Vol. 56, No.2 April|May|June 2020

Official Voice of the International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots

Keeping the Supply Lines Open in the Age of Covid-19 Global Maritime Industry Pushes for Crew Change To Resume Unions, Employers Seek “Emergency Stipend” for Maritime Security Fleet Your Photos From the Frontlines Table of Contents The Master, Mate & Pilot is the Vol. 56, No. 2 April | May | June 2020 official voice of the International Organization of From the President 1 Masters, Mates & Pilots. The mariners of the world work to keep the supply lines open in the © 2020 IOMMP. age of Covid-19. The Master, Mate & Pilot (ISSN 0025-5033) is published quarterly News Briefs 3 by the International Organization Unions, international organizations, call for urgent resumption of crew of Masters, Mates & Pilots. MM&P change process aboard merchant ships; kudos to AMG members Headquarters: 700 Maritime Blvd., Suite B, Linthicum Heights, MD aboard Staten Island Ferry, North Ferry and NY Water Taxi; MM&P’s 21090-1953. Steve Werse honored by Marine Society of the City of New York; Phone: (410) 850-8700 MM&P Civil Service mariners and pilots bring Comfort and Mercy to E-mail: [email protected] coronavirus hot spots. Internet: www.bridgedeck.org Periodicals Postage Paid at Our American Heroes 10 Elkridge, MD and additional America’s mariners have been designated “essential workers.” We offices. POSTMASTER: Send celebrate MM&P members’ achievements with photos from the address changes to The Master, Mate & Pilot, 700 Maritime frontlines. Blvd., Suite B, Linthicum Heights, MD 21090-1953 Washington Observer 14 Don Marcus America’s seafaring unions, contracted employers and supporters Chairman, Editorial Board in Congress press Administration to shore up Maritime Security Lisa Rosenthal Program, provide protective equipment and implement additional Communications Director measures to mitigate pandemic’s toll. INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS Don Marcus, President MM&P Health & Benefit Plans 16 Don Josberger, Secretary-Treasurer Temporary changes to MM&P IRAP and MM&P 401(k) arrangement as permitted by the CARES Act; new telemedicine benefit; IRS VICE PRESIDENTS Thomas Bell, Great Lakes & Gulf limitations for 2020. Stephen H. Doherty, Atlantic Maritime Thomas Larkin, Offshore Atlantic News From MITAGS 19 Klaus Luhta, Offshore Gulf & MITAGS, Maritime Conference Center staff, give back to the Government Affairs community during Covid-19 pandemic. George A. Quick, Pilots Randall H. Rockwood, Federal MM&P Pensioners 20 Employees Timothy Saffle, Pacific Maritime Region MM&P Directory 21 Lars Turner, Offshore Pacific Cross’d the Final Bar 24 Thank You Contributors to the MM&P PCF! 26

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We Deliver

Union Sisters & Brothers, For MM&P members, the most absurd and unnecessary injustice Once again MM&P members are called into action keeping comes from none other than the our nation’s supply chain open and delivering the goods despite U.S. Navy. Once again holding the the unique risks and hardship that the Covid-19 pandemic has Merchant Marine in contempt, the wrought. Navy’s Military Sealift Command For those coming of age during this crisis, it is likely to be issued a “gangway up” order that remembered as the defining moment of your career; defining defies belief. This order applies only what it really means to commit to a career of going to sea for to Civil Service mariners and contract a living. The risks to health and safety, extreme anxiety about mariners aboard naval auxiliary and loved ones back home, the often blanket and illogical restrictions chartered vessels. So, for example, aboard ship – by now extending to months at a time, and, for aboard a fleet oiler, the vessel’s Navy crew may come and go in those employed overseas aboard shuttle vessels or government overseas ports, the home port or in shipyard evolutions while the contract vessels, the multiple months of extended dispatch Merchant Marine crew cannot step off the vessel – even if their time awaiting relief personnel and repatriation: this will be the home is down the street, their car is about to be towed from the enduring revelation of what it means to be in the Merchant base parking lot or their family is waiting at the gate. Marine. In the meantime, ships are undertaking routine shipyard For my generation in MM&P, the defining moment was our periods in such unhealthy locations as Italy, Bayonne and Union’s ill-advised tanker strike which painfully exposed our Boston, during which time merchant mariners cannot leave disabilities under federal labor law, our vulnerability to inter- their vessels, but anywhere from 20-100 shipyard workers, other union treachery and resulted in permanent job loss. Reality set in Navy or MSC personnel may come and go daily with only light quickly then, and similarly now, when our members have been screening and little or no personal protective equipment. The placed on an almost war-time footing overnight and without result was not long in coming: half the crew of one Civil Service notice. vessel, USNS Grumman, tested positive for Covid-19, including The seafaring life as we know it has its upside but the harsh one fatality, while undergoing work at Boston Ship Repair Yard. downside is starkly apparent today. MM&P members are not The ship as a Covid-19 free “bubble” or “citadel” does not work alone in this circumstance. Worldwide, seafarers – essential if some are restricted in the bubble and others – even members work notwithstanding – are left without recourse or recognition. of the same crew – are free to come and go… One would think Thousands of seafarers are working months beyond the term of that would be pretty obvious. their employment contracts awaiting repatriation, most often Also, one would think that the resources of the Federal restricted to their vessels, and subjected to increasing health risks Government would be available to repatriate U.S seafarers. At – both physical and mental. this time, five U.S flag commercial shuttle vessels are unable On the global scale, we have perhaps the most vivid example to change out crew members in ports in the Mediterranean, yet of the corrupt and exploitative Flag of Convenience system. Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf. To their credit, our employers are Hundreds of thousands of the 1.6 million seafarers crewing the doing their best to relieve personnel, but the governments of the 95,000 merchant ships of the world are unable to get home at ports these vessels serve, which have received billions of dollars the end of their tours – many of them held aboard idle vessels in U.S. economic and military aid (often delivered directly from without pay or stranded in port. Now we can gauge the full these same vessels) are denying transit for mariner crew changes. measure of the enforcement capability of International Maritime Our employers and all the U.S. maritime unions have been Organization treaties, standards and the Maritime Labor seeking assistance from the Federal Government: Department of Convention. These generally excellent measures are often ignored Transportation/MARAD, U.S. TRANSCOM, State Department by port states, including our own. Until the supply chain breaks, and, most recently members of Congress. As this is being the plight of seafarers will be forgotten except by those who have written, mariners aboard government contract vessels are finally lived through it. continued on page 2

www.bridgedeck.org - The Master, Mate & Pilot 1 President’s Message continued beginning to be relieved and, again, it was the pooled efforts of members (or former members) have tragically passed away and our employers, not the Federal Government, that is making this at the fiasco in Boston Ship Repair Yard with our Civil Service possible. mariners (where one member was grievously ill but thankfully As American-citizen merchant seamen are a component part of recovered), to date our members have been healthy and our ships the global supply chain, it is not surprising that we are facing the safe. This is a testament to our members as well as our employers same obstacles to repatriation as the rest of the global seafaring and we must hope this good fortune continues. workforce. However, this is particularly difficult to comprehend Despite the health risks, extended dispatches overseas, considering that U.S. citizen merchant seamen are also the fourth restrictions aboard ship, anxieties for loved ones back home and the arm of defense for the United States. U.S. mariners are supplying mental stress, fatigue and increased risk of accidents attendant with our troops overseas and delivering government cargoes of all sorts, those pressures, our members are delivering the goods. including essential foreign aid to many of the same countries that A few vessels have been laid up both in foreign and domestic are preventing their repatriation. At the most pragmatic level, trades. In inland waters our members have seen jobs evaporate in how can it be that to date there has been no effective Federal the harbor boat tourist sector, but when and wherever they are Government intervention to prevent a critical break in the logistical employed, our members perform their duties professionally and supply chain of our military? without fanfare. Public recognition is not expected in the U.S. MM&P employers have done their best to ensure the safety of Merchant Marine. However, pride of profession and determination our membership, within the constraints and paucity of resources to get the job done are expected – and achieved – by our members. permitted them. The initial scarcity of face masks, PPE, sanitizing As stated at the outset of this crisis by our most singular and product and, until very recently, the complete lack of approved outstanding Maritime Administrator, Mark Buzby, “This is not a Covid-19 testing kits cannot be placed at their door. Again, one can fight that any of us wanted, but it is upon us and we must work only question where the Federal Government has been. This is true, through it together.” of course, not just for U.S. merchant seamen, but for American Once again, the Merchant Marine is left to its own devices. We transportation workers of every sort – not to mention health care will prevail, as those who came before us have: in peace and war. workers and multitudes of other essential workers. Wishing all good health and safety at sea and ashore. The greatest and hardest work has been done by our own members, aboard ships, tugs, ferries and vessels of all types. They Fraternally, have worked together with their crews from other unions to keep their vessels as safe as possible. Other than at the heart of the Don Marcus, Covid-19 pandemic in New York Harbor, where at least three MM&P President

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Sandy Hook Pilot Timothy Ferrie, at the Conn of Comfort, Profiled in The New Yorker Magazine

“To meet the naval hospital ship he would pilot into New York Harbor, Captain Timothy Ferrie wore a respirator mask with his customary coat and tie,” wrote Ian Frazier in the introduction to his article, “Bringing in Comfort,” which was published in the April 13 edition of The New Yorker. Waiting for the ship, besides Coast Guard and police boats, were ship-watchers with cameras, hovering helicopters, cars and trucks honking their horns and a tug carrying a film crew. Comfort was welcomed to New York City by a giant sign on Pier 40 that read, “I Want to Thank You.” “At the helm, Captain Timothy Ferrie, a Sandy Hook pilot, licensed and skilled in local waters, had control of the ship—the ‘conn,’ as pilots and ships’ crews call it,” Frazier wrote. He described the day-to-day work of the Sandy Hook pilots, how Ferrie had “piloted a tanker out of the harbor and into the open ocean the day before, spent the night on the pilots’ station Sandy Hook Pilot Timothy Ferrie with Andrew Lindey, captain of boat, twelve miles out, and received the assignment to bring the USNS Comfort. “Piloting the Comfort, and being part of her work Comfort in in the morning.” here, has been the proudest day of my life,” Ferrie said. Ferrie, who is East Coast regional representative of the MM&P Pilots Membership Group, describes how being a Sandy Hook pilot “One year during Fleet Week I piloted the John F. Kennedy, is a family tradition (his relatives have been pilots since 1882). a thousand-foot-long aircraft carrier that has since been “I’ve been piloting for forty years, and I’ve brought thousands of decommissioned. But piloting the Comfort, and being part of her ships in and out of the harbor, including Navy ships,” he said. work here, has been the proudest day of my life.”

