Business executive Boyce to speak on World War I at CCU
Boyce's talk is titled "News from the Great War: The Personal Correspondence of T.C. Montgomery, Captain, American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919."
Montgomery, a member of the American Expeditionary Force and recipient of the Légion d'honneur, sent at least 97 letters, postcards and cables home between mid-1917 when he enlisted and December 1919 when he finally returned from France after the Armistice. Montgomery spent two years in Paris, and his letters comment on the French people and culture as well as the war. He describes the effect of air raids, the menace of the Germany's "new gun" fired on Paris in 1917, the coming of the armistice and the signing of peace. Before leaving France, Montgomery visited the area of brutal trench warfare; his letters describe the desolation and destruction.
Boyce serves as a member of the Board of Visitors for CCU's Center for Marine and Wetland Studies, and he has been a member of the Coastal Education Foundation Board since 1992. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Bombay and holds degrees from Yale University, Duke University and the University of South Carolina.
Phi Alpha Theta is the national history honor society for undergraduate and graduate students, and professors of history. It is a charter member of the Association of College Honor Societies and has more than 350,000 members, with about 9,500 new members joining each year through 860 local chapters.
This year's Phi Alpha Theta inductees at CCU are: Margaret Carnan, Daniel Cochran, Brett Cooksey, Jeffery Dawson, Brooks Gaspich, Robert Gowen, Carlianne Hanks, Joshua Knutson, Dylan Lange, Michael Mistler, Kaylan Norton, Nathaniel Pearson and Brikena Qirici.
The Johnson Auditorium is in Room 116 of the E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration, located at 119 Chanticleer Drive E. in Conway.
For more information, contact John Navin at 843-349-2437 or jnavin@coastal.edu.