Statement in Honor of Mabel Brown Schine
June 27, 2002
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay a final tribute to the magnificent life of Mabel Schine. Mabel passed away recently in San Francisco after a lifetime of community service and leadership. We are very grateful for her distinguished career and her inspirational life, and we will miss her greatly.
As a dietary expert at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital, Mary's Help Hospital, and the Jewish Home for the Aged and as the City's first African American District Health Director, Mabel demonstrated her remarkable talents as a dietician and as an expert advisor during her thirty-year career.
Her service to the City of San Francisco included work for the Economic Opportunity Council and Model Cities Program and on the Citizen's Advisory Committee for Mayor Feinstein's Office of Community Development. She served as Treasurer of the San Francisco Black Leadership Forum and was actively involved in San Francisco politics.
Following her retirement, she continued to serve her community at Bayview Hunter's Point Senior Health Day Care Center, Bayview Hunter's Point Boy and Girls Club, and as President of the San Francisco Sickle Cell Disease Foundation. Her service also extended to Contra Costa County where she led non-profit boards, ran government commissions, and tirelessly and eloquently advocated on behalf of the black community.
To her husband Lloyd Schine, her daughter Marvin Jean and her son Lloyd Jr.,
her sisters, her grandchildren and her many dear friends, thank you for sharing
Mabel with our City and our community. I hope it is a comfort to you that so
many people share your grief and honor her memory.