On Friday, October 22, 2010 the Transition Center will host Roger Crownover, Author/Historian, for a luncheon and discussion of “The Polar Bears of WWI.”
Tickets for the luncheon are $16 per person and must be ordered one week in advance of the luncheon, which will be held at 11:45 a.m. in the VisTaTech Center on Schoolcraft College's main campus in Livonia, Haggerty Road between Six and Seven Mile Roads. The ticket order form is available at http://www.schoolcraft.edu/pdfs/transitions/2010_Fall_Luncheon_Series.pdf. For more information call 734-462-4443.
The American military intervention at Archangel, Russia, at the end of World War I, nicknamed the “Polar Bear Expedition,” is a strange episode in American history. Presumably sent to Russia to prevent a German advance and to help reopen the Eastern Front, American soldiers found themselves fighting Bolshevik revolutionaries for months after the truce was signed in November 1918 ending the war. Because many of the troops involved were from Michigan, Roger Crownover wishes to preserve the memory of their expedition and pass it on to future generations.
All proceeds for the Luncheon Series benefit programs of the Transition Center at Schoolcraft College.