John H. Murray 

Mr. Robert D. Nobel & 

Dr. Cecilia V. Nobel 

Mr. & Mrs. John L.S. Northrop 

Carl & Gwen Oppenheim 

Dr. & Mrs. Arthur W. Patterson, Jr. 

Bill & Liz Platt 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Ray 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Reynolds, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. John H. Riehl III 

Donald & Karen Santa 

Mrs. Ralsey B. Scofield, Jr. 

Mr. John Seifarth 

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Mr. & Mrs. Norman M. 

Shannahan III 

John & Lisa Sherwood 

Dr. Eva M. Smorzaniuk 

Mrs. Richard A. Springs, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. George E. Stewart 

Mr. & Mrs. William C. Storey 

Bruce L. Summer 

Mr. & Mrs. James Thomasson 

Mrs. R. Carmichael Tilghman 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Valliant, Jr. 

RAdm. E.K. Walker, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. John C. Warfield 

Mr. & Mrs. Hugh E. Whitaker 

Mr. & Mrs. John R. Williams 

Norman & JoAnne Willox 

Boatswain 

($100 - $249) 

Anonymous (2) 

Mr. & Mrs. John F. Aigeltinger, Jr. 

Ms. Lucy B. Alexander 

Maj. Gen. & Mrs. Andrew H. 

Anderson 

J. Pierce & Molly Anderson 

Capt. & Mrs. Al Aus 

Robert J. Austin 

Mr. & Mrs. Mark Bailey 

Mr. & Mrs. William Baker 

Mr. H. Furlong Baldwin 

Mr. Barry G. Balmer 

Mr. & Mrs. Jack Bannister 

George & Patricia Barbis 

Mr. & Mrs. William H. Barker III 

Mrs. Daniel P. Barnard V 

Robert & Marilyn Barrett 

Mr. Gerald W. Bechtle 

Mr. Peter Behringer 

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry K. Bell 

Mr. David M. Bennett 

Mr. & Mrs. David G. Benson 

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Berg 

Bettina Billingslea 

Ed & Patti Bird 

Dr. & Mrs. James M. Bisanar 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Bissell 

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald A. Blackwell 

Mr. & Mrs. Sylvester P. Bollinger 

Mr. & Mrs. Perry J. Bolton 

Mr. & Mrs. William E. Bonsteel 

Dr. & Mrs. Stuart M. Bounds 

Mr. & Mrs. David C. Bramble 

Mr. & Mrs. Norman H. Brown 

Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Bruehl 

Mr. Joseph H. Budge 

Larry & Andrea Buel 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Burns 

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Callahan III 

Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Cannistraro, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Canzoniero 

Mr. Charles J. Carpenter & 

Mrs. Tiffany Porter-Carpenter 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph T. Casey 

Tim & Pat Casgar 

Mr. Richard Clausen 

Dennis & Kerry Clough 

Mr. & Mrs. Adam D. Cockey 

Mr. & Mrs. Alan C. Coho 

Mr. Mike Connolly 

Capt. & Mrs. Rob Cook 

Mr. & Mrs. Roger B. Copinger, Jr. 

Mrs. D.D. Coyle 

Ms. Julie H. Crudele 

Mr. Gerald G. Cully 

Mr. & Mrs. Clyde E. Culp III 

Mr. & Mrs. David H. Cushwa 

Carol Davis 

Mr. Edward L. Davis, Jr. 

Mike & Trish Davis 

Capt. & Mrs. Walter C. Davis, Jr. 

Capt. Michael J. Deane 

Ms. Jean DeBell-O’Neal 

Edwin & Ruth Decker 

Mrs. Jeanne C. DeVries 

Jack & Mary Doetzer 

Mr. John S. Dombach 

Mr. George Domurot 

Dr. James J. Donahue 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald B. Doolittle 

Mr. & Mrs. David G. Draut 

Mr. Nicholas H. Dryland & 

Ms. Sandra L. Richardson 

Mr. William S. Dudley 

Mr. & Mrs. C. Kenneth Dulin 

Mr. & Mrs. William H. Dunton 

Peggy & Frank Emmet 

Mr. & Mrs. Randal B. Etheridge 

ExxonMobil Foundation, Inc. 

Mr. Rogers M Firth 

Dr. & Mrs. Peter L. Flaherty 

Joseph & Mary Elizabeth Flanagan 

Mr. & Mrs. James A. Flood 

John & Peggy Ford 

Mr. W. Thomas Fountain 

Mr. & Mrs. Clark French 

Victor & Nancy Frenkil 

Mr. Robert C. Frey 

Capt. & Mrs. Peter H. Friedman 

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald W. Fuchs 

Mr. & Mrs. Bruce H. Gallup, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Gamble 

Dr. & Mrs. Pedro Garcia 

Mr. & Mrs. William R. Gawne 

Mrs. Samuel R. Gay, Jr. 

Mr. Philip Geyelin 

Ken & Wendy Gibson 

GlaxoSmithKline Foundation 

Capt. & Mrs. Donald J. Goodliffe 

Mr. Jim Gorman 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Gould 

Mr. & Mrs. John L. Graham 

Mrs. Evelyn M. Graybeal 

Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Gribben 

Bernard L. Grove 

Harold & Phebe Guckes 

Mr. John F. Harper & 

Ms. Karen L. Roth 

Mr. James A. Hash 

Mr. Franklin Hawkins 

Mr. & Mrs. David C. Hazen 

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Heiss 

Mr. & Mrs. Cortland P. Hill 

Steve & Mary Hiltabidle 

Mr. Walter D. Hoffman, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. James B. Holler 

Ms. Patricia A. Holloway 

Rich & Suzanne Hood 

Jerry & Jacque Hook 

Mr. & Mrs. C.A. Porter Hopkins 

Ms. Marian B. Hopkins 

The Hon. William Horne 

Ms. Martha Filbert Horner 

Dr. Gary D. Hughes & 

Ms. Kathryn Harrington-Hughes 

Dr. & Mrs. Howard C. Hughes 

Mr. John J. Hughes 

David & Sherry Jeffery 

Ms. Barbara G. Johantgen 

Laurie & Richard Johnson 

Mr. Timothy C. Johnson 

Mrs. Toulson Johnston 

Mr. V. Brewster B. Jones 

Mrs. Adine C. Kelly 

Mr. & Mrs. Allan G. Kenzie 


Capt. & Mrs. Fred K. Kieser 

Mr. & Mrs. G. Rex Kilbourn, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Kilbourne 

Watson & Sybil Kime 

Mr. Jules Korner 

Mr. & Mrs. Nevin E. Kuhl 

Mr. Marc E. Lackritz & 

Ms. Mary B. Deoreo 

Mr. & Mrs. Frank Lambert, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Land 

Mr. & Mrs. H. Ray Landon 

Mr. & Mrs. William L. Lane, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. John J. Langan, Jr. 

