Perhaps the best known immigration and quarantine station in North America is Ellis Island in New York Harbor, where fully two-thirds of immigrants passed through the famous "portal to America." By the late 19 th century, the Columbia River also ranked as a major American port of entry. As more and more cargo ships and immigrants arrived from overseas, residents and officials alike grew ever more concerned about an accidental import: disease.
Even the names of the virulent, life-threatening diseases bubonic plague, yellow fever, cholera, smallpox, and malaria were enough to panic
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residents of port cities the world over. But scientists and doctors were close to unraveling the mystery of how disease is spread. The results included a federal Quarantine Act that mandated actions to be taken against incoming ships and passengers that might carry quarantinable disease.
To commemorate two hundred years of the U.S. Public Health Service, we take a retrospective look at this little-known aspect of Astoria's history as a port of entry. A photo essay begins on page three .
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Immigrant passengers arrive in the Columbia River by ship, ca. 1900. Before landing, they were met by health officials who inspected and fumigated the ship and quarantined passengers carrying communicable diseases 1983.67 30
Guardians of Health on the Lower Columbia River
Jim McClaskey, Vice Pres.
Herbert N. Steinmeyer
My response to all this refitting was "Why are you doing this? If this boat was not what you wanted, why didn't you buy something else?" My friend began a long story of how he had spent most of a decade researching every cruising boat design available. He had interviewed hundreds of blue-water sailors to learn what works and what does not. Over the past three years, he visited almost every marina, shipyard and waterway in the Northwest to find out for himself what boat configuration has the greatest possibilities.
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From the Wheelhouse
June Spence
Mitch Boyce
Jack R. Dant in memoriam
A friend of mine recently bought a boat of excellent quality, superb through and through. The brightwork was very well maintained, and the rigging was in excellent shape. Virtually every aspect of his new boat was so exceptional that I was astonished to learn that he had decided to refit her. He'd gone so far as to hire a well-known marine architect to make major changes to her cabin, machinery and belowdecks. He is even exploring a change in rig He has purchased a new suite of "state-of-the-art" electronics.
Richard T. Carruthers *
Ted Zell
expansion plan. Like my friend's "perfect boat," our Museum is outstanding. It does what it does very well. But are we doing all that we are capable of? I believe that this question is of utmost importance for our future . It is the salient issue as our Board of Trustees guides this fine institution into the next millennium.
Afterguard
Chris Maletis
Ted Natt, Immediate Past Pres.
Ken M. Novack
Captain Rod Leland
What impressed him most during this study period was that no one makes the perfect boat. He then explained that the boat he bought was the finest he could find; it did, indeed, do all of the things he expected a good boat to do. But he also had a vision, a dream that he intended to make a reality, a greater good which he had an obligation to pursue. He looked me square in the eye and said, "Why be complacent? Sure, this boat enjoys an excellent reputation and does what it does very well. But does it do all that it can do? Does owning this vessel mean that its potential is frozen in time, and that all the other possibilities are not to be fulfilled?"
Jerry Ostermiller Executive Director
Walter Gadsby, Jr
Senator Mark Hatfield
* Trustee Emeritus
Ward V. Cook
Don Magnusen, Treasurer
Graham Barbey
Ted Bugas
W. Louis Larson, Secretary
Dr. James H. Gilbaugh , Jr.
Alan C. Goudy
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John McGowan *
Scott Palmquist
Don M Haskell
Sid Snyder
Ronald Collman
Joseph Tennant
Frank M . Warren
Samuel C. Wheeler
Peter Brix *
Chet Makinster
Larry Perkins
Charles Shea
Harold Wilde
J.W. 'Bud' Forrester, Jr. *
Eugene Lowe
Jerry L. Ostenniller, Executive Director
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Board of Trustees:
The Perfect Boat
Willis Van Dusen
Sharing my friend's story helps me to explain why our fine museum is also exploring a refit , in the form of a major
For these reasons, we are now focusing on master planning. The timing could not be better for this task, as we look forward to the tum of the century and reposition ourselves to prepare for the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. Certainly, there will be great challenges ahead as we work out our plans. We must not allow ambition to overwhelm our good sense, or endanger our excellent record of self-sufficiency. But, we have a grand opportunity to complete Rolf Klep's larger dreams left unfounded almost two decades ago. And what a great privilege it will be to take this fine ship and refine its design and rig so that its performance ensures a place in the record books of maritime history. Coming aboard?
