Flint Memorial Library Distinguished Speaker: Brigadier General Enoch O'Dell "Woody" Woodhouse II, Boston native WWII Tuskegee Airman

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Reading Room (first floor)

The Flint Memorial Library is pleased to host Brigadier General Enoch O'Dell "Woody" Woodhouse II, in-person as a Distinguished Speaker to share his part of “living history” with the North Reading community.

Enoch O'Dell "Woody" Woodhouse II grew up in Roxbury and joined the armed forces after graduating high school in 1944, during the World War II era. He served as a Finance Officer for the Tuskegee Airmen, America’s first African American military aviation unit. While the group was deactivated in 1946, Woodhouse continued to serve his country into the 1990s as part of the Air Force Reserves.

Today at age 96, Woodhouse is one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen and he shares his story to inspire a new generation of Americans. Murals honoring the Tuskegee Airmen and featuring larger-than-life portraits of Woodhouse (pictured) were unveiled at Logan airport in October 2022, when Governor Baker also promoted him to the rank of Brigadier General of the Militia of the Commonwealth.

Brig. Gen. Woodhouse will speak and offer Q&A, with a light lunch for registered guests on Tuesday, January 31 at the Library starting at 11 AM. 

This event will also be livestreamed by NORCAM and be seen at this link and on NORCAM's public cable channel (Comcast channel 8 & Verizon channel 26)