Mr. Harold O. Leinbach 

Bruce & Julie Leinberger 

Dr. & Mrs. David E. Leith 

Mr. Ronald E. Lemieux 

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Lesher, Sr. 

Dr. John M. Levinson 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Long 

Mr. Robert H. Mackey 

Mr. & Mrs. Gordon H. Mansfield 

Mr. Richard Manzer 

David & Kirsten Martin 

Mr. & Mrs. Dwight W. Martin 

Brenda J. Martin 

Mr. Stanley Martin 

Max & Ruth Matteson 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Mattingly 

Mr. Richard G. McCauley 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael McClane 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. McKelly, Jr. 

Frank & Bette Meyerle 

Mr. Bill Millar 

Mr. & Mrs. William W. Millar 

Mr. David F. Miller 

Arthur & Martha Milot 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Mitchell 

Capt. Stephen H. Morris 

Mel & Marlies Mraz 

Al & Margaret Naeny 

CBMM’s sailing program helps children build 

confidence on the water. 

Edgar & Leigh Nash 

Mr. & Mrs. Bernard H. Nees 

Mr. & Mrs. Maurice E. Newnam III 

Mr. John Noble 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard T. Nolker 

Mr. & Mrs. John Northrop, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. J. Gregory Norton 

Milton G. Nottingham, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. James R. O’Connell 

Mr. & Mrs. John Orzechowski 

Mr. & Mrs. John A. Pagenstecher 

Mr. & Mrs. William M. Passano III 

Mr. & Mrs. A. William Patterson III 

David & Mary Patterson 

J. Marshall Patterson 

Drs. James & Jeanne Patterson 

The Pfizer Foundation 

Mr. & Mrs. James K. Pickard 

David & Chloe Pitard 

Mr. & Mrs. William T. Poole, Jr. 

Capt. John C. Porter 

Mr. Sydney Porter & 

Ms. Barbara Opper 

Mary Anne & Richard Rathmann 

Mr. & Mrs. Brent Raughley 

Ms. Norma Redele’ 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Reed III 

Mr. & Mrs. Don Regenhardt 

Ms. Mary A. Reiley 

Capt. Robert B. Reinbold 

Harlan & Linda Robinson 

Madeline L. Robinson 

Ms. Margaret E. Roggensack 

Mr. & Mrs. Haskell C. Royer 

Evan Rudderow 

Mr. David Rutherford 

Mrs. Harrison S. Sayre 

Julia R. Schen 

Mr. A.G. Schmitz, Jr. 

Mr. Richard Schubert, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Schuerholz 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles P. Schutt, Jr. 

Mr. Frank Elward & 

Mrs. Linda L. Settle 

Paul & Jane Seymour 

Mr. Steve Sharkey 

Mr. & Mrs. Gary Sikkema 

Mr. Peter A. Silvia 

Ms. Joan H. Simmons 

Mr. & Mrs. Wilbur E. Simmons, Jr. 

Rev. Dr. John W. Simpers, Jr. 

Edward & Nancy Sipe 

Mr. & Mrs. David A. Sirignano 

Mr. John Skocz 

Mr. & Mrs. Albert L. Smith 

Mrs. Edgar C. Smith 

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel R. Snyder 

Mr. & Mrs. Reynolds Somers 

Mr. James Stansbury 

Roger & Sally Stobbart 

Mr. & Mrs. William Stockman 

Nick & Joan Stoer 

Ms. Craigie S Succop 

Mr. & Mrs. Custis B. Swope 

Jack & Joan Swope 

Mr. Richard Tager 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward T. Taws, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. John K. Taylor 

Mr. & Mrs. Evan Thalenberg 

Mr. & Mrs. James A. Thomas 

Mr. James E. Thompson 

Bill & Carolyn Townsend 

Mr. & Mrs. Barclay H. Trippe, Jr. 

Robert & Randi Turner 

Mr. & Mrs. Norman S. Tyler 

United Way of Tri-State


Mr. & Mrs. John R. Valliant 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Valliant 

Mr. & Mrs. O. Ray Vass 

Verizon 

Mr. & Mrs. W. Moorhead Vermilye 

Mr. & Mrs. Carl E. Wagner, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Waln 

Mr. Russell H. Ward 

Mr. & Mrs. Seth L. Warfield 

Mr. & Mrs. John Alan Watson 

Mr. David V. Way & 

Dr. Ruth Sanchez-Way 

Drs. Charles & Ann Webb 

Mr. Dennis C. Weisberg 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Welch 

Mr. William Welch 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. White 

Mr. Harvey T. Whittington 

Mr. Raymond J. Wiacek & 

Ms. Nancy E. O’Connell 

Mr. & Mrs. David E. Wilford 

Mrs. Esther J. Wilson 

Mr. & Mrs. John F. Wing 

Mrs. Beth N. Winkler 

Mr. & Mrs. Clyde S. Wisner 

Mr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Worns 

Ms. Magenta Yglesias 

Don & Joyce Young 

Bob & Esther Ziegler 

Crew 

(up to - $99) 

Anonymous (2) 

Mr. James H. Adams 

Mr. & Mrs. Theodore C. Aepli 

Mr. & Mrs. Larry S. Allen 

Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Allen 

Mr. & Mrs. Ed Alvarado 

Mr. & Mrs. Herbert L. Andrew III 

Mr. John Andrew 

Mr. & Mrs. Rasmus N. Apenes 

Eric & Lori Applegarth 

Capt. Benjamin N. Armiger 

Mr. & Mrs. James E. Arnold 

Mr. & Robert C. Arnold 

Charles & Beverly Austin 

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence F. Awalt III 

Baltimore Community Foundation 

Mr. Charles W. Barber 

Mr. Samuel Barnett 

Ms. Jane A. Barrett 

Donald & Norma Berlin 

Mr. & Mrs. J. Douglass Berry 

Mr. & Mrs. George H. Blood 

The Hon. & Mrs. E.U. Curtis Bohlen 

Mr. & Mrs. James E. Bonan 

Mr. & Mrs. John Borneman 

Drs. Arlene & Stephen Bowes 

Mr. & Mrs. John H. Boyden 

Mr. Michael A. Boylan 

Mr. Bob Brenner 

Mr. Claude F. Brice, Jr. 

