Burgess Collection • Annual Report

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QUA R T E R LY
Winter 2006-2007
Burgess Collection • Annual Report
Happy New Year from all of us at the CBMM
Q UA R T ERLY
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.
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.
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.
Stuart L. Parnes, President
sparnes@cbmm.org
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum w Winter 2006-2007
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.
Features
Departments
To the Point
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Annual Report
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Events Calendar*
C
* Events Calendar is a special pull-out
section that can be found between
pages 18 and 19.
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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
1-4
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A new exhibit opening explores the history and influence of
African Americans on the region. By Lindsley E. H. Rice
Explore & Restore
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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
Contents
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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 com4
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
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
(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
(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.
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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
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
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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
(Left) The schooner Anna & Helen lying abandoned
at Crisfield in June 1960. Photo by Robert H.
Burgess, 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. w
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.
9. Burgess (ed.), Coasting Captain (Newport News, Va.: The Mariners’ Museum,
1967), xvi.
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Waters of
Waters of
Despair
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.
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“Crab Pickers in St. Michaels,” Ruth Starr Rose, c. 1940, gift of Historical Society of Talbot County
Ruth Starr Rose Crab Pickers Slave Fishing
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.
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
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.
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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
Preserving
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.
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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
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(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.
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
There aren’t many scientists named “Mutt.” But there
has helped Elizabeth North create a model for larval disperaren’t many former Chesapeake Bay watermen who hold
sal patterns.
PhDs in marine estuarine environmental sciences. A St. MiCreating an accurate model to predict where Asian oyster
chaels native, Meritt began working at Horn Point in the
larvae will go is an important factor in whether or not to intro1970s. Growing up, he worked on the water—and might still
duce non-native oysters into the Bay. A report North wrote is a
be there—were it not for St. Michaels High School teacher
part of the environmental impact study that is currently being
Dick Kleen, who inspired Meritt’s curiosity for observing the
conducted by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
natural world. His background gives him a rapport and credNorth’s model looks at the dispersal patterns of Bay oysters
ibility with local watermen not afforded to many in the scienand Asian oysters side-by-side to show how the larvae could
tific community.
be influenced by wind, tides, salinity, and other circulation patAs program director for Horn Point’s 5,500-square-foot
terns. The kind of mathematical modeling program that she
oyster hatchery, Meritt oversees the growing of both the Bay
uses was developed at Horn Point, where scientists adapted an
and Asian oysters. The major question being asked by reocean modeling program to the grid of the Chesapeake Bay.
source managers and stakeholders is whether or not to inThis model simulated the water of the Bay, on top of which
troduce the Asian oysters to the Bay. Though he has grown,
North put her model for oyster larvae behavior.
studied, and written about both varieties, it is not a scientist’s
A debate as controversial as the introduction of Asian
job to conjecture whether or not to introduce a foreign speoysters to the Bay is not standard territory for a mathematicies of oysters into the Bay. A scientist needs to talk about
cal modeler.
what he has observed. When asked what his observations
“Ultimately, it is gratifying to work on something that so
have yielded, Meritt says, “I have not seen anything to date
many people care about,” she says. “It is also challenging. A
that is a deal breaker.”
lot of the work we completed along
He points out that when conthe way didn’t even make it to the
templating this kind of ecological
final report because we hold it to the
decision, there are easy answers
highest standards.”
and hard answers.
With her report on the Asian
“The easy answer is if someoyster in the hands of the DNR,
body finds something that will
North’s attention is now focused
bring a pox on the Bay, or you
on the blue crab and how wind and
put non-native oysters in and all
flow patterns affect its population.
the blue crabs catch a disease. No
North’s work on the blue crab is
one is going to do something like
garnering attention and funding.
that,” he says.
The Sea Grant programs for DelaThe hard questions come
ware, Maryland, and Virginia are
when the research doesn’t give
co-sponsoring the project. North
any indication that something bad
sees the collaborative nature of
will happen.
Elizabeth North conducts cutting-edge research on
the project, along with its ultimate
“Then the question is, did you
oysters and blue crabs. Photo by Cheryl Nemazie
practical applications to be a part of
not find it because you didn’t look
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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.
