BORN AT UNIONTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA ... - MSFC · PDF fileRep. James G. Fulton ... Mr. James C....

From President ia l Execu t i ve Order dated

March 15, 1960:

... WHEREAS the late General o f the Army,

George C . Marshall devoted h i s l i f e to the

service o f h i s country and to the advancement

o f the cause o f peace throughout the world:

... NOW, T H E R E F O R E , b y virtue o f the

authority ves ted i n me a s Pres ident o f the

United S ta tes , I hereby des ignate the faci l i -

t i e s o f the National Aeronaut ics and Space

Administration at Huntsv i l l e , Alabama, a s the

George C . Marshall Space Fl ight Center;

and such fac i l i t i e s shall hereaf ter be known

and referred to b y that name.

DWIGHT D . EISENHOWER

G E O R G E C A T L E T T M A R S H A L L

B O R N A T U N I O N T O W N , P E N N S Y L V A N I A , D E C E M B E R 3 1 , 1 8 8 0

G R A D U A T E D F R O M V I R G I N I A M I L I T A R Y I N S T I T U T E , 1 9 0 1

C O M M I S S I O N E D S E C O N D L I E U T E N A N T , F E B R U A R Y 1 9 0 2

H O N O R G R A D U A T E , U . S . I N F A N T R Y - C A V A L R Y S C H O O L , 1 9 0 7

P R O M O T E D T O C O L O N E L , 1 9 1 8

P R O M O T E D T O B R I G A D I E R G E N E R A L , 1 9 3 6 \

C H I E F O F S T A F F , U . S . A R M Y , W I T H R A N K O F G E N E R A L , 1 9 3 9 - 1 9 4 5 \

S P E C I A L R E P R E S E N T A T I V E O F T H E P R E S I D E N T T O C H I N A WITH P E R S O N A L R A N K O F A M B A S S A D O R , 1945 - 1947 \

S E C R E T A R Y O F S T A T E , 1 9 4 7 - 1 9 4 9

P R E S I D E N T , A M E R I C A N N A T I O N A L R E D C R O S S , 1 9 4 9 - 1 9 5 0

S E C R E T A R Y O F D E F E N S E , 1 9 5 0 - 1 9 5 1

R E C I P I E N T O F N O B E L P E A C E P R I Z E , 1 9 5 3 I

D I E D , O C T O B E R 1 6 , 1 9 5 9

As Secretary of State b e molded an American economic and diplomatic program wbicb turned the t ideof communism in war-ravaged Western Europe. T h i s "Marshall.Plan" led to the coalition of free nations1 under NATO and made possible a revi tal ized Europe.

He w a s a dedicated American, humanitarian, soldier, statesman, peace-maker. I

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Hon. Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Hon. Hugh M. Milton Col. William G. Draper, USAF

Sen. Alexander W i ley (W isc.) Mr. Bryce Harlow Col. Robert L. Schulz, USA

Rep. Emil io Q. Daddario (Conn.) Mr. Gordon Gr'ay Col. Owen 7. Mc Closkey, USA I

Rep. Carl E l l i o t t (Ala.) Gen. L. L. Lemnitzer, USA Mrs. Wernher von Braun I

Rep. Joe L. Evins (Tenn.) Lieut. Gen. Herbert B. Powell , USA Mrs. Kalervo Kal l io

Rep. James G. Fulton (Penn.) Maj. Gen. Howard Mc G. Snyder, USA Miss Ann Whitman

Rep. Charles Raper J o n a s (N.C.) Maj. Gen. Don R. Ostrander, USAF Miss Mary Caffree

Rep. Robert E. Jones, Jr. (Ala.) Maj. Gen. August Schomburg, USA Mr. Robert Walsh

Rep. Albert Rains (Ala.) Mrs. August Schomburg Mr. Frank Ph i l l ips

Rep. R. Walter Riehlman (N.Y.) Brig. Gen. A. J. Goodpaster, USA Mr. Harry M. Rhett, Jr.

Mr. Lew is G. Odom, Jr. Mayor R. 5. Searcy Maj. Gen. R. L. Spragins, USA (Ret.)

Col. James J. Winn, USA (Ret.) Mr. Albert F. Siepert Maj. Gen. H. N. Toftoy, USA (Ret.)

Miss Ellene W. Winn Mr. James P. Gleason Mrs. H. N. Tof toy

Mr. James C. Hagerty Dr. Forrest Pogue

D E D I C A T I O N C E R E M O N I E S

1 0 : 3 0 A . M .

C O N C E R T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.S. ARMY REDSTONE ARSENAL BAND

INVOCATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DR. HARRY 0. WADE, Minister, F i r s t Presbyterian Church of Huntsvi l le

REMARKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T H E HONORABLE JOHN PATTERSON, Governor of Alabama

INTRODUCTION OF GUESTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . DR. WERNHER von BRAUN, Director, George C. Marshall Space F l igh t Center

INTRODUCTION OF T H E PRESIDENT. DR. T . KEITH GLENNAN,Adrninistrator, National Aeronautics andSpaceAdrninistration

THE P R E S I D E N T OF T H E U N I T E D S T A T E S

D W I G H T D . E I S E N H O W E R

UNVEILING OF BUST OF GEORGE C. M A R S H A L L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MRS. KATHERINE T. MARSHALL

BENEDICTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T H E REVEREND GEORGE F. HART, Pastor, St. Mark's Lutheran Church of Huntsvil le

T H E NATIONAL ANTHEM

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