President Mack called our meeting to order exactly when he did. Then the pledge.
After Allision Beers delivered rousing words of gratitude regarding Theodore Roosevelt, incontrovertibly the United States' best president. (Get outta here with your Kennedys and your Washingtons. T.R. had his own teeth and a pretty sweet navy. Go Rough Riders). At President Roosevelt's urging, Congress created the National Forest Service in 1905, which also led to the preservation of nearly 200 million acres of national parks.
During our official club annual meeting, we elected three new directors to our club board. Max Anderson, Jen Casey, and Nick Beadleston will begin their two-year term this coming summer. We also formally elected Marlene Bevan to succeed Mark Eckhoff as club president. Then, just for fun, we elected 16 other future presidents so we have our bases covered through 2038.
Ken Weaver introduced our fellow club member and speaker for the afternoon Rear Admiral Jerry Achenbach. Jerry served with distinction in both the Merchant Marines and the Coast Guard. He then went on to receive his Doctorate in Education from Texas Tech and an MBA from the University of Alaska. He has spent the last decade serving as Superintendent of the Northwest Michigan College's Great Lakes Maritime Academy.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the GLMA, Jerry shared information from the proud history of the organization. He chronicled the visionary efforts of the academy's founders and early supporters like Les Biederman and Captain Mike Hemmick, as well as other NMC leaders. He also enumerated the efforts to secure the unique institution's inaugural watercraft, and other major milestones in GLMA's record. Jerry also described what the life of an average cadet looks like, and reiterated how critical scholarships are to their continued work.
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Jerry's full talk can be found
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Mariners Memorial service goes virtual
TRAVERSE CITY — The community is invited to view the virtual 45th annual Mariners Memorial Service at noon Tuesday, November 10 via a Zoom webinar from the courtyard of NMC's Great Lakes campus. The public can access the event at the following Zoom address: nmc.zoom.us/j/94889366773
The memorial service is held to remember and honor mariners who have perished on the Great Lakes and oceans and is sponsored by the Student Propeller Club, Port 150, of the Great Lakes Maritime Academy.
About GLMA and NMC: NMC is the only community college in the nation to grant a bachelor's degree, in either maritime deck, maritime engineering or maritime power systems, to its Great Lakes Maritime Academy cadets. Celebrating 50 years of maritime education in 2019-2020, GLMA was commended by U.S. Maritime Administrator Rear Adm. Mark Buzby (USN, ret) as a "pillar of maritime education and training in the Great Lakes region, this great nation, and the entire world."