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 collabHorn Point’s work on oysters and blue
orative that includes NOAA, the National
crabs is finding a number of audiences
Ocean Service, the National Weather SerHorn Point
around the Chesapeake watershed. The
vice, and the U.S. Geological Survey.
work they are conducting on the overall
“Resource managers need answers,” says
water quality and health of the Bay is reBoicourt. “They need to make decisions very
ceiving national attention and earning sciquickly and they will make it with or without
entists Bill Boicourt and Horn Point Director Mike Roman
the science if it is not there in a timely manner.”
research trips to New Orleans.
Scientists at Horn Point have spent a number of years
studying the low oxygen zone in the Chesapeake Bay.
Horn Point’s success in bridging the gap between the aca“When Captain John Smith sailed up the Bay there was
demic and the applicable has not been an accident. They are
probably a low oxygen zone,” says Roman. “Every estuary,
relevant by design.
when you have fresh water going over salt, the bottom gets
Roman points out that when they evaluate their scientists
separated from the top.”
every year, they look at a number of factors. They consider
He said nutrients are brought in from the rivers and sink
what they have done in the way of discovery. They look at
to the bottom “like a giant compost heap and it uses up the
how they have worked with state managers. They evaluate
oxygen. So our ‘dead zone,’ as they call it, has grown in size
what faculty members have done for public outreach, and what
and it’s also grown in duration. About 7 to 10 percent of the
they have done for education—teaching not only graduate stuBay’s volume doesn’t have enough oxygen to support life.
dents, but interns, high school, and grade school students.
The same thing is occurring in the Mississippi River
Roman also has high hopes for a new initiative at Horn
and the northern Gulf of Mexico. It’s a big enough concern
Point: the Ecological Restoration Institute. The thinking bethat the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
hind the institute is using what they know about the Bay and
(NOAA) has awarded $2.25 million in multi-year grants to
how to fix it in small sections.
study the Gulf’s “dead zone.”
Roman said the zone in the Gulf region is roughly the size of Rhode Island. It
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.
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
“We know how to make things better,” Roman said. “You
been there the whole time, but we have never been able to
stop farm runoff, you upgrade sewage treatment plants, you
see them before.”
put in buffer strips.
Boicourt and Roman loaded the Scanfish and took it to
“By taking a more holistic approach, it’s going to make
New Orleans at the end of last summer for a research cruise.
a difference.” w
They will meet with the same national group of scientists to
review and discuss their findings later this year.
For more information about Horn Point Laboratory, visit
At home on the Bay, Boicourt finds ways to collaborate
its website at www.hpl.umces.edu.
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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
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 MuseRobert Forloney is the Director
um of Art, and the American
of Education.
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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To the Point
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 Rachel Dolhanczyk is the Youth
the field, serving as a Grant Programs Coordinator
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
Manager of the Virginia
Cristina Calvert is the Special
Community College System
Events Coordinator.
in Richmond, Virginia.
A 2005 graduate of Randolph-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 gradu- Dick Cooper is the editor of the
ate of Michigan State Uni- Quarterly.
versity and a University of
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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 cus- Susan Harrison is the Assistant
Manager of Visitor Services and
tomer service and knack for Dockmaster.
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 for three-and-a-half years,
overseeing the redesign of
Marketing & Media Relations.
www.cbmm.org. He has edited 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
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.
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.
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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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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.
Rachel and Robert demonstrate tonging for oysters on Waterman’s Wharf.
“You don’t have to go back in time
because it is still all around us. You
and images. The collections are valuable in that they act as a
do not have to have re-enactors to bring you back.”
catalyst for research and provide the opportunity for insight
They both hope to get more members of the local comabout a place and its people.”
munities to come in and tell the Museum staff and visitors
Forloney, who has worked at many cultural institutions
what they think is important. Dolhanczyk said they want
including the Museum of the City of New York and the South
to make the Museum a place where visitors—from teachStreet Seaport Museum, and Dolhanczyk, who directed the
ers, school groups, scouts, children to families—return freCape May County Historical and Genealogical Society, both
quently because they know they will find something engagsaid they were drawn to CBMM by the diverse opportunities
ing and exciting.
it offers to tell the stories of the Bay.
She said the Museum is in a unique situation because it
Melissa McLoud, the Museum’s Vice President for Procan help children maintain contact with the water, a connecgram, is delighted with Robert’s and Rachel’s arrival.
tion that is slipping away because of economic and develop“They see our communities as major resources; they know
ment pressures on the entire Chesapeake Bay waterfront.
that working with residents to recognize and explore the Bay’s
“We would also like to work more closely with the
history and culture—incorporating the communities’ diverse
schools,” Dolhanczyk said. “Ideally we would like to further
voices into this Museum’s collections, research, exhibitions,
develop relationships with teachers so that we are involved
and public programs—is the way to make this Museum excel.
with their classes throughout the school year. Professional
They come from museums that also take seriously the role
development training for teachers will help them incorporate
their programs play in their communities and they see CBMM
the Museum and its resources into their class studies.
as a resource for community residents.”
