11502 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 21, 2001 he attended the Air War College, served in nations in the Carribean and Pacific. With few leagues to join me in paying tribute to a great NATO as head of the US Defense Production natural resources, these nations often resort to and good woman, and offer the condolences Staff in London, and was Chief, Military Assist- harvesting or otherwise exploiting coral reefs of the entire House of Representatives to her ance Advisory Group, United Kingdom. and other marine habitats to earn hard cur- family. In June 1957, he was assigned as Com- rency to service foreign debt. f mander, Mobile Air Material Area and followed The Coral Reef and Coastal Marine Con- this assignment with a two-year tour at the servation Act of 2001 will essentially credit A SALUTE TO BERKELEY CITY Pentagon where he was Director of Logistics qualified developing nations for each dollar COUNCILMEMBER AND VICE for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Cuban Mis- spent on a comprehensive reef preservation or MAYOR MAUDELLE SHIREK IN sile Crisis highlighted this tour, where General management program designed to protect HONOR OF HER 90TH BIRTHDAY Callahan oversaw the massive movement and these unique ecosystems from degradation. CELEBRATION positioning of personnel and equipment to This legislation will make available re- deal with this crisis. sources for environmental stewardship that HON. BARBARA LEE Following his retirement in 1963, General would otherwise be of the lowest priority in a OF CALIFORNIA Callahan spent five years with Chrysler Cor- developing country. It will reduce debt by in- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES poration in their Defense-Space Group, and in vesting locally in programs that will strengthen Thursday, June 21, 2001 1968, he joined NASA at the Kennedy Space indigenous economies by creating long-term Center as the Director of Administration. He management policies that will preserve the Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise in honor today was there for five years, which included the natural resources upon which local commerce to salute and celebrate the 90th birthday of a Lunar landing program and man’s first steps is based. Berkeley legend, City Councilmember and on the moon. This concept has been successfully used by Vice Mayor Maudelle Shirek. After retiring from NASA, Gen. Callahan de- the United States to encourage environmental Maudelle was born the grandchild of slaves voted most of his time to the Air Force Asso- stewardship that would otherwise prove cost- in Jefferson, Arkansas. Having been raised to ciation, serving as Chapter President in both prohibitive to developing countries. Resources be socially conscious and responsible, upon Florida and Tennessee and state President in are reinvested in local economic growth and her arrival in the San Francisco Bay Area Florida. He was a permanent Member of the our planet as a whole reaps the benefit. more than 50 years ago, she immediately National Board of Directors and in 1979, he I urge my colleagues to join myself and my plunged into the civil rights struggles of the was elected as National Chairman of the cosponsors in support of this legislation. day. Board. Gen. Callahan was chosen as the Air f One of the main issues of the post-WWII Force Association’s Man of the Year in 1981. era was fair housing. Landlords often refused General Callahan received a master’s in En- TRIBUTE TO ANN DAWSON to rent to African Americans and new housing gineering from the University of Michigan and TORREY was built with discriminatory covenants not al- an Honorary Doctorate in Law from the Uni- lowing Blacks to buy houses in certain areas. versity of Alabama. A Command Pilot with HON. ANNA G. ESHOO Maudelle was a key leader in the struggle for 10,200 hours flying time, General Callahan OF CALIFORNIA fair housing that culminated in California As- was awarded many military and civilian IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES semblyman Rumford’s Fair Housing Act. awards, including the Distinguished Service Maudelle also helped shape the political fu- Medal and legion of merit with two Bronze Thursday, June 21, 2001 ture of this country by persuading a young Oak Leak Clusters. Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to University of California graduate student Mr. Speaker, General Callahan was a great pay tribute to a distinguished American, and named Ron Dellums to run for Congress. I success in each duty he held, and his country long-time constituent of California’s 14th Con- worked with and was mentored and trained by is the better for it. You know, there’s a song gressional District—Ann Dawson Torrey, who Congressman Dellums. Without Maudelle’s in- that virtually every graduate of General Cal- passed away on May 25, 2001. fluence on Ron, I may not be in Congress lahan’s alma mater, West Point, knows the A lifelong Democrat and a staunch defender today. worlds to and tries to live up to. Its last verse of women’s rights, Ann Torrey was born in Wherever she has worked, Maudelle has includes the solemn words, Hollywood, California on December 1, 1911. been an organizer. Serving as Director of the ‘‘And when our work is done, Our course on As a child she learned an early and important West Berkeley Senior Center, she simulta- earth is run, May it be said ‘Well Done,’ Be lesson—the power of civic activism. While still neously was on the State Executive Board of thou at peace.’’ an infant, Ann’s mother pushed her in a baby Service Employees International Union, Local Mr. Speaker, General Callahan certainly carriage during the historic marches for wom- 535. When Berkeley bureaucrats claimed she lived up to those words. I think I speak for all en’s suffrage. was too old to run the senior center, she ran of General Callahan’s countrymen when I say, Ann Torrey also understood the power of an for City Council and won. She is now serving ‘‘Well done, sir. Be thou at peace.’’ education—she devoted much of her adult life her seventh term on the Council and has been f to teaching young women and men to suc- re-elected by larger margins with each pro- CORAL REEF AND COASTAL MA- ceed in their societies. Between 1937 and gressive election. RINE CONSERVATION ACT OF 2001 1949, Ann Torrey taught students in Monterey, Maudelle was the first Berkeley City California, Shanghai, China and Menlo Park, Councilmember, and one of the first elected California. From 1949 to 1976 she distin- officials in the state, to take action against the HON. MARK STEVEN KIRK guished herself as an elementary school AIDS pandemic by sponsoring educational OF ILLINOIS teacher in the Redwood City School District. materials, needle-exchange programs and IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Ann Torrey was proud to be a teacher and be- housing for AIDS patients. When the county Thursday, June 21, 2001 lieved firmly in the value of an education for hospital tried to close its facilities serving AIDS Mr. KIRK. Mr. Speaker, today I introduced all. patients, she chained herself to the doors to bipartisan legislation, H.R. 2272 the ‘‘Coral A graduate of the University of California at call attention to the plight of AIDS victims. As Reef and Coastal Marine Conservation Act of Berkeley, Ann Torrey received her teaching a result of her efforts, that facility remains 2001,’’ to help developing countries reduce credential from San Jose State University. In open today. foreign debt and provide for the creation of 1966, she went back to school to earn her Maudelle has been an incredible influence comprehensive environmental preservation Master’s in Education at Stanford University. A in my life. Maudelle taught me that I was not programs to protect endangered marine habi- long-time resident of Redwood City, California, only a citizen of the United States but a citizen tats around the world. I have been joined by Ann Torrey moved to State College, Pennsyl- of the world. While a student at Mills College, thirteen of my colleagues who are committed vania in 1998 in order to be closer to her Maudelle helped me organize the Black Stu- to creatively addressing two problematic grandchildren. dent Union’s study mission trip to Ghana, Afri- issues of foreign policy. Mr. Speaker, our nation’s children lost an ca where she spent one month with the stu- The burden of foreign debt falls especially important role model and a selfless teacher dents. Her insight and counsel greatly en- hard on the smallest of nations, such as island with the passing of Ann Torrey. I ask my col- riched their experience.

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