“ There should be a school like this in every coastal A Sea Change city in the world.” — President Bill Clinton in Education

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Governors Island The Urban Assembly New York Harbor School 10 South Street, Slip 7 New York, NY 10004 New York Harbor Foundation nyharbor.org Annual Report 2011+2012 Our Mission

The Urban Assembly New York Harbor School is a public high school founded in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in 2003, which relocated to Governors Island in 2010. Harbor School partners with New York City’s maritime community and uses New York Harbor’s marine resources to prepare students for college and careers through the restoration of the local marine environment. Harbor School’s goal is to graduate students who have been accepted at a four-year college and who have earned a technical credential in one of six marine fields.

New York Harbor Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the condition of, and promoting access to and education about, New York Harbor. New York Harbor Foundation seeks to achieve these objectives by conducting research and outreach activities, and designing and running services to improve the quality of the harbor. The foundation supports Harbor School’s maritime, CTE, summer, after-school, restoration, and college-readiness programs.

Table of Contents 3 A Message from the President, Murray Fisher 6 Harbor is Where I Discover Myself 11 Harbor is Where We Pull Together 14 Harbor is Where We Restore Nature 18 Financials Timeline: Ten years of the New York Harbor School Vessel Operations students train on 19 New York Harbor Foundation Supporters Harbor School’s 25 New York Harbor Foundation Board of Directors Coast Guard certified vessel, INDY 7. 1 Ninth graders journal about an exciting day at The River Project as part of the Introduction to New York Harbor class. A message from the President

We are pleased to bring you New York Harbor Foundation’s first annual report. To call it that, however, is a bit misleading. This report, in fact, looks back at ten years of the New York Harbor School, a partnership effort that includes The Urban Assembly, South Street Seaport Museum, Waterkeeper Alliance, New Visions for Public Schools, the New York City Department of Education, as well as the New York Harbor Foundation and so many other friends and supporters.

It feels like only yesterday when Founding Principal Nathan Dudley, eight staff members, and I welcomed 125 ninth-graders to the aging Bushwick High School building deep in the heart of landlocked Brooklyn. None of us could have imagined that ten years later we would find ourselves in a gorgeous new facility on a pastoral island in New York Harbor; with a student body of more than 400, an attendance rate of 90%, a graduation rate of 86%, and an ambitious, but we believe realistic, goal of preparing 100% of our graduates for college acceptance and fulfilling careers in a range of marine fields.

Harbor School was founded in the belief that the natural resources of New York Harbor and the local maritime community collectively form an untapped resource for excellence in secondary public education. At the heart of everything we strive for is that magnificent body of water: our muse and laboratory and the basis of our curriculum. While measuring our success starts with meeting rigorous government-mandated metrics, we have higher aspirations: to turn out graduates possessed of practical skills and a passion for the environment that they will use to build a sustainable future for themselves, their communities, and society as a whole.

President Bill Clinton recently suggested there should be a school like ours in every coastal city in the world. Why? Because a public school that engages students in the restoration of their local marine environment addresses two crises that are generally viewed as independent: continued environmental degradation and lack of access to an excellent education for all. The Harbor School’s most radical proposition has been to address those two problems together: What would it look like to set underserved students to the task of restoring their

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local, degraded marine ecosystems? What would it take to restore an entire ecosystem? You need excellent scuba divers and boat drivers, scientists, engineers, and policy makers; you need the best oral and written communicators to make the case for restoration; you need people passionate about their work and devoted to their community and home.

Small specialized schools like ours are a new and promising phenomenon in New York City. They are experiments that are succeeding, but like all experiments, they need tending. The formation of the New York Harbor Foundation was an important step in Our goal is to turn out our evolution. Through the foundation, we are able to graduates possessed fund critically important programs that fall outside of the government-supported curriculum. These include CTE, of practical skills after-school, restoration, summer and college-readiness, as well as our new Marine Affairs, Science and Technology and a passion for (MAST) Center, soon to open thanks to a successful the environment that capital campaign. they will use to build Harbor School has truly been a public-private partnership, and it has been the most rewarding experience of my life a sustainable future to bring together such a wide range of supporters. At the New York Harbor Foundation we intend to broaden that for themselves, their effort by capturing the hearts and minds of every New communities, and Yorker through the work and example of our students, teenagers from every neighborhood in the city who society as a whole. embody the idea that we are a coastal city and that our harbor was once — and can be again — the richest and most abundant water body in the North Atlantic.

Please join me, our new principal Edward Biedermann, and our staff, partners, and students as we continue our journey toward a more sustainable future for our youth, our city, our harbor, and our nation.

With immense gratitude for your support and pride in our students’ work,

Murray Fisher President, New York Harbor Foundation and Co-Founder, Harbor School

4 5 Harbor “ As I walk out on the day of my is where graduation I’m going to carry with me an advanced Regents I discover diploma, memories that I have made, and confidence that I myself will make Harbor School proud because I have gained more than just an education: I have unique skills and training and I am determined to leave this world better than I found it.”

