MILLER NAMED WOMAN OF YEAR.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Mary S. Miller has been selected by George Runner George C. Runner, Jr. (born March 25 1952 in Scotia, New York) is a Republican California State Senator, who represents the 17th Senate District, which includes portions of Los Angeles County, San Bernardino County and Ventura County. as his 2002 Woman of the Year. Miller was recognized formally and honored for her community service by the entire state Assembly on March 18, when she was presented with a plaque by Runner and Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson Herb J. Wesson, Jr. is a California politician. He currently serves as a Los Angeles City Councilman. He represents the 10th district. He served in the State Assembly representing the 47th district from 1998 until 2004. . ``It was an honor to have Mary Miller Mary Ellen Miller is the master of Saybrook College at Yale University and the Vincent Scully Professor of the History of Art. She studies and lectures on the art and architecture of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, on which she has authored or co-authored a number of works. as my Woman of the Year,'' said Runner, R-Lancaster. ``Mary has been one of those behind-the-scenes individuals who has been unrecognized for her community involvement for too long. It was high time she received this much-deserved tribute and a small part of the limelight.'' Miller is a native Californian who was born in Stockton and raised in Lodi Lodi, city, Italy Lodi (lô`dē), city (1991 pop. 42,250), Lombardy, N Italy, on the Adda River, near Milan. It is an important dairy and light industrial center. . Her first job was selling defense bonds and stamps after school and Saturdays. She attended Stockton Junior College and then the University of the Pacific, where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority sorority: see fraternity. . Miller is also active in the Antelope Valley Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), a Colonial patriotic society in the United States, open to women having one or more ancestors who aided the cause of the Revolution. The society was organized (1890) at Washington, D.C. , an organization she has been involved with since 1945. Miller is best known in the Antelope Valley for her grass-roots volunteerism for the Republican Party, in which she has held numerous positions of influence and organizational leadership. She is currently a director of the Antelope Valley Republican Assembly and served as an alternate delegate at the National Republican Convention in Philadelphia in 2000 and attended the inauguration of President George W. Bush in Washington, D.C. ``Everyone in Republican circles knows Mary and what major role she has played in Republican successes in the Antelope Valley,'' added Runner. |
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