DID YOU KNOW...

The genesis of District 10 (1940) began with District 9. District 9 was composed of Duluth (chartered 27 June 1939), Milwaukee (chartered 6 April 1939), Green Bay (chartered 28 Feb 1940) and Winnebago (late 1940 and subsequently recalled). According to J. Richard Palmer, FC (50+ Merit Marks), it was Walter Morrison, a power boater who knew of the Milwaukee squadron, who with George Burridge (still alive in Green Bay), Heine Hoegemeister (deceased), and others were charter members of Green Bay Squadron. Palmer joined a year after the charter, and was engaged in patrolling the east river during WWII. Dick went on to become D/C and taught me most of my Power Squadron courses.

District 10 was formed on 11 November 1940, incorporating Milwaukee, Duluth, and Green Bay squadrons. Duluth was instrumental in forming Minnetonka (14 Jan 1961) and St. Paul (11 Nov 1963). Milwaukee sponsored Sheboygan (21 May 1956) and Madison (16 Jan 1960) Green Bay sponsored Appleton or Fox Cities (7 December 1953), Sturgeon Bay (7 July 1954), Fond Du Lac (7 December 1955), M&M (9 April 1956), Oshkosh (24 April 1956) and Central Wisconsin (May 1990). Chippewa Valley has been added a few years ago. Fond Du Lac and Fox Cities' charters have been recalled.

Meanwhile, Milwaukee was busy sponsoring squadrons in Illinois, Kenosha, and the Quad Cities. These squadrons formed District 20 on 17 March 1956.

D/C Alan Wentworth, N

DID YOU KNOW...

"Full Certificate" recognition as we know it in District 10 was first proposed in October 1968.*

In 1964 the members at a District 10 Conference proposed that the National Governing Board consider a "Senior Member Award" for members earning five Merit Marks. Today, that award is proudly worn by thousands of USPS members.

District 10 also developed and implemented the unique "Star Squadron Program" in 1989. This program continues to this day, and provides Commanders a tangible and significant recognition of their successful leadership and goal achievement.

William J. Price, N

*In the past few years increasing controversy revolved around members achieving the grade of N. These members were variously referred to as "Full Certificate" and "Educational Achievement Award" when mentioned orally. For various reasons, these titles were either not accurate or were inconvenient. In the year 2000, it was proposed, debated, and eventually passed by the USPS Governing Board that these members would be called "Senior Navigators". The grade abbreviation was determined to be SN. And so you may hear members referred to as "SN" which means they have qualified for the Educational Achievement Award having passed all Educational Courses. The written grade may still be N, or the newer SN.

