- Announced Annual Awards:
- Large Unit History Award Winner: USCGC Tampa.
- Small Unit History Award Winner: Aids to Navigation Team, St. Petersburg, Florida.
- Best Book on History: Professor Doug Kroll, Commodore Ellsworth Bertholf: First Commandant of the Coast Guard.
- Heritage Awards: To the “Old Chief,” USCG WW II veteran John Stanford, for his weekly column in the NYC-area paper Harbor Watch and his bi-monthly publication Greenland Patrol Newsletter.
- Special Recognition Award: BM3 Church of Station Sandy Hook, New Jersey, for an extensive hand-painted mural depicting the whole sweep of Coast Guard history that decorates the Mess Deck at the station.
- Sponsored, prepared, and edited a large-format, heavily illustrated book, The Coast Guard. The book includes a foreword by esteemed journalist and Coast Guard Auxiliary member Walter Conkrite. After several years of work, led by CAPT Fred Herzberg and edited by LCDR Tom Beard, USCG Ret., the first printing sold out in 8 weeks.
- Provided funding to complete the oral history of ADM Merlin O’Neil.
- Suggested names for new classes of cutters, performing the vetting to ensure that there were no “skeletons” in the closets.
- Produced a visual/oral history of BMCM Tom McAdams.
- Produced a visual/oral history of VADM Thomas R. Sargent III.
- Produced a visual/oral history of Bernard Bailey.
- Published three issues of The Cutter, FCGH’s magazine.
