NPS Business School establishes Admiral Stanley Arthur chair of logistics Arthur named distinguished alumnus. (News You Can Use).

The Naval Postgraduate School established a chair professorship for logistics this month and named it in honor of ADM Stanley R. Arthur, a 1964 NPS alumnus who oversaw the build up of the nation's largest naval armada since World War II.

Arthur served as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Logistics during the Navy's preparations for Operation Desert Storm before assuming duties as 7th Fleet Commander and Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command in December 1990. In that role, he directed the tactical movements of more than 96,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel and 130 U.S. Navy and allied ships, including six aircraft carrier battle groups, two battleships, two hospital ships, and combatant and amphibious ships.

Arthur returned to the Monterey campus to dedicate the Admiral Stanley R. Arthur Chair of Logistics in the NPS Graduate School of Business and Public Policy. The business school offers resident and distance learning degree programs in four core management tracks, a leadership and education development track, and it is the only business school in the nation that provides a defense-focused executive M.B.A. program.

During the ceremony, Dr. Doug Brook, Dean of the business school, announced the school's long-range plans to establish chair professorships in each concentration area. The Arthur Chair of Logistics, Brook said, would be sponsored by Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Supply ...