Robley Mangold, President
Jon Englund
Cheri Folk
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The U.S. Public Health Service pur chased three acres at Knappton Cove the former site of one of Joseph Hume's salmon canneries for a quarantine hospital and disinfecting station. It was ready for its first ships in 1906, and added the retired US Navy gunboat Concord in 1914 to house passengers and crew until their ships were cleared for passage upriver.
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Civilian employees of the Marine Hospital Service
The routine of ship quarantine began with health inspections of all incoming vessels.
health problems aboard was dispatched to Knappton Cove, where crew and passen gers left the ship for 48 hours while it was fumigated, generally by burning pots of sulfur. Passengers stripped and showered while their baggage and clothing were deloused in large steam retorts. This routine persisted until about 1930, when new disinfectants allowed ships to be fumigated at anchor near Astoria.
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Along the lower Columbia River, increased public health measures included the development of a local "Ellis Island" where health inspection, ship fumigation, and quarantine were carried out for decades. In 1899, the Columbia River Quarantine Station was established at Knappton Cove, Washington. The location was well removed from Astoria, which, like any port, was especially vulner able to epidemics of disease spread from entering shipping.
enJoy a summer picnic at the quarantine station property, ca. 1903.
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The routine of ship quarantine began with health inspection of all incoming ships for disease vectors like rats, stagnant water (breeding mosquitoes), or lice on passengers. Stringent measures were taken so that disease did not come ashore. A ship with
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Any person showing signs of disease was kept in isolation at the quarantine station, or in the lazaretto (hospital building) after it was completed in 1912. Doctors
Captain W.W. Babbidge in his Marine Hospital Service Uniform. The decorative carved wood frame is orignal to the photo. The 1886 steamer Electric was chartered by the U.S. Quarantine Service to stop and board incoming ships for inspection.
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visited Knappton Cove regularly via steamer or launch from Astoria. Shipping and health officials considered the delay caused by these measures more than offset by the reduced threat to public health.
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epidemics for decades. And the quarantine work was essential. While bubonic plague may sound like a dread affliction from the Middle Ages, it was first recorded in this country in San Francisco in 1900. The threat was by no means a minor one.
Nonetheless, while thousands of European and Asian immigrants and ship crews came to the Pacific Northwest through Astoria, smallpox was the only one of the quarantinable diseases to surface here. The last ship-borne case arrived with returning American soldiers just after the Second World War.
Today, the remaining buildings at Knappton Cove are visible reminders of the quarantine story. In the 1950s, new owners
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On the Columbia, public-health work successfully protected the Northwest from
Eventually, the dreaded communicable diseases retreated in the face of medical advances. Better health measures like vaccinations and new disinfectants greatly reduced the threat of disease transmission. Also, immigration quotas and changing employment opportunities caused a considerable decline in immigration to the West Coast. By 1938, the Knappton quarantine station had been closed. However, the public health service office in Astoria remained open until 1952, and incoming ships still undergo a health inspection.
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Museum Recognized with National Award
As part of the U.S. Public Health Service's bicentennial commemorations, the Columbia River Maritime Museum recently received an award for its contributions to preserving the history of the service. This seal, which joins the fouled anchor of maritime life with the healing caduceus of Mercury, reveals the service's origins as a marine hospital fund providing relief for sick and disabled seamen.
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The maritime origins of the Public Health Service are well worth recalling. The next time you get a health message from the Surgeon General, remember that the mission of service to sick and disabled mariners that began in 1798 later assured public health and freedom from epidemic for all Northwestemers. Nineteenth- and twentieth century immigrants, arriving full of hope for a new life, and longtime residents alike benefited from the hard work that public health service officers performed on behalf of all Americans.
The family of Capt. W.W. Babbidge celebrates the launch of the new Quarantine Service steamer Electro.
For more information on the history of the Public Health Service, don't miss the book Plague and Politics: The Story of the United States Public Health Service ( Basic Books, 1989 ).
transformed the complex into a fishing camp. The site is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Nancy Bell Anderson, who grew up with wonderful memories of her family's thriving fishing camp there, has opened a heritage center featuring the history of the Lower Columbia Quarantine Station.
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Rob Rudd
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Note: CR MM's education programs are all grant-funded If you would like to he lp support one or more of our outreach efforts , please contact R ob Rudd at t he Museum, 325 2323 .