Forloney said, “We would like to help the school system
Forloney said, “Here you can interpret the history of the
teach the history of the region. Local history is extremely
Chesapeake Bay in so many ways. You are not tied to one speimportant. Once students begin to understand their own hiscific genre. You are not forced to view the collections through
tory and the impact that history has on their family, friends,
one particular lens but can take a historical, scientific, cultural
and community, then they can start to understand how they
or even aesthetic perspective.”
fit into the national and global stories.”
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 va20
— 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 Phila21
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.
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(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.
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.
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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.” w
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.
• 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
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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
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
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.
($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
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. 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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Annual Fund Donors
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
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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
Annual Fund Donors
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.
IBM Corporation
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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Annual Fund Donors
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
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. & Mrs. H. F. Lenfest
Dr. & Mrs. Donald T. Lewers
Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Long
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel C. Loveland
Mr. John R. Valliant
Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Mason
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Alnutt
Dr. & Mrs. John F. Mautz
Amazon Hose & Rubber Company
Ms. Julie Parker McCahill
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce C. Armistead
Dr. & Mrs. Ellicott McConnell
Mr. & Mrs. George V. McGowan
Mr. & Mrs. Duane W. Beckhorn
Capt. & Mrs. Richards T. Miller,
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce P. Bedford
USN (Ret)
Mr. Robert W. Bennett
Mr. & Mrs. Francis A. Morgan, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. Stuart M. Bounds
The Hon. & Mrs. John C. North II
VAdm. & Mrs. James F. Calvert
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald K. Cassidy
Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Perkins
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Clarke
Mr. & Mrs. James K. Peterson
Mr. & Mrs. William H. Combs
Mr. John M. Pinney &
Mr. & Mrs. C. Paul Cox II
Mrs. Donna F. Cantor
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas V. Croker III
Mr. & Mrs. David L. Pyles
Mrs. Jeanne C. DeVries
Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Ray
Mr. & Mrs. Frank S. Dudley, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H.
Mr. & Mrs. W. W. Duncan, Jr.
Reynolds, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Irenee duPont, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Finan, Jr.
Foundation, Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. Albert B. Gipe
Mr. & Mrs. John J. Roberts
Mr. & Mrs. Paul D. Rust
Mr. & Mrs. John L. Graham
Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Griffith
Mr. & Mrs. William D. Smith
Ms. Nancy R. Hammond
Ms. Lucy I. Spiegel
Mr. & Mrs. David C. Hazen
Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hewes III
Dr. Peter B. Stifel
Drs. Wayne &
Mr. & Mrs. Jack P. Stoltz
Marietta Hockmeyer
Mr. & Mrs. James E. Thomas
Mr. George F. Johnson
Mr. & Mrs. James Thorington II
Ms. Paula J. Johnson &
Mr. Carl Fleischhauer
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel M. Trippe
Mr. & Mrs. Del Joiner
Mrs. Katherine T. Trout
Mrs. Jane Tucker
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Van Dyke
Mrs. Joan D. West
Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Wheeler
Mrs. Nancy B. Kirby
Mr. & Mrs. John R. Whitmore
Mr. & Mrs. Frank D. Kittredge
Mr. & Mrs. Donald F. Wierda
Mr. & Mrs. William L. Lane, Jr.
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
IBM Corporation
Johnson & Johnson
North Star Asset Management
Pete Pappas & Sons, Inc.
Richland Homes
Tidewater Yacht Sales, Inc.
Verizon
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
Foundations
Amazon Hose & Rubber Company
Baltimore Community Foundation
Government/Non-Profit
Institute of Museum and
Library Services
Maryland Department of Business
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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
IBM Corporation
Israel Family Foundation
Dorothy A. Metcalf Foundation
Foundation, Inc.
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
• 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
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.
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
Kids learn about working the water on Waterman’s Wharf.
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. & 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
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. C. Philip Kable
Mr. & Mrs. William A. Naugle
Mr. & Mrs. Steven Shea
Dr. & Mrs. Glenn F. Sykora
Mr. David B. Baker, Jr.
