The college preparatory curriculum emphasizes science, technology and the environment, and hands-on training in everything from boatbuilding to water-quality testing with the idea that graduates might become the next generation of boat captains, water resource managers and scientists.
In 2000, though, top Navy brass recognized that their world was changing radically and that they'd need new ways to train the next generation of commanders, captains and admirals.
He has been busy scoring thousands of runs for England, rather than captaining his county, which is what previous generations of England captains were able to do.
Marie Costello, 75, who married into a family with three generations of tugboat captains, knew those words by heart.
In a city where generations of precinct captains took time off from their public jobs to campaign faithfully for the slated Democratic candidates, what was known as the Chicago machine is almost certainly now dead, finally succumbing to court rulings and other changes that have steadily eroded its power.
To his admirers, he was one of a generation of unconventional French captains of industry who moved along untrodden paths to bring France out of economic isolation and onto the world stage.
"When I first started playing for Albania 12 years ago, I never thought this day would come but we always tried and now have managed to do it thanks to the willpower of this group, this fine generation of players," said the captain, Lorik Cana.
The Joe puppet was the first child marionette to be made as part of the new generation of Supermarionation puppets introduced for Captain Scarlet, for which the sculpting team were careful to achieve realistic proportions for the body of a nine-year-old boy.
"Middlebrow high-mindedness," harrumphed Pauline Kael, but it left a generation of men unable to hear the words "O captain, my captain" without finding that they had, you know, something in their eye.
From three generations of Norwegian seafarers, Captain Dag (as everyone calls him), 55, ever in good humor and a captain since he was 30, joined the Seabourn Cruise Line last spring and is now captain of the Seabourn Spirit, which will sail up the Great Barrier Reef in February.
