When he stepped to the podium Saturday night, at an event in his honor, Luther Brady, CCAS AA ’44, CCAS BA ’46, SMHS MD ’48, HON ’04, wanted to talk about the George Washington University he enrolled at in fall 1942, when he arrived in Foggy Bottom as a “wet-behind-the-ears 16 year old” from Wilson, N.C. […]
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Alumnus Carl Lutz Posthumously Awarded GW President’s Medal
Alumnus Carl Lutz, CCAS BA ’24, was honored at a university ceremony for saving 62,000 Hungarian Jews during Holocaust, and James Irwin from GW Today was onhand to capture this momentous event: At the height of World War II, as the Nazis attempted to finish their heinous extermination of European Jews, a Swiss diplomat stationed […]