[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 21]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 31294]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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     A TRIBUTE IN HONOR OF FRANCIS H. DUEHAY, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF 
                        CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS

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                        HON. MICHAEL E. CAPUANO

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, November 19, 1999

  Mr. CAPUANO. Mr. Speaker, I rise to acknowledge the forthcoming 
retirement of Francis H. Duehay, Mayor of the City of Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.
  Frank Duehay has been an elected official in the City of Cambridge 
for 36 consecutive years, having first won a seat on the Cambridge 
School Committee in 1963. After having served four terms on the School 
Committee, he ran for the Cambridge City Council in 1971 and has served 
continuously since that time. Mayor Duehay first served as Mayor of the 
City of Cambridge for the 1980-1981 term, and in 1985 when he was 
elected to complete the term of Mayor Leonard Russell, who died in 
office.
  As an elected member of the School Committee, Mayor Duehay introduced 
the Community Schools Program, which involved parents in the hiring of 
teachers and principals. He also was Chairman of the School Committee 
at the time when Cambridge successfully desegregated its school system. 
While on the City Council, Mayor Duehay chaired the Health and 
Hospitals Committee and oversaw the evolution of the Cambridge Health 
System, as it has now become one of the country's finest health care 
systems. He has been active in issues relating to municipal finance, 
zoning and planning, provision of neighborhood service, environmental 
protection, affordable housing, historic preservation and economic 
development. Most recently, he has led Council efforts to design and 
fund new affordable housing programs.
  Mayor Duehay has served as Chair of the Trustees of First Parish 
(Unitarian Universalist) Church in Cambridge where he is a long time 
member. He is a board member of Tutoring Plus, The Cambridge Homes, and 
the Phillips Brooks House at Harvard University; and is an active 
member of several committees with the National League of Cities and the 
Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA). Moreover, he has served as 
Chairman of the Cambridge-Yervan, Armenia Sister City Committee. 
Currently, Mayor Duehay is serving as MMA Vice President and in 1998 
was the President of the Massachusetts Association of City and Town 
Councillors.
  In his most recent term as Mayor, Mayor Duehay was Chairman of the 
Cambridge Kids Council, Chairman of the Welfare Reform Task Force, and 
successfully administered the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program, 
which provide jobs to 400 Cambridge residents. During his term as 
Mayor, Frank Duehay presided over the City Council with civility and 
dignity. He brought a true sense of professionalism to the body and 
with his departure, an era of Cambridge government will come to a 
close.
  Mayor Duehay will now retire to the role of private, yet active 
citizen. He has the great fortune of being married to Jane Kenworthy 
Lewis, an attorney and Decision Reporter with the Massachusetts Supreme 
Court.
  Mayor Duehay will be sorely missed as he steps away from the public 
window. It was an honor for me to serve alongside this true gentleman.

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