Ronald & Linda Brock 

Mr. & Mrs. Spencer J. Brock 

Mr. R. Paul Brooks 

Ms. Ann J. Broomell 

Mrs. John A. Brown 

Rob & Dawn Brownlee-Tomasso 

Marion Brozowski 

Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Brunetti 

Mr. John A. Bruno 

Mr. Michael L. Brustein 

Mrs. Ruth L. Buescher 

Mr. & Mrs. John G. Burfeind 

Mr. & Mrs. George Burke 

Mrs. Claire T. Burkelman 

Mrs. Eleanor L. Campbell 

Mr. John J. Carey 

Mr. & Mrs. William B. Carleton 

Lynda & George Carlson 

Mr. Thomas L. Caswell 

Frank & Gail Cavanaugh 

Mr. Larry Chandler 

Ms. Sharon B. Chilcoat 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Chlan 

Mr. & Mrs. William S. Clarke 

Ms. Phyllis Clingan 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Clum 

Doug & Debbie Collison 

Paul & Vera Colon 

Cathy & Patrick Connelly 

Capt. & Mrs. Harvey C. Cook 

Mr. Stephen K. Coons 

Mr. & Mrs. Lindley M. 

Cowperthwait, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. David M. Cox 

Mr. Roger T. Craig 

Mrs. Charles H. Crane 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Crowley 

Mr. John Csady 

Craig Damon 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Davidson 

Mr. Michael K. Davis & 

Ms. Elizabeth A. Petersilia 

Mr. Joseph W. Dean 

Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. DeBarr 

Mrs. Carolyn R. Decker 

John & Susan Devlin 

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin M. Digan 

Capt. Paul G. Dix 

Mr. Henry L. Dodson, Jr. 

Mr. William L. Dodson 

Lewis & Ann Doom 

Mr. John Downin 

Mr. Joseph A. Doyle 

Michael & Carol Droge 

Bill & Shobha Duncan 

Mr. William M. Edgett 

Mr. & Mrs. John C. Ehmann 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Engle 

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence M. Englert 

Mr. & Mrs. Gary Epstein 

Capt. & Mrs. David Etzel 

Mrs. L. Clark Ewing 


Mrs. Charles L. Fairbank, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. John L. Fairbank 

Mrs. Brenda L. Faulkner & 

Mr. Robert W. Alexander 

Mr. Rick Ferrell 

Mr. Thomas G. Fish 

Capt. Michael T. Flaherty 

Ralph & Charlotte Fleischman 

Mr. George B. Flynn 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Ford, Jr. 

Ms. Joanne Nicole Frank 

Mr. W. Ben Fulton 

Mr. & Mrs. Larry Funk 

Mr. & Mrs. Brice R. Gamber 

Mr. & Mrs. Spencer L. Garrett 

Ed & Linda Gerner 

Mr. & Mrs. John M. Gerty 

Mr. & Mrs. Morton Gibbons-Neff III 

Mr. Jeffrey N. Gibbs & Ms. Jody Katz 

Mr. & Mrs. Rudolph W. Gleichman 

Ms. Melissa Y. Godfrey 

Sheldon & Myra Goldgeier 

Mr. Andrew Gray 

Mr. Robert L. Gray III 

Mr. & Mrs. Russell Gray 

Mr. & Mrs. Milton Gregson 

Mr. & Mrs. Steven K. Griffith 

Mr. George H. Gronde 

Mr. Louis E. Guerrina 

Mrs. Mary Frances Haddaway 

Mr. Gilbert Hahn & 

Ms. Barbara T. Benezet 

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew W. Hait 

Lana W. Harding 

Mr. James A. Hash 

Mr. Christian Havemeyer 

Mr. & Mrs. Nelson M. Head, Jr. 

Dr. & Mrs. John J. Healey 

Mr. Robert J. Heitzman 

Mr. & Mrs. A. Carl Helwig 

Dr. & Mrs. Fraser C. Henderson 

Mr. Stephen D. & 

Kathleen C Hendry 

Mr. & Mrs. William G. Heron 

Mr. Joseph L. Holt 

Ms. Martie K. Holtje 

Mr. Richard B. Hopkins 

Mr. & Mrs. Francis Hopkinson 

Mrs. David A. Horning 

Mr. Jeffrey H. Horstman 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph F. Huber 

John & Elizabeth Hughes 

Ms. Diane Humphrey 

Mr. & Mrs. Frank C. Hurley 

Mr. John I. Hutchison 

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Hyde 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Hynson, Jr. 


Mr. Ronald Ieva 

Wallace & Jane Jansen 

Mr. & Mrs. Harold L. Jones 

Mr. Matthew M. Jones 

Dr. & Mrs. Arnold J. Jules 

Mr. C. Philip Kable 

Mr. Joseph H. Kaisler 

William & Mary Kalis 

Mr. & Mrs. Brian Kane 

Mr. & Mrs. Don C. Katzenberger 

Mr. Thomas P. Keating 

Brenda E. Keener 

Gerhart & Violet Keller 

OysterFest visitors get out on the water aboard Mister Jim. 

Mr. & Mrs. Hall A. Kellogg 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Kelly, Jr. 

Norman & Jeanne Klug 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Knowles 

Dr. Shepard Krech, Jr. 

Richard & Ann Leahy 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Leaver 

Ms. Eleanor C. Leh 

Ms. Vara Jean Lehrkinder 

Pete & Mariana Lesher 

Mr. Christopher Levey 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Lockett 

Ms. Leslie M. Londeree 

Mr. & Mrs. Samuel C. Loveland, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Horace M. Lowman 

Mr. & Mrs. H. David Lunger 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Madary 

Mr. Hugh Mahaffy 

Mr. Marshall Mandell 

Mr. & Mrs. John W. Mann, Jr. 

Ms. Virginia D. Martus 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward E. Masters 

Mr. W. Christopher Maxwell 

Mr. & Mrs. William B. May 

Mr. Newell J. McCalmont 

Mr. & Robert McGee 

Mr. & Mrs. F. James McGrath 

Harold A. McInnes 

Mr. Ronald L. McKee 

Mr. William M. McLin & 

Mr. Sam McKeon 

Mr. & Mrs. Jack Meyerhoff 

Mrs. Mary E. Michael 

Mr. & Mrs. Albert E. Miller III 

Dr. John H. & Emily T. Miller 

Mr. Manny H. Miller 

Ms. Shirley Miller 

Mr. & Mrs. Lynn K. Millikin 

Mr. & Mrs. Ladson Mills III 

Arthur & Martha Milot 

Betty G. Mitchell 

Lucy Mitchell 

Mr. & Mrs. R. Shane Moore 

Mr. & Mrs. Frederick H. Morgan 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Morison 

Mr. & Mrs. Carl A. Morsey 

Mr. & Mrs. William Munch, Jr. 

Mr. Mark D. Murray 

Jim & Peggy Nallo 

Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Newberg 

Mr. & Mrs. Theodore L. Newberg 

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas W. North 

Mr. & Mrs. Norman L. Northcott 

Mr. & Mrs. J. Gregory Norton 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Ober 

Mr. Michael D. Odell 

Mr. John G. O’Donnell III 

Mr. & Mrs. E. Bayly Orem, Jr. 

