Category: Foundation News

On Jan. 10, Lynn W. Rolf, III, director of programs for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, visited Fort Leavenworth and the CGSC Foundation to present a donation to the Foundation to establish an endowment for the General George C. Marshall Award. The award is presented to the distinguished U.S. graduate of the Command and General […]

Happy Holidays from the CGSC Foundation and the Simons Center! Left to right: Col. (Ret.) Roderick M. Cox, Program Director, Simons Center; Joan Cabell, CGSC Foundation Director of Development; Elizabeth Ditsch, Simons Center Program Assistant; Ann Soby, CGSC Foundation Director of Operations; Jennifer Herron, Foundation Database/Gift Shop Operations; Col. (Ret.) Douglas L. Tystad, CGSC Foundation […]

The 2018 classes of SAMS and CGSOC are well underway and into the rhythm of their academic year. – In this issue we highlight our 4th annual Celebration of International Friendship where we welcomed the 2018 class of international military students. We also continue our “CGSC 101” series that highlights the College’s teaching departments and […]

Mr. Larry A. Hisle, executive director of the Greater Kansas City Federal Executive Board (FEB), conducted a presentation on the FEB in the latest InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture Dec. 12, in the Arnold Conference Room of the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth. Hisle outlined the roles and missions of the FEB and how it serves […]

In the ninth lecture of the Vietnam War Commemoration Lecture series conducted Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. in the Stove Factory Ballroom in downtown Leavenworth, Kansas, Dr, James H. Willbanks, General of the Army George C. Marshall Chair of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, discussed the Civil Operations and […]

As part of the CGSC Foundation / Simons Center’s Distinguished Speaker Series, Ambassador (Ret.) Deborah A. McCarthy visited Fort Leavenworth Dec. 5-7, as this year’s DACOR Visiting Professor of Diplomacy. During her visit Ambassador McCarthy met with students and faculty of the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), students and faculty of the U.S. Army […]

Dr.’s Sean Kalic and Gates Brown presented their lecture on “The Russian Revolutions” as part of the General of the Armies John J. Pershing Great War Centennial Series on Nov. 15, at the Stove Factory Ballroom in downtown Leavenworth. Kalic and Brown published Russian Revolution of 1917: The Essential Reference Guide, a book just published […]

U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Ethics Symposium Announcement and Call for Papers Organizers: The United States Army Command and General Staff College, Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and the CGSC Foundation, Inc. will co-host a symposium entitled: “The Impact of Diverse Worldviews on Military Conflict” War is a clash of wills […]

On Sept. 20, Dr. Scott Stephenson, a professor in CGSC’s Department of Military History, delivered a lecture entitled “Total War Comes to the Fatherland: The German Home Front, 1914-1918,” at the Stove Factory event space in downtown Leavenworth, Kansas. The evening began with a small reception for attendees sponsored by First Command Financial Services in […]

The Department of Military History of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the CGSC Foundation at Fort Leavenworth invite the public to attend the 12th in a series of lectures intended to educate the public about World War I during its 100-year commemoration. – Dr. Scott Stephenson will present “Total War Comes […]