Naval Postgraduate School Commencement Exercises / June 1969
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Calhoun: The NPS Institutional Archive Institutional Publications Commencement Ceremony programs 1969-06 Naval Postgraduate School Commencement Exercises / June 1969 Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.) Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School http://hdl.handle.net/10945/41181 Ref. V422 .F4U6 N A V A L P 0 S T G R A D, U A T E S C H 0 0 L Cfioninien.cMnenl 8xe-ic·jje6 l=RIDAY MORNING JUNE 27 1969 LIBRARY NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY, CALIF. 93940 NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MARKS SIXTY YEARS OF EDUCATION This month the Naval Postgraduate School celebrates its 60th anniversary. It is fully accredited, occupies a multi-million dollar campus, graduates over 600 offi cers a year, and offers over 80 courses in science, engineering and management. Today, more than 300 officers will graduate. Seventy-five percent of them are naval officers; the others represent the Marines, Army, Air Force, Coast Guard and seven foreign navies. When the Naval Postgraduate School was established at Annapolis on June 9, 1909, only ten officers made up the class, three professors formed the faculty, and marine engineering was the only curriculum. When the class was graduated two years later, Beekman Winthrop, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, told them "there will be some day a postgraduate course to call all the officers of the Navy together. This school is the beginning, and may be the one on which the Navy Department of the future may have to depend." Now, sixty years later, it appears that he was right. EARLY YEARS After a shaky start, the Naval Postgraduate School became a department of the Naval Academy. In the twenty years following World War l, more and more officers packed their seabags and reported to the classroom. The school began to take shape. One of the most important steps was the addition of a General Line School in 1927. It was designed to teach junior line officers everything from navi gation to naval operations, and sharpen their professional development for com mand at sea. World War 2 forced the Postgraduate School to expand. Courses swelled to in clude ordnance, aerological, aeronautical, mechanical and radio engineering. By 1945, nearly 3,000 officers had graduated and returned to the fleet. The technological explosion following the war pointed out that on-the-job training was just not enough to keep pace with a changing world. Consequently, in 1945, Congress authorized the Naval Postgraduate School to grant master's and doctor's degrees. Two years later the school separated from the Naval Aca demy and became a unique institution. SCHOOL MOVES TO MONTEREY After thirty-six years, the Naval Postgraduate School had come of age. It had also outgrown its East Coast facilities and in 1947 the Navy purchased a perman ent site in Monterey. In 1951 the school officially settled into the buildings and grounds of what was once a playground for the wealthy - the Del Monte Hotel. Gift shops became offices, dining parlors turned into classrooms, and hotel rooms were converted to bachelor officers quarters. Continued on the inside of the Back Cover Superintendent ROBERT W. McNITT Rear Admiral, United States Navy Academic Dean ROBERT FROSS RINEHART Doctor of Philosophy Deputy Superintendent Deputy Superintendent for Programs for Logistics FLETCHER H. BURNHAM ROBERT Y. GAINES Captain, United States Navy Captain, United States Navy Dean of Programs W. F. KOEHLER Doctor of Philosophy MISSION "To conduct and direct the Advanced Education of commissioned officers, and to provide such other technical and professional instruction as may be prescribed to meet the needs of the Naval Service; and in support of the foregoing, to foster and encourage a program of research in order to sustain academic excellence." PLATFORM PARTY First Row (left to right) Second Row (left to right) Captain Joseph F. Cloonan, CHC, U. S. Navy Professor Otto Heinz Chaplain, Naval Postgraduate School Department of Physics Captain Sam E. Edelstein, Jr., U. S. Navy Professor Dale F. Leipper Commander, Western Division Department of Oceanography Naval Electronics Systems Command Professor George J. Haltiner Department of Meteorology Dean Robert F. Rinehart Academic Dean Professor Emmett F. O'Neil Department of Government and Humanities Rear Admiral Sheldon H. Kinney, U. S. Navy Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel for Education and Training Dean Brooks J. Lockhart Dean of Curricula Rear Admiral Robert W. McNitt, U. S. Navy Superintendent, Naval Postgraduate School Professor Daniel J. Collins Department of Aeronautics Brigadier General Judson S. Miller, U. S. Army Deputy Commanding General, Fort Ord Professor Charles H. Rothauge Department of Electrical Engineering Brigadier General James E. Herbold, U. S. Marine Corps Commanding