Photo Credit: USCG Petty Officer 2nd Class Cory J. Mendenhall

Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort arrives in New York City in support of Covid-19 relief efforts.

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New York Water Taxi Crew Pulls Woman From Water in Brooklyn

The crew of New York Water Taxi Rogowsky rescued a woman who had fallen into the water near Brooklyn piers on March 1. The boat was heading westbound towards the Statue of Liberty at approximately 1427 when Captain Kelvin “Tony” Semple received a call from New York traffic about a person in the water. He mustered the crew, told them to prepare the man overboard equipment and turned the boat around, heading toward Brooklyn piers. “As we approached the pier, I saw a person in the water, holding on to a line. The crew deployed the ladder over the side of Rogowsky and rescued the woman.” “Luckily she was holding on to a line attached to a piling,” said Ashley Cruz-Batista. “We got as close as possible. I went down the ladder and seeing the fear in her eyes gave me the adrenaline to pull her out of the water. Luckily I got her to the platform and as she was climbing up the ladder, NYPD laid her on deck and put her on a stretcher.” “As we pulled away, the members of the crew looked at each other in shock: we were heading to the Statue of Liberty before getting the call and a couple of minutes later, we had a life in our hands.”

Crew of New York Water Taxi Rogowsky pulled a person from the water near Brooklyn piers in March. (Left to right) Captain Kelvin Semple, Ashley Cruz-Batista and Jonathan Silva. Not pictured: Khadijah Prescott.

Key Lakes Senior Deck Officers at Winter Meetings

A group of senior deck officers who work for Key Lakes Inc. attended winter meetings in Sarasota, Fla. (Left to right, back row) James Bittner, Steven Wilczewski; (front row) Michael Didich, Keene Weekley, Tim Alfson, James Stengel, Mark Blatnic; and Abe Gorgan (seated). Key Lakes operates a fleet of nine self-unloading bulk cargo vessels which provide service to taconite, coal, and limestone customers on the lower and upper Great Lakes.

4 The Master, Mate & Pilot - April | May | June 2020 MM&P Members at North Ferry Save Boater

Three MM&P members aboard North Ferry’s Mashomack—Jennifer Card Venth, James Cogan and Michael Mundy—saved a boater who had fallen from his skiff into the 47-degree waters of Shelter Island Sound just after sunset on April 18. With help from the crew of another ferry, they also got hold of the skiff, and delivered the man and his boat safely to shore. “One soul in the water, one retrieved. Everybody’s alive and the boat’s been retrieved,” Cogan reported on VHS radio. “They kept both their cool and their schedule,” wrote Charity Robey of the Shelter Island Reporter. “Ferry crews are in harm’s way every day, especially now that Covid-19 forces them into direct contact with a steady stream of potential virus carriers,” she wrote. “But on Saturday evening, the crew of Mashomack had Mike Mundy, Jennifer Venth and Jamie Cogan rescued a man more than microbes to contend with.” they saw fall from his skiff into Shelter Island Sound.

Ferry crews are in harm’s way every day, especially now that deployed rescue gear over the side, including a ladder, platform, ropes and life rings. Covid-19 forces them into direct The skiff continued to run in circles as the Mashomack crew contact with a steady stream of worked to corral the uncontrolled boat, which had become a hazard. potential virus carriers. “Every single passenger got out of their cars to see if they could – Charity Robey, help,” Venth said. Mundy helped the boater aboard and provided him with a Shelter Island Reporter. dry change of clothes. He had cuts to his arm and forehead, but declined medical attention. He returned on Sunday to see about his boat, and leave a few The crew was about an hour into their shift, with Venth at the cases of beer as a gesture of thanks to the crew who most likely wheel, when they saw the man guiding a 12-foot aluminum skiff, saved his life. “On the ferry the next day, I looked up at the ladder standing up, without a life vest. He had passed just behind the ferry system on the second level and realized how fast they brought it when Mundy saw him go into the water. The crew immediately down to the water,” he said. “I’m glad they were there. They could began to follow the “man-overboard” procedures that they had not have done better.” practiced many times. The mariners who crew the North Ferry vessels are members of Venth, who was at the forward wheel, asked Cogan to take the the MM&P Atlantic Maritime Group. wheel and guide the 130-foot-long ferry close enough for the crew “Their highly professional response to an emergency situation to pull the man out of the water while keeping the ferry between is exactly what I would expect from this well-trained crew,” said the man and his skiff, which was circling out of control nearby. AMG Representative Mike Riordan. While Cogan steered toward the boater, who was swimming fully “The constant vigilance exercised over their watery domain is to clothed in the icy water, Venth kept eyes on him and Mundy be commended,” he added. “God bless them.”

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“Your Service to the Public Is a Lifeline,” New York City Official Tells Staten Island Ferry Crews

The men and women who are keeping the Staten Island Ferry system running in the midst of the global pandemic are front line responders who are providing an essential public service to all New Yorkers, says New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg. “Keeping the ferries running, especially so that health care professionals and other essential workers can continue to commute, is an important lifeline,” she wrote in an April 6 letter expressing the city’s gratitude. “In ways we know you may have never • closing bathrooms at different times to reduce cleaning needs expected, you are on the front lines, and I know that you are proud and installing portable toilets shoreside. to be serving your City… We are grateful to you all.” “We are also working closely with you and our colleagues at In the letter, Trottenberg said the department is working closely NYPD to enforce social distancing in the terminals and on the with the unions that represent ferry crews to add on-board and boats,” Trottenberg wrote, adding that the city has launched an shoreside protections to make the working environment safer. aggressive social media and press campaign to get the word out. “We are working hard, along with your union leadership, to She said Staten Islanders “are used to rushing onto and off the address your concerns and make the ferry operation safe and boats,” an old habit that dies hard. “But we are making headway in sustainable for you and the traveling public,” she wrote. “We are keeping the crowds apart,” she told crewmembers. “We will need continuing to strengthen our coordination and are appreciative of your help to keep reinforcing that message.” their partnership,” she added. “I can assure you all that they have “We will continue to keep monitoring our workforce as the been strong and effective advocates for you.” crisis continues and looking to find any other ways we can to help Trottenberg gave a special shout out to MM&P Staten Island protect their health and safety, as well as the health and safety of Ferry Representatives Rich Russo, Ray Hennessey and Frank our passengers,” she wrote. Lamiquiz. “Once again, the leadership of both DOT and Ferries appreciate Among the changes that the city and the unions have your support and hard work during this unprecedented crisis,” she implemented to increase safety: wrote. “We are very proud of the work being done to keep the ferry • reducing the ferry schedule to hourly to help reduce the strain running for our fellow New Yorkers.” on workers and allow for more cleaning of the boats; “Please continue to stay safe and healthy and if you need • acquiring and distributing masks and gloves; anything, please reach out to us!”

Greetings From the LDOs Aboard Cape Hudson

Licensed deck officers aboardCape Hudson took time out from their busy work schedules to send greetings to the rest of the MM&P fleet.(Left to right) Chief Mate Ben Day, Third Mate Scott Lynch, Captain Conor Sullivan, Third Mate Dan Baldi and Second Mate Tom Ryan.

6 The Master, Mate & Pilot - April | May | June 2020 MM&P Captain Steve Werse Honored by the Marine Society of the City of New York

Steve Werse, master mariner and longtime MM&P official, has been honored by the Marine Society of the City of New York with a Lifetime Achievement Award. He was elected MM&P International Secretary-Treasurer in January 2013, after previously serving as MM&P Atlantic Ports Vice President. An MM&P member since 1979, he has over 30 years at sea, including 21 as master with Central Gulf/Waterman. “Steve is the quintessential ship’s master,” said MM&P President Don Marcus in his introductory remarks. “Honoring him continues the great tradition of the Marine Society of New York in saluting the achievements of the finest practitioners of the art of being a master mariner.” “As master with Central Gulf Lines and Waterman Corporation, Steve, his officers and crew received two Citations of Merit for rescues at sea, conducted another four successful rescues at sea Steve Werse, master mariner and longtime MM&P official, has and for four consecutive years received the Chamber of Shipping’s been honored by the Marine Society of the City of New York with Jones-Devlin Award for no down-time injuries.” an award for lifetime achievement. In the photo (left right) MM&P “His temperament, his professionalism, his sense of personal Atlantic Ports Vice President Tom Larkin, Werse, New York Marine honor and integrity separate him from the crowd.” Society President Tim Ferrie and MM&P President Don Marcus. “Aboard ship or ashore, Steve is a teacher and a mentor,” Marcus added. “He will bend over backwards to give of himself in passing on the skills of our chosen profession to the next generation.” “His sincere connection with our young members has been a great gift to our organization.”

ITF to Seafarers: “Without Your Sacrifice, the World Would Likely Have Come to A Standstill”

The International Transport Workers’ Federation is commending to its 174 Member States on how to the world’s seafarers for “professionally and diligently doing their “restart” crew changes so that seafarers can jobs during this unprecedented, uncertain time.” disembark and fresh crews can be deployed. “Despite the restrictions and the threat of exposure to the virus, “Although this does not automatically our unions and their members, the world’s seafarers, continue to mean that restrictions will be lifted perform their duties to ensure that the essential goods we need to immediately since each government must live day to day are delivered,” ITF Seafarers’ Section Chair Dave put in place processes and procedures for crew changes to happen, Heindel said in a message to the world’s seafarers. it is a step in the right direction,” he said. “For people who have not worked on a ship, it is hard to “Rest assured that the ITF and its affiliated unions will continue understand what it is like to live and work for six, eight or even 10 to pressure UN agencies, governments and employers to prioritize months on board.” the facilitation of crew changes for the world’s seafarers so that it is “For seafarers it is a lifestyle, but when contracts end, seafarers no longer an issue.” are ready to go home and have an absolute right under the “The ITF and our affiliates–your unions–will not let up the International Labor Organization’s Maritime Labor Convention of pressure until every seafarer is home safely and those seafarers 2006 to do so.” that have patiently waited at home to relieve their colleagues are As a result of intense lobbying by the ITF and its affiliates, on board so that the world’s goods continue to get where they are the International Maritime Organization issued a 12-step plan needed thanks to all of you.”

