THE AMERICAN MARITIME HISTORY PROJECT
PUBLICATIONS

Books

In Peace and War: A History of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point
    by Jeffrey L. Cruikshank and Chloe G. Kline

John Wiley & Sons, Publishers.
ISBN: 978-0-470-13601-0

Available through the USMMA Ship's Store for $27 plus S+H.
Please contact the Ship's Store by email or phone at 516-773-5296

"A comprehensive, balanced, and compelling history of a first-class educational institution, and of the complex industry it services."
-The Hon. Sean T. Connaughton '83,
Maritime Administrator

"A great read . . . an accurate and absorbing depiction of an institution I was proud to lead for seven years. The authors truly grasped the unique character of the Academy."
-RADM Thomas A. King '42
USMMA Superintendent 1980-1987

"Evokes memories of the earliest challenges in establishing a maritime institution where future success embodies the Academy's motto, Acta Non Verba."
-RADM Lauren S. McCready
Prof. Emeritus, Head of Marine Engineering, 1942–1975

"Well-written and meticulously researched . . . . A must-read for any maritime history buff."
-Captain Arthur R. Moore '44
Author of “A Careless Word . . . A Needless Sinking”

"Much more than an institutional history . . . a fascinating and informed portrait of the individuals and philosophies behind Kings Point."
-Captain Warren G. Leback '44, past Maritime Administrator and industry leader

"The best description of the merchant marine in the last seventy-five years, and the best account of why Kings Point became so important to our national security and economy."
-George R. Searle, past president, American Merchant Marine Veterans

 

The Way of the Ship: America's Maritime History Reenvisioned, 1600-2000
    by Alex Roland, W. Jeffrey Bolster, and Alexander Keyssar

John Wiley & Sons, Publishers.
ISBN: 978-0-470-13601-0

In this engaging account of American maritime and merchant marine history from colonial days to the present, the esteemed authors show that from 1820 on, domestic shipping on America’s coasts, rivers, and lakes outweighed shipping overseas, and that shipping drove the American economic engine and helped shape American history. Part of a series sponsored by the American Maritime History Project, Inc., this book is essential reading for American and naval history buffs.

The prestigious team of writers/historians includes Alex Roland (Durham, NC), Professor of History at Duke University, Jeffrey W. Bolster (Barrington, NH), Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire, and Alexander Keyssar (Cambridge, MA), Stirling Professor of History and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. All have authored acclaimed books.

 

LINK TO THE NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND PARENTS ASSOCIATION FUNDRAISING PRODUCTS

SOUTHERN VIRGINIA PARENTS ASSOCIATION

Collapsible Foam CAN COOLERS (AKA huggies, koozies)
Dark BLUE With WHITE USMMA Logo

$5.00 each or 5 for $20.00 ($4 ea.)

FREE SHIPPING!

Send cash or check to:
USMMA S. Va. Parents Assoc.
c/o Dave Johnston
2032 Echo Cove
Virginia Beach, VA 23454

 

Parents Club of Indiana/Kentucky/Tennessee Fundraisers
 There are limited 06 and 07 coins available. All coins are now priced at $15. The 07 coin had been priced at $20. Purchase price of a set of all 3 coins is $35, a savings of $10!

http://www.usmma.edu/parents/new.gifThe Indiana/Kentucky/Tennessee USMMA Parents Club is proud to continue a tradition.  Each first class midshipman will receive a challenge coin featuring the USMMA crest and an image of their class ring.  The class challenge coins are presented at the Senior Dinner.  This coveted challenge coin is available only to Class of 2008 graduates. 

A oversize special 2008 commemorative coin has also been commissioned and is available for purchase by parents, friends and students.  The commemorative coin is 2” in diameter and has all of the exquisite detail of the midshipmen’s coin.  The 2008 commemorative coin is perfect for a special gift or memento for those who have been close to your midshipman’s journey through the Academy.  These are truly collector quality coins. The quantities are limited, so order early.   $15.00 includes shipping!

                Visit the club website for online credit card ordering information:   http://ahallstrom.com/usmma/index.html Paypal is currently not working and anyone wanting to purchase coins should copy the order form and send the order to Jan Frazier.  Please feel free to contact Jan Frazier re: status of mailed coins. There have been some orders returned because paypal has not merged our new and old info.

