{"id":4022,"date":"2015-05-14T17:52:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T17:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2015-05-14T22:18:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T22:18:57","slug":"new-heinlein-society-board-member-welcome-dr-c-herbert-gilliland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/new-heinlein-society-board-member-welcome-dr-c-herbert-gilliland\/","title":{"rendered":"New Heinlein Society Board Member: Welcome Dr. C. Herbert Gilliland!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sadness that we on the Board of Directors say goodbye to Michael Cassutt, who has served as a board member since October 2010. We welcome Dr. C. Herbert Gilliland, who has been appointed to fill this Director&#8217;s seat for the remainder of its term. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Gilliland.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. C. Herbert Gilliland, New Heinlein Society Board Member\" width=\"250px\" style=\"float:right; padding:10px;\" \/>He is also a member of the board for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsfs.org\/bsfsheinlein.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Baltimore Science Fiction Society Robert A. Heinlein Award\">Robert A. Heinlein Award<\/a>, given annually to a science fiction writer whose work has inspired exploration of space. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gilliland is professor of English at the United States Naval Academy, and a retired naval reserve captain. He currently teaches courses there on topics ranging from Renaissance literature to science fiction. He particularly enjoyed teaching a special course on Robert Heinlein, a graduate of the Naval Academy and the author of <em>Starship Troopers<\/em>.  (This is the first college course ever dedicated entirely to Heinlein.) Herb&#8217;s scholarly work tends to be concerned with naval history. He is the author of <i>Voyage to a Thousand Cares: Master&#8217;s Mate Lawrence with the African Squadron 1844-1846<\/i>, which received the North American Society for Oceanic History&#8217;s John Lyman Book Award. With Robert Shenk, he co-authored the biographical <i>Admiral Dan Gallery: The Life and Wit of a Navy Original<\/i>. Although he has written many things since, Dr. Gilliland is always proud that his very first appearance in public print was a letter to John Campbell published in <em>Astounding<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great sadness that we on the Board of Directors say goodbye to Michael Cassutt, who has served as a board member since October 2010. We welcome Dr. C. Herbert Gilliland, who has been appointed to fill this Director&#8217;s seat for the remainder of its term. He is also a member of the&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/new-heinlein-society-board-member-welcome-dr-c-herbert-gilliland\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":905,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,65,66,1],"tags":[72,67,71],"class_list":["post-4022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage","category-heinlein-society","category-heinlein-society-board","category-updates","tag-dr-c-herbert-gilliland","tag-heinlein-society","tag-heinlein-society-board-members"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4031,"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions\/4031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}