Military Library to Honor Historian Allan R. Millett
Jul 31 2008
The Pritzker Military Library’s Liberty Gala will be held Saturday, Oct. 4 at Chicago’s Drake Hotel (140 E. Walton Place). This year, the gala will honor Allan R. Millett with the 2008 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. The 2008 black-tie event begins with a reception at 6 p.m., followed by a dinner program at 7 p.m., which will include an awards presentation and theatrical entertainment.
The Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing includes a citation, medallion and cash prize of $100,000, sponsored by the Chicago-based Tawani Foundation. The director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies and ambrose professor of history at University of New Orleans and the Maj. Gen. Raymond E. Mason Jr. Professor Emeritus of Military History at Ohio State University, Millett is a specialist in the history of America’s military policy, 20th-century wars, and military institutions.
Gala entertainment will be provided as members of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company reenact a dramatic dialogue in honor of the US Navy’s first African-American pilot, Ensign Jesse Brown, member of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II, and his wingman, Lt. Tom Hudner. Hudner, who will be in attendance at the Gala, earned a Medal of Honor for his heroism in trying to save Brown, whose fighter plane was shot down over North Korea.
At the gala, the Library will also recognize the philanthropic efforts of the McCormick Foundation with the Founder’s Award, and pay tribute to members of the U.S. Armed Forces in attendance.
Gala tickets are $500 per guest and can be purchased at www.pmlgala.org.
