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	George Dewey
		Dewey joined the ship in Boston on May 10, 1861, and a few days later he was on his way south to join the Union blockade in the Gulf of Mexico.
		Dewey's years at the head of the bureau saw the introduction of such devices as electric searchlights and signaling apparatus in all ships of the navy, as well as the introduction of a modern engine-room telegraph system, which enabled officers on the ship's bridge to order small variations in speed to the engine room.
		Dewey also succeeded in increasing the bureau's appropriation of funds from Congress to augment the coal allotment, owing to the fact that the newer ships were more dependent on steam engines than older vessels, which primarily relied on sails.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h3709.html (1650 words)

	Muskegon's Medal of Honor winner 'just doing his job' - Marine Corps Community for USMC Veterans
		Dewey was terribly wounded and bleeding so badly the corpsman had to stuff a T-shirt into the hole in Dewey's hip.
		Dewey wanted to be a barber, but because of his injuries, he couldn't stand for any length of time.
		Dewey was invited to a flag presentation ceremony in Washington, D.C., in August, but was unable to attend.
	www.leatherneck.com /forums/showthread.php?t=36933 (1666 words)

	Thomas Dewey Summary
		Dewey was born in Michigan in 1902, graduated from the University of Michigan in 1923, and received his law degree from Columbia in 1925.
		Dewey's effectiveness was such that mobster Dutch Schultz took out a contract on his life, an attempt that was foiled only when other mobsters, led by Charles "Lucky" Luciano, had Schultz killed, fearing the backlash if Schultz had succeeded in having Dewey killed.
		Dewey won the Republican nomination in 1944 but was defeated in the election by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the incumbent.
	www.bookrags.com /Thomas_Dewey (2324 words)

	John Dewey at the beach Kappa Delta Pi Record - Find Articles
		John Dewey, education's foremost philosopher, was playing in the ocean, bouncing around on the sand, waving at his children, holding hands with his wife-just having a good time like any normal person.
		Dewey's work was largely responsible for the change in teaching that began in the United States early in the 20th century, as the emphasis shifted from teacher-- directed learning to student-- centered instruction.
		Dewey's educational philosophy was girded in the belief that schools should provide an environment in which life itself is duplicated.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4009/is_200207/ai_n9120326 (838 words)

	ANS COAC 1987 - ABSTRACTS
		An evolution is observed during the 18th century beginning with the proclamation medal and the royal oath, sponsorship by local institutions, until the state intervention manifested by the engravings of the first mint and ultimately by the creation of the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico, introducing a medal independent of the proclamation.
		The art of the medal in the United States from 1830 to 1920 reflects official trends and tastes in painting (John Trumbull), in engraving (James B. Longacre), and in sculpture from the neo-classicists (Thomas Crawford) to the new vocabulary in the age of Augustus Saint-Gaudens and his pupils.
		The medals of the U.S. mint, from the French medalists of the Revolutionary War to the early Greek styles of John Ray Sinnock in the 1920s, are the most prolific expressions of the interrelated arts in America.
	www.numismatics.org /coac/c87abst.htm (1124 words)

	Dewey Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Dewey Medal commemorates the Battle of Manila Bay and was awarded to all Navy and Marine Corps personnel who were aboard the Baltimore, Boston, Concord, McCulloch, Nanshan, Olympia, Petrel, Raleigh, or the Zafiro on May 1, 1898.
		Admiral Dewey had his medal fitted with a unique suspender and wore it with the reverse to the front, presumably to avoid displaying his own likeness.
		Dewey was selected for the obverse because he was the commander responsible for the victory at Manila Bay (as indicated by the words on the obverse).
	foxfall.com /fmc-dewey.htm (427 words)

	George Dewey Summary
		Dewey was born in Montpelier, Vermont, attended Norwich University for two years (1852-1854), and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1858.
		Dewey remained in the Navy after the war and in 1896 was made a Commodore.
		Dewey returned to America to a hero's welcome, and by act of Congress was made Admiral of the Navy in 1899.
	www.bookrags.com /George_Dewey (1051 words)

