NPS Business School establishes Admiral Stanley Arthur chair of logistics Arthur named distinguished alumnus - News You Can Use

Navy Supply Corps Newsletter, July-August, 2003

The Naval Postgraduate School established a chair professorship for logistics this month and named it in honor of ADM Stanley R. Arthur, a 1964 NPS alumnus who oversaw the build up of the nation's largest naval armada since World War II.

Arthur served as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Logistics during the Navy's preparations for Operation Desert Storm before assuming duties as 7th Fleet Commander and Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command in December 1990. In that role, he directed the tactical movements of more than 96,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel and 130 U.S. Navy and allied ships, including six aircraft carrier battle groups, two battleships, two hospital ships, and combatant and amphibious ships.

Arthur returned to the Monterey campus to dedicate the Admiral Stanley R. Arthur Chair of Logistics in the NPS Graduate School of Business and Public Policy. The business school offers resident and distance learning degree programs in four core management tracks, a leadership and education development track, and it is the only business school in the nation that provides a defense-focused executive M.B.A. program.

During the ceremony, Dr. Doug Brook, Dean of the business school, announced the school's long-range plans to establish chair professorships in each concentration area. The Arthur Chair of Logistics, Brook said, would be sponsored by Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Supply Systems Command and Military Sealift Command, with each sponsoring command providing students, resources and leadership oversight for business school programs.

Arthur spoke passionately to the audience of about 150 students, faculty and dignitaries who attended the dedication about critical logistics issues the Navy and other services must address, such as sea-basing, manpower and joint operations. "We don't even class our supplies in the same way," he said. "How can we understand demand, how do we satisfy it, break it out and get it on the move? The future study of logistics has a lot of pieces to be thinking about."

In addition to establishing the Arthur chair professorship, the Naval Postgraduate School presented Arthur a distinguished alumnus award. "Admiral Arthur is the epitome of honor, courage and commitment in the Navy and he has all of the qualities we look for in a distinguished alumnus of this institution," said RADM David Ellison, NPS Superintendent.

Arthur, a highly decorated pilot who flew more than 500 combat missions in the A-4 Skyhawk in Vietnam and retired as Vice Chief Of Naval Operations in 1992, is currently President of Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. In response to the distinguished alumnus accolades, Arthur joked: "I want to make sure my transcript and grades are not available for review."

By Naval Postgraduate School Public Affairs, Monterey, Calif.