General, Marine Corps Supply Center Professor Gilbert F. Kinney Barstow, California Department of Material Science and Chemistry Captain H. F. Rohrkemper, U. S. Coast Guard Professor Robert R. Read Deputy Commander Western Area, Coast Guard Department of Operations Analysis Dr. Arthur E. Benoit Professor Robert E. Gaskell President, Monterey Peninsula Council of the Navy League Department of Mathematics Captain Fletcher H. Burnham, U. S. Navy Professor John W. Creighton Deputy Superintendent for Programs Department of Business Administration and Economics Captain Samuel D. Chambers, CHC, U. S. Naval Reserve Professor T. Sarpkaya Chaplain, Naval Postgraduate School Department of Mechanical Engineering PROCESSIONAL Professor A. BOYD MEWBORN . GRAND MARSHAL Professor MELVIN F. REYNOLDS MARSHAL Lieutenant Colonel EDWIN M. RUDZIS, U. S. Marine Corps MARSHAL NATIONAL ANTHEM INVOCATION Captain JOSEPH F. CLOONAN, CHC, U. S. Navy INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKER Rear Admiral ROBERT W. McNITI, U. S. Navy ADDRESS TO GRADUATES Rear Admiral SHELDON H. KINNEY, U. S. Navy Assistant Ch ief of N aval Personnel for Education and Training PRESENTATION OF MEDALLION TO DISTINGUISHED' PROFESSOR PRESENTATION OF CAPTAIN J. C. WOELFEL AWARD PRESENTATION OF MEWBORN STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD PRESENTATION OF NAVY LEAGUE OF MONTEREY AWARD FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT PRESENTATION OF NAVAL ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS COMMAND AWARD IN ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING AWARD OF DIPLOMAS OF COMPLETION OF CURRICULA Rear Admiral ROBERT W. McNITI, U. S. Navy CONFERRING OF DEGREES . Rear Admiral ROBERT W. McNITI, U. S. Navy Dean ROBERT F. RINEHART Presentation of Candidates For the Degree of: by Department Chairman: Bachelor of Arts . Professor EMMETT F. O'NEIL Bachelor of Science . Dean BROOKS J. LOCKHART Bachelor of Science in Engineering Science . Dean BROOKS J. LOCKHART Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Professor CHARLES H. ROTHAUGE Bachelor of Science in Chemistry . Professor GILBERT F. KINNEY Bachelor of Science in Meteorology . Professor GEORGE J. HALTINER Bachelor of Science in Operations Research Professor ROBERT R. READ Master of Science with Major in Mathematics . Professor ROBERT E. GASKELL Master of Science in Aeronautical Eng ineering . Professor DANIEL J. COLLlNS Master of Science in Computer Systems Management . Professor JOHN W. CREIGHTON Master of Science in Management . Professor JOHN W. CREIGHTON Master of Science in Computer Science . Dean BROOKS J. LOCKHART Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Professor CHARLES H. ROTHAUGE Master of Science in Chemistry . Professor GILBERT F. KINNEY Master of Science in Mechanical Eng ineering . Professor T. SARPKAYA Master of Science in Oceanography . Professor DALE F. LEIPPER Master of Science in Operations Resea rch . Professor ROBERT R. READ Master of Science in Physics Professor OTTO HEINZ Aeronautical Engineer . Professor DANIEL J. COLLINS Electrical Eng lneer . Professor CHARLES H. ROTHAUGE Doctor of Philosophy . Dean ROBERT F. RINEHART BENEDICTION Captain SAMUEL D. CHAMBERS, CHC, U. S. Naval Reserve RECESSIONAL MUSIC 52nd Army Band, Fort Ord, California Chief Warrant Officer ARLIE L. HATFIELD, U. S. Army, Conducting Recipient of Distinguished Professor Medallion Professor GEORGE J. HALTINER Cha irman, Department of Meteorology The accolade, Distinguished Professor, is an honor bestowed in recognition of sustained outstanding academic service in the accomplishment of the mission of the Naval Postgraduate School Recipient of the Captain J.C. Woelfel Award Lieutenant Commander DANIEL C. RICHARDSON, U. S. Navy Recipient of the Mewborn Student Research Award Lieutenant R. A. SMYTH, Canadian Forces Recipient of the Navy League of Monterey Award for Academic Achievement Lieutenant JOSEPH H. DISCENZA, U. S. Coast Guard Recipient of the Naval Electronics Systems Command Award in Electronics Engineering Captain JAMES M. MYATI, U.S. Marine Corps Naval Postgraduate School Curricular Officers Commander JOHN D. HARTLEY, U. S. Navy Operations Research / Systems Analysis Programs Commander GEORGE W. EAST, U. S. Navy Aeronautical Engineering Programs Commander FRANK L. ROACH, U. S. Navy Electronics and Communications Engineering Programs Captain WILLIAM A. TEASLEY, U. S. Navy Ordnance Systems Engineering Programs Commander KEVIN J. O'TOOLE, U. S. Navy Nava l Engineering Programs Commander DONALD CHIN, U. S. Navy Environmental Sciences Programs Commander RICHARD H. KALLIES, U. S. Navy Management/ Computer Science Programs Lieutenant Commander CLYDE G. HOHENSTEIN, U. S. Navy Eng ineering Science Programs Commander HAROLD E. COLLINS, U. S. Navy Baccalaureate Programs Those officers whose names are preceded by a * are being given their degrees In Absentia Diplomas of Completion Computer Systems Management *KATHERINE M. DOMBROWSKI, LT, USN ROBERT C.