1958
- SATS took place of USNA’s own entrance exam
- Last year for train to Philadelphia for Army-Navy game:
- Switch to buses in 1959
- Detachable starched collar discontinued
- Last football game in Thompson Stadium
1959
- First football game in Navy-Marine Corps Stadium
1960
- Raincoat with sleeves replaces cape/sleeveless style
- N3N biplanes disbanded
- Cap stretcher with white cotton cap cover replaced with plastic type cover
1961
- Marching to class discontinued
- Whale boats gone
- First Air Force-Navy football game/Baltimore-Navy 35, AF 3
- Dewey Basin filled in to become Ingram Field (track, etc.)
- Area filled in from Mess Hall out in the Bay to become Farragut Fields
- (Football practice fields, Rip Miller Stadium, Brigade athletics)
- 7th and 8th wings added
1960s / 70s
- 1970 Forrestal Lecture Series is established
- 1972 Dr. Rae Jean Goodman becomes the first woman faculty member and LCDR Georgia Clark becomes the first woman officer instructor
- 1973 Nimitz Library is dedicated.
- 1974 Robert Crown Sailing Center is dedicated and placed in service.
- 1975 Rickover Hall is completed.
- 1976 July 9 Class of 1980 is inducted in June 1976, including 81 women midshipmen.
- 1978 June 7 The last “June Week” is held. Graduation henceforth to be in May as Commissioning Week
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OTHER 60s / 70s (various dates)
- Tea Dances (Fights) discontinued
- Chapel not mandatory
- Majors options instituted and credit for college courses
- Saturday morning classes discontinued
- First class cars
- USMA/USNA exchange weekends for all cancelled to limited number of exchange semesters (USNA/USMA/USAFA)
- Dedicated summer cruises replaced with multiple other options
1980s / 1990s
- 1981 Lejeune Hall with Olympic-size pool opens.
- 1981 Walter Nobles ’92 becomes first African-American Brigade Commander.
- 1982 Melville, Isherwood, and Griffin Halls razed.
- 1991 Alumni Hall dedicated.
- 1994 The radio transmitter land and buildings are acquired by the Naval Academy.
- 1993 --Fencing discontinued at all levels (varsity, phys Ed, etc.) Rudy Daus was team captain in ‘56
- 1995 Armel-Leftwich Visitors Center is dedicated.
EVOLVED TO TODAY
Curriculum
- Fixed curriculum for all changed to a core curriculum of academic and professional which all must take with 23 major fields of study-- seven in engineering; nine in science, mathematics, and computer science; and seven in the humanities and social sciences.
Midshipman Life
Leave
All classes granted leave during these periods:
- End-of-semesters
- Mid-term during spring semester
- A short liberty period at the end of spring semester and before Commissioning Week
- Three weeks of summer vacation
Weekends
- Weekend liberty permits an overnight away from the Academy during the weekend, (Sat morn) returning before the Sunday evening meal. A limited number) number based on class (soph. jr. sr.) none for plebes
Town Liberty
- Plebes have town liberty on Saturdays (noon to midnight) and yard liberty within the Naval Academy complex on Sundays. Town liberty is granted for upperclass midshipmen in accordance with class
Cars
- Third-class midshipmen and plebes are not permitted to operate motor vehicles except on authorized leave
- Second-class midshipmen may have a car but must maintain and operate it beyond Academy grounds (usually park at the stadium).
- First -class midshipmen may drive a car in Annapolis and on the Naval Academy and park it at the Naval Academy. No motorcycles.
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