The George C. Marshall Foundation
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The George C. Marshall Foundation, located in Lexington, Virginia, is a library, archive, and museum dedicated to honor the memory and work of George Catlett Marshall. The Foundation opened in 1964 and is housed in its own facility on the campus of the Virginia Military Institute. The scope of the works held in the Foundation's library and vault cover topics of United States military & diplomatic history between the years of George Marshall's career as a military officer and public servant, roughly 1900-1960. The library contains a temperature and humidity controlled government security vault.
Along with sorted paper collections, the library contains over 23,000 manuscripts, two million documents from the National Archives and Records Administration, hundreds of era maps, 700 posters from all countries involved in both World Wars, films, and over 200 oral histories.
[edit] The George C. Marshall Award
In 1997, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, the Foundation the foundation began to annually award this prize to individuals and organizations who have "demonstrated leadership that has furthered international humanitarian and economic development efforts...and [exhibit] the following personal and professional qualities practiced by George C. Marshall throughout his life of extraordinary public service:
- a career of distinguished public/civic service in the tradition of George C. Marshall;
- dignity and integrity of character;
- devotion to creating and perpetuating free and democratic institutions and promoting appropriate economic development which will allow them to flourish;
- nonpartisanship or bipartisanship."[1]
Recent awards have been given to:
- Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, 2003
- Former President George H.W. Bush, 2002
- Former Banker David Rockefeller, 1999
- Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, 1997