Nikki Bry an Patr ic ia Turner Custard
Chr is Bennett
El a ine Rusin o vi c h
The number one request teachers had was for materials, materials, and more materials to use in the classroom. To meet this need the Museum has developed a number of activity packets that prepare students for their Museum visit. Students plot latitude and longitude, learn nautical lingo, and discover what a day aboard a sailing ship was like in the 1800s. A series of Museum in a Trunk programs send hands-on materials such as fur trade or navigation items into the classroom. These traveling trunks have been used by schools in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Califor nia. Our most recent curriculum-based publication, The Journal of Samuel Mills, was launched in fall 1997 and is already in use in 307 schools throughout the Northwest.
Jim Nyb e rg
Russ Bean
Museums, by design, are repositories of resources and research that are educationally priceless. What more can museums do to help schools in this time of shrinking school budgets? How can we educate this generation about their maritime heritage? We asked teachers these questions in 1994, and the answers we received have charted the course for tremendous growth in the Education Department.
W Hampton S c udder
One of our latest outreach programs takes the Museum global via the World Wide Web. Designed and maintained by high school students, the Museum website (at www crmm. o r g ) provides an educa tional opportunity for its viewers and for the students producing the site. An Educator's Page takes actual lesson plans and resources on-line where teachers from all over the world can use them.
Museum Staff:
Jennifer Miller
From field trips to the Internet, the Education Department continues to grow and develop to meet the needs of the Museum and the educational community. As we embark on bold new ventures, we echo the motto of Disney character Buzz Lightyear: "To Infinity and Beyond!" e,S
Bonnie Ko zowski
Anne Witty
In 1997, the Museum rededicated itself as a center for lifelong learning . The Education Department responded by presenting a lunch hour maritime lecture series and the Survey of Columbia River History course We continue to explore the development of additional adult education programs through a partnership with Elderhostel and Chautauqua programs.
We also send ourselves out to the schools, in the form of a Museum Educator visiting the classroom. Education Assistant Elaine Rusinovich designs and presents activity based programs for elementary and middle school students. Recent programs include life at sea, whales' tales, and the wreck of the Peter Iredale. Offered free to all Clatsop and Pacific County schools, the programs have been a huge success, reaching over 3,100 students each year. The Museum in the Schools Program offers five new topics each semester.
What's next? Currently in planning is a program that would match high school seniors with community elders in oral history research teams; a multi-media program on lower Columbia history, designed and produced entirely by students; another curriculum-based publication; and an Adopt-a-Ship program with the US Coast Guard.
Lynne Leland
Rache l Wynn e
Christina Youn g
J e rry Ostermille r
David Pearson
Steph a nie Kiande r
Cele ri no Bebeloni
-Patricia Turner Custard
Museum Education: To Infinity & Beyond!
Sheila Radich
Charlotte Jackson
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Arlin e S chmidt
Schoolchildren have been corning to the Museum on field trips since the Museum was founded. But are field trips enough?
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• InJuly,the 1929 doubleended troller
News and Notes
Printed at: Printing Arts Center, Longview, Washington
• Welcome Aboard to Christina Young, our new Membership Records Coordinator. Christina hails from Jewel and comes to us from H&R Block, were she worked as a tax clerk. Stephanie Kiander is now the Annual Giving Coordinator in the Development Department.
The Quarterdeck is published four times a year by the Columbia R iver Maritime Museum, 1792 Marine Drive, Astoria, Oregon 97103
Editorial Staff: Jerry Ostermiller, Anne Witty, Rob Rudd, Jennifer Miller, Patricia Turner Custard, Rachel Wynne
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Telephone: ( 503 )325 2323 Fax: (503)325-2331
E-mail us at: columbia@seasurf com www.crmm.org
• International Maritime Photographer Thad Koza will be presenting the slide show Tall Ships 1998, which will feature sailing ships from all over the world, November 8th at 2:00 pm at the Museum, followed by a very special concert featuring Traditional songs of the sea by Tom Goux from the schooner Ernestina (both presentations are free). Contact Trish Custard for more information.
• It's official! The Columbia River Maritime Museum will host a visit from HM Bark Endeavour, a replica of one of the world's most famous exploration ships, in late July 1999. TheAustralian-builtvesselisa reproduction of Captain James Cook's vessel, used on epic voyages of exploration throughout the Pacific in the late 1700s. (See The Quarterdeck, Spring & Summer 1997, for a biography of James Cook). The National Geographic Society is sponsoring Endeavour's North American tour.
