[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 6276]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 A TRIBUTE TO SALLY KENDALL BALDWIN, 29TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT WOMAN 
                           OF THE YEAR--2003

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                          HON. ADAM B. SCHIFF

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 13, 2003

  Mr. SCHIFF. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Women's History Month. 
Each year, we pay special tribute to the accomplishments made by our 
nation's most distinguished women during the month of March. It is my 
great honor to recognize extraordinary women who are making a 
difference in my district.
  I stand today, to recognize an outstanding woman of California's 29th 
Congressional District, Ms. Sally Kendall Baldwin. Ms. Baldwin's 
passion for community service, especially on behalf of education and 
the arts, has made the City of San Gabriel a better place in which to 
live.
  A native Californian, Ms. Baldwin attended UCLA, majoring in 
Elementary Education. In 1960, she met and married Harry Baldwin, 
currently a San Gabriel City Councilman, and they have two children, 
Kendall and Gregory. After college, the Baldwin family moved to San 
Gabriel, California.
  As a young mother, Sally was involved in the Boy Scouts of America, 
San Gabriel National Little League and the San Gabriel High School 
Quarterback Club. After her children were grown, she became involved in 
the Pasadena Shakespeare League and efforts to raise funds for the 
renovation of the San Gabriel Mission.
  Ms. Baldwin has been instrumental in the efforts toward unification 
of the San Gabriel School District, which was accomplished in 1992 and 
the school bond issue to renovate elementary schools, which passed in 
2002. A teacher in the San Gabriel Unified School District for the last 
twenty-eight years, she will retire in June 2003. She began the Annual 
Community Read-in at McKinley Elementary School. Last year, she worked 
with the Los Angeles Master Chorale on a project for her students to 
learn how to write lyrics and melody, and perform their own songs with 
members of the Chorale.
  Currently, Sally is Executive Vice President of the Asian Youth 
Center, a member of the San Gabriel Historical Society and the 
Metropolitan Associates, an outreach of the L.A. Opera Company. In 
addition, she is active in The Church of Our Saviour Episcopal Church, 
serving as a Vestry member, an usher and a Lay Eucharist Minister.
  The time and effort she gives to our community is truly remarkable, 
and the City of San Gabriel has benefited greatly from her dedicated 
service.
  I ask all Members of Congress to join me today in honoring an 
extraordinary woman of California's 29th Congressional District, Sally 
Kendall Baldwin. The entire community joins me in thanking Sally 
Baldwin for her continued efforts to make the 29th Congressional 
District an enhanced environment in which to live.

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