Greetings Fellow OAEA Members,
As we move across the calendar, I am very pleased to report that our
Vice President Dr. Dewey Painter has the arrangements for the next Old
Antarctic Explorers Association reunion in hand. The reunion will be
14-17 September at a venue near BWI airport which services Washington DC
and Baltimore MD. As soon as some additional details are ironed out,
registration forms will be distributed, and will also be on the website
available for download.
I
recently returned to Texas after being a guest speaker on two different
trans Atlantic cruise ships. I talked about many things from maritime
navigation to pirates but what most people were interested in was
Antarctica. This frigid and rugged environment and the comradery we
shared is what bonds us to the OAEA organization which honors our
members and those that went before us.
A little factoid here…how many of you know that Christina Koch of the
recent Artemis lunar mission is an Old Antarctic Explorer? She wintered
at South Pole Station and did a season at Palmer Station during the
period between 2004 to 2007. It appears Antarcticans are everywhere.
Some new members have been added to our roles: William Packard, Navy
Seabee with CBU-201 during new Palmer construction 68-69; Ronald Peck,
NSF USARP who was station manager at South Pole 77-78; Thomas Veine,
Navy Petty Officer wintered at McMurdo Station 64-65; Chris Callahan,
returning expired member Navy Officer with VXE-6 made 3 deployments
86-88; Robert Boswell, Navy Medical Officer with VXE-6 crashed with A/C
219 at Dome Charlie and was involved with other Dome Charlie field camp
operations 73-75; James Sullivan, retired Navy Oifficer visited
Antarctica on VIKING POLARIS in 2026; and Vince Milewski, Navy Petty
Officer member of 71-72 winter over at McMurdo and also spent 30 days at
the original South Pole station before the winter set in.
It amazes me how generous our membership is. We depend on donations
to fund our operations expenses and for our scholarship program. This
last quarter we took in $720.00 to the general fund and $1505 to the
scholarship fund. Many thanks to Robert Boswell, Gerald Stokely, Bruce
DeWald, Andrew Milewski, James Sullivan, Michelle Cooke, and Edward
Hames. From these few names, members Bruce DeWalld, Michelle Cooke, and
Edward Hames are regular contributors with Michelle Cooke funding a
special annual scholarship award.
And this is a perfect segue to remind everyone that we are in the
window for scholarship award request submissions. If you want to know
more about our scholarship program and want to sponsor someone, click here
for information and to download the application. Cutoff for
submissions is to be postmarked by 1 July. Address specific scholarship
questions to the Scholarship Chairperson at lindahamblin1967@gmail.com.
Sadly, we have also added additional names to our OAEA online newsletter In Memory page.
This list is a comprehensive list of those OAEA members who are no
longer with us that have been identified since we started this list in
2022. Many of those no longer with us contributed to the early days of
Operation Deep Freeze and many have Antarctic features named for them.
Best regards to all of you.
Sincerely
Wayne L. White
President, Old Antarctic Explorers Association
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