[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 143 (Thursday, September 14, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1788-E1789]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                    TRIBUTE TO WILLIE GRACE CAMPBELL

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                            HON. JANE HARMAN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 14, 1995
  Ms. HARMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in tribute to a good friend and 
a dedicated fighter for women's rights on the occasion of her 80th 
birthday. As someone who has reached the age of 50, I can appreciate 
what it means to reach 80. But what truly amazes me is what Willie has 
accomplished in those 80 years. Let me relate just a few of those 
accomplishments.
  Willie has played a vital role in the development of the League of 
Women Voters. She rose to the national board of the league in 1959. 
From this position she directed the league's inner-city voter 
registration drive, and chaired the league's education fund. Four years 
after her term as a boardmember, she founded and became the first chair 
of the League of Women Voters' Department of Litigation.
  Willie's dedication to public service has also led her to achieve a 
great deal in other forums. She has fought from women's rights 

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and civil liberties, serving as a boardmember for the Constitutional 
Rights Foundation and founding the Center for Women and Girls in Los 
Angeles. She has been president of the National Women's Education Fund, 
and has served on the Los Angeles Commission on the Status of Women. 
Willie has hardly slowed down: she founded the Institute for Women, 
Law, and Development, on whose board she currently sits, just 3 years 
ago. At the same time, President Clinton appointed Willie vice chair of 
the African Development Foundation.
  Mr. Speaker, Willie Grace Campbell has set a superb example for each 
of us to follow, leading an active, successful, and socially 
responsible life for 80 years. It gives me great pleasure to join her 
friends, colleagues, and those whose lives she has touched in paying 
her tribute, and wishing her many more productive and happy adventures.


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