2016 Distinguished Graduate Award Medal Ceremony

MEDAL PRESENTATION 4:30 p.m.

INTRODUCTION OF THE 2016 DISTINGUISHED GRADUATES NARRATOR Midshipman Jenna M. Westerberg ’16 Brigade Commander

2016 DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE INVOCATION AWARD MEDAL Commander (Select) Robert N. Burns ’87, CEREMONY CHC, USN Deputy Command Chaplain

THE NATIONAL ANTHEM WELCOME AND REMARKS Vice Admiral Walter E. “Ted” Carter Jr. ’81, USN Superintendent, U.S. Naval Academy

PRESENTATION OF DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE AWARD MEDALS Admiral Robert J. Natter ’67, USN (Ret.) Chairman, U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association Board of Trustees and Midshipman Eric B. Kellogg ’16 President, Class of 2016

REMARKS Distinguished Graduate Award Recipients

1 APRIL ALUMNI HALL U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY DEPARTURE OF THE OFFICIAL PARTY ‘‘NAVY BLUE & GOLD”

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The 2016 Distinguished Graduate Award medal ceremony marks the 18th year of honoring and celebrating the lives of alumni through the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Award program.

Each year, distinguished graduates are honored because of their demonstrated and unselfish commitment to a lifetime of service, their personal character and the significant contributions they have made to the Navy and Marine Corps or as leaders in industry or government. They are the living embodiment of the Academy’s mission to develop leaders to “assume the highest responsibilities of command, citizenship and government.”

We honor these three individuals for the principles they stand for—today and always.

Vice Admiral Robert F. Dunn ’51, USN (Ret.) The Honorable John H. Dalton ’64 Captain Carl H. June ’75, MC, USN (Ret.)

MEDAL PRESENTATION 4:30 p.m.

INTRODUCTION OF THE 2016 DISTINGUISHED GRADUATES NARRATOR Midshipman Jenna M. Westerberg ’16 Brigade Commander

INVOCATION Commander (Select) Robert N. Burns ’87, CHC, USN Deputy Command Chaplain

THE NATIONAL ANTHEM WELCOME AND REMARKS Vice Admiral Walter E. “Ted” Carter Jr. ’81, USN Superintendent, U.S. Naval Academy

PRESENTATION OF DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE AWARD MEDALS Admiral Robert J. Natter ’67, USN (Ret.) Chairman, U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association Board of Trustees and Midshipman Eric B. Kellogg ’16 President, Class of 2016

REMARKS Distinguished Graduate Award Recipients

‘‘NAVY BLUE & GOLD” DEPARTURE OF THE OFFICIAL PARTY 1

DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE AWARD SELECTION COMMITTEE General Peter Pace ’67, USMC (Ret.)—Chairman Mr. Corbin A. McNeill Jr. ’62 Admiral Michael G. Mullen ’68, USN (Ret.) Admiral Thomas B. Fargo ’70, USN (Ret.) Lieutenant General John F. Sattler ’71, USMC (Ret.) Admiral Robert F. Willard ’73, USN (Ret.) Admiral James G. Stavridis ’76, USN (Ret.) Mr. Byron F. Marchant ’78 Mr. David M. Robinson ’87

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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN Welcome to the 2016 United States Naval Academy Distinguished Graduate Award Ceremony.

To this year’s distinguished graduates: congratulations and thank you for your many years of dedicated service, both in and out of uniform. Your energy, your passion and your life’s work have made an incredible difference. We are especially grateful to your families, who continue to support you in all that you do.

Selecting today’s honorees from a field of accomplished alumni was both challenging and humbling; challenging because there are so many truly amazing graduates who deserve recognition and humbling to have the opportunity to rub shoulders with these and so many other distinguished graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy.

While each path was different, all of today’s honorees began their lifelong careers of service right here.

This great institution continues to serve as the foundation—that shared experience—of patriotism, camaraderie and character that has sustained these leaders and put them on their path to success. To be back here with these truly distinguished graduates, and with all of you future distinguished graduates, is especially meaningful.

