Colonel George Howard Marshall Sr..

The annual dinner meeting of the Salvation Army Advisory Board and Ladies Auxiliary will be held at 7 p.m. Friday at Hotel Severs.

W.S. Warner Jr., board chairman, said that special guest and speaker of the evening will be Colonel George H. Marshall, Chief Secretary of the Salvation Army's Southern Territory.

Included in the evening's events will be a program by a group of Salvation Army Young People under the direction of Lieutenant Nancy Peat, assisting officer here.

Appreciation will be extended to civic groups which participated in the Salvation Army's Christmas program. The Muskogee Lions Club will be presented the Salvation Army Christmas Kettle Trophy for raising more money in kettle donations than any of the clubs manning the kettles during the Christmas season.

Marshall is second in command of all Salvation Army service throughout 15 southern states, the District of Columbia and Mexico.

Born of Salvation Army officer parents, he is a third generation Salvationist and his elder son is a fourth generation Salvation Army worker. During his career he has held key posts in all of the Salvation Army's four territories in the United States and in New Zealand.

Born in Portland, Maine, Colonel Marshall was trained for officership in Chicago and was commissioned in January, 1915. His first appointments were in the Middle West, but in 1918 he was sent to Honolulu to assist in the opening of a Boys' Home in the Manoa Valley.

Upon his return to the United States he served in California and assisted in the opening of the Southern California Division of The Army.

Appointments in Green Bay and Beloit, Wisconsin, followed and in 1920 Colonel Marshall was appointed Corps Officer in Newark, New Jersey. In 1921 he served in the public relations department in New York City. After serving for a time as Divisional Young People's Secretary of the Northeast Pennsylvania Division, he was appointed Divisional Secretary in Florida.

In 1929 he became General Secretary in Baltimore and in 1932, Divisional Commander of Maryland and Northern West Virginia.

Marshall's appointment as Field Secretary of the Southern Territory was made in 1941. In 1947 he was appointed Chief Secretary of New Zealand. In 1950 he returned to the United States as Chief Secretary of the Western Territory with headquarters in San Francisco. From 1952 to 1957 he served the 11 Eastern States as Staff Secretary, with headquarters in New York City.

A member of the Kiwanis for 25 years, Marshall holds membership in the National Association of Social Workers and the Association of Church Social Workers, is a past vice-president of the Maryland State Conference Social Welfare, and was a member of the State Conference in California.

He is married and has two sons - Senior Captain George H. Marshall Jr., Divisional Young People's Secretary of the North and South Carolina Division, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Dr. Donald Marshall, a practicing dentist and graduate of the University of Maryland Dental College, Baltimore.

Muskogee Daily Phoenix and Times-Democrat, January 20, 1961

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