Wednesday, April 4, 6 p.m. at the Oakland Library

Dr. Gerald Pops to Lecture on Pershing and Marshall Together in France, WWI

The Ruth Enlow Library will host a lecture on Pershing and Marshall Together in France, WWI, presented by Dr. Gerald Pops, professor emeritus of public administration at West Virginia University, where he taught from 1974 to 2010.  Scheduled for Wednesday, April 4 from 6 – 7:30 p.m. at the Oakland Library, this lecture is free and open to the public. To register for this event, contact Bonnie at 301-334-3996 x0117 or bonnie@relib.net

“John Joseph ‘Black Jack’ Pershing and George Catlett Marshall were the two greatest American military leaders of the 20th Century,” notes Dr. Pops.  “They combined in novel ways, not generally known, from 1917 through 1945 to profoundly affect the course of history, both during World War I and well into the future, up to the present day.”

Dr. Pops attended the University of California at Los Angeles, graduating in pre-medicine, and received his law degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and a doctoral degree in public administration from Syracuse University. He served as an Air Force judge advocate and a legislative analyst with the California legislature, taught political science at Northern Arizona University before joining the faculty at West Virginia University, and was a Fulbright Lecturer in 1993 and 2001. He is the author of Ethical Leadership in Turbulent Times: Modeling the Public Career of George C. Marshall. His writings and teachings extend beyond Marshall and ethical leadership to labor relations, administrative justice and ethics, and, more recently, writing plays and stories with his daughters and granddaughters.