Jam es P. McAllister Remembered OnSunday,January 14,JamesEan, Vice chairman of NMHS and longtime partnerofthe late James P. McAllister, led a party that installed a plaque aboard the Liberty ship John W. Brown in Baltimore, to commemorate McAllister's leadership in saving the vessel , a veteran of the liberation of Italy and France in World War II, laterused in New York as part of the City school system. The plaque was received by Captain Brian Hope, Chairman of Project Liberty Ship, Baltimore, for permanent installation aboard the vessel. It was donated by Mobil Oil Corporation through the courtesy of Gerhard E. Kurz, head of Mobil's Marine Transportation Division, working with Camille Freas of NMHS who organized the memorial effort for the Society. The plaque notes McAllister's service as New York City Board of Education Commissioner for the John W. Brown, l 974-82, and as Chairman of Project Liberty Ship, Inc., from 1985 until his death in 1989. His role as Chairman of the National Maritime Historical Society ( 1985-89) is also noted, together with his role as " lifelong champion of the US merchant service."
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James P. McAllister's grandfather started tanker service in New York Harbor for John D. Rockefeller, founder of the Standard Oil Company, of which Mobil is an offspring. McAllister used to say that his living memory reached back to those days, for he heard this and other stories from his grandfather and fatherboth great story-tellers, in a family that literal! y 1ived the life of the harbor.Jam es P. McAllister himself was a memorable story-teller, and NMHS has further stories from him of New York Harbor, and is collecting more. D
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Aboard the John W. Brown in Baltimore. From the left areStephenR. Cooney ofMobil Oil Corp ., J. P. McAllister's secretary Dorothy Schneider, NMHS Op Ed Coordinator Camille Freas(holding plaque), andl. P. McAllister IV.
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