Coast Guard Academy hosts SPARs birthday celebration

Coast Guard Academy hosts SPARs birthday celebration
Reworked Illustator Graphic By CWO Scott Epperson NEW LONDON, Conn. — The Coast Guard Academy celebrated the 101st birthday celebration of Chief Petty Officer Mary Stewart, a veteran of the Coast Guard Semper Paratus Always Ready Women’s Reserves (SPARs), at the Cmdr. Merle J. Smith Consolidated Club, Friday, June 24. From 1943 to 1946 Stewart served as a yeoman in the SPARs. The first two years...