Veteran's Day Event

Shawnee Community College is hosting a Veteran's Day event, called Storytelling: "In Honor of Our Veterans." The event will take place at 1 and 7 p.m., Wednesday, November 9 in the SCC Atrium.

A group of five presenters will share stories and memories of times they spent at war, along with family member's stories. Paul Echols, native of Ullin, IL will share family stories of his father and three uncles who all served in WWII prior to Pearl Harbor. Paul will also tell stories of his grandfather who served in WWI.

Eugene Ulrich served in the Army Air Corp during 1942-46, with basic training in Boca Raton, Florida then sent to North Carolina with the intention of going into Meteorology training and was redirected into communications instead. He then attended Yale University. upon graduation, he was selected to go into radar training and then attended Harvard University and MIT. In early 1945 flew overseas to Europe. By June of 1945 the war of Europe ended, he was then sent to Germany until July 1946. He achieved Captain status. He is also the author of "WWII Recollection of Eugene J. Ulrich."

Shirley Wolfe, native of Johnson County and Faye Morris Bowman, native of Pope County will tell about their experiences as they recorded interviews with the Johnson County WWII veterans for a book to be published in late 2006. Bowman will also talk about her experience during the interviewing/writing of "Update 2000 - 2002 for 'Simmons, Allard, Morris History of Families, Early 1700's to 1998' Military Histories."

There will also be a special vocal presentation by Kim Ashby, Bryan Caraker, and Amber Holman. Memorabilia will be on display throughout the day at the college in honor of our veterans.

For more information, please call 618-634-3250.