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BIOGRAPHIES
WALTER M. BORTZ III
Dr. Walter M. Bortz III, twenty-third president of Hampden-Sydney,
holds numerous leadership positions with higher education
organizations both within and outside the Commonwealth of Virginia. He
is a member of the Executive Committee of the Council of Independent
Colleges in Virginia, a trustee of the Virginia Foundation of
Independent Colleges, Presidential Representative for the Old Dominion
Athletic Conference Executive Committee,
and serves on the Commission on Colleges of the Southern
Association of Colleges and Universities. He also is active in the
Council of Independent Colleges. Dr. Bortz has served as Vice
President for Administrative and Information Services at The George
Washington University, and as Vice President for Institutional
Advancement, and Acting Vice President for Administration at the
University of Hartford. He received his undergraduate degree from
Bethany College and holds a doctorate in policy studies from The
George Washington University, and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree
from Bethany College.
JOSEPH F. BOUCHARD
Dr. Bouchard joined Zel Technologies as Executive Director of the
Center for Homeland Security and Defense (CHSD) upon retiring from the
United States Navy as a Captain after twenty-seven years active duty.
CHSD conducts scientific and technical research in a wide range of
areas, including intelligence, cyber warfare, port and aviation
security, and weapons of mass destruction. A specialist in strategic,
long-range and operational planning, he served as Special Assistant
and Deputy Executive Assistant to the Commander in Chief, Allied
Forces Southern Europe; Deputy Senior Director for Defense Policy and
Arms Control, National Security Council, The White House; and as
Deputy Director, Navy Operations Group (Deep Blue), Office of the
Chief of Naval Operations. He gained wide recognition as an expert on
port security while serving as Commanding Officer of the Norfolk Naval
Station. He graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy,
where he majored in International Security Affairs. He holds a Masters
degree in National Security Affairs from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate
School and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford.
JEFFERY A. BREINHOLT
Jeff Breinholt serves as Deputy Chief in the Counterterrorism Section,
Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, where he oversees the
nationwide terrorist financing criminal enforcement program. He
previously served as the Regional Antiterrorism Coordinator for the
western and Pacific states and as a trial attorney in the
international terrorism branch. He is a frequent lecturer and author
on intelligence and law enforcement matters. He was honored in 2003
with the Attorney General?s Award for Excellence in Furthering the
Interests of U.S. National Security. His written works include,
Counterterrorism Enforcement: A Lawyer?s Guide
and an
article, "How About a Little Perspective: The USA PATRIOT ACT and the
Uses and Abuses of History," which will appear this fall in the
Texas
Journal of Law and Politics.
Breinholt
holds a law degree from UCLA and an undergraduate degree from Yale.
GENERAL BRYAN D. BROWN
General Bryan D. "Doug" Brown is the Commander, U.S. Special
Operations Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. As Commander, he
is responsible for all special operations forces of the Army, Navy,
Air Force, and Marine Corps, both active duty and reserve. He entered
the Army as a private in the Infantry. Upon completion of Airborne
School and the Special Forces Qualifications Course, he served on a
Special Forces "A Team" at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. His combat
tours include Vietnam as well as Operations Urgent Fury (Grenada), and
Desert Shield/Storm. His military education includes course work at
the Field Artillery Officer Advance Course, U.S. Army Command and
General Staff College, and the Army War College. He has a bachelor?s
degree from Cameron University and holds a Master?s from Webster
University.
CALEB CARR
Caleb Carr, a military historian and novelist, is a contributing
editor of
MHQ: The
Quarterly Journal of Military History
and the series
editor of the Modern Library War series. He was educated at Kenyon
College and New York University and has worked with the Council on
Foreign Relations in New York. His military and political writings
have appeared in numerous magazines and periodicals, among them
The World
Policy Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times,
and the
Los Angeles
Times.
He is the
author of several books including the critically acclaimed
The Alienist
and
The
Angel of Darkness.
After the
events of September 11, 2001, he wrote
The Lessons
of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians
(Random House
2003) and continues to write on political and military affairs, as
well as criminal psychology. Carr is currently Professor of Military
History at Bard College in New York.
BRIAN COLEMAN
Brian Coleman OBE FRSA was recently appointed Director of Law
Enforcement and National Security for the Chelton Ltd. group of
companies. After teaching at several universities, he joined the
British Security Service (MI5) in 1977. He held a range of operational
posts in counter terrorism and counter intelligence including
collection, assessment, risk analysis and investigation in the UK and
overseas. In 1990, he was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent
Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty the Queen. He has
been an Assistant Director of MI5 and handled National Security
affairs, with the FBI and CIA from 1992 to 1995. From 1995 until 2004,
he was Director of the Home Office Police Scientific Development
Branch, providing technical support for UK Police and other national
security agencies.
NORVELL B. DE ATKINE (Col USA-Ret.)
Norvell B. "Tex" De Atkine is Director of Middle East Studies at the
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Special Warfare Center at Ft. Bragg. He served
for twenty-six years in a variety of military positions, including
Inspector General of Ft. Sill, following his graduation from the U. S.
