428- YES, WILLIAMSBURG and WILLIAM and MARY, WE HAVE A TRUE HIGH CALIBER CURRENT MEMBER of the CABINET HAVING LIVED and STUDIED in OUR 'BURG!!!.....

Current Secretary of Defense Robert Michael Gates!....
A native of Wichita, Kansas, Gates, as a teen, EARNED the rank of Eagle Scout. He received a scholarship to College of William and Mary. There, he graduated in 1965 with a B.A. in History and was active and president of his Alpha Phi Omega Chapter of the Young Republicans Club...business manager of the William and Mary Review. At his gaduation in '65, Gates received the honored Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award for someone who "has made the greatest contibution to his fellow man."
He went on to earn a M.A. in History from Indian University in 1966 and a Doctorate in Russian and Soviet History at Georgetown University in 1974. In 1998, he received a L.H.D. (Doctorate of Humane Letters) from our William and Mary. He has lectured at W&M, also.
While a student at W&M, I'm told that he liked his, our, town and even drove a school bus.
This historian and author is proud of our honorable Secretary of Defense Robert Gates...yeah!