Maurice John Lenhardt was an accomplished artist and retired Citadel professor. He died on October 6, 1988.

Known by many as "Jack," he was survived by his wife, Edith Green French Lenhardt (also a retired Citadel staff member); her son Raymond H. French, Jr.; and Jack’s nephew Robert “Buddy” Lenhardt.

Jack was born in Illinois on June 12,1905, to John Edward Lenhardt (December 10, 1881 - March 28, 1973) and Barbara V. Bitzer Lenhardt (July 23, 1885 - May 9, 1973.) Jack's father was a specialist at a high-pressure distillery in Elizabeth, N.J., and then ran the Standard Oil refinery in Havana, Cuba for six years before moving to Charleston, S. C. During World War II he headed the War Allotment Board in Charleston.

A graduate of Wabash College, Jack served his country as a Camouflage Engineer, designing and creating illusions to protect America's assets.

He was a professor at The Citadel from 1949 to 1971 and was commissioned to paint two paintings which hang on display on the Citadel campus. The class of 1907 requested a portrait of General Hugh P. Harris (former president of The Citadel), and “Two Cadets” was painted at the request of former Citadel president Gen. Mark Wayne Clark.

Jack also painted a portrait of U. S. Congressman Lucius Mendel Rivers, of South Carolina, which hangs in the Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives. http://history.house.gov/Collection/Detail/28819?ret=True