Event Details

Veterans Day Service

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Krannert Fine Arts Building, Wheeler Concert Hall, University of Evansville Campus, 1800 Lincoln Ave, Evansville, IN

Veterans Day Service

The campus community, alumni, and friends are invited to celebrate Veterans Day at our special service.  Our key note speaker will be UE alumnus, Brigadier General Ondra L. Berry, Assistant Adjutant General-Air for the State of Nevada.  A light luncheon reception will immediately follow in the lobby of Krannert Fine Arts Building.

Gen. Berry is originally from Evansville, Indiana and is a 1986 graduate of the University of Evansville.  He serves as a Brigadier General in the Nevada Air National Guard and is assigned as the Assistant Adjutant General for the Nevada Air National Guard. He is co-founder of Guardian Quest, a company committed to unleashing the untapped potential of individuals and organizations through world-class training solutions. Known as a change agent in personal and organizational transformation, Gen. Berry’s vast leadership and training experience spans public and private sectors. His skills were refined in a celebrated 25-year career in the Reno Police Department, where he retired as the Assistant Chief of Police over-seeing the administrative division. In his role as consultant and facilitator, Gen. Berry has worked all around the county over the past few years and was routinely sought after to bring his expertise to an extensive client list including Fortune 500 companies, military and federal agencies, non-profits, schools and universities. Gen. Berry invests his life energies and passions in the development and delivery of cutting edge training solutions on the topics of diversity, leadership and organizational change.

He holds a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Nevada Reno and is a member of numerous non-profit and service organizations. Through his innovative training and keynote addresses, Gen. Berry has spoken to many diverse audiences, and is on a quest to leave this world better than he found it!