Aug 19, 2009

Two History Roundtables Sponsored by Eisenhower Center

Two recent Roundtables sponsored by the University of New Orleans Eisenhower Center for American Studies brought large audiences to the UNO Lakefront campus. "World War II Artifacts: Collecting, Care and Exhibition"  The July Roundtable featured Toni Kiser, Registrar of Artifacts at the National World War II Museum.

Kiser, a native of West Virginia, attended Brevard College in North Carolina, before earning her Master’s in Museum Studies at George Washington University.  Her husband, Scott, is in the U.S. Navy, which stationed them here in New Orleans.  Toni joined the National World War II Museum staff over a year ago.

Photographs courtesy of Kimberly Edwards

Christ, who has written more than 100 articles, trained at the multi-engine school at Vance Air Force Base and completed heavy bombardment training at Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, in 1951. He served a tour flying B-29s over North Korea before earning an English degree from McNeese State University. A native of Eunice, he founded Houma Aviation which operated at the Houma airport for 25 years. He is also a licensed offshore master of sail and power vessels. Christ has been a member of the Verband Deutscher U-Bootfahrer, an organization of German submarine veterans, since 1981.

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