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World War II Prison Camp Survivor to Talk at Marshall Foundation

Bataan Death March survivor Col. Glenn Frazier will give a talk in the Pogue Auditorium of the George C. Marshall Foundation, Wed., June 29, at 7 p.m. 

A reception and book signing in the Marshall Museum will follow.  The public is invited to attend.  Frazier wrote the bestselling book Hell’s Guest — 3½ Years as the Emperor’s Guest in Japan’s P.O.W. Camps.

Frazier was to be one of the 40 veterans chosen to be featured in the Ken Burns miniseries “The War.”

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NEH and NHPRC Award Grants for Marshall Papers Project

The George C. Marshall Foundation announced reinvestment in the Marshall Papers Project by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Historic Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) with grant awards of $150,000 over three years and $44,000 for one year, respectively.  Funding supports completion of editing volume 6 of The Papers of George Catlett Marshall, scheduled to be published in 2011, and editing of the seventh and final volume of the documentary set, slated for submission to the publisher in 2013.

Records of NEH support for foundation activities go back as far as 1972, with focus on the Marshall Papers project beginning in 1982. The NEH designated the Marshall Papers Project as a We the People project using funds in part set aside by the agency for this special initiative. The NHPRC has contributed to the project since 1977.  Volumes one through five have been published by the Johns Hopkins University Press and are available at the Marshall Museum Shop, at major libraries, and online in digital form at www.marshallfoundation.org. 

“These generous gifts from the NEH and NHPRC underscore their continued commitment to our signature project and its historic value to the nation.  Such financial support has helped make the publication of this important papers collection possible,” said Brian D. Shaw, president of the Marshall Foundation. 

The Marshall Papers are edited by Mark A. Stoler, Ph.D., a distinguished military and diplomatic historian who wrote the acclaimed biography of Marshall, George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century.  Daniel D. Holt, who recently retired as director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum and is an expert in the era to be covered in the remaining papers, serves as managing editor and project director.  Sharon Ritenour Stevens continues to serve as associate editor.   

Note:  Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this release do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

 

 

August 2010

Society for Military History Meets in Lexington

 

LEXINGTON—More than 600 military historians are expected to attend the 77th annual meeting of the Society for Military History to begin Thurs., May 20 at the Virginia Military Institute and the George C. Marshall Foundation in Lexington.

With the theme, “Causes Lost and Won,” the meeting will examine military institutions and practices, including the causes, conduct, resolution, and consequences of past wars.  Registrants from U.S. colleges and universities, federal government agencies and military service departments will attend presentations on a variety of topics during the four-day conference that ends Sunday.

 

Also many attendees will visit the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford and the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park.  The core area of the battlefield has been owned and interpreted by VMI since 1964.  The Battle of New Market was fought there on May 15, 1864 and is celebrated by VMI because cadets marched from Lexington to participate in the battle.  The tour will be conducted by VMI Col. Keith Gibson and the staff of the battlefield park.

 

Noted author and Washington Post special military correspondent Thomas E. Ricks will deliver the keynote address during the annual banquet on Saturday.  Ricks is a senior fellow at the Center for New American Security as well as a contributing editor for Foreign Policy magazine.  He covered the U.S. military for The Washington Post from 2000 through 2008.  He has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan and Iraq.  

 

The Society is deeply connected to VMI and the Marshall Foundation. The Journal of Military History is published quarterly by the Society, VMI and the Marshall Foundation from offices at the Marshall Foundation with support from both institutions.  All three organizations share a connection to George C. Marshall.  He graduated from VMI in 1901 as First Captain of the Corps of Cadets.  The Marshall Foundation preserves and promotes his legacy, and the Society for Military History sponsors the annual George C. Marshall Lecture. 

May 2010

 

Winn, Roebuck join Marshall Foundation Board

James J. Winn, Jr., Baltimore, and Rep. James R. Roebuck, Jr., Philadelphia, have joined the George C. Marshall Foundation Board of Trustees.  

Mr. Winn is the step-grandson of George C. Marshall.  Retired as a partner in the law firm of Piper Rudnick LLP, he is manager and sole member of the Winn Group, a timber plantation and land company located in Alabama, and general counsel to a cattle ranching and land company in Texas.  He served on active duty in the Army for three years in Germany between graduation from Princeton Univ. and Washington and Lee Univ. Law School in 1970. 

Rep. Roebuck was appointed to the board by Gov. Edward Rendell to represent Pennsylvania, Marshall’s birth state.   Educated at Virginia Union Univ. and Univ. of Virginia, Dr. Roebuck was elected to the Pennsylvania House in 1985 from his home district in Philadelphia where he grew up and attended Central High School.  He chairs the House Education Committee.  He fills the board seat vacated by Rep. H. William DeWeese who served 20 years.  

The Marshall Foundation has 30 members on its Board and 40 members on its Council of Advisors.  The Foundation protects, preserves and promotes the legacy of George C. Marshall, former Army chief of staff during WWII, secretary of state, secretary of defense and architect of the Marshall Plan for post-war economic recovery who died in 1959.  

 

April 2010

General Tony Zinni to Discuss Leadership

Retired Marine Corps Gen. Anthony Zinni will talk about leadership and his book Leading the Charge: Leadership Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom on March 23 beginning at 8 p.m. in Marshall Hall on the post of VMI in conjunction with his visit to the George C. Marshall Foundation earlier in the day.  The public is invited to attend.