	North China Marines - Prisoners of War
		Every medal also has a corresponding ribbon (Silver Star), some ribbons are ribbons only, with no corresponding medal (Presidential Unit Citation).A military decoration (a medal) is awarded to an individual for a specific achievement.
		A service medal is awarded to all participants in a specific campaign in a specific part of the world.
		Many veterans of World War II were not given their medals and ribbons until being discharged and many times they have them out of sequence on their uniforms.
	www.northchinamarines.com /id53.htm (435 words)

	Korean War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Sgt. David B. Bleak, US Army
		Deweys nocturnal ordeal was hardly anything he could have imagined when he landed in Korea in October 1951.
		When Dewey, now nearly unconscious, recognized he was going into shock and needed to elevate his legs, he pulled himself to a shallow crater 20 yards from the aid station and slid into it, with his feet resting on the lip.
		Dewey spent the next two months in a hospital and received a medical discharge in August 1952.
	www.medalofhonor.com /DavidBleak.htm (1470 words)

	Dewey Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The medal was struck by Tiffany and Co. The front, or obverse, depicts a bust of Commodore George Dewey.
		On the back, or reverse, is included the name of the vessel on which the recipient served.
		The name of the recipient is engraved on the medal's lower rim, this being one of only two service medals issued officially named to the recipient.]
	www.history.navy.mil /medals/dewey.htm (121 words)

	Dewey Medal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dewey Medal was a military decoration of the United States Navy which was established by the United States Congress on June 3, 1898.
		The medal recognizes the leadership of Admiral of the Navy George Dewey, during the Spanish-American War, and the sailors and marines under his command.
		The medal was recognized as being given for active military duty; yet because it recognized a single battle in a single campaign, the Dewey Medal quickly became regarded as a commemorative medal and did not appear on U.S. Navy and Marine Corps precedence charts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dewey_Medal (276 words)

	May 18, 2001 UNT Inhouse publications: Totten receives Dewey Medal from ALA
		It is presented to members of the ALA who have excelled in the fields of library management and education, cataloging and classification, and tools and techniques of librarianship.
		The award is named for Melvil Dewey, the "father of modern librarianship" and the creator of the Dewey Decimal Classification System.
		Dewey created the system in 1873 and it is now in use in more than 135 countries.
	www.unt.edu /inhouse/may182001/deweyaward.htm (238 words)

	Frank Hamilton Newcomb, Commodore, United States Revenue Cutter Service
		The Cardenas Medal of Honor commemorates the gallantry of the officers and men of the Revenue Cutter Hudson who, in the face of enemy fire during the Spanish-American War, towed the USS Winslow out of range of the enemy guns at Cardenas harbor on May 11, 1898.
		In the center of a medallion three and one eighth inches in diameter, the draped winged figure of a woman is shown wearing a winged helmet and holding a sword in her right hand and a palm branch in her left.
		The ribbon to the Cardenas Medal of Honor is similar to that of the Dewey Medal and consists of a wide center stripe of gold flanked by dark blue (the gold center stripe in this ribbon is wider than in the Dewey Medal).
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /fhnewcomb.htm (730 words)

	ALA Melvil Dewey Medal recipient named (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Robert Wedgeworth, university librarian and professor of library administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the 1997 recipient of the American Library Association (ALA) Melvil Dewey Award.
		The award, a citation and medal donated by OCLC/Forest Press,Inc., is given to an individual or group for recent creative professionalachievement in library management, training, cataloging and classification, and the tools and techniques of librarianship.
		He is the recipient of the International Council of Archives Medal of Honor, the Most Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Illinois and the 1989 ALA Joseph Lippincott Award.
	www.ifla.org /V/press/pr970822.htm (228 words)

