Crowley Maritime Corporation’s 2016 Thomas B. Crowley Sr. Memorial Scholarships are helping to further educational opportunities for three students of Texas A&M University, all of whom are enrolled in the college’s License Option program and have expressed an interest in pursuing a career in the towing or petroleum shipping industry after graduation.
The three recipients, each of whom have either sailed with Crowley or are scheduled to do so, were chosen based on their demonstrated leadership skills and financial need. The awardees are Texas natives Bradley Schein from Houston and Baylor Nix from Austin along with Benjamin Miner from San Martin, Calif.
Scholarship recipient Schein earned his associate’s degree in petroleum engineering technology from Houston Community College prior to transferring to Texas A&M. He will graduate in 2018 and is scheduled for his first summer school ship cruise this summer with Crowley.
Nix, who is also scheduled to graduate in 2018, is majoring in marine transportation with a minor in marine administration while pursuing an Unlimited Tonnage Third Mate’s license from the U.S. Coast Guard. As a deck cadet, he sailed aboard the USTS Golden Bear, a U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) training ship, as it transited across the globe and back. Nix will also sail aboard one of Crowley’s vessels this summer.
Miner served in the U.S. Navy in five overseas deployments and was named Navy Europe Volunteer of the Year prior to joining the U.S. Navy Reserve and turning to Texas A&M to pursue his education. Set to graduate Magna Cum Laude and earn a Third Engineer Unlimited license, Miner completed ship training program on board T/S General Rudder, began an extracurricular research project in material science and conducted his commercial cruise aboard the Crowley-managed Yorktown Express.
Since 1984, Crowley has provided more than $3 million dollars in scholarship funding for more than 1,000 students.