faculty (educators)

This is a notebook compiled specifically to respond to the Director, Defense Education Memorandum of 1975 Aug 13 to service assistant secretaries and the Director of the Joint Chief of Staff that requested basic background information on Intermediate Service Colleges for the Department of Defense Commitee on Excellence in Education. This report includes information regarding the Naval War College's faculty, student body, curriculum, and associated studies and research. This report focused mainly on the College of Naval Command and Staff at the Naval War College.

Letter from E. O. Matthews to Commodore Stephen B. Luce in which he declines Luce’s request that he accept the Professorship of Military Science and History at the Naval War College. Matthews felt that he could not do the subject justice and felt that the Navy should order a naval officer to take this position.

Letter from Commodore Stephen B. Luce to William E. Chandler, Secretary of the Navy listing his nominations for officers as instructors and their disciplines at the Naval War College which included:

• Commander A. T. Mahan, “an officer learned in military science, Department of Science and Art of War
• Professor J. Russell Soley, International Law
• Paymaster R. W. Allen, Naval Law and Administration of Justice
• Lieutenant S. W. Very, Navigation

Draft of a letter from Stephen B. Luce to William E. Chandler, Secretary of the Navy about the Department’s disapproval of appointing an Army officer as an instructor of military science at the Naval War College.

Letter from William T. Sampson, Commander of the Naval Torpedo Station, to Commodore Stephen B. Luce. Sampson concurs with Luce that an Army officer should be assigned to the new War College staff. He believed that the efficiency of both the army and navy would be “greatly increased if the officers could be brought to discuss professional matters together."

(Capt. Sampson was a member of the Board recommending the establishment of a war college at Coasters Harbor Island.)

This is a notebook compiled specifically to respond to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) memorandum of 1974 Oct 7 to service secretaries and the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman that requested basic background information on Senior Service Schools for the Department of Defense Commitee on Excellence in Education. This report includes information regarding the Naval War College's faculty, student body, curriculum, and associated studies and research.