Ambassador Constance Morella to Offer Insights on the U.S. in the Global Community
Inaugural Talk Of Francis McNulty Logan Lewis Annual Lecture Series |
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On the eve of the presidential election, Ambassador Constance A. Morella will discuss “Global Expectations for the Next Administration” at 8 p.m., Wednesday, September 24 at Lee Chapel on the Washington and Lee University campus. The new annual lecture series sponsored by the George C. Marshall Foundation was created by George W. Logan of Earlysville, Virginia, in honor and memory of his mother, Francis McNulty Logan Lewis, who grew up on the Post at the Virginia Military Institute.
The inaugural speaker for the lecture, Ambassador Morella, is a former member of Congress from Maryland and Permanent Representative to the U.S. Mission in Paris of the Office of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The OECD brings together the governments of 30 countries committed to democracy and the market economy from around the world to: support sustainable economic growth; boost employment; raise living standards; maintain financial stability; assist other countries' economic development; and contribute to growth in world trade. Global economic expertise and opinions also are shared with 100 other countries around the world.
Most recently Morella served as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Her leadership on committees and sub-committees during her 16-year tenure in the House of Representatives advanced efforts on trade, foreign policy, issues of aging, economic growth through sciences, and advocacy for women, children and families.
Ambassador Morella is an ardent admirer of General Marshall (whose Marshall Plan planted the seed of the OECD) and has spoken frequently both in the United States and Europe on his legacy and career. She is a great friend and supporter of the Marshall Foundation and has ties to Washington and Lee University through her son, an alumnus, and her grandson, a current student. Morella has invited Washington and Lee University students and Virginia Military Institute cadets to attend special seminars she will conduct Sept. 24 at the Marshall Foundation and VMI.
Frances McNulty Logan Lewis
As a little girl growing up in Lexington, Frances McNulty Logan Lewis had the run of the post of the Virginia Military Institute. She spent a great deal of time in the Anderson House on Letcher Avenue, where Moody Hall now stands, and played with the cows in what she called "the back lot," the current location of the George C. Marshall Foundation.
In a letter to former Marshall Foundation staff member Royster Lyle, Mrs. Lewis said she'd like to be remembered "as the little girl who played on Letcher Avenue, the parade ground, and in the woods along Woods Creek," also, she added, "attending the 'hops' with all the cadets."
Later in her life, Mrs. Lewis became an ardent admirer of George Catlett Marshall. In letters to several Marshall Foundation presidents, Mrs. Lewis made frequent reference to "the soldier who received the Nobel Prize for Peace." She lamented the fact that both military and civilian leaders of the time in which she was writing - the mid 1970's until her death in 1992 - lacked "the combination of genuine idealism and practical, no-nonsense realism" that defined Marshall and was the bedrock of his unique character.
“It is only fitting,” said Marshall Foundation President Brian Shaw, “that the lecture series named in her honor will be delivered by a woman of strength and character who has built a national reputation for leadership in developing effective public policy in the U.S. and abroad.” | | | | | |
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