— Alimot Yusuff, Class of ’12

Daquasia Sanders, Darrell Gilbert, and Ramon Duran furling the jib aboard South Street Seaport Museum’s Lettie G. Howard as part of a Marine Technology overnight class. 6 7 Harbor is where I discover myself Alumni Profile: Hassan Barksdale, ’09 GROWING UP IN BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, Hassan Barksdale was sure of one thing: he didn’t want to go to his zoned high school. As the time to apply to high school drew closer, his mother jumped on the Internet where the Harbor School caught her eye and his imagination: “When she told me there was sailing and off-site classes, I had never heard anything like At Harbor we are inspired each day by the idea that our that. I thought, ‘this is something I’ll definitely try.’ ” students have boundless capacity to achieve great things With little exposure to boats or water before attending Harbor School, it didn’t take long — for themselves, their city, and the earth. We help our for Hassan to know that a life at sea was his future. His first experience of sailing was a day trip on the schooner Lettie G. Howard through the school’s partnership with the South students realize their potential in many ways, starting with Street Seaport Museum. “I thought it was pretty cool, and I enjoyed sailing from then on. small class size, and a curriculum that provides intensive It’s relaxing, not a constant racket, as opposed to a power boat.” By his sophomore year at exposure to the greatest of all teachers: the natural world. Harbor School, Hassan knew for sure he would pursue a maritime career. “I was never the type who could stay in an office all day. I like to get out, travel, and have physical activity, Immersion begins in freshman year when incoming students so working on the water was the best thing for that.” are required to take the Introduction to New York Harbor A variety of internships through Harbor School cemented his determination. class, an experiential learning model that takes them to He worked on a documentary film on Newtown Creek with Riverkeeper and as a deckhand for New York Water Taxi, a job that “really opened my waterfront locations in all five boroughs every other week, mind.” Still undecided about college, Hassan took advantage of Harbor turning the city and its harbor into a vast classroom. School’s many college trips. When he visited SUNY Maritime and talked to “ I was never the type who could Valedictorian Jericcson Pichardo, friends who had gone there, he knew he had found his next school. class of ‘11, is currently attending stay in an office all day. I like to At Harbor we have been inspired by our founding partner Hobart and William Smith. Having graduated from Maritime in January 2012, he’s still not sure what Urban Assembly to make 100% college readiness a reality the long-term future holds, but for now he’s happy to have a steady job in get out, travel, and have physical his chosen field — working as a deckhand on big seagoing tugs operated for every student. Our college retention rates are far higher by the Atlantic Division of Kirby Offshore Marine. At age 24, he thinks activity, so working on the water than those of other high schools with similar demographics, THE BOTTOM LINE: about settling down and having a family, which would mean leaving the was the best thing for that.” ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT seagoing life, perhaps to pursue a teaching career. But for now, his work which we attribute to applied and experiential learning; our is keeping him on the move … and out of an office. core commitment to college, which we took to a new level • Harbor School students represent a in 2010, when we hired our first full-time college advisor; diverse group of 430 students, who as well as enrichment programs offered after school and come from all five boroughs of New over the summers. York City; the majority are classified as economically disadvantaged, and Introduction to New York Harbor has been taught by Ann Fraioli since the Today, thanks to the generosity of the Robin Hood more than 60% qualify for free or school’s founding. Required for all freshmen, the course is the start of a four-year curriculum — supplemented with extracurricular activities — Foundation, the College Placement Office, open 7:30 a.m. reduced-cost lunch. that immerses students in the natural world through activities such as [college office photo to 6:00 p.m., boasts three full-time staff, and offers students rowing, diving, boat building, oyster cultivation, and water testing. • Historically, more than 70% of with Rotando] abundant opportunities to prepare for college, including students enter Harbor School college prep classes starting in freshman year; a peer performing below grade level in mentorship program entitled SAIL (Student Advisors either math or reading. Last year, Instilling Leadership); supervised, group visits to out-of- Harbor School had a graduation rate town colleges; an annual overnight on Governors Island of 86% out of which 97% were where seniors hone their college essays; and a partnership accepted to college. with Princeton students who serve as role models and • Graduates from Harbor School mentors. The Harbor School also aims to prepare students have gone on to top colleges and for work through internships and enforcement of a code of universities, including Brown, conduct that teaches the skills needed to succeed in the Cornell, Fordham, Middlebury, SUNY workplace: communication skills, punctuality, appropriate Maritime, and Syracuse. They have also gone on to work in the maritime dress, and simply — in the words of Founding Principal Dozens of students spend their lunch hour at the industry as licensed boat captains, College Placement Office researching colleges, Nathan Dudley — “that you have to show up.” scuba divers, marine technicians, talking to staff, and working on applications. and marine biologists. “It’s like being mom to seventy-five kids,” says Emily LaFemina, Director of College Placement. 8 9 Harbor is where we pull together

“ I like that it’s about teamwork. Rowing’s not a one-person job.”

— Paola Suazo, Rowing Team Member, Class of ’13

The idea of teamwork has been central to the Harbor School from the beginning: we started as a partnership among three founding partners, Urban Assembly, South Street Seaport Museum, and Waterkeeper (see page 13). Our founding partners continue to offer our students unparalleled opportunities to prepare for college and careers, explore and repair the natural world, gain hands-on work experience, and learn more about the vast harbor that gave rise to their extraordinary city. In the last ten years our community has grown to include dozens of partners who play a variety of roles: our Professional Advisory Committee offers students internships and mentoring (see page 25). Our generous donors provide funding for specialized maritime programming that is not covered by the Department of Education. Experiential learning programs like the Woolman Semester in California, the Island School in the Bahamas, and the Ocean Classroom give students a chance to see the wider world and enjoy unforgettable, sometimes life-changing, experiences.

Harbor School’s classroom is New York Harbor. Working with partners, such as the Village Community Boathouse, we can restore and enjoy this greatest of natural resources. 10 11 Harbor is where we pull together Founding Partners

THE URBAN ASSEMBLY Founded in 1990 by Richard Kahan to address a wide range of poverty issues, Urban Assembly eventually shifted its focus exclusively to the creation and support of new, small public schools. In 2002 Murray Fisher went to Richard with a dream about a maritime school and the resulting partnership made it a reality. Until the incorporation of the New York Harbor Foundation, in 2010, Urban Assembly served as the school’s fiscal agent, allowing us to accept donations for maritime programs not covered by the DOE. Arguably, Urban Assembly’s greatest contribution to Harbor School was its instrumental role in securing Governors Island as our home, which allowed us to bring maritime education from landlocked Bushwick, Brooklyn, to the waterfront. Class of 2009 graduation

Harbor School’s all-girls crew aboard Floating the Apple’s Daniel Jusino (center) performs soil sampling with his SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM Rachel Carson. The vessel is named for the author whose internship advisors at the Central Park Conservancy. 1962 book, Silent Spring, is credited with launching the New York City’s only maritime museum was founded in American environmental movement. 1967 and was literally the site of the birth of the Harbor School, as Murray Fisher worked from a Seaport office while establishing the school. Additionally, the Seaport served as the official waterfront home of Harbor School Alumni Profile: Emanuel Valentin, ’09 during its first seven years, and was the site of sailing, BEFORE ATTENDING HARBOR SCHOOL Emanuel “Manny” Valentin had never taken the subway. Now a science classes, Introduction to New York Harbor classes, senior at SUNY Maritime College, he is an international traveler who has logged thousands of sea miles on boat building, internships, celebrations, meetings, and the college’s training vessel. He credits learning experiences in the field for introducing him first to his own professional development. In short, the Seaport helped city and then to the world: “When I got to Harbor School, I had to learn the trains because when I lived in Bushwick, I was always ten minutes from school. I never really took a train.” put “Harbor” in the Harbor School until our move to Governors Island. Since the move, the partnership has Experiential learning opportunities introduced him to the five boroughs and to his future career. First, there was the two-week sail to Boston on the South Street Seaport Museum’s historic schooner Lettie G. Howard: revolved mostly around getting our students on the “It was the first time I really left the city. To spend the night on the boat, to be out on the water, land is not Seaport’s sailing ships, Pioneer and Lettie G. Howard, with in sight. It’s just you and your classmates. The crew taught us what we needed to know and they trusted us hopes of reviving the Lettie G. as the school’s long-term to do it. We were in charge. The fact that it was so hands-on and everyone had to work together was a great sail-training vessel. experience.” That was followed by SCUBA diving at The Island School in the Bahamas. “It’s one of those Desma St. Rose and Krystal Harper demonstrate the Harbor School’s things where you go to Nassau, and then you go on a little prop plane to get to the island, and then you get credo: “pull your weight; pull together” aboard the Lettie G. Howard. in a van to drive for another hour.” For Manny, who is certified as both a Rescue Diver and Mixed WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE Air Diver, diving is both a spiritual and practical skill: “It’s Led by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and run by Marc Yaggi, almost like an out-of-body experience. It puts you directly in Waterkeeper was Murray Fisher’s former employer and “ To spend the night on the boat, to be out the environment. If you’re going to talk about fish, then go see on the water, land is not in sight. It’s just you the fish. If you’re going to talk about water, get in the water. helped form the vision for the Harbor School. Today the Even if you’re on top of the water, you have to know what’s partnership is looking toward creating a Waterkeeper and your classmates. The crew taught us underneath.” Academy on Governors Island, which will employ what we needed to know and they trusted In the coming years, Manny will spend a lot of time “on top Harbor School resources — staff, students, curriculum, of the water.” He will ship out after graduation on a tanker or and facilities — to train hundreds of professional us to do it. We were in charge. The fact that supply vessel. Longer term, he’s looking to settle down on land, environmental advocates from around the world. perhaps with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. it was so hands-on and everyone had to Manny has traveled a long way from Bushwick and the old Harbor School campus. “When I pass it now, I appreciate that work together was a great experience.” it helped me get where I am. It was a great time. I made really Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. close friends and the experiences we had were life changing.” joins Harbor School students on the water. 12 13 “ Growing up in New York City you don’t even know there’s water here. I didn’t know there were living things in the water. And I didn’t care. Going to school here has helped me develop a sense of caring self and wanting to take care of the environment.”

