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Officials representing the Marshall and Truman scholarships will give a presentation about their respective academic awards and participate in other events during a visit to campus today.
Dr. Ray Raymond, executive secretary of the New York Marshall Committee of the British Consulate General, and Tara Kneller, associate executive secretary of the Truman Scholarship Foundation, will give a presentation on “Strategies for Winning Fellowships and Scholarships” 4 p.m. in the Oechsle Hall auditorium. The event is open to Lafayette and Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges (LVAIC) students, faculty, and administrative staff.
Dr. Raymond will give a talk on “The Threat of Global Terrorism: The British Perspective” 7:30 p.m. in the Oechsle Hall Auditorium. A reception will follow. The event is open to the campus and LVAIC community as well as the general public. LVAIC and community members interested in attending are asked to call June Thompson, Office of the Dean of Studies, at 610-330-5521 or email thompsoj@lafayette.edu.
The visit also will include lunch with Lafayette faculty and staff for a discussion of “Faculty Involvement with the Marshall and Truman Applicant.” Participants will include the Fellowship Advisory Committee, academic department chairs, chairs of the health and legal professions programs, Landis Community Outreach Center Director Char Gray, and others.
In addition, Dr. Raymond and Kneller will have separate meetings with Lafayette President Arthur J. Rothkopf’55 and Provost June Schlueter; Lafayette’s Health and Legal Professions Faculty Advisory Committees, LVAIC faculty, Gray, and others; and Dean of Studies Gladstone Hutchinson, Assistant Dean of Studies Julia Goldberg, and others.
Dr. Raymond holds degrees in modern history, U.S. government and politics, and public policy from University of Dublin, University of Kansas, and Yale University. To strengthen ties between the United States and England, he has founded and co-founded an extraordinary succession of fellowship programs over the past decade. In addition to his diplomatic duties, he has initiated and overseen fellowships in finance (for young minorities to work on public policy in London) and domestic matters, in pediatrics, and in national security studies at the Military Academy. Dr. Raymond also lectures on comparative politics and international relations at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Dr. Raymond has written extensively on international terrorism, contributes to the work of West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center, and is responsible for fostering closer practical collaboration in counter-terrorism between the United States and the United Kingdom.
A 1993 Truman Scholar from Allentown, Kneller earned a B.A. with honors from Syracuse University, majoring in both policy studies and African-American studies. She obtained her J.D. from Emory University School of Law in 1997. Before joining the Truman Foundation, she worked for the Fulton County Office of the Public Defender in Atlanta. She began in the Jail Division, representing inmates in probation and parole matters. Kneller then served as a public defender in Juvenile Court, representing children in court proceedings and ensuring that they received the needed services to avoid future court involvement. She later moved to the Felony Trial Division for three years, representing clients in a variety of criminal matters.