SEASIDE CEREMONIES NJ

PERSONAL INFORMATION AND BACKGROUND

MUSEUM OF NEW JERSEY MARITIME HISTORY -  On July 3rd, 2007,  my husband, ex-husband and I successfully completed a 3-year construction project with the opening of a maritime museum and educational facility at Dock Road and West Avenue in Beach Haven.  Built on property formerly owned by us, this construction was financed entirely with our own funds  (and that of our bank) with no supplemental funding or grants from any governmental agency.  Since then, the entire museum property, inclusive of the building and its contents,  has been deeded to the non-profit corporation to be maintained as an educational maritime museum in perpetuity.

A registered non-profit, 501(C)(3) facility, the Museum of New Jersey Maritime History, Inc. houses a large collection of nautical antiques, accounts and photographs of New Jersey shipwrecks, historical documents relating to the establishment of the U.S. Life-Saving Service, a research library, public internet cafe', computer data-base, and recovered shipwreck artifacts. 

It has been a life-long dream of mine to pay homage to our rich maritime history by the creation of such a memorial, where the public can view, firsthand - and free of charge - an important part of New Jersey's heritage.  More importantly, this facility will enable today's youth to learn more about this fascinating part of their State's history and will provide them with an incentive to preserve this legacy for generations to come.

AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

EMT & Captain of the Beach Haven First Aid Squad 

Inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame 2011

Lifetime member of the Long Beach Island Chapter of Deborah Hospital

Emergency Medical Technician for the Beach Haven First Aid Squad

Former Trustee and Lifetime member of the Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum

Member of the National Maritime Historical Society

Member of the Executive Board of the New Jersey Association for Elected Women Officials

Lifetime member of the Ocean County Historical Association

Lifetime member of the Long Beach Island Historical Association

Member of the Tuckerton Seaport Founder's Club

Member of the National Rifle Association

Member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Lifetime member of the American Cancer Society

Member of the Mid-Atlantic New Jersey Chapter of the National Organization for Women

Member of the Rotary Club of Long Beach Island

Member of the FOF - Friends of the Funeral Consumers Alliance

Member of the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians

Lifetime member of the Alliance for a Living Ocean

Member of the Barnegat Bay Estuary Committee

Lifetime member of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Member of the New Jersey Bipartisan Coalition for Women's Appointments

Member of The Chapel of Four Chaplains, Philadelphia, PA

Ordained Member of the Clergy of The Church of Spiritual Humanism

Ordained Minister of the Universal Life Church

Member of the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians

Member of the Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation

Contributor of the Mariner's Museum, Newport News, VA

Member of the Council of American Maritime Museums

Honorary Chair of the Ocean County Historical Society

Member of the Beach Haven Taxpayers Association

Member of Edgar Cayce Foundation - Association for Research and Enlightenment

Member of the Tuckerton Seaport's Down Bay Gala Committee

Member of the New Jersey Mayors Association

Member of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps

Member of the New Jersey State League of Municipalities - Legislative Committee

Member of the New Jersey Conference of Mayors

Member of the Ocean County Mayors Association

Member of the Board of the Ocean County Girl Scouts Women of Achievement Committee

Elected President of the Beach Haven First Aid Squad, Inc. 2003, 2004 and 2005

Member of the Southern Ocean County Hospital Women's Advisory Board

Elected Captain of the Beach Haven First Aid Squad, Inc. 2006, 2009, 2010

Elected Trustee and Vice President of the Beach Haven First Aid Squad, Inc. 2011

Member of the National Association of Wedding Officiants

Member of the National Notary Association

Member of the National Maritime Historical Society

Minuteman PAC Member