Colin L. Powell Lecture Series Dinner
The CGSC Foundation and Alumni Association invites you to the annual Colin L. Powell Lecture Series dinner event on Wednesday, Aug. 26, at 6 p.m., at the Carriage Club (5301 State Line Road) in Kansas City. Dress for the evening is business attire.
The evening’s keynote speaker is retired General David G.Perkins, the Colin L. Powell Lecture Series lecturer for the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Class of 2027. The reception begins at 6 p.m. and we will conclude the evening at 9 p.m.
Tickets are $150/person or $1,100 for a table of 8.
Please register using the form below.
Gen. David G. Perkins retired from the U.S. Army on March 9, 2018, after serving more than 38 years since his 1980 graduation and commission as an armor officer from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. His last assignment was as commanding general of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command where he served from March 2014 until his March 2018 retirement. Prior to that assignment, he commanded the Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth and served as commandant of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College from 2011 to 2014. Perkins also served as commander of the 4th Infantry Division from 2009-2011. In 2003, he commanded the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, which was the first unit to cross the border during the invasion of Iraq in what has been called the “Thunder Run” into Baghdad that led to the fall of the regime.