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MM&P LDOs Salute Colleagues Aboard Maersk Ships in Suez Canal

When Covid-19 delayed Suez Canal transits, MM&P licensed deck officers aboard Maersk Kinloss and Maersk Columbus were able to exchange greetings across the water and memorialize the moment with photos. “We were able to see our sister ships and union brothers and sisters at sea due to the schedule delays,” said Maersk Columbus Third Mate Cassandra Clark.

Maersk Kinloss Third Mate Ernie Caponegro took this Maersk Columbus Third Mate Cassandra photo of Columbus. Clark took this photo of Maersk Kinloss.

Maersk Sentosa at anchor off Salalah, awaiting port call, in this photo taken from Maersk Columbus, also awaiting port call. Photo Credit: Cassandra Clark

Third Mate Cassandra Clark and Chief Mate Marwan Elsamny of Maersk Columbus. Photo Credit: Jack Boro

Aboard Maersk Columbus, Elsamny and Third Mate Cassandra Clark Maersk Columbus Chief Mate Marwan Elsamny with wave good-bye to the crew of Maersk Kinloss. Maersk Kinloss in the background. Photo Credit: Jack Boro Photo Credit: Cassandra Clark

8 The Master, Mate & Pilot - April | May | June 2020 Great Lakes Mariners Maersk Kensington Passes in LAP Class Through the Azores

MM&P and MEBA members who sail on the Great Lakes MM&P members aboard Maersk Kensington took advantage of a great participated in the License Advancement Program at MITAGS photo opportunity as the vessel was passing through the Azores in March. earlier this year. (Left to right) Robert Cardinal and David Tyson, (Left to right) Captain Nicholas Gasper, Chief Mate Timothy Sheridan, both employed at Grand River Navigation; Jeremy Mock and Third Mate Tucker Weisleder and Second Mate Joshua Lamm. James Throop, both employed at Interlake Steamship Company. CNO Harbor Pilot Crew of Matson’s Jay Anderson Receives MV Kamokuiki Receives His 25 Years of Federal Their “Golden Shellback” Service Certificate

Earlier this year, MM&P licensed deck officers and members of four other unions aboard Matson’s MV Kamokuiki received their “Golden Shellback” award when their ship crossed the equator. MM&P members aboard the vessel at the time were Captain Louis E. Terramorse, Chief Mate Robert G. Abbott and Third Mate Jessica N. Mastrella. Also aboard were MEBA Second Mate Robert M. Womble, Chief CNO Harbor Pilot Jay Anderson (left) received his 25 years Engineer Evan C. Hafford, First Assistant Engineer Glen K. Elliott and of federal service certificate from Chief Pilot Jeff Anderson Second Assistant Engineer Lucas W. Frank; SUP Boatswain Forrest A. of Navy Region Northwest at the Bremerton “Pilot Shack.” Jackson, ABW Joshua S. Davis, ABW Christian G. Ortiz and ABW Anderson has been with Port Operations for his entire federal Richard N. Kahalewai Jr.; MFOW Electrician Kevin L. Haymer and service career. He was one of the first two tug captains to take Oiler Walter J. Tangonan; and SIU Chief Steward Adele E. Williams. over operations when naval personnel were taken off the tugs as Photo Credit: Robert Womble part of a program aimed at improving operational efficiency.

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AMHS deck officers aboard the Tazlina. (Left to right) Captain Zachary Aboard the Daniel K. Inouye: Forst, Chief Mate Joseph Krzesni, Second Mate Elise LaBonte, Company Second Mate Angel Rodriguez, Captain Frank Reed, Third Mate and Pilot Observer for the day Erik Schlechter. Chief Mate Elisa Moore and Third Mate Greg Bijelic.

USNS Patuxent Second Mate Horizon Spirit: Peter Parise. Columbia River Bar Pilot Laura Hammond. Captain Jay Valentine.

National Maritime Day, Council of American Master Mariners in Edmonds, Wash., reading a poem titled “When the Last Hand Comes Aboard.” (Left to right) Richard Klein, Kevin Coulombe, Donald Moore Jr., Charles Lund and Jim Herron.

10 The Master, Mate & Pilot - April | May | June 2020 Alliance Fairfax: Tug Lincoln: SLNC Goodwill: Chief Mate Chuck Hendricks. Deckhand Sean Malloy. Third Mate William Murphy.

President Wilson: Captain Lilly Gallo, Chief Mate John Taylor, SLNC Corsica: (Far left) Second Mate Nicholas 1AE Paul Hudson and CE Joe Robson. Mattern; (foreground) Captain Hedi Marzougui.

Tug Lincoln: Captain Scott Becker. Maersk Kinloss Crew.

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MV Green Ridge: Photo provided by Pilot Allison Schulte. Second Mate Karynn Marchal.

Pilot Tom Heberle aboard the M/V Seven Seas Mariner. Staten Island Ferry: Mate Pat Forde, Pat Egan and Mate Mike Koch.

President Kennedy: Bosun David Ibarra, AB Tim Conley, AB Alex Camacho, Chief Mate Christian Ferry Carina: Ranosa, AB Earl Eastmark, AB Jen Corner, AB Kim Hoogendam and Third Mate Mike Thomsen. Captain Andrew Miller.

12 The Master, Mate & Pilot - April | May | June 2020 Alliance Fairfax: AB Chantell Dawson, Chief Mate Chuck Hendricks, Photo provided by Second Mate Erik Stark and Captain Nick Marcantonio. Pilot Allison Schulte.

MV President FD Roosevelt: USNS Pomeroy: Alliance Fairfax: Captain George Werdann, Chief Engineer Nathan Weymouth, Chief Mate Peter A. Petrulis. Captain Nick Marcantonio. Chief Mate Ryan Evans, Third Mate Douglas Neal, and Second Mate Rexel Dagdag.

ATB Defiance/Ashtabula: (front row) Cook Charlie Teney, Conveyorman Silas Preston; (back row) AB Dave Tyson, Assistant Engineer Mitch White, Assistant Engineer Ed Lulko, Second Mate Dan Grant, Kory Cole, Dan Holowenko, A/Conveyorman Tyler Busch, Boatswain Josh Bruder and Chief Engineer Sean Gardiner. Photo by Captain Karl Hardesty, with First Mate Eric Johnson on watch.

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C. James Patti

Covid-19: The Fight To Protect Mariners and Jobs Intensifies

Congress and our industry are faced with the unprecedented We are also urging Congress to ensure that the militarily useful challenge of responding to the coronavirus pandemic. Together vessels in the Maritime Security Program continue to sail as much with others in labor and our contracted shipping companies, we as possible, and that they be maintained in a state of readiness continue to direct our efforts in Washington, DC, to ensuring that if they are laid-up due to the dwindling base of cargo or the our government takes the steps necessary to protect the health, quarantine of the crew. safety and jobs of American mariners on all types of vessels. As commercial and government-generated cargoes continue to As we fight to preserve the Jones Act, the Maritime Security decline, without immediate action, the US-flag shipping companies Program and cargo preference from attempts to use the pandemic in the Maritime Security Program face the protracted lay-up of as an excuse to promote foreign shipping interests, we have engaged their ships. with our supporters in Congress to ensure that the impact of the virus on our mariners and employers is addressed. Acknowledging what we have always known to be the case, the Department of Homeland Security has designated merchant Maritime labor and the US-flag mariners as essential workers. They are working aboard vessels shipping companies are standing in the domestic and foreign trades so consumers and businesses together during this difficult receive the products they need. They are providing the domestic waterborne transportation that other essential workers rely on to time. Together, we will do what get to their jobs. we can to meet this challenge. But despite the essential worker designation, it has been clear from the outset that mariners would not have all they need to do their jobs safely and that our employers would not have the assistance they need to keep their ships sailing and to take care of Notwithstanding the pandemic, America needs a strong, mariners and other employees who have been laid-off. viable, US-flag merchant marine to meet our national security The seafaring unions have told Congress and the Administration requirements. MM&P and the other maritime unions urged that a major threat to the ongoing operation of US-flag vessels of Congress in an April 14 letter to allow vessels enrolled in the all types is the lack of testing kits, personal protective equipment MSP to receive the statutory authorized annual stipend without and related supplies for the crews. Mariners’ safety is our highest interruption by suspending the requirement that vessels must priority: we will not stop fighting to obtain the kits necessary to operate for a minimum of 320 days a year. Maritime labor has test crewmembers and other personnel who have access to ships. proposed that the requirement be suspended if an MSP vessel is

