Contact the Leadership Center

Office Address
Wilson Center
488 College Road
P.O. Box 854
Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943 
434 223-7077                                                                 

 

 

 

LTC Rucker Snead (USA ret) '81

Director of External Relations for the Wilson Center
Associate Dean of Career Education and Vocational Reflection
Army ROTC Advisor
Phone: (434) 223-6106
Email: rsnead@hsc.edu

Lt. Col. Rucker Snead III '81 (USA ret) serves as the Director of External Relations for the Wilson Center and ROTC and intern advisor. He returned to Hampden-Sydney College as the Director of Career Development after more than two decades of military service. His service duties included a variety of tours both at home and abroad to include a command position in Germany, teaching at Appalachian State University, working with the United Nations in Haiti, training the Saudi military, running the 54th Presidential Inaugural Parade, and serving in the National Military Command Center at the Pentagon.

 

Dr. David E. Marion
Director of Academic Programs
Phone: (434) 223-6240
Email: damarion@hsc.edu

Dr. David E. Marion is Director of Academic Programs of the Samuel V. Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest at Hampden-Sydney College and a member of the Academic Advisory Board at the Bill of Rights Institute in Arlington. He has held teaching posts at the University of Virginia and Northern Illinois University, and served as a consultant for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. His is the author of The Jurisprudence of Justice William Brennan, Jr.: The Law and Politics of 'Libertarian' Dignity, and co-author of Founders and the Constitution and The Deconstitutionalization of America.

Mrs. May S. Reed
Assistant to the Director,
Communications & Events Coordinator
Phone: (434) 223-7077
Email: mreed@hsc.edu

Mrs. May S. Reed, Assistant to the Director and Communications and Events Coordinator, began with the Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest in November 2010. She obtained a bachelor's degree from Salem College.
 

Lt. Gen. Samuel V. Wilson
(USA ret); Wilson Center Fellow, H-SC President Emeritus
Phone: (434) 223-6234
Email: swilson@hsc.edu

Lt. Gen. Samuel V. Wilson (USA ret), First Wilson Center Fellow; former Wheat Professor of Leadership Studies and President emeritus of Hampden-Sydney College, joined the Hampden-Sydney faculty after a military career that spanned four decades. His service included assignments behind Japanese lines in Burma in WWII and clandestine intelligence, covert propaganda, and paramilitary operations with the CIA during the Cold War. He served as a Special Forces Group commander (" Green Berets"), Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, Deputy to the Director of Central Intelligence, and concluded his career as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin
(USA ret); Wheat Professor
of Leadership Studies
Phone: (434)7266
Email: wboykin@hsc.edu

Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin (USA ret), Wheat Professor of Leadership Studies, retired in 2007 as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense of Intelligence. He had a distinguished military career that began in 1971 when he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Infantry from VA Polytechnic Institute and State University. He served over 24 years in Joint Special Operations, with a command at every level. He spent 6 years in intelligence, two with the CIA, and was a member of the National Security Council Policy Coordinating Committee for Terrorism and Coordinating Sub Group for Homeland Securitiy. He was commandant of the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School. Boykin has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Bronze Star Medal Air Medal and the Purple Heart.

Dr. John H. Eastby
Assistant Director
Phone: (434) 223-6312
Email: jeastby@hsc.edu

John H. Eastby, Assistant Director of the Public Service Program, is Elliot Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at Hampden-Sydney College. He has published on international organization, political theory and international relations, European integration, American foreign policy and Woodrow Wilson. He served for a year as Associate Dean of the Faculty at Hampden-Sydney and recently completed a six year term as Director of the interdisciplinary Western Culture program. In addition to his current teaching duties, he currently serves as Pre-Law Advisor. He holds the B.A. degree from Augustana College and the Ph.D from the University of Virginia.

Dr. James Y. Simms, Jr.
Director, Military Leadership
and National Security Studies Program
Phone: (434)223-6227
Email: jsimms@hsc.edu

Dr. James Y. Simms, Jr., Director of the Military Leadership and National Security Studies Program, is Elliott Professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College. He also has taught at Eastern Michigan University and George Mason University. He has been awarded several National Endowment of the Humanities grants and a Fellowship at the Russian Research Center at Harvard University. His area of expertise is Russian agriculture--peasant well-being--in late Imperial Russia. Author of several articles on this subject, he is also co-editor and co-author of Modernization and Revolution: Dilemmas of Progress in Late Imperial Russia.

Dr. Curtis J. Smith
Myers Professor &
Director, Freshman Leadership Program
Phone: (434) 223-7267
Email: curtiss@hsc.edu

Dr. Curtis J. Smith, Myers Professor & Director of the Freshmen Leadership Program, served as director of the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville, VA from 1994 - 98. He presently holds adjunct faculty positions at Virginia Tech and Indiana University. Prior to his position at FEI, he held several posts with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, and was appointed to the presidential rank of distinguished executive under the Senior Executive Service. He has a Ph.D. in English Literature from Ohio State University and was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration in 1998.

Dr. Vernon Dale Jones
Vice President for Strategy, Administration, & Board Affairs
Wilson Center Fellow
Phone: (434) 223-6116
Email: djones@hsc.edu 

Dr. Dale Jones is Vice President for Strategy, Administration, and Board Affairs. Dr. Jones will coordinate ongoing strategic planning for Hampden-Sydney College, supervise the offices of college events, communications, campus security, and the Atkinson Museum, and he will serve as the chief administrative liaison for operations of the Board of Trustees.  In addition, Dr. Jones serves as a Wilson Center Fellow. 
He holds a B.S. in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy, an M.B.A. from Wright State University, an M.A. in public policy from the George Washington University, and a Ph.D. in public administration from Syracuse University.