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1986-06-20

The Quarterdeck / 1986-06-20

Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey Callifornia

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Volume 3 Issue 24

Commencement held today in Spruance Plaza

RADM R.H. Shumaker will confer 201 degrees on 196 graduates in commencement exercises to be held today in Spruance Plaza at 1430. It will be RADM Shumaker's last graduation in his role as superintendent.

Of the graduates, 91 are U.S. Navy off ice rs; 26 Army; 16 Air Force; 13 Marine Corps; seven Coast Guard; one National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officer, six DOD civilians and 39 international military officers.

Conferred today will be 156 master of science degrees; 38 master of arts degrees; three mechanical engineer

•grees; two electrical engineer de g ree s; one aeronautical gineer degree, and one doctorate of philosophy. The guest speaker for today's exercises will be the Hon.

Everett ~ Pyatt, assistant secretary of Navy for shipbuilding and logistics. Pyatt, who assumed his current position in August 1984, has been presented with the Meri­torious Senior Exerutive Award and the Navy Distinguished Service Award.

Herda receives Navy League Award In addition to receiving their degrees, 11 graduates

will also be presented with various awards. LT Vincent J. Herda, USN, will be presented with the

Monterey Peninsula Council Navy League Award for Highest Academic Achievement and also the Captain John C. Woelfel Award.

The Navy League award is presented each graduation to the USN, USMC or USCG officer who has maintained the highest academic grade average as a student at NPS. The Woelfel award is presented each June to the outstanding naval engineering student on the basis of academic and leadership performance and qualities. Officers from the past September, December, March and June graduating classes are considered.

CAPT Ching Hua Jway, Republic of Singapore Navy, will receive the Naval Seas Systems Command Award for Weapon Systems Engineering Excellence. The award recognizes dis­tinguished scholastic achievement based on marks, quality

• applicability of thesis and demonstration of leadership

ential in the field of weapons engineering LCDR Christopher B. Drake, SC, USN, will receive both

the Naval Supply Systems Command Award for Excellence in Administrative Science and the Department of the Navy Award for Excellence in Financial Management. Both awards are presented semiannually. <continued page four>

June 20, 1986

Invitation to change of command

RADM Robert H. Shumaker will be relieved as super­intendent by RADM Robert C. Austin in a ceremony to be held in front of Herrmann Hall on Friday, July 11, at 1400.

The change of command ceremony will feature a short address by Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy Se th Cropsey. A bri er reception, to be held in the Quarterdeck Lounge, will follow the ceremony.

RADM Shu maker and his wife Lorraine extend a cor­dial invitation to any NPS staff member or student and their spouse who desires to attend.

Because of the need to arrange seating, the cour­tesy of prior notification to the flag lieu tenant, ext. 2511, is requested.

RADM Shumaker and his family will be leaving for his assignment in Washington as Navy director of research for aircraft, missiles and electronic warfare.

Shuttle run takes break

Daily shuttle service between La Mesa housing and NPS will be discontinued during the acadmic break, June 23 thru July 3. Normal service will resume Monday, July 7.

Call ENS Elhert, ext. 2531, for information on regular shuttle service.

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From the Superintendent We recently received some direction from Secretary of

the Navy John Lehman which will significantly affect NPS. The five-page directive deals with policy concerning NPS

and it emphasizes the point that our "raison d'etre" is to increase the combat effectiveness of the Navy and Marine Corps.

It stresses the need for us to be economical in our instruction; to offer both degree and non-degree programs; to conduct an active professional lecture series; to in­sert into our programs mandatory courses dealing with mari­time strategy, the development of naval weapons, defense organization and naval history, and it further charges us with conducting an active research program of relevance to the Navy.

My staff is presently engaged in the details of imple­menting this tasking. I am pleased with Secretary Lehman's interest in graduate education and with his reminder that our students are, first and foremost, military officers dedicated to their profession.

Campus notes by John Sanders

Mechanical engineering associate professor Ken Challen­ger returned this month after a year at ONR London. A specialist in physical metallurgy, Challenger served as an Off ice of Naval Research (ONR) liaison scientist for ma­terials science, visiting university and government re­search centers in Europe and the Middle East. His impres­sions of the scientific eff arts in these regions have been reported in the ONR publication ''European Science Notes."

Dr. Thomas J. Hofler arrived on caapus this week. The first scientist to spend a year at NPS under an Office of Naval Technology I American Society for Engineering Education postdoctoral fellowship program, Hofler will work on ther­moacoustic engines with associate professor Steve Garrett in the physics department. Hofler was a graduate student at UC-San Dieg'O and conducting research in the condensed matter and thermophysics group at Los Alamos, New Mexico before beginning this fellowship program.

