[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 137 (Friday, October 12, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1874-E1875]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       IN HONOR OF NAOMI SOLOMON

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                           HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, October 12, 2001

  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, it is with a deep sense of sadness that I 
rise today to honor the life of Naomi Solomon, a victim of the 
terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center.
  Naomi Solomon, beloved daughter of Herbert and Lottie, sister of Jed 
and Mark, aunt and friend, grew up on the campus of Stanford University 
where her father was a professor and today a Professor Emeritus of 
Statistics. Upon graduating from Henry Gunn Senior High School in Palo 
Alto, California, as class valedictorian, she attended Stanford 
University.
  Naomi touched the lives of everyone who was blessed to know her. She 
was a talented classical pianist, an avid traveler and a successful 
businesswoman. In her professional life, she worked hard and smart, and 
she accomplished much. In the mid-1970's she was recruited by Bank of 
America where she worked for 13 years, becoming one of the very

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few female vice presidents. She then went on to work for Chase 
Manhattan for nine years and most recently worked for Callixa, a San 
Francisco based software company, where she was Vice President of 
Business Development. Naomi was attending a conference in the North 
Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11th when the terrorists 
viciously attacked our Nation.
  Naomi was committed and found great joy in her professional life, but 
her greatest devotion was to her family. No matter where she was in the 
world she always made time to call her mother every day. She loved her 
brother Jed's children as though they were her own, calling them 
several times a week just to chat. Her brother Mark and his wife 
recently welcomed their first child into the world and while he will 
never know his Aunt Naomi, he has been named Nathaniel after her.
  Mr. Speaker, Naomi Solomon enriched the lives of everyone she knew 
and loved. We grieve with her family, one of the finest families I've 
ever known and whom I have an enduring friendship, and who I have the 
privilege of representing.
  I ask my colleagues to join me in offering our deepest sympathy and 
that of our entire Nation to the Solomon family. We give gratitude for 
her all-too-brief life and we commend her into God's hands.

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