My special thanks to the selection committee and to everyone who had a hand in planning and executing today’s ceremony. To the Brigade, our alumni and guests: thank you for sharing this special event as we celebrate the noteworthy accomplishments and extraordinary careers of our fellow graduates.

General Peter Pace ’67, USMC (Ret.) Chairman, U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Award Selection Committee 2009 Distinguished Graduate Award Recipient

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VICE ADMIRAL ROBERT F. DUNN ’51, USN (RET.) Born in Chicago, Vice Admiral Robert F. Dunn ’51, USN (Ret.), continued his high school rowing career by lettering in crew at the Naval Academy, where he also served as an associate editor for the Lucky Bag. Immediately after graduation he joined NICHOLAS in the Sea of Japan during the Korean War. After flight training, Admiral Dunn served in a number of aviation units flying the AD Skyraider, the A-4 Skyhawk, the F-4 Phantom and several other aircraft.

His 9,000 hours of flying time include 255 combat missions during the Vietnam War and 934 carrier landings, the last made in a single-place F/A-18 on his 60th birthday. Along the way, he earned two Distinguished Service Medals, two Silver Stars, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, four Meritorious Service Medals, the Air Medal with four gold stars and 28 bronze stars and four

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Navy Commendation Medals with Combat “V” and seven stars.

After Vietnam, Admiral Dunn commanded an air wing in the Mediterranean, served as the Sixth Fleet operations officer, then commanded MOUNT WHITNEY and SARATOGA. While he was in SARATOGA the ship won a number of unprecedented awards. As a flag officer he commanded the Naval Safety Center and a carrier group and was Commander, Naval Military Personnel Command, Chief of Naval Reserve and Commander, Naval Air Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, ending his 38-year career as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air Warfare.

Along with sea duty and flying, Admiral Dunn also earned a master’s degree at the Naval Postgraduate School and worked in the Polaris missile program.

Toward the end of his career he received the Gray Eagle Award, recognizing him as the senior naval aviator on active duty.

“His career both in the Navy and in ‘retirement’ where he has continued to devote his time, talent and intellect to important national security issues should be a positive role model for midshipmen for years to come.”

—Rear Admiral Robert H. Wertheim ’46, USN (Ret.) 2005 Distinguished Graduate Award Recipient

He was also the last member of the Class of 1951 to retire.

In retirement, he has served as an aerospace consultant, media commentator, author, deputy chairman of the NASA Aerospace Advisory Panel and Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Ramsey Fellow.

He was also a member of several Federal Aviation Administration advisory boards, chairman of a GSA Blue Ribbon Panel examining safety in non-Department of Defense government flight operations and president of the Association of Naval Aviation and the Naval Historical Foundation (NHF). During his tenure as president, the NHF raised funds and arranged for the construction of a Cold War Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Navy in the Washington Navy Yard.

Admiral Dunn has been and continues to be an active Alumni Association volunteer as a past class president and chairman of the Alumni Association Plan

2020 Committee. He has lent his expertise and leadership to a wide variety of Naval Academy endeavors including the development of the class arches at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium and, along with the rest of his class, the development of collections at the Naval Academy Museum. His efforts were key to the establishment of the annual Captain Edward L. Beach Jr. Award to the graduating midshipman who contributes most to naval history.

In addition, the Vice Admiral Dunn Naval History Award is presented each year to the winner of a nationwide NROTC naval history essay contest.

Admiral Dunn also demonstrates personal generosity toward the Naval Academy Foundation and Naval Academy Athletic Association and is a long-time President’s Circle donor.

He and his wife, Claire, reside in Alexandria, VA.

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THE HONORABLE JOHN H. DALTON ’64 The Honorable John H. Dalton, a native of New Orleans, attended Louisiana State University for a year before coming to the Naval Academy, where he found success in athletics, academics and leadership. He graduated with distinction, having served as Deputy Brigade Commander. Named a Rhodes Scholarship finalist while serving aboard the submarine BLUEBACK, he later began nuclear power training and continued his submarine service aboard JOHN C. CALHOUN. Those tours provided the foundation for a career in national service that culminated with his term as the 70th Secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton.

