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“MILDRED KIEFER WURF--A VIGOROUS ADVOCATE FOR GIRLS” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Labor was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E682 on April 28, 1998.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
MILDRED KIEFER WURF--A VIGOROUS ADVOCATE FOR GIRLS
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HON. ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON
of the district of columbia
in the house of representatives
Tuesday, April 28, 1998
Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to Mildred Kiefer Wurf, the distinguished and high respected Director of Public Policy of Girls Incorporated who has been a powerful voice for girls for nearly three decades.
Mrs. Wurf began her career as a senior staff member on the President's Council on Youth Opportunity and established contacts with more than 175 voluntary and professional organizations for this White House agency, promoting programs for disadvantaged youth within the nonprofit sector and among federal agencies. She has served as an appointee to the U.S. Department of Labor, Citizen Review Commission, Comprehensive Youth Employment Commission, US Travel Service Advisory Committee, U.S. Department of Commerce, and the National Commission on Youth, Kettering Foundation and the Government Relations Committee of the Independent Sector. Mildred Kiefer Wurf served as the founding coordinator of the National Collaboration for Youth, where she brought together directors of 13 national organizations, developed management and funding symposiums, drafted statements on youth issues, wrote testimony and briefed principals and facilitated large youth employment and delinquency prevention grants.
Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Wurf was the first director of the Washington Office of Girls Clubs of America. She monitored hearings and legislation, testified before Congressional Committees, was responsible for staffing the Expansion, Development and Advocacy Committees of the National Board and originated and wrote a Washington newsletter for affiliates and Board. She has persuasively applied her passion for words both as a spokesperson and as coauthor of Girls, Inc. Advocacy publications that were used to remove barriers, provide gender equity and fight for equitable allocations of resources--``Today's Girls, Tomorrow's Women,'' ``An Action Agenda for Equalizing Girls' Options,''
``Service Through Advocacy'' and ``Leadership Through Advocacy.''
She has initiated successful collaborations with national women's organizations including the American Association of University Women, National Council of Jewish Women, The Committee of 100 Black Women and the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs Inc., among others, that resulted in noteworthy initiatives such as the
``Women Helping Girls With Choices'' Project. She has been an active volunteer serving on the Board of the National Committee for Citizens in Education, Business and Professional Women's Foundation, National Child Research Center, Fund for an OPEN Society, as Board Chair of the Center for Youth Services in Washington, D.C. and on the Advisory Committee of the Center for Early Adolescence at the University of North Carolina. As Director of Public Policy of Girls Incorporated, she continues to monitor issues affecting girls and young women, informs the National Board, staff and affiliates of relevant legislation and public education events, recommends and drafts public policy positions and serves as a strong, smart, bold and ``vigorous advocate for girls.''
She is the proud and loving mother of a son, Nicholas Wurf of London, England and, a daughter, Abigail Wurf of St. Louis, Missouri.
Mr. Speaker, I ask that this August body join me in applauding Mildred Kiefer Wurf for her dedicated service and exemplary record of highly effective advocacy on behalf of Girls Incorporated and the millions of girls of this nation and extend to her our best wishes for every success in her future endeavors.
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