— Joy Junious, Class of ’13

Harbor is where we restore nature

Underneath the school’s Ecodock, aquaculture students maintain lantern nets full of oysters, which are destined for experimental oyster reefs throughout New York Harbor. 14 15 BILLION OYSTER PROJECT The newest addition to our school, the Marine Affairs, Science and Harbor is where we restore nature Technology Center, is our first facility located directly on the water. Planned to open in 2013, it serves as headquarters for the Marine Technology and Marine Science programs, and houses aquaculture facilities in an open-water system for native New York species — oysters, mussels, horseshoe crabs, lobsters, and blackfish — raised and maintained using water directly from the harbor. Our school grew out of a belief that nature is the best teacher and that New York’s vast estuarine ecosystem provides unparalleled resources for teaching and learning. At Harbor School, study of 1 the environment centers on the oyster, a keystone In the aquaculture lab, students work with teacher and species with a disproportionate, positive impact on oysterman Pete Malinowski to grow and track the life the environment. Oysters and their reefs were once cycle of oysters as well as indigenous harbor species. The first step is to grow seed oysters. Aquaculture abundant in New York’s waterways, but overfishing, students spawn locally collected oysters in the lab. disease, and pollution eliminated them. At Harbor Larvae are then used to produce spat-on-shell through School we are working to reintroduce the oyster as well the process of remote setting. These activities require a solid understanding of an oyster’s life cycle and The school’s garden is nourished by compost as other native species, such as mussels and eelgrass. commercial hatchery techniques. collected and sorted by students.

The oyster project started in 2010 as a pilot program, in partnership with the Hudson River Foundation, New York/New Jersey Baykeeper, the Army Corps, the HEP, and the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. Now known as the Billion Oyster Project, it informs everything we do, because to reintroduce the oyster Alumni Profile: Natalie Bloomfield, ’09 on a large scale requires mastery of many skills and NATALIE BLOOMFIELD IS ALWAYS A BIT AHEAD OF HER TIME. When still a freshman at Harbor School, in 2007, she was chosen to participate in a challenging outdoor trek called “Mountaintop to Tap,” that subjects from marine policy, technology, law, and 2 traced the city’s water supply from its source in the Catskill Mountains. Six students from Harbor School were selected to join their counterparts from Sidney High School in upstate Delaware County for this politics to boat building and diving. Thus, in addition Spat-on-shell are then grown into adult oysters. educational adventure organized by the Stroud Water Research Center. Natalie was the only freshman to the core subjects necessary for a Regents diploma, Aquaculture students place spat-on-shell in cages and to canoe, camp, and hike her way through the program. “That was my first time actually doing a hiking suspend them from the Harbor School Ecodock, located Harbor School students can choose from six career trek that involved being outdoors for three weeks,” she recalls. “We pretty much lived outside, so it was on Governors Island, or the Harbor School Wallabout different from anything I’ve ever done.” and technical education (CTE) programs: Aquaculture, Basin Oyster Nursery in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Students Marine Biology Research, Marine Services Technology, monitor the oysters and the environmental conditions at In her sophomore year Natalie was accepted into The Woolman Semester, a California-based both grow-out sites. independent-study program normally reserved for juniors and seniors. When it came time to apply to Ocean Engineering, Professional Scuba Diving, and colleges, Natalie knew what she wanted — a small school with an environmental focus “like Harbor,” Vessel Operations. where she could shine. She applied to College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, and was was accepted on early decision with a full scholarship, allowing her to enjoy “a pretty relaxed senior year.” At Harbor School, environmental awareness is built Now a college junior, Natalie is on a path to a career that combines two of her greatest interests: “I see into the school’s daily routine: we boast one of the few education as a possible career for me, but I’m really passionate about the environment also. If there’s some way I can intertwine them it would probably be that.” When she returns to her family home in public-school organic gardens cultivated by students; Brooklyn on breaks, she may be found volunteering in the College Confidence program, which helps we use washable, reusable tableware in the cafeteria, at-risk college-bound youth with the application process. She credits her years at Harbor School for knowing just what they need. “I got all a rarity in public schools; and even the everyday act of the help and support I needed from my advisor, so I know what other “If I’m going to live in a place, I littering becomes an opportunity to teach students that 3 students are looking for.” the wrapper or plastic bag that lands on the ground As for her commitment to the environment: “If I’m going to live in a really want to protect it because Adult oysters are then transplanted to oyster reefs, place, I really want to protect it because it’s just so sacred. And it’s it’s just so sacred. The environment will eventually end up in our waterways. where they live in their natural habitat. Harbor School not just for my own being; it’s for the children that come after this and students navigate vessels to the reef sites and use scuba even their children. A lot of people don’t think about that — it’s like has given us everything we need. equipment to plant oysters on the reef substrate. Students the blame game: someone else will fix it. It doesn’t really work that monitor the oysters and the environmental conditions at way. The environment has given us everything we need. Why not just Why not just try to give back to it?” the reefs to evaluate the progress of their work. try to give back to it?” 16 17 Students participating in the second annual New York Harbor Foundation Supporters Financials New York Harbor Regatta. Years ended June 30, 2011 + 2012 We are grateful to the many individuals, foundations, and Anna Chapman Harbor Ferry Services corporations whose generosity supported the Harbor School’s Citizens Committee of Hemenway Trust New York City Lucinda Herrick and 2011 2012 maritime and college-readiness programs in FY 2011 and FY 2012. Kimberly Clayton Cohen Charles Moffett Barry. S Coller, M.D. David Hinkelman Net Assets – beginning of year 0 1,707,868 The list below represents cumulative donations over the two-year Colonna’s Shipyard Trey. K Huey Stephanie and Carter Craft Hughes Brothers Support and Other Revenue period since the founding of the New York Harbor Foundation. R. Ian Danic Rossie. C Hutcheson Transfer from Urban Assembly / 500,000 432,133 Christopher DeCamps In Our Backyard Over $100,000 DeLaCour Family Foundation Shelly and Christopher The Delta Kappa Gamma Isabella Beach New York Harbor School Account Lanning Society The Jayne and Leonard Abess ABS Americas Rossie and Sandy Fisher Shelby and Iqbal Mamdani Janice and Jon Derow Foundation Grants and contributions 1,478,648 809,168 Harry and Jeanie Burn/ Barbara Iason and Robert. S Buford Rebecca and Jay Markley Sitje and James DeSimone Stephanie Jones and Melville Foundation Nathan Dudley Income from Events 133,955 353,216 Sophia and Jamie Koven NAMEPA Anne Elizabeth Dillon Mary and Brad Burnham Ernest JeanBaptiste, Jr. K-Sea/Kirby Offshore Marine Nautica DNAinfo.com Loss on Investments (17,293) (29,875) The Emily Hall Tremaine Jewish Communal Fund Foundation Sarah and Steve Malinowski/ Janice. C Peterson Dome Chartering and Trading Corp. JP Morgan Chase Other income 14,327 6,857 JP Morgan Chase Foundation Fishers Island Oyster Farm Plant-A-Fish Sarah Douglis and Marc Yaggi Karen Klopp RBC Foundation Stephen Gayley Milliken Suzanne. C Pollard Total Support and Other Revenue 2,109,637 1,571,499 Heidi duPont Kongsberg Maritime Robin Hood Foundation The Moore Charitable The Port Authority of NY&NJ Foundation Reynolds duPont, Jr. Simulation Holly Swett Amanda and Richard Riegel Whitney and Clarke Murphy Penn Egbert Rosemary Kurtti TheK T Foundation Leslie and Elias Smith Expenses Wendy and John Neu Erie Basin Marine Association Allison Taylor Lewis Annette Snape New York Container Terminal Colin Farmer Jennifer and Michael Lewis Program services 263,139 668,258 John. S Spofford $50,000–$99,999 Sandy Hook Pilots Harold. B Fessenden The Lotz Family Foundation 1772 Foundation Elizabeth and Edward Nancy. E Loving Management and general 37,656 82,327 J. Scott Sinclair Swenson Elizabeth Fine The Marine Society of the Thomas Lutazi Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. Thomas Thacher Gwendolyn and Austin Development 100,974 291,862 Cityf o New York Fragomen Falisha Mamdani Two Harbors Investment Corp. McCance Foundation Trust Joseph Fusco Maritime Chamber of Total Expenses 401,769 1,042,447 $5,000–$9,999 Waterkeeper Alliance Virginia’s House of Hope Ray Fusco Commerce Sally. F Carpenter Wells Fargo Securities Anne and Andrew Garcia Alex Matthiessen Leigh Carter $25,000–$49,999 Christina and Willie Geist Buckley McAllister Increase in Net Assets (from operations) 1,707,868 529,052 Cleveland H. Dodge $1,000–$4,999 Aimee and John Means Anne. E Beaumont Foundation Simon Gerson Edward Amorosi Merrill Lynch The Cabaniss Family Judith-Anne Corrente Gerson Family Foundation Payment for design and Hudson River Foundation Whitney. B Armstrong Kate Rogers Gessert Nancy Milliken and Cynthia and John Deermount Sergei Smirnoff construction of Marine Affairs, Science JM Kaplan Fund John Arntzen Louisa Gillen and Chris Mole Dale. J Degenshein Steve. F Minninger Genevieve and Rob Lynch Eleanor. K Berlin Patricia Glazer and Technology Center – 1,175,000 Paula Del Nunzio and Alice. K Moorehead McAllister Towing and Paul Balser Alex Bocock Lance Gotko Morgan Stanley Transportation Durst Organization John. H Bocock Jeffrey. D Greenip Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets 1,707,868 (645,948) Mitra and Daniel O’Neill Jane and Michael Bowles National Marine Sanctuary Lauren and David Farnsworth Alexandra and Alex Hack Foundation Net Assets - end of year 1,707,868 1,061,920 Agnes and Billy Peelle Emily and Murray Fisher Brent Family Foundation Hannah Swett and Ella Foshay and Elizabeth and Edward Mark Brookes Bretschger Michael Rothfeld The Department of Education A full financial report audited by Marks Paneth & Shron LLP is available upon request. Karen and Edward Fraioli Mr. and Mrs. Michael Brooks $10,000–$24,999 Jody and Bill Geist Dona and Andrew Brucker provides approximately $9,500 per Jayni and Chevy Chase General Atlantic Christina and Billy Bryan student, but training our students for Goldman Sachs Lisa and Jeffrey Burdeshaw Colgate-Palmolive marine careers and preparing them Collectors Foundation Lindsay and Spencer Grimes Heather and David Burnham The Community Foundation The Harrison Foundation Leigh. F Butler for success in college takes at least A Sea Change Condé Nast Hawthorn PNC Family Wealth Camp Pasquaney an additional $2,500. Donations to the Cornelius. L King Foundation Ingalls & Snyder Cape Eleuthera Foundation in Education: Credit Suisse International Registries Laurel. R Caputo New York Harbor Foundation help Ten years of the Laura and Garrett Key Elisabeth Reed Carter us close the gap. New York Harbor School

