Western Front Association - U.S. Branch - 2003 National Seminar at Quantico, Virginia

14^th Annual National Seminar
September 19-20, 2003
The Marine Corps University
General Alfred M. Gray Research Center
2040 Broadway Street
Quantico, Virginia

Thanks to everyon who braved the hurricane and helped make our 2003 Seminar a success. See you at Plattsburgh, New York August 6-8 for our 2004 National Seminar.

FEATURING THE US MARINE CORPS IN THE GREAT WAR

Friday, September 19

12 noon Registration at the Marine Corps University Research Center

Tours of the Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum and the Alfred M. Gray Research Center
followed by talks at the Research Center.

3 pm Michael Miller, Through the Wheat, Belleau Wood, June 6, 1918

4 pm Patricia Mullen, The Spanish Influenza

5 pm Jean Ebbert & Marie-Beth Hall, The Few, the Forgotten—Women in the Marines and Navy, 1917-1919

6 pm Cash Bar the Quantico Club

7 pm Dinner at the Quantico Club followed by a talk by Brigadier General, USMC (ret.) Edwin H. Simmons, The Marines in WWI: A Lasting Legacy

AND MORE!

Saturday, September 20

8 am Continental breakfast at the Marine Corps University Research Center

9 am Dr. Bradley J. Mayer, WWI as a Revolution in Military Affairs

10 am Jim Ginther, Marine Aviation in WWI

11 am Donald Bittner, The Gallipoli Campaign as a Tactical Model

12 noon Luncheon, the Quantico Club

After luncheon speaker, Dr. Richard DiNardo, Germany & Coalition Warfare

Back at the Marine Corps University Research Center

2:30 pm William Dean, African Colonial Troops, 1917-1918

3:30 pm Kenneth L. Smith-Christmas, U. S. Marines At Belleau Wood –Hell Itself as Seen Through the Eyes of Artists

4:30 pm Tours of the Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum and the Gray Research Center

6 pm Cash Bar at the Quantico Club

7 pm Dinner at the Quantico Club, after-dinner speaker Dr. John Mosier, The Myth of The Great War

Registration

To Register send a check to President TJ Johnson, 6915 NW 49th Street, Gainesville, Florida 32653-1153, or for more information call (352) 379-3200 Fax (352) 379-9408 or E-mail tjjohnson59@aol.com. The seminar, including two dinners, a lunch and Saturday breakfast will cost you $160. When you register, please be sure to include your name, mailing address, phone and fax numbers and E-mail address. Remember, we depend on seminar income to finance all our other activities.

For those of you wishing to bring spouses or guests, dinners cost $35, lunch $25 per person including gratuities.

Accommodations will be at the Hampton Inn, Stafford/Quantico/Aquia, I-95 exit 143A (Aquia). For Reservations, call (540) 657-0999 and ask to speak to General Manager Diann Wright for the WFA rate of $70 plus tax. The newly-refurbished Hampton Inn lies about seven miles south of the main gate to Quantico on US Route One, Jefferson Davis Highway.
Click here to see maps and directions.

The Hampton Inn is located only 40 miles from Washington, D.C., 15 miles from several Civil War battlefields, 10 miles from Potomac Mills one of the east coast’s largest outlet malls, 25 miles from Mt. Vernon and 13 miles from historic Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Airport Shuttle Bus Service is available from Reagan National Airport. Call in advance(703) 445-8200 for reservations.

Guided Tours are of the Marine Corps Museums Macro-Artifact Storage Areas. The transition from the Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum to the new National Museum of the Marine Corps will be well underway by September 2003. Got to http://www.usmc.mil and look under History for details.

CREATED: 10 October 2002