Partner Spotlight – First Command Financial Services

● Mark Wiggins ● January 10, 2018 ● News Releases Partner Spotlight ● No Comments

First Command Financial Services is selected as the CGSC Foundation Corporate Partner for January 2018. “First Command is a great partner of the CGSC Foundation,” said Col. (Ret.) Roderick M. Cox, the CGSC Foundation’s Simons Center Program Director. “They are the sole sponsor of the highly successful Command and General… Read More

KAMO Adventures reps tour CGSC, Fort Leavenworth

● Mark Wiggins ● January 2, 2018 ● Featured News Releases Walk and Talk Program ● No Comments

On Dec. 11, representatives from KAMO Adventures took a “walk and talk” tour of Fort Leavenworth and the Command and General Staff College. CGSC Foundation trustee Mike Myer, who is also on the board of KAMO Adventures, set the visit up for the group. The group’s tour began with a… Read More

Chairman’s USO Tour 2017 visits deployed troops

● Mark Wiggins ● December 27, 2017 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff took his USO Tour to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan on Christmas Eve 2017. Hundreds of servicemen and women filled a hanger on Bagram Airfields Flight Line to enjoy multiple entertainers bring holiday cheer to the deployed members. The tour also made stops in… Read More

Happy Holidays from the CGSC Foundation and the Simons Center

● Mark Wiggins ● December 19, 2017 ● News Releases ● No Comments

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.)… Read More

Kansas Department of Transportation leaders visit Fort Leavenworth

● Mark Wiggins ● December 19, 2017 ● Featured News Releases Walk and Talk Program ● No Comments

On Dec. 14 the CGSC Foundation hosted Kansas Secretary of Transportation Richard Carlson and Merrill Atwater, who is the director of Aviation at KDOT and also the great grandson of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, on a “Walk and Talk” tour of Fort Leavenworth and CGSC. As Carlson and Atwater… Read More

KC Federal Executive Board topic of latest InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture

● Mark Wiggins ● December 12, 2017 ● Featured News Releases Simons Center News ● No Comments

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. During his presentation, Hisle discussed the role… Read More

Willbanks addresses CORDS in latest Vietnam lecture

● Mark Wiggins ● December 11, 2017 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

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,… Read More

Leavenworth School District underwriters participate in Walk and Talk program

● Mark Wiggins ● December 11, 2017 ● Featured News Releases Walk and Talk Program ● No Comments

On Dec. 7, CGSC Foundation CEO Doug Tystad received a short notice request from the Leavenworth School District chief financial officer to host a “walk and talk” visit of Fort Leavenworth and CGSC for three insurance underwriters who were visiting USD 453. Vice President Andy Carter and Jessica Gooch from… Read More

Ambassador McCarthy visits Fort Leavenworth

● Mark Wiggins ● December 8, 2017 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

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… Read More

Partner Spotlight – Park University

● Mark Wiggins ● December 4, 2017 ● News Releases Partner Spotlight ● No Comments

Park University is selected as the CGSC Foundation Corporate Partner for December 2017. Park University supports the Distinguished Speaker Series, led by the Foundation’s Simons Center and Simons Center Program Director Col. (Ret.) Roderick M. Cox. “Park University is an outstanding partner of the CGSC Foundation,” Cox said. “They are… Read More