[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 70 (Tuesday, June 6, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1016]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  HONORING THE LIFE OF HERMAN E. WARSH

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                            HON. LOIS CAPPS

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 6, 2006

  Mrs. CAPPS. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to pay tribute to Herman E. 
Warsh, and to honor his life of dedicated service to his community and 
to his country.
  Born on March 28, 1924 in Calgary, Canada to Samuel Warshovsky and 
Rebecca Wietstinietski, originally of Poland, he emigrated with his 
parents, his sister and his brother to the United States in 1925. The 
family made a home in Los Angeles, California and Herman attended 
public school until the 10th grade. In 1941, he married Lorraine Rack 
and in 1942, enlisted in the Navy and served in the South Pacific 
through 1945.
  Upon his return, he passed the GED and in only two years he received 
his BA while working full time. He went on to earn his Masters degree 
in history at UCLA while working as a teaching assistant and continued 
his education by working on three doctorates, eventually earning his 
PhD in Education from Wayne State University in 1969. Herman Warsh 
taught from 1952-1965, serving in many different capacities. He also 
taught at the college level at USC, the University of Hawaii at Hilo 
and at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
  Mr. Warsh also taught literacy to the U.S. troops in Germany, to 
First Nations' peoples in Alaska and to incarcerated men in the 
California penal system. Following the awarding of his doctorate, he 
was recruited to be the Director of Educational Programs for the Mott 
Program in the Flint Public School System. In 1974, he became head of 
the Department of Elementary Education at the University of New Mexico. 
In 1977, he moved to Santa Barbara to work with and, in 1980, to wed 
Maryann Mott. Together they devoted the bulk of their philanthropic 
efforts to their two family foundations, C.S. Fund and Warsh Mott 
Legacy.
  In addition to financial resources, Herman Warsh gave selflessly of 
his time, serving on the Board of the Fund for Santa Barbara and of 
Pacifica Graduate Institute. Nationally, he served as Chair of the 
Environmental Policy Institute, which under his leadership, merged with 
Oceanic Society and Friends of the Earth USA, to become a key 
progressive, national environmental institution.
  I am honored to recognize the life and work of Herman E. Warsh and I 
believe, as many do, that Santa Barbara is a better place for having 
him a part of this community.

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