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Cutchins Leadership Lecture Series with Medal of Honor Recipient James McCloughan
Venue: Burruss Auditorium, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets
Date: Thursday, November 3, 2022
Time: 3:30 - 4:45 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

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The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets presents Medal of Honor Recipient James McCloughan as part of the Cutchins Leadership Lecture Series on Thursday, November 3, 2022 inside Burruss Hall Auditorium on the campus of Virginia Tech.

In honor of Veteran's Day, Medal of Honor Recipient SP5 James McCloughan will address the Corps of Cadets.

McCloughan spent his childhood in Bangor, Michigan. It was there that he found his passion for sports and music. The consummate athlete, McCloughan was a four-sport varsity athlete at Bangor High School and went on to wrestle, play football and baseball at Olivet College. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in sociology and a teaching certificate in 1968, McCloughan accepted a teaching and coaching position with South Haven Public Schools in Michigan. Three months later, McCloughan was drafted into the Army at the age of 22.

McCloughan reported to basic training in September 1968 at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Two months after arriving at basic training, he was assigned to Fort Sam Houston, Texas, to complete advanced training as a medical specialist. On his last day of training, McCloughan received deployment orders to Vietnam. He was assigned as a combat medic with Company C, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Division. His Vietnam tour was from March 1969 to March 1970.

Spc. 5 James C. McCloughan distinguished himself during 48 hours of close-combat fighting against enemy forces on May 13-15, 1969 in the Republic of Vietnam.

Following his service in Vietnam, McCloughan returned to his teaching and coaching profession. He taught sociology and psychology at South Haven High School until his retirement in 2008 earning him the Michigan Education Associations’ 40 years of Service Award. He was also the recipient of the Wolverine Conference Distinguished Service Award for 38 years of coaching football and baseball in addition to 22 years of coaching wrestling. He was inducted into the Michigan High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1993, Michigan High School Coaches Hall of Fame in 2003 and the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame 2008.

For more information on James McCloughan, visit: https://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/mccloughan/.

The talk is free and open to the public. Ample seating is available behind the cadets, who have assigned seating in the front half of the auditorium.

The Cutchins Leadership Lecture Series is part of the cadet Corps Lab curriculum, housed in the Pamplin College of Business. The lecture series is named for the late Clifford A. Cutchins III, a former bank chairman and Virginia Tech Board of Visitors rector. A member of the Class of 1944, Cutchins received his degree in accounting as a member of the Corps of Cadets.

For more information, visit: https://gobblerconnect.vt.edu/event/8484126.