[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 22852]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        HONORING WANDA A. BROWN

 Mrs. McCASKILL. Mr. President, I ask the Senate to join me 
today in congratulating Wanda A. Brown of Harrisonville, MO. Wanda has 
devoted her life to community journalism and community service. The 
Missouri Associated Press will induct Wanda into the Missouri Press 
Hall of Fame on September 7, 2007.
  Wanda began her career in journalism in 1946 as copublisher of the 
Willow Springs News with her late husband J.W. Brown, Jr. With their 
purchase of the Harrisonville Democrat-Missourian in 1955, they were 
able to form the Cass County Publishing Company. Under Wanda's guidance 
as business manager, Cass County Publishing Company operated many of 
western Missouri's important publications including the Cass County 
Democrat-Missourian, Lee's Summit Journal, Belton Star Herald, Bates 
County Democrat and the Lawrence County Record. Wanda retired from 
publishing in 1985 after working in community journalism for 30 years.
  The State of Missouri has benefited not only from Wanda's prolific 
career in journalism but also from her dedication to public service and 
philanthropy. Two generations of Cass County residents have known Wanda 
as the author of ``Wanda's Favorite Recipes'' which is a weekly column 
in the Democrat-Missourian. Wanda then turned these columns into two 
cookbooks. Proceeds from the first cookbook were donated to a local 
theater group, the Way Off Broadway Players, and from the second book 
to the Cass Medical Center Foundation.
  The town of Harrisonville and the State of Missouri have been lucky 
to have Wanda as one of its prominent citizens, awarding her with 
honors such as the Harrisonville Area Chamber of Commerce President's 
Award and the Missouri Merit Mother of the Year Award.
  Mr. President, I ask that the Senate join me in honoring Wanda A. 
Brown for her decades of dedicated service to the citizens of Missouri. 
We congratulate Wanda on her induction into the Missouri Press Hall of 
Fame.

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