	The Virtual Wall® - Larry Dewey, CPT, Army, Weedsport NY, 24May71 03W053 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Captain Larry Dewey and his crew flew one mission into the firebase early in the day, and were shot down in UH-1H tail number 67-17760 while conducting a second mission in the afternoon.
		CPT Dewey was notified of the urgent need for a resupply mission and immediately volunteered to fly into the besieged base camp.
		CPT Dewey carefully pinpointed the known enemy positions for gunship suppression during the insertion and devised a plan of attack.
	www.virtualwall.org /dd/DeweyLR01a.htm (680 words)

	Federal Military Commemorative Medals
		Numerous military and naval battles and their commanders have been commemorated by medals authorized by Congress, and prior to the use of campaign medals these were virtually the only Federal medals awarded for noteworthy military events.
		These medals are very similar to convention campaign and service medals; in fact, they differ from them mostly because they are created by Congress rather than by the military itself.
		The first commemorative medal established following the Civil War was the Dewey Medal, which commemorated the stunning naval victory at Manila Bay on May 1, 1898 (Congress authorized this medal a little over a month after the battle).
	www.foxfall.com /fmc.htm (505 words)

	History of Naval Service and Campaign Medals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		merican bluejackets and Marines were without official medals or other visible signs of their overseas service or combat for the first 120 years of the Navy's existence, since orders, medals and decorations were seen as the trappings of royalty and empire and ran contrary to the republican spirit present at the founding of our country.
		On rare occasions, Congress authorized special commemorative medals for heroes of dramatic naval victories, but these went chiefly to the vessels' commanding officer and were not medals intended for wear on the naval uniform.
		Foreign service medals issued to U.S. forces typically are not featured separately, although they may be illustrated and identified alongside their parallel U.S. award.
	www.mrfa.org /servmeds.htm (410 words)

	The Association of the Bar of the City of New York - Press Releases
		The Dewey Medal is patterned after the existing Henry L. Stimson Medal, awarded annually to outstanding Assistant U.S. Attorneys in the two federal districts in New York City.
		Dewey first came to the public’s attention as a prosecutor in the 1930s, instituting successful criminal proceedings against gangsters, bootleggers and organized crime figures of the day.
		By 1937, Dewey was elected District Attorney of New York County, where he served one term before resigning to run for governor.
	www.abcny.org /PressRoom/PressRelease/2005_1116.htm (319 words)

	Thomas Dewey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the campaign, 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt's daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, a socialite well known for her wit, called Dewey, alluding to his pencil-thin moustache, "the little man on the wedding cake.” Unfortunately for Dewey, the image stuck and had a devastating effect on his national image.
		Dewey's third term as governor of New York expired in 1955, after which he retired from public service and returned to his law practice, Dewey-Balentine, although he remained a power broker behind the scenes in the Republican Party.
		It was Dewey who helped elevate a freshman Senator from California named Richard Nixon to the vice-presidency in 1952, having helped convince Eisenhower that Nixon would be the best choice as his running mate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_E._Dewey (1478 words)

	Spanish-American War
		The first battle was in the Philippines where on May 1, Commodore George Dewey commanding the United States Pacific fleet, in six hours defeated the Spanish squadron, under Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasarón at the Battle of Manila Bay.
		As such, to recognize military participation in the conflict, a wide range of awards and decorations were created by all the powers involved to be bestowed upon those who had served in the Spanish-American War.
		The Medal of Honor also saw its first resurgence since the Civil War and the conflict saw the first wide scale recognition of individual acts of bravery by soldiers, marines, and sailors alike.
	webpages.charter.net /wisconsinlegion-7thdistrict/SP_AM_War.htm (2494 words)

	The Medal of Honor Pathfinder
		The Medal of Honor, also known as the Congressional Medal of Honor, is the foremost U.S. military decoration.
		In this lively account, Mikaelian traces the history of the Medal of Honor, and the lives of several recipiants since it was established by President Lincoln during the Civil War.
		An historical and architectural description of The Medal of Honor Monument in Washington, DC that was dedicated in 1976.
	www.albany.edu /~js569679/govdocs/pathfinder.shtml (2284 words)

