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50 MN January 2011

First Woman Superintendent of

Military Academy

The first woman superintendent of a military service academy will be at the helm of the U.S. Coast Guard

Academy when classes convene next summer. The commandant of the

Coast Guard, Adm. Bob Papp, has selected Rear Adm. Sandra L. Stosz,

Coast Guard director of reserve and leadership, for the superintendent position.

HB Rentals Promotes Chilton

Onsite accommodation specialist,

HB Rentals, a Superior Energy

Services company, has opened a sec- ond district office in Pennsylvania and named Brian Chilton Regional

Operations Manager for the

Northeast U.S. The new

Pennsylvania office located in Mill

Hall will coordinate with the compa- ny’s existing district office in

Canonsburg, Pa., to provide equip- ment and services for the growing demand in the Marcellus shale play and the surrounding region. Chilton joined HB Rentals in 2006, and this move marks his third promotion since joining the company.

Capt. Score Takes Command of

NOAA’s Atlantic Fleet

NOAA Capt. David A. Score assumed command of the agency’s

Marine Operations Center-Atlantic in Norfolk, Va., which manages the day-to-day operations of the nine research and survey ships in NOAA’s

Atlantic fleet. Capt. Score served most recently as commanding officer of NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter, which conducted key research mis- sions during the BP Deepwater

Horizon oil spill response.

Green Joins Maritime Museum

Joe Green of Portland, Ore. has joined the Chesapeake Bay Maritime

Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels,

Md. as a shipwright apprentice.

Green will primarily work on the restoration of the Museum’s bugeye, the Edna E. Lockwood.

Hagan Tech Dev. & Support

Manager for Elcometer

Elcometer, Inc. announced that

Lynn Hagan has joined the company as Technical Development & Support

Manager for the U.S. and Canada.

Prior to joining Elcometer, Inc.,

Hagan consulted on a number of gov- ernment and industry initiatives.

Most notably, she was the Technical

Program Manager and Solution

Architect for the U.S. Navy’s paper- less QA initiative.

Great Lakes Towing Company

Leadership Changes

Joseph Starck Jr. will take over as

President of Great Lakes Towing

Company. Starck joined the towing company in 1991 and was most recently its Vice President –

Engineering. Since April 2009, he has also been President of the compa- ny’s shipyard division, which operates under the name Great Lakes

Shipyard. George Sogor was named

Executive Vice President & Chief

Financial Officer. Sogor has been with the Great Lakes Towing

Company for nearly 25 years, most recently serving as Senior Vice

President – Finance and

Administration. Ronald Rasmus, who has been President of The Great

Lakes Towing Company since 1983, will move to the position of

Chairman.

Scholarships for USMMA Cadets

Crowley continued to reward exem- plary students at maritime schools around the country by presenting

Thomas B. Crowley Sr. Memorial

Scholarships to four deserving mid- shipmen from the United States

Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) at the Containerization and Intermodal Institute's Connie

Awards dinner in early December in

Newark, N.J. The USMMA cadets

Christina Becker, David Irish, Lesley

Walz and Gregory Otto were recog- nized with Crowley scholarships for their strong academic records, leader- ship capacity and financial need.

Sarah Cross, Crowley's marine recruiter, presented the scholarships at the yearly dinner attended by hun- dreds of maritime and transportation professionals.

Stosz

Chilton

Green

Hagan

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Crowley Scholarships for USMMA Cadets