[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Pages 2555-2556]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         TRIBUTE TO DIANE WOLF

 Mr. LAUTENBERG. Mr. President, sadly, I wish to pay tribute to 
Diane Wolf, who died January 10 at the age of 53. Diane was someone 
many of us in the Senate knew well. She was unabashed in her interest 
in government and worked tirelessly to improve the world in which we 
live. She was willing

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at all times to use her personal resources to make issues clearly 
understood and actively supported. She considered it an obligation of 
our democracy to express herself on the importance of matters under 
consideration by the Congress.
  Diane served on countless committees ranging from the arts to 
government. In addition to her role as a benefactor of the Metropolitan 
Museum of Art in New York, Diane Wolf was active in the cultural 
atmosphere in our nation's Capital. There, she worked on the boards of 
trustees for the U.S. Senate Preservation Board, the Foundation for the 
National Archives, and the Washington National Opera, as well as 
holding board positions on the Library of Congress Madison Council, 
Smithsonian Council of American Art, and the Kennedy Center National 
Committee, among others. In 1985, she was appointed by President Reagan 
to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, and Diane had an immediate impact 
in this new role. She worked to change the design on U.S. coins and 
allow creativity and American history to serve as the basis for their 
design. While her effort to revolutionize our coinage did not 
materialize, Diane displayed the tenacity and commitment that 
characterized everything she undertook.
  Diane Wolf was blessed with a loving family who took pleasure in 
every aspect of her life and her interests. Though she was taken from 
them far too early in her life, memories of her being will be the 
greatest of family treasures. As we look to the future, let us pause 
and remember Diane Wolf, an outstanding, caring human being who 
dedicated her life to helping others. She will be missed by all who 
knew her.

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