Nora went under the historical microscope as a documentation team studied and recorded her every detail.
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• Alumni from the Museum's first annual Pirate School taking a break from their busy day of pillaging.
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Paula Johnson, of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, and Richard Anderson, a specialist in historic naval architecture, set out to preserve as much of the double-ender's history as they could. They spent a week poring over Nora while she was hauled out for maintenance in an Ilwaco boatyard, measuring, drawing and photographing her shape, lines and details. The project will result in a permanent national archive of drawings, photographs, descriptions and information pertaining to this typical Northwest troller.
Editor: David Pearson
• The very popular photography exhibit Oregon Rivers: Photography by Larry Olson, Words by John Daniel continues through October 16th in the museum's Kern Room. Signed copies of the full-color companion book Oregon Rivers are available in the Museum Store. (These beautiful books make great holiday gifts!)
• Perfect weather and a good turnout made this year's Row-In a lot of fun. Pictured are Ed, Jed and Emily Johnson taking a break between events. A special thanks to all the contestants and volunteers. See you next year!
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- Robley Mangold
• Haul out and painting of the lightship Columbia and the development of educational signs on board.
In my many years as a volunteer and trustee, I have never seen a more exciting and challenging time for our Museum. Each time I visit the Museum, I see new exhibits, new artifacts, more programs for children and adults, and a new-found excitement among our staff, volunteers, and visitors. These are indeed exciting times for your Museum.
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One of the many photos from the CRPA collection
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The coming year will prove to be one of the busiest in our Museum's history. Over the past three years, we have looked very hard at our Museum's current needs and future direction. In this process, we have developed both a long-range vision for the Museum and a list of urgent priorities. The listing included here is the "tip of the iceberg" the key programs we wish to begin today.
We have submitted a number of grant proposals seeking funds for these programs. At the same time, we need the help of every one of our members to make these exciting new programs possible. Your financial support now, above and beyond your membership, will make a tremendous difference with these efforts.
Annual Fund Projects
• Development of a traveling Museum educational program, designed to visit every school in the region.
• Development of a teacher's guidebook to use in class before a Museum visit.
Planned for 1998 and 1999:
With thanks in advance, Robley Mangold President, Board of Trustees
• Preservation and cataloging of 6,000 photos from the Columbia River Packers Association, Bumble Bee Seafood, and Union Fish Company archives.
In my many years as a volunteer and trustee, I have never seen a more exciting and challenging time for our Museum.
1998 Annual Fund Drive Begins
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Dear Friends and Members:
Gifts to the Annual Fund support the Museum's most important work. Funds are used to support educational programs, artifact preservation, new exhibits, and continued work on the Museum's library.
• A program to train high school students to conduct oral history interviews throughout the region with elderly fishermen and women from the shipping industry.
• Creation of an Internet site which will allow access to the Museum's library and photo collection from anywhere in the world.
• Acquisition of artifacts for the Museums upcoming expansion, focusing on the fishing, commercial transport and lifesaving stories.
Please take a moment and make a gift to the 1998 Annual Fund today. I can assure you your support will be appreciated, and well invested in the future of your Museum.
• Continued cataloging of the Museum's library, including newly-acquired books, and some 10,000 historic photographs.
Planning the curriculum for the Vacation Pirate School Program with "Treacherous Trish" Custard was the most fun I've had in a long time. Two grown-up kids got to dress up as pirates and teach a group of budding buccaneers the real story of what it was like during the Golden Age of Piracy in the Western World. Together we discovered that it wasn't all swashbuckling and romance like we see in the movies. We mixed the real story with liberal doses of fun, then boarded the Lightship Columbia and ran our Jolly Roger up the masthead while we ate our lunch. Aye, me buckos, it was a grand sight to see!
The Ultimate Pirate Sticker Book , Dorling Kindersley Publishing. An eight page booklet with reusable pirate stickers. 6.95/6.26
Seafaring Fantasy Becomes Hard Reality
Under the Black Flag : The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates , by David Cordingly. An authoritative new book that is enjoyable reading. Harcourt Brace pb 13.00/11.70
This extraordinary picture of one voyage seen through the eyes of three able seamen will reward any reader. Anne Witty
Yours truly, Run 'Em Thro ug h Ra chel, the Iron Maiden of Madagas c ar, and Captain of the Sweet Rev e ng e
A MEMOIR
Arrgh, There be Pirates in These Waters!
