Chief Engineers Log

Engineer's Alley, Bresnahan Hall


While he was President of Massachusetts Maritime Academy, the late RADM Maurice J. Bresnahan, Jr. USN (Ret.) '59 proposed that MMA graduates who had attained a USCG Chief Engineer license be recognized on campus. In response, a small group of Chief Engineers - Dennis Doherty ‘60, Gus Bourneuf ’61, and Gus Forand ’65 along with Academy staffers CAPT Brad Lima ’74 and CDR George Gillis ’64 - moved this project forward. Today, the Chief Engineers Log proudly hangs in “Engineer’s Alley” on the first floor of Bresnahan Hall.

The committee’s first initiative helped secure over $25,000 in donations towards procuring three single phase, 120 volt reversible-motor controllers for the T.S. Kennedy’s Motor Control Lab. As direct beneficiaries of the generosity of those whose names appear on the Chief Engineers Log, Engineering cadets learn proper electrical safety as well as wiring systems in the Control Lab.

We encourage Massachusetts Maritime Academy’s Chief Engineer alumni to join us in continuing this initiative and pass the information along to shipmates and classmates that are Chief Engineers. For further information or to purchase a nameplate, please contact Linda Noonan at lnoonan@maritime.edu or 508-830-5038.


Eligibility

All Massachusetts Maritime Academy graduates whose license read CHIEF ENGINEER.


Current Members

Founding Members - Dennis Doherty ‘60; Gus Bourneuf ’61; Oscar “Gus” Forand ’65
 

 

Name

Year

Name

Year

Name

Year

Everett S. Ransom 1898 William J. McClellan 1963 William C. Van Wormer 1976
Thomas E. O'Donovan 1926 John E. Miller, Jr. 1964 Richard L. McAndrew 1976
James D. Crosby 1931 Oscar "Gus" Forand 1965 David P. Janes 1977
James M. Murray 1935 Leonard B. Hathon 1965 J. Brian Shepard, Sr. 1979
William H. Hemmerly 1936 George T. Hunt 1965 Joseph P. Collins 1979
Anthony B. L'Esperance 1942 Gerald P. Miante 1965 Todd Hibbert 1981
George E. Murphy 1943 Joseph C. Rudinski 1965 Robert Shaughnessy 1981
Frederick H.G. Wright 1943 Bartholomew T. Walsh 1965 John J. Strazzulla 1982
John J. Ventola 1944 Richard C. Brown 1966 Brian William Riley 1982
William F. Hefner 1945 Richard M. Mushet 1966 Andrew W. Hayden 1984
John A. Culver USN (Ret) 1947 Robert H. McMurray, Jr. 1966 Michael S. Tinkel 1985
Charles M. Dallas 1947 William Henry Campbell 1967 Christopher Myers 1987
Thomas F. Nicholson 1950 Daniel E. Doherty 1967 Richard Whittemore 1990
William "Max" Brady 1951 Charles T. Kimtis, Jr. 1967 Jeremy Lisle Malcolm 1992
Arthur G. Aldrich, Jr. 1956 William A. Janes 1968 Karen A. Higgins 1994
Donald E. Kadlac 1959 Walter A. Suslak 1968 Marisol A. Chalas 1996
Lawrence Jacobanis 1960 Peter Canisius 1969 Jeffery A. Mathias 1996
Dennis G. Doherty 1960 Robert A. Dow 1969 Jess Bigelow 1999
Ralph O. Hill 1960 William P. Laffan 1970 Kevin F. McCollem 2002
Lawrence J. Ward 1961 Mark V. O'Donnell 1974 Erin Beth Lawrence 2003
Gus Bourneuf Jr. 1961 Brad Lima 1974 Joe DeMelin 2004
Ernest S. Dewis 1962 David E. Mahoney 1974 Timothy S. Jany 2006
William J. Butler, Jr. 1963 Thomas L. Stanton 1974 Lauren B. Temple 2006
Francis D. Collins 1963 William A. Eident 1975 Laura K. (Fagen) Wilcox 2007
Henry J. Lamb 1963 Thomas A. St.Pierre 1975