[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 134 (Thursday, December 7, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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                  IN HONOR OF JEANETTE GRASSELLI BROWN

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                        HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, December 6, 2006

  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise in esteem of Jeanette Grasselli 
Brown's lifetime of profound accomplishments. Ms. Grasselli Brown has 
contributed immensely to the world through her distinguished career as 
a chemist, and since retiring she has been just as busy working to 
improve northeast Ohio.
  After beginning her career as the only female chemistry major at Ohio 
University, Ms. Grasselli Brown continued to work for 39 years at BP 
America, retiring as the director of corporate research. At BP, Ms. 
Grasselli Brown fought to ensure that female employees received 
salaries equal to their male coworkers, and that they received flexible 
schedules while raising their children. While working full time, she 
earned her master's degree in organic chemistry, and wrote a monthly 
column called ``Letter from America,'' for a European spectroscopy 
journal. Ms. Grasselli Brown also has served as an advisor for The 
White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, 
the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology, the International 
Women's Forum, the Ohio Academy of Sciences, the Smithsonian Institute, 
and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Furthermore, 
Ms. Grasselli Brown is a champion within the scientific world and is 
considered the outstanding woman chemist in the United States. She 
received the Garvan Medal in 1986 from the American Chemical 
Association, and the Fisher Award in 1993 from the American Chemical 
Society. In 1999, she followed these accolades with the American 
Chemical Society's Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the 
Chemical Sciences. She has been recognized by the Society for Applied 
Spectroscopy with their Distinguished Service Award; she has received 
13 honorary doctoral degrees from universities in both the United 
States and Hungary; and she is listed in both The World's Who's Who of 
Women and Foremost Women of the Twentieth Century. In 1989, Ms. 
Grasselli Brown was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame, and 
she was the first woman to be inducted into the Ohio Science and 
Technology Hall of Fame. In addition to her full time job at BP, she 
has been a director of six corporations, three of which are Fortune 500 
companies.
  Ms. Grasselli Brown has been a tireless worker in the corporate, 
civic, and philanthropic realms, and continues her commitment to 
northeast Ohio through her work on numerous committees and boards of 
regents, acting as trustee and chair.
  Today I am honored to ask my colleagues to join me in recognizing the 
life and achievements of this amazing woman, Ms. Jeanette Grasselli 
Brown.

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