FALL 2002 FALL 2004 FALL 2005 Fisher finds Nathan Dudley, who becomes With original freshman class moving Our sophomores become juniors and into sophomore year and a new crop begin planning in earnest for the college SUMMER 2002 the founding principal, and Roy Arezzo, who SPRING 2003 SEPTEMBER 2003 becomes a founding teacher. of 9th graders entering the school, application and admission process. Murray Fisher poses the question Proposal is accepted along Harbor School opens in a storied high school enrollment more than doubles. to Richard Kahan of Urban Assembly Waterkeeper Alliance and South Street Seaport with an implementation grant building in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Robert F. Kennedy, The city issues a Request for Proposals “what about a maritime high school”? Museum come aboard as founding partners. from the Bill & Melinda Gates Jr., addresses students on the first day of school. Fisher and Kahan create a proposal to for redeveloping Governors Island. The team of students, parents, educators, and Foundation, Open Society First year’s class comprises 125 students, 90% of move the school to Governors Island, A Harbor School advisory committee nonprofits craft a proposal to New Visions for Foundations, and the Carnegie whom fall “below” or “far below” grade level in the first of dozens of proposals for is formed which will become the Public Schools for approval for a “Brooklyn Corporation. math and reading. Staff consists of eight dedicated relocating the school to the waterfront New York Harbor Foundation. 18 New Century High School.” teachers and Founding Principal Nathan Dudley. over several years. 19 Caroline Niemczyk Samuel Polk Katherine Scott Stacie Feldman Sol. W & Hermina Cantor Scott Barrishaw Anne Cagnina Thank You, RBC Foundation Arthur. D Niles Propeller Club of NY and NJ Seastreak Joanne Ferenczi Foundation Mary. J Bartos Pamela and David Cameron The Royal Bank of Canada is based in Toronto, but the world is its oyster – literally. Norcross Wildlife Foundation Robert. G Raynolds Cynthia and John Spurdle David Fitzpatrick Dianna and John Sommer Noeline. H Baruch Yolanda Campbell The bank’s RBC Foundation provides funding to the Harbor School’s Billion Oyster Timothy O’Brien Buffy Redsecker Statue Cruises Michelle and Mark Gormley Helen Sowa Wendy Basara James. P Capuano Project through its Blue Water Project, a $50-million global initiative that supports Brendan O’Connor Anna and Scott Reed Jocelyn and Elliot Steelman Michael Haas George. G Steele Linda Beal William. B Carley watershed conservation, access to clean water, and urban water issues. According Open Space Institute Kate and Scott Reid James. C Stover, Jr. Anne Hayes Scott Stein Mary Ann Beaumont Murray Carpenter to RBC’s Vice President, Corporate Citizenship Shari Austin, who also serves as Jennifer. N Ostrow Suzie and Charles Rentschler Thomas Sullivan Clay Hiles Georgia Stokes Austin Bennett Sharon. C Carter executive director of the foundation, the Blue Water Project dates to 2007, “when we Paine Family Foundation Dawn Riley William Sullivan Lauren and Michael Jacker Courtney. B Stovall Deanne Bennett-Barrow Judith. B Caspari decided to embark upon a global environmental cause, and saw that issues of water Cynthia and John Palicka Thomas Roberts La e Taza D Oro Meredith and Eric Johansson Donna. C Stroud Bennett, Giuliano, McDonnel Corinne Cassagrande quality and scarcity were emerging as major concerns around the world.” Looking Lizbeth Parker and Roger. S Firestone Foundation L. Mercedes Tech Katherine and Richard Kahan Morris Stroud & Perrone Kevin. R Cattrell for grant-making opportunities in the New York area, where RBC has a significant Sean Gallop Rolex Watch U.S.A TLM Associates Richard. A Kahn Edward Swenson Richard Berkowitz Erik. J Cetrulo presence, Austin was introduced to Murray Fisher and the Harbor School. Of her visit Laura. A Parsons Nikki and Charles Rose Scott. C Todd Steven Kaplan Sandra Swenson Richard. R Bernard Britanny. B Chambers to Governors Island in 2010, Austin said, “I learned about the school’s signature effort William. R Peelle III Polly and Alexander Ryerson Lindsay Tomenson Jay Kehoe Bradford Swett Moises Berrun, Jr. Jonathan. B Chappell to restore New York Harbor’s indigenous bivalve population, took a tour of the school, Sylvia Picquet-Damesme and Elizabeth Pinkerton Scott Francis. H Tucci Evelyn Krent Eva Talel Dana Bezoza Charleston Waterkeeper Vakhtang Buka Esvandjia and talked to a number of students and teachers. I was very impressed with what I saw Evie and Strother Scott John. L Turek David Kriegel Thomson Reuters Linda Biagi Grant Chen Andrew. J Pitts there and what Murray had to say — most importantly their track record of keeping UBS Andrew LaVorgna Susan Spear and Ronald Janis Fred Bierman Bart Chezar kids in school and using a water- and marine- Annabel Vartanian Joel Levangia Alix Thorne Susannah H. Black Nelson Chin focused curriculum.” Following that introduction, Thank You, Hannah Swett Wilmington Trust Margo Levine and Natalie. F Bocock Turnage James. G Blaine D. Phillip and J. Claussen Robert Cantor Urban Charitable Foundation Justin Bloom in 2011, the RBC Foundation came on board with New York Harbor Foundation Board Member Hannah Winky Foundation Melissa Cohen Matthew. J Levine Nicholas Vorhoff Philip Bloom a three-year commitment of support. Swett, a former member of the U.S. Sailing Team Sara Colbert James. F Lima Debra Watson Elise Boeger and the 1995 America’s Cup all-women’s team, $500–$999 Kevin Coleman Jeanne Linnes Barbara and Samuel G. Thomas Bolton began sailing at age six, so it seems only natural Allison Abbott Nancy Coll Morris MacLeod Wheeler Kevin Booth that this skilled and