It was a dramatic first. The first time in American Naval history that women were assigned to the crew of a ship. On a soggy november 18, 1972, at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in california the uss sanctuary was recommissioned. The first woman admiral elaine dirk gave the commissioning address. The sanctuary is being recommissioned as a new and unusual type of ship with a new mission to assist the navy effort to improve moral and flexibility by home porting combatant ships overseas to provide medical and Resale Services to deploy dependents wherever the fleet may be assigned. In addition to this forward step the sanctuary has been selected as the ship to participate in the Pilot Program which will evaluate the utilization of women for sharp board duty. It will be home for about 80 women, half in the crew and half at the hospital. With these innovations you could see that the sanctuary is truly unique in many respects. The sanctuary is an experiment to see how well women and men can tog
Arizona attorney general and professor of constitutional and International Law and clerk of the superior court were americas part the fourth largest county. Chris sits on the board of directors for the Abraham Lincoln association and the board of scholarly advisors to president lincoln cottage. He and his wife, haner, reside in phoenix. Without further introduction eight present to you chris derose. [applause] thank you, tammy, for that introduction. Thank you for having us and all of you for being here. Pennsylvania cable tv and cspan book tv this will be my fifth appearance on the cspan book tv. Thank you for all you do to promote books and promote authors. Who here has heard the one about the kind of man who killed his wifes lover across from the white house . Good. When i came across the story i knew it was too extraordinary not to share so i was working on my last book called the president s award which was about five former president s who live to see the American Civil War and i
Michalski and associate director of the leon leave the city of biography which is supported by a generous grant from shelby white and the leon leavy foundation. The writing of biography is the famously arduous and lengthy process and each year we award for fellowships of a 72000 each to overworking biographers to help them across the finish line. Over the past 11 years we have given out 44 of these grants and our fellows have produced 21 biographies to date. Thanks to a grant from the Sloan Foundation when we added a fifth fellowship also for 72000 which will support biographies about figures in the science and technology and the first winter is working on a biography of oliver sacks, laura snyder. Another new feature of this center is a unique twoyear ma and biography memoir which will train students in our Historical Research interview technique and narrative form as well as the history of biography in memoir and how the forms have evolved over time. Housed jointly in history and a l
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