DEDICATION 



This report, the first on the Coast Guard's Standard Section Monitoring 

 Program, is dedicated to James W. McGary, Director of Oceanography of the 

 Coast Guard Oceanographic Unit from 1964 until his death in September 1968. 

 Born in Mercer County, Pa., he received a bachelor's degree in education in 

 1939 from Pennsylvania State Teachers College in Slippery Rock, Pa.; a 

 bachelor's degree in engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 1942, 

 and a master's degree in physical oceanography from' Johns Hopkins University 

 in 1952. In World War II, he served with the Coast Guard in the Atlantic and 

 Pacific theaters. He remained in the Coast Guard Reserve, attaining the rank 

 of Commander. After the war, he taught school until becoming an oceanog- 

 rapher at the Honolulu Biological Laboratory of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service and then was employed by the Office of Naval Research prior to appoint- 

 ment as the first Director of the Coast Guard Oceanographic Unit. 



Jim McGary created the Coast Guard's Standard Section Monitoring Pro- 

 gram. This program was initiated and developed under his guidance and must 

 rank as one of his most important contributions in the field of oceanography. 

 In his memory, the Standard Section Monitoring Program will continue to 

 make best use of Coast Guard cutters en route to and from ocean stations by 

 collecting vast amounts of oceanographic data that will immeasurably add to 

 knowledge about our major current systems in the North Atlantic and North 

 Pacific Oceans. 



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