P/D/C Alan Wentworth, SN

PAST DISTRICT COMMANDERS

1940 - 1944 Thomas B. Hurd, JN Milwaukee

1944 - 1946 Walter Morrison Green Bay

1946 - 1948 Howard W. Crah, S Milwaukee

1948 - 1950 Stewart Grekinger, AP Chicago

1950 - 1951 Ted Wilby Chicago

1951 - 1953 Henry Hagemeister, AP Green Bay

1953 - 1954 Fred H. Jones, AP Chicago

1954 - 1956 Irwin Falk Quad Cities

DISTRICT 10 AND 20 DIVIDED

1956 - 1958 Arthur W. Hankwitz, SN Milwaukee

1958 - 1960 Alfred E. Kayser, SN Green Bay

1960 - 1962 Hubert D. Grota, SN Sturgeon Bay

1962 - 1964 Carl Leibert, SN Fox Cities

1964 - 1965 Franklin W. Wedge, SN M & M

1965 - 1967 James M. Phinney, SN Milwaukee

1967 - 1968 Franklin W. Wedge, SN M & M

1968 - 1970 Lawrence Cowan, AP Duluth

1970 - 1972 J. Richard Palmer, SN Green Bay

1972 - 1974 Lloyd M. Smith, SN Minnetonka

1974 - 1975 Glen M. Benson, AP Sturgeon Bay

1975 - 1976 Merle L. Brose, SN Madison

1976 - 1977 Donald A. Schultz, SN Milwaukee

1977 - 1978 B. J. Lachowitzer, AP St. Paul

1978 - 1979 John E. Bermingham, JN Oshkosh

1979 - 1980 Loyal E. Eddy, AP Milwaukee

1980 - 1981 George M. Hock, AP Minnetonka

1981 - 1982 Gerald R. Brings, SN St. Paul

1982 - 1983 John C. Newman, AP St. Paul

1983 - 1984 George C. Post, S Milwaukee

1984 - 1985 Edward J. Boyer, SN Madison

1985 - 1986 Theodore Anderson, AP Minnetonka

1986 - 1987 James E. Roberts, AP Milwaukee

1987 - 1988 Edward J. Wacker, AP Milwaukee

1988 - 1989 William J. Price, SN Minnetonka

1989 - 1990 Trygve E. Thoreson, AP Madison

1990 - 1991 Richard A. Seibert, SN Green Bay

1991 - 1992 Harold R. Fotsch, SN St. Paul

1992 - 1993 Harvey A. Hengel, SN Duluth

1993 - 1994 Frank Golle, SN Minnetonka

1994 - 1995 Robert J. Stark, P Milwaukee

1995 - 1996 Neil D. McMillin, SN St. Paul

1996 - 1997 David C. Rupley, Jr., JN Central Wisconsin

1997 - 1998 Thomas F. Rossini, SN Minnetonka

1998 - 1999 Alan Wentworth, SN Green Bay

1999 - 2000 Geir Seger, JN St. Paul

2000 - 2001 Ben Coons, P Chippewa Valley

2001 - 2002 Ronald A. Kraase, SN Milwaukee

2002 - 2003 Michael Wiedel, AP Milwaukee

2003 - 2004 Art Mollica, SN St. Paul

2004 - 2005 Don Schult, AP St. Paul

2005 - 2006 Jeff Hamilton, AP Minnetonka

DID YOU KNOW...

Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), a Portuguese noble-man, founded an observatory and school of navigation at Sagres. He taught the application of mathematics and astronomy to navigation and charting. In 1960 sixteen Districts, at their Fall Conferences, commemorated the 500th anniversary of his death. In 1961, District 5 established its Prince Henry Award for excellence in teaching Navigation. Most Districts have followed, some with trophies brought here personally by Commander Jose Cabral, Director of the Casa de Portugal.

Each district established its own criteria for the award and the criteria are not neccesarily the same. However, they were all based on teaching celestial navigation. Most, if not all, involve teaching of both JN and N.

Currie Munce AG Div Chm

DID YOU KNOW...

USPS Cooperative Charting efforts benefit three Federal agencies; the National Oceanographic and Aerospace Administration (NOAA), the United States Geologic Survey (USGS) and National Geodetic Service (NGS). As a public service USPS members perform periodic searches throughout the country for geodetic topographic and coastal survey marks. The purpose is to insure that survey marks are still in place and, not in danger of being destroyed. The data collected by USPS is used to update the national reference databases at NOAA.

Most of the survey marks in Wisconsin were established more than sixty years ago and form the basis for state and county boundaries throughout the state. Linked together, these stations combine with other stations to form a gridwork of lines and angles for accurate position determination. From this gridwork further reductions are made to determine township and individual property boundaries.

The majority of survey marks are monumented 3.5 inch bronze disks. They are embedded in either a concrete base or bedrock. Throughout rural areas they can be found along local road sides, farm fields, railroad tracks, and prominent hilltops. They're also found in sidewalks and the foundations or sides of municipal buildings such as U.S. Post Offices and courthouses. Other than bronze disks, special structural references such as church spires, radio towers, bridges, and water towers were established as survey marks, and their condition is also reported.

We've heard many interesting anecdotes over the years about the survey marks from local residents, and it is my goal over the next few months to provide you with more history regarding geodetic survey.

1807 marks the first year when the United States began geodetic surveys, which is significantly later than other major countries. For the first 100 years the work was done by a single agency which was first called the Survey of the Coast. The agency was renamed in 1836 to the Coast and Geodetic Survey, a name that lasted until about 1970. It was renamed to the National Geodetic Survey (NGS), the name by which we know it as today.

P/C Jim Pahl-Washa, N (Madison)