[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 4]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 4810]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      IN HONOR OF SUSAN A. McCLOUD

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                             HON. SAM FARR

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, April 16, 2012

  Mr. FARR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the career of Susan A. 
McCloud, who retires as the longest-serving Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, 
California, on April 17, 2012. Sue was born in Connecticut to Walter 
and Gladys McCloud. Her family moved to Carmel when she was in 
elementary school and she lives now in the same house her parents 
bought. We both shared the joys of growing up in Carmel, attending 
Sunset Elementary and Carmel High School. Sue earned her B.A. in 
Political Science at Stanford University, attended the Graduate 
Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, and 
graduated from The National War College in Washington, D.C.
  In the early 1960's Sue worked as the Special Assistant and 
interpreter to Richard C. Zellerbach, who was deaf, while he was Acting 
Chairman of the Board of the Crown Zellerbach Corporation and head of 
the Zellerbach family foundations. She also assisted with the 
organization of the family vineyard, Hanzell, in Sonoma, California. 
From 1963 to 1994 Sue served our nation with the Central Intelligence 
Agency in France, England, Japan, Switzerland and Sweden. She was named 
C.I.A. Chief of Station in two of those countries, and retired as a 
member of the Senior Intelligence Service.
  While in the C.I.A. Sue worked with policy levels of foreign 
governments and served as an advisor to several U.S. Ambassadors, 
worked on task forces to address long-term planning for the post-Cold 
War C.I.A. and the greater U.S. Intelligence Community, and headed up 
the Aldrich Ames damage assessment team.
  Upon retiring in 1994 she moved back to her roots, Carmel-by-the-Sea, 
and immediately got down to work. She was on the Board of Director of 
Monterey Institute of International Studies and chaired its Planning 
Committee, was a member of the Carmel Planning Commission and the Board 
of the Carmel Music Society. In 1998 Sue joined the Monterey Regional 
Waste Management District and also was elected to the Carmel City 
Council. She became Director of the M.R.W.M.D. and continues to this 
day as vice chair. She was elected Mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea in 2000 
and was re-elected four times, becoming the longest-serving Mayor of 
our town.
  How can I begin to thank her for all her years of public service? She 
has won so many awards: the 2009 Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce 
Ruth Vreeland Memorial ``Public Official of the Year'', 2000 Lincoln 
Club of Northern California Ten Most Effective Women Legislators, 
C.I.A.'s Intelligence Medal of Merit, Donovan Award for Excellence 
(given in memory of the founder of the Office of Strategic Services.) I 
am always mindful of the talent that has come from our area, and she is 
one of our nation's best.
  Mr. Speaker, I know I speak for the whole House as I commend Mayor 
Sue McCloud for all she has done and all she will undoubtedly continue 
to do. I extend my most sincere thanks and warmest wishes for her 
success and much happiness in her retirement.

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