Crowley Maritime Corporation Awards Scholarships to Williams-Mystic Students

(Mystic, Conn.; March 17, 2004) – Peter Nelson, from Southborough, Maine, and Danielle Nagelberg, from Philadelphia, Penn., students in the Maritime Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport, have each been named as recipients of a Thomas B. Crowley Sr. Memorial Scholarship, which is presented annually at the institution by Crowley Maritime Corporation.

Both were selected based on academic success, financial need, and their interest in maritime trades and studies. In addition to participating in the Williams-Mystic program, Nelson is an art history major at Wheaton College and Nagelberg is an international relations major from the University of Pennsylvania.

Williams-Mystic is the only interdisciplinary program of its kind. Undergraduates of all majors share one semester at Mystic Seaport to focus on the past, present and future of the earth’s oceans. Williams-Mystic combines the academic excellence of Williams College and the unparalleled learning environment of Mystic Seaport The Museum of America and the Sea. Students participate in four rigorous courses, a museum skills class, a Pacific Coast field seminar, a Nantucket Island field seminar, and a deep-water offshore voyage.

Over the years, Crowley Chairman, President and CEO, Tom Crowley Jr., has given tens of thousands of dollars to deserving students at the maritime academies and other select institutions in the name of his father Thomas B. Crowley Sr., who guided the company to extraordinary heights before passing away in 1994.

Oakland-based Crowley Maritime Corp., founded in 1892, is primarily a family- and employee-owned company engaged in worldwide logistics, liner services, contract towing and transportation, energy support services, ship assist and escort services, vessel management and petroleum and chemical marine transport. Additional information about Crowley, its subsidiaries and business units may be found on the Internet at www.crowley.com.

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