Dalton became a lieutenant on active duty and was promoted to lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve.

He launched a career in banking with Goldman Sachs in the early 1970s before answering the call of President Jimmy Carter ’47 to serve as president of the Department of Housing and Urban 6

Development’s Government National Mortgage Association. He also served as a member and later chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board before returning to the private sector with leadership positions with the Gill Companies, Freedom Capital Corporation, Mason Best Company and Stephens Inc. President Clinton nominated Dalton as Secretary of the Navy in 1993, a position he held until 1998. As his tenure came to an end, he received the National Security Caucus’ 1997 International Security Leadership Award, recognizing his “leadership and vision in promoting American sea power and a bipartisan maritime strategy.” Dalton is the only service secretary ever to receive this award. He has also received U.S. military decorations as well as decorations from the governments of Bahrain and Ecuador.

Dalton led the Navy during a particularly difficult time in its history, addressing issues such as the Tailhook

“Having known John since 1975, I continually have been impressed with his initiative, diligence and perseverance in every task starting with my presidential campaign through his service as Navy Secretary.”

—The Honorable James E. Carter Jr. ’47 39th President of the United States 2002 Distinguished Graduate

incident, cultural changes surrounding gender and sexual identity in the military and the suicide of Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jeremy “Mike” Boorda, USN. Dalton exemplified constant concern for the men and women of the naval service and continued his tireless pursuit of honor, truth, diversity and accountability for the Navy and the nation. This commitment extended to the Naval Academy, where he established the Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics, now the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, in 1997.

Returning to the business world, Dalton served as president of IPG Photonics, a fiber optics corporation, from 2000 to 2004 and in January 2005 became president of the Housing Policy Council of the Financial Services Roundtable, where he continues to serve. He remains engaged in the global community through his work on the boards of BGC Partners, Fresh

Del Monte Produce and Washington First Bank, as well as volunteer activities with organizations including Washington National Cathedral, Community Renewal International, the White House Historical Association and Habitat for Humanity.

He was inducted into the C.E. Byrd High School Hall of Fame in 1992, Louisiana State University’s Alumni Hall of Distinction in 2002 and in May 2006 received the Public Service Award from the United States Energy Association.

Dalton, who holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Trinity College, resides in Washington, DC, with his wife, Margaret. The couple, known for their passionate support of Navy athletics and personal generosity to the Academy through the Naval Academy Foundation as President’s Circle donors, has two sons and four grandsons.

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CAPTAIN CARL H. JUNE ’75, MC, USN (RET.) Captain Carl H. June ’75, MC, USN (Ret.), stood second in his class on graduation day, one of just eight midshipmen selected to attend medical school.

He continued to excel at Baylor Medical School, where he graduated first in his class of 160 students.

Captain June completed his extensive clinical training in 1986, then embarked on an extraordinary career in medical research. Assigned first as a medical research officer in the Navy Tissue Bank at the Naval Medical Research Institute/ Office of Naval Research, he became department head in 1993. While in the Navy, Captain June led a research group focused on improving medical care of combat casualties, work that resulted in more than 100 publications in scientific journals and more than 20 patents assigned to the Office of Naval Research.

While Captain June’s work for the Navy initially focused on immunopathology and infectious diseases, he began to 8

develop interests in immunology that ultimately led to groundbreaking research into improving treatments for HIV/AIDS as well as leukemia and other cancers. Captain June’s first wife, Cynthia, began battling cancer herself in 1995, which led Captain June to retire from the Navy but only galvanized his commitment to uncovering new ways to battle and eventually cure the disease.

In 1999, Captain June left his positions with Bethesda Naval Hospital and the Uniformed Services University to establish his current lab at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is the Richard W. Vague Professor of Immunotherapy at the Perelman School of Medicine.

Cynthia June passed away in 2001.

In the years that followed, Captain June continued to advance research begun for the Navy that showed that bone marrow reconstitution through gene therapy after radiation damage could cure leukemia. He patented the initial

“Dr. June has dedicated his career and his adult life to the betterment of mankind.”

—Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert ’75, USN (Ret.) 30th Chief of Naval Operations

technology for the therapy, which is owned by the Navy and licensed to Novartis for use in the United States and overseas. Among many accolades surrounding Captain June’s work in this area, Science magazine deemed it its “Number 1 Breakthrough” of 2011.

Captain June’s contributions to science and human wellbeing have garnered a wide variety of honors from both government and civilian organizations. These include a Legion of Merit; the Dexter Conrad Award from the Office of Naval Research, the Navy’s highest award for scientific achievement; the Frank Brown Berry Prize in Federal Medicine; the Federal Laboratory Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer; the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award; the Cancer Research Institute’s Coley Award in Tumor Immunology; the American Society of Hematology’s Ernest Beutler Prize; the Society for

Immunotherapy of Cancer’s Richard V. Smalley Award; the American Association of Blood Banking’s Landsteiner Memorial Award; and the City of Philadelphia’s highest honor, the Philadelphia Award.

Elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Captain June has five children and four grandchildren and lives in Merion, PA, with his wife, Lisa.

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PAST RECIPIENTS 1999

2002

Admiral Thomas H. Moorer ’33, USN (Ret.)

Vice Admiral Charles S. Minter Jr. ’37, USN (Ret.)

(1912-2004)

(1915-2008)

2000

The Honorable James E. Carter Jr. ’47

Dr. John J. McMullen ’40

Admiral Carlisle A.H. Trost ’53, USN (Ret.)

(1918-2005)

Colonel John W. Ripley ’62, USMC (Ret.)

Admiral James L. Holloway III ’43, USN (Ret.)

(1939-2008)

Vice Admiral William P. Lawrence ’51, USN (Ret.) (1930-2005)

2003

Major General William A. Anders ’55, USAFR (Ret.)

Ambassador William H.G. FitzGerald ’31

Mr. Roger T. Staubach ’65

Rear Admiral Eugene B. Fluckey ’35, USN (Ret.)

(1909-2006)

(1913-2007)

2001 Captain John W. Crawford Jr. ’42, USN (Ret.) Admiral William J. Crowe Jr. ’47, USN (Ret.) (1925-2007)

Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale ’47, USN (Ret.) (1923-2005)

Admiral James D. Watkins ’49, USN (Ret.) (1927-2012)

Captain James A. Lovell ’52, USN (Ret.)

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Rear Admiral Robert W. McNitt ’38, USN (Ret.) (1915-2012)

Vice Admiral William D. Houser ’42, USN (Ret.) (1921-2012)

PAST RECIPIENTS 2004

2007

Lieutenant General Victor H. Krulak ’34, USMC (Ret.)

Rear Admiral Maurice H. Rindskopf ’38, USN (Ret.)

(1913-2008)

(1917-2011)

Vice Admiral Gerald E. Miller ’42, USN (Ret.)

Admiral Thomas B. Hayward ’48, USN (Ret.)

(1919-2014)

Vice Admiral James F. Calvert ’43, USN (Ret.) (1920-2009)

Lieutenant General Charles G. Cooper ’50, USMC (Ret.) (1927-2009)

Rear Admiral Ronald F. Marryott ’57, USN (Ret.) (1934-2005)

2005 Captain Slade D. Cutter ’35, USN (Ret.)

Mr. Ralph W. Hooper ’51 Admiral Leighton W. Smith Jr. ’62, USN (Ret.)

2008 Mr. James W. Kinnear III ’50 Admiral Frank B. Kelso II ’56, USN (Ret.) (1933-2013)

Rear Admiral Benjamin F. Montoya ’58, CEC, USN (Ret.) (1935-2015)

(1911-2005)

Lieutenant General William M. Keys ’60, USMC (Ret.)

Rear Admiral Robert H. Wertheim ’46, USN (Ret.)

Admiral Henry G. Chiles Jr. ’60, USN (Ret.)

Admiral Ronald J. Hays ’50, USN (Ret.) Mr. H. Ross Perot ’53

2009 Mr. John E. Nolan ’50

2006

Admiral Bruce DeMars ’57, USN (Ret.)

Captain Thomas J. Hudner ’47, USN (Ret.)

