Bottom row: from left to right-Jr. Lt. Robert Raynor, Vice Commodore William Davids, Harold Fisher.
Top row: from left to right-Sr. Lt. John Fisher, Charles Stodley, George Stodley, Irving Davids and Thomas Allen
National Water Safety Congress Award to United States Volunteer Life Saving Corps in recognition of outstanding effort to prevent needless water accidents and drownings.
In this letter, Rear Admiral Perkins is congratulating August Held and members of the Yonkers branch of the USVLSC for assisting in twelve rescue operations in the Hudson River during 1959.