O.W. Martin Jr.
Records Collection
U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Records find a
home at East Carolina University
For many years records of Auxiliary historical activities
were scattered all over the country in Coast Guard and unit offices and
members' homes. In preparation for celebration of the 50th Anniversary
of the Coast Guard Auxiliary, efforts were undertaken to collect documents
and to find a professional repository for them. In 1988 a safe,
permanent home was found for official and personal papers, photographs,
videotapes, and national and unit publications which comprise the record of
Auxiliary activities since its establishment in 1939. The Auxiliary's
historical collection goes a long way toward recording recreational boating
history during the last half century.
The collection is now housed in an excellent special collections facility in
the Joyner Library at
East
Carolina
University in
North Carolina. It was
beautifully modernized and expanded in 1996 and is now a location where
scholars and other researchers can delve into Coast Guard Auxiliary history
or to which one can send appropriate items deserving a place in that
history.
East Carolina is a leader in the
academic fields of maritime history and archaeology.
Auxiliary District Historians (ADSO-PAHs) are responsible
for collecting, evaluating, sorting, and shipping documents to ECU.
Items that are sent include unit minutes, newsletters, statistics, and
rosters; unit/personal histories; oral interviews; workshop/course material;
scrapbooks; news clippings and articles (date and newspaper name); reports;
identified images (who, what, where, when, why); videotapes; and other
publications and images. Do not send: financial reports, individual
enrollment/disenrollment data; general correspondence. If you have
items you would like to submit to the permanent record collection and/or to
the Coast Guard Exhibit Center (see main menu) consult your District
Historian.
Records can also be sent to you from the Auxiliary Records
Collection. Requests for material have included unit histories,
records of family members, etc. The staff can do limited research; the
cost of photocopying is $ .10 per page. The ECU website can be
consulted first, searched for its Auxilairy items. Access this information
at:
http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/spclcoll/index.cfm
See the click-on for the Finding Aid for the Coast Guard
Auxiliary collection. You can also write the curator, Dale Sauter at:
sauterd@mail.ecu.edu
Inquiries about the overall Coast Guard Auxiliary history
program may be addressed to:
C. Kay. Larson,
BC-ASH
National
Historian
U.S.
Coast Guard Auxiliary
klarson@nymas.org
The Auxiliary Records Collection very much welcomes
donations. We encourage donations being sent to honor Auxliary members who
have passed over the bar and when large single shipments are sent. Checks
can be made payable to "O. W. Martin, Jr. CGAUX Records Collection" and sent
to:
Coast Guard
Auxiliary Endowment Fund
Joyner Library,
Special Collections
East
Carolina
University
Greenville,
NC
27858-4353
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