Mrs. Cynthia Paalborg 

Mrs. Mary Jane Pagenstecher 

Mr. & Mrs. Albert Parr 

Mr. & Mrs. James V. Pasquarelli 

Mr. & Mrs. A.H. Passarella 

Mr. John E.C. Patmore 

Mr. & Mrs. Roman Pawlowski 

Mr. & Mrs. Royce A. Peabody 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard R. Pelliconi 

Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc. 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Pfaff 

Mr. & Mrs. George J. Pillorge 

Mr. & Mrs. R. Alan Platow 

Mr. Sydney Porter & 

Ms. Barbara Opper 

Mr. Robert K. Price 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Prouse 

Mr. James F. Rampe 

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Mr. & Mrs. William B. Read III 

Mr. Walter Reed 

Mr. Robert J. Reynolds 

Jonathan & Lindsley Rice 

Miss Claire A. Richardson 

Mr. Robert H. Richardson 

Richland Homes 

Mr. & Mrs. Warren E. Ringler 

Ms. Nina M. Roark 

Ann & Donald Roe 

Mrs. Martha B. Roe 

Captain & Mrs. Thomas S. Rogers, 

USN (Ret.) 

Mr. Samuel Rothberg 

Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Rutledge 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward C. Santelmann 

Leigh Ann & Edward Schaefer 

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Schneider 

Mr. Richard Schubert, Jr. 

Dr. Jean D. Seder 

Mr. & Mrs. David O. Segermark 

Mr. & Mrs. William D. Service 

Mr. Bruce Shaffer 

Edward L. Sherrer, USAF (Ret.) 

Mr. William E. Shortall 

Mrs. Dewees F. Showell 

Mrs. Katherine R. Simpson 

Mr. & Mrs. David A. Sirignano 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Skalsky, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Smith 

Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Scott Smith 

Mr. Turner Smith 

Mr. & Mrs. C. MacNair Speed 

Ms. Diana F. Stager 

Mr. C. William Stamm 

Mr. Eugene P. Stastny 

Mr. & Mrs. Philip Stein 

Dr. Robert Stern 

Mr. & Mrs. G.E. Stewart 

Ms. Phyllis Stonebrook 

Mr. & Mrs. Gregory J. Strauch 

Mr. Bruce L. Summer 

Dr. & Mrs. Sigmund R. Suskind 

Dr. David F. Sutter 

Mr. & Mrs. Alex A. Sydnor 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tardif 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward T. Taws, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. W. Stuart Thompson, Jr. 

Mr. Wayne Thompson 

Mr. & Mrs. James S. Toedtman 

Mr. & Mrs. John P. Tokarz 

Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Tompkins 

Mr. Dennis H. Truesdale & 

Ms. Jerilyn M. Levi 

Mrs. Barbara Trunkhill 

United Way of Tri-State 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Valliant 

Helen M. Van Fleet 

Mr. & Mrs. Alan F. Van Winkle 

Mr. & Mrs. Herbert E. Von Goerres 

Ms. Margaret C. Wallace 

Mr. & Mrs. D.G. Waugh 

Mr. & Mrs. Gregory A. Weiss 

Mr. & Mrs. Murray W. Weiss 

Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Weisshaar 

Mr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Whalen 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Whitehead 

Ms. Sally K. Whittington 

Mr. & Mrs. C.H. Whittum, Jr. 

Mr. Harry W. Wickard 

Mr. & Mrs. Harry M. Will 

Jan Williamson 

Mr. Peter L. Woicke 

Mr. William H. Woodward 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Wright, Jr. 

Mr. Roy A. Wright, Jr. 

Dr. Sanford T. & Margaret L. Young 

Kurt & Margaret Zuehlke 

Quartermaster 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Valliant 

Gifts in Honor of 

Mr. Robert South Barrett 

Theo B. Bean Foundation, Inc. 

Miss Avery Bailey Joseph 

Dr. & Mrs. John H. Miller 


Ms. Kay Adair 

Ms. Lucy Mitchell 

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin G. Zegan 

Mr. John R. Valliant 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Alnutt 

Amazon Hose & Rubber Company 

Mr. & Mrs. Bruce C. Armistead 



Mr. & Mrs. Duane W. Beckhorn 

Mr. & Mrs. Bruce P. Bedford 

Mr. Robert W. Bennett 

Dr. & Mrs. Stuart M. Bounds 

VAdm. & Mrs. James F. Calvert 

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald K. Cassidy 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Clarke 

Mr. & Mrs. William H. Combs 

Mr. & Mrs. C. Paul Cox II 

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas V. Croker III 

Mrs. Jeanne C. DeVries 

Mr. & Mrs. Frank S. Dudley, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. W. W. Duncan, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Irenee duPont, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Finan, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Albert B. Gipe 


Mr. & Mrs. John L. Graham 

Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Griffith 

Ms. Nancy R. Hammond 

Mr. & Mrs. David C. Hazen 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hewes III 


Drs. Wayne & 

Marietta Hockmeyer 

Mr. George F. Johnson 

Ms. Paula J. Johnson & 

Mr. Carl Fleischhauer 

Mr. & Mrs. Del Joiner 




Mrs. Nancy B. Kirby 

Mr. & Mrs. Frank D. Kittredge 

Mr. & Mrs. William L. Lane, Jr. 


Mr. & Mrs. H. F. Lenfest 

Dr. & Mrs. Donald T. Lewers 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Long 

Mr. & Mrs. Samuel C. Loveland 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Mason 

Dr. & Mrs. John F. Mautz 

Ms. Julie Parker McCahill 

Dr. & Mrs. Ellicott McConnell 

Mr. & Mrs. George V. McGowan 


Capt. & Mrs. Richards T. Miller, 

USN (Ret) 

Mr. & Mrs. Francis A. Morgan, Jr. 

The Hon. & Mrs. John C. North II 


Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Perkins 

Mr. & Mrs. James K. Peterson 

Mr. John M. Pinney & 

Mrs. Donna F. Cantor 

Mr. & Mrs. David L. Pyles 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Ray 


Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. 

Reynolds, Jr. 



Mr. & Mrs. John J. Roberts 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul D. Rust 


Mr. & Mrs. William D. Smith 

Ms. Lucy I. Spiegel 



Dr. Peter B. Stifel 

Mr. & Mrs. Jack P. Stoltz 

Mr. & Mrs. James E. Thomas 

Mr. & Mrs. James Thorington II 


Mr. & Mrs. Samuel M. Trippe 

Mrs. Katherine T. Trout 

Mrs. Jane Tucker 

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Van Dyke 

Mrs. Joan D. West 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Wheeler 

Mr. & Mrs. John R. Whitmore 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald F. Wierda 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Yonkers 

Business, Foundation, and Government Support 

Business & Corporate 

Support including 

Matching Gifts 

Blue Crab Bay Company 

Chevy Chase Bank 


Exxon-Mobil Foundation, Inc. 

Fidelity Investment Charitable Fund 

Georgetown Yacht Basin, Inc. 

