Caption (Ret.) Dean Alden Horn, Usn

Captaineean Alden Horn, USneetired of 2600 Croasdaile Farm Pkwy, A337, Durham, NC. Dean died Wednesday morning 13 July 2016 from lung cancer. He was 95 years old. Funeral Services with military honors will be held 1:00pm Monday, December 19, 2016 in Post Chapel at Arlington National Cemetery. Burial will follow in Arlington National Cemetery. Born 19 February 1921 in Hay Springs, NE, the third son of Carl and Minee Horn. Dean graduated valedictorian of his High School Class of 1939 and attended the Uneersity of Nebraska on a full scholarship for one year. Appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in June 1940, he graduated with his accelerated class in June 1943. He was commissioned an Ensign, and ordered to Submarine School, New London, CT before being assigned to his first sea duty aboard USS PORPOISE (SS172) where he earned his Dolphins in 1944. Traneerred to USS CARP (SS338) as Engineering Officer, he was awarded a Silver Star medal for ???Conspicuous gallantry and ineepidity in action as Diving Officer of the USS CARP during the First War Patrol of that vessel.??? In 1945, Dean was ordered to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for graduate education in Naval Architecture and Marineengineering. Graduating with the professional degree of NAVAL ENGINEER in 1949, he was designeed 1400 (Engineering Duty) and ordered to Charleston Naval Shipyard, SC. Subsequent duty at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, NH; the Bureau of Ships, Washington, D.C.; David Taylor Model Basin, Carderock, MD; San Francisco Naval Shipyard and M.I.T. completed Dean???s twenty-seveneear career. Career highlights of which Dean was particularly proud were: coordinating the highly successful first high speed sea trials of USS ALBACORE (SS569); being a member of the BuShips designeeam that produced the contract plans for the first Polaris submarine, USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (SSBN598); successfully coordinating the first full scale shock trials of an operating submarine, USS TROUT (SS563), off Key West , FL in 1959; becoming Repair Superintendent, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, in 1963 just after the loss of USS THRESHER (SS593) and helping the shipyard recover from the disaster and subsequently becoming Production Officer, to oversee the successful completion of all follow-on submarines. Duty as the Engineering Member of the Scorpion Court of Inquiry was both the most difficult and most rewardineexperience of Dean???s career. His final two years of active duty were as Commanding Officer of the Naval Administrative Unit, M.I.T. where he commanded the NROTC unit and taught the student Naval Officers taking the graduate course to become Naval Engineers ??? a most rewarding capstone to Dean???s successful career. After two months of R&R, ineeptember 1970 Dean accepted the position of Executive Office, M.I.T. Sea Grant Program, to coordinee a newly organeed program for research, education and advisory services in the proper development and utilization of the nation???s marine resources. This National Program, sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce, grew rapidly into a major research center at M.I.T. attaining the coveted Sea Grant College designation ineecember 1976. The first private uneersity in the Uneed States to be so designeed. In June 1976, Dean was need the Director of M.I.T. Sea Grant, a post he held with distinction until 1 July 1982. Ineecognitioneean???s outstanding service and leadership to M.I.T.???s Sea Grant program and his dedication to studeneeducation and training in the marine field, his many friends and colleagues established aneendowed the Dean A. Horn Student Award for Undergraduate Study in Marine Research and presented it to Dean at his retirement party on 20 May 1982. The endowment for the Award had grown over the years with additional contributions and will continue ineerpetuity. After leaving M.I.T. Sea Grant, Dean accepted one more exciting professional challenge, to be the Executive Officer for two international Arctic research programs MIZEX and CEAREX. Composed of Arctic research scientists from as many as seven nations, the edge of the polar ice cap and the long term influence on climate. Major funding for Uneed States efforts came from the Office of Naval Research along with funding and operational support from all participating countries. The primary logistic and coordinationeenters for all field operations were in Tromso, Norway and Spizbergen on the island of Svalbard. Four expeditions were fielded between 1984 and 1989, three of about two months and one of ten months durationeequiring Dean to man the coordinationeenter in Tromso, Norway for the entire period. These very successful research programs have contributed greatly to man???s knowledge and understanding of the marginal ice zone and its influence on man and his environment. Dean???s efforts to organee the multitude of varied and sometimes conflicting interests; to schedule all the competing operations into a highly successful operational plan; and to coordinee the field operations including productivity of the operations. In 1990, Dean established and operated his engineering consulting business for two years before retiring fully and moving to New Bern, NC in 1992 to retire fully aneenjoy his senior years with his wonderful wife, Sharon, whom he married on 29 June 1985. Dean???s first marriage ended in divorce in 1983. In addition to Sharon, Dean is survived by his two daughter from his first marriage, Karen Marie Daley, widow of Thomas Daley of Ft. Myers, FL; Deanne Duhn McClintock and husband Douglas of Scarsdale, NY; and his step-daughter Kelley Marie Lenker and husband Jeffrey of Durham, NC; eight grandchildren, six great grandchildren, and three great-great grandchildren; his sister Jessieanna Messman of Wichita, KS; and many nieces and nephews. It was Dean???s fervent wish and request that, in lieu of flowers, contributions be made to M.I.T.???s Dean A. Horn Student Award Fund (M.I.T. Account No. 40055) or to any charity of your choice. The Horn family is under the care of Hall-Wynne Funeral Service.