[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 55 (Thursday, April 25, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E642]
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 IN MEMORY OF LESLIE STRATHMANN, VILLAGE MANAGER OF FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS

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                       HON. CONSTANCE A. MORELLA

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, April 25, 1996

  Mrs. MORELLA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in memory of Leslie 
Strathmann, village manager of Friendship Heights. For 9 years Mrs. 
Strathmann served in exemplary fashion at this post. On April 13, her 
coworkers honored her at the 10th anniversary celebration of the 
Friendship Heights community center, naming a conference room in her 
honor and dedicating the ceremony to her. Leslie Strathmann passed away 
later that day, her lifetime of dedicated public service cut short by 
cancer at 54. She will be dearly missed.
  Leslie Strathmann's extensive career in pubic service brought much to 
the Friendship Heights community. She served as vice president of the 
Friendship Heights Rotary where she helped organize annual Rotary 
fundraisers and community service projects to benefit village 
residents. While serving on the Montgomery County Committee on 
Committees she reviewed all county committees and helped streamline 
committee rules and structure. She coordinated Bethesda Action Group 
meetings between county transportation officials and citizens to 
resolve traffic and transportation issues.
  It is hard to imagine Friendship Heights without Leslie Strathmann. 
The programs that she helped to create have made Friendship Heights' 
community center a true meeting place for the community, with classes 
in various disciplines, care groups for the young, and organizational 
meetings of all sorts. As village manager, she took it upon herself to 
do all that she could to better the Friendship Heights community.
  In all of her work, Leslie Strathmann helped to resolve the everyday 
concerns of the people of Friendship Heights. Her skills and her 
dedication made her a valuable member of the Friendship Heights 
community. Leslie Strathmann leaves behind a vacancy that will be hard 
to fill, not only as village manager, but in the hearts of the people 
that knew her. She will be missed, but she will live on in love. I know 
that my colleagues will join me in honoring and remembering Mrs. Leslie 
Strathmann, and in giving condolences to her husband of 33 years, Dr. 
William D. Strathmann, her two sons, Joseph and William, her daughter-
in-law, Kathleen, her father, Joseph R. Micali, and her sister, Judy M. 
Daly.

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