Fort George G. Meade: The First 100 Years

308 THE FIRST 100 YEARS
Timothy Mulligan, a native of Baltimore, served as an archivist
with the National Archives and Records Administration from
1972 to 2007, where he specialized in working with captured
German and American military records. He earned a Ph.D. in
diplomatic history at the University of Maryland in 1985, and
is the author of three books (including a biography of Werner
Henke) and more than 20 articles and essays.
Patrick R. Osborn received his MA in history from the
University of Missouri-Kansas City and has been an archivist
with the National Archives and Records Administration since
1999, primarily specializing in Navy and Marine Corps records.
He is the author of Operation Pike: Britain versus the Soviet
Union, 1939-1941 (Greenwood, 2000), contributor to A
Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign (Wiley, 2014),
and co-author with Mark Romanych of The Hindenburg Line
(Osprey, 2016). He is currently writing a history of American
armor in the First World War.
Col. Bert Rice (Ret.) was raised and educated in Montana.
He graduated from Montana State University and was
commissioned through the Reserve Officers' Training Corps
in June 1959. He served on active duty in the U.S. Army
from July 15, 1959, to July 31, 1989, and retired as a colonel.
After retirement, he was elected an Anne Arundel County
Councilman from 1994 to 1998 and then was hired to work on
the Fort Meade garrison staff from 2003 to 2016.
Col. Rice served two tours of duty in Vietnam and was
serving in Iran during its revolution in 1979. Some other
assignments included three years in the Pentagon and tours of
duty at Fort Meade, Maryland
Col. Rice is married to the former Deanna Swenson. They
have been married for 56 years and have two sons, Stephen
and Kevin. Stephen and Kevin are combat veterans of Desert
Shield/Desert Storm and both currently live in Colorado with
their families.
Betsy Rohaly Smoot joined the National Security Agency
as an analyst in 1983. She has worked in analytic, staff, and
managerial positions both at Fort Meade and overseas. Mrs.
Smoot joined the Center for Cryptologic History in October
2007. Her particular research interests include World War
I, women in cryptology, the Cold War, and terrorism. She
received a B.A. from Mary Washington College with a double
major in Geography and Economics, and an M.S. in Strategic
Intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College. She was
the 2010 winner of NSA's Cryptologic Literature Award and
received Honorable Mention in that competition in 2013 and
2014.
Marc Romanych is a retired U.S. Army combat arms officer.
He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University
of Maryland and a Master of Arts degree in International
Relations from St. Mary’s University. He specializes in
fortification and artillery topics and has co-authored several
titles for Osprey Publishing.
Nancy Schaff is the current president of the Descendants
& Friends of the 314th Infantry. Her grandfather was Cpl.
John Blazosky, serving in Company L of the 314th. She was
recently appointed as a commissioner for the Maryland WWI
Commission. Her husband is retired from the Army after 31
years of service, and they currently reside in Maryland.
Carroll Sykes grew up in North Carolina and attended college
at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
(formerly A&T College) in Greensboro. After graduation he
was commissioned as an infantry officer in the grade of Second
Lieutenant through the Army Reserve Officers' Training
Corps in December 1963. He served 24-½ years in the Army
including two tours in Vietnam. He retired as a Lieutenant
Colonel in May 1987. He worked as a civil service employee at
Fort Meade garrison from April 1988 until January 2009.
Roger White is director of museums for the Odenton Heritage
Society and editor of Heritage Times, the OHS history journal.
He has contributed many local history articles to Anne Arundel
County History Notes. He is a transportation historian and
curator of road transportation at the Smithsonian's National
Museum of American History.
Glenn F. Williams is a senior historian at the U.S. Army
Center of Military History, Fort McNair, D.C. An Airborne
and Ranger qualified Infantry officer, he retired from the
Army in 1996 with more than twenty years’ service on active
duty. After entering public history as a second career, he has
worked for the USS Constellation Museum, the National
Park Service in battlefield preservation, and at the Center of
Military History where he has written two books in addition to
other projects. He received a doctoral degree in History from
University of Maryland, and has also written three books for
trade publishers in his “off-duty” time. He and his wife Patricia
live in the Baltimore area and raised three sons.