From Mon Jul 14 18:01:37 1997
>Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 21:00:58 -0400 (EDT)
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>From: “Walter A. Specht”
>Subject: FWD: Vassar-Navy connection
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> >Subject: FWD: Vassar-Navy connection
> >From: waspecht@mail11.mitre.org (Walter A. Specht Jr)
> >To: waterfld@tiac.net (waterfld@tiac.net)
> >Date: Mon, 14 Jul 97 10:17:09 -0400
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> >This is for filing in Eudora Lite, and for forwarding to the Mahan Naval
> >History List.
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> >Date: Sun, 13 Jul 97 19:34:42 -0400
> >From: “Jason A. Lombard”
> >Subject: Vassar-Navy connection
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> >>Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 11:59:50 -0400
> >>From: Georgette Weir
> >>X-From: Georgette Weir
> >>Subject: possible event for SF 9/6?
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> >>To: jalombard@VASSAR.EDU, wipanvini@VASSAR.EDU
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> >>
> >>
> >>An update on the USS Hopper, an Arleigh Burke Class Aegis Destroyer named
> >>for the late Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper ’28, known to many as “the
> >>mother of computing”: it took on crew for the first time June 6 (in Maine)
> >>and was to set sail for San Francisco in August. Official commissioning was
> >>set to occur on September 6 in San Francisco, at which time it will be the
> >>U.S. Navy’s newest and most sophisticated guided missile destroyer.
> >> The Amazing Grace, as the ship is familiarly called, is 465.9 feet
> >>long and moves at a maximum speed of 31 knots or 35.7 miles per hour. It is
> >>represented by a coat of arms that includes numerous references to Grace
> >>Hopper: a single white star represents her distinction as the first woman
> >>to achieve the rank jof rear admiral; a golden lion refers to her Scottish
> >>heritage as well as to the ship’s motto “Aude et effice,” which translates
> >>to “Dare and do.”
> >> “RADM Hopper was frequently quoted using this phrase when issuing
> >>advice,” says a Navy Web site dedicated to the new ship. “The phrase
> >>captures the spirit of RADM Hopper in her quest for pushing the limits of
> >>conventional thinking and looking beyond the norm for innovative solutions
> >>and approaches to problem solving.”
> >> The USS Hopper home page can be found at
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >Jason A. Lombard
> >Assistant Director – Regional Programs
> >Alumnae & Alumni of Vassar College (AAVC)
> >Alumnae House – 61 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603-3116
> >914/437-5446
> >FAX: 914/437-7425
> >http://www.aavc.vassar.edu/
> >
> >
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