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Paul Hall Center’s Eglinton named to National Maritime Security Advisory Committee (1/11)

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently announced the appointment of individuals to serve on the National Maritime Security Advisory Committee. Bill Eglinton, director of training at the SIU-affiliated Paul Hall Center for Maritime Training and Education, was among those named to the group. The U.S. Coast Guard issued a press release dated Jan. 6 that appears below and also is available on the Coast Guard web site here DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY ANNOUNCES MARITIME SECURITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today announced the appointment of the following individuals to serve on the National Maritime Security Advisory Committee. "On behalf of Secretary Ridge, I am delighted to welcome these advisors to our team," said Admiral Thomas H. Collins, commandant of the Coast Guard. "We look forward to working with the Committee to continue strengthening our efforts to protect our ports and waterways while keeping them open for commerce." The advisory committee has been established to provide advice to the Department of Homeland Security via the U.S. Coast Guard on matters such as national maritime security strategy and policy, actions required to meet current and future security threats, international cooperation on security issues, and security concerns of the maritime transportation industry as mandated by the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002. Members of the committee are: Christopher Louis Koch, president & CEO, World Shipping Council Joseph H. Langjahr, vice president and general counsel, Foss Maritime Company Thomas E. Thompson, executive vice president, International Council of Cruise Lines John C. Dragone, vice president, operating division, Maritrans Operating Company, L.P. Mary Frances Culnane, manager, San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority Basil Maher, president and chief operating officer, Maher Terminals Charles Raymond, chairman, president, and CEO, Horizon Lines Alice K. Johnson, senior supervisor, PPG Industries, Inc. Timothy J. Scott, global director, emergency services and security, The Dow Chemical Company Mark Witten, senior regulatory advisor, Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Business Unit, ChevronTexaco Robert R. Merhige, III, deputy executive director, Virginia Port Authority Jeffery Wayne Monroe, director of ports and transportation, Portland, Maine Lisa Himber, vice president, Maritime Exchange for the Delaware River And Bay Wade M. Battles, managing director, Port of Houston Authority John Hyde, security and compliance director, Maersk Sealand Inc. William Eglinton, director of training, Seafarers International Union of North America, AFL CIO James Stolpinski, president, Local 920, International Longshoremen’s Association David Halstead, chief, Florida Domestic Security Preparedness, Florida Department of Law Enforcement Theodore Louis Mar, chief, marine safety branch, California Department of Fish and Game Victor Zaloom, professor and chair of industrial engineering and director, engineering graduate programs and Center for Ports and Waterways, Lamar University ###