died January, 14, 2017 in Florida. He was a marine engineer, sailing on the Great Lakes for most of his career. Grard was a very kind and generous man who loved to garden, hunt and fish. What he loved most was spending time with his family.
HELLO!!died January 11, 2017 in Swanzey, New Hampshire. He graduated from MMA with a degree in Marine Engineering. He was a chief engineer for Texaco, on oil tankers, for 20 years. He finished his career working for the City of Keene, first as Water and Wastewater Utilities Maintenance Foreman, then as Airport Operations and Maintenance Foreman. He retired in 2010.
Hanscom was a kind man with remarkable mechanical skills and creative talents. He touched countless people through his extraordinary ability to craft, repair and design projects of all descriptions.
Whether building a barn, turning a bearing, crafting stone walls, welding, woodwork, home renovations, forestry or math…there was nothing he could not make or fix.
HELLO!!died December 31, 2016 in West Tremont, Maine. After receiving his B.S. in Marine Engineering Operations from MMA, he worked for McDermott International on the Derrick Barge 50, and was promoted to Second Assistant Engineer. While usually working in the Gulf of Mexico, Gridley was also able to travel to Trinidad and Tobago and to Brazil for work. In his earlier years, and occasionally while he was home from the DB50, he would lobster. He loved being at sea, working hard, being with friends and coworkers, and doing workshop projects.
HELLO!!died December 24, 2016. As a merchant marine, McIver traveled the seas to many countries. Leaving the sea for land, he began his steam and power engineering career at Georgia Pacific in Woodland, Maine. In 1976, McIver and his family moved to Shawmut after he had secured a position as a shift supervisor with Scott Paper Company. His 25 years there garnered him loyal friends and co-workers, as he took on his responsibilities of writing operational and safety manuals, conducting training sessions, and then becoming manager of the Recovery Department under S.D. Warren, later becoming a consultant for SAPPI after his retirement in 2001. His love of Maine’s woods, especially North Brook, graced him with many opportunities for simply being in the great outdoors.
HELLO!!died December 20, 2016 in Wayne, Illinois. After MMA, he served in the Navy and Merchant Marine, and shot skeet competitively, before moving to Detroit in 1955 to begin his career in industrial machine tool sales. Following a business opportunity he moved to Chicago where he started Jenkins Machine and Tool, which he led for more than 50 years. Jenkins was happiest telling stories and shooting skeet; he kept up both hobbies well past his 90th birthday.
HELLO!!died December 15, 2016. Before attending MMA, he left home in Gardiner, Maine, for Alaska, to work in the fishing industry. After graduation, he traveled the world as a first mate until coming ashore to live a simple life, where he treasured nature and his family.
HELLO!!Scott Murray ’14 is 2nd Mate for the Grand River Navigation Company, Traverse City, Michigan, and First Class Pilot aboard the ATB Victory / James L Kuber, sailing on the Great Lakes since graduating.
HELLO!!Chief Engineer Jon Harrison ‘12 sent a photo of him (left) with ABS inspector Shawn Poulin ‘07 (right) completing annual inspections onboard the HOS Crockett.
The vessel is a 320-foot, state-of-the-art OSV with DP2 capabilities.The main propulsion onboard is two 3516 Caterpillar Tier 3 engines with Scana reduction gears and CPP propellers rated for 6000 horsepower. The vessel has three C32 Caterpillar thrusters with twin disk reduction gears and CPP propellers totaling 3,900 horsepower. The electrical plant includes two C32 Caterpillar gensets with a combined kilowatt rating of 1430kw to supply a 480 volt electrical bus.
“I had three years with Hornbeck,” writes Harrison, “onboard the 320 class vessels and have recently taken a new opportunity deep sea with ARC onboard a 650-foot RoRo, the M/V Patriot.”
HELLO!!David Witzke ’05 lives in Sydney, Australia and works for MUR Shipping as a Commercial Vessel Operator. “After 10 years of overseas sailing,” he writes, “my wife and I moved to Australia where I worked as Master on tugboats, work boats and passenger ferries.”
After moving to Darwin, Northern Territory, he established the SeaLink Northern Territory passenger ferry service, which runs from Darwin
Harbor and the Aboriginal community of the Tiwi Islands. “After the birth of our first child, Grace,” he continues, “we moved to Sydney where I have my current position, which includes responsibility for the operations of handy, supra and cape-sized vessels operating in the Asia/Pacific region.
“The photo shows the ferry Reef Cat, which I operated and sailed as Master for the Aboriginal community of Palm Island off the coast of Queensland near the Great Barrier Reef.”
HELLO!!Greetings from Eric Hadley ’00: “I am founder of Got Your Six Coffee Company. My company is designed to sell coffee, pay the bills and use the profits to help veterans, EMTs, LEOs and Fire Fighters.
“I am trying to use the necessity of coffee as a catalyst for change in our communities and within the country that I hold so dear. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Please check me out on Facebook and my website: gotyoursixcoffee.com
HELLO!!