14 The Master, Mate & Pilot - April | May | June 2020 laid-up or idle due to loss of cargo or other circumstances. It would Equally important, we will continue to urge that the Cargo further require that if a carrier accepts the MSP stipend under this Preference Act of 1954 and Public Resolution 17 be amended waiver provision, the affected vessel would have to be maintained so that 100 percent of government-generated cargoes shipped in a state of operational readiness, including the employment of the by federal agencies and departments are reserved for US-flag crew. This way, both the vessel and the crew would remain ready commercial vessels. As commercial cargoes continue their decline, and available as needed. The House of Representatives agreed with this will help ensure the continued operation of vessels under the our proposal and included such language in their latest Covid-19 US-flag and the continued employment of American merchant legislation. mariners. The increase in the share of government-generated cargo The proposal was also endorsed by Gen. Stephen Lyons, carried by US-flag vessels would be subject to the availability of commander, United States Transportation Command: in a May US-flag vessels at fair and reasonable rates as required by existing 15 letter, he urged Congress to waive the 320-day “in commerce” law. rule to enable carriers to receive their full MSP payment, “thereby We are also working to make sure Congress addresses the impact providing a minimum level of financial liquidity while cargo the coronavirus is having on our domestic ferry and other small volumes are significantly reduced.” We will continue to push for passenger vessel operations and their crews and employees. The this waiver as the House and Senate negotiate the next Covid-19 last coronavirus legislative package did provide assistance for these bill. operations through grants and loans, and our effort now is directed We will also continue to urge Congress to couple the MSP towards ensuring that the assistance provided in the last bill is stipend and the waiver of the 320-day operating requirement with sufficient, and that it is being disbursed quickly and efficiently to an emergency supplemental payment to cover the normal and those who need it. It is our primary objective that the crews of unexpected costs to vessel operators in the period they are unable to these vessels who have been laid-off because of the coronavirus carry cargo and generate revenue. receive the compensation they are entitled to under the new Provided carriers maintain a laid-up vessel in a state of readiness paycheck protection program. and continue to employ the crew, they would receive the additional Finally, Covid-19 has had a negative impact on maritime unions’ emergency payment to keep the MSP fleet and crews ready and nonprofit vocational training facilities. Consequently, we have available to immediately respond to any national emergency urged that the paycheck protection program in the CARES Act be requiring commercial sealift readiness. amended so that all maritime union vocational training facilities, Specifically, we are urging Congress to authorize and appropriate including MITAGS, will be eligible to apply for the assistance $109.8 million to provide $1.83 million to each MSP vessel for needed to support their employees, resume essential training and the period April 1, 2020 to the end of the current fiscal year, and undertake the upgrades necessary to provide our industry with the to authorize $1.82 million per vessel with a total authorization best trained mariners in the world. of $109 million for the period Oct. 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021 The House of Representatives has included the necessary change to be appropriated as needed. It is significant that more than 60 to the CARES Act in its latest Covid-19 bill and we will push to members of Congress have joined Reps. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.), have it included in the legislation agreed on by the House and Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Rob Senate. Wittman (R-Va.) in calling for the approval of this additional Maritime labor and the US-flag shipping companies are standing funding. together during this difficult time for our industry and our country. Together, we will continue to do what we can to meet this challenge.

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PATRICK MCCULLOUGH

Board of Trustees Meetings Enrollment period from November to December 2019, the Plan As you might have read in the last issue of The Master, Mate & received new requests for coverage, with a Jan. 1, 2020 effective Pilot, the first meetings of the Board of Trustees for this year were date, for seven members and 17 dependents. held Feb. 4-6. At their February meetings, the Trustees agreed to Pensioners’ Continuation of Coverage the following schedule of meetings for 2020: The Trustees agreed, in principle, to extend the Continuation of • June 2-4, 2020 Coverage Program until the earlier of termination of a participant’s • Oct. 13-14, 2020 (Tentative) coverage or June 30, 2021. The Trustees have had this program in The Trustees also tentatively agreed on the following 2021 place since 1987. The Trustees requested that a Plan Amendment meeting dates: be drafted for their review at the next Trustees meeting. • Feb. 2-3, 2021 Earnings Limitations for Pensioners and • June 1-2, 2021 Spouses Under 65 for the 2020 Calendar Year • Oct, 13-14, 2021 (Tentative) I would like to remind pensioners and spouses under age 65 about Health & Benefit Plan the MM&P Health Plan Earnings Limitations for calendar year 2020. On Dec. 12, 2019, the Plan mailed an earnings letter to all Tele Medicine Coverage for MM&P H&B Plan affected participants and dependents with an affidavit that must Participants and Covered Dependents be returned to the Plan Office. If you have not yet returned the To assist MM&P Plan participants who need to get in touch with affidavit, it is advised that you complete and return it as soon as their physician during the current public health emergency about possible. symptoms, a refill or a new prescription, the MM&P Health Plan Increase in Pensioners Earnings Limitation Jan. 1, 2020 has introduced a new Tele Medicine benefit that allows participants and covered dependents to obtain medical services by calling their The Trustees last year agreed to change the Plan rules to increase doctor without leaving home. the Plan’s pensioner annual earnings limitation, effective Jan. 1, For information on coverage for Tele Medicine, go to 2020, to $41,000. Effective Jan. 1, 2020, pensioners who are under 65 and who have retired under the MM&P Pension Plan with 20 bridgdeck.org, enter the Members’ Only site and scroll down or more years of pension credit, along with their dependents under to the bottom of the Members’ Only home page. 65 who are employed, will be able to receive annual earnings of up Medicare Part D Update to $41,000 without losing their health coverage under the Plan. The Trustees received the Administrator’s report that the 2020 Air Ambulance Benefit subsidy application has been approved and that, as of Dec. 31, The Trustees have requested that I remind members and 2019, the Plan has received subsidy payments from the Medicare dependents that the Air Ambulance Benefit is limited to Part D Program for last year totaling approximately $806,220.48. $10,000.00 per incident. The Trustees were informed that The Trustees also received the Administrator’s report that Part D members who live in areas such as Alaska, Texas and Washington Advisors were able to obtain approximately $30,000 in additional states may be able to purchase a personal insurance policy for subsidy money for the 2013 Plan year. Part D Advisors will be the whole family. It is our understanding that this policy costs working on the 2014 to 2016 subsidy years to see if they can between $100 – $150 for the whole family for a year of insurance. obtain additional subsidy money. The Trustees authorized the This insurance could cover air ambulance costs above the Plan’s request. maximum benefit of $10,000.00 thereby saving you the cost of the Open Enrollment for Coverage Effective Jan. 1, 2020 air ambulance above the $10,000.00. The Trustees received the report that during the Annual Open

16 The Master, Mate & Pilot - April | May | June 2020 Individual Retirement Account Plan, special temporary conditions. While the primary purpose of your Pension Plan and Adjustable Pension Plan IRAP and/or 401(k) account is for your retirement, the CARES Act allows the Plan to adopt temporary provisions so you may Annual IRS Limitations for 2020 withdraw this money if you and your family need it now. For your reference, we have listed below the Internal Revenue If you participate in both IRAP and 401(k), the maximum Service limitations for 2020. The defined benefit plan limits listed you can take from both accounts combined is $100,000. If you below apply only to participants in the Offshore Pension Plan participate in only IRAP or only the 401(k) Plan, you can take and/or Adjustable Pension Plan. The 401(k) limits apply only an amount up to $100,000 from your account. The 10 percent to members whose collective bargaining agreements provide for penalty on distributions before age 59 ½ is waived for hardship IRAP/401(k) participation. distributions made because of COVID-19. Hardship distributions are usually subject to income tax in the IRS Limitations for 2019 year of the distribution, but under the CARES Act, you may report 2020 2019 the income tax related to your COVID-19 hardship distribution Maximum Annual 415 Payout At Age 62 ratably over the next three years instead of all at once. From a Defined Benefit Plan $230,000 $225,000 Also, unlike traditional hardship distributions which cannot be repaid to the Plan, amounts taken for a COVID-19 hardship Maximum Annual Contribution to an distribution can be repaid to your IRAP or 401(k) account, in Individual’s Defined Contribution whole or in part, up to three years after you receive the distribution. Account Under 415(c) $ 57,000 $ 56,000 Maximum Effective 401(k) Deferral $ 19,500 $ 19,000 To apply: 401(k) Catch-Up Limit-Age 50 and Older $ 6,500 $ 6,000 Please contact the Plan Office at 410-850-8500 ext. 636 or ext. 625 to request a hardship application to withdraw money from Maximum Amount of Annual Compensation your account. When you apply, you will have to self-certify to one That Can Be Taken Into Account for of the COVID-19 related hardships provided for by the CARES Determining Benefits or Contributions Act and will be required to submit documentation of your financial Under a Qualified Plan $285,000 $280,000 need to support your application. Wage Base: a) for Social Security Tax $137,700 $132,900 Temporary Increase in Plan Loan Maximums to b) for Medicare No Limit No Limit $100,000 Typically, loans of up to $50,000 or 50 percent of your vested Please note, as of January 2013, individuals with wages/earned account balance are available to 401(k) participants. Now, through income of more than $200,000 ($250,000 for married couples Sept. 23, 2020, if you, your spouse or your tax dependent have filing jointly) pay an additional 0.9 percent in Medicare taxes. This been diagnosed with COVID-19, or experience certain financial Medicare surcharge is paid along with annual income taxes. problems as a result of COVID-19, the amount you can take as a loan from your account has been temporarily increased to the lesser Temporary Changes to MM&P IRAP and of $100,000 or 100 percent of your account. Please note, under the MM&P 401(k) Arrangement as Permitted 401(k) Plan you are still limited to taking no more than two loans by the CARES Act out at a time. The Board of Trustees is pleased to advise you of the following To apply: temporary benefits available to you, effective immediately, under the MM&P Individual Retirement Account Plan (“IRAP”) and Please contact Fidelity at 866-848-6466 to request documentation the MM&P 401(k) Arrangement (“401(k) Plan”) (collectively, the for securing a new loan. “Plan”). These temporary benefits are being provided as permitted Temporary Suspension of Loan Repayments for 401(k) by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“the Participants CARES Act”) to assist you during the Coronavirus (“COVID-19”) health crisis. Under the CARES Act, if you, your spouse, or your tax dependent have been diagnosed with COVID-19, or experience certain COVID-19 Related Payments From Your IRAP and/or financial problems as a result of COVID-19, your loan payments 401(k) Accounts due in 2020 may be delayed. If you, your spouse, or your tax dependent have been diagnosed If you currently have a loan, or if you take out a new loan in with COVID-19, or experience financial hardship as a result 2020 and a payment is owed before Dec. 31, 2020, you can contact Fidelity at 866-848-6466 to request that the 401(k) Plan suspend of COVID-19, you may be eligible to withdraw money from your loan payments. your IRAP and/or 401(k) account through Dec. 31, 2020 under