	WW2: Ribbons of Decorations and Medals
		Before August 1942, the Distinguished Service Medal* was senior to the Navy Cross; after that date the Navy Cross was limited to awards for combat actions only and the precedence was reversed.
		A bronze letter A was worn on the American Defense Service Medal by personnel who had served at sea in the Atlantic Fleet before the outbreak of war in 1941.
		A silver letter W was worn on the Navy Expeditionary Medal by personnel who had served in the defense of Wake Island, December 1941.
	www.naval-reference.net /uniforms/ww2/ww2_ribbons_1.html (200 words)

	Winston Tabb to Receive Melvil Dewey Medal
		The award will be presented in the Library's Great Hall during the inauguration ceremony for the new ALA president, Ann K. Symons.
		The ALA Annual Conference runs from June 25 to July 2 in Washington, and many meetings and programs will be held at the Library of Congress.
		Established in 1952, the Dewey medal and citation is given annually to an individual or group for a recent creative professional achievement of high order, particularly those areas of librarianship in which Dewey was interested: library management, library training, cataloging and classification and the tools and techniques of librarianship.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/1998/98-054.html (346 words)

	3.htm [OCLC]
		American Library Association presents the Melvil Dewey Medal for the year 1978 to Frederick G. Kilgour.
		It was out of character for him, but we all felt that Frederick G. Kilgour must have been retiring early when in 1967 he forsook Yale for something called the Ohio College Library Center.
		Let it, however, be recorded of Frederick G. Kilgour in 1978 that he may even have out-Deweyed Dewey.
	www.oclc.org /nextspace/003/3.htm (203 words)

	025.431: The Dewey blog
		Dewey Readmore Books died last week at the Spencer Public Library in Iowa, and is missed by all at that library.
		Before reading this article, most residents of Dewey Manor never really thought of their work as being “glamorous” or that there was a “glamour and excitement” to assigning DDC numbers, but DCD classifiers now have a much higher opinion of their work and their public image.
		Dewey also provides options for the treatment of English literature coming from countries outside the UK, and these are found in WorldCat records coming from the National Library of Australia.
	ddc.typepad.com (4307 words)

	April 1998 - Library of Congress Information Bulletin
		The ALA Annual Conference runs from June 25 to July 2 in Washington, and many meetings and programs will be held at the Library (see schedule).
		Tabb received notice of the award in a Jan. 27 letter from Valerie J. Wilford, chair of the 1998 Melvil Dewey Award Jury.
		Established in 1952, the Dewey medal and citation is given annually to an individual or group for a recent creative professional achievement of high order, particularly those areas of librarianship that Dewey was interested in: library management, library training, cataloging and classification, and the tools and techniques of librarianship.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/9804/tabb.html (389 words)

	Melvil Dewey Medal
		His sphere of influence is continuing to orbit, for he is the newly elected president of the Texas Library Association.
		Like Melvil Dewey, Dr. Herman L. Totten is a major force in library education.
		Totten admires his Melvil Dewey Medal, awarded by ALA in 2001 for creative professional leadership.
	www.unt.edu /totten/MelvilDeweyMedal.htm (354 words)

	US Militaria
		The medal is suspended by an HBT "ribbon".
		It measures 1-3/8 inches square and it is suspended by the UCD monogram scroll attached to a red, white, blue, pale blue, fl and yellow ribbon with a bronze dolphin device in the center of the ribbon.
		The medal was presented by the Veteran's Association of Independent Cadets Massachusetts and dated 1917-1919 in raised letters on the back.
	www.snyderstreasures.com /pages/usmilitaria.htm (6084 words)

	HD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Corporal Dewey earned the Medal of Honor near Panmunjom, Korea, while serving as leader of a machine-gun squad with Company E, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division.
		Duane Edgar Dewey was born 16 November 1931 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and attended school in Muskegon until 1947.
		In addition to the Medal of Honor, Cpl Dewey's awards include the Purple Heart, the Korean Service Medal with two battle stars, and the United Nations Service Medal.
	hqinet001.hqmc.usmc.mil /hd/historical/Whos_Who/Dewey_DE.htm (308 words)

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