[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 73 (Tuesday, June 9, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S5994]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO JUNE SALANDER

 Mr. JEFFORDS. Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to 
June Salander of Rutland, Vermont. On May 9, 1998 June Salander 
celebrated her bat mitzvah at the remarkable age of 89. Mrs. Salander 
is a dear neighbor, mentor, and friend from my days growing up in 
Rutland, Vermont. It is believed she is the oldest Rutlander to 
celebrate a bat mitzvah. Over a hundred people attended the ceremony, 
one of many indicators of the inspiration she is to her family, 
friends, community, and faith.
  Born in 1908 in Poland, June Salander came to America in 1920 to New 
York City with her family via Ellis Island. In 1941 she married her 
husband and moved to Vermont where she has resided ever since. In her 
many years as a citizen of Rutland she has been an active member of the 
community. She has served as a volunteer at the Rutland Jewish Center, 
as a Hebrew School teacher, and at the Rutland Hospital with the Grey 
Ladies.
  In addition to filling the role as a bedrock member of her community 
she has also filled many stomachs with her famous cooking. Her strudel 
is legendary throughout the area and to the many people traveling 
through who she has opened her home to over the years. Her strudel 
recipe was even featured in a cookbook containing Jewish recipes honed 
in the United States. I can personally attest to the greatness of June 
Salander's cooking as I was able to eat breakfast at the Salanders when 
I was growing up as a boy on Kingsley Avenue in Rutland. She continues 
to teach cooking informally and will appear on a cooking video that 
will air on PBS in the near future.
  Perhaps her most admirable quality is the energy she continues to 
display as she reaches her golden years. For some it means an idle time 
in their life but not for June Salander. When she was sixty-two she 
received her real estate license and remained active until recently. 
She picked up tennis when she was seventy-three and played for almost 
ten years. This fall she will travel all the way to Israel to attend 
the wedding of a niece.
  I am glad my wife Liz was able to attend June's bat mitzvah on that 
Saturday and pass on our well wishes to June. I also wish her well as 
she approaches her ninetieth birthday on June 28, 1998. Mr. President, 
I would like to publicly recognize June's upstanding citizenship and 
the inspiration she is to the rest of us as she continues to embrace 
life into her nineties.

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