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CROWLEYNEWS RELEASE
Contact: Courtney ClaytonIntern, Corporate Communications(904) [email protected]
For Immediate Release
Crowley Awards Scholarship to Six Williams-Mystic Students
(Jacksonville, Fla.; April xx, 2014) – Six Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program students have been
awarded scholarships by Crowley Maritime Corporation. Alex Youngs, Garrett Weston, Alex Dion,
Christian Blakesley, Rebecca Newman and Amanda Ketting-Oliver were each chosen as a result of their
academic excellence, morale and community involvement. The students also exhibited strong leadership
qualities and were articulate spokespeople for maritime education, according to Sarah A. Jordan,
Williams-Mystic's director of alumni and development.
Each student is in the midst of his or her respective academic career. California natives Youngs, Weston
and Blakesly are global studies majors at the California Maritime Academy (CMA); Newman is focusing
on environmental science at Ithaca College in New York; Dion is attending Mount Holyoke College
where she is studying English and maritime sciences, and Ketting-Oliver is studying geology at Mount
San Antonio Community College in Walnut, Calif.
The Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program is a joint effort of Williams College and Mystic Seaport,
which brings a unique hands-on approach to maritime education for students from various colleges all
over the country. It's a semester-long program centered on three field trips to the Pacific, Gulf, and
Atlantic Coasts. Crowley offers scholarship opportunities during each fall and spring semester to students
who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford tuition for the program.
Since 1984, Crowley has provided more than $3 million dollars in scholarship funding for more than
1,000 students studying at maritime academies and other select institutions in the U.S., Puerto Rico and
Central America. In 1994, Crowley Chairman, President and CEO, Tom Crowley Jr., established the
Thomas B. Crowley Sr. Memorial Scholarship Program, in honor of his father, and has also donated more
than $2 million over the years to support other educational programs.
To learn more about the Thomas B. Crowley Sr. Memorial Scholarship program, visit
www.crowley.com/scholarships.
Jacksonville-based Crowley Holdings Inc., a holding company of the 122-year-old Crowley Maritime
Corporation, is a privately held family and employee-owned company. The company provides project
solutions, transportation and logistics services in domestic and international markets by means of six
operating lines of business: Puerto Rico/Caribbean Liner Services, Latin America Liner Services,
Logistics Services, Petroleum Services, Marine Services and Technical Services. Offered within these
operating lines of business are: liner container shipping, logistics, contract towing and transportation; ship
assist and escort; energy support; salvage and emergency response through its TITAN Salvage subsidiary;
vessel management; vessel construction and naval architecture through its Jensen Maritime subsidiary;
government services, and petroleum and chemical transportation, distribution and sales. Additional
information about Crowley, its subsidiaries and business units may be found on the Internet at
www.crowley.com.
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