Mr. Carter Burgess

Today's Roanoke Times has an article on a notable Roanoker, Carter Burgess. He was born in Roanoke in 1916 and graduated from Jefferson High School. He was a member of Eisenhower's staff and an assistant to the Secretary of State, he ran TransWorld Airlines for Howard Hughes, and he was ambassador to Argentina. There is an exhibit about Mr. Burgess at the History Museum of Western Virginia at Center in the Square. The exhibit was produced by the George C. Marshall Foundation. Mr. Burgess was a VMI grad, class of '39, and he died in 2002.