Board of Directors
Board Of Directors
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
John Loeper
Ocean City Life-Saving Station #30, New Jersey
Vice-President
Sam Reid
President, Wood Island LSS Association
Membership
Tim Dring
Lifeboat Historian and Author
Treasurer
Yvette Dills
(title)
Clerk / Secretary
Michael S. Carlson, M.D.
Tillamook Bay LSS Preservation Project
Directors
Ken Arbogast -Wreck & Rescue, Editor-in-Chief
Patricia Ryder – NPS Docent at Old Harbor LSS
Richard Ryder – Historian and Author Seashore Sentinel
CDR Timothy R. Dring, USNR (Ret.) – Lifeboat Historian and Author
Jim Hall – Site Administrator, Erie Maritime Museum, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Kimberly Mann – Historical Architect, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Stephen Marthouse – USCG Auxiliary Fifth District (NR) Historian
Laura J. Quackenbush – Consultant, Great Lakes History and Interpretation
Cultural Resource Management
Laura Scharle – Owner/Founder, Scharle Outdoor Rec Consulting
Jeff Shook – Owner, USCG Station St. Clair Flats, President, Michigan Lighthouse Conservancy
Frederick Stonehouse, M.A. – President, Marquette Maritime Museum
Yvette Dills –
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
Debbie Allyn Jett – Director Emeritus, Historian, Researcher and Writer
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
Membership Services:
Finance: Yvette Dills
Publications: Kim Mann, Ken Arbogast
Marketing/Outreach: Laura Scharle
Membership Services: Tim Dring
Historical Stations: Mike Carlson
Surfman Registry: Tim Dring, Steve Marthouse
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.