Alabama WWI Centennial Committee Featured in The Alabama Municipal Journal 

December 1, 2016

The Alabama WWI Centennial Committee was featured in the November/December issue of The Alabama Municipal Journal published by the Alabama League of Municipalities. The three-page article written by Georgia Ann Conner Hudson of the Alabama Department of Archives and History details the establishment of the committee and its ongoing projects and plans to commemorate the centennial of WWI in Alabama over the next two years. A sidebar to the article written by committee member Gary Fuller, mayor of Opelika, calls on local communities and governments to begin planning for their own observances of this historic anniversary.

With a total circulation of approximately 4,500, The Alabama Municipal Journal is mailed to all elected officials and top administrative and legal personnel of member cities and towns throughout the state along with members of the State Legislature and the Alabama Congressional Delegation. The Centennial Committee is most appreciative of the League of Municipalities providing this opportunity to reach Alabama's community leaders. We hope that this article will encourage them to begin thinking about how their local citizens can commemorate the service and sacrifice of so many Alabamians nearly a century ago.

Plans for a Community Commemoration Guide published by the Centennial Committee are currently underway. We hope to make this available to the public in early 2017.