Ivy League Alumni and Guests Meet and Greet

Please join the National WWI Museum and Memorial and Ivy League Alumni for a private Meet & Greet and Program.

The exhibition, Images of the Great War: America Crosses the Atlantic focuses on the final two years of the Great War with the emphasis on American involvement. On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on Germany. The first American troops arrived in France in June, at a time when British and French morale was faltering. Volume 5 of Harper’s Pictorial History of the World War states: “America won her independence as a result of the Revolutionary War, in which France became our ally, furnishing troops, a fleet and money. In 1917 America repaid the debt by sending an army overseas at a time when the French were exhausted.”

Following a brief Meet & Greet with light refreshments, Ivy League guests will be invited to a lecture program by Andrew Woelflein, Brown University Collection Trustee, and Jonathan Casey, Director, Archives and Edward Jones Research Center for the National WWI Museum and Memorial.

Program in partnership with:

Brown: Brown Club of Kansas City

Columbia: Columbia University Club of Kansas City

Cornell: Cornell Club of Mid-America

Dartmouth: Heart of America Dartmouth Club

Harvard: Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Kansas City

Harvard Business School: HBS Club of Kansas City

Princeton: Princeton Alumni Association of Greater Kansas City

Univ. of Pennsylvania: Penn Alumni Club of Kansas City

University of Virginia Alumni Club of Kansas City

Yale: Yale Club of Kansas City

Reception compliments of Brown University and Cornell Alumni Club

Reception and Program will be held in the Ellis Gallery