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We are here as friends and colleagues to honour George Stritch Moran. It is my privilege to invite you today to celebrate George's personal contributions, his creativity in leading the Anna Freud Centre from October 1987 until his death in January 1992, and the quality of his abiding personal and scientific legacy to us as expressed in the way he influenced us, as a father to Katya, a spouse to Perrine, and as a friend, comrade and co-worker in psychoanalysis and child development. The outline of George's academic and professional biography has been brilliantly and affectionately set forth by Clifford Yorke in The Bulletin of the Anna Freud Centre (Vol. 15, part 1, 1992, pp 3-5) and in the London Times. I shall concentrate on less tangible aspects of George's personality and work - less tangible, more subtle and perhaps more personally valuable and sentimental.
I cherish the memory of how George, as student, explorer, athlete and as a young man setting out to see and experience the world, met Perrine in Paris before either of them had completed their college education. In that meeting were displayed the charm, the creative risk-taking and love of life that were so characteristic of George.
Here I tread on personal grounds in celebrating the establishment by George and Perrine of an unusually warm, romantic, witty, loving, hard-working, joyous, fruitful union, characterized in different ways in their Gallic-Celtic, Jewish-Catholic chemistry.
I also invite you to celebrate George's gift for friendship and collaboration. George could disagree or differ but his respect and pleasure in the thinking of others was evident. What started as a mentor-student relationship with Peter Fonagy became a stout friendship and collaboration, also leading to an outstanding PhD in Psychology at University College London. The research George carried out was a superb application of psychoanalytic theory, elaborating the model created by Anna Freud of rigorous observation, systematic collecti