Military Academy. De Atkine began his career as a foreign area
specialist (FAS) in 1967 and holds a Master?s in Arab Studies. He was
an Army attach? in the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan during the
Jordanian-Palestinian civil war and later served as Chief of the Army
Section of the Office of Military Cooperation in Cairo, Egypt. He was
on the reviewing stand in October 1981 when President Sadat was
assassinated and has made two recent trips to Iraq with psychological
operations units. He is the author of numerous articles that have
appeared in the
Middle East
Quarterly, American Diplomacy,
and
Naval
Institute Proceedings,
among other
places.
EARL W. FLECK
Dr. Earl Fleck is the Provost and Dean of the Faculty at
Hampden-Sydney College. Before coming to Hampden-Sydney, he served as
Provost and Dean of the College, Professor of Biology, and Interim
President at Centenary College, and as Chair of the Science and
Mathematics Department at Whitman College. His early career included
two years in the U.S. Navy, .ve years in the U.S. Naval Reserves, and
15 years in the U.S. Army Reserves before retiring as a lieutenant
colonel in 1996. He received a bachelor?s degree from San Diego State
University (zoology and chemistry) and holds a Masters and Ph.D. from
the University of California, Santa Barbara (molecular genetics and
biochemistry).
JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY
Joseph L. Galloway is the senior military correspondent for
Knight Ridder Newspapers and a nationally syndicated columnist. One of
America?s preeminent war correspondents, he recently concluded an
assignment as a special consultant to Gen. Colin Powell at the State
Department. A native of Refugio, Texas, he spent 22 years as a foreign
and war correspondent as well as bureau chief for United Press
International, and nearly 20 years as a senior editor and writer for
U.S. News &
World Report. His overseas postings include tours in Japan,
Indonesia, India, and three years as UPI bureau chief in Moscow in the
former Soviet Union. He served four tours as a war correspondent in
Vietnam and also covered the 1971 India-Pakistan War. In 1990-1991, he
covered Desert Shield/Desert Storm, riding with the 24th Infantry
Division in the assault into Iraq. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf has
called Galloway "The .nest combat correspondent of our generation -- a
soldier?s reporter and a soldier?s friend."
SEYMOUR HERSH
Seymour "Sy" Hersh earned a Pulitzer Prize for his reports in
1969 on the U. S. court martial of Lt. William Calley, the commanding
officer in what became known as the My Lai Massacre. During the 1970s,
he reported for
The New York Times, creating more controversy with
reports on the covert operations of the U. S. Central Intelligence
Agency. Hersh has written books on Henry Kissinger?s secret bombing of
Cambodia, John Kennedy?s White House, Israel?s behind-the-scenes
attempts to get nuclear weapons, and General Barry McCaffrey?s conduct
during the Gulf War. Recently he reported in
The New
Yorker that Iraqi prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib jail in
Baghdad could be traced to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
JOHN H. JOHNS
Dr. John H. Johns served as a combat arms officer in the Army
for over 26 years, retiring as a brigadier general in 1978. During his
career, he served in command assignments up to Assistant Commander of
the 1st Infantry Division and Director of Human Resources Development
for the Army General Staff. He has taught leadership and ethics at the
U.S. Military Academy, the Army War College, the U.S. Military
Academy, and the Naval Academy. He served four years as a Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense before resigning to become a Professor
of Political Science at the National Defense University at Ft. McNair.
He is an adjunct professor at the Federal Executive Institute, where
he lectures on "Values and the U.S. Constitution" and teaches a
one-week course in ethics. Dr. Johns has an undergraduate degree in
economics and political science from the University of Alabama. He
holds Masters? degrees from Vanderbilt (psychology) and George
Washington University (international affairs) and a Ph.D. from
American University (sociology). He is a graduate of the Army Command
and General Staff College, and The National War College.
AMBASSADOR WILLIAM B. JONES
Ambassador Jones is a retired career diplomat with over twenty
years experience representing the United States in international
crisis management and multi-lateral diplomacy, including treaty
negotiation between the United States, Western Europe, and the Middle
East. He has held presidential appointments as United States
Ambassador to Haiti, Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris;
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural
Affairs in Washington, DC; and Chief of United Nations Missions. He
has appeared on CNN World News, Crossfire, and the McNeil/Lehrer
Report. He holds an appointment to the Bar of the United States Court
of International Trade.
DAVID E. MARION
Dr. David E. Marion is Director of the Wilson Center for
Leadership in the Public Interest at Hampden-Sydney College and Senior
Scholar at the Bill of Rights Institute (Arlington, VA). He also
serves as a national scholar with the Center for Civic Education.
Between 1981 and 1995, he was a visiting member of the graduate
faculty in public administration at the University of Virginia. He has
served as an educational consultant for both the Federal Of.ce of
Personnel Management and Montpelier, James Madison?s Plantation Home
in Orange County, VA. The author of
The
Jurisprudence of Justice William Brennan, Jr., he also is
the co-author of
The
Deconstitutionalization of America and
The Founders
and the Constitution (2 vols). His essays on constitutional
and administrative law, public administration and American political
thought have appeared in numerous journals and books.
