2016 distinguished graduate award medal ceremony

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MEDAL PRESENTATION4:30 p.m.

INTRODUCTION OF THE 2016 DISTINGUISHED GRADUATES

NARRATORMidshipman Jenna M. Westerberg ’16

Brigade Commander

INVOCATIONCommander (Select) Robert N. Burns ’87, CHC, USN

Deputy Command Chaplain

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WELCOME AND REMARKSVice Admiral Walter E. “Ted” Carter Jr. ’81, USN

Superintendent, U.S. Naval Academy

PRESENTATION OF DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE AWARD MEDALSAdmiral Robert J. Natter ’67, USN (Ret.)

Chairman, U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association Board of Trusteesand Midshipman Eric B. Kellogg ’16

President, Class of 2016

REMARKSDistinguished Graduate Award Recipients

‘‘NAVY BLUE & GOLD”

DEPARTURE OF THE OFFICIAL PARTY

2016 DISTINGUISHED GRADUATEAWARD MEDAL CEREMONY

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U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY

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 AlumniAssociation 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 missionto develop leaders to “assume the highest responsibilities of command, citizenship and government.” We honor these three individuals for the principles they stand for—todayand always.

Vice Admiral Robert F. Dunn ’51, USN (Ret.)

The Honorable John H. Dalton ’64

Captain Carl H. June ’75, MC, USN (Ret.)

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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

DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE AWARDSELECTION COMMITTEE

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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN

Welcome to the 2016 United StatesNaval Academy Distinguished Graduate Award Ceremony.

To this year’s distinguished graduates:

congratulations and thank you for yourmany years of dedicated service, both inand out of uniform. Your energy, yourpassion and your life’s work have made anincredible difference. We are especiallygrateful to your families, who continueto 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 manytruly amazing graduates who deserverecognition and humbling to have theopportunity to rub shoulders with these and so many other distinguishedgraduates of the U.S. Naval Academy.While each path was different, all oftoday’s honorees began their lifelong careers of service right here.

This great institution continues to serve as the foundation—that shared experience—of patriotism, camaraderieand character that has sustained theseleaders and put them on their path tosuccess. To be back here with these trulydistinguished graduates, and with all ofyou 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 andguests: thank you for sharing this specialevent 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 AssociationDistinguished Graduate Award Selection Committee2009 Distinguished Graduate Award Recipient

Born in Chicago, Vice Admiral Robert F.Dunn ’51, USN (Ret.), continued hishigh school rowing career by lettering in crew at the Naval Academy, where healso served as an associate editor for theLucky Bag. Immediately after graduation hejoined NICHOLAS in the Sea of Japan during the Korean War. After flighttraining, 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 include255 combat missions during the VietnamWar and 934 carrier landings, the lastmade in a single-place F/A-18 on his60th birthday. Along the way, he earnedtwo Distinguished Service Medals, twoSilver Stars, two Distinguished FlyingCrosses, four Meritorious ServiceMedals, the Air Medal with four goldstars and 28 bronze stars and four

Navy Commendation Medals with Combat “V” and seven stars. After Vietnam, Admiral Dunn commanded an air wing in the Mediterranean, served as the Sixth Fleetoperations officer, then commandedMOUNT WHITNEY and SARATOGA. Whilehe was in SARATOGA the ship won a numberof unprecedented awards. As a flag officer he commanded the Naval SafetyCenter and a carrier group and wasCommander, Naval Military PersonnelCommand, Chief of Naval Reserve andCommander, Naval Air Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, ending his 38-year careeras Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air Warfare. Along with sea duty and flying, AdmiralDunn also earned a master’s degree atthe Naval Postgraduate School andworked in the Polaris missile program.Toward the end of his career he receivedthe Gray Eagle Award, recognizing himas the senior naval aviator on active duty.

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VICE ADMIRAL ROBERT F. DUNN ’51, USN (RET.)

He was also the last member of the Classof 1951 to retire. In retirement, he has served as anaerospace consultant, media commentator,author, deputy chairman of the NASAAerospace Advisory Panel and SmithsonianAir and Space Museum Ramsey Fellow.He was also a member of several FederalAviation Administration advisory boards,chairman of a GSA Blue Ribbon Panelexamining safety in non-Department ofDefense government flight operationsand president of the Association of Naval Aviation and the Naval HistoricalFoundation (NHF). During his tenure aspresident, the NHF raised funds andarranged for the construction of a ColdWar Gallery at the National Museum ofthe United States Navy in the WashingtonNavy Yard. Admiral Dunn has been and continuesto be an active Alumni Association volunteer as a past class president andchairman 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 classarches at Navy-Marine Corps MemorialStadium and, along with the rest of hisclass, the development of collections atthe Naval Academy Museum. His effortswere key to the establishment of the annual Captain Edward L. Beach Jr.Award to the graduating midshipmanwho contributes most to naval history. In addition, the Vice Admiral DunnNaval History Award is presented eachyear to the winner of a nationwideNROTC naval history essay contest. Admiral Dunn also demonstratespersonal generosity toward the NavalAcademy Foundation and Naval AcademyAthletic Association and is a long-timePresident’s Circle donor. He and his wife, Claire, reside inAlexandria, VA.

