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Class of 1965
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2025
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Abstract
“Class of 1965 Leadership” is a document of seven collections reflecting thoughts about what it takes to be a good leader - from those graduating from the U. S. Coast Guard Academy in 1965, their Class Advisor, CAPT Les High, ADM Jim Loy ’64 and Coast Guard leadership documentation from that era.
It is intended to be honest, respectful, straight-forward and comprehensive – a point-of-view of leaders incubated from the Academy and service of the 1960’s.
39 Primary Leadership Principles (PLPs) listed on the next page are focused on those most applicable for new Ensigns first reporting aboard on up through LCDR and CDR.
They are organized into the following sections:
ACCOUNTABILITY & RESPONSIBILITY
CAPACITY TO CARE
SELF-AWARENESS
PERSONAL CONDUCT
COMMUNICATIONS
This document does not incorporate on-going changes in leadership principles that have been added to, deleted from or adjusted to those of the 1960’s. This is not to say those changes and adaptations are not important or are to be dismissed in discussions of leadership. This is more a matter of convenience in expressing the thoughts on leadership from the core group quoted here in the language they understood. Remarkably these principles have stood the test of time.
As a bonus section, Primary Leadership Principles (PPLs) applying more to the Captain and Admiral senior posts are not included in the main body but are captured in the last collection/chapter:
METADATA
This document is the product of an endowment seeded with funds from the Class of 1965, providing support to the Coast Guard Academy Library’s Special Collection, including conservation, preservation, access and procurement activities. Examples of these are digitizing materials, using consultants to process donated collections and creating finding aids, uploading materials to repositories to make broadly accessible and procuring materials for the Class of 1965 Community.