Navy Ensign Timothy B. Hay, a 2005 graduate of Garden City High School, recently graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and was commissioned to his current rank in the United States Navy.

Hay successfully completed four years of intensive academic, physical and professional training. As a graduate of the Naval Academy, Hay completed a four-year, total-immersion program where a strong, balanced academic program focused on the educational needs of the Navy and Marine Corps, is superimposed on a strict, professional military training environment emphasizing the development of leadership skills.

Considered one of the top institutions in the country, the U.S. Naval Academy was founded in 1845. The Naval Academy has graduated more than 60, 000 men and women to include 4,000 admirals and generals, one president, 200 members of Congress, three governors, 73 Medal of Honor recipients, one Nobel Prize winner and 40 astronauts.

The Naval Academy currently has more than 4,000 students who comprise the Brigade of Midshipmen and come from every state in the union.