Archive for the ‘News Releases’ Category

Foundation presents retired General David H. Petraeus with 2012 Distinguished Leadership Award

Friday, May 11th, 2012

The Command and General Staff College Foundation presented retired Gen. David H. Petraeus, the 20th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, with the Foundation’s 2012 Distinguished Leadership Award at a dinner banquet in Kansas City, Mo., May 10.

National Security Roundtable, April 9-10, 2012

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

The CGSC Foundation assisted the Command and General Staff College’s School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) program in hosting a National Security Roundtable program April 9-10, 2012, at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

Board Members get opportunity to shoot antique weapons

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

On March 14, many of the Foundation board members spent the afternoon at Fort Leavenworth’s Kinder Range for an “Antique Weapons Shoot” hosted by the CGSC Department of Military History, Fort Leavenworth Frontier Army Museum and the CGSC Foundation.

5-Star Generals Commemorative Coin project underway

Monday, January 16th, 2012

The CGSC Foundation is currently working with the U.S. Mint on designs for the 5-Star Generals Commemorative Coins. Designs will be reviewed and approved later this year.

Foundation offers multiple ways to donate through the 1881 Legacy Society

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

As you consider your year-end tax planning or overall estate planning, we hope you will consider making good use of the income tax charitable deduction. Your charitable gifts can significantly reduce your income taxes, while providing meaningful support to the CGSC Foundation and other non-profit organizations.

Simons Center Progress Report 2011 available

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

This report notes the progress we have made in just two years with the Colonel Arthur D. Simons Center for the Study of Interagency Cooperation. At this writing, the Simons Center, a program of the CGSC Foundation, has made remarkable progress.– The Simons Center was created to support scholarship within the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and to foster interagency cooperation.

2011 Ethics Symposium kicks off with inauguration of Gen. Hugh Shelton Chair in Ethics

Monday, November 7th, 2011

The 2011 Fort Leavenworth Ethics Symposium sponsored by the CGSC Foundation kicked off at 4 p.m., Nov. 7, with the inauguration of the first-ever privately funded academic chair in the history of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

Foundation Trustee David Beaham dies

Friday, October 7th, 2011

Trustees and Friends of the CGSC Foundation and U.S. Army Command and General Staff College:

I have just been informed this afternoon of the passing of David Beaham, President of Faultless Starch Bon Ami, Kansas City, an original founding trustee of the CGSC Foundation and a great friend of CGSC. David passed this morning from a heart attack.

Foundation Chairman, Lt. Gen. Arter, makes tandem parachute jump

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

Lt. Gen. Robert Arter, U.S. Army Ret., the 81-year-old Chairman of the Command and General Staff College Foundation, Inc., and the Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army for the state of Kansas, made a tandem jump onto the golf course at Fort Leavenworth as the kickoff for the CGSC Foundation’s First Annual Golf Tournament at 10 a.m., Sept. 6.

Homeland Security Symposium Report published

Friday, July 15th, 2011

The CGSC Foundation published the report from the Homeland Security Symposium in July 2011. The HLS Symposium was cohosted by the CGSC Foundation and Kansas State University in support of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College from March 14-15, 2011, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.