[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 127 (Wednesday, October 2, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1720]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      TRIBUTE TO MARGARET CAMPBELL

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                         HON. JAMES E. CLYBURN

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, October 1, 2002

  Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Margaret 
Campbell of Horrell Hill, South Carolina, and a resident of the Sixth 
Congressional District, who is being honored with the 2002 Andrus 
Community Service Award by the American Association of Retired Persons 
(AARP). Mrs. Campbell is one of only 53 award recipients nationwide 
selected for embodying AARP's slogan To Serve, and Not Be Served.
  This lively 76-year-old serves as the South Carolina AARP Associate 
State Coordinator for Community Operations, but her dedication goes far 
beyond the parameters of her job title. Mrs. Campbell has volunteered 
for AARP for more than a decade and travels across the state organizing 
chapters and exhibits. She presents programs on a variety of issues 
that affect older Americans, and is constantly gathering information to 
improve her expertise in all these areas.
  Her introduction to volunteering came while her husband was a patient 
at the Dom Veteran Administration Hospital in Columbia. Mrs. Campbell 
spent many hours assisting other patients there while her husband 
underwent dialysis. Her love of helping others blossomed into volunteer 
relationships with the National Federation of the Blind, local nursing 
homes and churches. When Mrs. Campbell has not committed her time to 
one of her many favorite causes, she can be found taking friends and 
neighbors to the doctor or shopping, sitting with shut-ins or visiting 
a friend in the hospital.
  Her devotion to those in need should be an inspiration to us all. 
“They think I have helped them, but they have it wrong, they have 
helped me much, much more.”
  Before volunteering became her calling, Mrs. Campbell served 27 years 
as a Dietitian Assistant at Lower Richland High School and the Midlands 
Center. Now widowed, she was the devoted wife of Thomas Campbell for 48 
years and the mother of two. She is a member of Mt. Elon Baptist Church 
in Horrell Hill.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask that you and my colleagues join me in honoring 
Margaret Campbell for her selfless dedication to senior citizens across 
South Carolina. I commend her on receiving the Andrus Community Service 
Award, and wish her good luck and Godspeed.

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