“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 shouldbe a positive role model for midshipmenfor years to come.”

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

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THE HONORABLEJOHN H. DALTON ’64

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The Honorable John H. Dalton, a nativeof New Orleans, attended LouisianaState University for a year before coming to the Naval Academy, where hefound success in athletics, academics andleadership. He graduated with distinction,having served as Deputy Brigade Commander. Named a Rhodes Scholarshipfinalist while serving aboard the submarineBLUEBACK, he later began nuclear powertraining and continued his submarineservice aboard JOHN C. CALHOUN. Thosetours provided the foundation for a careerin national service that culminated withhis term as the 70th Secretary of theNavy under President Bill Clinton. Dalton became a lieutenant on activeduty and was promoted to lieutenantcommander in the Naval Reserve. He launched a career in banking withGoldman Sachs in the early 1970s beforeanswering the call of President JimmyCarter ’47 to serve as president of theDepartment of Housing and Urban

Development’s Government NationalMortgage Association. He also served as a member and later chairman of theFederal Home Loan Bank Board beforereturning to the private sector withleadership positions with the Gill Companies, Freedom Capital Corporation,Mason Best Company and Stephens Inc. President Clinton nominated Daltonas Secretary of the Navy in 1993, a positionhe held until 1998. As his tenure came toan end, he received the National SecurityCaucus’ 1997 International SecurityLeadership Award, recognizing his “leadership and vision in promotingAmerican sea power and a bipartisanmaritime strategy.” Dalton is the only service secretary ever to receive thisaward. He has also received U.S. militarydecorations as well as decorations fromthe governments of Bahrain and Ecuador. Dalton led the Navy during a particularly difficult time in its history,addressing issues such as the Tailhook

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“Having known John since 1975, I continuallyhave been impressed with his initiative,diligence and perseverance in every taskstarting with my presidential campaignthrough his service as Navy Secretary.”

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

2002 Distinguished Graduate

incident, cultural changes surroundinggender and sexual identity in the militaryand the suicide of Chief of Naval OperationsAdmiral Jeremy “Mike” Boorda, USN.Dalton exemplified constant concern for the men and women of the navalservice and continued his tireless pursuit of honor, truth, diversity and accountability for the Navy and the nation. This commitment extended tothe Naval Academy, where he establishedthe Center for the Study of ProfessionalMilitary 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 2005became president of the Housing Policy Council of the Financial Services Roundtable, where he continues toserve. He remains engaged in the global community through his work on the boards of BGC Partners, Fresh

Del Monte Produce and WashingtonFirst Bank, as well as volunteer activities with organizations including WashingtonNational Cathedral, Community RenewalInternational, the White House HistoricalAssociation and Habitat for Humanity.He was inducted into the C.E. ByrdHigh School Hall of Fame in 1992,Louisiana State University’s Alumni Hallof Distinction in 2002 and in May 2006received the Public Service Award fromthe United States Energy Association. Dalton, who holds an MBA from theUniversity of Pennsylvania’s WhartonSchool of Business and an HonoraryDoctor of Laws degree from Trinity College, resides in Washington, DC,with his wife, Margaret. The couple,known for their passionate support ofNavy athletics and personal generosity tothe Academy through the Naval AcademyFoundation as President’s Circle donors,has two sons and four grandsons.

CAPTAINCARL H. JUNE ’75, MC, USN (RET.)

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Captain Carl H. June ’75, MC, USN (Ret.),stood second in his class on graduationday, one of just eight midshipmenselected to attend medical school. He continued to excel at Baylor MedicalSchool, where he graduated first in hisclass of 160 students. Captain June completed his extensiveclinical training in 1986, then embarkedon an extraordinary career in medicalresearch. Assigned first as a medical research officer in the Navy Tissue Bankat the Naval Medical Research Institute/Office of Naval Research, he became department head in 1993. While in theNavy, Captain June led a research group focused on improving medical care ofcombat casualties, work that resulted inmore than 100 publications in scientificjournals and more than 20 patents assigned to the Office of Naval Research. While Captain June’s work for theNavy initially focused on immunopathologyand infectious diseases, he began to

develop interests in immunology that ultimately led to groundbreaking research into improving treatments for HIV/AIDS as well as leukemia andother cancers. Captain June’s first wife,Cynthia, began battling cancer herself in1995, which led Captain June to retirefrom the Navy but only galvanized hiscommitment to uncovering new ways tobattle and eventually cure the disease. In 1999, Captain June left his positionswith Bethesda Naval Hospital and the Uniformed Services University to establish his current lab at the Universityof Pennsylvania, where he is the Richard W.Vague Professor of Immunotherapy atthe Perelman School of Medicine. Cynthia June passed away in 2001. In the years that followed, Captain June continued to advance research begun forthe Navy that showed that bone marrowreconstitution through gene therapyafter radiation damage could cureleukemia. He patented the initial

