Journalist Chinta Strausberg will be a speaker participant at Olive-Harvey College’s Veterans Day Banquet honoring Fallen Heroes today, November 8th

Soldiers made the ultimate sacrifice for our country and their fellow soldiers

 

Olive-Harvey College Veterans Services and Student Government Association Carmel Bernon Harvey, Jr., of Hegewisch and Milton Lee Olive III of Chicago gave their lives so that others could live. This week the students, faculty and staff of Olive-Harvey College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, will recognize and celebrate their heroic efforts during a Veterans Day Banquet Thursday, November 8, from 4 – 5:30 p.m. at Olive-Harvey College Cafeteria (10001 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago).

There will be a special address by Lieutenant Colonel Maurice Rochelle of the Illinois Army National Guard.

Strausberg will speak on the legacy of her cousin Milton Olive III – a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. In 1964, Olive, without hesitation, sacrificed his life and saved the lives of his fellow soldiers by falling on a live grenade and absorbing the shock of the blast with his body.

Harvey is also a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. In 1967, as he was defending a grounded helicopter, a grenade clipped to his belt became activated. Unable to detach it, Harvey heroically charged a communist machine gun. This allowed his platoon to beat back the enemy attack and evacuate the area.

During the event, Veteran/military students can share their thoughts on these war heroes and what it means to be soldiers, veterans and college students today.

 Strausberg will also speak on how military families keep the memories of their loved ones — our fallen soldiers — alive.

The event will be held Thursday, November 8, from 4 – 5:30 p.m. Olive-Harvey College Cafeteria (10001 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago).

About City Colleges of Chicago

The City Colleges of Chicago (CCC), District 508, is the largest community college system in Illinois and one of the largest in the nation, with 5,800 faculty and staff serving 120,000 students at seven campuses and six satellite sites city-wide. The City Colleges of Chicago is in the midst of a Reinvention, launched by Chancellor Cheryl Hyman shortly after her appointment by Mayor Richard M. Daley in March 2010. Reinvention is a collaborative effort to review and revise CCC programs and practices to ensure students leave CCC college-ready, career-ready and prepared to pursue their life’s goals.

CCC includes seven colleges: Richard J. Daley College, Kennedy-King College, Malcolm X College, Olive-Harvey College, Harry S Truman College, Harold Washington College and Wilbur Wright College. The system also oversees: the Washburne Trade School, the French Pastry School, two restaurants, five Child Development Centers, the Center for Distance Learning, the Workforce Institute, the public broadcast station WYCC-TV Channel 20 and radio station WKKC-FM 89.3FM. For more information about City Colleges of Chicago, call: (773) COLLEGE or visit www.reinventingccc.org.