Mr. J. Ronald Terwilliger ’63

Admiral Kinnaird R. McKee ’51, USN (Ret.)

Admiral Joseph W. Prueher ’64, USN (Ret.)

(1929-2013)

General Peter Pace ’67, USMC (Ret.)

General Robert T. Herres ’54, USAF (Ret.) (1932-2008)

Admiral Charles R. Larson ’58, USN (Ret.) (1936-2014)

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PAST RECIPIENTS 2010

2013

Mr. David J. Dunn ’55

Mr. Roger E. Tetrault ’63

Admiral Leon A. Edney ’57, USN (Ret.)

The Honorable John Scott Redd ’66

Rear Admiral Thomas C. Lynch ’64, USN (Ret.)

Ambassador Richard L. Armitage ’67

Admiral Joseph Paul Reason ’65, USN (Ret.)

Admiral Thomas B. Fargo ’70, USN (Ret.)

General Carlton W. Fulford Jr. ’66, USMC (Ret.)

2014

2011

Lieutenant General Thomas P. Stafford ’52, USAF (Ret.)

Rear Admiral Robert H. Shumaker ’56, USN (Ret.)

Rear Admiral William C. Miller ’62, USN (Ret.)

Dr. Bradford N. Parkinson ’57

Admiral Steve Abbot ’66, USN (Ret.)

Lieutenant General Matthew T. Cooper ’58, USMC (Ret.)

Admiral Michael G. Mullen ’68, USN (Ret.)

Mr. Corbin A. McNeill Jr. ’62

Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani Jr. ’70, USN (Ret.)

2012

2015

Admiral Sylvester R. Foley Jr. ’50, USN (Ret.)

Admiral Henry H. Mauz Jr. ’59, USN (Ret.)

The Honorable Daniel L. Cooper ’57

Admiral Richard W. Mies ’67, USN (Ret.)

Captain Bruce McCandless II ’58, USN (Ret.)

Admiral James O. Ellis Jr. ’69, USN (Ret.)

Vice Admiral John R. Ryan ’67, USN (Ret.)

Mr. David M. Robinson ’87

Mr. Daniel F. Akerson ’70

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MISSIONS UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION To serve and support the United States, the naval service, the Naval Academy and its alumni; By furthering the highest standards at the Naval Academy; by seeking out, informing, encouraging and assisting outstanding, qualified young men and women to pursue careers as officers in the Navy and Marine Corps through the Naval Academy; and, by initiating and sponsoring activities which will perpetuate the history, traditions, memories and growth of the Naval Academy and bind alumni together in support of the highest ideals of command, citizenship and government.

Serving the Alma Mater and its Alumni since 1886

UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY To develop midshipmen morally, mentally and physically and to imbue them with the highest ideals of duty, honor and loyalty in order to graduate leaders who are dedicated to a career of naval service and have potential for future development in mind and character to assume the highest responsibilities of command, citizenship and government.

MEDAL PRESENTATION 4:30 p.m.

INTRODUCTION OF THE 2016 DISTINGUISHED GRADUATES NARRATOR Midshipman Jenna M. Westerberg ’16 Brigade Commander

NAVY BLUE AND GOLD

INVOCATION

Now colleges from sea to sea, may sing of colors true, Commander (Select) Robert N. Burns ’87, CHC, USN But who has better right than we, to hoist a symbol hue?

Deputy Command Chaplain For Sailors brave in battle fair, since fighting days of old Have proved the Sailor’s right to wear, the Navy Blue and Gold.

THE NATIONAL ANTHEM

WELCOME AND REMARKS Vice Admiral Walter E. “Ted” Carter Jr. ’81, USN Superintendent, U.S. Naval Academy

PRESENTATION OF DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE AWARD MEDALS Admiral Robert J. Natter ’67, USN (Ret.) Chairman, U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association Board of Trustees and Midshipman Eric B. Kellogg ’16 President, Class of 2016

REMARKS Distinguished Graduate Award Recipients

‘‘NAVY BLUE & GOLD” Thank you to the Annapolis Bus Company for generously providing transportation for the 2016DEPARTURE Distinguished Graduate recipients.

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