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Many an old-line Navy officer wouldn't have given it another thought. Rear Admiral James Lemuel Holloway Jr. did. Not long afterwards, Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal put Holloway at the head of a ten-man board (including two civilian educators) to revamp Navy edu. cation. The Navy had realized that it would desperately need officers for the postwar fleet-far more than the Naval Academy could turn...
...resulting Holloway Plan was at least a step in breaking the Annapolis monopoly on production of career officers, though wartime reservists were ready to bet that the Navy's top commands would still go to "trade school" graduates for a long, long time. This week Admiral Holloway moved into Annapolis as its new (and 35th) superintendent, handpicked for the job by Secretary Forrestal...
...rugged, crisp-voiced Jim Holloway is the Academy's youngest "supe" in 50 years. As a member of one of the speedup classes at Annapolis during World War I, Holloway graduated in 1918, in time to get in a few licks on a World War I destroyer. During World War II he commanded a destroyer squadron in the North African invasion, bossed the battleship JU.S.S. Iowa in a hit-&-run strike on Japan. But Jim Holloway made even more of a mark as a desk admiral. Besides cooking up the postwar education scheme bearing his name, he helped direct...
This week 50,000 high-school seniors, graduates, marines and sailors will take exams for Holloway Plan scholarships. The 5,000 winners will get free educations at 52 civilian colleges and universities and a shot at regular, lifetime Navy commissions. Admiral Holloway predicts that for the next few years regular commissions will be split roughly 50-50 between Academy and Holloway Plan graduates. But he still believes that the Annapolis way is a surer-if tougher-way of making a career out of the Navy...
...entering the unit under the Holloway plan, which was passed by Congress in June, will be appointed midshipmen, USNR, and will have their tuition, fees, textbooks, and uniforms paid for by the Navy. Denoted as Regular Students, they will also receive a yearly retainer salary of $600, but will not be entitled to G.I. Bill benefits simultaneously...