Remembering Lewis “Jack” Marion White
Lewis “Jack” White served as board member of AFoCR
Mr. White worked as a U.S. Diplomat for many years throughout the world. At one of his early posts, he met his wife of 70 years - Dagmar Hasalová, daughter of Czechoslovak General Antonín Hasal who was a military advisor to President Beneš in London during World War II.
He was a past President of the Wilsonian Club which honors President Wilson and the founders of Czechoslovak independence in association with the Woodrow Wilson House. During his tenure, he was heavily involved in fundraising to rebuild the Woodrow Wilson statue in Prague that had been destroyed by the Nazis in 1940.
As a board member of the American Friends of the Czech Republic for six years, he was a prime mover in the 2002 installation of a statue of Czech patriot Tomáš Masaryk on Massachusetts Avenue at the intersection of Q and 22nd Streets, NW. He was awarded the "Freedom Medal” by the Czech Republic for his many contributions to the American Friends of the Czech Republic organization and his compilation of a three-volume series of memoirs by Czech and Slovaks who fought during World War II for a democratic country after the war ("On All Fronts: Czechoslovaks in World War II").