 

General Zinni is a former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and the current chairman of the board of BAE Systems, Inc

 

As BAE chair, he will visit the Marshall Foundation in Lexington to acknowledge BAE’s generous corporate support of the Foundation that protects, preserves and promotes the legacy of George C. Marshall, former Army chief of staff during WWII, secretary of state, secretary of defense and architect of the Marshall Plan for post-war economic recovery.  

 

Following his retirement from the United States Marine Corps in 2000, Gen. Zinni served his country as the U.S. Peace Envoy in the Middle East and as the Special Envoy to the Henri Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (Indonesian, Philippines and Sudan peace effort).  Also he serves on the boards of several corporations, universities and other organizations, offering his insight gained from his 35 years of experience as a decorated leader in the U.S. military. During 2002 Zinni had been a visiting professor at VMI in ethics and integrity. 

In June 2009 Gen. Zinni was appointed BAE chairman and, temporarily, as president and CEO of the $25 billion per year aerospace company.  The company has since appointed a new CEO and president.   He remains chairman of the board.

 

Zinni joined the Marine Corps shortly after his graduation from Villanova University in 1965.  He served two tours in Vietnam where he wounded in combat. Subsequent assignments around the world during the next 30 years gave him perspective on military and diplomatic strategy and tactics.   

January 2010

Marshall Remembered, Secretary Gates to be Honored

 

The George C. Marshall Foundation will commemorate the 50th anniversary of George Marshall’s death with a luncheon at the U.S. Dept. of State in Washington on October 16 honoring Marshall’s life and legacy. 

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and the U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr., each representing the three principal positions held by George Marshall, will participate. 

In addition Secretary Gates will receive the Marshall Foundation Award for selfless service to his country.  Secretary Gates will be honored for his distinguished career in public service, which includes 27 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, two years of which he served as director and nine years at the National Security Council serving four presidents, and as secretary of defense under two presidents.  

The George C. Marshall Foundation Award honors an individual for a career of distinguished public/civic service in the tradition of George C. Marshall, dignity and integrity of character, devotion to creating and perpetuating free and democratic institutions and nonpartisanship or bipartisanship.  Past recipients of the George C. Marshall Foundation Award have included President George H.W. Bush, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Mr. David Rockefeller.

Few Americans have done as much for their country as George C. Marshall.  As Army Chief of Staff during World War II and then as Secretary of State, Marshall was not only the architect of the Allies’ victory, he was also the prime mover behind the European Recovery Program (“The Marshall Plan”) that restored the economy of war-ravaged Europe.  Later at the request of President Harry Truman, Marshall served as special envoy to China and Secretary of Defense during the Korean War.  He was also president of the American Red Cross.   He died on October 16, 1959 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery where the Marshall Foundation will conduct a private graveside ceremony earlier on the 16th. 

October 2009

New Trustees and Advisors

Chairman of the Board John B. Adams, Jr. has announced the election of three members to the Board of Trustees and the appointment of two members to the Council of Advisors of the George C. Marshall Foundation in Lexington, Virginia. 

Christine Carrico, Ph.D., of Derwood, MD; Gen. Richards Cody, USA (Ret.), of Arlington, VA and Walter Kansteiner, of Washington, D.C. will serve three-year terms on the Board of Trustees.

Gen. Edward “Shy” Meyer, USA (Ret.) and former U.S. Sen. Charles W. “Chuck” Hagel have joined the Council of Advisors.  Gen. Meyer stepped down as Chairman of the Board after eight years in December 2008.  He has been named Chairman Emeritus in recognition of this distinguished service. 

Sen. Hagel is the Distinguished Professor in the Practice of National Governance of the Georgetown Univ. School of Foreign Service in Washington, DC.

Dr. Carrico, who is a graduate of Hollins Univ. and Yale Univ., is executive officer of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics located in Bethesda, MD.  Gen. Cody, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, retired from active duty in the U.S. Army after a 32-year career.  He is a corporate vice-president at L-3 Communications in Arlington, VA.  Mr. Kansteiner is a founding principal of The Scowcroft Group in Washington, DC.  He graduated Washington and Lee Univ.          

Sept. 2009

Foundation Receives NHPRC Funding for Marshall Papers Project

The George C. Marshall Foundation announced continuing support from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), which awarded a grant of $44,000 for the 2009-2010 year of editing volume 6 of The Marshall Papers.  Volume 6 is scheduled to be published in 2010.

NHPRC has been a significant contributor to the project since 1977.  When completed, the Marshall Papers project will result in a seven-volume set of the edited papers of George C. Marshall.  Volumes one through five have been published by the Johns Hopkins University Press and are available at the Marshall Museum Shop, at major libraries, and online in digital form.

“We’re deeply grateful to NHPRC for their recognition of the historic value of one of our signature projects, The Marshall Papers, and their financial commitment that helps make it possible,” said Brian D. Shaw, president of the Marshall Foundation.  

The Marshall Papers are edited by Mark A. Stoler, Ph.D., a distinguished military and diplomatic historian who wrote the acclaimed biography of Marshall, George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century.

Daniel D. Holt, who recently retired as director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum and is an expert in the era to be covered in the remaining papers, is serving as managing editor.  Sharon Ritenour Stevens will continue to serve as associate editor.  

August 2009

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