Mrs. Henry G. Pratt III

Much of the book revolves around the work of army officer Henry Pratt, a stiff, evangelical, white-is-right kind of guy who-in a progressive move for the period-determined to "educate" the heathen enemy at a school in the East.He was strongly opposed by members of the army, but found support in Congress and among some wealthy people who helped start and support Carlisle Indian School.Pratt immediately stripped the children at the school of their culture and deeply immersed them into white man's culture.Times were hard and the school struggled until the students at the Carlisle found football, were good at it and convinced Pratt to allow them to play outside teams.

Within one hour of receiving a phone call from Coast Guard Sector Charleston requesting assistance in closing the Savannah River and the Intracoastal Waterway due to the 17 July oil spill, the USCG Auxiliary Division 10 Operations Officer, Henry Pratt III had the Auxiliary's Hilton Head & Savannah flotillas underway to assist.

Henry G. Pratt, III
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Henry G. Pratt III was born in 1940 in Washington, D.C., and resided for most of the next 50 years in Arlington, Virginia. He was married in 1963 to the former Mary Agnes Buchanan. They have one son and daughter-in-law and one grandson.

Pratt received a BA degree in economics from Emory & Henry College in 1963 and completed two years of graduate study in business administration at George Washington University. He is a graduate of the American Institute of Banking and of the Virginia-Maryland School of Bank Management at the University of Virginia. His career was in branch bank management with a bank which evolved into Wachovia Bank.

Pratt served in the US Army as an infantry officer with assignments in the United States and South Korea during which time he earned two US Army Commendation Medals.

Membership in the US Coast Guard Auxiliary for Commodore and Mrs. Pratt began in 1964.
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Pratt has served in various staff and all elected offices at the four levels of the Auxiliary organization. He was the National Commodore in 1989 -1990 and served on the former Horizon Committee/Long Range Planning Committee for over 10 years until it was dissolved. He is currently a member of the Coast Guard Uniform Board and the Coast Guard Auxiliary Association Board of Directors. He is an AUXOP and is coxswain qualified. Currently he and Mary are members of the 7th District where he serves as the Division 10 Staff Officer for Operations, working closely with Sector Charleston, MSU Savannah, Coast Guard Air Station Savannah and Coast Guard Station Tybee.