[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 9 (Tuesday, January 22, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S88]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         HONORING MAXINE FROST

 Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I ask my colleagues to join me in 
recognizing the accomplishments of Maxine Pierce Frost, a longtime 
community leader in Riverside, CA, and nationally renown leader in 
education. In November 2007 Maxine Frost announced her retirement from 
the Riverside Unified School District after 40 years of dedicated 
service. Due to failing health, she died shortly thereafter.
  Since 1967, Maxine Frost has provided leadership to her community, 
the State of California, and our Nation. As a board member of the 
Riverside Unified School District, Frost has seen great change in 
education policy throughout her tenure. Being a member of the first 
large school district in the Nation to voluntarily desegregate, she has 
helped pave the way for similar changes across America.
  Throughout periods of intense growth in the State and the region, 
Maxine Frost has worked diligently to ensure that students and 
educators are provided with adequate resources. The Riverside Unified 
School District has grown from roughly 23,000 students to 43,000 
students during Frost's tenure. Throughout this period of intense 
growth, she has maintained her resolve that every student have the 
resources they need to succeed.
  Numerous academic committees across the State of California and our 
Nation have benefitted from the leadership and experience of Maxine 
Frost. She has held a number of leadership posts: president of the 
Pacific Region of National School Boards Association, the California 
School Boards Association Legislative Network, the California 
Association of Suburban School Districts, the Schools Accrediting 
Commissions, the Council for Basic Education, and the California 
Association of Student Council's Board of Directors. In 1981, after 
serving as president of the California School Boards Association, 
California Governor George Deukmejian appointed her to the Education 
Commission of the States, in which she served alongside future 
President William Jefferson Clinton, who chaired the commission at that 
time.
  On October 16, 2006, the Riverside Unified School District adopted a 
resolution to designate one of its elementary schools as Maxine Frost 
Elementary School, in honor of her longtime service and dedication to 
the community.
  On her retirement from four decades of service and dedication to the 
students, families, and educators of California and our Nation, I am 
pleased to ask my colleagues to join me in posthumously thanking her 
for her fine work. Her tremendous leadership and lifetime of 
achievement will be long remembered.

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