Stephen M. Bliss

He was educated at The Hill School and was a 1965 graduate of the United States Military Academy.[3] At West Point, he was on the varsity swimming and track teams.[4]

He also holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas[5] and a master's degree from the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Petroleum Engineering.[4]

After graduating from West Point, Bliss joined the Quartermaster Corps. In 1967 he was sent to Vietnam where he commanded various supply companies. He returned to the US for further education, including his degree in Petroleum Engineering, and then returned to Vietnam, first as an advisor to the South Vietnamese government on petroleum-related issues, and then in control of the United States Army Vietnam's fuel supply. After leaving Vietnam Bliss continued in various foreign and domestic posts, concluding his career with posts as Director for Energy & Troop Support, Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics and then Vice Commander for the Army and Air Force Exchange Service.[6]

He is a recipient of the Ranger tab and Parachutists badge.

Bliss was the commander at the Army and Navy Academy, a military boarding school for students grade 7-12 in Carlsbad, California, for twelve years. He was replaced in January 2014 in the wake of a sexual molestation scandal involving administrator Jeffrey Barton.[7] Bliss, newly hired as president, had ousted a previous chairman, Johnnie Crean, and the board of directors in 2003 after a 2001 sexual harassment accusation and behavior by the chairman described as "unsafe, reckless, bizarre, erratic, violent, vulgar, despotic and paranoid".[8]

The sports stadium at the Army and Navy Academy is named after him [9]