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...and it was clear which one would have to move. In May 1947, the Navy announced selection of a site for a new postgraduate school planned for Monterey, California. In November 1951, nearly 500 NPS personnel and 370 students made the move, en masse, along with some 3 million pounds of gear. Read first-hand accounts of this remarkable part of NPS history in "From Annapolis to Monterey: Professor Recalls", part of NPS Archive: Calhoun.
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On Dec. 5, 1951, the Secretary of the Navy sent a bulletin to all ships and stations to announce the move of the Naval Postgraduate School from Annapolis, Maryland to Monterey, California. There were 980 active warships in the U.S. fleet and the institution’s formal name was United States Naval Postgraduate School.
You can read the story the NPS "Trekkers" in this 1992 article from NPS's student-run magazine, The Classmate, "At Home in Monterey: The Way We Were" in NPS Archive: Calhoun at https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/67445
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