GlaxoSmithKline Foundation 

H&R Block Foundation 


Johnson & Johnson 

North Star Asset Management 

Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc. 


Richland Homes 

Tidewater Yacht Sales, Inc. 

Verizon 

Government/Non-Profit 

Institute of Museum and 

Library Services 

Maryland Department of Business 

and Economic Development 

Maryland Department of 

Natural Resources 

Maryland Historic Trust 

Maryland State Arts Council 

National Park Service Chesapeake 

Bay Gateways Program Office 

Talbot County Arts Council 

United Way of Tri-State 

Foundations 

Amazon Hose & Rubber Company 

Baltimore Community Foundation 


The Museum is a bustling social hub. 

The Concordia Foundation 


Fair Play Foundation 

Fidelity Investment 

Charitable Gift Fund 

Thomas H. Hamilton Foundation, Inc. 

Elizabeth S. Hooper Foundation 


Israel Family Foundation 


Dorothy A. Metcalf Foundation 




The Ross Foundation 

Sand Family Fund 

Schluderberg Foundation, Inc. 

The Robb & Elizabeth Tyler 

Foundation 

Van Dyke Family Foundation 

The Widgeon Foundation

Donors to Program, Capital Projects & Endowment 

The Museum is grateful for the outpouring of support from the many individuals, foundations and 

corporations listed here. 

Program and 

Capital Support 

Anonymous 

Benson & Mangold 


James T. Dunn Memorial 

Foundation 




Mr. & Mrs. John H. Kimberly 

Ms. Sandra F. Kirch 

The Lyric Foundation, Inc. 


Monday Night Shipshape Group 







Gifts in Kind 

The Museum thanks the businesses 

and corporations that supported 

its education, capital and visitor 

programs with gifts-in-kind. 

Cadmus Journal Services 

Chesapeake Seafood Caterers 

Crab Claw Restaurant 

David Wheeler Volvo 

Dover Rent-All 

Fawcetts Boat Supplies, Inc. 

Higgins Crab House 

Inn at Perry Cabin 

Kelly Distributing 

The Lumberyard, Inc. 

Miles & Stockbridge, LLC 

PeachBlossoms, Inc. 

Quinn/Evans Architects 

Tiller Publishing 

Town & Country Liquors 

West Marine 

Collections Acquisition 

Highlights 

Listed below are a few highlights 

of items acquired by the Museum 

and added to its collection of 

Chesapeake Bay artifacts. The 

Museum extends its thanks to all 

who have contributed to 

the Collection. 

• Officer’s commission and 

privateer’s license for Oakley 

Haddaway of Talbot County, 

1782, near the end of the 

American Revolution. Gift of 

Robert G. Shannahan 

• Roulette wheel used on the 

Betterton entertainment pier. 

Gift of Margaret M. Harris 

• Model of the sailing log canoe 

Edmee S. made by Robert P. 

Mason. Gift of the model maker 

• Collection of powerboat racing 

trophies won by Louis Van 

Rossum of Edgewater, Maryland. 

Gift of Calvert Marine Museum 

• 8mm films of the Berg Boatyard 

of Georgetown, Maryland, and 

cruises on the family schooner 

yacht Roscoe S. Miller. Gift of Mr. 

and Mrs. Dennis Berg 

• Shipbuilder’s tool chests and 

tools including a tar ladle used 

in a Salisbury shipyard in the 

1930s. Gift of Ann Suthowski in 

memory of Arthur C. Brittingham 

Gifts to the Collection and 

Deeds of Gifts 

The Museum thanks the many 

individuals and businesses who 

donated a variety of items during 

2005-2006 including watercraft, 

historic maps, books, paintings, 

photographs and other Chesapeake 

Bay related items. 

Mr. & Mrs. Duke Adams III 

Mr. Guy Adams 

Mr. & Mrs. Herbert L. Andrew III 

Antique & Classic Boat Society - 

Chesapeake Bay 

Mrs. Emily Austin 


Mrs. Gordon R. Baer, Jr. 

Mr. Michael Balduzzi 

Mr. John F. Banghart IV 

Mr. Timothy Barnum 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Bateman 

Dr. Ronald Batistoni 

Mr. Richard Bemis 

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Berg 

Ms. Sandra N. Berlin 

Ms. Catherine C. Blackwell 

Mr. Michael Boicourt 

Dr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Brigham 

Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Briskman 

Mr. Chad Brown 

Ms. Janet Buck 

Mr. & Mrs. Eugene F. Callaghan 

Mr. George Callaghan 

Calvert Marine Museum 

Mr. & Mrs. Warren A. Campbell III 

Mr. Roger L. Cason 

Ms. Donna L. Cassel 

Mr. & Mrs. Peter C. Chambliss 

Dr. & Mrs. Laurence G. Claggett, Sr. 

Mr. Pierre Collet 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Cornwell 


Mr. Charles Crady 

Mr. Mark Darcy 

Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Davis 

Mr. & Mrs. James B. Deerin 

Ms. Maude N. DeFrance 

Mr. Kenneth C. Diffenderfer 

Mr. & Mrs. Walter F. Dominick, Jr. 

Kids learn about working the water on Waterman’s Wharf. 

Mr. & Mrs. Walter F. Dominick, Jr. 

Mr. Peter A. Doyle 

Eastport Yacht Club 

ECO, Inc. 

Mr. Michael D. Efford 

Ensign Press 

Mr. & Mrs. Lars K. Erickson 

Mr. & Mrs. John L. Fairbank 

Ms. Doris G. Fink 

Mr. Edward Fiss 

Freedom Rowers 

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald W. Gaston 

Mr. Morton Gibbons-Neff, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Wallace F. Glass 


Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gray 

Mr. Geoffrey Hamlin 

Mrs. Alexandra D. Hanks 

Ms. Margaret M. Harris 

Mr. Richard H. Harryman 

Mr. & Mrs. Laurence Hartge 

Dr. & Mrs. John A. Hawkinson 

Mr. Ken Herlihy 

Mr. Harold G. Hernly 

Mr. Halsey C. Herreshoff 

Herreshoff Marine Museum 

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Hook 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Hook 

Ms. Elizabeth Ann Hopkins 

Mr. Douglas Hotchkiss 

Ms. Martha Hudson 

Ms. Edythe Humphries 

Mrs. Barbara W. Jablin 

Mr. & Mrs. Edwin A. James 

Mr. R. Samuel Jett, Jr. 

Jobson Sailing, Inc. 

LTC & Mrs. Maurice R. Keiser, 

USA (Ret.) 

Ms. Karen Kelpy 

Mr. & Mrs. D. Brooke Kinney 

Mr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Koch 

Mr. Albert J. Kubeluis 

Mr. Thomas N. Kyle 

Mr. Larry Lauterbach 

Mr. & Mrs. Alvin L. Lawing 


Mrs. Annabel E. Lesher 

Mr. Pete Lesher 

Mr. & Mrs. J. VanCleve Lott 

Mr. & Mrs. Claude B. Maechling 

Makita U.S.A., Inc. 

