[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 153 (Tuesday, October 28, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2148]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      IN HONOR OF LU CORBETT DALY

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                           HON. NANCY PELOSI

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, October 28, 2003

  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay my final respects to Lu 
Corbett Daly, who passed away on Friday. It is my privilege to work on 
a daily basis with Lu's wonderful son, Brendan, and it is with sadness 
and respect that I share with my colleagues the following words from 
her obituary in the Washington Post:

       Lu Corbett Daly, 78, an award-winning advertising 
     copywriter who had worked for The Washington Post and the 
     National Geographic Society, died Oct. 24 at the Auxiliary 
     House, a long-term care group home in Bethesda, where she had 
     lived since May 2001. She had Alzheimer's disease.
       The Direct Marketing Association of Washington named Mrs. 
     Daly its ``Professional of the Year'' in 1991 for her 
     contributions to the 1,500-member organization. She also was 
     a member of the American Association of University Women.
       Mrs. Daly graduated in 1947 from Marywood College in her 
     native Scranton, Pa. She was president of her class for three 
     years. She studied acting at Marywood and took summer courses 
     at Catholic University's drama school.
       After graduation, she moved with her family to the Chevy 
     Chase section of Washington and began work in public 
     relations for Capital Transit Co. before joining The Post as 
     an advertising copywriter.
       She starred in several amateur theater productions, through 
     which she met her husband. Early in her marriage, while her 
     husband was a Navy officer, Mrs. Daly moved 11 times in three 
     years, with the family settling in the Hillmead section of 
     Bethesda and later in Chevy Chase. Mrs. Daly was a member of 
     the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic parish, 
     serving on its advisory council and helping establish the 
     Second and Fourth Monday Group, which provides social 
     activities for seniors.
       In 1976, she became a vice president of Daly 
     Communications, a family-owned consulting business. She was 
     twice elected to the board of directors of the Washington 
     direct marketing group, serving two years as program chair.
       She was hired by the National Geographic Society in 1982. 
     For the next dozen years, she helped produce numerous direct 
     marketing packages, which were sent worldwide to millions of 
     society members and prospective members. Her work to promote 
     the 1985 book ``Discovering Britain & Ireland'' helped sell 
     more than 300,000 copies--a society record. For that effort, 
     Mrs. Daly won an ECHO Award from the national Direct 
     Marketing Association. She retired in 1995.
       Mrs. Daly was co-editor of ``The Daly Greeting,'' dubbed 
     ``The Only Daly Paper Published Annually,'' which recounts 
     the doings of her large family. Her father-in-law, John Jay 
     Daly Sr., a former Post staff writer, began the paper in 
     1916.
       Survivors include her husband of 51 years, John Jay Daly of 
     Chevy Chase; her eight children, LuAnne Daly of Santa Rosa, 
     Calif.; Deirdre Daly of Lyons, Colo.; Sean Daly of 
     Barrington, R.I.; Maura Daly of Germantown; Kate Daly Paradis 
     of Boulder, Colo.; Matthew Daly and Brendan Daly, both of 
     Silver Spring, and Corbett Daly of Washington; four sisters, 
     Gladys Quinn of Scranton, Rita Jeffers and Dorothea McIntyre, 
     both of Bethesda, and Joyce West of Marion, Mass.; a brother, 
     William Corbett of Reston; and 11 grandchildren.

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