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from the issue of April 20, 2006
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Military and Naval Science name change honors Pershing
UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
The Military and Naval Science Building will be officially dedicated the John J. Pershing Military and Naval Science Building during the annual Chancellor's Review ceremony April 20.
The ceremony will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Cook Pavilion, where the officer faculty of UNL's ROTC program will "present the command," some 160 ROTC cadets and midshipmen in full dress uniform, for review by UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman.
The name change for the ROTC building at the northwest corner of 14th and Vine streets was approved by the University of Nebraska Board of Regents in November.
It was renamed for one of the university's most distinguished graduates. Pershing was professor of military science and tactics at Nebraska from 1891 to 1895 and earned a law degree from the NU College of Law in 1893. He formed a cadet drill company in 1894 that came to rival the drill teams at the U.S. Military Academy. In 1895, the unit took the name Pershing Rifles and it became the model for hundreds of similar units on college campuses across the nation.
In 1917, Pershing became commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. By September 1918, he launched the U.S. 1st Army against German forces near St. Mihiel, France, in the first independent offensive by American forces in the war. He then cooperated in the Meuse-Argonne offensive that led to the collapse of the Germans and the armistice ending World War I. In 1919, he was named general of the army (the first to have that rank since George Washington), and he served as chief of staff until his retirement in 1924. His memoir, "My Experiences in the World War" (1931), won the Pulitzer Prize in history. Pershing died in 1948 at the age of 87.
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