The AAF has impacted the Academy in many ways over its history. This map illustrates the millions of dollars in gifts by USMMA graduates in support of the Academy. These gifts, like Yocum Sailing Center, Dean V. White Admissions Building, and the Lower Roosevelt Field Project, exemplify the Academy’s motto, “Acta Non Verba.”

The following are major ares of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy that were donated by the USMMA Alumni Association and Foundation. The Academy has literally been shaped, and reshaped by donors of the USMMA Alumni Association and Foundation. 

• Lower Roosevelt Project
• McNulty Campus eight acres donated by the USMMA AAF
• O'Hara Hall new basketball court, floor, and bleachers
• O'Hara Hall Wrestling room renovated by the USMMA AAF
• Berger locker room renovated by the USMMA AAF
• O'Hara Hall Weight room and cardio room donated by the USMMA AAF
• American Merchant Marine Museum created by the USMMA AAF
• Yocum Sailing Center donated by the USMMA AAF
• Mariner’s chapel built with alumni and private donations
• Melville Hall Officers Club renovated and expanded by the USMMA AAF
• Dean V. White Admissions Building donated by the USMMA AAF
• Brooks Fieldhouse and Stadium Stands donated by the USMMA AAF
• Football Field Artificial Turfing
• Brooks Scoreboard donated by the USMMA AAF
• “142” Memorial
• LNG Lab donated by the USMMA AAF
• Academic Center of Excellence donated by the USMMA AAF
• Motor and Sail Training Vessels donated by the USMMA Sailing Foundation
• Sailing Team Dinghy Fleet and Crew Team Shells donated by the USMMA Sailing Foundation
• Berger Marine Engineering Museum Annex donated by the USMMA AAF
• Babson Center renovated by the USMMA AAF
• QTRS ‘O’ purchased by GMATS NAFI - Originally Funded
• Faculty/Staff housing donated by the USMMA AAF - McNulty Campus
• Three houses rented to faculty/staff owned by the USMMA AAF