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Francis
Joseph Harvey served as the 19th Secretary of the
United States Army
Harvey was born and raised
in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He earned his doctorate
in Metallurgy and Materials Science from the University
of Pennsylvania and his Bachelor of Science at the
University of Notre Dame in Metallurgical Engineering
and Materials Science.
The
majority of Harvey's career was spent with corporations
that provided products and services to the federal
government, particularly the United States Department
of Defense, and included a year of government service.
He was formerly CEO of the IT Group, a defense contractor.
He was involved in over 20 major defense programs
across the entire spectrum from undersea to outer
space, including tanks, missiles, submarines, surface
ships, aircraft and satellites. In addition, he was
a member of the Army Science Board in the late 1990s,
traveling to numerous U.S. Army installations, and
participated in early studies that helped define the
Future Combat System. Harvey also served for one year
as a White House Fellow and assistant in the immediate
office of the Secretary of Defense, Harold Brown,
in the late 1970s.
Harvey
held various professional, management and executive
positions within the Westinghouse Corporation from
1969 to 1997, including President of the Electronics
Systems Group, President of the Government and Environmental
Services Company, and Chief Operating Officer of the
multi billion dollar Industries and Technology Group.
Harvey was also a Director and Vice Chairman of Duratek
before his appointment as Army Secretary, a company
specializing in treating radioactive, hazardous, and
other wastes, as well as a member of the board of
several other corporations. Today, he continues to
serve as advisor and member of the board to several
corporations in America.
Harvey
was nominated to serve as Secretary of the United
States Army on September 15, 2004 by President George
W. Bush. He served in this capacity from November
19, 2004 to March 9, 2007. In this position, Harvey
served as the senior civilian official within the
Department of the Army. He was responsible for all
matters relating to Army manpower, personnel, reserve
affairs, installations, environmental issues, weapons
systems and equipment acquisition, communications,
and financial management, as well as an annual budget
of $98.5 billion and over one million soldiers, personnel,
and contractors.
Secretary
Harvey currently serves on 14 boards and is an Advisory
Board Member to the Veterans Memorial & Support
Foundation of Los Gatos. He and his wife of 40 years,
Mary, are residents of Los Gatos and have two children,
Francis, a resident of Colorado and John, a resident
of Willow Glen and five grandchildren.
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JAMES
R. (JIM) FREE, PRESIDENT & CEO CAMPBELL VETERANS
MEMORIAL FOUNDATION, ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
Jim
is a Vietnam Veteran, serving in the U.S. Navy as a
technician on guided surface to air missile defense
systems aboard the USS Goldsborough, DDG-20 a new class
of guided missile destroyers. The Goldsborough was based
in Pearl Harbor Hawaii and was the command ship of the
Pacific fleet at the time and was involved in several
missions in the Golf of Tonkin, Vietnam during that
conflict.
Upon
being honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy, Jim attended
San Jose State University, graduating in 1971 with a
B.S. degree in Business with a concentration in real
estate and a minor in mathematics. He became involved
in the commercial real estate appraisal business and
started his own appraisal firm, Urban Land Research,
appraising all types of residential and commercial real
estate for about thirty years. He is a past President
of the South Bay Chapter of the Society of Real Estate
Appraisers and served several years on the Board of
Directors of the Northern California Chapter of the
Appraisal Institute and was a certified instructor.
Jim was also a Senior Certified Commercial Broker with
Coldwell Banker Commercial from 2000 to 2008.
Jim
served as a board member of the Campbell Chamber of
Commerce for nine years and was also a member of the
Historic Downtown Campbell Steering Committee. Jim is
the past President of the Campbell Kiwanis Club and
was selected Kiwanian of the Year in 1999. In 2003 he
was selected as the Campbell Chamber of Commerce Citizen
of the Year. In June, 2013, State of California
Assemblyman Paul Fong, selected Jim as the Veteran
of the Year for Assembly District 28.
In January 2007, Campbell Mayor Dan Furtado asked Jim
to initiate and lead an effort to build a new Veterans
Memorial in downtown Campbell. A committee was formed
and was later incorporated as the Campbell Veterans
Memorial Foundation, Inc., a non-profit corporation.
He served as the President and C.E.O. of that corporation
until 2012 and is now the Chairman of the Board. Jim
has been married to Lucille Maravilla for ten years
and enjoys snow skiing, scuba diving, back packing and
photography.
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