Ms. Virginia D. Martus 

MAS Epoxies 

Mr. & Mrs. L. Edward Mason 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Mason 

Mr. Ronald A. Mason 

Mr. William Peak & 

Dr. Melissa McLoud 

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew J. Michalak 

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation 

Mr. & Mrs. William C. Millar 

Mr. & Mrs. Frederick H. Morgan 

Mr. John Owen Mullen 

Mr. Peter J. Narbonne 

Mr. Gary Nylander 

Okuma Fishing Tackle Corporation 

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald K. O’Mara 


Mr. Jerry Patterson 

Mr. & Mrs. William C. Pfingst 

Mr. & Mrs. John D. Phillips 


Constantine Powers 

Dr. & Mrs. Sergio V. Proserpi 

Mr. Michael J. Pynn 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Reed III 


Mr. & Mrs. William U. Reybold III 

Mr. & Mrs. George W. Richards III 

Ms. Carol Rowan 

Mrs. Eleanor Hempstead Savage 

Mr. Robert Schaefer II 

Mr. Michael J. Scherer 

Dr. Arnold Schuring 

Mr. & Mrs. Alex Schuster 

Mr. Richard G. Scofield 

Mr. William Shipley III 

Mrs. Samuel H. Shriver, Jr. 


Mrs. Robert O. Smith 

Dr. Eva M. Smorzaniuk 

St. John Company Store 

Mr. George W. Steggles 

Mr. W. Wallace Stone 

Ms. Ann Suthowski in memory of 

Arthur C. Brittingham 

Mr. Robert M. Swarm 

Mr. David L. Tag 

Mr. Robert G. Target 

Mr. & Mrs. Simon Theriot, Jr. 

Dr. James P. Thompson 

Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Tompkins 

Mr. Ryuji Ueno 

Mr. Wilmer J. Waller 

Mr. Keith Walters 

Mrs. George B. Walton 

Mrs. Robert Weller 

Mr. John H. Whitehead III 

Mr. & Mrs. Winslow Womack 

Mr. Timothy M. Zulick 

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Memorial Gifts 

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Memorial Gifts 

Gifts given in memory of a loved 

one are placed in the Endowment 

Fund and support the Museum in 

perpetuity. The Museum expresses 

its sincere sympathy to family and 

friends who have made contributions 

to the Museum in memory of loved 

ones named below. 

Mr. Robert Appleby 


Mr. Lawrence T. Bailey 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald S. Bennett 

Mr. & Mrs. William W. Brooks 

Dr. Charles P. Craig & 

Mrs. Pamela M. Devereux-Craig 

Mr. & Mrs. Charlie Craig 

Ms. Janice Craig 

Ms. Elizabeth J. Currier 

Mr. & Mrs. John L. Flynt 

Mr. & Mrs. John Franckhauser 


Mr. & Mrs. William A. Naugle 

Mr. & Mrs. Steven Shea 

Dr. & Mrs. Glenn F. Sykora 

Mr. David B. Baker, Jr. 

Mrs. Eleanor B. Baker-deCamp 


Mr. Daniel P. Barnard V 

Dr. Christine H. Block & 

Mr. Jeffrey J. Schaufer 

Mr. Edward Gould Brownlee III 

Mr. John B. Carson 

Ms. Gina Marziani 

Romaine F. ”Mike” & 

Dorothy Button 

Mr. & Mrs. George A. Jackson 

Mr. R. Augustus Clark 

Sailing Club of the Chesapeake 

Mr. William D. deCamp 


Master Jack Nichols English 

Ms. Sandra F. Kirch 


Mr. & Mrs. Edward C. Schaefer 

Maj. Gen. Samuel R. Gay, Jr. 


Mrs. Ray Gladhill 

William & Mary Kalis 

Mr. Thomas R. Herman 

Mrs. Lois Cichantek 

Mr. & Mrs. Larry Freeman 

Mr. Tolbert H. Konigsberg 

Rosenthal Honda 

Mr. Richard F. Schubert 

Mr. John B. Mencke 


Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Mackin 

Dr. Ted J. Noffsinger, Jr. 

Mrs. Gordon R. Baer, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Martin Noffsinger 

Life Members & Planned Gifts 

Life Members 

The Museum is very pleased to 

welcome the following individuals 

who joined the Museum as Life 

Members in fiscal year 2005-2006. 

Mr. Jeff T. Abell 

Mrs. Hannah J. Alnutt 

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry E. Baker 

Mr. Thomas K. Berger 

Heidi & Steven Berman 

Dr. Jeffrey H. Etherton 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Fox 

Laurie & Richard Johnson 

Mr. Robert C. Kettler 


Mr. & Mrs. John Monsky 

Ms. Katherine Preben Ostberg 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles O. Rossotti 

Ann & Paul Rybon 

Mrs. Diane Simison 

Perpetual Mariners Society 

Estate & Planned Gifts 

We are pleased to recognize those 

individuals who have supported 

Mr. Philip E. Nuttle, Sr. 

Mrs. Margaret P. Nuttle 

Mr. Franklin K. Peacock 


Mr. J. Thomas Requard 

Classic Yacht Club of America, Inc. 



Mrs. Mary Ruth Robertson 

Ms. Paulanna C. Gerhardt 

Mr. & Mrs. Frederick H. Sny 

Mrs. Ann Rybon 



Mr. William M. McLin & 

Mr. Sam McKeon 

Mr. W. Mason Shehan, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Frank E. Anderson 

Anhut & Associates Inc. 

Mr. Joseph H. Bachtiger 

Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Blevins 

Mr. & Mrs. Guy Cianci 

Mr. & Mrs. Curt Cramer 

Mr. & Mrs. James L. Crothers 

Ms. Michele L. Duke 

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald M. Finch 

Dr. & Mrs. Elliot Fox 

The Hon. & Mrs. Harry Hughes 

Kaufman, Rossin & Co. 

Lubitz Financial Group 

Mr. Thomas H Marshall, Jr. 

The Hon. James R. Miller, Jr. 

Murray Feiss Import Corp. 

the Museum through a bequest or 

planned gifts which help ensure 

the future of the Museum in 

perpetuity. 

Among the Museum’s education programs is 

“Crab Cakes,” featuring Alice Palmer. 

Ms. Barbara Provost 

Mr. & Mrs. Elmer M. Pusey,Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Fred O. Snyder 

St. Andrews Society of the 

Eastern Shore 

Ms. Barbara Stevens 

Mrs. William G. Story 

Mr. David W. Swetland 


Mrs. Rolf G. Thyrre 

Mr. & Mrs. John K. Todd, Sr. 

Mr. & Mrs. David C. Walters 

Weems Brothers, Inc. 

