Doug Sheer

Doug Sheer grew up in Long Beach and still resides on the “City by the Sea.” In 1970 he graduated from SUNY New Paltz in 1970 with a BA in Secondary Ed. Social Studies. Soon after graduation he joined the Peace Corps and was assigned to The Marshall Islands as a co-op advisor on a small outer island in eastern Micronesia. After his service in the Peace Corps Doug came back to NY to teach social studies and a little over 10 years later became the Social Studies Department Chair at Garden City School District.

Doug has been active in the NYS Education Dept. as a question writer for the NYS 10th and 11th grade Regents exams for 15 years. Doug was also asked by the AFT to work with teachers in Slovakia in formulating a curriculum that focuses on the teaching of democratic principles in this former communist country.

He has been teaching celestial navigation for 40 years at NCC and for 19 years on cruise ships. In 1996 he was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to study celestial navigation in Greenwich, England. Doug has been president of the Friends of Rock Hall for ten years as well as the president of the Long Beach Island Landmarks Association. Doug is an avid kayaker and enjoys reading and photographing wildlife in the wetlands of the South Shore.