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last six months, but she pursued that mission for the next 19 years. When Hopper retired from the


Navy for the third and final time in 1986, at the age of 79, she was the oldest active duty commissioned of- ficer in the Navy. She was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, one of hundreds of awards she re- ceived, on the decks of USS Constitu- tion in Boston Harbor. She promptly


USS Hopper (DDG-70) was commissioned in 1997.


went to work as a consultant for Digital Equipment Corp., hitting the lecture circuit to promote careers in computer science.


When she died in 1992 at the age scholarshipdonors


(continued from page 104) Clio L. Merkel CDR Arthur Merz, USN (Ret) Lt Col David T. Messick, USAF (Ret) LTC James Z. Metalios, USA (Ret) COL Richard M. Meyer, USA (Ret) Lt Col Ronald W. Mick, USAFR (Ret) Mid-Missouri Chapter of the MOAA — In memory of Maj William “Tex” Badger, USAF; Lt Col James R. Turod, USAF; and Lt Col Robert N. Hunter, USAF Maj Robert A. Miller, USAF (Ret) MAJ Eugene D. Minietta Jr., USAR (Ret) MOA of Western New York Inc. — In memory of 1LT Vaughan D. Gursslin, USAF Maj William M. Moe, USAF (Ret) Jennifer L. Mogck


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Billie Mohney — In memory of Col Bud Day, USAF Richard W. Mohr — In memory of CAPT Robert Leupold, USN Lt Col and Mrs. Hubert H. Monahan, USAF (Ret) Lt Col Maynard G. Moody, USAF (Ret) LTC Bradley S. Moore, USA Judith Moore Norma Moore Veronica Moore Col Terrence Moran, USAF (Ret) MG Mary E. Morgan, USA Maj Maynard B. Morris, USAF (Ret) COL Robert L. Morris Jr., USA (Ret) LTC William L. Morris, USA (Ret) LTC Stanley P. Morrison, USA (Ret) COL Nanette B. Mueller, USAR (Ret) — In memory of Karin Manning


of 85, Hopper left a legacy that will never be eclipsed. Today, her influ- ence has spread around the globe. The Navy today has supercomputers capable of 800 trillion operations a second, direct descendants of the original Mark I. The guided missile destroyer USS Hopper (DDG-70) plies the world’s oceans; the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Comput- ing conference is held annually; and computer programmers again refer to their job as “coding.” Somewhere, Grace Hopper must be smiling.


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— Mark Cantrell is a freelance writer based in North Carolina. His last feature article for Military Officer was “Flying Friendly Skies,” October 2013.


PHOTO: US NAVY, PETTY OFFICER 3RD CLASS ROBERT STIRRUP


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