William B. Bergen Foundation 

Mr. Robert Owen Smith 

Air Products Foundation 

Mr. Charles F. Stein III 


Mr. Francis M. Waters, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. George Waters 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Waters 

Western Connecticut SCORE 

Danbury Branch 

Mr. George W. Wilson, Jr. 


Mr. Richard L. Young 

Ms. Mary W. Battin 

Mr. & Mrs. George H. Cleaves 

Mr. Dennis T. Gallagher 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Green 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Taylor 

Mr. McKenny W. Anderson 

Mr. & Mrs. David L. Benfer 

Mrs. Ralph Bloom 

Mr. & Mrs. James O. Burri 

Mr. & Mrs. Peter C. Chambliss 

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence M. Denton 

Mr. & Mrs. W. Scott Ditch 

Mr. Alfred Fittipaldi & 

Ms. Patricia M. Coleman 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Gillmer 

Mr. William F. Grovermann 

Mrs. Sarah P. Hall 

Mr. & Mrs. George W. Marshall 

Mr. & Mrs. Harwood G. Martin 

Mr. & Mrs. Fred C. Meendsen 


VAdm. & Mrs. William L. Read 

Mr. William L. Renfro 

Ms. Margaret E. Roggensack 



Dr. & Mrs. Richard F. Tyler

Endowments 

Named endowment funds have 

supported the Chesapeake Bay 

Maritime Museum since the first 

fund was established in 1969. 

Persons considering making 

additions to these funds or 

creating a similar fund by a 

current or planned gift are 

encouraged to contact Dr. 

John H. Miller at the Museum 

for additional information. 

Operating Endowments 

The David B. Baker, Jr. Memorial 

Endowment 

The Bedford Family Fund Operating 

Endowment 

The Bruce Ford Brown Memorial 

Operating Endowment 

The Buildings & Grounds 

Endowment 

The C. Thomas Clagett, Jr. 


The Edward B. Freeman Memorial 


The James & Marianna Horner 


The Constance Stuart Larabee 


The Dundas Leavitt Memorial 


The Peter Max Operating 

Endowment 

The Memorial Operating 

Endowment 

The Fred & Nancy Meendsen 

Endowment 

The Museum extends it sincere 

appreciation to all who made 

gifts to the Museum’s endowment 

funds. These gifts support ongoing 

programs and collections of the 

Museum such as the Hooper Strait 

lighthouse, the sailing program, 

the apprentice program among 

many others. 

Ms. Kay Adair 

Adele M. Thomas Charitable 


Air Products Foundation 

Mr. & Mrs. Frank E. Anderson 

Anhut & Associates Inc. 

Mr. Joseph H. Bachtiger 

Mrs. Eleanor B. Baker-deCamp 

Ms. Nancy H. Bare 

Ms. Mary W. Battin 


Mr. & Mrs. Donald S. Bennett 

Mr. & Mrs. Marion W. Bevard 

Mr. & Mrs. Gordon K. Billipp 

Mr. J. Andrew Billipp & 

Dr. Susan H. Billipp 

Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Blevins 

Dr. Christine H. Block & 

Mr. Jeffrey J. Schaefer 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Born 

Michael & Ella Bracy 

The Members Operating 

Endowment 

The John B. Mencke Memorial 

Endowment 

The Sumner & Frances Parker 

Endowment 

The J. Thomas & Eleanor Requard 

Endowment Fund 

The J.W. Sener, Jr., Endowment 

The Ralph Simmons Operating 

Endowment 

The Linda & Hank Spire Operating 

Endowment 

The John R. Valliant President’s 

Discretionary Endowment 

The Vane Brothers Company 

Endowment 

Education and Curatorial 

Endowments 

The Boatbuilding Apprentice Fund 

The Howard I. Chapelle Memorial 

Library Endowment 

Gifts to the Endowment 

Master craftmen are often invited to share their skills 

with the Boat Yard crew. 

Mr. Karl E. Briers 

Mr. & Mrs. William W. Brooks 

Mr. John B. Carson 

Mr. & Mrs. Guy Cianci 

Mrs. Lois Cichantek 

Classic Yacht Club of America, Inc. 

Mr. & Mrs. George H. Cleaves 

Dr. Charles P. Craig & 

Mrs. Pamela M. Devereux-Craig 

Mr. & Mrs. Charlie Craig 

Ms. Janice Craig 

Mr. & Mrs. Curt Cramer 

Mr. & Mrs. James L. Crothers 

Ms. Elizabeth J. Currier 

Ms. Michele L. Duke 

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald M. Finch 

Mr. & Mrs. John L. Flynt 

Dr. & Mrs. Elliot Fox 

Mr. & Mrs. John Franckhauser 

Larry & Charlotte Freeman 

Mr. Dennis T. Gallagher 

Ms. Rachael E. Gaynor 

Ms. Paulanna C. Gerhardt 


Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Green 

Mrs. Jean M. Heyn 

Mr. & Mrs. William M. Heyn 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Hoober 

The Hon. & Mrs. Harry Hughes 

George & Theresa Jackson 


The Collection Acquisition 

Endowment 

The Curatorial Endowment 

The J. Douglas Darby Memorial 

Education Endowment 

The J. Douglas Darby Library 

Endowment 

The Davenport Family Foundation 

Endowment 

The Education Endowment 

The Fichtner Community Sailing 

Endowment 

The Claiborne W. Gooch III 

Memorial Endowment 

The Maintenance for Floating 

Exhibits Endowment 

The Jean McIntosh & William 

Carveth Heyn Endowment Fund 

The George F. Johnson Endowment 

Kaufman, Rossin & Co. 




Mr. Tolbert H. Konigsberg 

Lubitz Financial Group 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Mackin 

Mr. Thomas H. Marshall, Jr. 


Ms. Gina Marziani 


Ms. Mildred H. McQueen 

The Hon. & Mrs. James R. Miller, Jr. 

Murray Feiss Import Corp. 

Mr. & Mrs. William A. Naugle 

Mr. & Mrs. Martin Noffsinger 

Mr. & Mrs. John L.S. Northrop 

Mrs. Margaret P. Nuttle 

Mr. & Mrs. John B. Owens 

Norman G. Owens Foundation 


Ms. Gretchen Heyn Porter 

Ms. Barbara Provost 

Mr. & Mrs. Elmer M. Pusey, Jr. 

