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(2014- WE DID IT!)
$39,373 (so far)
(With appreciation and thanks to ALL! Thank you, John Brennan, for initiating our final phase.)
$39,373 (so far)
(With appreciation and thanks to ALL! Thank you, John Brennan, for initiating our final phase.)
John Brennan has issued a challenge to the class of 64. He will match any funds contributed by his classmates up to $5,000 between Oct.1, 2014 and the reunion weekend. The total Endowment Fund at the start of the challenge was $14,210. This would help to meet our goal of $25,000 by the reunion date. So c'mon, guys, cough up! |
As you know from previous e-mails, plans are well underway for us to have a great 50th reunion coinciding with the College's 2014 Homecoming.
As an independent, but parallel effort, we are organizing an endeavor to establish a lasting legacy to the Class of 1964, the Class of 1964 Cruise Scholarship Endowment Fund. |
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Summer Sea Term Costs
Summer Sea Terms are a significant financial burden on cadets and their families. The 2014 Sea Term costs are as follows. 2014 Sea Term costs (including tuition and room & board)
Alumni provides financial support to many young men and women to get the full experience of being a Maritime College graduate.
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All photos courtesy of the Stephen B. Luce Library
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Some ads from Yesteryear
Did You Know This?
"Thought you may be interested unless you were already aware of the refugee flight. The newspaper article was in the Albany Times Union by the former mayor of Oswego. Nice to know about the past accomplishments of our training ship. Tom Donohue" Dear Editors: In the 6/26/14 edition of the Times Union, Mr John T Sullivan Jr provided a very interesting article about the flight in 1944 of almost one thousand refugees, mostly Jewish, from war-torn Europe to Oswego, NY. They were housed at a refugee camp at Fort Ontario on the shores of Lake Ontario. Several years ago, I toured the museum while visiting my son who was then a student at SUNY Oswego. Not only was the camp and its history a surprise but the fact that I was forever linked to these refugees was even more surprising. The ship they boarded in Italy for the risky transit through the Mediterranean, avoiding Nazi aircraft and U-boats at a time shortly after the Normandy invasion, was the USS Henry Gibbins, an Army troop transport. It is the same ship that was provided to the SUNY Maritime College in December 1959 and became the home for the cadets from August 1960 until August 1963. She was also the training ship (T/S Empire State IV) for the summer training cruises until 1973. She was scrapped in 1983 but will long be remembered by those who were rescued by her and those of us who sailed aboard her. |