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2017 SESSION
17103574DPatrons-- Hope, Levine, Lopez and Sullivan; Senators: Ebbin, Favola and Howell
WHEREAS, Ann Creighton Collar Broder of Arlington, a prominent community activist and former Arlington County School Board member, died on September 30, 2016; and
WHEREAS, Ann Broder was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and grew up on a farm in Crawfordsville, Indiana; she received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Chicago; and
WHEREAS, after settling in Arlington in 1955, Ann Broder became a community activist seeking good governance and better schools, a noble calling that would span six decades; and
WHEREAS, Ann Broder was a leader in Arlingtonians for a Better County (ABC), a nonpartisan group that advocated socially progressive practices in local government; and
WHEREAS, in the 1970s, Ann Broder served two four-year terms on the Arlington County School Board, and was chair in 1975, 1976, 1979, and 1980; and
WHEREAS, Ann Broder was a supporter of the Arlington Street People’s Assistance Network and the Arlington Arts Center; she remained politically active into her 80s, serving as a precinct captain at the Ballston apartment building where she lived; and
WHEREAS, Ann Broder was a world traveler, philanthropist, artist, and patron of the arts; she loved spending almost every summer of her life at the rustic wood cottage her grandfather built on Beaver Island, Michigan; and
WHEREAS, predeceased by her husband, David, a veteran Washington Post journalist, Ann Broder will be fondly remembered and greatly missed by her sons, George, Josh, Matthew, and Michael, and their families, and a wide circle of friends; 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 Ann Creighton Collar Broder, a prominent community activist and former Arlington County School Board member; 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 Ann Creighton Collar Broder as an expression of the General Assembly’s respect for her memory.