Charles D. Foster desegregated the Corps of Cadets in the fall of 1966. This photograph depicts Foster checking in on Matriculation Day at The Citadel, 1966.
John Fuller was killed in action in Vietnam on March 23, 1967. His ring was discovered in 2002 at a hotel in London that was undergoing renovations.***The oldest known Citadel Class Ring dates to 1895, and features a dark stone with the year '95…
Stephen W. Davis was killed in action in Vietnam in 1967. Lt. Davis was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for heroism. He had been wounded, but stayed behind to cover other soldiers in his unit and engaged the enemy until his death.
***The oldest…
Robert F. Woodhouse Jr., or “Woody” as he was known by friends and classmates, was born in Elmira, New York on April 5, 1946, son to Robert F. and Geraldine Hyde Woodhouse. He was a 1964 graduate of Ellenville High School, and a 1968 graduate of The…