D. Michael Ryan

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
(617) 552-3470
d.michael.ryan@bc.edu

Academics

• Gloucester High School (1958-62)
• National Honor Society, Army ROTC Cadet Colonel, graduated #7
• United States Military Academy (1962-63)
• Boston College (1963-67; 1983-88)
• AB History (minor English/Philosophy), Army ROTC Cadet Colonel
• Distinguished Military Graduate
• MA Higher Education Administration (1988)

Military:

• 1967: Commissioned Regular Army, Infantry; IOBC and Ranger School (#5 in class)
• 1967-68: West Berlin – Platoon Leader, Battalion S-1 (Personnel)
• 1968-69: West Berlin, Aide-de-Camp, Commanding General, BDE; promoted Captain
• 1969: Jungle Warfare School
• 1969-71: Vietnam – Advisor to ARVN Ranger BN (combat) and Infantry BN (combat);
• Advisor to 1st ARVN Div. S-2 (Intelligence
• 1971-73: Ft. Knox, KY – Infantry Company commander; Brigade S-5, Unit of Choice
• Recruiter 1972-73: Ft. Knox Assistant Post Public Affairs Officer; DoD Information School Honor Graduate; Honors – Freedoms Foundation Writing Awards (2)
• 1973-74: Armor Officer Advanced Course (Honor Graduate); edit class yearbook
• 1974-76: DoD Public Affairs – Joint Command (write, edit, publish monthly magazine)
• 1976: Resigned from the Army
• AWARDS – Ranger Tab, Combat Infantrymen’s Badge, Bronze Star (2) for Valor, Army Commendation Medal (2), Combat Air Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army of Occupation Medal, National Defense Ribbon, Vietnam Campaign Medal with 3 Battle Stars, Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star and Palm

Professional

• 1976-79: Assistant Alumni Director, Boston College; National CASE Award for
  Student-Young Alumni Programs; write, produce brochures and printed materials
  
• 1979-Present: Associate Dean of Students/Student Development, Boston College
  (judicial affairs, higher education law expertise, founding/charter member
  National Associate of Student Judicial Affairs, Military Liaison for all ROTC programs (3), guest lecturer (Vietnam, America in the ‘60s, American Revolution, French Impact in New England), conduct student historical Boston Walking Tours, author – numerous papers on higher education law and judicial affairs

Additional Work Experience:

Construction, landscaping, butcher, parking lot attendant, baseball umpire – Little League, short order restaurant cook, fished lobster boat off Gloucester, life guard, Sunday School teacher, waiter, Colonial Williamsburg “guide”

Personal:

• Family – single; two sisters, nieces/nephews
  
• Interests – genealogy (32 years); lecturing; historical research/writing colonial period;
  
  • Music (drum –snare; Indian/Irish hand drums - for 18th Century organizations including fife/drum units, “The Jolly Rogues” and “The Hartwell Players”);
  • 18th Century reenacting/living history (30 years) – American and French; editor – Westvale Meadow condo newsletter “Mill Musings”
• Writings:
  
  • “Gloucester/North Shore Magazine” 1977-82 (articles)
    
  • “Gloucester Daily Times” 1978-81 “My View” column
    
  • “Concord Journal” 1995-Present “From The Concord Minute Men” - some 65
    historical articles related to 19 April 1775 and local Revolutionary War activities, many reprinted in re-enactor newsletters and as the History Column for the on-line “Concord Magazine”
    
  • “Seeds for Separation: The Founding of Lincoln, MA” (a play in three parts)
    
  • “Concord and the Dawn of Revolution: The Untold Truths”, D. Michael
    Ryan, The History Press, Charleston, SC, (due out 2007)
    
• Copy Edit/Proofing/Research – “Prince Estabrook – slave and soldier”; three editions
  of “Revolutionary Boston, Lexington and Concord” a guide containing 5 of my writings; “Patriots of Color – African Americans and Native Americans at Battle
  Road and Bunker Hill
  
• Memberships – Cape Ann Historical Society, American-Canadian Genealogical
  Society, Acadian Society, NEHGS, Massachusetts Historical Society, Framingham History Society (Life Member) Concord Museum, Thoreau Society, Orchard House, Minute Man National Park Association (former President), Concord Records & Archives Committee (Chair indefinite term by act of Selectmen), Concord Historical Commission (former), Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; The Colonial Society of Massachusetts; Thoreau Farm Trust Board of Advisors
  
• Awards (Recent):
  
  • 1995 – National Freedoms Foundation “George Washington Honor Medal” for Individual Achievement in advancing ROTC programs in support of the nation.
    
