Date in history posts. Its my honor and pleasure today to welcome you to this virtual lecture delivered by marlene [inaudible]. Marlenes a lawyer. Shes also the author of a book entitled fair labor lawyer the remarkable life of new deal attorney and Supreme Court advocate [inaudible]. Shes currently working on her second book entitled the history of the [inaudible], 1855 through 1946. For the last decade of her 30year career, as a marylands attorney generals office, from which she retired in 2013, she served as a special assistant to the attorney general and was responsible for enforcing Consumer Protection laws governing the marketing of tobacco and alcohol and internet safety. [inaudible]. Has twice received the attorney generals Exceptional Service award. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate and a member of the board of trustees in a college in maryland. She earned her law degree from George Washington university and her mba from Loyola University of maryland, where she has also taught law. Sh
Ago the first pioneers crossed the oceans to a new world. A promise called the promise of a land where a man could build. His own raise his children in freedom. They call from the wilderness and empire of agriculture and industry. Themselves new and Higher Standards of living and yet in one of the great River Valleys of america something went wrong. Here in the Tennessee Valley three centuries later the descendants of the pioneers were a neglected people. Living in a ruined land for these children the hope and the thomas were dead for them. The only future was poverty ignorance drudgery. The struggle to scratch a bare living from the reluctant soil even the older man had forgotten that the valley had once been bright with promise and with hope Horace Higgins was one of the many who had given up the fight. Whats the use he said . Fill up those gullies in the first rain washes it away. Its the same with all the land around here. It may have been good land once. But its bad land now. Badl
Ago the first pioneers crossed the oceans to a new world. A promise called the promise of a land where a man could build. His own raise his children in freedom. They call from the wilderness and empire of agriculture and industry. Themselves new and Higher Standards of living and yet in one of the great River Valleys of america something went wrong. Here in the Tennessee Valley three centuries later the descendants of the pioneers were a neglected people. Living in a ruined land for these children the hope and the thomas were dead for them. The only future was poverty ignorance drudgery. The struggle to scratch a bare living from the reluctant soil even the older man had forgotten that the valley had once been bright with promise and with hope Horace Higgins was one of the many who had given up the fight. Whats the use he said . Fill up those gullies in the first rain washes it away. Its the same with all the land around here. It may have been good land once. But its bad land now. Badl
From the State Normal School for Women in Harrisonburg, to the State Teachers College at Harrisonburg, to Madison College, to James Madison University.