passionate yachtswoman — now John. D Amorosi Mariam and Edmond Coller Dorothy Virginia Deermount Susan and Henry Ferguson Ann. W Gaffney Alice and Hunter McGuire Robert. C Whitehead Daniela Botterbosch-Cole a mother of two toddlers — would take an interest Helena Andreyko Jameson Collingham James DeGasta Nely Fernandez Veronica. M Gagliardi Claire McIntyre Women Divers Hall of Fame Roland Boughton in the Harbor School. “Being involved in racing Joseph Barry Mary Grace Collins Louise Denny Susan Farley Ferrell Linda Garnett Ronay and Richard Menschel Mary Denny Wray Jonathan Boulware brought me independence, respect for nature, Lynn and Temple Bayliss Francie Comey Jacqueline DeSimone Ferris Foundation Nellie Garrow-Coleman Elizabeth. G Miller Jeff Boyd competitiveness,” says Swett. “It added so much to Jean and Roger Beaumont Harwood. B Comstock II Pamela Dexter Lisa and Rob Field Amelia Gary Charles. E Mitchell Under $499 Benjamin Bradford my upbringing that I thought it was so important for Susan and Frederic T. Billings III Martha. M Connell Linda Dianto Ezekiel and Exavier Figueroa Prudence Gary Morgan Marketing and Florence Aaron Vincent Broderick Alexander Coppedege these kids to get on the water.” Swett’s introduction Roberta Bocock Communications Caner Dinlenc Julian Fisher William Gilbane III Laura Ruth Abel Pauline Brooks Elissa. D Coughlin to the school came when she was asked to host a David Bonifacic Katie Mosher-Smith Stephen Dittman Letitia Davis and Daniel Lisa and Marshall Gilinsky Brigid Abraham A. Cary Brown and Kerin Coughlin Fisher fundraiser at the New York Yacht Club. It wasn’t long Brian Boom Margaret. E Nagel Steven Epstein Nicole Dooskin Courtney Gillan Elizabeth. J Adams Jennifer. R Cowan Margaret Flanagan before she was looking for other ways to support Alexander Brash Barbara. A Neville T. Browne Margaret Dougherty Brian Gillen Frances. M Adams Katherine Neville Croasdale Stuart. Q Flerlage the school. Her most significant contribution came Taylor Breed Charles O’Byrne Aaron Bruker Caissa Douwes Stephen Glascock Robert. E Adamski Sarah Culley Melina Floyd in 2011 when she organized the first New York Kathleen Buford Suzanne and David Oliver Diana Brummer Melissa Dowd Sarah Gochberg Fe and Theodore Ahrens Charles Cumming Christina and Rafael Fong Harbor Regatta. It attracted more than 400 guests. Eric. J Bulis Olivia and Michael Patterson Barry. R Bryan Marianne M. Bocock Doyle Alexandra Goelet Omarl A Jabri David. M Cunningham Luke Forand Attendance doubled in 2012, and the amount raised Tripp Callan III Siv Rafford Paumgarten Wilhelmus and Charlotte Peter Drakos Benjamin. J Goldstein Allen and York Associates Jeffrey. S Curie Augusta Foshay-Rothfeld tripled. While the money is significant, what is Charina Foundation Robert Pirani Bryan Cindy and Wayne Driscoll Carlton Gordon Elizabeth Amorosi Jane Cyphers and Ella Foshay-Rothfeld more important to Swett is the awareness she is Allen Citin Katherine Pringle Julia. N Bryant Richard. T Du Moulin C. Marshall Gorman Jason Amster Joseph Levine Foundation for Roanoke Valley able to bring to something she cares deeply about. Mary. G Clarke Tina Psoinos William Buckley Mary Dunne Jessica Gorman Mia Anderson Elizabeth Daniels Courtney Fox “It’s unbelievable what the school has done. They Devon and Jay Cross Helen. T Reed Bulkore Chartering James Dunning Edwin Graham Richard Anderson Shelagh Darcy Matthew Fox have gone from nothing to being an A school. Also, Loren. J Cross William. T Reed Elearnor. C Burgess Sara DuPont Cassandra J. Gray Olivia Andonian Monique Darrisaw Ann Fraioli while our goal for every kid is college, the school is CW&Co. Regional Plan Association James Burgess Audra Durham-Tsanos Cliffton. L Gray Emily Andrews Katharine and Peter Darrow Mark. D Fraioli teaching them concrete skills that make them useful Caroline Day Madeline Reiss and James Marshall Burke Kathy Dwyer John. C Gray, Jr. Stephanie Armstrong Hilary Davidson Margaret and Lincoln Frank members of society even if they don’t get to college. Jennifer and Robert Dickerson Ronald Navarre Maria Burke Elizabeth Dysenchuk Greenwich Shipping Services Anne L.H. Armstrong Anne. H Davis Jonathan Freedman Closest to my heart is that Donald. F Donovan William Reynolds Joan Burnham J. Sandy Eames Sarah Gribbin Mary Assini Robert Davis Pam Friedbery it’s about kids and nature. Michael Douglas Riverkeeper Justin Burns Charles Edwards Abbe Grimes Margaret. R Atkin Calvert. G De Coligny, Jr. Jennifer Friedman These kids are learning, ‘if I Cathy Drew Jennifer and Penn Sanger C. . and D Burt Alexander Egan Emily Grogan Suzanne. W Baggett Lois and Georges de Menil Weston Friedman dump this piece of trash on Shirley. S Dudley Elijan. D Schachter Harold Butler Andrea Erda Dorothy Groh-Tompsett Stephanie M. Balascio Victoriae d Menil Janet Froelich and the sidewalk, it might end John Duke Seafarers International Union Paul. F Butler Anne Sidamon Eristoff Barbara Groves Anna. C Balch Pedroe d Oliveira Richard Stepler up where I’m swimming.’ Douglas Durst Sea Safety International Ann and Lawrence Kim Estes-Fradis Lee. F Gruzen Jim Ballentine Buttenwieser Michael Deadder Joseph Fuller It’s teaching them teamwork Joel Dyson George. G Sharp Martha Evans and Tantivy Gubelmann Jon. C Bancks Albert Butzel Debevoise & Plimpton Per. H Lofving Britta. S Fulton skills that last a lifetime. Amy Elkins Annika Smith Brigid and Edward Hagarty Townsend Bancroft Teresa Byrne Carmen DeBono Lisa Farley Gabrielle and Mark Furst That’s why this school is so John. F Elliott Christine Smith Cate Hagarty The f Bank o America CAF Worldwide John DeCruz Olivia Farr Vanessa Fusco incredible.” Linda. H Farley Charitable Foundation Hagedorn and Company

