EVENTS & PROGRAMS 

Distinguished Graduate Recipients by Class Year

Class of 1931

DGA 2003 - AMB William H. G. FitzGerald

Class of 1933

DGA 1999 - ADM Thomas H. Moorer, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1934

DGA 2004 - LtGen Victor H. Krulak, USMC (Ret.)

Class of 1935

DGA 2003 - RADM Eugene B. Fluckey, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2005 - CAPT Slade D. Cutter, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1937

DGA 2002 - VADM Charles S. Minter, Jr., USN (Ret.)

Class of 1938

DGA 2003 - RADM Robert W. McNitt, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2007 - RADM Maurice H. Rindskopf, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1940

DGA 2000 - Dr. John J. McMullen

Class of 1942

DGA 2001 - CAPT John W. Crawford, Jr., USN (Ret.)

DGA 2003 - VADM William D. Houser, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2004 - VADM Gerald E. Miller, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1943

DGA 2000 - ADM James L. Holloway III, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2004 - VADM James F. Calvert, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1946

DGA 2005 - RADM Robert H. Wertheim, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1947

DGA 2001 - ADM William J. Crowe, Jr., USN (Ret.)

DGA 2001 - VADM James B. Stockdale, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2002 - The Honorable James E. Carter, Jr.

DGA 2006 - CAPT Thomas J. Hudner, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1948

DGA 2007 - ADM Thomas B. Hayward, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1949

DGA 2001 - ADM James D. Watkins, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2017 - ADM Harry D. Train III, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1950

DGA 2004 - LtGen Charles G. Cooper, USMC (Ret.)

DGA 2005 - ADM Ronald J. Hays, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2008 - Mr. James W. Kinnear III, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2009 - Mr. John E. Nolan

DGA 2012 - ADM Sylvester R. Foley Jr., USN (Ret.)

Class of 1951

DGA 2000 - VADM William P. Lawrence, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2006 - ADM Kinnaird R. McKee, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2007 - Mr. Ralph W. Hooper

DGA 2016 - VADM Robert F. Dunn, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1952

DGA 2001 - CAPT James A. Lovell, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2014 - LtGen Thomas P. Stafford, USAF (Ret.)

DGA 2018 - RADM Lawrence C. Chambers, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1953

DGA 2002 - ADM Carlisle A.H. Trost, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2005 - Mr. H. Ross Perot

Class of 1954

DGA 2006 - Gen Robert T. Herres, USAF (Ret.)

Class of 1955

DGA 2000 - MajGen William A. Anders, USAFR (Ret.)

DGA 2010 - Mr. David J. Dunn

Class of 1956

DGA 2008 - ADM Frank B. Kelso II, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2011 - RADM Robert Shumaker, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2017 - Mr. Milledge A. Hart III

DGA 2018 - ADM James R. Hogg, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1957

DGA 2004 - RADM Ronald F. Marryott, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2009 - ADM Bruce DeMars, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2010 - ADM Leon A. Edney, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2011 - Dr. Bradford Parkinson

DGA 2012 - The Honorable Daniel L. Cooper

Class of 1958

DGA 2006 - ADM Charles R. Larson, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2008 - RADM Benjamin F. Montoya, CEC, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2011 - LtGen Matthew T. Cooper, USMC (Ret.)

DGA 2012 - CAPT Bruce McCandless II, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2018 - Senator John S. McCain III

Class of 1959

DGA 2015 - ADM H. Mauz, Jr., USN (Ret.) 

DGA 2019 - Dr. J. Phillip London

Class of 1960

DGA 2008 - LtGen William M. Keys, USMC (Ret.)

DGA 2008 - ADM Henry G. Chiles, Jr., USN (Ret.) 

Class of 1961

DGA 2020 - VADM Edward M. Straw, SC, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1962

DGA 2002 - Col John W. Ripley, USMC (Ret.) 

DGA 2007 - ADM Leighton W. Smith, Jr., USN (Ret.)

DGA 2011 - Mr. Corbin D. McNeill

DGA 2014 - RADM William C. Miller, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1963

DGA 2009 - Mr. J. Ronald Terwilliger 

DGA 2013 - Mr. Roger E. Tetrault

Class of 1964

DGA 2009 - ADM Joseph W. Prueher, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2010 - RADM Thomas C. Lynch, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2016 - The Honorable John H. Dalton

Class of 1965

DGA 2000 - Mr. Roger T. Staubach 

DGA 2010 - ADM J. Paul Reason, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1966

DGA 2010 - Gen Carlton W. Fulford Jr., USMC (Ret.)

DGA 2013 - The Honorable J. Scott Redd

DGA 2014 - ADM Charles S. Abbot, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1967

DGA 2009 - Gen Peter Pace, USMC (Ret.)

DGA 2012 - VADM John Ryan, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2013 - AMB Richard L. Armitage

DGA 2015 - ADM Richard W. Mies, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2019 - ADM Robert J. Natter, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1968

DGA 2024 - ADM Dennis C. Blair, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2014 - ADM Michael G. Mullen, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2018 - MajGen Charles F. Bolden Jr, USMC (Ret.)

Class of 1969

DGA 2015 - ADM James O. Ellis, Jr., USN (Ret.)

Class of 1970

DGA 2012 - Mr. Daniel F. Akerson

DGA 2013 - ADM Thomas B. Fargo, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2014 - ADM Edmund P. Giambastiani, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2017 - VADM Cutler Dawson, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2018 - Mr. Steven S. Reinemund

DGA 2021 - Mr. Kevin Sharer

DGA 2023 - MajGen Leo V. Williams III ’70, USMCR (Ret.)

Class of 1971

DGA 2022 - Mr. Peter de Vos

DGA 2020 - Col Robert D. Cabana, USMC (Ret.)

DGA 2018 - ADM Timothy J. Keating, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2019 - Col Walter P. Havenstein, USMCR (Ret.)

Class of 1973

DGA 2017 - ADM Eric T. Olson, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2019 - ADM Robert F. Willard, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1974

DGA 2022 - VADM William "Doug" Crowder, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1975

DGA 2020 - ADM Kirkland H. Donald, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2016 - CAPT Carl H. June, MC, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2023 - Mr. Ronald L. Nicol

CLASS of 1976

DGA 2022 - Mr. J. Michael Yeager

DGA 2021 - Gen John Allen, USMC (Ret.)

DGA 2021 - VADM Derwood Curtis, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2023 - ADM James G. Stavridis, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1977

DGA 2024 - ADM Samuel J. Locklear III, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2024 - Mr. Jerrold L. Miller

DGA 2023 - RADM Julius S. Caesar, USNR (Ret.)

Class of 1978

DGA 2024 - Mr. John F. Young

DGA 2023 - ADM Cecil D. Haney, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1979

DGA 2020 - The Honorable Sean J. Stackley

Class of 1980

DGA 2021 - Ms. Janie Mines

Class of 1981

DGA 2022 - VADM Walter “Ted” Carter, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2022 - RADM Margaret “Peg” Klein, USN (Ret.)

DGA 2019 - CAPT Wendy B. Lawrence, USN (Ret.)

Class of 1987

DGA 2015 - Mr. David Robinson

CLASS OF 2006

DGA 2021 - LT Brad Snyder, USN (Ret.)