Featured Speaker: Walt Lewis, US Army Retired
Topic: Where Do We Get Such Men? (The Funkhouser Brothers in WWI)
Additional Speaker: Tom Lonnberg on the Doughboy Statue now housed at the Funkhouser Post
Dinner prepared by the Funkhouser Post:
Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, salad bowl, roll, plus dessert of cheesecake or cobbler.
The Funkhouser Post will have an cash bar available. Dinner is at 1:11 PM on November 11, 2018.
Agenda
12:00 PM — 12:45 PM – social time (cash bar)
12:45 PM — 1:00 PM – General meeting and election of Board members and officers
1:00 PM — 1:11 PM – Tom Lonnberg, Curator of History at the Evansville Museum of Arts, History, and Science will talk about the doughboy statue which used to be at Sunset Park. Today this statue is at Funkhouser Post 8.
1:11 PM — 2:00 PM – Dinner
2:00 PM — 3:00 PM – Walt Lewis — “The Funkhouser Brothers: Where Do We Get Such Men?”
The full event is open to the public with the restriction that only paid VCHS members may vote on officers and board members.
The price of the dinner is $20 per person payable by PayPal through the “Add to Cart” link below. Clicking “Add to Cart” will take you to a PayPal shopping cart. Add the correct number of tickets to the VCHS Annual Banquet choice. If you don’t have a PayPal account, you can still pay via PayPal by selecting the gray “Check Out” button. From there you will be able to use your credit card on the PayPal secure site.
For those who would prefer to pay by check, write your check to VCHS for the total number of dinner tickets, and send to the address below.
VCHS
C/O Steve Appel, Treasurer
7847 Margaret Circle,
Newburgh, IN 47630
About Walt Lewis
EDUCATION:
47 years as an educator (retired EVSC, 2000), teacher, coach, principal of Harrison High School from 1990 t0 2000, and retired assistant professor of education at University of Evansville, 2014.
B.S. in history, emphasis in colonial Latin America, from University of Southern Mississippi
M.A., social studies education, from University of Evansville
Post-graduate work, in school administration and in counseling, at University of Evansville, Indiana University, and Western Kentucky
Graduate of and instructor in U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
PERSONAL:
Married to Selma, retired English teacher and retired professor at University of Evansville.
Father of three (son Patrick served in support of Desert War 1992) and grandfather of four.
MILITARY SERVICE:
33 years total U.S. military service
10 years active duty in U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force
23 years as U.S. Army reservist
Served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War
Retired September 1992 as a Lieutenant Colonel
AWARDS: Vietnam Service Medal, 2 Army Commendation Medals, Meritorious Service Medal
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Public Education Foundation
Kiwanis
Evansville Retired Teachers Association (president)
Veterans of Foreign Wars
American Legion
Reserve Officers Association