The CGSC Foundation hosted a dinner June 12, 2014 at the Frontier Conference Center on Fort Leavenworth in honor of Gary Sinise and family in celebration of Sinise's sponsorship of the new Lt. Col. Boyd McCanna “Mac” Harris Leadership Award at CGSC.
The 2014 Fort Leavenworth Ethics Symposium will be conducted May 5-8 at the Frontier Conference Center. See www.leavenworthethicssymposium.org for details.
The Simons Center for Interagency Cooperation announces its third annual open Interagency Writing Competition for 2014. The competition is open to the public and recognizes papers that provide insight and fresh thinking in advancing the knowledge, understanding, and practice of interagency coordination, cooperation, and collaboration at the tactical or operational level of effort. The competition opens May 1. Deadline for submissions is Friday, Aug. 8, 2014.
The CGSC Foundation, in conjunction with the CGSC Department of Military History, is hosting the annual meeting for the Society for Military History, April 3-6, at the Westin Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City, Mo. See www.smh2014.org for details.
The 2014 Fort Leavenworth Ethics Symposium will be conducted May 5-8 at the Frontier Conference Center. This year's theme is "Professional Ethics and Personal Morality."
The CGSC Foundation's 5-Star Generals Commemorative Coin Program came to an end Dec. 31, 2013. Final reports of the financial benefit to the Foundation are still being produced, but CEO Doug Tystad says he is very satisfied with the overall results of the program.
On behalf of the Board of Directors and the staff, we want to wish you a happy and prosperous New Year.
The 2013 Simons Center progress report is now available online on the Simons Center website.
Dr. William J. Davis, Jr., associate professor in the Department of Joint, Interagency, and Multinational Operations at the Fort Lee, Va., satellite campus of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, was recently selected as the winner of the 2013 CGSC Faculty Interagency Writing Competition sponsored by the CGSC Foundation’s Simons Center for Interagency Cooperation.
The CGSC Foundation is partnering with the National World War I Museum in Kansas City to honor the recipients of the museum's Guardian Spirit Award and the John J. Pershing Leadership Award at 5:30 p.m., Dec. 12.