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The Naval Academy Preparatory School or NAPS is the preparatory school for the United States Naval Academy (USNA). NAPS is located on Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island.The mission of the Naval Academy Preparatory School is "To enhance Midshipman Candidates' moral, mental, and physical foundations to prepare them for success at the United States Naval Academy".
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It became NAPS in the early 1920s, and by 1925, it had 5,500 members. [1] [2] In January 1946, the association was chartered by the American Federation of Labor (AFL), [3] and by 1953, its membership had grown to 16,500. [4] However, it resigned from the AFL in 1955, prior to that federation's merger into the AFL-CIO. [5]
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In 1994 the owner of the land which housed NAPS, Larry Wilson, sold it to the entity that would establish the school. [ 7 ] Richard P. Ettinger Jr. , son of the founder of Prentice Hall , established the school in 1995 with the goal of increasing the number of Native American students attending Ivy League colleges. [ 8 ]
Westminster originated in 1951 as a reorganization of Atlanta's North Avenue Presbyterian School (NAPS), a girls' school and an affiliate of the North Avenue Presbyterian Church. Dr. William L. Pressly of Chattanooga, Tennessee's McCallie School served as Westminster's first president. The school moved to its current campus in 1953 as the ...
The US National Academies Press (NAP) was created to publish the reports issued by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Research Council. It publishes nearly 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in the sciences.
Naparima College (informally known as Naps) is a public secondary school for boys in Trinidad and Tobago. Located in San Fernando, the school was founded in 1894 but received official recognition in 1900. It was established by Dr. Kenneth J. Grant, a Canadian Presbyterian missionary working among the Indian population in Trinidad.