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TTED recently
hosted a 26-person delegation from the La Manche region of France to ORNL. This was the next
to last major event in their 10-day tour of Tennessee that took
them to Nashville, Murfreesboro, Lynchburg, Memphis, Pigeon Forge,
Maryville and Oak Ridge. ORNL Director Jeff Wadsworth and TTED
Director Alex Fischer spoke at the opening session and also attended
the lunch where we continued to build a bridge between La Manche
and ORNL with presentations on the ITER project that will be
built in France, an overview of our university partnerships that
are increasingly having an international flavor, and the unveiling
of a dozen or so picture post cards that SNS’ Max Cronan’s
mother recently found. Why were they of any importance to this
group? Max’s grandfather brought them back from Normandy in 1918.
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After
providing a morning presentation to the East Tennessee Economic
Council, Allen Packwood, Executive Director of the Churchill
Archives at Cambridge University, visited ORNL on February 3rd. Dr.
Packwood was in East Tennessee to continue planning the
60th Anniversary
Celebration of Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech,
to be held in conjunction with the Baker Center at the University
of Tennessee on March 29-30. Accompanying Packwood for
his tour of ORNL were his East Tennessee hosts and conference
organizers Mark and Debbie Brezina and Allen Lowe, Executive
Director of the Baker Center at UT-Knoxville. UT-Battelle,
LLC, will be one of the key sponsors of the conference and ORNL
Director Jeff Wadsworth will speak at the first day’s luncheon. Other
notables speaking at the conference are Howard Baker, Lord
Powell, Henry Kissinger, Lord Watson, Sir John Boyd, Brent
Scowcroft, Jack Kemp, et. al.
Pictured L to
R: Terry Payne – ORNL, Amy Fitzgerald – City
of Oak Ridge, Allen Lowe – UT Baker Center, Allen Packwood – Churchill
Archives at Cambridge University, Debbie and Mark Brezina – organizers
of the upcoming Churchill Conference at the UT Baker Center. |
