[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 6736]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              MARY KELLIGREW KASSLER: 25 YEARS OF HER BEST

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                           HON. BARNEY FRANK

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 9, 2009

  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Madam Speaker, after 25 years of 
extraordinary service in the WIC Program, Mary Kelligrew Kassler is 
retiring. I know literally no one who has worked harder to make this 
the kind of country that we all want to live in. Her dedication to 
providing needed assistance at the critical time in their lives to 
lower-income women and their children is unsurpassed.
  I will personally miss her as a source of absolutely reliable advice 
in this area. She combined a zeal for the important work she was doing 
with a balanced outlook and a realistic understanding of how to get 
things done that made her an advisor on whom I could always rely 
without any question.
  For 25 years Mary Kelligrew Kassler has exemplified public service in 
a critical area. Madam Speaker, I hope that young people contemplating 
careers will learn about the extraordinary work she did and that she 
will be, at least for some, a role model.

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