APRIL 2007 JUNE 2007 WINTER 2006 Renovation begins on Harbor School’s first class JULY 2007 SUMMER 2009 We join The Urban Assembly’s network of an old Coast Guard of students graduate, and Harbor School and the Stroud Water Research Center SPRING 2009 We embark on our first year of FALL 2009 more than triple the previous schools in the newly formed Department hospital building on organize a three-week trek for six Harbor School students SPRING 2008 We receive an A on our NYC summer school on Governors We change our name to The four-year graduation rate of of Education Empowerment Zone. Governors Island. and six Sidney High School students from Delaware County, We graduate our second class, with Department of Education Island, successfully combining Urban Assembly New York Bushwick High School, the our standard summer school Harbor School to align more Following a highly competitive process, New York to explore New York’s water 72% graduating on time and 90% report card, and hold our school that Harbor School curriculum with maritime and closely with UA’s network of we win the bid to become the first tenant supply, on foot and by boat, from the source admitted to colleges, including first graduation on Governors replaced. environmental programs. small college-preparatory public of Governors Island located in the heart in the Catskill Mountains to the taps of the Cornell, Skidmore, SUNY Maritime, Island, the future home of the schools in New York City. of New York Harbor. city. The trek is documented in a video, and SUNY Stony Brook. Harbor School. From Mountaintop to Water Tap. 20 21 Leonie Haimson Kristen Hyland Paris Kostopoulos Fannie. R Lui Elizabeth and Benton Moyer Edwin Raspberry Penelope. C Sharp David Wallick Thank You, Clay Maitland Barbara and Edmund Hajim IBM Employee Services Lisa Posey Krakowsky Sally Lynch Sarah and Stephen Muecke Mark. P Rassmussen Megan. H Shattuck Marie Rentschler Webel Clay Maitland wears many hats, but if they were all Elizabeth. A Haley Judith and Jay Inglis John. K Kramer, Jr. A. Jeffers Lyon Mary. E Mulligan Blair Raynor Todd Shaw Eugene Weissberger embroidered with a slogan summing up his philosophy Christine and Patrick Hall Teresea. F Ippolito Nancy and Harold Krent Scott MacDonald Kathryn. A Mullin Marian. M Reddington Julie and Adam Shepherd Kyle. B Welch it would be “Do Good.” Not that Maitland is a classic David. B Harman Mark Izeman Pavitha Krishaswamy Linda Macht Suzanne and Joseph E. Frances. S Adamson Reed Richard Sheryll Elizabeth Wells and “do-gooder.” Sure, as founding chairman of the North Bernice and Steven Harris J. Gaughan and Associates Chris Kriz Paul Macht Mumford Bagley Reid Katherine M. Shield Allen Elkin American Marine Environment Protection Association Monica Harris Sharon Jacker Emily. C LaCivita Stephanie A. MacLachlan Christopher Murphy Hunter Reisner Martha. M Silwinski Wells Fargo Foundation (NAMEPA), he wants to do his bit to promote cleaner Bill Harrison W. Keith Jackson Emily and Joseph LaFemina Willie MacMullen Mary Jane Murphy Janet Raymer Reynolds Talbott Simonds and Barbara and Samuel Wheeler seas and give inner city youth greater opportunities, but Jennifer. R Hatcher Jay Paul James John LaGrassa Kristen. K MacQuarrie Alison Murray Russell Reynolds III Carter Brooks Elizabeth Wheeler as managing partner at International Registries, Inc. Shawna Kaplen Hausman Irma Janas Veronica Landet Martha and Patrick Maher Joshua Nadel David Richman Peter Simons A.S. White — just one of his many positions within the commercial Ali Hawkins Andrew Jeffries Judith Landigran Molly Malinowski Augusta. F Nadler Joseph Richter Aaron. R Singh Alex White maritime world — he also wants to clean up the image of Kathleen Heenan and Travis Johnson Sarah Landreth Sofia Malinowski John. A Neczesny Marc. A Ricks Margaret Skeele Mary. I White the shipping industry, which, he says, “has fallen on hard Clarence Olmstead Hettie Jones Coleen. M Landry Brendan Malone Peter Neill Tucky Ridder Kate Slattery Libby Geist Wildes times,” and “needs good people.” He discovered Harbor Noah Heller Karla Joseph Venetia Lannon Matthew. W Maloney Robert Neill III Liz and Allen Rider III William Slezak Odette. J Wilkens School about eight years ago, and knew immediately that Kathleen Henk Ellen Kanner Ben Lewis Lavender Cynthia Mann and Nancy Nixon Barbara. C Riegel Shelia and Howard Slotnick Billie Tsien and Tod Williams this project dovetailed neatly with personal passions: an Susan Henshaw-Jones Ann Hall Kaplan Susan and Peter Lawrence Matthew Haiken Kerry Nolan Mark Righter Tiffany Smythe Williams College interest in raising awareness of the maritime industry; Grant Hewit Edith. W Kean Heather. E Lee Vladmir Marcel Benjamin. J Normann Greg Rivara Scott. B Snape Rene. A Willis a wish to promote cleaner seas; and a burning desire C. Hugh Hildesley Stephanie and Peter Kean Leisure Pass North America Luba Marcus NY/NJ Baykeeper Judith Rivkin Nicole. E Snell Andrew Willner — supported largely through Virginia’s House of Hope, Frederick. P Hitz Alice Keating William Lienhard Barbara. K Marks Edward Olinger Marilyn and David Rivkin Ellen Snyder-Grenier Edward Winstead a foundation started by his mother, Virginia Maitland Mary Buford Hitz William Keith Sven Olof Lindblad Carol and Ted Mason Rebecca Olinger Paulette Roberts Emily Solomon Lynette and Digby Wirtz Sachs — to improve the lives of inner city youth, whom