Foundation President Quits (February/March 2010 Civil War News) GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Rear Adm. Richard A. Buchanan (Ret.), who became president of the Gettysburg Foundation on Oct. 19, resigned on Jan. 26. Buchanan started the job the same week that Superintendent John A. Latschar’s tenure started unraveling.

Foundation President Quits
(February/March 2010 Civil War News)

GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Rear Adm. Richard A. Buchanan (Ret.), who became president of the Gettysburg Foundation on Oct. 19, resigned on Jan. 26. Buchanan started the job the same week that Superintendent John A. Latschar’s tenure started unraveling.

Latschar was forced to resign and on Oct. 26 started a new assignment.

Latschar had been in line for the Foundation presidency in late 2008, but he withdrew his name in January 2009 because of ethical concerns in the Interior Department.

Foundation President Robert C. Wilburn then continued on the job through July 2009 when he left for a job as distinguished service professor and director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College in Washington, D.C.

Buchanan, who had military, finance and nonprofit experience, was hired after a nationwide search by a recruiting firm. Chairman Robert A. Kinsley announced Buchanan’s departure in a brief news item posted on the foundation’s Web site Jan. 26.