Symposium Presentation presents Dan Gross’s 2012 Camp Ritchie Symposium deck (Google Slides). Soldier portraits largely match Notable Ritchie Boys; this page keeps the symposium order and closing sections.
Copyright © 2012 Daniel Gross. All Rights Reserved. Adapted here for the Ritchie Boys Wiki from the 2012 Camp Ritchie Symposium presentation.
About the symposium
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Created for the 2012 Camp Ritchie Symposium (18–19 June 2012), titled Camp Ritchie and the Legacy of the "Ritchie Boys" — Events to Commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Establishment of Camp Ritchie (Military Intelligence Training Center, Cascade, Maryland).
The Ritchie Boys
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A unique group of World War II intelligence officers.
Camp Ritchie classes and students (2012 slide)
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Figures as shown on the 2012 symposium slide (period covered 27 July 1942 – 20 September 1945). These are historical presentation numbers and are not used as current site statistics — see By The Numbers for roster-based counts maintained on this wiki.
| Category |
Count
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Army Ground Force class graduates
(includes PI, OB, Division, MITU, RDC) |
3,156
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| CIC class graduates |
2,451
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| Special instruction graduates |
627
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| MITC 8-week class graduates |
11,637
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| Other MITC class graduates |
1,798
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| Total, all MITC class graduates |
13,435
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| Total: graduates all classes |
19,669
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| Total (approximate): non-graduates |
3,800
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The ten stars of The Ritchie Boys documentary
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Class 11
- Historian, SUNY Professor
- Author, "Between Fear and Hope"
Class 11
- Professor Emeritus, Princeton
- Author, "Trains of Thought"
Class 15
- Alliance for Progress
- World Bank economist
Class 17
- Display company owner
- Invented L’Eggs pantyhose
Class 16
- Artist of the Holocaust
- Si Lewen Museum
Class 16
- Law school professor
- Judge
Class 16
- Clinical psychologist
- NIH administrator
Class 17
- Assistant Secretary of State
- Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations
Class 14
- Painting company owner
- Roster title uses Hans N. Spear; symposium slide lists Hans J. Spear
Class 8
- German literature scholar
- Professor Emeritus, Wayne State University
Notable Ritchie Boys (select list)
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Presented in the symposium’s alphabetical select list. The fuller gallery (including people such as Frank Church who appear in the separate notables decks) is on Notable Ritchie Boys.
- Instructor
- Manual combat specialist
- Author, "Kill or Be Killed"
Class 10
- “Father of Video Games”; Odyssey; Pong
Class 10
- Editor, New Yorker
- Author, "Life of Privilege, Mostly"
Class 6
- International hotelier
- Subject of "Brandy, Our Man in Acapulco"
Class 18
- “Cholly Knickerbocker” columnist for Hearst newspapers
- Symposium photo: Igor (left) with brother Oleg
Class 23
- USMC officer; Okinawa, Korea
- Governor and Senator, Rhode Island
- Secretary of the Navy
Class 10
- Romanov prince
- Author, "Crowns and Trenchcoats: A Russian Prince in the CIA"
- 1st Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company
- OSS/CIA intelligence officer
- Travel writer, Fodor’s Guides
Class 13
- Peace activist
- Yale chaplain
Class 13
- Henry James scholar
- Author, "The Visitable Past"
Class 15
- President, Princeton University
- Ambassador to India
- Symposium lists Class 15 (roster currently shows Class 5)
- 1st Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company
- Editor; author, "A Thousand Shall Fall"
Class 9
- Author, "The Wandering Jew", "The Crusaders"
Class 16
- WQXR radio host, "The Vocal Scene"
Class 10
- World-famous architect
- Modern glass and steel towers
Class 7
- Metromedia owner
- Billionaire philanthropist
- First Sergeant
- Known as “Man Mountain Dean”
Class 29
- Professor Emeritus, Princeton; Marxist historian
- "Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?"
Class 10
- Science-fiction movies
- Novelist, "Order of Battle"
Class 4
- Editor, New York Times
- Created the Op-Ed page
- Environmentalist
Class 6
- Rescued 40,000 Jews
- Author, "Operation Action"
Class 17
- The Phillips Collection (modern art)
- The Washingtonian magazine
Class 27
- Film producer; president, United Artists
- Three Oscar awards
Class 7
- Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank
- Philanthropist
Class 10
- Chemical and plastics pioneer
- Philanthropist
CIC Short Course
- Novelist, "Catcher in the Rye"
- Literary giant
Class 5
- Famous photographer “Chim”
Class 4
- Career intelligence officer
- Ambassador to the UN and Germany
- Entertainment director
- Bass-baritone, "Porgy & Bess"
Women’s Army Corps
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More than 100 served at Camp Ritchie as students, clerks, and faculty.
- Today we salute all the Ritchie Boys.
- Camp Ritchie made you into intelligence officers.
- You performed your duty in the field.
- As interrogators, photo interpreters, and translators.
- As infantry, armored, combat engineers, and airborne — and as Bronze Star and Silver Star medal winners.
- Today, surviving veterans stand shoulder to shoulder with those who are no longer with us.
- To all the Ritchie Boys… thank you for a job well done.
See also
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