Lured by the compelling vision of seafaring life promised in the works of Joseph Conrad, a Danish-born teenager, Niels Peter Thomsen, left home at the age of 15 for a career in sail and steam. In 1925, he signed as able seaman aboard the Forest Dream, a barkentine that left Seattle bound for Mauritius. It was any boy's dream of a long voyage to exotic parts of the world. But to Thomsen, the 14-month voyage was closer to nightmare than dream.
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The crew of the Forest Dream endured a troubled and violent captain and mate; bad weather; difficulties with the ship; and the general hardships of coming of age. Now age 90, Captain Thomsen has written a vivid memoir of events more than 70 years in the past. Thomsen intertwines his account with the journals of his shipmate Malcolm Chisholm, and the deck log kept by Archie Horka, another member of the six-man crew.
New from The Museum Store VOYAGE OF THE FOREST DREAM
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These books, carried in the Museum Store, have lots of pirate lore.
The Pirates Handbook : How to Become a Rogue of the High Seas, by Margarette Lincoln. This little book is packed with pirate lore: how to dress like a pirate, make treasure maps and hard tack, and much more. A real treat of a book! Cobblehill/Dutton pb 6.99/6.30
The Pirates , by Charles Elms. Originally published in 1837, it contains narratives from actual pirate victims. Very interesting reading. Random House hb 12 00/10.80
Mr. Russ Fluhrer
Mr. & Mrs. James Porter Holtz Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Huber Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Hudson Mrs. Margaret I. Hughes
Mr. & Mrs. John Shipley Mr. & Mrs. George E. Siverson Mr. & Mrs. Harold H. Snow
Mr. R. L. McColloch
Mr. & Mrs. James McCafferty
Mrs. Kathryn Browning
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Eckert Mrs. Janice G. Langley
Dr. & Mrs. Robert William Davis
Capt. J.F De Sassise
Mr. & Mrs. Clarence L. Richrod
Mr. & Mrs. Jim Capellen
Mr. Gary Muehlberg
Mr. & Mrs. John Mewha
Mr. Gordon Childs
Ms. Muriel Bruning
Governor & Mrs. Victor Atiyeh
Mr. & Mrs. Ken Austin
Mr. & Mrs. J .R. Thompson
Mr. & Mrs. William Merzke Nicholas Rusinovich
Mr. Craig Harris
Mr. & Mrs. Jack Acton
Capt. James T. Clune
Mr. & Mrs. William A. Gavin Jr.
Mr. John B. Fewel
Mr. Philip R. Mason
Mr. & Mrs. Franklin G. Drake
Howard W Krohn
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Ms. Barbara Gray Ms. Margery P. Gray Mr. & Mrs. Herman M. Haggren Mr. Jerry Hankin
Mr. Mike Killion
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Nordstrom Mr. & Mrs. Erling Orwick COL. & Mrs. Jack A. Osborn Mr. Richard Palazzo Rose & Richard Palazzo Mr. Edwin K. Parker
Mr. & Mrs. R. J. Comstock
Ms. Jennesse A. Cathers
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RADM & Mrs. Edward Nelson Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Harold Nelson LCDR & Mrs. Dan Neptun Mr. Phil Nock
Mr. Pat Keefe
Mrs. Nancy L. Grimberg
Carl Hertig
Mr. & Mrs. Alan J. Skille Vernon & June Leback Capt. & Mrs. Mike Leback William Lundgren Mrs. Doris Lofgren Mack Memorial Ms. Joyce H. Mack Danny McEnulty
Mr. & Mrs. James R. Shaw
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey H. Johnson Ms. Marnie Jones
Mr. & Mrs. Bill Wallace
Mr. & Mrs. Milton E. Love
Mr. & Mrs. Raymond A. Willis Helmsman
Mr. & Mrs. Dick Keller
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Sherriffs
Capt. & Mrs. Paul A. Jackson
Mr. John G. Davis
Mr. & Mrs. Vern 0. Larson C.C.Leone
Mrs. Mary B. Hoffman
Dr. & Mrs. Timothy A. Patrick
Crew/Family
Mr. & Mrs. Ed Steve
Mr. & Mrs. Doug Ross
The Estate of Andrew J. Lake
Robert Catlin
Dr. & Mrs. Agnar A. Straumfjord
Judge Thomas E. Edison
Mr. & Mrs. Jack Acton John & Jennie Olson Ms. Dorothy 0. Soderberg Guy T. Randles
Increased Memberships
Mrs. Peter Paulson Mr. & Mrs. Larry Perkins Bob & Toshie Petersen Mr. Howard Ragan Mr. & Mrs. Richard Randall
Mr. & Mrs. C. A. Harrison Mr. & Mrs. John C. Hart Mrs. Marcella L. Hatch
Allan Bue
Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Barnum
Mr. & Mrs. Bob Finzer
Mr. Robert E. McNannay Mr. & Mrs. Raymond E. Merritt Mr. & Mrs. John Mewha Dr. Rodney Miller
Red Lion Motor Inn Mrs. Patricia M. Reese
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Charles W Browning
Mr. John Gaw
Ms. Shirley Randles Ed & Edna Ross
Mr. & Mrs. W.A. Lissy
Mr. & Mrs. William Barrons
Walter F Bruning
The Columbia River Maritime Museum wishes to thank those members who have made contributions to the Museum's recently acquired historical boats: the fishing troller Darle, the Columbia River One Design (CROD) sailboat, & the U.S. Coast Guard 44-foot motor lifeboat. Thank you for your support!
