" Here in the battered bark, all men mattered.' '
The Impossible Dream achieved: Elissa sails by the Statue of Liberty, which is new on the scene since the bark last visited the harbor in September 1884. Photo, Galveston Historical Foundation.
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Our New York Harbor C uratorship developed plans to get young people out on the waterways and to sea under sail , and Operation Education , led by Vice C ha irman Jim Ean and Op Ed Director Camille Freas continued its work with high school students opening opportunities for careers in the marine industry. Mobil Oil led the way, with the Edw in Gould Foundation for Children , Brooklyn Union Gas and others in support for this program. And special issues of SEA HISTORY reported in depth on the imperilled state of the historic sh ips in San Francisco , the need fo r legal protection for underwater wrecks, and the vital stake of the nation in seafaring. These have sparked campaigns, the results of which are sti ll unfo lding. Congressman Walter Jones , Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Oceanography, said the response he received on the Abandoned Shipwreck bill (HR 3558) was "a tribute to yo ur readers." The Course Ahead As the year drew to its close, we embarked on what should prove our most important undertak ing: the development of a plan fo r the future course of the Society. Yes , we've had pl ans before, but they ' ve perhaps necessarily been limited in scope and consultation, and based in any case on very thin resources. With the prov ision of a more stable financial base through the Campaign fo r Sea History, our Vice Chairman Alan G. Choate-a seventeen- year veteran of the Society and its sagatook in charge the initiation of a planning process that would answer the call for national leadership in the field, and also
President Emeritus Alan D. Hutchison has prepared plans to install the Kaiulani 's forefoot, which returned to San Francisco in 1978 from the bark's 194 1 voyage round Cape Hom, as a monument to the. voyaging experience in the vessel's home port of San Francisco. Design by Raymond Aker.
answer our internal needs for clear goals and rational use of resources to achieve them. The process Alan has launched owes much to Co-chairmen of Advisors Frank 0 . Braynard and David Brink , former d irector of the Elissa project, and to Henry H. Anderson, Jr. , Chai rman of the American Sail Training Association and Trustee of the National Society, who has led in developing a Grand Al liance to gather up and trul y represent the disparate interests of our fie ld , and to our friends at the National Trust who have developed a Maritime Initiative program in which we are playing a cooperati ve role as it develops . And . . . the plans we shall be reviewing at the Annual Meeting owe much , indeed , to unsun g heroes working on publications, the development of information services, and all the other devoted efforts which make our work go forward.
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This year, 1987 , we are preparing a fu ller report than we have offered in the past. This report will g ive an accounting of these myri ad staff and volunteer activities which constitute the stuff which the planning process gives shape to. It will be ava il able, along with the full , audited financia l report, by mail , or at the Annual Meeting at Mystic Seaport on April 25, where Chairman McAllister, the officers and trustees, and I look forward to meeting as many of you, the membership , as can be present. If you cannot attend , please let us hear yo ur views. And please know our pride in counting you among our ship 's company. Respectfull y submitted: PETER STANFORD, President
PRELIMINARY FINANCIAL REPORT 1986 1986 Income Contribution Grants Membership Dues Sea History & Publications Other TOTAL INCOME:
1985
1984
$184,9 18 62,807 224,798 162,787 36,044 $671 ,354
$ 142,760 10,681 163 ,709 122,477 5,493 $445 ,120
$124,468 148 ,370 134,969 103 , 130 12, 174 $523,111
176,193 50,026 158,867
166,26 1 6,500 97,666
164,165 133 ,760 133 ,775
266,072 $65 1,578
200,037 $470,464
106,027 $537,727
$ 19,776
($25,344)
($14,616)
Expenses Salaries Grants Sea History & Publications Membership Promotion & Administration TOT AL EXPENSES: Net Income (Deficit)
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