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020892960
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 290
Offered January 24, 2002
On the death of Norma Lang Steuerle.
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WHEREAS, on September 11, 2001, terrorists launched an inexcusable attack on the United States, causing great destruction and horrible human suffering in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania; and

WHEREAS, the attack had a devastating effect in Virginia, home of the Pentagon and of many of the personnel, military and civilian, who served there; and

WHEREAS, among the victims of the Pentagon attack was Norma Lang Steuerle of Alexandria, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon on September 11th; and

WHEREAS, Norma Steuerle, a native of Pittsburgh, was a clinical psychologist who practiced in Old Town Alexandria and Annandale and specialized in counseling families, couples, and children; and

WHEREAS, married and the mother of two daughters, Norma Steuerle was valedictorian of her class at Carnegie Mellon University and held a master's degree from Temple University and a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin; and

WHEREAS, Norma Steuerle was on the first leg of a journey to Japan to rendezvous with her husband and older daughter in the Far East; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly hereby note with great sadness the loss of Norma Lang Steuerle, an innocent victim of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to the family of Norma Lang Steuerle as an expression of the heartfelt condolences of the General Assembly of Virginia.