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Union venerables honored: Two long-time members of the Masters, Mates & Pilots, Richard Connelly
and Joe Milkavich, have received their 50-year pins and certificates from union officials. (Left) MM&P
International President Tim Brown presented the award to Connelly at a recent union meeting in Los
Angeles/Long Beach. Brown sailed as chief mate for Connelly, who has actually been a member of MM&P
for 60 years. (Right) In New York, Atlantic Ports Vice President Rich May presents a 50-year pin and
certificate to Milkavich, who joined the union in 1943 and has thus been a member for over 61 years.
MM&P Disaster Relief Fund
Gets Tax-Exempt Status
The MM&P Disaster Relief Fund has officially been
approved as a tax-exempt organization. Tax-exempt status
means that all contributions to the fund are tax deductible.
Since its inception in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the
fund has raised over $106,000 and made more than $73,000
in disbursements. To contribute to the fund, please send a
check, made payable to “The MM&P Disaster Relief Fund,”
to 700 Maritime Blvd., Linthicum Heights, MD 21090. For
more information, or if you have suffered losses as a result of
the hurricanes and wish to apply for aid, call (410) 850-8700
ext. 11 or 12.
Daughter of MM&P Member
Wins Scholarship
Shannon Casey, daughter of MM&P member Joseph M.
Casey, is the recipient of one of two $2,500 prizes awarded
by the Baltimore, Md.-based law firm Ashcraft & Gerel. The
firm sponsors two, one-time only scholarships for college
students whose immediate family members belong to a
Baltimore-area AFL-CIO affiliated union. Shannon, who was
unable to attend the event, intends to seek a master’s degree
in mental health and counseling. She expects to graduate in
June 2009. Present at the awards ceremony were (left to right)
MM&P Special Projects Director Richard Plant, attorney
William F. Mulroney, a partner in the firm that made the
awards, and Ernie Grecco, president of the Metropolitan
Baltimore Council AFL-CIO.
- - January – February 2006 The Master, Mate & Pilot