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Volume LVIII Issue 1 Spring 2012 5<br />
Around <strong>District</strong> 7<br />
FORT MYERS, Fla.─89 year old Dorothy<br />
Kurtz, one of the first women enlisted<br />
in the <strong>Coast</strong> <strong>Guard</strong> SPARs during<br />
WWII, swaps stories with 97 year old<br />
Marty Rowe, a <strong>Coast</strong> <strong>Guard</strong> Temporary<br />
Reservist, who served on bulk carrier<br />
ships in the Great Lakes during the same<br />
war. Kurtz and Rowe are among the early<br />
interviewees for a project, Oral History<br />
Interviews, being conducted by the<br />
<strong>Coast</strong> <strong>Guard</strong> <strong>Auxiliary</strong> Naonal History<br />
Department under the leadership of Dr.<br />
Richard Stephenson. Their videotaped<br />
stories will become part of the vast<br />
history of <strong>Coast</strong> <strong>Guard</strong>smen who served<br />
their country during the past 70 years.<br />
Photograph: Constance O. Irvin, <strong>District</strong><br />
Staff Officer-Public Affairs, D7<br />
TAMPA, Fla.— The Bonny Sea is ed off at th<br />
e<br />
dock in front of Sector St. Pe<br />
tersbu<br />
rg’s Preve<br />
n<br />
on<br />
Department in Tampa on Jan. 28 during the<br />
Gaspara illa Pir<br />
ate Invasion. On the Bonny Sea are<br />
Raymond Paysour, coxswain, Harryr<br />
Kam<br />
beris an<br />
d<br />
Dick Petrucci,<br />
trainees;<br />
and crewm<br />
em<br />
be<br />
rs William<br />
Beckee and Braxton Ezell, l, all from Flo<br />
olla 81, and<br />
Tom Johnson and Fred Kermode from Flo<br />
lla 85.<br />
Next to the Bonnie<br />
Sea<br />
is Miss<br />
Marla fro<br />
rom Fl<br />
ollala<br />
72, the <strong>Auxiliary</strong> Patrol Command ves<br />
esse<br />
se<br />
l for the<br />
event with coxswain Rick<br />
Short and<br />
cre<br />
rewm<br />
embe<br />
rs<br />
Nathaniel Hall from Flollala 72,<br />
and<br />
Cli<br />
liffor<br />
d Ma<br />
r<br />
n<br />
and Tim Teahan from Flolla 79.<br />
A Coa<br />
oast<br />
Gua<br />
uard<br />
Resp<br />
onse Boat is ed off<br />
besi<br />
de the<br />
hem.<br />
Pho<br />
to<br />
by Fred Kermode. Backg<br />
kgro<br />
roun<br />
d im<br />
age by Geo<br />
rge<br />
Papabeis, Flolla 74