Shipping questions go to:
Jan Frazier
fraziers@netdirect.net
765-533-4204 after 5:00
765-635-5406-Cell

Order forms and checks go to:

Chuck Shafer
vwcwshafer@sbcglobal.net
5079 Pelican Place
Carmel, IN  46033
317-843-8386
317-695-4574

USMMA Commemorative Challenge Coins

Please send my coin (s) to Name __________________________________________

Address_______________________________________________________________

City, State, Postal Code __________________________________________________

Number of Coins _______  @ $15.00/each          Order Total  $__________________

Set of three - '06, '07, '08  _____@$35.00  Circle individual '06,'07 or '08 ______@$15.00/each

 

Kings Point Acta Non Verba
Photography and text compilation by Mary Jane Fuschetto
Forward by Vice Admiral Joseph D. Stewart
Copyright 2003 Mary Jane Fuschetto
Printed in color by Diversified Graphics, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
10.25" x 10.25" hard back book /w beautiful jacket; 111 pages; 129 photographs
Price - $39.00 plus shipping charges

    Since 1943 the United States Merchant Marine Academy has successfully fulfilled its mission of educating our country's brightest leaders, instilling in them the belief that actions speak louder than words.
    Plato stated that credence as, "Be direct in your speech, still more in your actions. Words are evanescent, but deeds will endure forever."
    True to the United States Merchant Marine Academy motto, "Acta non verba," the words in this text are few. The 129 photographs of academy life and experiences speak more memorably than words.
    Much of this book shows Kings Point as the insiders know it. From indoc training to lunch muster outside the mess hall, from recognition night to the engineering machine shop, the reader gets a brief glimpse of life inside the academy gates.  For the family and friends it is a chance to see what they may not have experienced. For midshipmen and alumni, it is an opportunity to remember past challenges, successes and memories.
    Academy life is a collage of action, movement, color and shadow, that need not be explained with words. May this book serve as a way to "Tell America" about the academy where Kings Pointers daily learn and live the "acta non verba" ethic.

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USMMA PARENTS CLUB OF INDIANA/KENTUCKY

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Kings Point Acta Non Verba Fundraiser
605 Columbia Ave
P.O. Box 305
Swink, Colorado 81077

 

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 FROM THE LAKE MICHIGAN PARENTS CLUB  

Help support our Kings Pointers!          

 

KINGS POINT MEMORY ALBUM

 

Your Midshipmen or alumni won’t have to search to find this Kings Point album.  The gold seal and words, “United States Merchant Marine Academy” on the Kings Point Memory Album cover clearly identify its contents.   The memories of their time at the academy, the good friends they have made, sea duty periods and everything that makes Kings Point the unique experience it is, will be available in one place.  

 

This is a great gift for your Midshipman or fellow alumnus.  The album includes 55 vinyl pages in a variety of sizes.  There is a place for everything from uniform patches to full page letters, along with all those special photographs.  Albums are priced at $20.00 each (plus shipping).  To order, send a check along with your name and mailing address to:

 

                                                                                                                                               

The Lake Michigan Parents Club

                                                                                                              

Ed and Elsie Morrissey
820 N. Lafayette St
Sandwich, IL.  60548
815-786-2252

 E-mail:  elsiemorrissey@hotmail.com

 

               
Shipping is by USPS Priority Mail at a rate of $10.71 for up to two memory albums. 

Any questions please E-MAIL us at elsiemorrissey@hotmail.com

U.S. Merchant Marine Commemorative Postcard.  ONLY available through The Lake Michigan Parents' Association.  The picture on the postcard is the '1946 U.S. Merchant Marine 3-cent Peace And War' stamp.

 
Eight for $5.00 plus $1.00 postage and handling.  If ordering more than one pack, please contact us for a postage quote.  To order, send a check payable to "The Lake Michigan Parents Club" along with your name, address and phone number to:

Maryann Jones
8 Covered Bridge Lane
Glen Carbon, IL 62034
618-288-3326
email: marinerparent@prodigy.net

 


Judeena Thibault, 28 Henley Court, Powder Springs, Georgia 30127
Telephone # (770) 419-2617  E-mail:  themomjlt@bellsouth.net

 

 

Georgia Parents Association
Anchor Insignia Pendant or Pin Order Form
 
Large Anchor Insignia Measures 1-7/8” T x 1-1/4” W
Small Anchor Insignia Measures 1” T x 3/4” W
 
            o Anchor Insignia Pendant................................. Quantity ____  $10.00 each
 
            o Large Anchor Insignia Pin.............................. Quantity ____  $10.00 each
 
            o Anchor Insignia Pendant with Ribbon............ Quantity ____  $12.00 each
 
            o Small Anchor Insignia Pin............................... Quantity ____  $5.00 each
 
Include $1.00 per Anchor Insignia to Cover Shipping
 
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Please send check and order form to:
Baker Smith
3360 East Terrell Branch Court
Marietta, GA  30067
770-980-0921
atlsmith@msn.com
 

Fundraising Training for Parents

Mona Engvig has an idea for a fundraising opportunity for parent associations.  She helps people create photo-safe albums/scrapbooks in her spare time and recently helped raise about $200 for the Southern California Chapter of the Parents' Association. 