Megan Holmes Kenny, Stearns & Zonghetti Ruth. M Lindner Sarah Mason Catheryn O’Rourke Angus Robertson Kathryn. L Southard Rosemonde Woel he sees as the future of the maritime industry. His Judith Ann and Elizabeth Kerr Ethan Litwin Michelle Mayagoitia Diane Orr Mary and Whitey Robertson Kirsten Spelman Phylis and Irwin Wolin Gregory Horrigan contributions to the Harbor School have been generous Liza Ketcham Adunola Locke Beth. H Mazie and Philip Orton Oscar Rojas Ann Sprayregen Loring Woodriff Leslie Hotchkiss Jerel. H Glassman and sustained, both through personal contributions and Asad KhanSandy King Frank LoGalbo Steven. M Ostrow Angela Rosa Ruth. E Sprute Michael. G Yamin Karen Hulick Sonjah McBain grants from the foundation, chaired by his associate L. Richard Kite Elizaebeth R. Lorton Michael Pace Lisa Rosado Nicholas. R Stableski Pamela Yang Andrew Hunt Patricia McCulloch Antonio Litman. Among other Mike Klein IIsla Lowe Robert Page Joshua Rosen Meghan Steele Denise Yap Carl. E Hunte Aimee McDonald things, their generosity has Michael Klein-Urena Ann Lucas and Michael. G Palmore Patricia Rosenblum Peter Steil Kristine. B Yap Hurricane Cove Caroline McDonald funded numerous scholarships Alexis Knopp William Mesnard Frances. R Park Enid Rosenbrantz Sarah Stern Kelly and William Yeiser Astrid Hustvedt and Tara McDonough for Harbor School students. Ludwig. E Kolman Richard and Dudley Luck Elissa. A Parker Kay. C Rossiter Sydna and William Street Harry. E Yerkes IV Jon Kessler McGeorge Consulting The foundation’s most recent Harry. S Parker III Susan and Lynn Rotando Christina Sun Nina Zain Andrew McGovern contribution was for $50,000 Lauren Parmington Peter Rugg Margaret. J Sutor Tim McGovern to fund an oyster boat for Par Plumbing Elizabeth Rumbold James Sweeney Thank You, Brad Burnham Vincent. M McGowan the Harbor School, which is George Patterson Mary Rung Amalia Sykes Brad Burnham, chairman of the board of the New York Harbor Foundation, uses the Alissa and Raymond Marilyn Payton Barbara. A Taylor currently under construction in McGrisken Jennifer Russell word investment a lot, which isn’t surprising since his day job is as an investor in tech Samuel. G Peelle Ann Timble Maine. Kristin McNamara J. t Russo a Artists Agency companies who spends “a lot of time looking for driven entrepreneurs.” When he’s Shirl Penney Jennifer. D Toksvig Michael McNamara Janet Saetta and not working, he says, “I think a lot about the ways I can spend my time and invest my Maarten Pennink Roberto Jimenez Walter. S Tomenson Manuel Melendez energy, and I’m always looking for ways to get the most leverage for that investment. The PIMCO Foundation Marie. I Sanchez Barry Torrey Scott Meserve In the New York Harbor Foundation he found what he considers a sterling investment: Caleb Pitters George Sandber Judson Traphagen Michael. S Jeffries In-Kind Donors “The foundation is interested in the education of at-risk kids, in Revocable Trust The Pittman Family Susan Sanderson Christina Travers Foundation the New York City public education system, New York Harbor, Molly Milano SanSail Katharine Tuckerman Atlantis Weather Gear Hornblower Hybrid & Events Pirate’s Booty Nancy Planitzer and the working waterfront, which is a pretty unique quadruple Tony Milbank Georgia Sauer Dorothy and Richard Turmail Brooklyn Brewery Keeper Springs Water popChips Marguerite Platt play.” As chairman of the New York Harbor Foundation he Siobhan and Pressly Millen Annelise Schantz Jonathan. K Turnage Chelsea Clock KIND Snacks Quay Joyce Polsenberg believes it is his role to set an example, and he has shown Edward Miller Laura. M Scheck Alison Twiss Circle Line Downtown Luke’s Lobster Sailormade Barbara and Gary Primosch great leadership in guiding the foundation to what he sees Charles Miner Laurie Schoeman Jo Umans Classic Harbor Line Manhattan Sailing Club Spritz-O Jennifer Primosch as its future. “The school,” he explains, “is breathtakingly Maryanne and Steven Mitchell Richard Schoenlank Manuel. I Uziel Cliffton Dry Marlow & Sons Statue Cruises Diana Pyne ambitious in what it’s trying to do and it needs resources to Pia Mohsen Claire Lorenz and Joseph Gary. D Van Dis Fishers Island Oyster Farm Mason Made Streaker Sports Coleen. M Quinn Schroeder support the breadth of its ambition. That requires the ongoing Richard Mooney Hendrik. F van Hemmen Friedman Kaplan Seiler & MAST Brothers Chocolate Team One Newport Robert. M Radick Peter Schwab Adelman LLP generosity of private donors to support on-water activities Anita Morawski Alexis and Jeffrey Venezia MichaelN J Bowles TheBoothPhotoVideo that DOE doesn’t support.” The key, he says, “is to present the Ana Marie and Salvatore Cynthia and Frank Schwall Ver Nautica Gaastra Pro Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Tug Pegasus Peter. A Morawski Raimondi school to the City of New York not just as an effective advocate Meredith Stanley Scott Sydney Viehman Goslings Rum New York Water Taxi Vineyard Vines Julia Gary Morgan Linda. M Ramsden and Amanda Seybold Governors Beach Club for the environment, but as a great example of what can be Anne and Scott Morrill Donald. B O’Brien Vineyard Vines Nixon Peabody LLP Vita Coco Adam Shapiro High Plains Bison done with public education.” Loren. W Morris Randstad Technologies Robert Vorhoff North Sails Water Taxi Beach Anand Sharma Michael Moshos Carolyn. M Rasic Mary Ann Wall Open Oyster

