National Maritime Historical Society 2021 Annual Awards Dinner
photo by allison lucas
28 October • New York Yacht Club • New York City
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The NMHS Annual Awards Dinner takes place in the fabulous Model Room at the New York Yacht Club.
inner chairman George W. Carmany III and NMHS chairman Ronald L. Oswald invite you to the National Maritime Historical Society’s 2021 Annual Awards Dinner on 28 October at the New York Yacht Club. After our absence in 2020, the year the world retreated due to COVID-19, we are incredibly pleased to once again gather in the New York Yacht Club’s magnificent Model Room to celebrate four prominent individuals and their contributions to the maritime community. We hope you will join us at this year’s gala—an event that brings together so many who love and serve the sea—as we recognize the outstanding contributions of David K. Elwell Jr., Steven Kalil, CAPT Sally Chin McElwreath, USN (Ret.), and RADM Joseph F. Callo, USN (Ret.).
The 2021 NMHS Honorees David K. Elwell Jr. “Sailing provided experiences I never would have dreamed of…”
courtesy dan nerney, nyyc
David K. Elwell Jr. will receive the NMHS Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his remarkable contributions to yachting and his significant role in the development of the sport of sailing. An America’s Cup winner, a director with Youth Sailing Foundation of Indian River County of Vero Beach, Florida, and a staunch supporter of the National Sailing Hall of Fame’s new Sailing Museum opening next year in Newport, Rhode Island, Elwell has also served with distinction as Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, leading initiatives that expanded the club’s role as an international center of yacht racing, and as past Commodore of American Yacht Club in Rye, New York. Growing up in the Finger Lakes of New York, Elwell was on the water at an early age, crewing Lightnings for his father. Later, the family moved to Westchester and he joined the Huguenot Yacht Club and sailed Long Island Sound, where his love of sailing blossomed. At age 17 he decided he wanted to become involved in ocean racing. He wrote letters to the owners of the 10
SEA HISTORY 176, AUTUMN 2021