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This presentation was created for the 2012 Camp Ritchie Symposium held June 18-19, 2012 and entitled:

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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

Copyright © 2012 Daniel Gross. All Rights Reserved.

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THE RITCHIE BOYS

A UNIQUE GROUP OF WORLD WAR II INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS

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CAMP RITCHIE CLASSES AND STUDENTS�From 7/27/42 to 9/20/45�

Army Ground Force Class Graduates

(includes PI, OB, Division, MITU, RDC)

3,156

CIC Class Graduates

2,451

Special Instruction Graduates

627

MITC 8-Week Class Graduates

11,637

Other MITC Classes Graduates

1,798

Total, all MITC Class Graduates

13,435

Total: Graduates All Classes

19,669

Total (approximate): Non-Graduates

3,800

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The ten stars of…�The Ritchie Boys Documentary

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Werner (Tom) Angress �(1920-2010)

  • Class 11
  • Historian, SUNY Prof.
  • Author, “Between Fear and Hope”

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Victor Brombert �(b. 1923)

  • Class 11
  • Prof. Emeritus Princeton
  • Author,

“Trains of Thought”

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Philip Glaessner �(1919-2009)

  • Class 15
  • Alliance for Progress
  • World Bank Economist

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Fred Howard �(1922-2008)

  • Class 17
  • Display Company Owner
  • Invented L’Eggs Pantyhose

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Simon J. (“Si”) Lewen �(1918-2016)

  • Class 16
  • Artist of the Holocaust
  • Si Lewen Museum

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Rudolf Michaels �(1916-2009)

  • Class 16
  • Law School Professor
  • Judge

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Morris Parloff �(1918-2011)

  • Class 16
  • Clinical Psychologist
  • NIH Administrator

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Richard Schifter �(b. 1923)

  • Class 17
  • Assistant Secretary of State
  • Ambassador and Representative to the United Nations

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Hans J. Spear �(1918-2009)

  • Class 14
  • Painting company owner

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Guy Stern �(b. 1922)

  • Class 8
  • German Literature Scholar
  • Prof. Emeritus Wayne State U.

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NOTABLE RITCHIE BOYS�

A SELECT LIST �(presented in alphabetical order)

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Rex Applegate �(1914-1998)

  • Instructor
  • Manual Combat Specialist
  • Author, “Kill or Be Killed”

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Ralph H. Baer �(1922-2014)

  • Class 10
  • ‘Father of Video Games’, “Odyssey”, “Pong”

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Gardner Botsford �(1917-2004)

  • Class 10
  • Editor, New Yorker
  • Author, “Life of Privilege, Mostly”

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Frank Brandstetter �(1912-2011)

  • Class 6
  • International Hotelier
  • Subject of “Brandy, Our Man in Acapulco: The Life and Times of Colonel Frank M. Brandstetter”

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Igor Cassini (left) with brother Oleg Russia (1915-2002)

  • Class 18
  • “Cholly Knickerbocker” column writer for the Hearst newspaper

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John H. Chafee �(1922-1999)

  • Class 23
  • Officer (USMC) Okinawa, Korea
  • Governor & Senator, Rhode Island
  • Secretary of the Navy

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David Chavchavadze �(1924-2014)

  • Class 10
  • Romanov Prince
  • Author, “Crowns and Trenchcoats: A Russian Prince in the CIA”

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Eugene Fodor�(1905-1991)

  • 1st Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company
  • OSS/CIA Intelligence Officer
  • Travel Writer, Fodor’s Guides

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William Sloane Coffin �(1924-2006)

  • Class 13
  • Peace Activist
  • Yale Chaplain

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Leon Edel�(1907-1997)

  • Class 13
  • Henry James scholar
  • Author, “The Visitable Past”

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Robert F. Goheen �(1919-2008)

  • Class 15
  • President, Princeton University
  • Ambassador to India

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Hans Habe �(1911-1977)

  • 1st Mobile Radio Broadcasting Co.
  • Editor, Author, “A Thousand Shall Fall”

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Stefan Heym �(1913-2001)

  • Class 9
  • Author,

“The Wandering Jew”

“The Crusaders”

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George Jellinek �(1919-2010)

  • Class 16
  • WQXR Radio Host
  • “The Vocal Scene”

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Philip C. Johnson �(1906-2005)

  • Class 10
  • World-famous Architect
  • Modern Glass and Steel Towers

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John W. Kluge �(1914-2010)

  • Class 7
  • Metromedia Owner
  • Billionnaire Philanthropist

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Frank S. Leavitt �(1891-1953)

  • First Sergeant
  • “Man Mountain Dean”

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Arno J. Mayer �(b. 1926)

  • Class 29
  • Professor Emeritus Princeton Marxist Historian
  • "Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?"

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Ib J. Melchior �(1917-2015)

  • Class 10
  • Science Fiction movies
  • Novelist, “Order of Battle”

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John Bertram Oakes�(1913-2001)

  • Class 4
  • Editor, NY Times
  • Created OP-Ed Page
  • Environmentalist

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William R. Perl �(1906-1998)

  • Class 6
  • Rescued 40,000 Jews
  • Author, “Operation Action”

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Laughlin Phillips �(1924-2010)

  • Class 17
  • The Phillips Collection (of Modern Art)
  • The Washingtonian Magazine

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Eric R. Pleskow�(1924-2019)

  • Class 27
  • Film Producer President United Artists
  • Three OSCAR awards

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David Rockefeller�(1915-2017)

  • Class 7
  • Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank
  • Philanthropist

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Eric F. Ross�(1919-2010)

  • Class 10
  • Chemical and Plastics Pioneer
  • Philanthropist

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J. D. Salinger�(1919-2010)

  • CIC Short Course
  • Novelist,

“Catcher in the Rye”

  • Literary Giant

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David R. Seymour �(1911-1956)

  • Class 5
  • Famous Photographer “Chim”

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Vernon Walters �(1917-2002)

  • Class 4
  • Career Intelligence Officer
  • Ambassador to UN and Germany

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William Warfield�(1920-2002)

  • Entertainment Director
  • Bass-baritone “Porgy & Bess”

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Women’s Army Corps �More than 100 served at Camp Ritchie

  • Students
  • Clerks
  • Faculty

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Today We Salute all the Ritchie Boys

Put all rb picture here�

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Camp Ritchie made you into Intelligence Officers

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You Performed your duty in the Field

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As interrogators, photo interpreters and translators

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As infantry, armored, combat engineers and airborne …

…and as Bronze Star and Silver Star Medal winners

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Today, surviving veterans stand shoulder to shoulder with those �who are no longer with us.

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To all the Ritchie Boys…

Thank you

for a job

well done.