Winter - Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum

Lifelines
Model Guild
The enthusiastic cooperation on
projects and the opportunity to learn
from other members makes the
Model Guild an especially enjoyable
volunteer activity at the Museum.
-Bob Mason, Director of the Model Guild
A special thanks to our volunteer water captains and crewmembers, who offer Mister Jim rides for the Museum’s on-the-water
programs. Pictured from left: Nick Green, Tom Hollingshead, John Stumpf, Tom Carlson, Duane Lundahl, Don Parks, Bill Day,
Lou Beman, Jerry Friedman, Geoff Holmes, Ben Tilghman, Richard Shaw, Robin Gordon, and Lloyd Devigne.
The Academy for
Lifelong Learning’s
(ALL) winter semester
begins in January,
and follows a fall
semester with the
highest attendance in
ALL’s history.
Please register early,
as courses fill up fast.
You can look for your
class catalog to come
in the mail soon.
ALL offers an enriching experience – with classes
focused on history, literature, art, science, religion,
leisure, sport, current affairs and more. One of
the many benefits of Museum membership is a
discounted ALL membership.
To request a course catalog or for more
information, contact Helen Van Fleet at
410-745-4941, or email hvanfleet@cbmm.org.
Information on ALL can also be found at
cbmm.org/l_academy.htm
Get Involved with CBMM
Would you like
to help with our
special events?
Give tours of the
Museum?
Do model boats
intrigue you?
Are you a gardener?
Is research your
cup of tea?
Volunteer Docent John
Stumpf leads a tour around
Watermen’s Wharf.
Whatever your interests, we have an opportunity for
you! Learn more about becoming a volunteer and
the fun ways you can help and meet new people too!
Contact Acting Volunteer Coordinator
Melissa Spielman 410-745-4956,
or mspielman@cbmm.org
Wander through the Museum grounds on any Monday
morning, and you will find a group of volunteers hard
at work building boats. You may be surprised to find yourself
not at the Boat Yard, but at the Bay History Building among
the dedicated members of the Model Guild, who support the
curatorial needs of the Museum with display models. Each
year, Guild members conduct four classes to teach modeling
skills while making a lapstrake skiff or a half-hull model of the
Pride of Baltimore II.
A major project of the Guild is to manufacture model kits
to sell in the Museum Store. The kits for sale include Martha,
a Hooper Island draketail, the Lark, an early sailing deadrise
workboat, a lapstrake crabbing skiff, and the Hooper Strait
Lighthouse. The Model Guild was loosely organized in 1990
and headed up by
Norm Stewart, an avid
model builder who
was actively involved
at the Museum for
many years.
Prior to the Guild’s
formation, Stewart
offered a variety of
model building classes.
In 1990, the curatorial
department
approached him for
assistance to build
display models for
the Steamboat Building
exhibition. Stewart
organized a group
for the project, which
Model Guild Director & Treasurer
eventually branched
Bob Mason
into other activities.
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The Model Guild, back row from left, Casper Behr; Graeme Clapp;
Tom Huddleston; Gary Nylander; Bob Mason, Director and Treasurer;
Jim Wortman; Gordon Ries; Ed Santelmann. Front row: Dennis Berg;
Kirby Scott; Angus MacInnis; Ted Suman.
(above) A model of the
Hooper Island Draketail,
Martha.
(left) A half-hull model of
The Pride of Baltimore II.
Approximately 30 volunteers currently make up the organization.
Every Monday morning several members meet to
review current and future endeavors. The group is not all
business though––the informal atmosphere has been another
draw for the Guild. Members enjoy not only the group dynamic,
but also the chance to share their love of model building
directly with the public through an open window in the
Model Gallery of the Bay History Building, and also through
classes and open houses during the Museum’s festivals. New
members of any experience level are always welcome.
For more information about the Model Guild, please contact Bob Mason
at 410-745-3266, or email bobmason@atlanticbb.net.