News From Fort Schuyler

April 3, 1998 - Volume 2, No. 16

NO RESERVATIONS ABOUT THIS ONE - A reminder that there will be an informal meeting of alumni who work or live in (or close to ?) Manhattan on Thursday, April 16 at Jeremy's Ale House, 254 Front Street (212) 964-3537. Come at 6:00 P.M. - no reservations necessary- just show up ! For more detailed information call the Alumni Association at (718) 834 - 4530.

WELCOME ABOARD FROM AFAR - CARL W. FISHER, Class of 1965, has recently been hired by the college as Admissions Recruiter for the Mid-Atlantic Region, especially Virginia and Maryland, now that their residents qualify for in-state tuition rates at the Maritime College. Carl recently retired from NOAA, where he spent over 30 years as an officer. An active alumnus, he recently served 2 years as president of the Hampton Roads Chapter of the Alumni Association and has frequently served as a volunteer recruiter for the college. In an e-mail note earlier this week, Carl wrote that he is also "... volunteering part-time to help clean up the Elizabeth River here in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area. No pay, but the rewards are most worthwhile." If you want to get in touch with Carl about a hot potential recruit (or about that cleanup project, I suppose) you can contact him at: cwfisher@erols.com.

TEEMING STREETS REVISITED - One response to earlier notes on streets with multiple Fort Schuyler graduates was this heartbreaker from, "JB", another Florida resident: "My street has 2 KP grads on it. I'm moving out."

BEHIND PULLING AHEAD IN THOSE RACES - Another perspective on the lifeboat races

mentioned by BOB CARTY is provided by BILL McMULLEN, Class of 1964. "I recall that I was a Hospital Corpsman for two years...and in the morning before the team practiced, we would help bind their hands and put some "toughening" stuff on them before they went out - about 0530 or at dawn. Then when they came back, we would clean out the blisters and bandage their hands. I guess the message is that the lifeboat team probably put more into their effort than most people realize.

Beating the Danish Navy was an event. On the Cruise there was no chance to practice and the team pulled the race virtually without practice. I think we were as surprised as the Danes." BTW, Bill probably still gets to see his share of lifeboat races in his role as Superintendent of the Texas Maritime Academy in Galveston.

PAST BOATS AND FUTURE BOATS - An additional response to BOB CARTY's memories of lifeboat races and TIM PETER's "Crew Team News" came from AUSTIN DOOLEY, Class of 1968, who writes that: "While never a member of the rowing team, I can remember as a cadet that the whole school took real pride in its accomplishments as described by Bob Carty." Austin goes on the say that "...while the college funds some of the shells - over the years so has the Alumni. I am a member of the Joint Fund Committee that manages the funds raised by the Admiral's Ball and Alumni Annual Fund effort. I can say that because of the generous contributions from Alumni we were able in the past to provide joint alumni and foundation contributions for both the repair and upkeep of the monomoys and for shell repair and replacement. Alumni contributions make it possible for all of us to keep those memories like BOB's alive, and what is equally important, for today's cadet to build memories for the future."

APRIL 29th AWARDS NIGHT HEADS UP - The venue: NY Athletic Club. The occasion: Alumni honoring their own. The honorees: DONALD P. BRENNAN 1961 (Distinguished Alumnus of the Year); and RICHARD R. NEMETH 1956, WALTER J. BURKE 1981, CHARLES H. ELLWANGER 1955 (Outstanding Recognition Awards.)