Board of Directors
- John Springer, President
- Michael Rosenthal, Vice President
- Captain D. Stephen Faber, JD, Vice President
- Rick Tegeler, Vice President
- Gary Levy, Treasurer, Secretary, Printer
John Springer
John Springer is owner of Four Winds, Inc., an experential training course located in the redwoods of Northern California. As is everyone on this Board, John is a world traveller and he values unique experiences. When invited to sail on the 2500+ nautical mile transatlantic race from the Canary Islands to Bermuda in 2006, he unhesitatingly said "yes," even though he was not an experienced sailor. To make it more dramatic, the crew of four was in the smallest sailboat in the race and the captain is a paraplegec.Captain D. Stephen Faber
Stephen has spent much of his life at sea delivering private vessels up and down the California coastline. He is past Commodore of the Loch Lomond Yacht Club and is a current member of the Sausalito Yacht Club. He holds degrees in finance and has just received his Juris Doctor degree. His community activities include Legislative Lisason to the Government Affairs Committee for the California Association of Realtors, Chairman of the Sausalito Sustainability Commission, Director of the Sausalito Rotary Housing Corporation, he is is on the National Association of Financial and Estate Planners.Michel Rosenthal
Three-time Emmy Award winning television producer, writer and editor in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has worked on numerous national and local productions that have taken him everywhere from Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean to the remote northern Alaskan village of Anaktuvuk Pass to high security prisons around the U.S. He is currently teaching video production for the Academy of Art University. Michael served on the board of the National Radio Project, another nonprofit, and volunteered as a Big Brother for more than ten years. He was honored as "Marin County Big Brother of the Year" in 2002.Rick Tegeler
Internationally-known deep sea diver and photo journalist currently residing in British Columbia. His works have appeared in Cousteau Society Publications, Harry N. Abrams Publications, Islands, SportDiver, the Smithsonian and National Geographic magazines, among hundreds of others. He has traveled extensively in tropical climes and has amassed a stock library of more than 50,000 images. In addition to ongoing work in North America, he is currently diving, exploring and writing on areas of the Indio-Pacific. His first novel, Havoc, was published in 2007.Gary Levy
Gary is descendant from Captain James H. Blethen, to whom this site is dedicated. He is also a world-traveller: Gary has been to every State in the Union (with the exception of Alaska), and to almost every country in the world during 40 years of travel. As a youth, he was active in the Sea Scouts out of San Francisco and owned his own sailing vessel for many years. He is a retired printer.Special Thanks
- Robert C. Rosenbaum of California, the first donor
- To everyone who purchases books or travel through the site: THANK YOU! All of those funds go directly to support this research project.
- Harry Taylor for his adjustments to PERL which got the SEARCH engine working in 1998. I couldn't figure it out!
- John Ireland, who volunteered to provide lists, and who corrects errors on others from time to time. In November 1999, John started his own site with lists of passengers departing New York for San Francisco in the mid-1800s. Many of the passengers found leaving on John Ireland's lists can be found arriving on The Maritime Heritage Project lists.
- Guy de Rougemont, a PhD student in Paris. During the time he was working on a thesis involving California History, he offered encouragement, information about the French in San Francisco during the 1800s, and sent along lists and ships' descriptions as he located them.
- Journalists, writers and artists who recorded the 1800s in newspapers (New York Daily Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Call, Daily Alta California, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper), books on maritime history, websites, and dusty tomes at The National Archives in San Bruno, the Maritime Library in San Francisco, and the San Francisco Public Library, all of which provide information for this site.
- To all the people that eMail from around the world offering information, correcting information, complimenting the site . . .
