Ariston Current Members

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2006

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2006

Ariston historian.  MIT degrees in Physics and Computer Science.  Small-business
owner, working in Artificial Intelligence research.  Formerly at Bolt Beranek & Newman and Kurzweil AI.

80 Wilcox Rd,
Stonington, CT 06378

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Captain Jones assumed the position as Assistant Superintendent in July 2012 after serving for three years as Commanding Officer of the Coast Guard's three-masted sail training barque USCGC Eagle (WIX 327) in New London, Connecticut. He now serves as the Superintendent's direct representative to oversee the day-to-day operations of the Academy.

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1971

2008

After a stint in the Merchant Marine, Howard returned to Boston to work as a photographer and 
Art Director, but the love of the sea eventually led him to Connecticut to manage a boatyard and 
raise a family. Ultimately, he realized his dream to sail around the world and paint. After 
restoring COMET, a 1946 Sparkman & Stephens 52’ yawl, Howard completed the 
circumnavigation in 2001. His one hour lecture of the voyage, a presentation of watercolors and 
photographs, is popular at yacht clubs and civic organizations.

Since his return from the voyage twelve years ago, Howard owned and operated the Four Starr 
Gallery and Frame Shoppe located in the Velvet Mill in Stonington, but just recently he has 
handed the business over to his daughter-in-law, Sarah Park and now is concentrating in 
Conservation, Restoration and Appraisals of Fine Art, including: Original oil paintings, Works on Paper, Objects, Etchings, Murals and Antique Frames. 

Howard offers oil painting workshops to adults and teaches watercolor painting to children ages 
6-11. Mostly he enjoys painting in his studio at the Velvet Mill and his love of the sea and 
maritime culture is evident in his oil paintings and watercolors.

Howard has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions. He is an Elected Artist at the 
Mystic Arts Center, Mystic, CT and his works hang in galleries and private collections 
throughout the world and which include: 

• The Maritime Museum in Auckland, New Zealand.
• The Arnould Gallery, Marblehead, MA
• The Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT
• Park Fine Art Conservation Framing, Stonington, CT
• The Louisa Gould Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA

2011

2010

Bailey Pryor has worked in the film and television industry for over 25 years.  He has produced 6 feature films and over 150 television programs for ABC, PBS, Outdoor Life Network, Versus, Fox Sports Net, ESPN, Discovery Channel, Spike TV, Animal Planet, Tennis Channel and Travel Channel. 

Bailey is currently the President & CEO of Telemark Films. He has previously held the positions of President & CEO of Warren Miller Entertainment, Staff Producer and Associate Vice President of Production at Sonalysts Studios, Marketing Assistant for the Samuel Goldwyn Company and Producer’s Assistant on the feature films “Mystic Pizza” and “Home Alone.”  Bailey also founded a company that imports and markets “The Real McCoy” Rum.

1991

David Sandell was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland where he attended public schools. He graduated with honors from The Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and accepted an appointment to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 1957.  In his senior year he commanded the Regiment of Cadets, played football under Coach Otto Graham, and graduated with honors in 1961. At his graduation he received awards for Military Leadership, Scholarship and Athletic Prowess (from the ECAC), and Personal Character (“in the eyes of his classmates”).

Dave’s Coast Guard career began with two years on an icebreaker to Operation Deep Freeze in the Antarctic, a tour on a buoy tender, and postgraduate school in mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) for a master’s degree in preparation for assignment to the Academy faculty. In addition to teaching, he was assigned collateral duties as class advisor, assistant football coach, duty officer in the cadet dormitory, sailing instructor, and watch officer aboard the summer training cruises aboard CGC Eagle. During this time he attended evening classes earning an MS in Management Science at RPI extension school in Hartford Ct. In 1970 he was selected to the Permanent Commissioned Teaching Staff and returned to RPI for a PhD program. This was awarded in 1972 and he continued his teaching duties and summer cadet training duties until ultimately being selected as Dean of Academics in 1983.

Following his Coast Guard career, Dave retired and held positions at Pfizer Central Research, President of Mitchell College, Vice President and Dean of Academics at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, and Visiting professor of Management at Suffolk University’s MBA Program. He is now fully retired on Cape Cod with his wife of 50 years, Kathy (Cable) Sandell. They have three grown children and five grandchildren. His hobbies include fishing, sailing, boating, traveling, painting, writing, and grandfathering.

In 1995 Dave moved to Cape Cod but continued ever since to return to New London to attend Ariston meetings.     

davidsandell@comcast.net

Phone: (508) 790 7603  
Cell:   (508) 274 2663  

423 Elliott Road, 
Centerville, MA 02632

2008

1976

"I attended Harvard College (AB54) and then Harvard Medical School (MD58). After training in Boston I moved to Connecticut in 1963 to join a practice in Internal Medicine which evolved into The Mystic Medical Group, of which Dick Barry was a member. At L&M hospital I was appointed chief of staff and subsequently VP of medical affairs, leaving practice in 1995 to assume the responsibility full time until retiring in 1998. I remain a cooperator of the hospital.

I have been a member of Ariston since 1976, a member of The Mystic Seaport for 50 years and formally a member of the Harvard Club of Boston.

My ancestors settled in Pemaquid, Maine almost 300 years ago and we have had a house there until last summer."

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