JOHN F.LEHMAN RECEIVES REAR ADMIRAL SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE
On November 3, 2003, The Naval Order of the United States will honor Dr. John F. Lehman with their annual Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature for his book, On Seas of Glory. This award, initiated in the 1990's, is given to an American author, "who by his published writings has made a substantial contribution to the preservation of the history and traditions of the United States Navy". "On Seas of Glory's story of heroic men, great ships and epic battles of the American Navy certainly does that", writes Jonathan C. Jones of The Naval Order of the United States.
Recent recipients of the prestigious Samel Eliot Morison Award are Edward L. Beach, Jr., author of many books including Run Silent, Run Deep, Prof. Donald Chisholm, Waiting for Dead Man's Shoes (2001),
and Dr. Norman Friedman, Sea Power as Strategy (2002).
ABOUT SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON
The Naval historian, Samuel Eliot Morison, received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1912 and began teaching history there in 1915, becoming full professor in 1925 and Jonathan Trumbull professor of American history in 1941. Between 1922 and 1925 he was Harmsworth professor of American history at Oxford. Among his earlier books are The Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis, Federalist, 1765-1848 (1913) and The Growth of the American Republic (1930, 6th rev. and enl. ed. 1969), written in collaboration with Henry Steele Commager. In 1926, Morison was appointed the official historian of Harvard and commenced to write the Tercentennial History of Harvard College and University, which was completed in 1936 in three volumes. Two of Morison's books won Pulitzer Prizes: Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942), a biography of Christopher Columbus, and John Paul Jones (1959). In 1942, Morison was commissioned by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to write a history of U.S. naval operations in World War II and given the rank of lieutenant commander (he retired from the navy in 1951 as a rear admiral). The 15 volumes of his History of United States Naval Operations in World War II appeared between 1947 and 1962. Although he retired from Harvard in 1955, Morison continued his research and writing.
ABOUT THE NAVAL ORDER OF THE UNITED STATES
The Naval Order of the United States, New York Commandery, was founded in 1890 and prides itself in having many distinguished members, among them President Theodore Roosevelt, Admiral George Dewey and Admirals Leahy, King, Nimitz, Halsey, Spruance, Burke, Crowe, Moore and Zumwalt. Its purpose is "to encourage research and writing on naval and maritime subjects, preserve documents, portraits and other records of prominent figures, deeds and memories of our naval and maritime history, and through fellowship of our members advance the Naval Order's unselfish service and worthy aims for the security and enduring well being of our country".
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