| Week of the Ocean Festival
Sea-son makes a big splash • The Museum
of Discovery & Science offered Sea Turtle
Watches & launched FLH20.com.
• The Marine Industries Association of
South Florida's 3000 volunteers recovered 50 tons
of trash during its Waterway Cleanup.
• National Week of the Ocean was
celebrated nationwide in classrooms &
museums.
• Broward County Libraries produced a new
ocean bibliography bookmark.
• Dania Marine Flea Market drew record
crowds.
• The School Marine Fair drew 1,500
finalists & the largest ever attendance of
2,000for an Int'l. Game Fish Hall of Fame Museum
event.
• The Broward Art Guild hosted an Earth
Watch lecture in honor of National Week of the
Ocean.
• Tom Callinan sang to new audiences
including Biscayne National Park.
• Three high school juniors were honored
as Outstanding High School Marine Students 2001
• Four teachers won for lesson plans:
Suzanne Frazier, Stirling Elementary; Ron
Baldwin & Elizabeth Moller, Tequesta Trace
Middle and Gloria Hudson, Crystal Lake Middle.
• The Cajun Zydeco Crawfish Festival
provided music with zing and spicy food to please
the palate.
• The Hospice Regatta raised $100,000.
• OceanFest welcomed Alexandra Cousteau,
granddaughter of the famous diver/explorer
Jacques, and hosted a mass dive-in to celebrate
International Dive-In Day.
• And Ocean Watch Foundation swept the
reefs of 2,700 pounds during its Reef Sweep &
Beach Cleanup.
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Outstanding High School
Marine Students express
marine concerns Chelsea DeWitt loves the sea,
follows current local and global marine issues
and takes part in coastal cleanups.
Mindy Figures is a captain
of the National Ocean Science Bowl Team,
organizes beach cleanups and works for the
University of Miami Rosentiel School
of Ocean Science.
Mindy describes, “Imagine a land with
nothing more
than the Earth beneath your feet, without one of
its most important features, the oceans. The
oceans help to maintain a sustainable climate for
life, provide an abundance of food and provide a
unique habitat for some of Earth's most
mysterious and valuable creatures.”
Kareen Young is an active member of her
school's
Ecology Club and shows true concern for the
earth.
Kareen says, “Life could not persist
without the oceans. Regardless of what lies
ahead, one should always have reverence for the
ocean and take that little bit of knowledge to
educate others about the importance of our
waters. Students should make a commitment to do
their part.”
National Save the Sea Turtle Foundation
becomes Lifetime Member
The NSTSTF is our most
recent Lifetime Member which includes a donation
of $1,000. Programs include pollution studies off
the Florida Coast and the Bahamas; sponsorship
of the MIASF Waterway Cleanup; daily waterway
cleanup from Foundation
vessels; Turtle Walks and awareness that the
purchase of a sea turtle license plate will
benefit the state's Marine Turtle Protection
Program, according to Education Director Isabelle
Peaslee. You can reach the Foundation by using
the Affiliates section of your Membership
Directory.
COMMITTEE PREPARING
WEBSITE
Several members have formed a committee to
reinstate our website: Dane Hancock,
registration;
Cynthia Hancock, copy;
Paul Hammond, design; Don Moore, animation.
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ANNUAL REPORT
REVEALS FRUGAL BUDGET
With a budget of less than $6,000 NWO reports
largest income was earned from dues and
fundraisers. Outgo was equally dispersed
between operations and community outreach
projects. A small stipend has been set aside to
register NWO
in order to set up a web page.
DECEMBER AUCTION
UNDERWAY
Members are busy planning
themed gift baskets, seeking
auction prizes & selecting a food item to
share at the Chinese Auction Saturday, December
8. Can you help?
COASTAL LIVING
HELPS TEACHERS
LOCATE OUR KITS
Thanks to a mention about us
in the Harcourt & Brace
Publishers catalog when
launching Debra Frazier's
wonderful book for children,
Out of the Ocean, Coastal Living ran an item on
our Teacher's Kits in their March/April issue
several years ago. Each teacher
had to call our offices directly
and in conversa-tions about their classroom
studies 177 kits and 46 posters sold in a matter
of days.
2002 MARKS OUR
23rd CELEBRATION;
CO-FOUNDERS LAUNCHED
#1 IN 1980
From the original concept in
1977 which led to campus
events at American Heritage
Schools in 1979 and the first
festival in 1980 Week of the
Ocean's focus was local with the intention to
share its successes nation-ally. As Cynthia
Hancock stated in an abstract presented at the
1981 IEEE conference,“
Ocean awareness and support lag behind the
world's
increasing needs of food,
water and energy. A national program of ocean
awareness is critically needed. If such a program
as Week of the Ocean were coordinated jointly by
educa-tors and their communities across the
nation, knowledge of how to use the ocean's
bountiful resources wisely might be attained
before the critical time of survival is faced by
society.”
As national co-chair Scott Carpenter reminds
us, “If the ocean dies, we die.”
There is much yet to be done. What will be your
contribution?
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