Spring 2002

Topics in this issue:

Foundation Selected to Sponsor New Book (Foundation selected to sponsor and help write Coast Guard Volume in series of books on branches of U.S. Military)

Photo Contest (Details of March - July 2002 photo contest)

Oral History Program (Siler, Gracey, and Yost Oral Histories completed and transcripts are now being edited; Loy oral history planned and either Kime or Kramek are being planned)

Limited Edition Print (USCGC Burton Island available)

Historic Tidbits (Assignments of DC 3 Eric Bowers of Washington DC, following 9/11, transport of USN personnel aboard Harriet Lane just before opening of Civil War, importance of history explained in "James Madison," 1786)

Beach Patrol (Additional local points of contact identified)

E-Mail (First addition of The Cutter transmitted to those members who have provided an email address)