[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 144 (Thursday, September 22, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1339]
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                        HONORING ETHEL SEIDERMAN

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                           HON. JARED HUFFMAN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 22, 2016

  Mr. HUFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in memory of Ethel Seiderman, 
who passed away on July 26, 2016, after a lifetime of service to her 
community. The daughter of Jewish immigrants from Poland, Ethel 
developed a passion for children and social justice from growing up in 
a working-class Bronx childhood.
   While studying at Brooklyn College she met and married Stanley 
Seiderman. In 1963 they left New York and made their home in San 
Francisco, moving to Marin four years later. Mr. Seiderman, a family 
counselor, died in 2005.
   After founding the pioneering Fairfax-San Anselmo Children's Center 
in 1973, Ethel went on to become nationally known as a passionate 
advocate for early childhood education and social justice for needy 
children and families. In later years, on behalf of the Parent Services 
Project, Mrs. Seiderman traveled widely, teaching and lecturing in a 
dozen states. In Marin, she advised child-care centers as well as a 
dozen elementary and high schools. In 2006, she was honored with the 
Beryl H. Buck Award for ``community giving in action.''
   After running a nursery school in Terra Linda and working in child 
care centers in San Francisco's African-American Fillmore District, 
Mrs. Seiderman battled the state bureaucracy to get funding for the 
Fairfax-San Anselmo Child Care Center, the first low-cost child care 
center founded by a community member.
   Mr. Speaker, the depth of Mrs. Seiderman's commitment to the 
children, education, and social justice has left an indelible mark not 
just on the community of Marin, but on children and families far and 
wide. She was a formidable force whose presence will be missed by many. 
It is therefore appropriate that we pay tribute to her today and honor 
her memory.

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