[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 164 (Friday, November 30, 2001)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2186-E2187]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                        IN MEMORY OF JANE MAYER

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                             HON. SAM FARR

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, November 30, 2001

  Mr. FARR of California. Mr. Speaker, today I rise with great sorrow 
to pay tribute to a wonderful woman, a community activist and wife of 
internationally known writer, journalist and lecturer, the late Milton 
Mayer. His wife Jane died recently in Carmel, California where I live.
  Jane Mayer was like a second mother to me and my sisters Francesca 
and Nancy. She was born in Joplin, MO, and grew up in Seattle, 
Washington before moving to Carmel where she lived for the past 50 
years.
  A dedicated activist she studied at the University of Washington 
before beginning a 10-year career in fashion where she became a 
lecturer and consultant. Appearing at Universities and Colleges across 
the country and numerous radio programs.
  She married Robert Scully in 1940 and later in 1947 married Milton 
Mayer known to local

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kids as Uncle Milty. Together they produced the Voices of Europe radio 
broadcasts, which included commentary of the events of the time by 
people throughout Europe. For many years they co-led Great Books 
Discussion Seminars in both America and Europe.
  Jane and Milton were life long civil libertarians and pacifists, 
fighting intolerance, bigotry, racism and overzealous nationalism. Jane 
was an activist for peace and disarmament during the Cold War, 
representing the American Friends Service Committee to the World 
Council of Churches and at many international peace conferences.
  Jane Mayer adopted Carmel-By-The-Sea as the city to protect from 
commercial exploitation. She was a tireless advocate for the 
conservation of Carmel's unique character, becoming founding member of 
the Carmel Residents Association and member of the Carmel General Plan 
Committee, the Historic Preservation Committee and board member of the 
Cherry Foundation.
  I grew up with her two sons Rock and Dicken Scully and knew her two 
step daughters Julie Mayer Vogman of Berkeley and Amanda Mayer 
Stinchecum of Brooklyn, N.Y.
  Her son Rock Scully became the first manager of the Grateful Dead 
band and son Dicken a popular and respected psychologist. Both sons now 
live in Carmel, her husband Milton died in 1986.
  Jane lived her life as a teacher of good--and in doing so empowered 
others to fight against the ignorance of intolerance and unjust laws. 
She taught by example and by introducing American youth to cross-
cultural experiences. My one summer in Europe in 1958 along with her 
sons Rock and Dicken, Frank Wallace, Adrian Benett and Ann McConnel led 
us all, five years later to apply for the Peace Corps. That experience 
led me into public service and now a Member of this House. So it is 
with great sadness that I submit this tribute to Jane S. Mayer, truly a 
women who made a difference in people's lives.

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