died December 29, 2021. Calder was executive director of the Boston Shipping Association, a former president of the Port of Boston, former first vice president of the Port of New Orleans, and a former president of the Port of Baltimore. He had been employed by United Fruit Co. for twenty-six years. Calder was a past president of the Maritime Club of Baltimore and the Boston Harbor Association and was a past vice president of the National Propeller Club. He was also a director of the Maritime Association of Greater Boston and was a member of the National Association of Maritime Exchanges, the North Atlantic Ports Association, and the Navy League of the United States.

passed away on September 28, 2022. Known by many as Captain “B,” Brennan was born in Brockton, Mass. Upon finishing high school, his parents drove him to the Kents Hill School to burnish his academic record so he could attend Boston College. World War II got in the way of those plans and set him on a course that would eventually make Maine his home. Brennan enrolled as a midshipman in the just established MMA. Upon graduation, he took a commission as an ensign in the U.S. Navy. His first Navy assignment also became his first command as the captain of a 110-foot sub chaser, and he spent the war sailing in both Pacific and Atlantic waters. Following the war, he went to Pensacola, Fla., for flight training and the beginning of the next part of his career as a Naval aviator. In 1966, Brennan retired from the Navy and returned to his alma mater, as the Academy’s first Commandant of Midshipmen. For twenty years, he helped develop the college, its facilities, programs, and most importantly, the regiment of young men and women entrusted to his care. Brennan retired from the Academy in 1982 and he and his wife moved to Falmouth, where he began his third career—giving back in service to others. For more than twenty years, he volunteered his time to several organizations in southern Maine. Over his life, he demonstrated to the world that he was very much a humanist. He understood human frailties and encouraged others with strength, compassion, and affection.

died peacefully on April 5, 2017. In 1940, he attended Dartmouth College majoring in economics. In 1942, he left Dartmouth to attend MMA and subsequently joined the U.S. Navy and served until 1946. In 1955, he was transferred to Elmhurst, Ill., working for US Gypsum. He took a position as marketing manager with Kaiser Aluminum which brought the family to California in 1959. After he received his brokerage license, he finished his working career as a stockbroker with Morgan Stanley. He loved his life on the lake with his old wooden boat, cruising the lake and chasing sunsets with family and friends. He had a dry sense of humor and was a man of few words, but led by example in his kindness, honesty, integrity, and loyalty.

passed away April 26, 2022. He lived in Jupiter, Fla.

died April 13, 2022. He graduated from Cheverus High School, Portland, Maine, and MMA. McCarthy served with the U.S. Merchant Marines. He was employed in the engineering department with Commercial Union Insurance Company for thirty years. He was longtime communicant of Saint Pius X Church, where he served as a Eucharistic minister and altar server. Deeply devoted to his faith, he held membership in the Legion of One Thousand Men of the Monastery of the Precious Blood as well as the Knights of Columbus. He will be remembered for his kind, gentlemanly ways.

passed away May 17, 2022. He graduated from Morse High School (Bath, Maine) and MMA. Following service with the U.S. Navy during the Korean War, he moved to New Jersey. He was employed for 32 years by United States Lines, Inc., achieving the rank of captain. Lowell was a member of the Masons, Shrine, and the Scottish Rite. For many years, he volunteered at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath.

died Sept. 24, 2022. Upon graduation from MMA, Gagne sailed with Farrell Lines for seven years and then worked for the Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance Co. for thirty-three years until his retirement. Gagne was an avid Biddeford Tiger fan and volunteered for more than twentytwo years with the Biddeford Athletic Association in various roles, including maintaining Waterhouse Field and earning the moniker “Mr. Fix-It.” He enjoyed cheering on his grandchildren at sporting events, Special Olympics, and other school events. He shared his love of nature with fishing trips to frozen lakes, isolated northern locations, and to the “secret hole.”

passed away on September 26, 2022. Sawyer graduated from Deering High School in Portland, Maine, and MMA. In the 1950s he moved to Boston to attend MIT, graduating with degrees in naval architecture & marine engineering and shipping & ship building management. These degrees led to a career in tanker construction, shipping analysis, and finance. Retirement afforded Sawyer and his wife the opportunity to return to Maine, and they settled in Damariscotta. In retirement, Sawyer became an active member of the Portland Marine Society, apprenticed at the Carpenter’s Boat Shop in Pemaquid, and volunteered for the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath. He returned to MMA as a guest lecturer, Alumni Board Director, and mentor. He worked to research and restore the Highland Cemetery in Nobleboro. He also continued his father’s work in genealogy, tracking his family back through the 1600s.

died peacefully May 12, 2022. Truman graduated from Biddeford High (president of his senior class) and MMA. Truman spent several years at sea as an engineering officer on cargo and passenger ships sailing around the world. He had a two-year tour of duty in the U.S. Navy on the USS Wacamaw and then partnered in many businesses with his brothers. Truman served in the 103rd Maine legislature. He was inducted into the MMA Wall of Honor and served on their board of directors for ten years. He served on boards for St. Andre Hospital, Pepperell Trust Bank, and the Royal Palm Yacht and Country Club. Truman valued helping others and giving back to the community. He and his wife were active in tennis, golf, and croquet tournaments and competed in some of the finest facilities around the country. One highlight was when they were two of only two hundred people in the world that chased Haley’s Comet from Miami to South America on a British Airlines’ Concorde, literally traveling to the edge of space in 1986.