Fighting for the Right to Fight

Please see the attached flyer and share the following announcement:

The event Fighting for the Right to Fight, reception and panel of veterans is sponsored by the African American Heritage Assoc., Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum and Gallery 909 in collaboration with the St. Petersburg Museum of History.

The regular admission fee of $15.00 is being reduced to $6.00 for this event and through the generosity of several sponsors we are inviting 40 veterans to attend as our guests.

FMI and to reserve a veteran invitation please call Gwendolyn Reese at 727-418-2881.

 

 

 

About Jeff Cavanagh

Jeff Cavanagh spent his freshman year at St. Petersburg Junior College back in the early 70s before enlisting in the United States Navy. Soon after, he attended Jacksonville University on a Navy ROTC scholarship. After college, he was commissioned and became a qualified Surface Warfare Officer spending the next 22 years honing his skills as a ship-handler and expert recruiter before retiring in 1994. Jeff expresses a deep sense of pride in St. Petersburg College due to connections that go back many years. His father, Tom Cavanagh, was a career Air Force fighter pilot and combat veteran who taught Geography and Western Civilization at St. Petersburg Junior College in the 60’s and 70’s.