The computer center is planning a aainfraae replacement project for FY88. If funded, the processor nucleus of the school's sys tern would be revamped and the current IBM 3033's would be completely phased out.

LT Austin Boyd, a student in the electrical and computer engineering program, has been working on a design for an NPS satellite for his thesis. Boyd learned recently that his paper, "A Design for Small General Purpose Low Earth Orbit Satellites," has been accepted for the International Astronautical Federation meeting later this year in Innsbruck, Austria.. Re considering the meeting's lo ca ti on and travel costs, Boyd said, "Well, guess it's time to start walking."

CDR Paul Shemella, a 1982 graduate in national se01rity affairs, was recently selected as the Navy's first Harvard Fellow in National Security. Shemella, a SEAL, wrote his thesis on the maritime LNG sabotage threat under NSA pro­fessor Russel Stolfi.

Software turns graphic in new cs course e

Graphically, it was the first - a "show and tell" de moos t ration to conclude the computer science depart­ment's first offering of CS-4203, Interactive Computer Graphics.

The new course, taught by associate professor Dan Da­vis, was "somewhat experi­mental," designed to expose students to system struc­ture, Davis said.

The 15 students in the class created original graphics software using either a clone of the IBM PC/KI or a Macintosh.

"You have to turn your head upside down to program" the Macintosh, Davis said, because it involves event­driven programming with a system which can handle a­synchronous events in random order.

Among the projects w­an electronic appointm lJllml' calendar which can graphi­cally program a daily sche­dule for a 100 year period and a computerized version of flash cards.

The calendar software, developed by Beng Lim, LCDR Richard Gogel and LT Jim de Stael, computes the correct monthly calendar for any year and provides icons to plug into hour time slots, including a hair-pulling scene to denote periods of stress.

Other students created puzzles which required st rang visualization skills in order to master them, and three-dimensional animation on, what is in essence, a two-dimensional machine.

An ext racu rri cu la r f ea­tu re developed by CPT Ron Nelson was a bug-eyed ear­wiggling mouse named "Wal­ter. "

Said Nelson: 'That's w.h-t: happened when I program this," referring to Ii d

knapsack puzzle in which the player tries to maximize the value of icons placed in the "sack."

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Sports Beat 9>y JO 1 Frank Summers

"Crashing the boards" may sound a bit destructive for the game of basketball, but for the NPS basketball team it was the key element in a crushing 105-98 victory for NPS over the Long Beach Navy champs USS Curts (FFG-38) in a game played last weekend.

The game saw the lead change hands at least a half-dozen times. The USS Curts, with their long-range shooting, took an early 4 9-44 half time lead.

In the second half, NPS came out and began "crashing the boards," moving the USS Curts team away from the basket and rebounding for second and third shots, which gave Marvin Knight a chance to score his game-high 28 point~

Other players scoring in double figures were Melvin Craig with 21 points, Steve Farr for 14 and Dwayne Knightner, 12 point~

* * * The Co-Ed league just finished their socko season with Just Friends defeating CITH 7-6 for the championship. It took a home run in the bottom of the seventh inning to provide the victory for Just Friends.

* * * In a non-league socko tournament held at NPS recently, the NPS team battled back from the loser brackets to defeat the team from DLI 14-0 for the championship. ~ DLI began the tournament with a 6-5 victory over NPS and When went on to pound the USS Curts team 15-5. NPS came

back in the third game to batter the USS Curts 18-3, elimi­nating them from the tournament.

In a rematch of the first game, DLI never got on track as the NPS team ripped them 12-2, setting up the champion­ship game.

* * * Congratulations to John Williams of FNOC, who recently

placed fourth in the annual National Military Retirees Golf Classic in Las Vega~ There were some 500 participants in the 54-hole tournament.

* * * There's still time to register for either the La Mesa

lOK or fun run scheduled for July 26. The lOK will begin at 0830 and the fun run will begin at 1030. Call 375-0595 for more information.

If I were the boss ... by ISl Jeffrey Johnson

I would give the sailor of the year an orange cone to place on a brown parking space closest to his or her work space.

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I would instruct security to leave the back gate open til 2100 during the softball season. Games are of ten heduled until 2045.

I would have a quarterly admiral's call during which the commanding officer of enlisted personnel and the super­intendent would discuss possible solutions to the problems faced by the enlisted community.

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Blood needed

An NPS family is in eaer­ge ncy need of 0- and B­blood. Donors please call ext. 2110/2148 for further details.

