Photo by John Armstrong ASSOCIATION OF LICENSED BATTLEFIELD GUIDES GETTYSBURG, PA Association of Licensed Battlefield Guides Vol. 36 No. 2 June 2018 Battlefeld Dispatch 717•337•1709 “War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.” The ALBG was founded in 1916 as – Abraham Lincoln the official organization to represent and promote licensed guiding at Gettysburg. Interested individuals who do not hold guide li- The censes may join the ALBG as Associate members contributed by LBG Jason Hileman by submitting annual dues of $25. Membership Council NEWS FROM • FOR • AND ABOUT YOUR ASSOCIATION includes a subscription to the Battlefield Dispatch and covers the fiscal year July 1– June 30. GREETINGS and warm A committee has been meeting took place on May summer wishes to all formed and is actively re- 20th. In the near future, the PRESIDENT Guides and Associate designing our website. The Council will also be reach- Les Fowler members from your general goal of the web- ing out to the Gettysburg EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Executive Council. site re-design is to create a Foundation to re-establish a TERM ENDING IN 2018 – LBGs John Banizewski • Jim Cooke • Your Council held it’s clearer public and member- regular meeting schedule with Jasan Hileman • Steve Slaughter regularly scheduled bimonthly ship delineation. Over the them. One of our goals as a TERM ENDING IN 2019 – LBGs th meeting on April 27 . The years, the ALBG website has Council is to have a coopera- Les Fowler • Fred Hawthorne • new governing structure is transitioned to selling ALBG tive and productive relation- Joe Mieczkowski • Mary Turk-Meena in full operation and is very events like the summer Tues- ship with both the NPS and TERM ENDING IN 2020 – LBGs Rob Abbott • Chuck Burkell • active. The Council has held day Night Walks, Seminars, Foundation. We believe Deb Novotny • Therese Orr two meetings this year and and Guide Academy Just to regular and open communica- both have been lengthy, but mention a few. New design tion with both is essential to ALBG Battlefield Dispatch very productive! We have a aspirations are to modern- that goal. c/o ALBG, Inc. PO Box 4152 number of initiatives, some ize the front page view with Gettysburg, PA 17325 new and some “renewed”. At a focus on public offerings, OTHER INITIATIVES include new Newsletter .... Dave Joswick (ALBG) our April meeting, Council including Licensed Battlefield types of Continuing Educa- [email protected] did elect a President, LBG Guide tours and our normal tion sessions, ALBG picnic, [email protected] Les Fowler. Minutes from our event sales. Membership tools renewal of Associates Day, The Battlefield Dispatch is the official com- munication of the Association of Licensed April meeting will be made and info will be organized a Fall Seminar, and other Battlefield Guides, published in March, June, available in the Visitor Cen- into the members section events that commemorate 50 September, and December. ter Guide Room and at the and a renewal of member IDs years of Women in Guiding. Material for potential publication should be forwarded to the editor via e-mail or standard ALBG office for your review. and passwords will take place While an Executive mail to the addresses listed above. Submission at that time. Stay tuned for deadline is the 10th day of the month prior to Council may be a new way the publication month. All items published A COMMUNICATION CHAIN has updates from our website of doing things, rest assured will be credited with byline. 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Friday, July 20, 2018 6:30 PM 2 Battlefield Dispatch HAIL AND FAREWELL e welcome four new guides who have completed all Wtheir requirements from the 2017 testing cycle: KEVIN BRYANT of Washington, DC, whose career has CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS included such diverse occupations as a pastor and as a park ranger at the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, has Friday, September 21 – 6:30 PM at the GAR hall on an ancestor who fought in the 2nd Iowa Infantry. Inspired East Middle Street. LBGs Fran Feyock and Rick Schroeder by a book about Pickett’s Charge, kevin began studying the will present Select Gettysburg Casualties – M&M Conference. battle and visited the battlefield. kevin was able to achieve his license in April. He will wear badge #143. Welcome, Sunday, November 4 – 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM. LBG Kevin! Steve Slaughter will present a program entitled Doles’ Brigade on July 1. Tour will begin at 1:00 PM in the parking lot of JESSIE WHEEDLETON may look familiar to you since she the James Gettys Elementary School on Biglerville Road. has been working at SegTours for several seasons. Jessie, of Gettysburg, also received a degree in small vessel operations On July 1, it would be the Job of Brig. Gen. George Doles’ from the Maine Maritime Academy. Her first readings about brigade of four Georgia regiments to hold at bay any Federal the battle were about the 20th ME. She passed her oral exam units who might threaten the left flank of MaJ. Gen. Robert in April. Jessie will wear badge #38, which is the same badge Rodes’ division on Oak Hill. Fighting in tandem with Brig. number worn by Barbara Schutt, the FIRST woman guide Gen. John B. Gordon’s brigade, the two hard-fighting Geor- who completed her requirements fifty years ago! So Jessie is gia brigades would sweep the Gettysburg Plain clean of any the 51st woman guide in the 50th year of women guiding at federal units to their front. Later in the day Doles’ brigade Gettysburg. Welcome, Jessie! would become one of the first Confederate units to enter the town of Gettysburg. DARRYL ROBERTS of Waynesboro, PA, completed his re- quirements in May and will wear badge #204. Darryl attend- Also...Associate members are reminded to sign up for our ed some of our Academy programs and the spring seminar Saturday, August 4 Association Day program, The Invasion this past April. Welcome, Darryl! of Harrisburg with LBG Joe Mieczkowski and historian Jim WILLIAM THOMAS became a guide on Sunday, June 3. Bill Schmick. had been an Associate member of the ALBG, and had at- tended several of our Academy courses as well as the spring September 7-9 2018 and fall 2017 seminars. He is from Enola, PA. Wel- come, Bill! Fall Seminar Announced The ALBG is pleased to announce our annual Fall seminar for 2018: Playing by the Rules? How Gettysburg Command- WE ALSO BID FAREWELL TO ers Tested Military Theory. Traditionally our seminars have TWO OF OUR COLLEAGUES focused on who, what, where, and how. We have often ignored the why of what happened here. For this seminar we will LBG TOM STENHOUSE has retired after 23 years of guiding specifically focus on why commanders did what they did. By service. Best of luck in your future, Tom! analyzing military theory in practice during the 19th century, LBG RICH BELLAMY – In May we were saddened to hear of including tactics put forth by such luminaries as Dennis Hart Rich’s passing after a long struggle with cancer. Rich had Mahan and Napoleon’s lieutenant Antoine Henri, Baron de been a guide since 2001 and had visited the GNMP Visitor’s Jomini, we will attempt to gain a better understanding of why Center earlier this year (see photo, bottom of page three). certain decisions were made during the Battle of Gettysburg. We extend our sympathy to Rich’s family, and we mourn This year marks the 50th anniversary of Women in Guiding with them the loss of a valued colleague. Rich is survived by at Gettysburg. In 1968, the National Park Service lifted its pre- his wife Ruth, two children and two grandchildren. viously enforced restriction on women being allowed to guide at Gettysburg National Military Park. In celebration of the fifty women who have served as Licensed Battlefield Guides in fifty years, this fall seminar will be brought to you by some of those female guides and our dear friend and colleague, Dr.