[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 14 (Tuesday, February 15, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E144]
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   HONORING LOUISE EVANS FARR, AN ADVOCATE FOR PEACE AND CIVIL RIGHTS

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                           HON. SCOTT McINNIS

                              of colorado

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 15, 2000

  Mr. McINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to tell you of a great woman 
who gave selflessly of herself to her community. Louise Evans Farr 
passed away on January 14, 2000.
  Louise was a lifelong advocate for peace, human dignity and civil 
rights. She graduated from Vassar College and Yale Law School. In the 
1940s she was executive director of the Unity Council, a coalition of 
groups concerned with ending racial and ethnic discrimination in 
Denver, Colorado. She was also active in the peace and nuclear 
nonproliferation movements. Most recently she worked as a volunteer for 
Physicians for Social Responsibility and for the Union of Concerned 
Scientists.
  Louise was the granddaughter of Frank S. Hoag Sr., former publisher 
of the Pueblo Star-Journal and Chieftain, and the cousin of, my good 
friend, Robert Rawlings, the present publisher of the paper. Her 
brother, Frank Evans, represented Pueblo and Southern Colorado in the 
United States Congress from 1964 to 1978.
  It is with this, Mr. Speaker, that I offer this tribute in memory of 
Louise Evans Farr. She was a humanitarian who will be missed by all 
those who knew her.

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