[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 115 (Tuesday, July 28, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2034]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  HONORING THE LIFE OF FRAN GREENSPAN

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                           HON. STEVE ISRAEL

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 28, 2009

  Mr. ISRAEL. Madam Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to the life of 
Fran Greenspan. If we are lucky in our lives, we will have come across 
someone who inspires us to be better citizens, someone who we hold out 
as a role model for our children, someone who makes it her life's work 
to improve the community in which she lives. Thankfully, there are 
hundreds of students in a town I represent who can say that their lives 
were touched by Fran Greenspan.
  For over twenty years, Fran has been involved in the education of 
students in the Half Hollow Hills School District. After she gave up 
teaching to raise her family, she joined the Parent Teacher 
Association, then the district's school board and ultimately became the 
district's President. She was a passionate advocate for child safety, 
expansion of the district's gifted students program and improvement in 
the drug and alcohol awareness programs. Her list of accomplishments is 
lengthy, but does not fully express the measure of her impact because 
woven into each one is a caring and warmth unique to Fran. For example, 
she founded and hosted a small program in the district for families 
with working parents who left for work before the start of the school 
day that needed a place for their children. At the elementary school 
each morning, Fran served those kids breakfast. For years, The 
Breakfast Club eased the burden on working families, and each child 
that passed through it became one of Fran's children. In this and a 
thousand other ways, the community came to know and cherish Fran 
Greenspan. In honor of her years of dedication and service, the 
district's central administrative building now bears her name. Her 
memory is an inspiration to all who work there that we can in our own 
lives make the lives of others better through community service and an 
unending kindness.

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