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
Jim Warchall
Membership
Yvette Dills
Treasurer
Yvette Dills
Clerk / Secretary
Michael S. Carlson, M.D.
Tillamook Bay LSS Preservation Project
Directors
Ken Arbogast
Stephen Bell
Tony Dumitru
Manager of Collections & Exhibitions
Nantucket Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum
Jim Hall
Site Administrator for the Erie Maritime Musuem - employed by PA Historical & Museum Commission
John Loper
Chairperson, U.S. Life-Saving Station #30, Ocean City, NJ
Kimberly Mann
Historical Architect, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Mike Reis
Laura Scharle
Former Manager, Indian River Life-Saving Station Museum
Jeff Shook
Owner, USCG Station St. Clair Flats
President, Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy
James Warchall
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
Frederick Stonehouse
President, Marquette Maritime Museum
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: Yvette Dills
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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