Naval Postgraduate School
NPS Biographical Collection finding aid
NPS finding aid (61.80Kb)Abstract
The NPS Biographical Collection is a growing file that includes records from the early years of
the institution to the present. It includes photocopy and original articles, audio and visual media,
correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, notes and newsletters, pamphlets,
photographs and negatives, reports, speeches, and technical reports. Notable individuals in the
collection are: Fleet Admirals Chester Nimitz and Ernest J. King; federal secretaries James
Forrestal, Josephus Daniels, Dan Kimball, Leon Panetta, William Perry, Thomas White and
James Roche; Admirals Arleigh Burke, Michael Mullen, James Watkins and Wayne Meyer; NPS
astronaut alumni Scott Carpenter, Eugene Cernan, Dan Bursch and Alan Poindexter; Professors
John Arquilla, George Haltiner, Richard Hamming, Wayne Hughes, Gordon McCormick,
Michael Melich and Russ Stolfi; and dozens of U.S. military admirals and generals and foreign
dignitaries.
Description
This collection was initially assembled by John Sanders during a period from 1984 to
2007 as working files in the Naval Postgraduate School Public Affairs Office (PAO). They were
later transferred to the Dudley Knox Library (DKL) and placed in Special Collections &
Archives. This collection consists of documents and photographs of notable NPS faculty,
students, alumni and visiting dignitaries. The collection is currently located in Special Collections and Archives in the Dudley Knox Library.
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