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The President's Report on the State of the Academy
CONTENTS
3 PRESIDENT'S
MESSAGE
13
ENROLLMENT
4
FUNDAMENTALS
15
MARINERS
ATHLETICS
6
RECOGNITION
17
COSTS&
FINANCIAL AID
7
ACADEMIC
MILESTONES
18
ADVANCEMENT
21
FINANCIALS
9
FACULTY
SCHOLARSHIP
11
HANDS-ON
EDUCATION
23
ALUMNI
ADMINISTRATION
STAFF
PRESIDENT
DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE RELATIONS
William J. Brennan, Ph.D.
Jennifer DeJoy | jennifer.dejoy@mma.edu
V.P. FOR FINANCIAL &
MANAGING EDITOR
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICES
Billy R. Sims | billy.sims@mma.edu
Petra Carver
ART DIRECTOR
Dee Yocom | deanna.yocom@mma.edu
PROVOST & V. P. FOR
ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
Photos: Lance Bishop, Jeffrey Boal, Chase
David M. Gardner, Ph.D.
Davidson, Billy Sims.
V. P. FOR ADVANCEMENT
Postmaster: Please send change of address
Christopher J. Haley, MBA
notice to Alumni Relations, Maine Mari-
time Academy, Castine, ME 04420. Printed
V. P. FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS &
by Franklin Printing, Farmington, Maine.
ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT
Published September, 2017.
Elizabeth True, Ph.D.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Robert Somerville '65, Chair; Earle Cianchette '77, Vice Chairman;
John F. "Dugan" Shipway, RADM, USN (Ret.), Treasurer; Rhonda Varney, Secretary; Morten
Arntzen; Carolyn Brodsky; Gregory S. Fryer; Katherine Greenleaf; Capt. Wendy Morrison '85;
Jason Oney '96; Capt. Robert J. Peacock II '71; Anne Marie Samway; Hon. W. Tom Sawyer, Jr.;
Truman Slocum '18; Miles Theeman; Arthur "Kitt" Watson; and J. Douglas Wellington, J.D.,
LL.M.; EMERITI: William Bullock; Ward I. Graffam, Esq; Richard J. Grosh; William E. Haggett;
and Walter E. Travis