DONN E. MARSHALL ?86
Donn E. Marshall received a B.A. from Hampden-Sydney College in 1986,
and holds a Master?s degree in History from the University of
Virginia. He joined the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1990 as a Human
Resources Manager; in 1993, Donn became an Intelligence Of.cer with
DIA?s Office for Counterdrug Analysis, and later received the Defense
Meritorious Civilian Service Medal for his contributions to the
development of U.S. heroin interdiction policy. In 1998, he was
promoted to Senior Intelligence Analyst and Chief of the Southeast
Asia Team in the Eurasia Division of DIA?s Office of Counterdrug
Analysis, and in 2001, he was made the Senior Intelligence Officer for
the Eurasia Division, charged with analytic oversight of all DIA
counterdrug analysis outside of the Americas. Donn?s wife, Shelley,
was one of the seven DIA employee?s killed in the terrorist attack on
the Pentagon on September 11th. In the days following the attack, Donn
established the Shelley A. Marshall Foundation, a charitable
organization which seeks to fight the evil of September 11th through
activities that enrich the human spirit, inspire compassion and bring
a touch of the extraordinary to people?s lives. Donn resigned from DIA
in 2003 to devote more time to his children, Drake (6) and Chandler
(4), and to serve as CEO of the Shelley A. Marshall Foundation.
THE REVEREND DR. MARY CATHRYN ORR
Dr. Mary Cathryn Orr, College Chaplain, came to Hampden-Sydney College
from Albemarle County, Virginia, where for many years she served an
historic church (founded 1769) congregation in Covesville. She earned
her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia, her
Masters of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, and her Bachelor of
Arts degree from Hanover College. She has two daughters, Lydia and
Martha.
RALPH PETERS
Ralph Peters is a retired Army officer, strategist, journalist,
novelist, a linguist and an adventure traveler. With experience in
sixty countries, he is the author of nineteen books, including three
acclaimed texts on strategy. His sixteen works of fiction include
bestselling novels written under his own name and prize-winning
historical novels written as "Owen Parry." A columnist for the
New York
Post
and a member
of the board of contributors at
USA Today,
his
writing has appeared frequently in the
Washington
Post
and the
Wall Street
Journal,
as well as in
the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Newsweek, American Heritage,
Parameters
and other
domestic and international publications. Recent travels have taken him
to Iraq, Turkey, southern Africa and Indonesia.
ANTHONY J. "TONY" TETHER
Dr. Anthony Tether was appointed director of the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on June 18, 2001. DARPA is
responsible for research and development of highly advanced military
systems for the Department of Defense. Prior to joining DARPA, he was
the Founder and President of The Sequoia Group which provided program
management and strategy development services to the government and
industry. From 1994 to 1996, he served as Chief Executive Officer of
Dynamics Technology. He was Director of DARPA?s Strategic Technology
Office from 1982 to 1986, and Director of the National Intelligence
Office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1978 to 1982.
Dr. Tether was honored with both the National Intelligence Medal and
the Department of Defense Civilian Meritorious Service Medal in 1986.
He received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Science and Ph.D.
from Stanford University.
SARANNA R. THORNTON
Dr. Saranna R. Thornton earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics
and Government from Colby College in 1981, a Master?s of Public
Affairs from the L.B.J. School of Public Affairs at the University of
Texas in1985 and a Ph.D. in Economics and Policy Analysis from the
H.J. Heinz School of Public Affairs at Carnegie Mellon University in
1989. She has worked on the majority staff of the U.S. Senate Budget
Committee and as an economic forecaster at the Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System. Her academic career has included
appointments to the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at
Carnegie Mellon University, the A.B. Freeman School of Business at
Tulane University, and the Economics Department at Colby College.
Author of a book on economic policymaking in the U.S. and numerous
articles, Thornton currently is an Elliot Associate Professor in
Economics at Hampden-Sydney College.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL SAMUEL VAUGHAN
WILSON
(USA-RETIRED)
Lieutenant General Samuel V. Wilson retired from active military duty
in 1977 after serving 37-years and rising from Infantry Private to
Lieutenant General. A highly decorated veteran of World War II, he
spent part of that period in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
and later in the 1944 North Burma Campaign with "Merrill?s Marauders."
Following WW II, General Wilson studied at Columbia University and in
Europe as a foreign language and area officer (FAO), mastering several
languages and becoming a specialist on the Soviet Union. Key
assignments during his overall career include tours in the Central
Intelligence Agency in the Clandestine Services; US Army Special
Forces as a Group Commander; Assistant Commandant, US Army John F.
Kennedy Special Warfare School; Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of
Defense for Special Operations; Assistant Commander for Operations,
82d Airborne Division; United States Defense Attache/Moscow; Deputy to
the Director Central Intelligence for the Intelligence Community (D/DCI/IC);
Director, Defense Intelligence Agency. During the War in Southeast
Asia, General Wilson was placed on loan to the Department of State and
served almost four years in Viet Nam with the personal rank of
Minister. General Wilson became an Adjunct Professor of Political
Science at Hampden-Sydney College in 1982, and was appointed 22d
President of the College in July 1992, retiring in June 2000 as
President Emeritus and James C. Wheat Visiting Professor of
Leadership.
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