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You must log in to your Fidelity NetBenefits account or call The Plan has been trying to get in touch with the following Fidelity to stop your ACH debit loan repayment during your participants, and they have not responded to the Plan. deferment period. When payments resume, they will however be adjusted to 2019 Annual Pension Confirmation Forms Needed for take into account the delay and additional interest accrued while Plan Year 2018 repayments were suspended. This will increase the amount of your Jackson Miller, II loan repayment and may extend the time it will take to complete Antoine Tedmore the remainder of the term of your loan. Earnings Limitation for Pensioners and/or Dependents Suspension of Required Minimum Distributions Under the Age of 65 for Plan Year 2019 (RMDs) for All Plans Sandra Pirtle If you reach age 70½, the Plan is usually required to pay a portion of your account balance to you as a Required Minimum Earnings Limitation for Pensioners and/or Dependents Distribution (RMD). However, under the CARES Act, the Plan Under the Age of 65 for Plan Year 2020 is not required to make RMDs during 2020 and the Board of Louis Backert Frank Colebrissi Trustees has agreed to permit RMD suspensions for all participants Noe Corrales Robin Espinosa (whether affected by COVID-19 or not) in both the IRAP and the David Ferbert Gary Gelfgren 401(k) Plan. Paul Goodhue Mary Grimshaw If you are over age 70½ and receiving RMD payments in a Mark Jones James Londagin yearly lump sum distribution, your payment will be automatically George Lupo Philip Lyons suspended unless you contact Fidelity to inform them that you Matthew McInerney Sandra Pirtle would prefer to receive your 2020 RMD. If you are over age 70½ and are receiving RMD monthly or If you know where these individuals have moved, or if you have a quarterly payments, automatic suspensions of your benefits will phone number, please contact the Pension Plan benefit staff at the not apply. You may contact Fidelity to elect suspensions of your Plan Office at 410-850-8636. monthly RMD payments. Plan Amendments If you have questions or need any additional information, please call the Plan Office at 410-850-8500 ext. 636 or ext. 625. Be well AMENDMENT NO. 148 TO THE and please stay safe. M.M.&P. HEALTH AND BENEFIT PLAN RULES AND REGULATIONS Annual Verification of Pensioner Benefits: Pension Plan, Adjustable Pension Plan Effective February 5, 2020 the following provisions of the Rules To safeguard pension benefits for all participants and their qualified and Regulations are amended as follows: spouses, as they have over the past few years, the Trustees require all Article IV (Benefit Provisions), Part A (Comprehensive Major pensioners to verify on an annual basis that they have received their Medical Benefits), Section 6 (Exclusions), is amended to add a pension benefits for the previous year. new subsection “V” that clarifies that gene therapy is excluded The annual verification of pensioner benefits form must be from Plan coverage and shall state: notarized and returned to the Plan Office. If the pensioner resides V. charges related to Gene Therapy, including but not limited to in a city with an MM&P Port Office, the MM&P Port Official Zolsgensma. For purposes of this exclusion, Gene Therapy shall can sign the form instead of a notary. It is our understanding that mean therapy that involves introducing or inserting human you may also be able to have this form notarized at your bank or DNA into an individual to replace or compensate for an financial institution for little or no cost to you. abnormal or disease-causing mutated gene with a functioning Please be advised that the Plan needs to receive this form, gene that does not contain the abnormality or mutation for properly completed, by the time you are scheduled to receive purposes of treating or curing a genetic disease. The Plan does your May pension benefit payment. We will have to withhold not cover any type of Gene Therapy, even if such therapies have that benefit payment, and all future payments, until the properly received approval from the Food and Drug Administration. completed form is received. Article IV (Benefit Provisions), Part B (Prescription Drug If you have any questions, please contact a Plan Office benefit Benefit), Section 5 (Exclusions), is amended to add a new advisor at 410-850-8647, 410-850-8625 or 410-850-8636. subsection “M” that clarifies that gene therapy is excluded from Pension Plan Plan coverage and shall state: M. any prescription or medication that constitutes Gene Therapy, as Pension Plan Missing Participants defined under Article IV, Part A, Section 6.V.

18 The Master, Mate & Pilot - April | May | June 2020 MITAGS and Maritime MITAGS donated PPE to emergency Conference Center Staff room staff at Baltimore Washington Give Back to the Community Medical Center. When the Covid-19 pandemic began, MITAGS staffers immediately started giving back to local communities. Here are just a few of the activities they have been involved in since March. MITAGS donated classroom medical PPE supplies to Emergency Room staff at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. ER staff at the hospital have hosted students in MITAGS medical training programs for over 29 years. This collaboration has provided students with real life experience invaluable in handling routine and emergency medical situations at sea. MITAGS instructor Jim Clements arranged for transport to the hospital of the supplies. The Maritime Conference Center’s “audio-visual guru” John Catie Gianelloni and Carpenter and his wife Lori put their cooking skills and smoker her husband Todd are to use preparing meat loaves, pulled pork and brisket for the donating bag lunches and meals through elderly and others in high risk groups. Each package is delivered Manna House and with a note of encouragement, reminding them that someone Prince of Peace Church. cares. MITAGS West Coast team members have donated to a variety of local charities, including Food Line and Khan Academy for Kids. Many are also supporting small businesses and eateries by ordering take out multiple times during the week. MITAGS Lead Simulator Operator and NSAP Program Manager Catie Gianelloni and her husband Todd have participated in volunteer activities that include making and donating 65 sack lunches to Manna House every other week, and serving and delivering meals for the Prince of Peace Church in Edgewood, Md. Catie has also sewn several dozen masks for local healthcare and emergency response services including Holy Red Cross Hospital, Upper Chesapeake and Harford County Sheets Eric Friend and other volunteers collected should be EMS and firefighting services. enough to make 60,000 masks for people in need. MITAGS Director Eric Friend has been volunteering through his church and Donate Delaware. He helped collect and deliver 500 masks and six cases of hand sanitizer to Delaware State Police Troop 6. He learned of the need for these supplies from Larry Walther, a MITAGS adjunct MSC Small Arms instructor who also works as an instructor with the Delaware State Police. Eric has also worked with his church to provide 500 meals Masks and and household supplies to families in Delaware. He and a cases of hand sanitizer have neighbor who belongs to the International Brotherhood of been donated to Electrical Workers partnered with Eric’s church on a sheet drive Delaware State so volunteers could make face masks. Police Troop 6.

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Kenneth “Kip” Carlson Jr., Paul Rochford, shipping out of East Coast shipping out of West Coast ports. He last sailed for Patriot Contract ports. He sailed for American Services as master of the Cape Victory. President Lines as master of the Cape Borda before becoming a San Francisco Bar Pilot in 1988.

Johnny Rosado-Negron was a member of the United Inland Group–Atlantic & Gulf Region. Captain Kip Carlson, Captain Mike Nolls and Chief Engineer Steve

Watson. All three were on the verge Kyle E. Standfield, shipping out of West

of retiring when they crossed paths Coast ports. He last sailed for Sunrise/Pasha on the last voyage of the SS Matsonia. as third mate aboard the Horizon Reliance.

Hao C. Cheong worked as an instructor at the Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies.

William Imken, shipping out of East Coast ports. He last sailed for Maersk Lines Limited as master of the Maersk Durban. John W. Sullivan, shipping out of West Coast ports. He last sailed for Matson Navigation as master of the Moku Pahu.

David Jenkins Jr., shipping out of West Coast ports. He last sailed for Matson Navigation as third mate aboard the Matson Tacoma. David I. Wainwright, worked as a San Francisco Bar Pilot since 1991.

Joao J. Lima, shipping out of East Coast ports. He last sailed for Maersk Lines Limited Nella R. Wilkerson was the union as second mate aboard the Maersk Memphis. representative in the MM&P Houston Hall.

Edgar O. Montufar worked for Flik Restaurant at the Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies.

Robert J. Ramsey, shipping out of West Coast ports. He last sailed for Matson Navigation as master of the Horizon Tacoma.

Barry L. Reese worked as controller at the Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies.

20 The Master, Mate & Pilot - April | May | June 2020 Directory of MM&P Offices International Headquarters MM&P Health & Benefit, Offshore Membership Group Miami/Port Everglades 700 Maritime Blvd., Suite B Vacation, Pension, Thomas Larkin Andrea Fortin Linthicum Heights, MD 21090-1953 JEC and IRAP Plans Vice President Representative Phone: 410-850-8700 Patrick McCullough Atlantic Ports Broward Outpatient Medical Center Fax: 410-850-0973 150 SW 12th Ave Suite 205 Administrator Klaus Luhta www.bridgedeck.org Pompano FL 33069-3237 MM&P Plans Vice President Phone: 954-946-7883 700 Maritime Blvd., Suite A Gulf Ports & Government Affairs International Officers Linthicum Heights, MD Fax: 954-946-8283 21090-1996 J. Lars Turner [email protected] Donald J. Marcus Phone: 410-850-8500 Vice President President New York/New Jersey Fax: 410-850-8655 Pacific Ports 410-850-8700 ext. 122 Toll-Free: 1-877-667-5522 Thomas Larkin [email protected] Boston [email protected] Vice President-Atlantic Ports Don F. Josberger Ron Colpus Hours: Monday – Friday Jay Tripaldi Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Sullivan 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET Atlantic Regional Representative 410-850-8700 ext. 116 Representatives 570 Broad Street, Ste 701 [email protected] Atlantic Maritime Group Marine Industrial Park 12 Channel St., Suite 606-A Newark, NJ 07102 Executive Offices Stephen H. Doherty Boston, MA 02210-2333 Phone: 201-963-1900 Vice President Phone: 617-671-0769 Fax: 201-963-5403 George Quick 570 Broad Street, Suite 701 Fax: 617-261-2334 [email protected] VP-Pilot Membership Group Newark, NJ 07102 [email protected] [email protected] 410-691-8144 Direct: 201-830-3407 [email protected] Fax: 201-748-5151 Charleston Norfolk, Va. [email protected] Klaus Luhta John Livingston Mark Nemergut Representative VP-Gulf Ports & Gov’t Affairs Mike Riordan Representative Interstate Corporate Center 410-691-8139 Representative 1481 Tobias Gadson Blvd. 6325 North Center Dr., Ste 100 [email protected] Direct: 201-830-3409 Suite 2C Norfolk, VA 23502 [email protected] Charleston, SC 29407-4794 Frank Scopelliti Phone: 843-766-3565 Phone: 757-489-7406 International Comptroller Rich Russo Fax: 843-766-6352 Fax: 757-489-1715 410-691-8134 City Representative [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Phone: 201-830-3408 Honolulu Oakland Roger Lash [email protected] Jeremy Hope International Representative Randy Swindell Paulina Czernek Coast Agent 410-691-8142 International Representative Representative [email protected] Phone: 201-830-3406 521 Ala Moana Blvd., Ste 254 Veronica Schaible [email protected] Honolulu, HI 96813 Representative Steven M. Miceli Jr. Phone: 808-523-8183 548 Thomas L. Berkley Way International Representative Keith Poissant Fax: 808-538-3672 Oakland, CA 94612 410-691-8149 International Representative [email protected] Phone: 510-808-7068 [email protected] Phone: 973-420-0492 Fax: 510-808-7067 Houston Communications [email protected] [email protected] Klaus Luhta [email protected] Lisa Rosenthal Federal Employees VP-Gulf Ports & Government Affairs Communications Director Seattle Membership Group 13850 Gulf Freeway, Ste 250 410-691-8146 J. Lars Turner Randall H. Rockwood Houston, TX 77034 [email protected] Vice President-Pacific Ports Vice President Phone: 281-464-9650 Legal Department Executive Office Fax: 281-464-9652 Kathleen O. Moran [email protected] Representative Gabriel Terrasa MM&P Headquarters [email protected] 15208 52nd Ave. South, Suite 100 International Counsel 700 Maritime Blvd., Suite B Seattle, WA 98188 410-691-8148 Linthicum, MD 21090-1953 Los Angeles/Long Beach Phone: 206-441-8700 [email protected] [email protected] 410-691-8131 Wendy Karnes Fax: 206-448-8829 LMSR Contact Representative [email protected] Randi Ciszewski 533 N. Marine Ave., Ste A [email protected] Robert P. Chiesa Government Fleet Representative Wilmington, CA 90744-5527 Gov’t Crewing Coordinator & CNO Pilot Representative Phone: 310-834-7201 Tampa 443-784-8788 MM&P Headquarters Fax: 310-834-6667 Laura Cenkovich [email protected] 700 Maritime Blvd., Suite B [email protected] Representative Linthicum, MD 21090-1953 4333 S 50th St. Membership Department Cell: 202-679-7594 Tampa, FL 33619 Fax: 732-527-0829 Patrice L. Wooten Phone: 813-247-2164 Director of Membership Fax: 813-248-1592 410-691-8151 Hours: 9:00 AM-2:00 PM ET [email protected] [email protected]

