[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 165 (Friday, November 6, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2738]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


               COMMEMMORATING THE LIFE OF KATHRYN BROPHY

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                          HON. ROSA L. DeLAURO

                             of connecticut

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, November 6, 2009

  Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I rise to commemorate the life and work 
of Kathryn Brophy, longtime Director of the School Lunch Program for 
Boston's public schools, who passed away at the age of 89 last month.
  Kathryn Brophy's passionate commitment to the cause of fighting 
hunger and malnutrition was borne of personal experience. As the 
daughter of a single mother from the age of 10, Brophy, nee Kathryn 
Nagle, spent her formative years during the Depression as one of the 
very same vulnerable and often hungry children she would spend her 
life's work aiding. But, in part thanks to her mother's strong emphasis 
on education--Mrs. Brophy would go on to graduate from Framingham State 
Teacher's College in 1941, and study dietetics for a year at Duke.
  From her years as a dietician for the U.S. Army during World War II, 
where she achieved the rank of captain, to her retirement from the 
Boston school system in 1988, Mrs. Brophy subsequently spent a lifetime 
of service in the cause of bettering nutrition. In Boston, she 
ultimately oversaw a program that fed over 30,000 children, and she 
made sure fruits, vegetables, skim milk, and other healthy foods were 
made available to her charges.
  Aside from nutrition, Mrs. Brophy's other great passion in life was 
her two daughters, Susan and Jane, whom she took years off to raise. 
She leaves them now, along with a sister, Jean Hannon, nine 
grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren, as she goes to join her 
husband of 47 years, William Brophy, who passed in 1995. She is missed 
not only by her family and the many nutrition advocates who share her 
cause, but also by the thousands of Boston schoolchildren who could 
learn better and live healthier thanks to her decades of public 
service.

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