By Fred Miller
Monday evening, June 3, 2024, in the Ocean City High School’s Bill and Nancy Hughes Performing Arts Center, the Ocean City Rowing & Athletic Association directors, Fred Miller and Vince Hink, presented the 9th annual Susan Miller Memorial Scholarship in the amount of $2,500 to Ocean City lifeguard Callie Bellwoar. Susan died on July 15, 2015. She and her husband, Fred, wrote nine books and many articles about Ocean City history. This picture of Susan and OCBP Captain George T. Lafferty was taken on Aug. 29, 1980 at the Lifeguard Ball.
The OCRAA also presented $1,000 each to Matthew Hoffman and Lauren Shaw. The scholarships were in the memory of Alfred “Bud” McKinley. McKinley, who joined the OCBP in 1959, died on May 11, 2001.