www.bridgedeck.org - The Master, Mate & Pilot 21 Pilot Membership Group Boston Pilots Hawaii Pilots Association Puget Sound Pilots George A. Quick Richard Stover Tom Heberle Eric vonBrandenfels Vice President President President 2003 Western Ave. - Suite 200 3400 N. Furnace Rd. 256 Marginal Street, Bldg 11 Pier 19-Honolulu Harbor Seattle, WA 98121 Jarrettsville, MD 21084 East Boston, MA 02128 P.O. Box 721 Phone: 206-518-5484 Phone: 410-691-8144 Phone: 617-569-4500 Honolulu, HI 96808 Fax: 206-448-3405 Fax: 617-569-4502 Phone: 808-532-7233 Fax: 410-557-7082 Sabine Pilots Fax: 808-532-7229 [email protected] Canaveral Pilots www.hawaiipilots.net Charles Lahaye East Coast Regional Rep. Ben Borgie Presiding Officer Houston Pilots Timothy J. Ferrie Richard Grimison 5148 West Pkwy. 201 Edgewater St. Co-Chairmen Mark Mitchem Groves, TX 77619 Staten Island, NY 10305 Box 816 Presiding Officer Phone: 409-722-1141 Phone: 718-448-3900 Cape Canaveral, FL 32920 203 Deerwood Glen Drive Fax: 409-962-9223 Fax: 718-447-1582 Phone: 321-783-4645 Deer Park, TX 77536 www.sabinepilots.com [email protected] Phone: 713-645-9620 [email protected] Saint Johns Bar Pilots Charleston Branch Pilots Key West Bar Pilots Association Gulf Coast Regional Rep. Nate Cook Richard D. Moore Whit Smith Alejandro Gonzalez President 8150 S. Loop E. Houston, TX 77017 6 Concord St. P.O. Box 848 4910 Ocean St. Mayport, FL 32233 Phone: 713-645-9620 P.O. Box 179 Key West, FL 33041 Phone: 904-249-5631 [email protected] Charleston, SC 29401 Phone: 305-296-5512 Fax: 904-249-7523 Phone: 843-577-6695 Fax: 305-296-1388 [email protected] West Coast Regional Rep. Fax: 843-577-0632 Mobile Bar Pilots San Juan Bay Pilots Kip Carlson Columbia River Bar Pilots David M. Berault Pier 9, East End Stephen Rivera James Brady President San Francisco, CA 94111 President 100 16th St. P.O. Box 831 Phone: 415-389-1763 P.O. Box 9021033 Astoria, OR 97103-3634 Mobile, AL 36601 [email protected] San Juan, PR 00902-1033 Phone: 503-325-2641 Phone: 251-432-2639 787-722-1166 Fax: 251-432-9964 Alaska Marine Pilots Columbia River Pilots St. Lawrence Seaway Pilots David Arzt Northeast Marine Pilots Christopher D. Eckardt John R. Boyce President MM&P Delegate E. Howard McVay President P.O. Box 920226 13225 N. Lombard 243 Spring St. Dutch Harbor, AK 99692 Portland, OR 97203 Newport, RI 02840 Pat Broderick Phone: 907-581-1240 Phone: 503-289-9922 Phone: 401-847-9050 MM&P Branch Agent Fax: 907-581-1372 Toll Free: 1-800-274-1216 P.O. Box 274 [email protected] Coos Bay Pilots 230 North Point Street Penobscot Bay & River Charles L. Yates Cape Vincent, NY 13618 Aransas-Corpus Christi Pilots President Pilots Association Phone: 315-250-1477 Fax: 315-654-4491 Kevin C. Monaco 686 North Front St. David Gelinas P.O. Box 2767 Coos Bay, OR 97420-2331 President San Francisco Bar Pilots Corpus Christi, TX 78403 Phone: 541-267-6555 Skip Strong Joseph Long Phone: 361-884-5899 Fax: 541-267-5256 Vice President Port Agent Fax: 361-884-1659 Crescent River Port Pilots 18 Mortland Road Associated Branch Pilots Searsport, ME 04974 Zack Kellerman E. Michael Bopp Phone: 207-548-1077 MM&P Representative Mike Lorino Jr. President Fax: 207-548-1078 Pier 9, East End 3813 N. Cswy Blvd., Ste 100 8712 Highway 23 [email protected] San Francisco, CA 94111 Metairie, LA 70002 Belle Chasse, LA 70037 Phone: 415-362-5436 Phone: 504-831-6615 Phone: 504-392-8001 Pilots Association for the Fax: 415-982-4721 Fax: 504-392-7598 Bay & River Delaware Association Maryland Pilots www.crescentpilots.com Sandy Hook Pilots Jonathan C. Kemmerley Eric Nielsen John J. DeCruz Galveston-Texas City Pilots President President 800 S. Columbus Blvd. New York President 3720 Dillon St. Christos A. Sotirelis Philadelphia, PA 19147 Brendan D. Foley Baltimore, MD 21224 P.O. Box 16110 Phone: 215-465-8340 New Jersey President Phone: 410-276-1337 Galveston, TX 77552 Fax: 215-465-3450 Fax: 410-276-1364 Phone: 409-740-3347 Rob Debrowski [email protected] Fax: 409-740-3393 Port Everglades Pilots Branch Agent [email protected] Biscayne Bay Pilots Todd J. Cooper David T. Ulrich 201 Edgewater St. Andrew D. Melick Co-Directors Staten Island, NY 10305 Chairman P.O. Box 13017 Phone: 718-448-3900 2911 Port Blvd. Port Everglades, FL 33316 Fax: 718-447-1582 Miami, FL 33132 Phone: 954-522-4491 Phone: 305-374-2791 Fax: 305-374-2375

