Oil Patch Bits: Crowley Awards Scholarships to Two Academy Cadets

Crowley Maritime Corp. said Sept. 24 that two cadets in the deck officer program at the Great Lakes Maritime Academy in Traverse City, Mich., were recently awarded Thomas B. Crowley Sr. Memorial scholarships. Bruce Beeker and Christopher Hyzy received the scholarships for the 2010-11 academic year. Both cadets were awarded scholarships based on their academic record and interest in the towing industry. Beeker, from Traverse City, received a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications from Indiana University at Bloomington. He worked in law enforcement for 13 years before enrolling at GLMA and is scheduled to graduate in 2012 and then enter the towing industry. Hyzy, a native of Sycamore, Ill., has a bachelor’s degree in aviation management from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He has operations management experience and plans to pursue a career in tug and barge handling. Over the years, Crowley Chairman, President and CEO Tom Crowley Jr., has continued to give scholarship dollars to deserving students at the maritime academies and other select institutions in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Central America in the name of his father Thomas B. Crowley Sr., who guided the company to extraordinary heights before passing away in 1994.