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Naval Academy announces major athletic award winners
6/1/08:
The U.S. Naval Academy announced its major athletic award winners May 22
at the annual Prizes and Awards Ceremony at Alumni Hall.
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Pearl Harbor could become a national monument
6/2/08: President Bush asked his
defense and interior secretaries to look into designing Pearl
Harbor and other historic World War II sites in the Pacific a
national monument. A May 29 presidential memo to Defense
Secretary Robert Gates and Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne
said such status could offer the sites additional protection.
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Sea Trials strike a more serious tone
6/3/08:
The all-day physical exercises that mark the end of a
midshipmen's first year at the Naval Academy were never exactly
fun. But this year, they've gotten even more serious. The
academy has put greater emphasis on wartime sacrifices, hoping
to inspire plebes to think about what they are doing behind the
academy's walls on the picturesque Severn River.
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Midshipman cleared of rape charges
6/4/08: All charges have
been dropped against a Naval Academy midshipman who was accused
of raping a fellow midshipman, academy officials announced
Tuesday.
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Naval Academy extends
Gladchuk's
contract through 2015
6/5/08:
Naval Academy Vice Adm. Jeffrey Fowler
announced that he has extended the contract of Director of
Athletics
Chet Gladchuk through 2015. Gladchuk, has overseen a
renaissance of Navy athletics in his seven years as athletic
director. His administrative leadership has helped lead the
program to one of the most successful periods in school history.
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Departing USNA commandant sees progress
6/6/08: The Naval Academy's first
female commandant, Capt. Margaret D. Klein, said that the
academy - like the Navy in general - is much more accepting of
women today than when she graduated in 1981.
Capt. Klein assumed the academy's No. 2 post in December 2006.
She will be relieved today, as she is being promoted to rear
admiral and given a new assignment. Her replacement will be Navy
Capt. Matthew L. Klunder, a member of the academy's Class of
1982.
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Navy ships ordered to leave Myanmar
6/7/08:
The U.S. military ordered Navy ships loaded with relief aid off
Myanmar's coast to leave the area Thursday after the country's
xenophobic junta refused to give them permission to help
survivors of last month's devastating cyclone.
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WISNAPA summer meeting highlights
6/8/08: Approximately 70 people
attended the summer WISNAPA meeting in New Berlin yesterday.
Highlights of the meeting include:
127 Wisconsin candidates applied to
the Naval Academy with 23 offers of appointment. Nineteen
accepted appointments with four turn-downs.
The average English ACT score for the Class of 2012 was 29.5; 31
for math.
The 2008 All-Academies Ball will be Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008 with
the West Point (Army) parent's club hosting the event.
Volunteer(s) are needed to represent WISNAPA. Contact
John Kelling if
interested.
The Navy football team will be playing Northern Illinois on
Tuesday, Nov. 25 (updated 6/11/08) at Dekalb. The Wisconsin USNA Alumni
Association will be coordinating a bus to the game. Craig Walker
will provide further information.
The USS Freedom, a littoral ship built in
Marinette, Wisconsin, will be commissioned later this year,
perhaps with a ceremony in Milwaukee. Craig Walker will have
further information.
Next year, WISNAPA dues will be increased to $40 per family and
$20 for individual and associate memberships.
The same slate of WISNAPA officers will remain:
John & Steph Kelling -
Presidents;
Bill & Jane Campion -
Vice Presidents;
Kalaniwai
Grady - Treasurer;
Greg & Nancy Bose -
Secretaries
WISNAPA President John Kelling is looking to fundraise
for the club. If you have ideas, contact
John.
The following dates and locations are tentative for the next
WISNAPA meetings:
Fall: Saturday, October 4, 2008 at the
Delafield Brew Haus, Delafield
Spring: Saturday, March 7, 2009 at the
Milwaukee Yacht Club, Milwaukee
Summer: Saturday, June 6, 2009 at the Country
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Cards select Navy's Harris
6/9/08: Former Naval Academy
pitcher Mitch Harris was drafted in the 13th round by the St.
Louis Cardinals. He was the 395th overall selection in the Major
League Baseball Draft, making him the second-highest draft pick
in Navy program history.
There remains uncertainty
about when and if Harris will be able to join a minor league
affiliate for the Cardinals. The 22-year-old ensign owes the
Navy a five-year military commitment and has been assigned to
the USS Ponce, an amphibious transport ship.
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Kitty Hawk bids Japan Sayonara for the
last time 6/10/08:
USS Kitty
Hawk (CV 63), the Navy's oldest active-duty aircraft
carrier, left Japan for the last time the end of May, with
hundreds of friends, family members and distinguished visitors
watching as the ship left the piers where she has operated from
for nearly a decade.
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CNO addresses future ensigns at Annapolis
6/11/08:
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead addressed the Class
of
2008's
future ensigns at the U.S. Naval Academy last month. In his
final speech to the midshipmen before their commissioning,
Roughead, a 1973 Naval Academy graduate and former Commandant of
Midshipmen, spoke about the importance of mission readiness and
the Navy's presence around the globe.
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Navy football players to sign autographs this Saturday
6/12/08: The Naval Academy Athletic
Association will have a Navy Football information table set up
at Camdem Yards on Saturday night before the Baltimore Oriole
game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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Note: The date of the Navy vs.
Northern Illinois football game in DeKalb will be Tuesday, Nov.
25 at 18:00 (CST), not Saturday, Nov. 22 as previously posted.
