Hopper (DDG 70) - Naval Cruise Book

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USS Hopper DDG-70 Homeport: Pearl Harbor, Ml

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Grace Murray Hopper 1 fSS 1 topper (DDG-70) is named in honor of Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, I SN ' who faithfully served her country for more than 40 years. Rear Admiral Hopper was born Grace Brewster Hopper, in New York City on December 9. 1906. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College in L 928, also earning a Vassar Fellowship. Rear Admi- ral Hopper attended Yale University, where she received a Master of Arts Degree in Mathematics and Physics in 1930 and a Ph.D. in Math- ematics in l l M4. In December L943, after having taught mathematics at Vassar since 1931. she took a leave of absence to (Miter the United States Naval Reserve (USNTR), and attended the USNR Midshipmans School for Women al Northhampton, Massachusetts. Upon graduation, she was commissioned a Lieutenant (jg). and was ordered to the Bureau of Ordinance Computation Project at H arvard University. There she learned to program the first large-scale computer, the Mark I. In 1941) she was released from active duty, and also resigned her leave of absence from Vassar. She joined the Harvard faculty as a research fellow at the computation laboratory, where her work continued on lhi Mark II and the Mark III computers for the Navy. In 1949. she joined the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation in Phila- delphia to work on the UNIVAC I, the first commercial, large-scale electronic computer. Grace Hopper continued to maintain her connection with the Naval Reserve. In late 1966. she was retired with the rank of Commander, but was recalled to active duty on August 1. 1967. Upon her recall to active duty, she took special military leave of absence from Sperry (Eckert- Mauchly). As her service in the Navy appeared indefinite, she officially retired from the Sperry Rand Corporation in December 1971. On August 2, 1973 Grace Hopper was promoted to the rank of Captain. On November 8, 1983, she was promoted to the rank of Commodore. The title of Commodore was changed to Rear Admiral on November 8, 1985. In her last active duty assignment, she served as the special Advisor to the Director, Naval Data Automation command. Rear Admiral Hopper again retired in 1986 onboard USS Constitution. The Secretary of the Navy presided over the ceremony. . Rear Admiral Hopper was actively involved in both the military and civilian sides of the computer field since its beginning, and is credited in being the pioneer of the CO- BOL computer language. Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hop- per died on January 1, 1992. Dare and Do

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Deployment Day April 6, 2000