Mrs. Margaret Bowerman
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Brandt
Mr. Jim H. Branson
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Mr. & Mrs. Chuck Kanavle
Mr. & Mrs. Don Buhman
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Mr. & Mrs. John W. Reynolds Mr. & Mrs. Harry B. Rice, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Lee Robbins
Dr. & Mrs. Richard Natzke
Mr. & Mrs. Jack Foster Erik Jorgensen, SN Skat Capt. Donald N. Dackins Elmer Koskelo Major Duffy E. Morgan
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Mr. & Mrs. Charles Boyce
Mr. Robert Hauke
Mr. & Mrs. David C. Meyer Deskin 0 Bergey
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Mr. & Mrs. Howard Hedrick Mr Robert G. Hemphill Mrs. Elnora Hertig
Dr. & Mrs. Paul Swinehart
Mr. Roland Anderson Robert Hemphill
Mr. & Mrs. Bob Parnell Dr. Donald Townsend
Mr. & Mrs. James Durkheimer
Gifts in honor of... U.S.S. Kasaan Bay CVE69
Dr. & Mrs. Richard Natzke ·
Mr. & Mrs. Don Buhman
Mr. Robert A. Herzog Rich & Nancy Hoffman
Mr. & Mrs. Bill Williams Jr.
Mrs. Beatrice W. Bergey
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Mannex
Capt. & Mrs. Barry Barrett
Mr. Neil Davidson & Family
Mr. & Mrs. John D. Karamanos Olaf Robert Soderstrom
Mr. Henry Balensifer
Mr. & Mrs. Mike Godsil
Mr. & Mrs. Edward C. Lynch Mr. Ted Magnuson Mr. George Malarkey Mrs. Richard Marlitt Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Maveety Mrs. Anne McDonald
Mr. & Mrs. Henri Chomeau Mrs. Donna Mary Dukich
Mr. & Mrs. Dan Lake
Mr. Robert F. Blankholm 'Boomer'
Mr. & Mrs. Ernest E. Brown
Mr. & Mrs. Don A. Goodall
Mr. & Mrs. Rex Anderson
Mr. Paul Leach Capt. & Mrs. Warren G. Leback Richard & Delight Leonard Mr. & Mrs. Jon Levy Mr. Ed Lundholm
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Mr. & Mrs. Loren K. Johnson Dr. & Mrs. Everett E. Jones
Mr. & Mrs. Henry Wagner, Jr.
Mr. William H. Krohn Agnes Landwehr
Capt. William Farr
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Berney
Ted & Judy Swan
Mr. James B. Thayer Gifts in memory of... Thomas Autzen
Mr. & Mrs. Donald D. Murdoch Mr. Robert Teagle
Dr. & Mrs. Curtis H. McKinney
Mr. & Mrs. James Jarvis, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Howard B. Johnson
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Morden Mr. & Mrs. James H. Morrison Mr. Gary Muehlberg Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Murray Mr. & Mrs. David M. Myers Ms. Libby Myers
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Capt. & Mrs. Nicholas Brower, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Sion Wentworth
Mr. & Mrs. James L. Welch
Mr. & Mrs. Herman G. Bender
Boatswain
Peter Blankholm
Mr. & Mrs. Roderick Sarpola Mr. & Mrs. Mayer D. Schwartz
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Mr. & Mrs. Byron Broms
Mr. & Mrs. Ward V. Cook
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Dietze
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Mr. & Mrs. William C. Elder
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Capt. Donald E. Hughes Capt Ja ck C. Dempsey
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Mr. Mark Youtsler
Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Knutsen Mr. & Mrs. Herb Kottler
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Townsend
Mr. & Mrs. Robley L. Mangold
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Mr. & Mrs. James Young
Mary Louise Sprouse
Ms. Dorothy Duerfeldt
Ms. Vicki Durst
Mr. & Mrs. Chris Maletis, Jr.
