Schedule
8:30am Zoom Room Opens
9:00am Call to Order and Opening Remarks
9:10am Session: Life in the Garfield Home
presented by James A. & Lucretia Garfield
(portrayed by Benjamin Frayser & Anita Benedetti)
9:55am Break
10:00am Session: The Legislator in our Town
presented by Andrew Mizsak, JAGCWRT
10:45am Break
10:55am Special recognition of USCHS, George Kopp and the James Joshua Kopp
Foundation
11:05am Session: Undergraduate Panel from the James A. Garfield Center for the Study
of the American Presidency at Hiram College
moderated by Dr. Douglas Brattebo, Hiram College
topics: James A. Garfield: The Student, James A. Garfield: The College
President, and James A. Garfield: Recruiter for the Civil War
12:00pm Break
12:05pm Garfield Goings-On
presented by Andrew Mizsak, JAGCWRT & Abraham Bruckman, JAGCWRT
12:10pm Keynote Address
presented by James A. Garfield, III
12:50pm Closing Remarks by the Symposium Committee
1:30pm Zoom Room Closes
Symposium Committee
Andrew C. M. Mizsak, Co-Chair, JAGCWRT
Dana Best-Mizsak, Co-Chair, JAGCWRT
Douglas M. Brattebo, PhD, JD, Hiram College
Abraham Bruckman, MS, JAGCWRT
William C. DiGiacomontonio, Chief Historian,
US Capitol Historical Society
Benjamin Frayser, MBA, JAGCWRT
Previous Keynote Speakers
2014, Lakeland Community College, Allan Peskin, PhD
The Life of James A. Garfield
2015, Lakeland Community College, Daniel Vermiliya
James A. Garfield and the Civil War
2016, Bedford, Ohio, Douglas Brattebo, Ph.D, JD
The 1880 Presidential Election of James A. Garfield
2017, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Benjamin Frayser, MBA
James A. Garfield and the Chagrin Falls Debates
2018, Orange Village, Ohio, Anita Benedetti, BA
The Life of Lucretia R. Garfield (First Person Interpretation)
2019, Strongsville, Ohio, Benjamin Frayser as Major General James A. Garfield
James A. Garfield in the Civil War
2020, via Zoom, Ohio,
Benjamin Frayser as Candidate James A. Garfield
The 140th Anniversary of the Treaty of Mentor