AUGUST 2010 SUMMER 2010 New York Harbor Foundation Construction on Building 550 on officially incorporates, with SEPTEMBER 2010 OCTOBER 2010 Governors Island is completed. Murray Fisher at the helm Classroom on the Water, a Students, teachers, and administrators are joined by WINTER 2010 APRIL 2011 and with the mission to 30-minute documentary film Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Chancellor Joel Klein, Our school wins the Rising Star High School Award The schooner Spirit of Massachusetts ties up support marine education produced and directed by Congressman Jerrold Nadler, UFT’s Michael Mulgrew, from Blackboard and two of our founding teachers, at Yankee Pier on Governors Island to begin and restoration on Dean Irwin and chronicling EPA’s Judith Enck, Councilmember Margaret Chin, Ann Fraioli and Roy Arezzo, are awarded the Sloane a month-long series of programs for our Governors Island. the school and its move to State Senator Daniel Squadron, and many supporters Award for Excellence in Teaching in Mathematics school’s students and staff, including day Governors Island, premieres at a “Net Cutting” ceremony celebrating the school’s and Science for the innovative course, Introduction trips and a series of weekend overnighters. on NYC Life TV. opening on Governors Island. to New York Harbor. 22 23 Richard R. Snape Thank You, Robin Hood Foundation Environmental Scholarship Fund Career and Technical Education An innovator and leader in the financial services The Robin Hood Foundation was founded more than 20 years ago to fight poverty industry, Rick was a family man and a generous soul. Harbor School is a Career and Technical Education school, in New York City. It invested $146 million in 2011, alone. According to their own He had a great affinity for nature and teaching young meaning that every student is in one of six CTE programs: literature, Robin Hood seeks out and funds only “the most effective organizations people. To honor Rick’s passions and enjoyment on the front lines of the battle against poverty,” and they are rigorous about Aquaculture, Marine Biology Research, Marine Services of life, we have chosen to create a fund to support following up to ensure that their money is well spent. At Harbor School, we are FOUNDATION Harbor School’s summer environmental enrichment Technology, Ocean Engineering, Professional Scuba Diving, dedicated to fighting poverty and its ills by teaching New York City kids to become programs for students who could not otherwise stewards of the natural world, using New York Harbor as our classroom. We are and Vessel Operations. Each of these programs consists of six afford them. honored and pleased to have received a grant of $150,000 from Robin Hood in 2011 sequential courses and culminates in an industry-and college- to expand one aspect of that work: our commitment to preparing every student for Nathan S. Dudley Scholarship approved technical credential. Serving the students of college. We used the funding to expand the college office in the 2011–12 school This scholarship is awarded by the faculty to a senior New York Harbor School year, which enabled us to increase services to our students. These included: a who has been undeterred by adversity and who has weekly college preparation course for freshmen and sophomores; an all-day shown extraordinary personal growth during his or her experience for all five freshmen sections at SUNY Maritime College; creation of a Professional Advisory Committee time at Harbor School. This award is named in honor of Board of Directors peer mentorship program entitled S.A.I.L. (Student Advisors Instilling Leadership); the school’s founding principal, Nathan S. Dudley, who ACTA Maritime Development Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance greater access for juniors to a year-long college prep class; establishment of an served from 2003 to 2010, and who always believed American Boat & Yacht Council Millers Launch Murray Fisher, President after-school College Club to provide additional support for students during the that Harbor School should be a place for students college-application process; and our first-ever College Overnight where nearly Baruch College New York Container Terminal Brad Burnham, Chair to find redemption from past failings as long as they 60 seniors and 23 staff stayed overnight were willing to put in the work. The Harbor Foundation Bayonne Dry Dock & Repair Co. New York Water Taxi Jody Geist, Vice Chair at school to work on personal college- provides a four-year, $1,000 scholarship to each application statements Blue Ocean Institute NYC DEP Edward Swenson, Treasurer recipient of this award. Brookhaven National NYC DOT, Staten Island Ferry James Lima, Secretary Laboratory NY/NJ Baykeeper Edward D. Amorosi Caddell Dry Dock & NYPD Harbor Unit Fundraisers Repair Co., Inc. Anne E. Beaumont New York Harbor Regatta Ocean and Coastal Consultants We hold two fundraising events each year: a cocktail Classic Harbor Line Christina Bennison Old Forge Organics party and auction at the New York Yacht Club in March, Columbia University Outside New York Fabien Cousteau and a regatta around Governors Island in the fall. Cornell Cooperative Extension Riverkeeper Dale J. Degenshein Annual Benefit at the New York Yacht Club Cyclops Research and Development, Inc. The River Project Nathan Dudley Department of Education Rocking the Boat Kirsten Foy East Coast Shellfish Roger Williams University Alexander Hack Growers Assoc. Rutgers University Sophia C. Koven Fathom Solutions Sandy Hook Pilots L. Antonio Litman Fireboat John J. Harvey Sea Savers Fishers Island Oyster Farm Silver Screen Marine Elias Smith GMD Shipyard South Street Seaport Museum Hannah Swett Governors Island Alliance Stevens Institute of Technology L. Mercedes Tech The annual New York New York Harbor Board Chair Harbor Regatta at Harbor Ferry Services Stony Brook University Brad Burnham, Harbor School Governors Island Holland & Knight, LLP SUNY Maritime Founding Principal Nathan Dudley, is an opportunity to Hudson River Community Sailing Tom Fox Associates and New York State Senator Daniel bring supporters out Squadron at the Annual Benefit for fun competition Hudson River Foundation US EPA, Region II held at the New York Yacht Club. on the water and Hugo Neu US Merchant Marine Academy invite alumni back to I.L.A. Local 333 US National Oceanic and compete. MSNBC’s Willie Geist and NBC’s International Registries Atmospheric Administration Savannah Guthrie show their John Bowne High School Vane Brothers support at the annual benefit. EDITORIAL DIRECTION & WRITING: Kingsborough Community College Waterkeeper Alliance Madeline Rogers Creative Servces DESIGN: Melanie Roberts.Design K-Sea Transportation Westlawn Institute of Marine Technology PHOTOGRAPHY: All photos by Harbor School Staff OCTOBER 2011 Lamont Doherty Earth except: p.1 Nelson Chin; p. 3 Dave Camera; p. 5 The First Annual Harbor Regatta brings more than Observatory Working Harbor Committee Liv Dillon; p.9, top, Michael JN Bowles; p.10 Sofie 400 participating sailors, spectators, and revelers Malinowski; p.12 bottom Guest of a Guest; p.13 DECEMBER 2011 Yellow Spring Instruments to the Post-Regatta BASH, to support New York First college overnight APRIL 2012 JULY 2012 Lockhead Martin SERAS Liv Dillon, p.16, middle, Carter Craft; p.17 top left, City’s only public high school dedicated to maritime We break ground on the Carter Craft, bottom, NYC Media; p.22 bottom left, on Governors Island for NYC Media wins an Emmy for its 2010 Manhattan College and environmental education. Harbor School seniors. MAST Center. John Ciardullo Associates; bottom right, Danny documentary Classroom on the Water — The Goldfield; p.20 Lori Hawkins; p.24 top,Guest of a Harbor School is the first public school to become Urban Assembly New York Harbor School. McAllister Towing Guest bottom, Michael JN Bowles a member of the prestigious American Academy of Underwater Scientists. 24 25