W. Gary Nichols is a retired Professor of History at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, in Charleston where he served as a member of The Citadel faculty since 1965. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Alabama and was a Rotary International Fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria. He was selected as a Citadel Development Foundation Faculty Fellow and has served as Director of The Citadel-University of Charleston Master of Arts in History Program. Dr. Nichols lectures frequently on the life and career of General Charles P. Summerall as well as the AEF in World War I.