Rosenthal Honda 


Mr. Richard F. Schubert 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Sener, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Steven Shea 

Mr. & Mrs. H.C. Bowen Smith 

Mr. & Mrs. Fred O. Snyder 

The Program Endowment for 

the Kerr Center for 

Chesapeake Studies 

The Kimberly Clark Endowment in 

Memory of Robert J. Kimberly 

The Lenfest Foundation Lecture 

Series Endowment 

The Lighthouse Endowment 

The James Michener Intern 

Endowment 

The Phillip E. Nuttle Waterfowl 

Endowment 

The Sumner and Frances Parker 

Endowment 

The David & Susan Pyles 

Community Sailing Endowment 

The Sailing Club of the Chesapeake 

Sail Training Endowment 

The Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe 

Trophy Endowment 

The Ralph Simmons Operating 

Endowment 

The C.V. Starr Scholarship 

Endowment 

The Barbara Stewart Museum Store 

Endowment 

The Ernest and Jane Tucker 

Apprentice Endowment 

The George Harry Wagner 

Memorial Scholarship 

Endowment 

The Webster Endowment 

The Ralph H. Wiley Education 

Endowment 

Fred & Carolyn Snyder 

St. Andrews Society of the 

Eastern Shore 

St. Michaels Marina, Inc. 

The Starr Foundation 

Ms. Barbara Stevens 

Mrs. William G. Story 

Mr. David W. Swetland 

Dr. & Mrs. Glenn F. Sykora 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Taylor 



Mrs. Rolf G Thyrre 

Mr. & Mrs. John K. Todd, Sr. 

Mr. & Mrs. John R. Valliant 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Wagner 

Mr. & Mrs. David C. Walters, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. George Waters 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Waters, Jr. 

Weems Brothers, Inc. 

Western Connecticut SCORE 

Danbury Branch 

The Whiting-Turner 

Contracting Company 

Ms. Eunice M. Whitney 

Mr. Roger S. Whitney 

Mr. Simon Whitney & 

Ms. Judy Levison 

William B. Bergen Foundation 

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Financial Data and Information 

34 

Statement of Financial Position Year Ended April 30, 2006 

ASSETS 

Cash and Cash Equivalents 

Accrued Investment Income 

Accounts and Grants Receivable 

Short Term Investments at Fair Value 

Split-Interest Receivable 

Contributions Receivable 

Tax Credit Receivable 

Inventories at Lower of Cost or Fair Value 

Pre-Paid Expenses 

Planned Gifts Investments at Fair Value 

Long Term Investments at Fair Value 

Land, Buildings and Equipment (Net of Depreciation) 

TOTAL ASSETS 

LIABILITIES 

Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses 

Deferred Income and Deposits 

Notes Payable 

Long-Term Debt 

TOTAL LIABILITIES 

NET ASSETS 

Unrestricted 

Temporarily Restricted 

Permanently Restricted 

TOTAL NET ASSETS 

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS 

2006 

$840,458 

20,220 

32,964 

213,480 

671,102 

220,445 

0 

327,287 

24,274 

15,334 

13,612,487 

13,853,620 

$29,831,671 

2006 

$730,681 

73,924 

7,929 

3,660,872 

$4,473,406 

2006 

$17,107,815 

430,590 

7,819,860 

$25,358,265 

$29,831,671 

2005 

$916,230 

18,205 

30,638 

238,491 

673,835 

449,859 

403,000 

315,195 

52,745 

14,854 

10,875,532 

12,891,207 

$26,879,791 

2005 

$504,541 

45,985 

7,929 

2,337,555 

$2,896,010 

2005 

$16,109,382 

580,511 

7,293,888 

$23,983,781 

$26,879,791 

A copy of the current financial statements of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is available by writing P.O. Box 636, 

St. Michaels, MD 21663-0636 or by calling 410-745-2916 ext. 238. Documents and information submitted under the Maryland 

Charitable Solicitations Act are also available from the Maryland Secretary of State, State House, Annapolis, MD 21401, 

410-974-5534. Registration with the Maryland Secretary of State is not, and does not imply, endorsement of any solicitation. 

Other Income: 3% 

Education/Publication: 3% 

Annual Fund: 13% 

Store Gross Profit: 8% 

Contributions and Grants: 25% 

Operating Income 

Endowment 

Distribution: 18% 

Membership: 14% 

Admissions and 

Special Events: 16% 

Functional Expenses 

(All Funds) 

Program: 74% 

Fundraising: 10% 

Administration: 16%

Statement of Activities Year Ended April 30, 2006 

REVENUES 

Contributions 

Contributions 

Membership 

TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS 

Grants 

Special Event - Boating Party 

Admissions 

Education Programs 

Change in Value of Split Interest Agreements 

Investment Income 

Realized Gain on Securities 

Unrealized Gain on Securities 

Museum Store Gross Profit 

Rental Income 

Miscellaneous Sales 

Other Income 

Assets Released from Restriction 

TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS & REVENUE 

Expenses 

Program Expenses 

Administrative Expenses 

Fundraising Expenses 

TOTAL EXPENSES 

CHANGES IN NET ASSETS 

NET ASSETS, BEGINNING OF YEAR 

NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR 

Unrestricted 

$502,894 

414,272 

917,166 

- 

152,289 

481,440 

85,233 

258,085 

618,088 

1,635,475 

242,936 

30,787 

339,589 

7,261 

531,235 

5,299,584 

3,168,251 

692,522 

440,378 

4,301,151 

998,433 

$16,109,382 

$17,107,815 

Fundraising: 10% 

Visitor Services: 20% 

Publications & 

Communications: 4% 

Temporarily 

Restricted 

$87,681 

- 

87,681 

293,633 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

(531,235) 

(149,921) 

- 

- 

- 

0 

(149,921) 

$580,511 

$430,590 

Operating Dollars at Work 

Curatorial & Boat Yard: 18% 

Administration & 

Marketing: 23% 

Permanently 

Restricted 

$493,235 

- 

493,235 

- 

- 

- 

- 

32,737 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

- 

525,972 

- 

- 

- 

0 

525,972 

$7,293,888 

$7,819,860 

Buildings, Grounds & 

Exhibits: 19% 

Education: 6% 

Total 

2006 

$1,083,810 

414,272 

1,498,082 

293,633 

152,289 

481,440 

85,233 

32,737 

258,085 

618,088 

1,635,475 

242,936 

30,787 

339,589 

7,261 

- 

5,675,635 

3,168,251 

692,522 

440,378 

4,301,151 

1,374,484 

$23,983,781 

$25,358,265 

2005 

$1,614,340 

400,930 

2,015,270 

610,865 

161,939 

466,883 

103,137 

32,862 

237,794 

278,137 

167,561 

219,496 

30,694 

360,021 

1,401 

- 

4,686,060 

2,696,647 

506,536 

350,003 

3,553,186 

1,132,874 

$22,850,907 

$23,983,781 

35

Mystery Photo 

Can you identify the location where this photograph was taken on the Bay a hundred 

years ago? The answer and the names of the readers who got it right will appear in 

the next issue of the CBMM Quarterly. Send your answers to editor@cbmm.org. 

We gratefully recognize Mercantile Eastern Shore Bank for its generous support of this publication. 

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum 

Navy Point PO Box 636 

St. Michaels, MD 21663 

Non-Profit Org. 

U.S. Postage Paid 

Chesapeake Bay 

Maritime Museum

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