THE MYSTERIOUS CADET: ABOUT THE COVER PORTRAIT
✪ In 1827, artist Julian Parisen completed a pair of life-size paintings: one of a Norwich cadet, and one of a girl who could be his sister, or his wife. Their arrival at Norwich was years in the making and the result of a diligent team effort to bring them home. The mysterious identity of the cadet portrait led the staff of the Sullivan Museum and History Center to Middletown, Conn., Providence, R.I., Yale, and Harvard, to identify the young man who attended Captain Partridge’s American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy in Middletown between 1825 and 1828. More than 350 cadets were enrolled during the period these paintings were done, when Partridge was trying to relocate the academy to Connecticut. Who is this cadet? The mystery persists. The Sullivan Museum and History Center has acquired these two paintings to commemorate the university’s 2019 bicentennial. Homecoming 2017 marked their unveiling.
A NEW COMMANDANT ON THE HILL
✪ Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Michael S. Titus of Barre, Vt., is Norwich University’s new commandant of cadets. Colonel Titus has commanded at the battalion level and led soldiers through three combat deployments. He served as an assistant professor and course director at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and earned graduate degrees at the School of Advanced Military Studies in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the University of Kentucky. He most recently served as a strategic logistics adviser on the Joint Staff. He formally assumed responsibility for the Office of the Commandant and the Corps of Cadets on August 8.
STUDENTS TOUR PRITZKER MILITARY MUSEUM & LIBRARY
Top: Sullivan Museum and History Center; Middle: Mark Collier
✪ Class of 2018 students Peter Kase and Nicole
Pictured (l-r): Keith Gelinas ’84, Peter Kase ’18, Nicole Wenthe ’18, Colby Symposium executive director, Professor Travis Morris, and Dom Ruggerio ’61 at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in Chicago.
Wenthe traveled with Colby Symposium executive director, Professor Travis Morris, to Chicago on June 15 to tour the Pritzker Military Museum & Library and to attend the taping of an episode of “Pritzker Military Presents” featuring 2017 Colby Award–winner David Barron. While in the Windy City, they met with Keith Gelinas ’84 and Dom Ruggerio ’61 to connect over shared Norwich experiences and learn about life in Chicago. You can read Nicole Wenthe’s article about the trip in the Friends of the Colby’s summer newsletter at colby.norwich.edu.
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