22 The Master, Mate & Pilot - April | May | June 2020 Savannah Pilots Association United Inland Wilmington Pacific Maritime Region Robert T. (“Trey”) Thompson III Membership Group Sly Hunter Pension & Benefit Plans Master Pilot Thomas Bell Regional Representative Columbia Northwest 130 Houston St. VP-Great Lakes & Gulf 533 N. Marine Ave. Marine Benefit Trust P.O. Box 9267 Wilmington, CA 90744-5527 Savannah, GA 31401-3528 Timothy Saffle Phone: 510-808-7066 Patrick McCullough Phone: 912-236-0226 VP-Pacific Maritime Region Fax: 510-808-7064 Administrator Fax: 912-236-6571 Cleveland [email protected] 700 Maritime Blvd., Suite A Linthicum Heights, MD 21090-1996 Southeast Alaska Pilots Thomas Bell Phone: 410-850-8500 Kathleen Fleury VP-Great Lakes & Gulf MIRAID Fax: 410-850-8655 1322 Old River Rd., 3rd Floor President C. James Patti Toll-Free: 1-877-667-5522 Cleveland, OH 44113 1621 Tongass Ave. - Suite 300 President [email protected] Phone: 216-776-1667 Ketchikan, AK 99901 1025 Connecticut Ave., NW Hours: Monday-Friday Fax: 216-776-1668 Phone: 907-225-9696 Suite 507 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET Fax: 907-247-9696 [email protected] Washington, DC 20036-5412 Northwest Maritime [email protected] Juneau Phone: 202-463-6505 www.seapa.com Fax: 202-223-9093 Pension Trust Shannon Adamson [email protected] Southwest Alaska Pilots Randy G. Goodwin Regional Representative Account Executive Ronald A. Ward, II 229 Fourth St. P.O. Box 34203 President Juneau, AK 99801 MM&P Federal Credit Union Seattle, WA 98124 Phone: 907-586-8192 P.O. Box 977 Kathy Ann Klisavage Phone: 206-441-7574 Fax: 907-789-0569 Homer, AK 99603 Manager Fax: 206-441-9110 Phone: 907-235-8783 [email protected] MM&P Headquarters Southwest Marine Health, Fax: 907-235-6119 Oakland 700 Maritime Blvd., Suite B Benefit & Pension Trust [email protected] Linthicum, MD 21090-1953 Sly Hunter Phone: 410-691-8136 Dora Vele Tampa Bay Pilots Regional Representative Fax: 410-859-1623 1200 Wilshire Blvd., 5th Floor Allen L. Thompson 548 Thomas L. Berkley Way Toll-Free: 1-800-382-7777 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Executive Director Oakland, CA 94612 (All U.S. and Puerto Rico) Toll-Free: 1-888-806-8943 1825 Sahlman Dr. Tampa, FL 33605 Phone: 510-808-7066 [email protected] Phone: 813-247-3737 Fax: 510-808-7064 [email protected] Maritime Institute of Fax: 813-247-4425 MM&P Maritime Technology & Graduate Virgin Islands Port Portland Advancement, Training, Studies (MITAGS) Authority Pilots Nick Sorber Education & Safety Program Glen Paine John Amaro Regional Representative Patrick McCullough Executive Director President 2225 N. Lombard St. - No. 206 Administrator [email protected] 6877 Upper Wintberg Portland, OR 97217 Eric Friend St. Thomas, VI 00802 Phone: 503-369-6947 Glen Paine Director 340-998-2260 [email protected] Executive Director [email protected] [email protected] San Juan, Puerto Rico Student Services: 206-739-0720 Virginia Pilot Association Eduardo Iglesias MM&P Health & Benefit, Vacation, Pension, East Coast Campus J. William Cofer Regional Representative President 1055 Kennedy Ave. Ste 914 JEC and IRA 692 Maritime Blvd. 3329 Shore Dr. San Juan, PR 00920 Patrick McCullough Linthicum Heights, MD 21090-1952 Main Phone: 410-859-5700 Virginia Beach, VA 23451 Phone: 787-664-3052 Administrator Toll Free: 1-866-656-5568 Phone: 757-496-0995 Fax: 787-723-4494 700 Maritime Blvd., Suite A Admissions: [email protected] Hours: Monday-Friday Linthicum Heights, MD 21090-1996 Western Great Lakes Web: www.mitags.org 9:00AM – 1:30PM ET Phone: 1-877-667-5522 Pilots Association [email protected] or 410-850-8500 BWI Airport Shuttle Jon Olney Seattle Fax: 410-850-8655 President [email protected] (avail. 24 hours a day): 6559 S M221, P.O. Box 365 Timothy Saffle 1-866-900-3517 Ext. 0 Brimley, MI 49715 VP-Pacific Maritime Region West Coast Campus Phone: 715-392-5204 Former Atlantic & Gulf Fax: 715-392-1666 Dan Twohig Region Health, Pension 1729 Alaskan Way, S. [email protected] Representative and Education, Safety Seattle, WA 98134-1146 Pacific Maritime Region & Training Funds Main: 206-239-9965 15208 52nd Ave., South, Ste 100 Toll-Free: 1-888-893-7829 Seattle, WA 98188 MM&P Plan Office Admissions: [email protected] Phone: 425-775-1403 700 Maritime Blvd., Suite A Web: www.mitags.org Fax: 425-775-1418 Linthicum Heights, MD 21090-1996 [email protected] Phone: 410-850-8500 [email protected] Fax: 410-850-8655 Toll-Free: 1-877-667-5522

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Harry C. Avera, 84, Dec. 29, 2019. A Ernest L. Dudley, 80, Dec. 9, 2019. A resident of Baltimore, Md., resident of Jacksonville, Fla., he worked as and a pensioner since 1998, he worked for My Cleaning Service. chief engineer for Moran Towing as a member He is survived by his wife Virginia and his children Deanna and of the MM&P Atlantic & Gulf Membership Ernest Dudley Jr. Group. He enjoyed fishing, car racing, and he loved the outdoors. He is survived by his wife Don Michael Filoni, 73, Dec. 1, 2019. A resident of Welaka, Fla., Carolyn and son Clinton. and a pensioner since 2011, he last sailed for Waterman Steamship Company aboard the SS Major Stephen W. Pless. He served in Bruce H. Bartlett, 95, Feb. 6. A resident of Port Ludlow, Wash., the US Air Force during the Vietnam War. He was a member and a pensioner since 1994, he last sailed for Sealand Services of American Legion Post #45 and in his spare time he enjoyed aboard the Sealand Anchorage. He served in the Pacific and Atlantic working on his sailboat and his 1968 Ford truck. He is survived during World War II. He was an avid skier and tennis player. He by his wife Cheryl Ann, daughter Latishia “Tish,” sister Lizabeth, crossed the Pacific to Japan with his wife in their 40-foot sailboat. grandchildren Alexis and Garrett, great-granddaughter Shelby, step- Survivors include his wife of 49 years, Ingeborg, daughter Cheryl, children Samantha, Robert and Donald, four step-grandchildren, son Robert, and four grandchildren. and his cousin Ed. He also leaves his devoted orange and white bob-tailed cat, “Master Gunnery Sergeant Scooter T. Jones.” Daniel N. Cartmill, 72, Dec. 16, 2019. A resident of Eliot, Maine, and a pensioner since 1998, he last sailed for NPR Inc. aboard the David N. Hutchinson, 72, Dec. 2, 2019. SS Mayaguez. He served with distinction as an MM&P Boston A resident of East Derry, N.H., and a Port Representative. He enjoyed spending time with his family and pensioner since 2013, he last sailed for traveling. He is survived by his wife Kathleen, sons Adam and Kyle, Maersk Lines Limited aboard the Sealand and five grandchildren. Eagle. An army veteran, he spent 25 years at sea and lived a life of adventure, building a family home in Maine and supporting his James V. Cochran Jr., 72, Dec. 30, 2019. wife’s baton twirling team. He was known as the man who could A resident of Gibsonton, Fla., and a fix anything and was often asked to do so. He is remembered for pensioner since 2019, he was a member of “loving his family above all else and gave them his best gift, the the MM&P Atlantic & Gulf Membership gift of his time. He woke each day with a ‘just peachy’ outlook, Group. He is survived by his wife of 46 whatever the task at hand.” He was a formidable opponent in trivia years, Jeanette, stepdaughter Patricia games because of his encyclopedic knowledge. He is survived by his Worden and many grandchildren and wife Gina; brothers Norman, Martin and Scott and their spouses; great-grandchildren. sons David Jr., Jeremy and their spouses; daughter Dawn Marie and her partner Gerard; stepdaughters Lori and Lisa and their Jay Dady, April 8. Former president and spouses; eleven grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. secretary-treasurer of ILA Local 333, his maritime industry career spanned 52 years, Joseph C. Jones, 75, Nov. 18, 2019. A resident of Glenwood, including three decades in union politics. Md., he worked for Reinauer Transportation, and was a member of A union man through and through, he was the MM&P Atlantic Maritime Group. well-respected by the brotherhood, knew almost everyone in the Local by their first name and had a knack for negotiations. He is survived by his wife Jesse Martinez, 83, Dec. 14, 2019. A Doris, sons John and Jay Jr., daughter April, 12 grandchildren and resident of Rosharon, Texas and a pensioner many family members in the maritime industry who proudly share since 1988, he last sailed for Lykes Brothers the Dady name. Steamship aboard the SS Charlotte Lykes. A navy veteran, he built every home that he lived in and was known for his unwavering James Lewis Davis, 84, Dec. 24, 2019. A resident of Kelseyville, love for Jesus Christ, his generous personality, strong opinions, and Calif., and a pensioner since 1998, he last sailed for Sealand his everlasting love for his wife and family. He is survived by his sons Services as master of the Sealand Patriot. Jesse, Martin and John and their spouses, and six grandchildren.

24 The Master, Mate & Pilot - April | May | June 2020 Roger P. Minville, 88, Jan. 29. A resident of Montmagny, Québec, Canada, and a pensioner since 1985, he last sailed for Amoco Transport Company aboard the SS Amoco Delaware.

Richard A. Olsen, 89, April 20. A resident of Denville, N.J., and a proud member and Crossing the Bar official of ILA Local 333, he worked as a tugboat captain before retiring in 1993. Sunset and evening star, He served as quartermaster aboard the USS Bearss, a Fletcher-class destroyer, during the And one clear call for me! Korean conflict. He was a devoted family man who was actively involved in his community as a member of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, the Sons of Norway at Nor-Bu And may there be no moaning of the bar, Lodge, and the VFW in Danville. He is remembered as a “one- When I put out to sea, of-a-kind man, husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother and friend.” Survivors include his son James, a member of the Atlantic Maritime Group and an MM&P convention delegate, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, his son Douglas, and their spouses; son-in-law Walter Uhlig, Too full for sound and foam, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, sister-in-law Evelyn, many nieces, nephews, extended family and friends. When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Charles R. Redding, 86, Dec. 15, 2019. A resident of Tampa, Fla., and a pensioner since 1998, he was a member of the MM&P Twilight and evening bell, Atlantic & Gulf Membership Group. An air force veteran, he is remembered as a dedicated family man and a “kind, loving soul And after that the dark! who was always more concerned for the well-being of others ahead of himself.” He was dedicated to feeding and helping the homeless And may there be no sadness of farewell, along Hillsborough River. He is survived by his wife Nellie, daughter Myra, son Charles Jr., five grandchildren, eight great- When I embark; grandchildren, his sister Jettie Lea Lowery, his niece and nephew, two great-nephews and a great-niece. For tho’ from out our bourne Time and Place

Joseph D. Smith III, 76, Nov. 19, 2019. A resident of Long The flood may bear me far, Beach, Calif., and a pensioner since 1999, he last sailed for Sealand I hope to see my pilot face to face Services aboard the Sealand Explorer. When I have crossed the bar.

James Lee Yarbrough, 90, Dec. 28, 2019. A resident of La — Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) Grange, Ga., and a pensioner since 1986, he last sailed for Lykes Brothers Steamship Company as master of the MV Lyra. He served in the U.S. Army. Survivors include his companion for the past six years Helen Cash, brothers John and William and their spouses, nieces and nephews Keith, Mark, John Jr., Mary Lynn, William Jr. and Dana.

www.bridgedeck.org - The Master, Mate & Pilot 25 Honor Roll of PCF Contributors MM&P salutes the union members, pensioners and employees who are making our voice heard in Washington, D.C.