She has put together a package of USMMA material, various maritime stickers and decorative items, a photo-safe pen, and a beautiful 12 by 12 dark blue album. You can view the album etc. at http://www.creativememories.com.  They charged $50, which included a workshop. Workshops might not always be possible with people all over the country (world?), but she could include some info, and pay for the mailing of the albums. Ten dollars from each album sale can go back to the USMMA, the Alumni organization or to the Parents' Association. Parents or others are encouraged by Mrs. Engvig to get together and make the albums. The Southern California parents made albums for their sons and daughters at the Academy, and they hope to have a group meeting regularly to work on their albums. This is also a very meaningful activity in these difficult times for our country.  

If you are interested, please contact Mrs. Engvig at monaengvig@earthlink.net.  Mrs. Engvig is the parent of Tormod, class of 2005.

Florida Parents' Association



Prints of Kings Point Ship. Size: 9"x14" Price at $15.00/each.

Prints of Kings Point Ship notecard at $5.00/pack.   The notecard is 4.25 high and 6.25 wide and opens tent style to contain writing on the inside.

Postage & handling, first item at $4.00, add $1.00 for additional item.

Please send checks payable to:

USMMA Florida Parents' Association
 Marla Vignocchi 
7844 N. Leewynn Ct.
Sarasota, Florida 34240

Mid-Atlantic Parents' Association (MD, DC, 
Northern Virginia, and West Virginia)

Add $5.00 shipping for each item purchased.

Please make checks payable to:
Mid-Atlantic Parents' Club
Items may be ordered from:

Jean Kreis
9113 Northfield Rd.
 Ellicott City, MD  21042
 410-465-4599
Tote Bag -  The dimensions are 15"x20"x6". 
The cost is $20.00 plus $7.50 shipping.

USMMA American Flag T-shirt: $15 each
USMMA American Flag Cap (Blue or White) $18 each
plus $5.00 shipping and handling. 

New Sale Item - The size of the flag is 11" by 15", nylon, hangs vertically from a garden stand (not provided) and  retails for $20.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling. 

 

 

New York Metropolitan Area/Long Island Parents' Association

Fund Raising


We offer a variety of casual shirts as shown here and on our web site (link below). All shirts come in white or navy and have Embroidered Lettering; available in "USMMA/Kings Point"; "USMMA/Parent" or "USMMA/Grandparent" (golf shirt only) 

 

Since we are privileged to have our meetings at Land Hall on the Academy grounds, we open most of our social functions to the ENTIRE REGIMENT.   For example, in October we have a "Plebe Treat Night" to which only Plebes are invited -- ALL the Plebes, not only New York Plebes. Desserts and soda (pop) are supplied; in December we have our annual Holiday Party with hot and cold foods and desserts, presents are raffled off (for free) to all the midshipmen, holiday music is played and a general good time is had by all (in 2002 we served more than 400 midshipmen!); in the Spring we have an "Ice Cream Social" with make-your-own-sundaes and during final exams each trimester, we supply refreshments to help the study process -- one year we arranged for an ice cream truck to distribute a variety of ice creams to all the midshipmen; at other times we have supplied Italian ices and brownies and donuts with milk. This would not be possible without the sale of our shirts.


Shipping and handling: $4.00 per order.

Please send checks payable to:

New York Metro Parents Club

Karen and Stephen Losi
One Irving Lane
New Hyde Park, NY 11040
516 326-8974
putlog@aol.com

Long Island Parents' Club Web Site

Oregon Parents' Association

What do you mean--He doesn't have Telephone Privileges???
Everything every Kings Point Mom and Dad need to know about Kings Point -- and had no one to ask (A Guide for Plebe Candidates and Midshipmen Families) written from the heart by a Kings Point Mom, Sylvia Hartzell. 

The book's copyright has been donated to the Academy and is Academy issue  to all new candidates' parents.

Tri-State Parents' Association


Collectible pieces available are:

Painted wooden replicas of Mariner's Monument, O'Hara, Vickery Gate, Wiley Hall, , T/V Kings Pointer, and Delano Hall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost for any of the above is $10.00, or 5 for $50.00- (includes handling costs).
Send checks payable to:

Tri-State Parents Club
Rosann Henigan
RR 2 Box 159
Dingmans Ferry, PA 18328
Phone: 570 828-8413

Orders can be placed through Rosann Henigan via mail, E-mail at: rhenigan2000@yahoo.com


 USMMA Welcome Door Mat, size: 18.5"x27.5", color: Dark blue & gold, price at $28.00/each plus $8.00 shipping & handling. Please use the order form below.


 

CUSTOMIZED WELCOME MAT

 

18 x 27 – OLEFIN

NAVY/GOLD DESIGN

Makes a great gift!

 

NAME______________________________________________________________

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  CITY _________________________________   STATE   ______________________

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Shirley Prill
 
404 Rockaway Street
 
Boonton, NJ   07005
 
973-334-5199

 

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TRI-STATE PARENTS CLUB

Make Checks payable to:   

        TRI-STATE PARENTS CLUB

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

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