Shepherd history student receives award from George C. Marshall program

ISSUED: 11 September 2009
MEDIA CONTACT: Valerie Owens
(Shepherd history student receives award from George C. Marshall program)

Shepherdstown, WV--Shepherd University history student Richard Hulver, Baker, has been awarded the Larry I. Bland Scholar's prize for the most outstanding research paper submitted in 2008-09 as part of the George C. Marshall Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship Program.

Hulver's paper, "A Faith Kept: J.J. Pershing and George C. Marshall's Leadership of the American Battle Monuments Commission," explores the memorialization of the fallen in the first and second world wars. Hulver's paper won an additional $500 prize on top of the Marshall Scholarship which includes $250 cash award.

Hulver's competitors were from James Madison University, Washington and Lee, Virginia Military Institute, University of Virginia, George Mason, Virginia Tech and a number of regional schools.

Hulver graduated from Shepherd in 2009 and is in the history master's program at West Virginia University. Hulver is the second Shepherd student to win the Larry I. Bland Scholar's prize; the first was Blaine Horton in 2002.

The purpose of the Marshall Scholarship program is to give undergraduate students at selected Mid-Atlantic colleges an opportunity to do research and writing using primary materials. Students may utilize the resources and collections of the Marshall Research Library, located in Lexington, Virginia, as well as other archival repositories, colleges, and universities. The undergraduate students may choose any subject involving 20th century diplomatic and military history or political affairs from 1898 to 1960, the approximate dates of George C. Marshall's public service.

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