  • 1996 – Volunteer of the Year, Minute Man National Historical Park
    
  • 1997 – Nominated/Elected, Honorary Member, Golden Key National Honor Society by Boston College students (academic and service achievement)
    
  • 2001 – Selected Concord’s Memorial Day Parade Marshal
    
  • 2005 – Volunteer Master Ranger Corps, National Park Service
    
  • AVOCATION: 18th Century Colonial History
• Memberships:
  
  • Current – Concord Minute Men (Historian, musketman, chaplain drummer), Lincoln Minute Men (Historian, drummer), Prescott’s Battalion, Menotomy Minute Men (chaplain, drummer, past-Captain, musketman), Regiments Bourbonnais and Saintonge (Rochambeau’s army 1780-83; priest and Ensign), Living History Association, 19th of April Fraternity (co-founder, writers/re-enactors/researchers interested in this historical day); percussionist for colonial music groups “The Hartwell Players” and “The Jolly Rogues”
    
  • Former – Framingham Companyes Minute and Militia (past-Colonel), 3d
    Vermont Regiment, Continental Line, New England Living History Association, Mass. Council of Minute and Militia (past- Colonel/Board Director and PR Director)
    
• Minute Man National Historical Park – Concord:
  
  • Volunteer historical interpreter, average 600 plus hours with the Park April to November, conduct/participate in 20 specific programs (1774 Town Meeting; musical presentations; Capt. William Smith Walking Tours; Heroes of Battle Road; William Smith-Abigail Adams conversations), train seasonal Rangers, founder/director The Guild of Historic Interpreters (individuals who volunteer 18th/19th Century interpretive work in the Park including The Hartwell Players– colonial tavern and 19th Century music)
    
  • First-Persons Performed: Captain William Smith (commander 1775 Lincoln Minute Company, birth house in Weymouth and residence in Lincoln still exist, brother of Abigail Smith Adams); Jonas Bateman (Concord farmer and minute man); Dr. John Cuming (Concord physician, Town Meeting Moderator, judge, French & Indian War hero, helped found Harvard Medical School); Dr. Charles Russell (Lincoln physician, Town Meetings Moderator and Justice of the Peace/Magistrate, Tory); Fr. Bernard Flood (Concord Catholic priest 1855-67, founded church in Concord and said first Masses for Irish immigrants); A. Bronson Alcott (Concord, educator, philosopher, Transcendentalist); also “Judge Chambers Russell” of Lincoln, “Samuel Watts, Esq.” of Chelsea, and “Samuel Phillips Savage” of Weston.
    Possess Personal Research Library – local histories; out of print books; resources on the life, times and events of 1770s in Concord and surrounding communities as well as the Revolution.

Miscellaneous:

Attended Woodstock 1969; attended Washington DC Peace March 1969; worked with NAACP in Kentucky 1971-73; have Abenaki ancestry from Canada; one of few people ever to speak with Rudolph Hess at Spandau Prison; in West Berlin during 1968 Czech. Invasion by the USSR/Soviet block; sang in folk group “Nobody’s Children”; managed rock band “Heavy Metal” for Army recruiting; met Vietnam POW whose bracelet I wore for 4 years; met all US Presidents from Eisenhower to Nixon… also Queen Elizabeth II, The Queen Mother, Charles de Gaulle, Pope Paul VI, Gen. Westmoreland; 2003, 2004 and 2006 produced three 18th/19thth Century music CDs as percussionist with “The Jolly Rogues” and perform internationally including 2006 in The People’s Republic of China.