James F. Hill* Peter J. Parise III Bruce M. Badger P Candyce Hoffman C. James Patti Albert Mike Balister In Memory of Captain Charles R. Jenkins Georg E. Pedersen* P Andrew Banks & Creston Clarke Jenkins In Memory of Bill Lancaster & Steve Stably Evan B. Barbis Michael J. Holliday Jonathon S. Pratt Edward S. Batcho Jr. P Larry D. Aasheim Jeremy R. Hope D. Scott Putty P Robert C. Beauregard Shannon C. Adamson David H. Hudson P In Memory of Captain Robert Strobel Derek J. Bender P Murray G. Alstott* P Jeff H. Idema P Lloyd S. Rath P Theodore E. Bernhard Gerald William Anderson* Eduardo E. Iglesias Michael A. Rausa Geoffrey Bird P P Thomas E. Bell* In Memory of Captain Charles Malue Bruno Ravalico Sandor Z. Biro In Memory of Captain Charles Malue Christian Johnsen In Memory of Paul Hanley, Doug Nagele & John H. Bloomingdale David L. Bennett Donald F. Josberger Roy Geiser James K. Boak IV P Robert Brian Burke Christopher G. Kavanagh* John P. Rawley David Boatner P Ernest J. Caponegro John Kelly* P Michael Riordan* William H. Boyce James A. Carbone P John H. Kerwin P Howard M. Roberts Jeffrey C. Bridges P In Memory of Captains Christopher E. Kluck David M. Romano Michael A. Buckley P CJ Meerman & William Hurley Henry C. Knox-Dick P Paul D. Rooney Neil J. Caldwell Kenneth J. Carlson Jr. George W. Koch Jr. P Coleman D. Rosenberg Todd J. Campbell P Hao C. Cheong Jonathan F. Komlosy* Sean A. Sabeh Robert J. Carter Hao Hong Cheong P Michael S. Kozlowski Donald R. Sacca Konstantinos Catrakis P Randi Ciszewski Richard W. Larocque* P Timothy C. Saffle* Bent L. Christiansen P P Paul Costabile P Ryan W. Leo George W. Schaberg Ejnar G. Christiansen P Kevin G. Coulombe* P Joshua D. Leonardi Paul T. Schulman James L. Clements In Honor of Captain Ed Barr, SS Santa Adela Klaus D. Luhta Rafik A. Shahbin Dean R. Colver P P Scot A. Couturier Richard A. Madden Steven P. Shils* Mark A. Cooper P Thomas B. Crawford Joan Malue* P Nick Sorber Nicole J. Cornali George M. Darley In Memory of Captain Charles Malue Jennifer L. Stair Brett T. Cowan In Memory of Charlie Darley Donald J. Marcus* Carl W. Stein Vincent J. Cox P Robert Darley P In Memory of Captain Charles Malue Leonard Arthur Stenback* David W. Crawford In Memory of Charlie Darley Brett J. Marquis Thomas E. Stone Che N. Cuellar P Morgan H. Densley Robert G. Mattsen Tore Stromme Andrew Cullen P Stephen H. Doherty Richard W. May P Conor J. Sullivan Joseph J. Davis In Memory of Jamie Ela and Eric Nordberg In Memory of Captain Tim Brown William B. Sullivan Thomas A. Delamater P Nancy A. Donnelly P Eugene W. Mayer Jr. P Gabriel A. Terrasa Sean M. Doran In Memory of Georgia O’Neill Patrick McCullough In Memory of Captain Frank Reyes Dale S. Dubrin P Eric A. Dunn Paul F. McQuarrie P Joe Mark Tuck John T. Duff P J. Lars Turner Marwan A. Elsamny Andrew J. Merrill* In Memory of Captain Charles Malue Daniel C. Twohig John W. Farmer III* P Matthew F. Merrill Dorothy Dunn P Mitka A. Von Reis Crooks William H. Fisher* Steven M. Miceli In Memory of Darrell Dunn Steven E. Werse P Alan D. Fosmo C. Michael Murray Ruth England P William J. Westrem* Mark C. Foxvog P In Memory of Captain Charles Malue In Memory of Robert England West S. Wilson In Memory of Elmer “Chip” Eberman & Chuck Emery Glen E. Engstrand Chris Glenn Woodward* William W. Fransen* P Douglas J. Nagy* Malvina A. Ewers P George N. Zeluff Jr.* P Kenneth N. Gaito Douglas A. Nemeth In Memory of Franklin Ewers Naldo R. Garcia Edward B. Newman* Keith W. Finnerty Bradley D. Goodwin Michael L. Nickel P Jay W B Frank P Edward Gras P In Memory of Augusta Nickel James E. Franklin P Gregory P. Gretz* Paul H. Nielsen P In Memory of Captains Jon F. Harrison P John J. O’Boyle Ken Fisher & William Hurley Samuel W. Hartshorn Jr. P Joseph O. O’Connor* P Jeffrey D. Adamson P Jan M. Fraser P Harold J. Held Michael B. O’Toole Douglas B. Adriance Mark S. Garcia In Memory of Captain Robert Strobel Glen M. Paine Marston W. Albert Nicholas K. Gasper Christopher S. Hendrickson William L. Palmer* Walter K. Allison P Nicole Geideman * These active and retired members have contributed $1,000 or more. P These pensioners or survivors are singled out for special mention. 26 The Master, Mate & Pilot - April | May | June 2020 Matthew M. Gerfin Jaime Morlett Cassandra A. Clark Patrick N. Glenn Brian A. Mossman Dale Clark William D. Good Jr. P Darrin N. Muenzberg Stephen J. Clearwater In Memory of William Good, Sr. William W. Murphy Timothy D. Clearwater P Gerald M. Gordon Lawrence J Neubert P In Memory of Captain Barry Costanzi P John A. Gorman Nicholas J. Nowaski Richard A. Abrams P Paul E. Coan Kyle P. Grant P Anthony Colla P Gregory S. Oelkers Scott F. Abrams Peter S. Grate P Robin A. Colonas James P. Olander P Christopher J. Aiello Edward W. Green P Kalamaku C. Akiona Russell C. Cooper James E. O’Loughlin P Robert Groh P Owen B. Albert Gary J. Cordes P Shawn D. Ouellette Mike F. Gruninger Frederick W. Allen P Thomas J. Cortese Robert R. Owen P Jorge Gutman John Allen P Michael F. Cotting P Steven A. Palmer P Daniel S. Hall Andrew J. Altum David E. Cox P Samuel F. Halley Antonios Papazis Salvador E. Alvarado John C. Cronin Dianna L. Hand Michael G. Parenteau Jay M. Anderson John F. Cronin P Michael K. Hargrave P Michael Victor Parr Robert N. Anderson P Todd C. Crossman P Jacob B. Harlow Christopher N. Paul Noel E. Anthonysz Edward Crowe P John J. Healey Vasilios L. Pazarzis P Timothy M. Arey Jeremy D. Cunningham Charles E. Hendricks Paula C. Phillips Keith Austin Omar X. D’Abreu Raymond Hennessey Norman A. Piianaia P Dennis S. Badaczewski II Wilbur J. Dahn P Patrick J. Hennessy Bradley P. Plowman Thomas A. Bagan Robert A. Dalziel Michael C. Herig Stephen F. Procida P Christopher D. Baker Gregory V. Danaher P P Andrew W. Hetz Ronald M. Radicali Matthew P. Bakis Leopold A. Dawson Tylar D. Hochstetler Benjamin J. Day Frank E. Reed Jr. Kenneth S. Barron Richard G. Hoey Charles K. Barthrop P Nicholas S. Deisher David Roach Ezra L. Hunter Steve J. Batchelor Jr. P Stephen A. Dejong Javier A. Rodriguez Keith Hunter P Olgierd C. Becker Marguerite Delambily P Lisa Rosenthal William H. Imken P John E. Belcourt In Memory of Robert Delambily P P Edward B. Royles P John P. Jablonski Anthony J. Belmonte P Joseph F. Delehant In Memory of Captain Joseph Jablonski Kenneth T. Ryan Jeffrey L. Bentley Freedom K. Dennis Thomas P. Jacobsen P Thomas M. Ryan Brian M. Bermudez Jeremey A. Depaolo Christopher R. Kalinowski Philip F. Same Brian E. Bernard Edward J. Deslauriers P Timothy R. Kalke James J. Sanders Christian A. Bethlen Ross Diaz Bronson N. Kau Michael A. Santini Ellis Blacksmith Scott J. Dickinson Kevin J. Kavanagh In Gratitude to Steve Werse Jennifer M. Bono Timothy J. Dickson Clyde W. Kernohan Jr. P for His Service to Our Union Charles E. Booher P Bernard J. Diggins P Brian J. Kiesel Robert H. Schilling P Anthony G. Boudouin Lyle G. Donovan P P Robert T. Kimball Mitchell Schoonejans Bryan T. Boyle Jerome J. Dorman P P P Richard J. Klein Travis A. Shirley Frank W. Branlund Geoffrey Dunlop Robert E. Klemm P P Jason K. Edwards Robert H. Sienel Allan R. Breese Brian M. Koppel James P. Brennan P Travis J. Edwards William R. Slaughter P Damian Krowicki Anders K. Brinch David K. Engen P Gerald V. Smeenk P Michael L. La Maina Michael S. Brown P Marc D. Ennis Brendan Sean Smith William Charles Laprade Wardell E. Brown P Eric L. Eschen P Joseph S. Smith Roger M. Lash Melanie J. Brunmeier William J. Esselstrom P Roch E. Lavault P Robert R. Spencer Douglas K. Buchanan Skip A. Evans P Samuel P. Lesko P George J. Stauter Jonathan D. Buffington Stanley J. Fabas P Ian S. Lim Einar W. Strom Bert D. Burris David T. Fadoul Lawrence T. Lyons P David A. Sulin P Nathan T. Caballero Leo Perry Falasco George E. Mara Stacey W. Sullivan Charles H. Cahill Ian J. Falkenberg Donald U. Marshall Jr. P Brandon M. Teal Gregory S. Callery Shawn L. 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