Military awards

Defense Meritorious Service Medal

LT Willie R. C. Bogan, USNR

Meritorious Service Medal CPI' David J. Patrick, USAF

Navy eo..endation Medal LT Virginia T. Czuba, USN

LT Ronald L. Smith, USN

Navy Achievement Medal LT David P. Dinwiddie,

CEC, USNR LCDR James W. Emery, USN

CAPI' Steven J. Gaffney, USMC LT Kevin P. Seavey, USN

LT Matthew D. Tittle, USN

Notice

The next issue of 'The Quarterdeck" will not be published until July 11 be­cause of the academic break.

Happy Fourth of July!

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Awards (contJnued from page one>

CDR James K. Linquist, USN and LCDR Timothy S. Evans, USN, with both receive the Rear Admiral Thomas R. McClellan Award for Academic Excellence in Administrative Science. CDR Linquist will receive the award in absentia.

CAPr Steven T. Rolste, USMC, will be presented with the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Honor Award.

LCDR Robert Paul Petroka, USN, will receive the Naval Seas Systems Command Award in Naval Engineering.

The fallowing awards will be presented in absentia: The Naval Underwater Systems Center Award for Excellence

in Underwater Systems Technology to LCDR James David John­son, USN;

The Space and Naval Warf are Systems Command Award in Electronic Systems Engineering to LT Donald E. Deauth, USN;

Oceanographer of the Navy Air--Ocean Science Award to LT Theodore R. Mettlach, USN;

The Mewborn Student Research Award and W. Randolph Church Award to CAPT Roy D. Bryant, USMC.

Mount Hood to visit for Sloat Landing NPS and a visiting Navy ship will participate in the

annual Sloat Landing Ceremonies to be held July 5. Two ceremonies are held to commemorate the landing of

Navy Commodore John Drake Sloat in Monterey in 1846. The first event will be held at the Presidio of Monterey at 1300, the second at the Customs House Plaza near the Mon­terey Conference Center at 1400.

USS Mount Hood (AE-29) has hen scheduled by COMTHIRDFLT to visit Monterey July 3-7 to participate in the cere­monies. NPS participants in the second ceremony at 1400 will include RADM Robert Shumaker, who will read the Sloat Proclamation, the NPS color guard and Chap lain Mel Rary.

The Mount Hood is tentatively scheduled to host public visiting 1000-1500 on July 5. All tours will leave from the U.S. Coast Guard pier. For safety reasons, no one under the age of eight will be allowed to tour the ship.

CivPers training needs approval

Supervisors of NPS, FNOC, NEPRF and DRMEC civilian em­ployees are required to submit a DD Form 1556 to the civilian personnel training officer for approval whenever a civilian employee is scheduled to attend any type of educa­tional or professional training on government time or at government expense.

The re are two exceptions to this regulation. Call Liz Clark at ext. 3052 for more information.

Local area training courses

Title Date Eligible Cost How To Get Results With People 27 June All employees $45 Speed Reading/Proofreading 18 July All employees $90 Basic Supervision 24 July Supvsrs & Mgrs $98 Stress Management for Professionals 21 Aug Supvsrs & Mgrs $45 Power Comnunication Skills 4 Sept All employees $45

Contact Liz Clark, ext. 3052, for more information.

Calendar JUNE

-20-1430, SPRUANCE PLAZA GRADUATION EXERCISES

<POC: LTJG FREE, X2075l

-20 TO 22-AS I AN STUDIES ON PACIFIC COAST

<ASPACl IN-122 (POC: PROF OLSON, X3163l

-23 JUNE TO JlLY 3-ACADEMIC BREAK

NO SHUTTLE BUS SERVICE

-25 TO Tl-NAVAL RESERVE MANPOWER, PERSONNEL AND TRAINING

CONFERENCE IN-122

(POC: PROF COFFEY, X3302l

-28-MONTEREY NAVAL ENLISTED PICNIC NPS GOLF COURSE PICNIC GROUNDS

<POC: YN1 LOOKER, X2789/90l

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-3 TO 7-SHIP VISIT

USS MOUNT HOOD (AE-29> PUBLIC VISITING TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED JULY 5, 1000-1500 TOURS DEPART FROM USCG PIER (NO ONE UNDER AGE 8 ALLOWED

TO TOUR SHIP>

-5-SLOAT LANDING CEREMONIES

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, 1300 CUSTOMS HOUSE PLAZA, 1400

(POC: JOI FRANK SUl+1ERS, X2023l

-11-1400

CHANGE OF COMMAND CEREMONY IN FRONT OF HERRMANN HALL

RECEPTION FOLLOWING IN QUARTERDECK LOUNGE

<POC: LT HORTON, X2511l

Sea Cadets search for CO

The local Sea Cadets, sponsored by the Monterey Council of the Navy League, are seeking a commandiA officer and other pe rsonrl19 i nte rested in assisting the unit.

Interested individuals may call Mrs. Jackie Wilson at 372-3415 after 1900.