2024 Annual Eisenhower Society Birthday Commemoration

Join us on Saturday, October 12, 2024 for the Society’s 55rd commemoration of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s birth.

Everyone is welcome at our annual wreath laying.  At 12 noon. a short program, scholarship presentations, and a wreath laying at the Eisenhower at Gettysburg statue will be held outside the Eisenhower House, President Eisenhower’s retirement office at 300 Carlisle Street, Gettysburg College.  Attendance at the wreath laying is open to the public and free of charge.

Following the wreath laying, join the Eisenhower Society at 1 p.m.for a buffet luncheon at the Historic Dobbin House, 89 Steinwehr Avenue, Gettysburg. The buffet menu includes Chicken Coq Au Vin, Baked Ham with Pineapple Raisin Sauce, and Penne Pasta and Tomato Sauce. Vegetables include Rice Pilaf, Oven Roasted Potatoes, Buttered Dilled Carrots, and Green Beans Almondine. A 25-item salad bar, fresh baked breads, and desserts including Fudge Brownies, Blueberry Trifle, Gingerbread with Lemon Sauce and Colonial Pudding Cake will also be available. See below for payment information.

Our luncheon speaker this year is Eisenhower Society Trustee Paul M. Shevchuk.  Mr. Shevchuk is retired from the National Park Service and has been researching and writing about Eisenhower’s early military career from his West Point graduation in 1915 through his first independent command in charge of Camp Colt, the Army’s first Tank Training Camp on the Gettysburg battlefield in 1918.  His Powerpoint program is entitled “The Courtship of Ike and Mamie,” and will explore never before published details of the couple’s whirlwind romance during 1915-1916.  As a young Second Lieutenant, Eisenhower first met eighteen-year-old Mamie Geneva Doud by chance while engaged in his first posting after graduation from West Point with the Nineteenth U.S. Infantry at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas. A question-and-answer session will follow the program.

Luncheon tickets are $35.00 per person or $200 for a group of six reserved seats. Please reserve early as our luncheon has sold out for the last several years! For information on sponsorships, please contact Executive Director Carol Hegeman at 717-398-2349.

Go to REGISTRATION & PAYMENT FORMS BELOW, (Online or Offline Options). Registration Deadline: Monday, October 7th at noon for final meal count for Dobbin House.