Feb. 3, 2006 :: No. 125
| What: |
Cal State Fullerton’s Army Reserve Officers
Training Corps (ROTC) battalion will receive the MacArthur
Award for being the Western region’s top-performing
unit for 2005 in the small schools category. |
| When: |
Monday, Feb. 6
4:15 p.m. |
| Where: |
Education-Classroom Building, Room 303 |
| Who: |
U. S. Army Lt. Col. Michael R. Johnson will present
the award to Lt. Col. William L. Howard Jr., coordinator
of the university’s military science program,
and
Roberta Rikli, dean of the CSUF College of Health and
Human Development. |
| Background: |
The MacArthur Awards were instituted in 1989 to honor
the nation’s top Army ROTC units. The Army ROTC
battalions selected for the awards are the most successful
of the 272 units at colleges and universities nationwide
in accomplishing their mission of training and commissioning
the majority of the lieutenants entering the Army each
year. Since the establishment of the program in 1916,
more than 500,000 men and women have become Army officers
through Army ROTC. |
| Media Contacts: |
Robert H. Medina, Military Science,
657-278-5545, (714) 815-4381 or rmedina@fullerton.edu
Mimi
Ko Cruz, Public Affairs, 657-278-7586 or mkocruz@fullerton.edu
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