Friends of the CGSC Foundation – Greetings and thank you for visiting our website. I invite you to visit often to see what we have planned and to read about what your Foundation is doing. It is an honor to be the successor to Colonel (Ret.) Doug Tystad as the… Read More

I want to congratulate and welcome our incoming president and CEO, Rod Cox. The board selection committee chose wisely and I believe the Foundation will be in good hands going forward. Rod and I have worked together for nearly three years now and I appreciate his talent, energy, enthusiasm, and… Read More

We are pleased to be able to present the 5th Annual Celebration of International Friendship at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts on Oct. 4 starting at 7 pm. We hope you’ll join us!!! Tickets are still available at the Kauffman Center box office and they’re really quite reasonable.… Read More

We’ve had a really busy first month of the Command and General Staff Officer’s Course (CGSOC) school year. Your Foundation supported the course curriculum with two guest speakers, provided extra-curricular lectures, supported the School of Command Preparation with civilian leader outreach, supported the commandant’s reception for the new CGSOC class,… Read More

I received news over the weekend that Leonard Boswell, of Des Moines, Iowa, had passed. Most people outside of Iowa don’t know who he is, but he is someone that we here at CGSC and the CGSC Foundation know or should know well. Leonard was a retired Army lieutenant colonel,… Read More

Welcome to the CGSC Classes of 2019! We’re pleased that you’re here and into the business of the profession of arms. SAMS classes began last month, our International Military Students arrived and began orientation, our sister service students arrived and are already in “How to Speak Army” classes, and our… Read More

On behalf of the board of trustees and the Foundation staff, I would like to congratulate our graduates from the Classes of 2018! I say “classes” because we had more than 130 graduate from the School of Advanced Military studies on May 24; we have nearly 1,000 that have graduated… Read More

Change affects all organizations. How well the organization plans for and responds to change determines how successful it will be. In the past couple of years, the CGSC Foundation has been undergoing significant change and we are planning for 2018 to be no exception. In 2016 and 2017, the Foundation… Read More

In the last column I wrote that we would have our 2017 Program Report available so that you can see what we did during the year. When you download and look through the report, you’ll see why we say that we’re small but busy! The programs we’ve fostered and the… Read More

The new year brings the pride of accomplishments for the year just ended and excitement for things to come. We here at the Foundation are exceptionally proud of our record of support to our mission in 2017. We’re now closing the records and preparing for our annual audit as we… Read More