[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 15]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 22703]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



        EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY OF MARY LOUISE QUIGG CALDWELL PLUMER

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                        HON. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, October 11, 2000

  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I want to recognize one of my 
constituents and very dear friends, Mary Louise Quigg Caldwell Plumer, 
of Miami, Florida, who will be celebrating her 80th birthday on October 
21st, 2000.
  Mary was born October 21, 1920 in Live Oak, Florida. Her parents 
moved to Miami when she was 6 years of age, where she was educated and 
graduated from Ponce de Leon High School in 1938. She served as editor 
of the school newspaper and was awarded the Woman's Club Cup as the 
``Most Outstanding Girl.'' Mary continued her education at the Florida 
State College for Woman (FSCW), becoming a member of the Sophomore 
Council, the Cotillion Club and the Pi Beta Phi Sorority. She graduated 
from FSCW in 1940 and transferred to the University of North Carolina 
in Chapel Hill, where she was awarded the Valkyrie Cup as the most 
outstanding Coed of the University, graduating in 1942.
  Moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1942, she worked as the publicity 
director for radio station WSB. She returned to Miami and contributed 
to the War effort by working for the Red Cross as staff assistant to 
the Army Air Corps Redistribution Unit in Miami Beach were she met her 
husband to be, Naval Lt. Commander Richard B. Plumer. He was graduated 
from Miami High School, Philips Exeter Academy and Princeton University 
summa cum laude.
  Mary raised 4 children and became actively involved in many worth-
while community projects. Among her accomplishments, she brilliantly 
led a committee to build the All Faith Chapel at Jackson Memorial 
Hospital in 1973, 5 years after her daughter died there. She has had 
articles published in The Miami Herald and Reader's Digest. She was 
awarded the M.O.M. Cup in 2000 as the Most Outstanding Mother. She also 
earned a prestigious reference in Who's Who of American Women.
  I want to join Mary's family and friends in wishing her a wonderful 
celebration and many more happy and healthy birthdays.

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