Honoring Service: Our National War Memorials

The speaker, Chuck Tampio examines some of Washington's most significant monuments as works of art that contain ideals and values intrinsic to the American experience.  He thought it would be appropriate in light of the fact that the May 24 talk is only a few days before Memorial Day, a good time for reflection on those who have sacrificed so much to preserve our liberty.

 

Chuck Tampio started his career in education as a Peace Corps Volunteer as part of the first wave in the early 60's.  He taught at several universities including a year as a visiting professor at the University of Parma, in Italy.  He served as chief of staff to the commissioner of education in Rhode Island in the 70's and then worked for 25 years as VP of the Close Up Foundation where they conducted study programs on American government for more than 250,000 students and teachers from throughout the world. He was the first anchor for C--SPAN and interviewed hundreds of members of the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations and members of Congress.  After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, he made a number of trips to former Soviet countries where he designed curriculum materials and taught former communist teachers on education for democracy.

 

Chuck has designed and conducted non-partisan week long study programs for teachers for the last 9 presidential  inaugurations in Washington, DC.

 

Today, he has retired on a small ranch on the east side where he leads desert tours on horseback and environmental tours with off road jeeps.  He is a docent at the University of Arizona Museum of Art and the Tucson Museum of Art where he has developed a number of multi-media art talks and has presented them throughout the country and in Italy.