Accelerent partners participate in Walk and Talk program

● Mark Wiggins ● November 16, 2016 ● Featured News Releases Walk and Talk Program ● No Comments

The Foundation continued its “Walk and Talk” outreach program by hosting a visit from a group of Accelerent members in October. Accelerent is a networking platform where decision-makers can build relationships with other decision-makers for the sole purpose of growing their respective companies. The “walk and talk” program focuses on… Read More

Veterans Day 2016

● Mark Wiggins ● November 10, 2016 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

On this Veterans Day, I think of my grandfather on the Texas border with General Pershing one hundred years ago; my father on a ship in Okinawa harbor seventy one years ago; my wife’s uncle piloting an LST at Omaha Beach seventy two years ago; my wife’s uncle fighting in… Read More

Simons Center hosts third InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture

● Elizabeth Hill ● November 9, 2016 ● Featured News Releases Simons Center News ● No Comments

November 8 was a busy day for everyone at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC). Not only was yesterday election day, but that afternoon the Simons Center and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School (CGSS) hosted their third InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture. Dr. John G. Breen, … Read More

Second InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture a success

● Elizabeth Hill ● October 26, 2016 ● Featured News Releases Simons Center News ● No Comments

Yesterday the Simons Center for Interagency Cooperation and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School (CGSS) hosted the second lecture in their new InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture Series. Over 65 students and faculty from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) and other area universities attended the lecture.… Read More

Preparations for National Wreaths Across America Day in full swing

● Mark Wiggins ● October 25, 2016 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

On National Wreaths Across America Day each December, volunteers place wreaths on individual veterans’ graves in more than 1,100 locations throughout the U.S., with ceremonies at sea, and at each of the national cemeteries on foreign soil. This year’s wreath ceremonies will be conducted on Dec. 17. You can sponsor… Read More

Vietnam War Commemoration Lecture Series continues

● Mark Wiggins ● October 12, 2016 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

The second lecture in the Vietnam War Commemoration Lecture Series was conducted Oct. 5 at 6 p.m. in the Arnold Conference Room of the Lewis and Clark Center on Fort Leavenworth. This second lecture in the series was entitled “The Diem Years and the Early Advisory Effort, 1956-1963.” Dr. James… Read More

Foundation hosts workshop for military families

● Mark Wiggins ● October 12, 2016 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

The CGSC Foundation sponsored the “7 Habits of Highly Effective Military Families” workshop on Oct. 5 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Fort Leavenworth Resiliency Center. This workshop was designed by the FranklinCovey company and facilitated by local instructors Ann Soby, Kim Shoffner, Anne Reilly, Meaghan Bircher and… Read More

CGSC faculty attend International Relations Council annual event

● Mark Wiggins ● September 30, 2016 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

The CGSC Foundation was a table sponsor at the 2016 Eliot S. Berkley Annual Dinner hosted by the International Relations Council at the InterContinental Hotel in Kansas City on Sept. 22. The special guest speaker for the evening was James Carville, a political commentator and media personality who is best… Read More

Photos available from the 2016 Celebration of International Friendship

● Mark Wiggins ● September 28, 2016 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

On Sept. 16 at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, the CGSC Foundation, in partnership with the Greater Kansas City Chapter of People to People and Operation International from the Leavenworth/Lansing (KS) Area Chamber of Commerce, hosted the third annual “Celebration of International Friendship” in honor… Read More

Pershing Lecture series continues with look at ‘The Somme’

● Mark Wiggins ● September 28, 2016 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

Click here for more photos from the lecture On Sept. 14, Dr. Mark Hull, associate professor of history at CGSC, presented the eighth lecture in the General of the Armies John J. Pershing Great War Centennial Series to an audience of more than 70 attendees in the Arnold Conference Room… Read More