[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 57 (Tuesday, May 1, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E676]
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                         CITIZEN MICHAEL LIPOF

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                           HON. BARNEY FRANK

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                          Tuesday, May 1, 2001

  Mr. FRANK. Mr. Speaker, the greatest strength of our democracy 
consists of those citizens who take their obligations of citizenship 
seriously. We are very well served in particular by men and women who 
are active in our private sector, creating wealth, but who do not allow 
this to preclude meaningful civic participation. One of the best 
examples of this whom I have encountered is Michael Lipof of Newton, 
Massachusetts. Mike Lipof has been an extremely constructive force in 
the economy of the Greater Boston area. He has been a leader in the 
real estate field, and is currently serving in a very important 
capacity as the President--and a very operational hands on President--
of New England's largest Jewish cemetery, Sharon Memorial Park. At the 
same time, he has been very active in both public and community 
affairs. He has been a leading member of the Jewish community of 
Greater Boston, in partnership with his wife, Rabbi Emily Lipof. And he 
started a family tradition of participation in public affairs as an 
Alderman in the city of Newton, which is now being carried on by his 
son, Richard Lipof. And Mike was a very able member of the Board of 
Trustees of the Newton Free Library, a very important entity in our 
city. I have known Mike Lipof in a number of capacities, and in every 
one of these, private, public, elective, and communitarian, he has been 
an extraordinary asset. And of course he and Emily have been proud and 
loving parents and grandparents as well. I congratulate the people at 
Sharon Memorial Park for their decision to honor Mike Lipof for his 
extraordinary range of contributions to all of us and I am delighted to 
join in that congratulation, and in presenting to my colleagues an 
example of the kind of active, creative citizenship on which our 
country thrives.

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