2012 Eisenhower Academy Schedule cont...
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Wednesday, July 11 MORNING Using Primary Source Material in the Classroom - David Rosenbaum, National Archives.
AFTERNOON Film Segment: Suburban America: Park Forest, Illinois, Levittown, NY. Discussion with Dr. David Schuyler, Franklin and Marshall College; Dr. Cotton Seiler, Dickinson College; Birkner and Hegeman. Film Segment: American Automobility in the 1950s. Discussion with Dr. Cotton Seiler, Schuyler, Birkner and Hegeman. Popular Culture Q & A, Schuyler, Seiler, Birkner and Hegeman.
EVENING Dinner at the Gettysburg Hotel. Eisenhower and the Men of D-Day - Richard Lemmers, Park Ranger.
Thursday, July 12 MORNING Hike with Ike - Explore Eisenhower's life in Gettysburg - John Joyce, Park Ranger Making a film documentary - Dr. George Colburn, Historian, Producer, Filmmaker. Film segment: Eisenhower and Civil Rights. Discussion with Dr. Keith Olson, University of Maryland; Dr. David Nichols, Southwestern College; Colburn and Birkner.
AFTERNOON Film segment: Eisenhower & McCarthy. Discussion with Olson, Nichols, Colburn, Birkner. Film segment: Eisenhower & Suez. Discussion with Olson, Nichols, Colburn, Birkner. Free time to explore Gettysburg.
EVENING Gala picnic at Eisenhower NHS. Meet Eisenhower associate Art Kennell.
Friday, July 13 MORNING Lesson Plan Ideas for the Classroom - Hegeman. Eisenhower's Leadership - Dr. Birkner.
AFTERNOON Travel to National Park Service Visitor Center. Visitor Center Film / Cyclorama. Gettysburg Battlefield Tour with Licensed Battlefield Guide.
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Did You Know?
Dwight D. Eisenhower conducted the last of the great whistle stop campaigns, logging over 51,000 miles aboard the Eisenhower Special during the presidential campaign of 1952. In that same year, he became the first presidential nominee to launch a television campaign.