The 2020 National Maritime Awards Dinner
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The National Press Club • 23 April • Washington, DC
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he National Maritime Historical Society, in association with the National Coast Guard Museum Association and the Naval Historical Foundation, invite you to join us at the 10th Annual National Maritime Awards Dinner to honor the United States merchant marine, the United States Naval Academy, and the United States Coast Guard Aviation Association. Dinner chairs Denise Krepp and VADM Al Konetzni, USN (Ret.), and founding chairman Philip Webster hope to welcome you at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on Thursday, 23 April 2020 as we celebrate these three iconic maritime institutions.
United States Naval Academy
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The United States Naval Academy celebrates its 175th anniversary and will be recognized with the NMHS Distinguished Service Award. Founded on 10 October 1845, the United States Naval Academy has educated tens of thousands of Navy and Marine Corps officers whose leadership has helped defend the nation and the world for generations. VADM Sean Buck, USN, Superintendent of the Academy, will accept the award. As the undergraduate college of our country’s naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the US Navy and Marine Corps. Naval Academy students are midshipmen on active duty in the US Navy. They attend the academy for four years, graduating with Bachelor of Science degrees and commissions as ensigns in the Navy or second lieutenants in the Marine Corps. Naval Academy graduates serve at least five years in the Navy or Marine Corps. The US Naval Academy was started when George Bancroft, during his brief one-month tenure as Secretary of the Navy under President James Polk, established the Naval School at a ten-acre Army post at Fort Severn in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1845 with 50 midshipmen and seven professors. The original curriculum included mathematics and navigation, gunnery and steam, chemistry, English, natural philosophy, and French. In 1850 the Naval School became the United States Naval Academy, and a new curriculum
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This lively annual gathering of America’s maritime community in our nation’s capital is an opportunity to salute our country’s maritime heritage while we honor three American institutions that epitomize the maritime history of the United States and for generations have been in the forefront of supporting the nation’s maritime commerce, defense, and security. This year gives us an occasion to not only recognize these distinguished services, but also to commemorate important anniversary milestones in these institutions’ histories.
Bancroft Hall on the US Naval Academy campus in 1919. With six wings added on in subsequent building phases, Bancroft Hall is now the largest dormitory in the world. 10
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