[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 97 (Monday, July 20, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1349]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                       TRIBUTE TO ELSIE BUCHENAU

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                       HON. GEORGE P. RADANOVICH

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, July 20, 1998

  Mr. RADANOVICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Elsie 
Buchenau for her dedicated service to the Madera County Central 
Committee and to the Republican Party.
  Elsie Buchenau was born on October 5, 1907 in Firebaugh, California. 
Her family consisting of four girls and one boy, moved to a Madera 
vineyard in the La Vina area in 1912. She attended La Vina Grammar 
School, then Madera High School where she graduated in 1924. After 
working for a prominent attorney and a Realtor she moved to San 
Francisco for five years. She then married Herb Buchenau, a local 
cattleman and farmer, in 1937 and then moved to the Buchenau home ranch 
northeast of Madera, where she still lives.
  Mrs. Elsie Buchenau has been active in the Republican Party for many 
years and served as chairperson for the Madera County Central Committee 
for eight years, and vice president of the California Republican Party. 
She has also been a member of the Madera Republican Women and a 
delegate and twice an alternate to the Republican National Convention.
  Elsie Buchenau is also a member of the Madera County Cattleman's 
Association and was named Cattle woman of the Year in 1979. In 1994, 
Elsie Buchenau was named Farmer of the Year by the Madera District 
Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Buchenau has also volunteered her time with 
the Madera Community Hospital League and the St. Vincent de Paul Store, 
which supports Catholic charities.
  Mr. Speaker, it is with great honor that I pay tribute to Elsie 
Buchenau for her decades of service to the Republican Party, the Madera 
County Central Committee, and to her community. I ask my colleagues to 
join me in wishing Elsie Buchenau best wishes for the future.

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