[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 135 (Wednesday, October 25, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1918]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             A TRIBUTE IN THE MEMORY OF DR. MARVIN WEINREB

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                            HON. BARBARA LEE

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, October 25, 2000

  Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise with a great sense of loss as I pay 
tribute to Dr. Marvin Weinreb, a prominent East Bay community leader, 
friend and humanitarian, who left us on October 14, 2000, at the age of 
74.
  Dr. Weinreb donated his time and efforts to areas throughout the 
world in need of his medical expertise. He both piloted planes and gave 
medical assistance for the organization Los Medicos Voladores (``The 
Flying Doctors''), which provides volunteer medical aid to people in 
Central America. A dedicated doctor, Dr. Weinreb took time to help 
educate other doctors and train and encourage people interested in the 
medical profession.
  Dr. Weinreb demonstrated a lifelong devotion to the Jewish, East Bay 
and International Communities. He was a former president of Temple Beth 
Shalom in San Leandro, the Jewish Federation of the Greater East Bay, 
and the Judah L. Magnus Jewish Museum in Berkeley, as well as a former 
chair of the Southern Alameda County campaign for the United Jewish 
Welfare Fund. He also served as a school board trustee in Hayward from 
1965 to 1977.
  Dr. Weinreb graduated from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, and 
attended medical school at the University of Chicago. He then practiced 
dermatology in the Bay Area, and held the post of clinical professor of 
dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco, Medical 
School.
  Dr. Weinreb and five members of The Flying Doctors were en route to a 
conference when their plane went down near Ensenada, taking the lives 
of all the passengers.
  Services were held for Dr. Weinreb at Temple Beth Sholom, in San 
Leandro, California, on October 19, 2000. The community has lost a 
great person and dedicated humanitarian. My thoughts and prayers are 
with all of these families at this difficult time.




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