[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 23, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E57]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              A TRIBUTE IN HONOR OF EVELYN FILICE STANTON

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                           HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, January 23, 2013

  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life of Evelyn 
Filice Stanton who died peacefully while on a family vacation on 
December 29, 2012.
  Evelyn was born on December 17, 1926, in Hollister, California, at 
the apricot and prune ranch of her parents. She lived there until World 
War II when her father moved the family to San Francisco, where she 
entered Lowell High School, graduating with the Class of 1944. She 
earned her A.B. degree from U.C. Berkeley where she met her future 
husband, returning war veteran Emmett Stanton, whom she married in 
1949.
  Evelyn earned a teaching credential from San Francisco State 
University, and taught at El Cerrito High School while Emmett practiced 
dentistry. The couple moved to San Mateo County in 1952, where they 
raised their four sons.
  Evelyn Stanton served as the President or as a board member of the 
United Way of the Bay Area; Mills Peninsula Hospital; Belmont Hills 
Psychiatric Center; AAUW Education Foundation; San Mateo County League 
of Women Voters; Family Services Association; American Heart 
Association; Poplar Center for the Developmentally Disabled; the 
Hillsborough Concours D'Elegance, which she co-chaired with her 
husband, and for which they were honored as Hillsborough's Citizens of 
the Year in 1979; San Mateo High School and Crocker Middle School 
PARENT Groups; Admiralty Home Owners Association; and the Citizen Task 
Force to study county government operations in 1975-1977.
  In 1979, Evelyn began working for the Mental Health Association of 
San Mateo, her first foray into the paid workforce since her years as a 
teacher. She became Executive Director in 1979 and served in that post 
until 2003. Evelyn Stanton distinguished herself in every community 
organization she was part of but her extraordinary leadership in the 
mental health community of San Mateo County was legendary. She was 
``Mrs. Mental Health'', shaping and making the system the best in 
California.
  Together we were founding members of the San Mateo County General 
Hospital Foundation. She was a member of the AIDS Community Board, and 
Chair of the Mental Health Contract Agencies. Evelyn earned and was 
awarded many honors--the Soroptomist Woman of the Year; the Evelyn F. 
Stanton Endowed Fellowship established by AAUW; the Seaton Manning 
Outstanding Agency Professional Award; and she was inducted into the 
San Mateo County Women's Hall of Fame in 1987.
  Evelyn will be deeply missed by her four devoted sons, Gary of San 
Mateo, Greg of San Diego, Dave of San Francisco, Emmett of San 
Francisco and her nine beloved grandchildren.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in honoring a great and 
good woman who served the people of San Mateo County with honor and 
generosity, earning the respect of the entire community, as well as her 
colleagues in public service. I ask my colleagues to extend to her 
family our most sincere sympathy for their loss. Evelyn Stanton will be 
missed by everyone who had the good fortune to know her, and I count 
myself among those so blessed. Our community has been strengthened by 
her life and her service, and our country has been immensely bettered 
by her extraordinary contributions and a life lived exceedingly well.

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