[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 130 (Tuesday, October 2, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1758]
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                       TRIBUTE TO MARION BRITTON

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                            HON. DAN MILLER

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, October 2, 2001

  Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, it is with great sadness that I 
inform my colleagues of the loss of a committed public servant Marion 
Britton. Marion was a passenger on the United Airlines Flight 93 that 
was highjacked on September 11, 2001, and crashed outside Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania.
  Marion Britton's career with the Census Bureau spanned 21 years 
during which she worked with dedication and distinction on all major 
Regional Office field data collection operations including the Current 
Survey programs, the Decennial Census, and Census Tests.
  She began her career in 1980 in New York City as a Field Operations 
Assistant during the 1980 Census. In 1981, Ms. Britton accepted a 
position as a Survey Clerk in the New York Regional Office. Desiring a 
supervisory position, she applied for and was selected in 1983 to 
participate in the Census Bureau sponsored Upward Mobility Program. In 
1989, upon her successful completion of this program, she advanced to a 
Supervisory Survey Statistician position in the New York Regional 
Office. In recognition of her considerable abilities to manage 
technically and operationally complex field data collection operations, 
Ms. Britton was selected to work on the 1995 Census Test in Paterson, 
New Jersey, managing the critical coverage measurement operations. The 
1995 Census Test was an essential part of the development of the 
overall design of Census 2000. Ms. Britton had also participated in the 
initial test of the Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing coverage 
measurement instrument and training and contributed input that proved 
beneficial on a nationwide basis.
  After her considerable contributions to the successful completion of 
the 1995 Census Test, she was promoted in rapid succession to the 
position of Coordinator in the New York Regional Office in 1996, where 
she managed and directed several Supervisory Survey Statisticians 
assigned to Current Survey programs and then to Assistant Regional 
Census Manager, in 1997. In this position, she was instrumental in 
leading the crucial preparations and early operations for Census 2000. 
In 1998, Ms. Britton was called upon to serve as the Assistant Regional 
Director and given full operational and managerial responsibility for 
the New York Regional Office during the period of time while Census 
2000 was being conducted. This was also a period of major expansion of 
the Current Survey programs. Shortly after this, she was selected to 
serve in an expanded managerial role as the Deputy Regional Director 
which included providing direct guidance and leadership for the Census 
2000 Accuracy and Coverage Evaluation. After the completion of Census 
2000, Ms. Britton returned to her position as the Assistant Regional 
Director for the New York Regional Office.
  During her career with the Census Bureau, Ms. Britton earned several 
major honors and awards for her outstanding managerial and technical 
skills and innovative contributions. She received the Census Award of 
Excellence in 1988, the Bronze Medal Award, the highest honorary award 
granted by the Census Bureau, in 1993, and the National Partnership for 
Reinventing Government's ``Hammer Award'' in 1999 for her work on the 
American Community Survey.

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