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
Stephen Marthouse
USCG Auxiliary Fifth District (NR) Historian
Vice-President
John Loeper
Ocean City Life-Saving Station #30, New Jersey
Membership
Patricia Ryder
NPS Docent at Old Harbor LSS
Treasurer
LCDR Richard G. Ryder, USN (Ret.)
Historian and Author Seashore Sentinel
Clerk / Secretary
Michael S. Carlson, M.D.
Tillamook Bay LSS Preservation Project
Directors
CDR Timothy R. Dring, USNR (Ret.)
Lifeboat Historian and Author
Jim Hall
Chief of Cultural Resources, Delaware State Parks
Debbie Allyn Jett
Historian, Researcher, and Contributing Writer
Kimberly Mann
Historical Architect, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Laura J. Quackenbush
Consultant, Great Lakes History and Interpretation
Cultural Resource Management
Sam Reid
President, Wood Island LSS Association
Laura Scharle
Site 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
Donna J. Weathers, CPO USN (Ret)
Genealogist. USLSS researcher and speaker
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
CDR Maurice Gibbs, USN (Ret.)
Past President, USLSSHA
President Emeritus, Nantucket Shipwreck and Life Saving Museum
CAPT Dana A. Goward, USCG (Ret.)
Former Chief, Office of Boat Forces
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: Dick Ryder
Publications: Kim Mann
Marketing/Outreach: Laura Scharle
Membership Services: Pat Ryder
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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