Foundation elects two new trustees, approves strategic plan during quarterly meeting

● Mark Wiggins ● December 9, 2019 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

The CGSC Foundation conducted its fourth quarter board of trustees meeting on Dec. 4, 2019, at the offices of Spencer Fane in downtown Kansas City. Highlights from the meeting include board member approval of a strategic plan outlining the major goals for the Foundation over the next four years. Trustees… Read More

Support the Foundation by shopping on AmazonSmile

● Mark Wiggins ● December 6, 2019 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

Giving to the CGSC Foundation has never been easier than this holiday season… or all year long. If you are doing any online shopping with the popular retailer Amazon, you can direct Amazon to donate to the Foundation at no extra cost to you. The way Amazon gives is through… Read More

CGSC Foundation announces new scholarship program

● Mark Wiggins ● December 3, 2019 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

The CGSC Foundation announces the launch of a new competitive scholarship program for children and grandchildren of U.S. Army Command and General Staff College alumni who are Life Members of the Foundation’s Alumni Association. The scholarship program is open to high school seniors who will begin their college studies in… Read More

KC Federal Executive Board director presents at IA Brown-Bag Lecture

● Mark Wiggins ● November 27, 2019 ● Featured News Releases School News Simons Center News ● No Comments

Mr. Larry A. Hisle, the executive director of the Greater Kansas City Federal Executive Board (FEB), spoke about the many, many programs of the Greater Kansas City FEB during the InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture conducted Nov. 26, 2019, in the Lewis and Clark Center’s Arnold Conference Room. Hisle briefly touched on… Read More

Former Foundation president Hyrum W. Smith dies at age 76

● Mark Wiggins ● November 22, 2019 ● Featured News Releases ● 2 comments

Former CGSC Foundation President Hyrum W. Smith, 76, died Monday, Nov. 17, 2019, after a battle with pancreatic cancer for the last several months. Smith is most well known as the founder of the industry leading time management solutions company Franklin-Quest in 1983 and is one of the creators behind… Read More

Kids in Foundation-sponsored reading programs present thank you

● Mark Wiggins ● November 19, 2019 ● Featured News Releases ● No Comments

Nora Walker, the community library technician at the Ike Skelton Combined Arms Reasearch Library (center in the photo), visited the CGSC Foundation offices on Nov. 19, 2019, to present the Foundation with a “thank you” from the children that participate in the library’s youth reading programs the Foundation sponsors. Walker… Read More

Area 51: Very Secret, Very Cool, but not Aliens

● Elizabeth Hill ● October 31, 2019 ● Featured News Releases Simons Center News ● No Comments

As part of the Foundation’s Distinguished Speaker Series, Brent Geary, Ph.D., historian with the Central Intelligence Agency and the Center for the Study of Intelligence, presented a lecture titled, “Very Secret, Very Cool, but not Aliens: The U-2, the A-12 and Area 51,” to over 50 attendees at Park University… Read More

CGSC Foundation unveils 2019 ornament

● Elizabeth Hill ● October 24, 2019 ● Featured News Releases ● 2 comments

The CGSC Foundation debuted the new holiday ornament design for 2019 during a reception at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) on Oct. 24, 2019. A small crowd of Foundation supporters and CGSC students and faculty gathered at the Joint Pub Lounge as Director of Operations Lora… Read More

Latest brown-bag lecture focuses on CIA

● Mark Wiggins ● October 11, 2019 ● Featured News Releases School News Simons Center News ● No Comments

Mr. Kevin Rousseau, the CGSC Distinguished Chair for National Intelligence Studies and a member of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), led a discussion about the CIA’s organization and mission during the InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture conducted Oct. 10, 2019, in the Lewis and Clark Center’s Arnold Conference Room. Rousseau covered a… Read More

Senegal, Trinidad and Tobago officers join International Hall of Fame

● Mark Wiggins ● October 10, 2019 ● Featured News Releases School News ● No Comments

(Katie Peterson, Fort Leavenworth Lamp) Two new members were inducted into the Command and General Staff College International Hall of Fame in a ceremony Oct. 3, 2019, in the Lewis and Clark Center’s Eisenhower Auditorium. Their portraits now hang in the IHOF hallway alongside 283 other inductees representing 75 different… Read More