Events

SAVE THE DATE:
The 12th Spies & Heroes Black Tie Gala
October 7, 2023

WATCH THE 2022 EVENT VIDEO!

✶ September 24, 2022
✶ 6PM - VIP Reception
✶ 7PM-Midnight - Gala

It was a Wonderful SOLD OUT Event!
Thank you to all our Sponsors, VIPs, Guests, and Volunteers.
Our beneficiary is the Ruyts Foundation. Their mission is to provide our heroes with hot-line assistance and mental health services for those in crisis. "Let’s help our heroes fight the battles they can no longer fight alone"!

Funds raised throughout 2022 will be used to create additional suicide assistance chapters, increase mental health professionals to provide urgent counsel, increase case officers, and expand a network of social and mental health services for Veterans in crisis. Sponsorships, corporate tables, and tickets are tax deductible per IRS rules.

2022 Beneficiary

Help Our Heroes Fight The Battles They Can No Longer Fight Alone

At the Ruyts Foundation of Veteran Suicide Prevention
Our mission is to bring awareness to veteran suicide and
help stop it from even taking place.

RuytsFoundation.org

@RuytsFoundation

The Facts...

Dr. Linda Singh
Major General (retired)

With over 30 years of leadership, consulting, and systems integration experience, having served in various senior executive-level positions, Dr. Linda Singh offers a blend of public and private sector experience that spans health, defense, state, and local government.

As the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kaleidoscope Affect, LLC providing leadership and management consulting as well as strategic advisory services for a variety of public and private sector clients.

Dr. Singh served as the Inaugural Leader-In-Residence for Towson University focusing on creating the foundation for leadership culture and common leader competencies across the campus. Previously, Dr. Singh was the Interim Executive Director and CEO of TEDCO focused on investing and helping to grow early-stage technology and life sciences companies to fuel economic development and growth. Prior to that, she served as a Major General in the Maryland National Guard, dedicating more than 38 years of service. As the Adjutant General and a Cabinet Secretary, she was responsible for the Maryland Military Department. As part of her military role, she worked with senior-level officials at ministerial and ambassador levels in Estonia and Bosnia developing country strategies under the Department of Defense State Partnership Program. Dr. Singh retired from Accenture in 2016, she was a Managing Director in the Health and Public Service North America Operating Unit where she served for 21 years.
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TECH SERGEANT LAWRENCE GOLDSTEIN
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR CORPS

Tech Sergeant Lawrence Goldstein served with distinction in the
Eighth Air Force (the “Mighty Eighth”) during World War II and the Korean Conflict.

The Brooklyn, New York native joined the US Army Air Corps in 1942 at the age of 21. He was trained as a B-17 radio operator. In October 1943, Larry and the other members of his B-17 Flying Fortress crew were deployed to England where they took part in some of the most momentous and perilous air warfare that occurred in the European Theater of Operations. The 10-member crew participated in strategic bombing attacks on industrial, transportation, and military targets in Germany and occupied Europe that aimed to cripple the Nazi war effort. Of particular note, Larry and his crew flew several missions during “Big Week,” a series of intense American bombing attacks over 6 days in February 1944. This week was designed to prove Allied air supremacy over Europe in anticipation of the invasion of France. In March 1944, Larry and his crew participated in the first daytime bombing raid on Berlin.

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2ND LIEUTENANT GEORGE JACOBS
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR CORPS

George Jacobs was born in New York City on July 16, 1924. From an early age, George had a love for flying and Amateur Radio. In 1940, at age 16, he learned to fly as a student member of the Civil Air Patrol. Three years later, he volunteered as an Army Aviation Cadet earning his navigator wings and commission in 1944. In January 1945, George was assigned as a radar navigator with the 91st Bomb Group, RAF Bassingbourn in the UK; the same squadron that the famous Memphis Belle was in, the 324th.

George completed six combat missions and three humanitarian missions, the latter of which he is most proud. Mission Chow Hound involved dropping food to starving civilians in Holland, the Liberation Fly-Out of 9,000 Allied Airmen POWs from Stalag Luft One and flying medical supplies and doctors to the Mauthausen concentration camp after its liberation in 1945.