ASNE DAY ANNUAL AWARDS

THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NAVAL ENGINEERS takes pleasure in presenting

THE FRANK G. LAW AWARD FOR 1989

to REAR ADMIRAL RANDOLPH W. KING, USN (Ret.)

for contributions as set forth in the following

CITATION:

k d m . Randolph W. King, USN (Ret.) became a member of ASNE in 1947, while a junior officer in the Navy. The ensuing years of his naval service as an Engineering Duty Officer were marked by achievement, distinction, and ultimately selection to flag rank. Throughout his naval career Admiral King consistently devoted considerable time and effort to the American Society of Naval Engineers, serving on various committees, on the Council and as President in 1975 and 1976.

Randy King continued to participate in Society activities following his retirement from the Navy. For example, in 1983, while serving on the Professional Development Committee, he developed a system to profie the scope of naval engineering by disciplinary field, occupational specialty, and sector of employment.

In 1985, with the Centennial of the Society three years in the future, it was only natural for the Society to ask Admiral King to take on the responsibility for organizing, compiling, and editing a centennial history of Naval Engineering. No one could have been better suited for the role of editor of the centennial history than Randy King, for he is a storehouse of information on naval engineering and its history and has constantly set the highest standards of professional excellence and thoroughness for all responsi- bilities he has undertaken.

The success of this project, which culminated in the publication of the 487-page history entitled Naval Engineering and American Sea Power, is well known. What is not well known, and for which a grateful Society also extends its everlasting thanks, is the immense amount of uncompensated time and effort Randy King contributed during the three-plus years the history was being written. For his many past and continuing unselfish contributions, often at enormous personal sacrifice, the Society is pleased and proud

to award the 1989 Frank G. Law Award to Rear Admiral Randolph W. King, USN (Ret.).

BIOGRAPHY

Admira l King graduated from the U.S. Naval Acad- emy in 1943, and, after aviation indoctrination in Flor- ida, joined the USS Eufon (DD-510). While serving in that destroyer, he participated in extensive combat oper- ations in the southwest and central Pacific, and quali- fied in deck, gunnery, engineering, and navigation duties. He then served aboard the USS Boston (CA-69) participating in postwar Japanese demilitarization. In 1949, Admiral King was awarded the degree of Naval Engineer for postgraduate studies at MIT. Subsequent- ly, Admiral King’s career has been marked by a succes- sion of increasingly significant assignments in naval

engineering, research, design, education, construction, and repair. He has worked extensively at technical, managerial, and administrative levels through Engineer- ing Department Head, U.S. Naval Academy; command of the David Taylor Naval Ship Research and Develop- ment Center; command of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard; and as Deputy Commander of the Naval Sea Systems Command. Since retirement from Navy duty, Admiral King has served in industry, on the staff of the National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineer- ing/National Research Council, and as President of the American Society of Naval Engineers.

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