NPSF Quarterly Newsletter - Winter 2013

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2012 Grand Winter Ball
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E-Week Sends Students to Silicon Valley
Imagine reporting for a briefing in the “Vanilla ICMP” or “Darth Jager” conference room. It’s not the kind of free spirit, or creativity, many NPS students are used to seeing in the work place. But that’s what Capt. Jimmy Mastrom saw as he toured Facebook this ...

Letter from President Bill Warner and Executive Director Merrill Ruck
Quarterly message from the NPS Foundation senior leadership

Marine Corps Student Uses Ops Research Thesis to Combat Veteran Homelessness
Abraham Lincoln long ago charged the nation with the duty to “care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan.” NPS Operations Research (OR) student Marine Corps Maj. David Coté has tried to do just that in his seven years of work as a volunteer with ...

NPS Inducts New Hall of Fame Members
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) welcomed its two newest inductees into the university’s prestigious Hall of Fame during a formal ceremony in Herrmann Hall, Nov. 30. Interim President Rear Adm. Jan Tighe presided over the event, enshrining retired Adm. Eric Olson and retired Marine Corps ...

Retired Army Ranger Details Eye-Witness Account of “Black Hawk Down”
Retired U.S. Army Col. Danny McKnight holds his audience spell-bound with an eye-witness account of the events which led up to the deployment of his 3rd Ranger Battalion into the ravaged city of Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993. The subsequent take down of two Special Operations Aviation Regiment ...

Student Member Urges Others to Branch Out
For Maj. Paul Goguen, becoming a member of the NPS Foundation was something he knew he would do upon attending the Naval Postgraduate School. What he didn’t expect was to have so many opportunities outside the classroom. In the fall quarter alone, Goguen says he was able to “participate ...

Fall 2012 Foundation Award Winners
Each quarter the NPS Foundation presents wards to deserving students and faculty of NPS.


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