Seapower - September 2007

AMY L. WITTMAN

Outgoing Seapower Editor in Chief Richard C. Barnard accepts a gift from Michael Ford, executive director of the U.S. Naval Sea Cadets, during a retirement luncheon in July.

BILL WESENBERG

Navy League National Director Emeritus Harold W. Learson presents the Navy League’s Adm. James L. Holloway Jr. Award to NROTC Midshipman Matthew D. Williams, a naval reactors engineering graduate of MIT, during a ceremony in Boston.

all the features of the print edition, the digital edition will allow readers to receive and read each issue of Seapower on their computers.

During a Navy League retirement ceremony, National President John A. Panneton, publisher of Seapower, saluted Barnard for the great strides the magazine made during his tenure.

“He has brought the magazine into the 21st century with class and respect,” Panneton said, noting that Barnard’s editorial contributions “speak for the things we talk about and believe in at the Navy League.”

Amy L. Wittman took the helm as editor in chief in mid-July. She previously was deputy managing editor of Defense News.

MIT Grad Earns
NROTC Award

Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) Midshipman Matthew D. Williams was presented with the Navy League’s Adm. James L. Holloway Jr. Award during a commissioning ceremony for Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) NROTC officers in Boston.

Navy League National Director Emeritus Harold W. Learson, a past-national vice president, presented the award, which recog-

nizes a graduating midshipman judged by the Navy to be the most outstanding in the nation. The award includes a certificate and an engraved watch. The ceremony was held alongside the museum ship USS Constitution.

Newly designated Ensign Williams, from Battle Creek, Mich., has been assigned to the Naval Reactors Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He was a naval reactors engineering student at MIT.

Tampa Council
Salutes Service
Academy Appointees

Seventeen sea service academy and service program appointees were honored at the Tampa, Fla., Council’s recent Sea Service Academy Appointees Recognition Dinner. The council hosts the dinner annually to congratulate the students for their achievements and bid them good luck in the future, according to Council President Mike Patrick.

Naval academy appointees honored at the dinner were: Jennifer Snyder, Nicholas Driscoll, Robert Vann (a second-generation academy midshipman), Clint Nies, Adam Waymouth, Margaret Gates-George, Thomas Deter and Francisco Rivera.

Appointees to the Coast Guard Academy were James Vuckovic and Kyle Bertoluzzi.

Also honored were: Sean Patrick, a Merchant Marine Academy appointee; Naval Academy Preparatory School appointee Jared Lochmuller; and Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps appointees Evan Ryan, Gregory Evans, Benjamin Cruz, Joshua McColster and Jessica Connaster.

Master of ceremonies was Council Board Member Jim Aldrich, who led off the evening with the presentation of the colors by the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps’ Tampa Division. The event was held at the Hyatt Downtown in Tampa.

Guest speaker for the evening was Retired Rear Adm. LeRoy Collins Jr., U.S. Naval Academy Class of 1956, who was recently appointed executive director of the Florida State Department of Veterans Affairs.

Navy League Honors
Naval Academy Grads

Navy League National Director Jerome Rapkin presented a pair of awards sponsored by the Navy League to U.S. Naval Academy graduates during ceremonies at Alumni Hall in Annapolis.