You may contact any member of our Board or any Board Committee Chairs, to provide comment, report concerns, or to ask a question. Correspondence may be addressed to any individual director, the committee chairs, or any committee group through the chairperson by selecting their name from the list below.
President
Sam Reid
President, Wood Island LSS Association
Vice-President
Laura Scharle
Membership
CDR Timothy R. Dring, USNR (Ret.)
Lifeboat Historian and Author
Treasurer
Yvette Dills
Clerk / Secretary
Michael S. Carlson, M.D.
Tillamook Bay LSS Preservation Project
Directors
Jim Hall
Site Administrator for the Erie Maritime Musuem - employed by PA Historical & Museum Commission
Kimberly Mann
Historical Architect, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Laura J. Quackenbush
Consultant, Great Lakes History and Interpretation
Cultural Resource Management
Laura Scharle
Former Manager, Indian River Life-Saving Station Museum
Frederick Stonehouse, M.A.
President, Marquette Maritime Museum
Jeff Shook Owner, USCG Station St. Clair Flats
President, Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy
Ken Arbogast
James Warchall
John Loper
Chairperson, U.S. Life-Saving Station #30, Ocean City, NJ
Stephen Bell
Mike Reis
Advisory Board
Richard M. Boonisar
Past President, USLSSHA
Owner, Gurnet Life-Saving Station
Robert Browning, Ph.D. (Ret.)
Historian, U.S. Coast Guard
William Clark
Owner, USCG Station West Quoddy Head
CAPT Dana A. Goward, USCG (Ret.)
Former Chief, Office of Boat Forces
Debbie Allyn Jett
Historian, Researcher, and Contributing Writer
Dennis L. Noble, Ph.D.
Maritime Historian and Author
Ralph Shanks, M.A.
Maritime Historian, Anthropologist and Author
CAPT W. Russell Webster, USCG (Ret.)
Maritime Historian and Author
Wick York
Historic Preservation Consultant
Committees and Chairpersons:
Finance: Yvette Dills
Publications: Ken Arbogast
Marketing/Outreach: Laura Scharle
Membership Services: Tim Dring
Historical Stations: Mike Carlson
Surfman Registry: Tim Dring
Information Technology: Jeff Shook
Photo Left and Above: Barview, Oregon c.1910. The Tillamook Bay Life-Saving Station crew pose before launching their surfboat in good weather.
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