CEO Corner
Updates from Jonathan Williams
Jonathan Williams is the President & CEO of the Pacific Battleship Center, home of the Battleship IOWA, LA Fleet Week, and the National Museum of the Surface Navy. A purpose-driven leader and storyteller, he shares updates and insights from one of the nation’s most innovative nonprofit organizations. His writing explores leadership, community, and culture — connecting lessons from the deck plate to the boardroom while highlighting the people, progress, and purpose that continue to drive the mission forward.
Newest Updates
PINCH OF SALT: Another Iowa By The Sea Memory
By Harry Saltzgaver Executive Editor Long Beach left the Iowa By The Sea moniker behind long ago (even though I do happen to have a Hawkeye in the newsroom). But I was literally at Iowa By The Sea last Sunday, and I was plenty impressed. It was, of course, the USS Iowa over in San Pedro across the bay. It was the decommissioned battleship’s 70th birthday, so it was occasion enough for me to drive across the bridges. (Lovely wife dislikes heights intensely, so we don’t do this often. But that’s...
2012: The Year Battleship IOWA Came Home to Los Angeles
After more than a decade of advocacy, fundraising, technical planning, and volunteer work, USS IOWA arrived at the Port of Los Angeles and opened to the public. The real achievement of 2012 was not simply moving a battleship; it was converting a preservation campaign into a functioning public institution.
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