[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 14]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 19727]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                       IN HONOR OF NAOMI SOLOMON

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                           HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, October 12, 2001

  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, it is with a deep sense of sadness that I 
rise today to honor the life of Naomi Solomon, a victim of the 
terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center.
  Naomi Solomon, beloved daughter of Herbert and Lottie, sister of Jed 
and Mark, aunt and friend, grew up on the campus of Stanford University 
where her father was a professor and today a Professor Emeritus of 
Statistics. Upon graduating from Henry Gunn Senior High School in Palo 
Alto, California, as class valedictorian, she attended Stanford 
University.
  Naomi touched the lives of everyone who was blessed to know her. She 
was a talented classical pianist, an avid traveler and a successful 
businesswoman. In her professional life, she worked hard and smart, and 
she accomplished much. In the mid-1970's she was recruited by Bank of 
America where she worked for 13 years, becoming one of the very few 
female vice presidents. She then went on to work for Chase Manhattan 
for nine years and most recently worked for Callixa, a San Francisco 
based software company, where she was Vice President of Business 
Development. Naomi was attending a conference in the North Tower of the 
World Trade Center on September 11th when the terrorists viciously 
attacked our Nation.
  Naomi was committed and found great joy in her professional life, but 
her greatest devotion was to her family. No matter where she was in the 
world she always made time to call her mother every day. She loved her 
brother Jed's children as though they were her own, calling them 
several times a week just to chat. Her brother Mark and his wife 
recently welcomed their first child into the world and while he will 
never know his Aunt Naomi, he has been named Nathaniel after her.
  Mr. Speaker, Naomi Solomon enriched the lives of everyone she knew 
and loved. We grieve with her family, one of the finest families I've 
ever known and whom I have an enduring friendship, and who I have the 
privilege of representing.
  I ask my colleagues to join me in offering our deepest sympathy and 
that of our entire Nation to the Solomon family. We give gratitude for 
her all-too-brief life and we commend her into God's hands.

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