[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 12]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 17450]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      TRIBUTE TO GEORGIE O'CONNOR

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                          HON. KEVIN McCARTHY

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 29, 2010

  Mr. McCARTHY of California. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor a 
community leader, Mrs. Georgie O'Connor, on her retirement after 49 
years of service on the Lucia Mar Unified School District Board in 
Arroyo Grande, California.
  Georgie O'Connor's family moved to Arroyo Grande in 1928 and she 
attended Orchard Avenue School. O'Connor and her husband Bill have been 
married for 67 years and have lived directly across the street from 
Orchard Avenue School, which is now Arroyo Grande High School, for the 
past 55 years, where they have raised four sons--Bill, Mike, Pat, and 
Casey--all of whom attended Arroyo Grande schools.
  Mrs. O'Connor has the distinction of holding tenure as the longest 
continually-serving school board member in the State of California. 
Mrs. O'Connor was first elected to the Arroyo Grande Elementary School 
District in 1961. In 1965 the district joined other small districts in 
the southern portion of San Luis Obispo County in unification and 
became the Lucia Mar Unified School District. During her first 15 years 
of board service, she was the only female on the board. During her 
tenure, O'Connor has seen the number of Lucia Mar Unified School 
District schools grow from 4 to 17; expand to serve grades K-12, and an 
overall student population grow to 10,500 students.
  Dedicated to serving her community, Mrs. O'Connor's stewardship and 
selflessness to the students of Lucia Mar Unified School District will 
be sorely missed and difficult to replace, but her well-deserved 
retirement will give her the ability to spend more time with her 
family. I thank Mrs. O'Connor for her lifetime of board service and 
dedication to the children of Arroyo Grande and San Luis Obispo County. 
I wish her the very best in her future endeavors.

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