On Dec. 5, 1951, the Secretary of the Navy sent a bulletin to all ships and stations to announce the move of the Naval Postgraduate School from Annapolis, Maryland to Monterey, California. There were 980 active warships in the U.S. fleet and the institution’s formal name was United States Naval Postgraduate School.

You can read the story the NPS "Trekkers" in this 1992 article from NPS's student-run magazine, The Classmate, "At Home in Monterey: The Way We Were" in NPS Archive: Calhoun at https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/67445

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The Navy’s first formal advanced education program, and predecessor of today’s Naval Postgraduate School, was the School of Marine Engineering at Annapolis, established by a Secretary of the Navy General Order in 1909.

The first civilian professor, Dr. Ralph Root, was hired in 1913. A mathematician and namesake of Root Hall, Prof. Root provided a first-hand account of the institution’s evolution from its origins to the first year of World War II in a paper titled, "Mathematics and Mechanics in the Postgraduate School at Annapolis," which was presented in September 1942 and then published in the April 1943 issue of The American Mathematical Monthly.

You can read Dr. Root's published article in NPS Archive: Calhoun, here: https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/70498.

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