[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 59 (Tuesday, April 24, 2012)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E629]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  CELEBRATING MURIEL ``MANNY'' TUTEUR

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                       HON. JANICE D. SCHAKOWSKY

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 24, 2012

  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to celebrate my friend and 
role model, Manny Tuteur and to wish her a very, very happy 90th 
birthday.
  There are some people who seem bigger than life--whose 
accomplishments make you pause to wonder how one person could achieve 
so much. Manny is one of those people.
  It's almost impossible to catalogue all the accomplishments in her 
life.
  She's a veteran. During WWII, Manny served in the Women's Army Corps 
and received training at the Parachute Training School.
  She's a problem solver and a teacher. She worked as a caseworker for 
the Cook County Bureau of Public Welfare and taught preschool at Jewish 
Community Centers.
  And she has been a fighter for working men and women for over 70 
years, starting as a milling machine operator at the U.S. Steel South 
Works plant in Chicago and going on to work at the Amalgamated Clothing 
and Textile Workers Union where she started the Amalgamated Day Care 
and Health Center. She directed that Center from 1969 through 1983.
  Manny is a natural leader--who has served on the Chicago and Central 
States Joint Board of ACTWU, co-chair of the Coalition of Labor Union 
Women's National Child Care Task Force and a member of CLUW's National 
Executive Board.
  I have relied on Manny for sound advice and inspiration for years--
and I'm not the only one. Manny has advised the National Implementation 
Task Force of the White House Conference on Families, the Illinois 
Women's Agenda, and Women for Economic Justice. Manny's extraordinary 
work has been recognized by many--induction into the Chicago Women's 
Hall of Fame, the National Council of Jewish Women's Hannah G. Solomon 
Award, and the Coalition of Labor Union Women's Florence Criley Award 
are just some of her awards.
  Manny's life is not just committed to social and economic justice, 
but to her family. The love of her life was Charles, her husband of 63 
years. She adores her children, Peter and Judy, and her 13-year-old 
granddaughter Rebecca. Manny's legacy includes not just her record of 
improving workers' rights, women's rights and human rights, it also 
includes her family and her many friends whose lives she has touched 
and made so much better.
  Manny turns 90 on May I7th--and, now living in Laguna Hills, 
California, she continues working to make the world a better place. 
Whether it's registering voters, fighting against the wars in Iraq and 
Afghanistan, demonstrating with striking grocery store workers, or 
speaking out in support of Roe v. Wade, Manny continues to lead a life 
of activism. At a die-in protect recently to fight cuts to Adult Day 
Health Care. Manny said at the protest, ``I'm fighting to the very end. 
I'm fighting for the rights of people to have a decent quality of 
life.''
  Manny, I love you and thank you for your friendship, and hope you 
will continue to organize for justice for many years to come.

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