KP Chesapeake Maritime Dinner
Joint Maritime Industry Program presented by
USMMA KP Alumni - Chesapeake Chapter & the Baltimore Port Alliance (BPA)
KP Alumni – Chapter Presidents Alliance, Inc. - Mid-Atlantic Region sponsored event.
Highlighting: “Maritime Transportation Policy 2011”
Hosted at The Conference Center at the Maritime Institute
692 Maritime Blvd Linthicum Heights, MD 21090
Tel: (866)-629-3196
Web: http://www.ccmit.org
Guest speaker presentation: Honorable Frank A. LoBiondo (R-NJ, 2nd District), Chairman of the House Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee
Welcoming attending Midshipmen representing USMMA Student Port of the Propeller Club, and USMMA Regimental Color Guard!
Special guests include The Honorable Helen Delich Bentley (former Chairman, Federal Maritime Commission), and Captain Mark P. O'Malley, USCG, Captain of The Port of Baltimore. The leadership of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, the KPA-CPA and the USMMAAF will be invited to attend. The USMMA Alumni MARITIME POLICY 2011-12 presentation package will be available to all interested parties as we “Tell America About Kings Point, and the U.S. Merchant Marine!”
Agenda:
4:30PM to 5:15PM - Hosted Tour- MITAGS Simulator Technology Center RSVP Required
5:30PM Social / Cash Bar / * 30 Industry Table Top Exhibits * - “Business Development - Card Exchange - Networking Opportunity!”
6:30PM Welcome and Introductions – Gary G. Hicks ’76- President, USMMA KP Alumni - Chesapeake Chapter, Inc.
6:40PM to 7:10PM – Dinner (3 entrée unlimited buffet)
7:25PM Speaker Introduction
7:30PM to 8:00PM – Guest speaker - Honorable Frank A. LoBiondo (R-NJ, 2nd District), Chairman of the House Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee
Subject: “Maritime Transportation Policy 2011”
8:00PM – Remarks by Midshipman Cristina Fernandez O’Toole ’11 - President, USMMA Student Port of the Propeller Club
~ Welcome Midshipmen members of the USMMA Student Port of the Propeller Club, and the USMMA Regimental Color Guard attending as our guests! ~
8:10PM Concluding remarks
8:15PM Closing Ceremony
Dinner Registration & Remittance Required
DEADLINE: Monday February 28, 2011
Mail to: Gary G. Hicks ’76- President, USMMA KP Alumni - Chesapeake Chapter, Inc.,
42 Idlewild Street, Bel Air, MD 21014
Tel: (410) 420-0080
E-mail: [email protected]
Web Site: http://www.kpchesapeake.com
Dinner cost: $ 35.00 payable in advance or $ 40.00 at the door - cash or Check payable to: KPChesapeake
Payments can also be made online
Visit http://www.kpchesapeake.com NEWS page http://www.kpchesapeake.com/about.html
Welcome Table Top Exhibitors!
EXHIBITOR REGISTRATION & PAYMENT DEADLINE: Monday February 28, 2011
Mail to: Gary G. Hicks ’76- President, USMMA KP Alumni - Chesapeake Chapter, Inc.,
42 Idlewild Street, Bel Air, MD 21014
Cost: $ 100.00 Includes Dinner, Exhibit Table and Program Brochure listing. Check payable to: KPChesapeake
Payments can also be made online
Visit http://www.kpchesapeake.com NEWS page http://www.kpchesapeake.com/about.html
Exhibitor Information Contact: John M. Hotaling ’68 - Director, Industry Outreach Cell: (703) 867-4900 Ofc: (703) 525-4092 [email protected]
Also Contact:: David Tyner ’73 - Vice President & Business Development Director Cell: (443) 226-3690 Ofc: (410) 836-5985 [email protected]
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Honorable Frank A. LoBiondo (R-NJ, 2nd District), Chairman of the House Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee
About our invited speaker: Frank A. LoBiondo (R-NJ, 2nd District), Chairman of the House Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee. The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee oversees laws related to the Coast Guard, shipping and all aspects of maritime transportation.
Coast Guard Authorization: One of the Committee’s priorities in the 112th Congress is enacting legislation to provide the necessary authorities and resources for the Coast Guard to carry out its broad responsibilities. The service enforces the nation’s laws in U.S. waters and on the high seas, and protects the lives and property of those at sea. The Coast Guard’s missions include maritime search and rescue, illegal drug and migrant interdiction, oil spill prevention and response in the marine environment, marine safety, maintenance of aids to navigation, icebreaking, enforcement of U.S. fisheries and other marine environmental laws, and maritime defense readiness.
Maritime Transportation: The Committee supports the development of a national strategic transportation plan that includes a strong maritime transportation component and greater use of coastwise trade. Marine highways represent a cost effective but underutilized mode of transportation, and the Committee will examine ways to encourage the use of short-sea shipping, or shipping between domestic ports in the United States. This concept has the potential to create new maritime industry jobs for Americans.
Frank A. LoBiondo (born May 12, 1946) is the U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 2nd congressional district, serving since 1995. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district is at the southern end of New Jersey, and by far the biggest Congressional District in the state. It includes all of Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Salem Counties and parts of Camden, Gloucester and Burlington Counties.
Born in Bridgeton, New Jersey, LoBiondo attended Georgetown Preparatory School, and received a B.A. in Business Administration from Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He worked for twenty-six years in a family-owned trucking company.
LoBiondo served on the Cumberland County Board of Chosen Freeholders from 1985 to 1987 and was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly (the lower chamber of the New Jersey Legislature) from 1988 to 1994.
Committee assignments
Committee on Armed Services
Subcommittee on Readiness
Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Subcommittee on Aviation
Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation (Chairman - confirmed 012011)
Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
He is a member of the moderate Republican Main Street Partnership. He is viewed as conservative when compared to other members of the Republican Main Street Partnership. He has opposed federal funding for stem cell research and voted to limit abortion. He voted for the Flag Desecration Amendment, the Iraq War Resolution, banning gay adoption, banning gay marriage and banning affirmative action. The National Rifle Association has given him an "A" rating, and the ACLU has given him a 13% percent rating because of his strong stance against illegal drugs, support for the death penalty and other conservative positions.
LoBiondo's record on several issues, particularly the environment, fits a moderate Republican. In 2005 the National Journal ranked him as the most liberal Republican Representative in New Jersey and more liberal than most of New York's Republican Congressional representatives. The Americans for Democratic Action in 2005 did not go that far, but placed him in a higher liberal quotient than most of the Republican representatives in those two states.