Mr Dinesh R Hajari
Mr. & Mrs. John Lum Mrs. Venus Luukinen Mrs. Dorothy R Mickelson George T. 'Bunny' Olsen, Jr. Mr. Leland Westley Robert Paschall
Mr. Elmer T. Hjorten
Mr & Mrs. Ronald A. Brunmeier
Mr Matt Winters
Ted Bloomfield Mrs. June Spence Charles Boyce
Mr. Robert G. Hemphill Fern Brateng
New Members
Allan Hol z man
Mr. Leland Westley Don Pettett
Mr. & Mrs. Joe Hubbell
Mr. & Mrs. Trygve Duoos
Mr. & Mrs. Theodore T. Bugas Mrs. Elnora Hertig Navigator
Mr & Mrs. Thomas W. Conklin
Mr. & Mrs. George Abrahamsen
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Brodie Theodore Swedberg
Memorial Donations
Mr George H. Shaver
Mr & Mrs. John L. Christie, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. John H. Hubbell Mr. Allan Maki
June 1 July 31, 1998
Mr. Scott Carpenter
Mr & Mrs Donald Helligso Mr. & Mrs. Tony Kischner Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Krebs Mrs. Dorothy E. Martin
Mr & Mrs Ray O'Neal
Ms Dorothy 0. Soderberg
Mr. & Mrs. George Moskovita
Dr. Donald Walker
Mr. Brad Hutton
Ms. Victoria Heim
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Mr. John Wubben Pilot
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Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey H. Johnson
Mr. Keith V. McDonald
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Judge & Mrs. Robert E. Jones
Mr. & Mrs. David E. Becker
F. J. Friedrich & Family
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George A Harrison
Mr. & Mrs. James O'Connor Joan Wallace
Karen Walcott & Family
Mr. Allan Maki
COLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM
Mr. & Mrs. William R. Stuart
Mr. & Mrs. Dave Lum Captain Mr. Rod Gramson
Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Battles
CRPA History Project
Ms. Alice Anderson
Mr & Mrs. Walter Pendergrass Mr & Mrs. Stephen Webster Mr. & Mrs James Young Pilot
Mr Peter Pope
Mr. & Mrs. Gary Mogenson
Mr. William Einzig
Mr. & Mrs W. Louis Larson
Mrs. June Spence
Mr. & Mrs. Joe Hubbell
Mr. & Mrs John H. Hubbell Barbara Honeyman Roll Mrs. Alan Honeyman Edward F. Swanson
Welcome Back to Membership
Mrs Margaret Boynton
Mr. & Mrs. Jon W. Westerholm
Mr Michael E. Lynch
Mr & Mrs. Richard Stenblom
Mr. & Mrs. Max Bigby Donald A Walman
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Wiederhorn
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Magnusen
Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Frame Glenn Zimmerman
Mrs. Jean Irwin Hoffman
Mr & Mrs. W. Calder McCall Ms Nadine Morton Ms. Eleanor Neupert
Mrs June Spence
Dorothy Kuratli
Dr. R. V. Friedrich
Mr. & Mrs. Warren J. Ulrich
Millie Edison
Mr. & Mrs Fred L. Bacigalupi Mrs Bernice & Trudy Enke Mr. & Mrs. Robert Ginn
Mr. & Mrs. John Lum
Senator & Mrs. Sid Snyder
Dennis & Amelia McNally Captain
Mr. Harry Phillips
Mr. Daniel Jordan
Carl Halbrook
Mrs. June Spence
Mr. & Mrs. Erling Orwick George Leino Mr. Ed Lundholm Frances Lonberg
Mr. & Mrs. David Hallin In Honor of. John McGowan
Mr. & Mrs. David Hallin William Wootton
Mr. & Mrs. Jon A. Englund
Mr. & Mrs. Max Bigbys
Mr. & Mrs Robb C. Locke Pilot
Bob & Toshie Petersen
Mr. Michael Johnson
Ms. Diane Lane
Mr. John Herrmann
Mr. & Mrs. Warren Bechtolt Jr.
