The Nicholson Room is one of the Center’s larger seminar rooms and is dedicated to the memory of Major Arthur D. Nicholson Jr. Nicholson, a member of a U.S. Army reconnaissance team, was fatally shot by a Soviet sentry in the former East Germany on March 24, 1985. Nicholson was a Foreign Area Officer, (FAO). He was part of the 14-member American Military Liaison Mission, which had been stationed in the East German town of Potsdam with a mandate to observe activities in what was once the Soviet zone of occupied Germany. The Nicholson room is used for FAO lectures, special briefings, promotion ceremonies and is also scheduled and used by other Marshall Center directorates for special lectures and briefings.
The Nicholson Room is one of the Center’s larger seminar rooms and is dedicated to the memory of Major Arthur D. Nicholson Jr. Nicholson, a member of a U.S. Army reconnaissance team, was fatally shot by a Soviet sentry in the former East Germany on March 24, 1985. Nicholson was a Foreign Area Officer, (FAO). He was part of the 14-member American Military Liaison Mission, which had been stationed in the East German town of Potsdam with a mandate to observe activities in what was once the Soviet zone of occupied Germany. The Nicholson room is used for FAO lectures, special briefings, promotion ceremonies and is also scheduled and used by other Marshall Center directorates for special lectures and briefings.