By Mark Edward Nero
Crowley Maritime Corp. presented four California Maritime Academy students with scholarships during the Containerization and Intermodal Institute’s Connie Awards dinner Sept. 20 in Long Beach, Calif.
Maritime Academy students Christiana Harrell, Bonnie Claire Muchnick, Taylor Sullivan and Alex Yorkman were presented the Thomas B. Crowley Sr. Memorial Scholarships by Crowley marine personnel recruiter Jenny Terpenning during the event.
The scholarships help to further educational opportunities for students who are chosen based on their academic performance, financial need and interest in pursuing a career at sea after graduation.
Harrell, a sophomore from Big Bear City, Calif., is pursuing a degree in marine transportation with a minor in marine science. She said she plans to sail after graduation.
Muchnick, a senior from Oakland, Calif., is seeking a bachelor’s degree in marine transportation. As part of her Maritime Academy commercial cruise experience, she spent the summer sailing on Crowley’s tanker Florida on a route between Texas and Louisiana. After graduation, she hopes to pursue a career at sea.
Sullivan, from Sanger, Calif., is a senior marine transportation student who is also pursuing a pre-law minor. Sullivan completed her commercial cruise last summer onboard the Crowley-managed Horizon Alliance. She plans to continue her education and earn her Master’s license upon graduation. Sullivan, who is on the Dean’s List and President’s List at the Maritime Academy, said she plans to pursue a career at sea.
Yorkman, from Whidbey Island, Wash., who is scheduled to graduate in 2018, is pursuing a marine engineering technology major and a marine science minor.
He sailed aboard the Crowley-managed Horizon Pacific for his commercial cruise earlier this year. He said he plans to pursue a career on a research vessel upon graduation.
The Thomas B. Crowley Sr. Memorial Scholarship Program was established in 1994 by Chairman and CEO Tom Crowley Jr. in honor of his father, who led the company before passing away in 1994.
Since 1984, Crowley has given more than $3 million dollars in scholarship funding to more than 1,000 students, and also donated more than $2 million over the years to support other educational programs.
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MARAD Gives $7 Million to Maritime Academies
By Mark Edward Nero
The US Maritime Administration (MARAD) on Jan. 29 revealed that America’s six state maritime academies and the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, NY, will each receive $1 million from a government program that recycles obsolete vessels.
Grant recipients include the California Maritime Academy, Great Lakes Maritime Academy, Maine Maritime Academy, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, SUNY Maritime College and Texas Maritime Academy.
In a statement, MARAD said the funding is expected to help ensure US Merchant Marine officers “are available to meet our nation’s national security and economic needs.”
“The most important element in our US Merchant Marine fleet is our people,” US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said. “This funding will help ensure that dedicated men and women of our maritime academies continue to have the resources that make them the best educated and most highly trained mariners anywhere.”
The money for the funding came from the sale of obsolete vessels from the Maritime Administration’s National Defense Reserve Fleet, which were purchased for recycling. Federal law requires that 25 percent of the profit from sales is distributed to maritime academies for facility and training ship maintenance, repair, and modernization, and for the purchase of simulators and fuel.
Fifty percent funds the acquisition, maintenance, and repair of vessels in the National Defense Reserve Fleet; and the other 25 percent is provided to the National Park Service, which provides grants for maritime heritage activities through the National Maritime Heritage Grants Program.
Since 2009, MARAD has provided almost $9 million in funding generated from vessel sales to the state academies and the US Merchant Marine Academy.
The US Maritime Administration (MARAD) on Jan. 29 revealed that America’s six state maritime academies and the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, NY, will each receive $1 million from a government program that recycles obsolete vessels.
Grant recipients include the California Maritime Academy, Great Lakes Maritime Academy, Maine Maritime Academy, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, SUNY Maritime College and Texas Maritime Academy.
In a statement, MARAD said the funding is expected to help ensure US Merchant Marine officers “are available to meet our nation’s national security and economic needs.”
“The most important element in our US Merchant Marine fleet is our people,” US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said. “This funding will help ensure that dedicated men and women of our maritime academies continue to have the resources that make them the best educated and most highly trained mariners anywhere.”
The money for the funding came from the sale of obsolete vessels from the Maritime Administration’s National Defense Reserve Fleet, which were purchased for recycling. Federal law requires that 25 percent of the profit from sales is distributed to maritime academies for facility and training ship maintenance, repair, and modernization, and for the purchase of simulators and fuel.
Fifty percent funds the acquisition, maintenance, and repair of vessels in the National Defense Reserve Fleet; and the other 25 percent is provided to the National Park Service, which provides grants for maritime heritage activities through the National Maritime Heritage Grants Program.
Since 2009, MARAD has provided almost $9 million in funding generated from vessel sales to the state academies and the US Merchant Marine Academy.
