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Kingsbury SCHOLARS
Ada
Catino
2007-08 B.C. Kingsbury Scholarship
Recipient
 Ada Catino of
Petaluma, CA will tell you
that the Cal Maritime summer cruise
changed her life. Ada is now in her
third year at Cal Maritime as a Marine
Engineering Technology (MET) major. She
entered as a Marine Transportation
(Deck) major last year, but this summer,
discovered the joys of working in ship
engine rooms, so she changed her major.
In fact, while most cadets go on one
two-month cruise aboard the Academy’s
500-foot Training Ship Golden
Bear during the
summer, Ada
was out for a full four months.
“I love being at sea…the whole
experience of being on ships,” she
says. “Every morning during cruise, I’d
walk on deck and look at the ocean and
feel really happy with the work. Life
aboard a ship is its own self-contained
world. By the time cruise was over, I
was beginning to get a better sense of
the overall workings of the ship and its
systems. I was just wishing I could
stay longer because there is so much to
learn.”
Ada says she will be looking for a
shipboard engineering position next
summer for her commercial placement and
will be aboard the Golden Bear
again between her junior and senior year
in 2009.
“I’m the first person in my family to
attend college,” she explains. “I am so
appreciative of the scholarship
assistance I am getting from the
Kingsbury endowment. It is great to
know that I am not going through this
alone and that alumni and friends of the
Academy understand the challenges and
expense of higher education and have
reached out to help. I’ve got three
more years of school before I begin
working, so this support is really
important and lets me concentrate on my
studies.”
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Rosalynn Kim
2006-07
B.C. Kingsbury Scholarship Recipient
 Rosalynn Kim (Business-08), from
Benicia, CA, was the 2006-07 recipient of
the B.C. Kingsbury Endowed Scholarship.
Rose’s father founded William Kim’s Tae
Kwon Do in Vallejo, now managed by his
son, and at one time taught martial arts
skills on the Cal Maritime campus. Rose
first learned about Cal Maritime through
her father and says that her parents had
a very strong influence on her choice to
attend the Academy. Her high school
guidance counselor also recommended Cal
Maritime as a school with strong
academic standards.
Rose said she deeply appreciated the
thoughtfulness of Dr. Kingsbury and his
friends for their creation of the
endowed scholarship. “Scholarships help
cadets concentrate on academics and not
bills, and that’s a very big plus.”
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