Use mission box, search box

If you wanted to inplement this before the author does , you could very easily compare the blue marine page.tpl.php and pull out the necessary lines that aren't in this theme.

for example:

<?php if ($mission) { ?><div id="mission"><?php print $mission ?></div><?php } ?>
      <div id="main">

for the mission statement area and

<?php print $search_box ?> for the search box.

I have every intention to implement these. In fact, the next release will have these working correctly.

In regards to VeryMisunderstood's comment, yes you can add the two lines that he pointed out. The only catch is that because the current version(s) do not have any styling associated with mission and search, the layout will not look right.

Attached is a screenshot of the newest version I'm currently working on. You will notice that the mission section has a very basic style to it. In order to get the same results, add the following to the theme's style.css file:

.mission {
  margin:0 0 20px 0;
  padding:10px;
  background-color:#f5f5f5;
  border:1px solid #ccc;
  line-height:1.5em;
}

As VeryMisunderstood pointed out, add the following to the page.tpl.php file:

<?php if ($mission) { ?><div class="mission"><?php print $mission ?></div><?php } ?>

As for the search box, I'm still working out how I'd like to see that displayed. Any suggestions?

With the release of version 4.7.x-2.0 the mission section has been added.
The search box... well, that's still to be added for a future release.

Search box has been added to the development snapshots for both Drupal 4.7 & 5.x (dated on/after Feb. 26th).
4.7.x-2.x-dev
5.x-2.x-dev

I'll add it to the next release version if all goes well.