The Turner Program
By Craig Symonds | February 12, 2018
Craig Symonds
Mr. Symonds was an ensign in 1972 and taught in the Strategy and Policy Program at the Naval War College in its initial year. Forty-six years later, after a long hiatus at the U.S. Naval Academy, he is the Ernest J. King Professor of Naval History at the War College.
At the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, there is a room in Conolly Hall dedicated to Admiral Stansfield Turner, who was president of the college from 1972 to 1974. A large conference table dominates the room, but around the periphery are a score or more photographs of Turner in his various roles as a naval officer and educator. Though all of the college presidents are honored by life-size oil paintings that line the passageway of Conolly Hall, Turner is the only one with a room of his own. It is an appropriate tribute, for more than any other individual, Turner, who passed away on 18 January 2018, imagined, developed, and instituted the program of study that epitomizes higher education not only at the Naval War College but at most of the country’s war colleges.
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