[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 38 (Thursday, March 30, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E485-E486]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      IN TRIBUTE TO BRAYTON WILBUR

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                           HON. NANCY PELOSI

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 30, 2006

  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay my respects to Brayton 
Wilbur, Jr., a great San Franciscan and a dear friend. One of our great 
civic leaders, he made immeasurable contributions to our most treasured 
institutions. Mr. Wilbur passed away on March 24 after a lifetime of 
service to the arts, the business

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community, his family, and the city he called home.
  A native San Franciscan, he was born on October 2, 1935, and was a 
graduate of Yale University and Stanford Business School. He joined his 
family's firm, Wilbur-Ellis Co., in 1963, becoming its president and 
CEO in 1988 and chairman of the Board of Directors in 2000 after 
overseeing an extraordinary era of expansion. He served as a director 
of several San Francisco institutions, including Safeway Stores and the 
Chronicle Publishing Company.
  Through his enthusiasm for the arts, Mr. Wilbur eloquently expressed 
his love for San Francisco. He served as a director of the San 
Francisco Opera, a trustee of the Asian Art Museum, and as the 15th 
president of the San Francisco Symphony, presiding over the 
inauguration of our beloved Davies Symphony Hall in 1980.
  I offer my deepest sympathy to Judy, his beloved wife of 43 years, 
his children, Michael, Jennifer, Edward and Claire, his mother Dita, 
and his sisters Lolita and Mary. As they have lost a loved one, so the 
city of San Francisco has lost one of its most distinguished sons.

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