[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 26 (Monday, February 11, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E157]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                         HONORING BARBARA PAHRE

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                           HON. MIKE THOMPSON

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, February 11, 2019

  Mr. THOMPSON of California. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize 
Barbara Pahre for her many successes throughout her career and at the 
American Association of University Women (AAUW) and the Napa County 
AAUW.
  Ms. Pahre is an exceptional past president of the Napa County 
American Association of University Women. She started the Author's 
Forum, an event to raise scholarships for girls and young women for 
their educational and professional pursuits six years ago. The event 
has been a major success and has raised over $100,000 in scholarship 
funds.
  Ms. Pahre was born in Illinois and moved to Napa, California with her 
husband Keith in the early 1960s. She began her career as a teacher at 
Carneros School and retired as Napa Valley Unified School District's 
(NVUSD) Associate Superintendent and Director of Human Resources. 
During her time at NVUSD she also directed the gifted students' program 
and the state funded school improvement programs and was the main 
negotiator for salary and employment issues. Ms. Pahre has worked with 
students in other capacities as well. She ran Magic Years Preschool and 
taught master's level courses at Chapman University and Pacific Union 
College.
  Ms. Pahre is engaged in our community and has given her time to many 
state and county commissions and boards. Some of them include Napa 
Civil Service Commission, Napa General Plan Review Committee, Napa Open 
Space Committee, Golden Gate Bridge and Highway Transportation 
District, and Sonoma/Marin Area Rail Transit.
  Madam Speaker, Barbara Pahre has spent her career and retirement 
working to better our community and serve our county. It is therefore 
fitting and proper that we honor the service of Barbara Pahre here 
today.

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