distinguished record as an academic, administrator, included terms as president of briarcliff and hampton sydneyleges and head master at lawrenceville school. he has taught courses at west point, the naval war college, hampton city, vmi, lawrenceville, and the institution up the road, from lawrenceville, president university. i will refrain in the interest of time from detailing and dazzling you with the multiple disciplines and enormous diversity of subject matter which he has taught. at these institutions. currently serves as president of the harry frank guggenheim foundation and as a visiting lecturer at princeton. he is a vmi alum nuls. a rhodes scholar. a vietnam veteran, an ardent red sox fan. the author of five books ranging from novels to biographies. most recent among them his ulysses s. grant which is simply the finest brief biography of grant which we have. presently he is finishing a biography of another great general and statesman, george c. marshall. in short, he is that rarest of phenomena in modern academics, a renaissance man. he recently returned as alumni distinguished profess