OMSA Recognizes Marilyn Muchowich Stanley for Distinguished Service

The Offshore Marine Service Association (OMSA) recognizes individuals through the association’s highest individual honor, the Robert J. Alario Distinguished Achievement Award. This year, Marilyn Muchowich Stanley, Chairman of the Board of Offshore Oil Services, Inc. and a former OMSA Board Member, was recognized at a dinner on Tuesday, November 10.

Created in 2020, the award is reserved for individuals who, through a lifetime of hard work and accomplishments, stand as indisputable champions of the U.S. maritime industry. Nominees come from OMSA’s own membership, and the OMSA Board of Directors votes on every name before it is approved.

The award carries the name of Robert J. “Bob” Alario, who spent two decades as Chairman and President of OMSA and is credited with merging the separate Texas and Louisiana offshore trade associations into the single, unified voice the industry relies on today. Under his leadership, OMSA became a legislative and regulatory force that member companies continue to still lean on. Alario passed away in November 2020, not long after OMSA presented him with its first Lifetime Achievement Award. The Board created the Distinguished Achievement Award in his name so that the standard he set, service measured in decades, not headlines, would keep being recognized.

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