SUMMARY OF ANNUAL CONFERENCES

			
FIRST--1992
			
          Fort Gillem             Tom Dalton, President                 10 October 1992

				
Theme:
Mr. Rich Elwell -- "The Battle of Bloody Marsh"
Ms. Gail Parnelle -- "The 101st AAA in New Guinea" (BG (Ret.) Don Mees, scheduled)
LTC (Ret.) Henry Pickelsimer -- "The 265th Engineer Group in Desert Storm"
Mr. Joey Seguin -- "World War II Equipment"
Tour: 


SECOND--1993


            Warner Robins          Tom Dalton, President              25 September 1993

				
Theme:
Ms. Beverly Pack -- "Contributions of Women in the GA Guard in the Early 20th Century"
Mr. Sam Roach -- "A Bombardier/Navigator in the Pacific Theater of World War II"
Dr. Sam Patton -- "The Georgia Guard and the Textile Strike of 1934"
Tour:  Museum of Aviation, Robins AFB


				
THIRD--1994


          Kennesaw                 Tom Dalton, President              24 September 1994

				
Theme:
Ms. Beverly Pack -- "Women and the Georgia Militia"
Dr. James Wilbanks -- "The Georgia Naval Militia"
Mr. John Whatley -- "Anecdotes of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain"
Mr. Ed Regan -- "Reminiscences of the D-Day Landing"
MG (Ret.) Bruce Jacobs -- "Return to , D-Day Revisited" (Feature)
Tour:  Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield


FOURTH--1995


            Savannah              Tom Dalton, President               16 September 1995

				
Theme:  Colonial Georgia
Ms. Beverly Pack -- "Heroic Women of Georgia's Colonial Militia"
Mr. Tom Rogers -- "The Siege of Savannah:  What Went Wrong?"
Mr. Joe H. Thompson -- "Noble Jones:  An Early Georgia Military Leader"
Professor Paul S. Hudson -- "The Discovery of the Tomb of James Oglethorpe" (Feature)
Tour:  Fort Pulaski


FIFTH--1996


          Calhoun                  Bill Ridley, President               12 October 1996

				

Theme:  Frontier Georgia
Mr. Michael Goethals -- "Lt. Col. Augustus Elholm:  a report to the Security Council
                         of Georgia, 1793-94"
Ms. Gail Parnelle-Roach -- "The Federal Roads:  breaking ground in frontier Georgia"
Mr. Rich Elwell -- "The Georgia Militiaman on the Georgia Frontier"
Mr. Jim Langford -- "Desoto's March Through Georgia:  300 years before Sherman"
                    (Feature) 
Tour:  New Echota, Cherokee National Capital, 1825-1838


SIXTH--1997


          Warner Robins               Bill Ridley, President            12 October 1997

				
Theme:  50th Anniversary of the U. S. Air Force
Brig. Gen. Bruce MacLane, Commander, 116th Bomb Wing, Georgia Air National Guard --
                                         Welcome
BG (Ret.) James 'Dutch' McLendon -- "A Georgia National Guardsman in the Army Air
                                     Corps in the Pacific"
Mr. Charles Wollmer -- "A 'RECON' Platoon Leader Across Normandy"
Col. (Ret.) Bill Ridley -- "Notes on the History of the 116th in Georgia"
Gen. (Ret.) Alpha A. Fowler, past Commander of 483rd Bombardment Group,
                           and former Adjutant General of Georgia (Feature)
Tour:  Museum of Aviation, Robins AFB


SEVENTH--1998


             Fort Gillem               Bill Ridley, President           24 October 1998

				
Theme:  Desert Storm
Col. (Ret.) Bill Ridley -- Welcome 
Mr. Jim Wooten, moderator -- Panel Introduction
Maj. Gen. William P. Bland, Jr. -- "Georgia Guard's role in Desert Storm"
MG James D. Davis, COL David S. Kenemer, CPT Teri Oman, SMSgt Sharon B. Page,
                                     1st Sgt. Marion Washington -- Panel Discussion

EIGHTH--1999

             Columbus               Alan Langston, President           9 October 1999

				
				
Theme:  Georgia's Civil War Past
Mr. Alan Langston -- Welcome
Major General David Poythress -- Video Message 
Mr. Bob Holcombe -- "The Confederate Navy on the Chattahoochee"
Professor John Cope -- "Wilson's Raid Through Alabama and Georgia"
Mr. Joey Seguin -- "A Soldier In The War Between The States" 
Tour:  Infantry Museum, Fort Benning; Port Columbus Civil War Naval Center