News From Fort Schuyler
October 4, 2002 - Volume 6, No. 29
KEEPING PACE - The Graduate School of International Transportation
Management, although based at Fort Schuyler, has always held the bulk of its
class sessions at Manhattan venues in order to be convenient to its
students, many of whom work in lower Manhattan. In recent years, students
and faculty alike, had to put up with poor conditions at the downtown New
York State Office building. From now on, however, graduate classes will meet
in classrooms at the Manhattan campus of Pace University, located across
from City Hall near Park Row. According to information from the Graduate
Department: "This facility is a major improvement over our previous space
with better access to public transportation from Brooklyn, Staten Island,
and New Jersey as well as a vibrant campus community that we are happy to be
part of." You can get to the Graduate School by going to:
http://www.sunymaritime.edu
PILOTING CLASS - "Your news about the cadets receiving scholarship
assistance from the Everglades Pilots Association," writes ROLAND PARENT,
Class of 1968, "prompts me to provide a little additional news about pilots
and Port Everglades."
"I was a Port Everglades pilot for 25 years, and just retired last year.
In addition to me, there are two other classmates from the Class of 1968 who
are Port Everglades pilots, BRIAN HANLEY and NED CRAY. In addition, also
from the Class of 1968, there are five Maryland State pilots, namely: DICK
MORRISON, DUKE ADAMS, MIKE AXELSSON, HOWARD MERKEL, and FRED GUENTHNER.
Another classmate, DAVE LEECH, is a pilot in Miami, FL. That makes a total
of nine state pilots from our class of 60 deck cadets. I don't know of any
other class from Fort Schuyler (or any other maritime school for that
matter) that has 15% of its graduates going into the piloting profession. I
think we have the record. If there are any other classes that top us, I
would like to know. [There are also four other Fort Schuyler graduates from
other classes who are pilots in Port Everglades.]
FAMILIAR NAME - According to SUNY News from the SUNY HQ in Albany, the first
president of the newly established Neil D. Levin Graduate Institute of
International Relations & Commerce is VADM JOHN W. CRAINE, Jr., who just
completed his stint as Interim President at Fort Schuyler. For the time
being, the Institute will be located in midtown Manhattan. For complete
details go to: http://www.suny.edu and click on 'Neil D. Levin Graduate
Institute.'
COLOR ME BLUE - Responding to the item about the new look of the Training
Ship, ERHARD KOEHLER, Class of 1987, writes (in blue ink no less) that "TSES
VI is not, by the way, Holland America Blue. That shade is an Ameron
product. TSES has International applied, so the shade and name are slightly
different." Erhard should know, since he is the Schoolship Program Manager
at MARAD. He also notes that his "...files do not go so far as to record
liveries. MARAD has never really appeared to be interested, as the
academies have always been required to keep the ship painted above the
waterline, hence we haven't cared too much what color was used. Of late we'
ve done some special case freeboard coatings jobs, but that's the exception
rather than the rule."
Your NFFS editor went to Fort Schuyler this week to look at the TSES
paint job for himself, digital camera in hand. It was about 1500 on a
bright, cloudless afternoon. This meant that the sun was behind the ship, so
from shore side the hull looks black from a distance. [CRAIG T. OLSEN, Class
of 1982, visiting campus for his 20th Reunion, saw it as black, too.] Only
by walking on the pier alongside the ship did it become apparent that the
hull was a dark blue. Best time to take photos would be early in the day or
on a cloudy day.
DESTROYING A STEREOTYPE - The latest book by Maritime College Humanities
Department professor, JULIE WOSK, is 'Women and the Machine: Representations
From the Spinning Wheel to the Mechanical Age.' According to a review in
Publishers Weekly magazine, Wosk deconstructs "the image of the flustered
woman unable to change a tire or recognize a Phillips screwdriver [which] is
so common it's practically archetypal - but then so is her counterpart,
Rosie the Riveter." More about Julie's book, which was published by Johns
Hopkins University Press, can be found at http://www.womenandthemachine.com
[Ed. This is the perfect book for a spouse, either gender.]
DON'T TELL ANYONE, BUT - Long-time Luce Library stalwart, FIL MAGAVERO, will
be celebrating her 80th birthday in a few weeks. Fil, who originally came to
the library as a catalog librarian in March, 1949, retired in 1995 as the
Head of the Readers Services Department. Since then she has continued to
provide one day a week of professional expertise, on a volunteer basis, as
the Government Documents Librarian, year around. That makes 53 years of
uninterrupted service to the Maritime College - so far. Congratulations to
a crackerjack librarian, who also happens to also be one of New York's
biggest (and most knowledgeable) Yankee fans !
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