Mariners Museum in Newport News has a full slate of virtual events for Black History Month
The Mariners Museum had to close its physical doors in March 2020. This February, it will honor Black History Month as it normally does but in a very different way. Author: Alex Littlehales (WVEC) Updated: 7:03 PM EST February 1, 2021
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. Company at least the face-to-face kind is a rare commodity in the mostly empty halls at the Mariners Museum in Newport News.
Focusing on all things involved with maritime trade, the Newport News museum closed its physical doors in March 2020 when the pandemic first hit the United States. This February, it ll honor Black History Month as it normally does, but in a different way.
William T. ‘Bill’ Caldwell III
WILLIAMSBURG Dr. William Thomas “Bill” Caldwell III, 91, passed away peacefully Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, with loved ones at his side. Bill was born June 4, 1929, in Camden, New Jersey, to William T. Caldwell Jr. and Rose Mary (McGinness) Caldwell.
He spent his youth in Moorestown, New Jersey, where he attended the Moorestown Friends School before graduating from The Taft School in Waterbury, Connecticut, in 1946. He joined the U.S. Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps at Princeton University at the age of 17. He completed the NROTC Midshipman Practice Cruise at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, in 1947. He earned a B.S. Degree (Chemistry) from Princeton University in 1950 and a Medical Degree from Columbia University in 1954. Bill served in the U.S. Navy from 1954 to 1958 as lieutenant in the Medical Corps and as a flight surgeon on the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1958, he left active duty to begin a residency in ophthalmology at