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Today:   "Seeds to Conflict - Liberia"
       Speaker:   John V. Quarstein         

John V. Quarstein an award-winning historian, preservationist, and author is joining Kiwanis for the fourth time.  John has served as the director of the Virginia War Museum since 1978.  He also oversees the management of the City of Newport News’ historic properties including Endview Plantation, Lee Hall Mansion, Young’s Mill, and the Newsome House as well as serving as the historical advisor for The Mariners’ Museum’s U.S.S. Monitor Center project.  He has also served as an adjunct professor at WM, UVA, and VCU and is the author of seven books including Fort Monroe: The Key to the South, C.S.S. Virginia: Mistress of Hampton Roads, Civil War on the Virginia Peninsula, and The Battle of the Ironclads.
He was the recipient of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 1993 President’s Award for Historic Preservation Award, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy’s Jefferson Davis Gold Medal in 1999.  Presently, he serves on the board of several national organizations including Virginia Civil War Trails, John Singleton Mosby Foundation, and is Chief Historical Advisor for the U.S.S. Monitor Center. An avid duck hunter, John lives in Hampton, and on his Eastern Shore farm with his wife Martha and son John Moran.

Where we'll meet---

What we'll eat!

Today: Virginia Room
Menu:  Vegetable soup;  Roast beef sandwich on Sub roll;  chips
 

Next week: Virginia Room           
Menu: Salad;  Pork loin with cranberry nut chutney;  vegetables;  rolls


 

Education -- Did You Know?

BIRTHDAYS  August 6 - August 12

August 7         Marion Shackford
August 9         Mike Sternberg        Jerry Worstell        Fred Schwartz
August 10       Tom French             Robert Howell       Michael Fox
August 11       Robert Unangst        John Pitman