Loading ...The Lynchburg Civil War Roundtable program for Wednesday, January 13th is “Flags in the Museum of the Confederacy”, presented by Waite Rawls, Executive Director of the Museum of the Confederacy.
Waite became the Executive Director of the Museum of the Confederacy in January 2004 and was elected President and CEO in November 2006. Taking that job was a switch of careers, as he decided to make his former avocation into his current vocation.
Formerly, he spent thirty years as an investment banker in New York and Chicago , with responsibilities in the capital markets areas, including being the Vice Chairman of Continental Bank. Additionally, he has been an Adjunct Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Visiting Professor at the Darden School (University of Virginia), concentrating on the derivatives and capital markets.
Mr. Rawls is a Trustee of the Camp Foundation , a member of Virginia ‘s Robert E. Lee Commission, a former Trustee of the Civil War Preservation Trust and of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, a former Trustee and President of the Alumni Association of the Darden School , and a former member of the Board of Visitors of the Virginia Military Institute.
A native of Franklin, Virginia, he joined the Franklin Civil War Roundtable at age 9. He has a BA from the Virginia Military Institute and his MBA and JD from the University of Virginia.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010, from 6pm-9pm
The Kirkley Inn @ Candler’s Mountain Road
Social Hour @ 6pm
Dinner @ 7pm
Program @ 8pm
For more information:
HISTORIC SANDUSKY
757 Sandusky Drive
Lynchburg, VA 24502
tel: 434.832.0162
fax: 434.832.0182
