UAA Polaris lecture series welcomes Major General Josiah Bunting III

Retired military officer speaks on George Marshall and Unheroic Heroism

UAA continues its highly regarded Polaris lecture series when it hosts Major General Josiah Bunting III on Thursday, Feb. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Consortium Library, room 307.

The Major General will give a lecture entitled, "George Marshall and Unheroic Heroism," which will examine the role of General Marshall as organizer of victory and head of the American Army in World War II, focusing on his career before the Marshall Plan for the rescue of Europe.  

Josiah Bunting III is Chairman of the National Civic Literacy Board where he oversees the American Civic Literacy Program of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and President of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He served as an infantry officer in Vietnam and is superintendent emeritus of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). A Rhodes Scholar, he is author of several books, including An Education for Our Time and, most recently, a biography of Ulysses S. Grant for the American Presidents Series edited by Arthur Schlesinger. His biography of General George C. Marshall, American Secretary of State under President Harry Truman, will be published in 2007.

The Polaris lectures, named for the North Star on Alaska's flag, address a wide range of subjects in the liberal arts.  Organized by the UAA Democracy Forum with assistance from the University Honors Forty-Ninth State Fellows Program, the Office of Community Partnerships, the Polaris Society, the Alaska Humanities Forum, and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the Polaris lecture series began in the 1980s to commemorate the bicentenary of the American Constitution.
Bunting's lecture is free and open to the public.  Parking is free.