Mrs. Eleanor B. Baker-deCamp
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. Daniel P. Barnard V
Dr. Christine H. Block &
Mr. Jeffrey J. Schaufer
Mr. John B. Mencke
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Mackin
Mr. Edward Gould Brownlee III
Mr. John B. Carson
Ms. Gina Marziani
Dr. Ted J. Noffsinger, Jr.
Mrs. Gordon R. Baer, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Martin Noffsinger
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.
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
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
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Perpetual Mariners Society
Estate & Planned Gifts
We are pleased to recognize those
individuals who have supported
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.
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.
Operating Endowment
The Edward B. Freeman Memorial
Operating Endowment
The James & Marianna Horner
Operating Endowment
The Constance Stuart Larabee
Operating Endowment
The Dundas Leavitt Memorial
Operating Endowment
The Peter Max Operating
Endowment
The Memorial Operating
Endowment
The Fred & Nancy Meendsen
Endowment
The George F. Johnson Endowment
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
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
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
Master craftmen are often invited to share their skills
with the Boat Yard crew.
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
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
Gifts to the 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
Foundation, Inc.
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
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
Mr. C. Philip Kable
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Financial Data and Information
Statement of Financial Position Year Ended April 30, 2006
ASSETS
2006
2005
$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
$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
TOTAL ASSETS
$29,831,671
$26,879,791
LIABILITIES
2006
2005
$730,681
73,924
7,929
3,660,872
$504,541
45,985
7,929
2,337,555
$4,473,406
$2,896,010
2006
2005
Unrestricted
Temporarily Restricted
Permanently Restricted
$17,107,815
430,590
7,819,860
$16,109,382
580,511
7,293,888
TOTAL NET ASSETS
$25,358,265
$23,983,781
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
$29,831,671
$26,879,791
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)
Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses
Deferred Income and Deposits
Notes Payable
Long-Term Debt
TOTAL LIABILITIES
NET ASSETS
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.
Operating Income
Annual Fund: 13%
Other Income: 3%
Endowment
Distribution: 18%
Functional Expenses
(All Funds)
Program: 74%
Education/Publication: 3%
Store Gross Profit: 8%
Membership: 14%
Fundraising: 10%
Contributions and Grants: 25%
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Admissions and
Special Events: 16%
Administration: 16%
Statement of Activities Year Ended April 30, 2006
REVENUES
Unrestricted
Temporarily
Restricted
Permanently
Restricted
Total
2006
2005
Contributions
Contributions
Membership
$502,894
414,272
$87,681
-
$493,235
-
$1,083,810
414,272
$1,614,340
400,930
917,166
87,681
493,235
1,498,082
2,015,270
Grants
Special Event - Boating Party
152,289
Admissions
481,440
Education Programs
85,233
Change in Value of Split Interest Agreements
Investment Income
258,085
Realized Gain on Securities
618,088
Unrealized Gain on Securities
1,635,475
Museum Store Gross Profit
242,936
Rental Income
30,787
Miscellaneous Sales
339,589
Other Income
7,261
Assets Released from Restriction
531,235
5,299,584
TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS & REVENUE
293,633
(531,235)
(149,921)
32,737
-
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
-
610,865
161,939
466,883
103,137
32,862
237,794
278,137
167,561
219,496
30,694
360,021
1,401
-
525,972
5,675,635
4,686,060
TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Expenses
Program Expenses
Administrative Expenses
Fundraising Expenses
3,168,251
692,522
440,378
-
-
3,168,251
692,522
440,378
2,696,647
506,536
350,003
TOTAL EXPENSES
4,301,151
0
0
4,301,151
3,553,186
998,433
(149,921)
525,972
1,374,484
1,132,874
NET ASSETS, BEGINNING OF YEAR
$16,109,382
$580,511
$7,293,888
$23,983,781
$22,850,907
NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR
$17,107,815
$430,590
$7,819,860
$25,358,265
$23,983,781
CHANGES IN NET ASSETS
Operating Dollars at Work
Fundraising: 10%
Administration &
Marketing: 23%
Visitor Services: 20%
Publications &
Communications: 4%
Curatorial & Boat Yard: 18%
Buildings, Grounds &
Exhibits: 19%
Education: 6%
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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 w PO Box 636
St. Michaels, MD 21663
Non-Profit Org.
U.S. Postage Paid
Chesapeake Bay
Maritime Museum

Burgess Collection • Annual Report

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