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

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

technology for the therapy, which isowned by the Navy and licensed to Novartis for use in the United States and overseas. Among many accoladessurrounding Captain June’s work in thisarea, 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 ofMerit; the Dexter Conrad Award fromthe Office of Naval Research, the Navy’shighest award for scientific achievement;the Frank Brown Berry Prize in FederalMedicine; the Federal Laboratory Awardfor Excellence in Technology Transfer;the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society ofAmerica’s Lifetime Achievement Award;the Cancer Research Institute’s ColeyAward in Tumor Immunology; the American Society of Hematology’sErnest Beutler Prize; the Society for

Immunotherapy of Cancer’s Richard V.Smalley Award; the American Associationof Blood Banking’s Landsteiner MemorialAward; and the City of Philadelphia’shighest honor, the Philadelphia Award. Elected to the Institute of Medicineof the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts andSciences, Captain June has five childrenand four grandchildren and lives inMerion, PA, with his wife, Lisa.

PAST RECIPIENTS

1999Admiral Thomas H. Moorer ’33, USN (Ret.)

(1912-2004)

2000Dr. John J. McMullen ’40

(1918-2005)

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

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

(1930-2005)

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

Mr. Roger T. Staubach ’65

2001Captain 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.)

2002Vice Admiral

Charles S. Minter Jr. ’37, USN (Ret.)(1915-2008)

The Honorable James E. Carter Jr. ’47

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

Colonel John W. Ripley ’62, USMC (Ret.)(1939-2008)

2003Ambassador William H.G. FitzGerald ’31

(1909-2006)

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

(1913-2007)

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

(1915-2012)

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

(1921-2012)

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2004Lieutenant General

Victor H. Krulak ’34, USMC (Ret.)(1913-2008)

Vice Admiral Gerald E. Miller ’42, 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)

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

(1911-2005)

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

Admiral Ronald J. Hays ’50, USN (Ret.)

Mr. H. Ross Perot ’53

2006Captain Thomas J. Hudner ’47, USN (Ret.)

Admiral Kinnaird R. McKee ’51, USN (Ret.)(1929-2013)

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

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

2007Rear Admiral

Maurice H. Rindskopf ’38, USN (Ret.)(1917-2011)

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

Mr. Ralph W. Hooper ’51

Admiral Leighton W. Smith Jr. ’62, USN (Ret.)

2008Mr. 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)

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

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

2009Mr. John E. Nolan ’50

Admiral Bruce DeMars ’57, USN (Ret.)

Mr. J. Ronald Terwilliger ’63

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

General Peter Pace ’67, USMC (Ret.)

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PAST RECIPIENTS

2010Mr. David J. Dunn ’55

Admiral Leon A. Edney ’57, USN (Ret.)

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

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

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

2011Rear Admiral

Robert H. Shumaker ’56, USN (Ret.)

Dr. Bradford N. Parkinson ’57

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

Mr. Corbin A. McNeill Jr. ’62

2012Admiral Sylvester R. Foley Jr. ’50, USN (Ret.)

The Honorable Daniel L. Cooper ’57

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

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

Mr. Daniel F. Akerson ’70

2013Mr. Roger E. Tetrault ’63

The Honorable John Scott Redd ’66

Ambassador Richard L. Armitage ’67

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

2014Lieutenant General

Thomas P. Stafford ’52, USAF (Ret.)

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

Admiral Steve Abbot ’66, USN (Ret.)

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

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

2015Admiral Henry H. Mauz Jr. ’59, USN (Ret.)

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

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

Mr. David M. Robinson ’87

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PAST RECIPIENTS

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.

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

MISSIONS

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DEPARTURE OF THE OFFICIAL PARTYThank you to the Annapolis Bus Company for generously providing transportation for the 2016 Distinguished Graduate Award recipients.

NAVY BLUE AND GOLDNow colleges from sea to sea, may sing of colors true,But who has better right than we, to hoist a symbol hue?For Sailors brave in battle fair, since fighting days of oldHave proved the Sailor’s right to wear, the Navy Blue and Gold.

2016 distinguished graduate award medal ceremony

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