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First Class : Women Join the Ranks at the Naval Academy
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Disher, Sharon H.
- Series:
- Bluejacket Bks.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- College teachers--Maryland--Annapolis--Biography.
- United States Naval Academy.
- United States. Navy--Women.
- Local Subjects:
- College teachers--Maryland--Annapolis--Biography.
- United States Naval Academy.
- United States. Navy--Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (377 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- First Class
- Place of Publication:
- : Naval Institute Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- When Sharon Hanley Disher entered the U.S. Naval Academy with eighty other young women in 1976, she helped end a 131-year all-male tradition at Annapolis. Her entertaining and shocking account of the women's four-year effort to join the academy's elite fraternity and become commissioned naval officers is a valuable chronicle of the times, and her insights have been credited with helping us understand the challenges of integrating women into the military services. From the punishing crucible of plebe summer to the triumph of graduation, she describes their search for ways to survive the mental
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Women Graduates of the Class of 1980 ""; ""Prologue ""; ""FOURTH-CLASS YEAR 1976-1977""; ""1. Induction Day ""; ""2. Plebe Summer, First Set""; ""3. Plebe Summer, Second Set""; ""4. Parents' Weekend ""; ""5. Plebe Year, First Semester ""; ""6. Plebe Year, Second Semester""; ""THIRD-CLASS YEAR 1977-1978""; ""7. Youngster Summer ""; ""8. Youngster Academic Year""; ""SECOND-CLASS YEAR 1978-1979""; ""9. Second-Class Summer""; ""10. Second-Class Academic Year ""; ""FIRST-CLASS YEAR 1979-1980""; ""11. First-Class Summer ""
- ""12. First-Class Year, First Semester """"13. First-Class Year, Second Semester""; ""14. Graduation Day ""; ""Afterword ""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781612514291
- 1612514294
- OCLC:
- 854520523
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