A Stellar Celebration at the National Maritime Awards Dinner, Washington, DC

摘要

The Mayflower Hotel proved to be the ideal venue for our National Maritime Awards Dinner in April because it is such a historic location, not to mention that the Mayflower is such an iconic ship in American history. We were delighted with how elegant it was, and how welcome we felt. We plan to return in April 2018, and hope you will join us. Our awards dinner founding chairs, Irmy and Philip Webster, were on hand to receive our guests and greet our many VIPs. Our 2017 dinner chairs set the tone for the evening: CAPT Jim Noone, USN (Ret.), opened the program with a heart-felt welcome, and Dr. Timothy Runyan impressed upon the group how critically important it is to get federal support for historic ship preservation and education. He congratulated those in the room who were at the forefront of the recent successful effort to reinstate maritime heritage funding, and the representatives of the many maritime organizations in attendance, who were there to show that there is a true force to the maritime heritage movement.