February 26, 2024

Four New Members Join ICS Board

The Board of Directors of the International Churchill Society (ICS) in the United States has named four new members to its board: Vince Benedetto, Jim Drury, Catherine Grace Katz, and Deborah Lindsay. All are longtime members of ICS who have been very active in working to fulfill the society’s mission to promote awareness and understanding of the legacy of Sir Winston Churchill.

Vince Benedetto is the founder, president, and CEO of Bold Gold Media Group, which owns and operates fifteen full power radio stations and twenty-five broadcast frequencies throughout Pennsylvania and New York. Vince earned his Bachelor of Science in Political Science from the United States Air Force Academy, where he graduated with Military Distinction.  He is a former Air Force captain and Air Force OSI Special Agent, having led counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism, and felony level investigative efforts for the Department of Defense. Vince also presently serves as the President of the Churchill Society of Pennsylvania.

Jim Drury was born in London, England and emigrated with his family to the United States in the 1960s. In 1975 he began a forty-year career in aviation when he joined the US Air Force. Jim received a degree in Aerospace Science and a pilot’s certificate while serving in the USAF before going to work for the Federal Aviation Administration. His last assignment prior to retirement was as Chief of Air Traffic Control at Nashville International Airport. During his working career, he also served as a major in the aviation branch of the Tennessee State Guard. Jim plays the bagpipes professionally and is Pipe Major of the 17^th Lancers Pipes and Drums. He composed a bagpipe march to honor Sir Winston Churchill that he performed while leading the guard of honor at Bladon, the site of Churchill’s grave, during VE-Day ceremonies in 2022.  Jim currently serves as the President of the Churchill Society of Tennessee.

Catherine Grace Katz is a writer and historian from Chicago. She graduated from Harvard in 2013 with a BA in History and received her MPhil in Modern European History from Christ’s College, Cambridge in 2014. After graduating, Catherine worked in finance in New York City before a very fortuitous visit to the bookstore in the lobby of her office in Manhattan led her to return to history and writing. She received her JD from Harvard Law School in May 2023 and is an associate at an international law firm in Washington, D.C. Her first book, The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War, was named one of Publishers Weekly‘s Best Books of 2020. Her next book, Shadow Before the Flame: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Prelude to War, is forthcoming from Viking.

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Deborah Lindsay, a lifelong resident of the Atlanta area, graduated summa cum laude from the University of Georgia. An early passion for military history led to her interests in the Second World War and Winston Churchill. Researching the Holocaust led to her book Behind Barbed Wire: A History of Concentration Camps from the Reconcentrados to the Nazi System, 1896–1945. She is currently writing a travel history of the nineteen officially recognized Nazi concentration camps. Deborah also serves on the Board of Governors of America’s National Churchill Museum in Fulton, Missouri and has served in the past on the Board of Trustees of the both the National World War I and World War II Museums of the United States.