46 RESERVIST � Issue 3 • 2014
Reserve Public Afairs Specialist Earns
Prestigious Alex Haley Award
PA3 Lisa A. Ferdinando was presented with the Chief Journalist
Alex Haley award for Public Afairs Specialist of the Year.
Ferdinando is the frst reservist to be presented with the
award, which recognizes the special achievements of individual
Coast Guardsmen whose eforts and published works have
communicated the Coast Guard story.
The Haley Award is named in honor of the renowned author,
Alex Haley, who was the Coast Guard's frst chief journalist.
Ferdinando, a Reserve member of Public Afairs Detachment
Baltimore, has a varied background in civilian and military
public afairs and came to the Coast Guard in 2012. She said
she was drawn in by the Coast Guard's humanitarian mission,
evidenced by the responses to 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the
2010 earthquake in Haiti.
"I just try to tell the [Coast Guard] story and tell it truthfully,
so that others who aren't there will be able to get a feel for what's
happening," she said. "The missions are just so amazing."
MST1 Nuckley Reenlists at MSU Deluth
MST1 Sarah Nuckley (right), of Marine Safety Unit Duluth,
recited the oath of enlistment as she re-enlisted for two years in
the Coast Guard Reserve. Cmdr. Mary Zvara, Sector Sault Sainte
Marie Senior Reserve Ofcer, shown here congratulating PO
Nuckley on her reenlistment, presided at the ceremony.
Photo by Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Limberg