page_title: The Olmsted Scholar Program
section_title: Class of 1960
hierarchical_section_title: The Olmsted Scholar Program / Class of 1960
caption_attribution_description: Carlisle Trost, former Chief of Naval Operations.
context_page_description: The Olmsted Scholar Program, named after George H. Olmsted, awards scholarships to highly qualified, active duty junior officers in the United States military in order to pursue language studies and overseas graduate-level education. Created in concert with the Department of Defense, the Scholar Program provides one year of foreign language training followed by two years of study at a foreign graduate school.
  The Scholar Program was established with an initial grant from George and Carol Olmsted in 1957. In his original Statement of Donor, Olmsted noted, "Fundamental to the initial purpose of creating the scholarship program is the conviction that the greatest leaders must be educated broadly." Since its inception, the Olmsted Scholar Program has provided grants for over 600 officers, many of whom have gone on to the highest levels of leadership and responsibility in the military, government and private sector.
context_section_description: The original class of Olmsted Scholars began language training in 1959 and began their overseas graduate studies in 1960:
  ADM Carlisle Trost, USN, University of Freiburg, Germany
  LTG Frederic Brown, USA, University of Geneva, Switzerland
  COL William Albright, USAF, University of Geneva, Switzerland
  COL Richard Hobbs, USA University of Lyon, France
  John Karas, USAF University of Göttingen, Germany
  Forrest Lockwood, USN, University of Grenoble, France
caption: ADM Carlisle Trost(USN, Ret.), Olmsted Scholar Class of 1960
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