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N/S SAVANNAH ASSOCIATION Board of Directors
 Wayne Britz - President/Chairman
Wayne sailed on the N.S. Savannah from 1966-1970. He first encountered the Savannah during its maiden voyage to New York City when he was attending the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and playing in its band for the arrival ceremonies. Wayne knew at that time that he wanted to sail on the Savannah and thus took the nuclear engineering electives at the Academy. After graduation, he served as deck officer, reactor operator, health physicist, auxiliary plant operator, and water chemist. He made the last voyage on the ship before it was removed from active service. Wayne has been involved with the Savannah ever since either planning for the several reunions on board the ship and at the Merchant Marine Academy, or inspecting the ship while with the U S Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Wayne obtained his Master's Degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and from 1971-1980 worked for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (now the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission). He was the Manager of Radiation Protection Services for Public Service Electric and Gas of NJ at the Salem and Hope Creek nuclear power plants from 1980 to 1986. He then consulted for several years and returned to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission working there from 1998 until his retirement in 2006. Since that time, he has been consulting and is currently on a long term nuclear project in the Middle East.
Jay Tarzia - Secretary
James Turso - Treasurer
William DiBenedetto - Director
A sailor and one who led the fight to save the SS UNITED STATES; Bill will be working on organizational improvements and operations for the Association.
 Larry Kenworthy - Director
After his Savannah days, Larry worked for Public Service Electric and Gas of New Jersey and helped with the design of the Salem and Hope Creek plants. He also worked on their offshore power plant project in Jacksonville, Florida. During his time with Public Service, he attended NYU part time and obtained a degree in Nuclear Engineering. Despite that, he has worked as a mechanical engineer throughout his career. Larry worked for NUS Corporation for 18 years, and has been with Bechtel Power in Frederick, Maryland since 2000. Now, after 40 years, he is again involved with a Babcock & Wilcox small PWR, working on the design of the mPower small modular reactor plant.
He lives in Gaithersburg, MD with his wife, Ana. They have three sons, John, Edward, and Victor, and four grandchildren.
George Kulynynch - Director
Senior Engineer, Babcock & Wilcox/Savannah Technical Staff, Industry.
 Robert Moody - Director
Bob was a member of the last N.S. Savannah reactor operator training class. He wrote his license exam transiting the Panama Canal and did his startup in Hoboken. Bob has a U.S. Coast guard endorsement as a health physics technician and was certified by B&W as a water chemist. He served as a reactor operator during the defueling of the ship in Galveston.
Bob graduated from Maine Maritime Academy and received his Master's Degree in Health Physics from The University of Michigan. He was a health physicist and nuclear engineer for the State of Michigan; worked as a Project Manager at the Institute of Nuclear Operations; was President of the Human Performance Institute, a nuclear industry consulting company; and has been with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the past 10 years. Bob plans to retire in 2010 and live in Gadsden, Alabama with his wife Christie.
 Bruce Muntz - Director
Bruce started as an HP technician involved with the de-fueling of the reactor on the N.S. Savannah in 1971, Todd Shipyards, Galveston TX. He spent eleven years doing start ups and/or refuelings of various nuclear generating stations and was responsible for all aspects of raiological health and safety. He returned to college and received his Bachelor of Arts from Rowan University in New Jersey in 1991. He then began a career in computer science. Bruce has been Vice President of Menig Consulting, Inc. which he founded with his wife, Susan, in 1999.
James Nolan - Director
Stan Wheatley - Director
Manager and Principal Investigator for the Center for the Commercial Deployment of Transportation Technologies. The CCDoTT is a California State University, Long Beach sponsored, government approved and supported R&D center dealing with maritime-related transportation issues on behalf of both commercial and military interests.
 Jon Stouky - Former Chairman
Jon is currently serving as Nuclear Advisor and acting Facility and Site Manager for the N.S. Savannah decommissioning project. He has been involved with the N.S. Savannah in various capacities since 1962 when he helped establish the Galveston, TX service facilities and commissioned the NSV ATOMIC SERVANT (service barge). Jon was licensed on the reactor and assisted in returning the N.S. Savannah to service in 1963-64 managing special maintenance and engineering functions. He joined NUS in 1966 and worked in executive positions for several major nuclear contractors until he formed Mega-Tech Services, Inc. in 1988. He was responsible for managing the radiological characterization of the ship in 2005.
 Sue Menig-Muntz - Webmaster
Sue has been in the computer world since 1982. She has worked for AT&T, GE Aerospace, SportsLine USA and other companies doing systems administation and data center work. She is President of Menig Consulting, Inc., which she and Bruce Muntz founded in 1999. She earned a Bachelor of Music from Westminster Choir College in 1978 and an Associates of Applied Science in Computer Science in 1982.
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