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Avid kayaker Kristen Greenaway enjoys a relaxed evening along the Miles River as part of CBMM’s Paddling with the President event.
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Greenaway hails from New Zealand, and has an extensive background in marketing, communications, non-profit management, and museum leadership and development. In 2014 she accepted the position as head of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. With a $5 million annual budget and close to $10 million in capital projects, Greenaway oversees a full-time staff of more than 45 museum professionals, and over 200 volunteers. Greenaway is a dynamic leader. Since taking the helm of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, its working shipyard has expanded to 25,000 square feet and is currently fulfilling a $5 million contract from the state of Maryland, awarded in 2019, to build a new reproduction of the Maryland Dove, the 17th century trading ship that accompanied the first European settlers to what is now Maryland. The museum has earned state and federal accreditation for its shipyard apprenticeship program as a four-
year, 8,000-hour education certification in traditional maritime trades. The program offers a natural extension to the museum’s Rising Tide after-school program that provides mentoring and skill training through free boatbuilding classes and hands-on programs that encourage team building and STEM skills. With the spirit of an adventurer and the heart of a competitor, Greenaway has trekked the globe, done some mountaineering, and once left a white-collar desk job to join an all-women’s entry in the Auckland-Fukuoka yacht race. She has competed in the Everglades Challenge, a 300-mile unsupported expedition race. She doesn’t seek such heady pursuits currently, however, because leading the museum fulfills that quest for excitement. Still, Greenaway enjoys sailing her 32-foot Cape Dory, Magdalena, on the bay, even in winter.
David Winkler is being recognized for his remarkable contributions to the maritime and naval history field and for his extensive efforts in bringing together the maritime heritage community to form alliances, share ideas, and inspire new initiatives. Dr. Winkler has organized numerous National Maritime Alliance and North American Society for Oceanic History conferences and has successfully promoted a better understanding of America’s naval history. He is an ambassador for naval history to many organizations and a respected author and teacher. VADM Sean Buck, USN, Superintendent of the US Naval Academy, will present the NMHS Distinguished Service Award to Dr. Winkler. Winkler has served more than two decades as the Naval Historical Foundation staff historian, taught at the Naval Academy, and lectured internationally. He has served as program chair for the North American Society for Oceanic History and has been the program chair for the Maritime Heritage Conferences that encourage those who work in the field, from lighthouse historians to maritime archaeologists, traditional boatbuilders to museum curators, to join together to share their research and support maritime heritage research and projects of all kinds. 14
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CDR David F. Winkler, USN (Ret.), PhD
SEA HISTORY 178, SPRING 2022