June I July 31, 1998
Elizabeth F. Hansen
Mrs. Pauline Friedrich Mestrich Sherrill ' Greg' Gregory
Melvin Gary 'Bill' Leback Capt. & Mrs. Mike Leback Capt. & Mrs . Warren G. Leback Mr. & Mrs. Harlan S Olsen
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Mr. & Mrs. Joe Hubbell
Mr. & Mrs. Ron Hiersche
Mr. & Mrs James E Paavola
Mr. Nicholas Calley
Mr. & Mrs. Robert C Bishop III Ms. Kathleen Brady
Mr. & Mrs. Carl 0. Fisher
Captain Jack Dempsey Captain & Mrs. Paul A. Jackson Frank Donahue
Mr. & Mrs. Keith T Ranta
Mr. Norman Barnes
Mr. Max Nicolai
Mr. James Willis Helmsman
Mr. Jerry Jonasson
Mr. & Mrs. Rex Anderson
Mr. Harry Turtledove Crew/Family
Ms Patricia North Mrs. Pat Samuelson Mrs. Lucille Scarborough
Mr. & Mrs. Wallace L. Preble Mr. Robert Wilhelm
Mr. Robert R. Seloover
Samuel S. Johnson Foundation
Ms Julie Weber Alfred]. L'Amie
Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Frame
Helmsman
Mr. Allan Maki
June 1 July 31, 1998
Dr. Ann Goldeen
Mrs. Margaret I. Hughes Oliver Dunsmoor, Sr. Mr. Don Ziak
Mr. & Mrs. Gary Stedman
Mr. Don Ziak
Mr. Daniel Miller & Family
Mr & Mrs. James L. Welch
Janet Laughlin
Mr & Mrs. Richard C. Tevis Roger & Stephanie Millar Mr. & Mrs. Don Magnusen
Mr. David Stancoff
Mr. R.W. Stevens
Mr. Steve Forrester Navigator
Mr. Robert Newstead
In Memory of ... Robert Paschall
Harold 'Jake ' Jacob
Mrs Mildred Niskala
Mr Hal Ayotte Captain
Mr. & Mrs. Julian Thorne Hilts Boatswain
Mr. & Mrs. C. Delmer Boman Mrs. Betty Farmer Dr. & Mrs. Donald Pachal Mrs. Ruth Pruzynski Mrs. Helen Ryan Nanna Chilcott Mrs Paula T. Morrow Owen Corley Mr. Harry Phillips Jack Dant
Ensign/Individual
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Mestrich
Mr. & Mrs. Vernon C. Robertson
Mrs. Helen Sorkki
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph E. Bakkensen Mrs. Beatrice W. Bergey
Ensign/Individual Members
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Mr. & Mrs. J.R Thompson Harriett M Engblom
Ernest J. Barrows
Mr. & Mrs. Don E. Link Allan Beedle
Mr. & Mrs. David Hallin Luella Carlson
Mr. & Mrs. C. Delmer Boman Mrs. Gertrude M. Oja Steve Wilcox
Mr. & Mrs John Jensen
Mr. & Mrs. Ernest H. McCall
Mrs June Spence
Mr. & Mrs David Hallin Lois Nicolai Ducich
CDR & Mrs. Ted R . Lindstrom
Sunday, December 20 th at the Columbia River Maritime Museum
Non-profit Organization U.S. POSTAGE PAID Astoria, Oregon Permit No. 328
Annual Meeting
COLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM 1792 MARINE DRIVE ASTORIA, OREGON 97103
Mark your calendars for the 1998 Holiday Program. A day-long celebration of the season, it promises to be among the liveliest holiday events in the area! Great musical entertainment, children's activities and crafts maritime fun for the whole family!
Friday, November 13 th at the Seaside Civic and Convention Center
CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED
Plan to join us for the Columbia River Maritime Museum's 36th Annual Meeting and Dinner. Our guest speaker will be actor director producer Monty Markham, the man behind The Great Ships series . Look for your invitation and ballot in the mail in early October
Winter Fest