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Scope and Contents While at Columbia Grammar School in New York City, Stern was the "Star Performer" of its swimming team; a Feb. 1928 clipping is entitled "Stern Continues to Smash Records." In 1930 he won the Research Prize in the National Oratorical Contest sponsored by the New York Times for his study of the US Constitution. In 1932, he was a member of the US Olympic Swimming Team , and from 1932-1934, he was South Atlantic AAU breaststroke champion. At Johns Hopkins from 1933-1934 he was President of the...

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Officer in Charge of the Norfolk Fuel Supply Depot from 1950-1952 ("the largest government fuel facility in the world" with over 400 employees); beginning in 1952, he served at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Scope and Contents Presentation album entitled "Captain Theodore S. Stern, ESO, 1959-1962" documenting his work as Operations Officer of the Electronics Supply Office, Great Lakes. The album contains clippings and testimonial letters including a teletype message from Paul F. Foster, Vice Admiral USN Ret., praising Stern particularly for his work as Officer in Charge of the creation of a Naval Advanced Base at Salinas, Ecuador, to serve the Pacific Fleet during World War II (work which Foster investigated when...