NAVAL ORDER OF THE UNITED STATES NEW YORK COMMANDERY
June 8th, 2015, 11:30am / Racquet & Tennis Club / 370 Park Avenue, New York City
Rolland “Rolly” Kidder
“The Brown Water Navy in Vietnam”
From 1994 to 2001, Rolland Kidder served as a Presidential-appointed Commissioner of the American Battle Monuments (ABMC) and was a member of its World War II Memorial Committee, which was responsible for finding a site and selecting a design for the National World War II Memorial. He was again appointed to serve on the ABMC by President Obama in 2010. In addition, he is a director of Friends of the National World War II Memorial, a Washington-based non-profit organization. Mr. Kidder is also author of the book, A Hometown Went to War, an oral history of 37 veterans describing their experiences during World War II. He is a Navy Vietnam War veteran, having served as a Patrol Officer with River Division 535 in the Mekong Delta in 1969 and 1970. He returned to Vietnam in 2010 and reflects on the War and his impressions of the country in a new book (2014), Backtracking in Brown Water.
Mr. Kidder served in the New York State Assembly from 1975-1982, and operated his own Appalachian-based natural gas drilling company from 1984-1994. Subsequent to that, he worked in an investment advisory firm for ten years and, most recently, was the Executive Director of the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, NY – the hometown of Supreme Court Justice and Chief Nuremberg Prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson. Mr. Kidder is a graduate of Houghton College, Evangelical Theological Seminary, and the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School; and served as a Director of National Fuel Gas Company for ten years. He and his wife, Jane, are the parents of four children and eleven grandchildren. They live on Lake Chautauqua in upstate New York.
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