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Sex-assault database urged for academies
6/13/08: Federal lawmakers in Maryland are
pushing for a national database to catalog sexual assaults at
the U.S. Naval Academy and other military colleges, months after
a government agency found that incidents were inconsistently
reported.
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Once again, Naval Academy is summit central
6/14/08:
Just months after
hosting the Mideast peace summit, Annapolis once again will be
the scene for a high-level international meeting. The U.S.
Treasury Department announced that it will hold talks with China
at the U.S. Naval Academy next week.
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Former Naval Academy employee gets two years for stealing food
6/15/08:
A former Naval Academy employee has been sentenced to more than two years
in prison for stealing $3,500 worth of food from the military
college's dining hall and for other offences.
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Navy football team ranked 72nd in the country
6/16/08: Athlon magazine ranks the
Navy football team 72nd our of 120 schools in their annual
preseason publication. The Midshipmen are projected to go 8-4
and win the Commanders-In-Chief's Trophy for a sixth-consecutive
year.
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CARAT Phase One in Philippines ends
on high note
.jpg) 6/17/08:
Philippine and U.S. maritime forces are supporting
a variety of humanitarian and at-sea activities during the
Philippines phase of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training
(CARAT) 2008. CARAT is an annual series of bilateral maritime
training exercises between the United States and six Southeast
Asia nations to build relationships and enhance the operational
readiness of the participating forces. Left: Ens.
Elizabeth Burnett (daughter of WISNAPA members
Jim & Kathy Burnett, New Holstein), USNA '07, plays
with a child during a community relations project as part of
CARAT.
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Superintendent at helm for one year
6/18/08: After overseeing the Class of
2008 fair winds and following seas, Adm. Jeffrey Fowler, USNA
Superintendent, has written a snapshot of today's Naval Academy,
including his assessment of how he is moving forward to execute
his mission and vision.
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Summer meeting minutes available
6/19/08: The
WISNAPA summer meeting minutes from June 7 are available. The
current minutes may be obtained from the left side bar under
Secretary's Reports or by clicking
here.
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Naval Academy sailors to race with
world's
best
6/20/08:
Before the world's premier skippers compete in one of the most
prestigious international sailing competitions, they will first
sail with students from
Chicago's
Rickover Naval Academy in a harbor race at Belmont Harbor
Station on June 20.
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USNA first annual STEM program welcomes
students 6/21/08:
The Naval Academy Admissions Office has invited a select
group of approximately 100 seventh-tenth grade students from
around the country to attend the 2008 Summer Science,
Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Program at the Naval
Academy from June 22-27. The first annual program is designed to
encourage these students to pursue a course of study in
engineering and technology throughout high school and college.
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Mids pitch in at Jug Bay
6/22/08: Midshipmen rolled up their sleeves and
plunged in, literally, to help repair storm damage at Jug Bay
Wetlands Sanctuary. The 2nd class midshipmen took what tools
they had and waded knee deep in muck and a rising tide along the
shore of the country's scenic wildlife sanctuary to repair
riverside walkways.
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Bush signs new military tax breaks into law
6/23/08: A military bill containing a combination of
new tax benefits and the extension of existing benefits was
signed into law last week by President Bush.
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CBS College Sports to air Armed Forces Week
6/24/08:
CBS College
Sports Network is dedicating the week leading up to
Independence Day with all the action and excitement of the
service academy athletics with Armed Forces Week, a seven-day
programming block, featuring the best of Army, Navy and Air
Force.
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Midshipmen participate in a walk for education
6/25/08:
A
group of more than 30 Midshipmen and Company Officers
participated in a Walk for Education (AWFE), a program in which
volunteers go door-to-door in disadvantaged and low-income
neighborhoods to increase awareness of opportunities available
through education.
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ACLU tries to halt mealtime prayer at
Naval Academy
6/26/08: A national civil liberties group is
renewing a push to end mealtime prayer at the U.S. Naval
Academy, where a group of midshipmen recently complained to
officials that they felt pressured to participate in the
longtime practice. The tradition, believed to date back to the
college's founding in 1845, now involves a chaplain's leading
grace before a noon mean that all 4,200 midshipmen must attend
at King Hall.
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 USNA
freshman died of cardiac arrhythmia
6/27/08: An autopsy has determined that a
19-year-old Naval Academy student found unconscious in her
Annapolis dormitory last month died of cardiac arrhythmia, or an
abnormal beating of the heart, the state medical examiner's
office reported. Kristen Dickmann (right) of Kennet Square,
Pennslyvania, was found lying in her bed and not breathing on
May 5. She was pronounced dead that afternoon.
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Five mids compete for a spot on 2008
Olympic Team
6/28/08: Included among the hundreds of qualifiers
over the last four years for the U.S. Olympic Swimming Team
Trials are five current or former members of the Navy men's and
women's programs, four of whom will be taking part in the trials
that is slated to be held June 29-July 6 at the Qwest Center in
Omaha, Nebraska.
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Antietam
hosts annual Professional Training of Midshipmen
6/29/08:
USS Antietam
(CG 54) hosted 52 U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen at Naval Station
San Diego for the annual Professional Training of Midshipmen (PROTROMID)
surface warfare week, earlier this month.
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Midshipmen participate in Cyber Defense
Exercise
6/30/08: Last semester, a group of Midshipmen
engaged a true-to-life battle held on the front lines of the
virtual world. They engaged in a Cyber Defense Exercise (CDX)
with wartime scenarios based on situations they may face in the
Fleet.
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Go
Navy! Beat
Army!
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(Wisconsin
Naval Academy Parents' Association,
Inc.)
Board of Governors
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