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CAROLYN EURY Carolyn Eury will retire at the end of December with 351/2 years of service to Cabarrus County. She came to work at the Department of Social Services as a Social Worker on June 23, 1965. She is retiring as the Program Administrator for the Department's Children's Services Division. Over the years, Ms. Eury has worked in services to families and children. She became Supervisor of the Family and Children's Services Unit, on July 22, 1971. While, along the way, she has provided every service the Department has offered, her specialty has been foster care and adoption services for children who need loving homes. For many years Ms. Eury has been the Department's expert in these services. She is known across the State for her knowledge and expertise. There are people all over Cabarms County who have been helped directly and significantly by Ms. Eury. You could not count the children who have had the chance to have homes and to grow up to have happy, productive lives because of Ms. Eury and her work. Ms. Eury has come to be recognized as the ultimate professional. I have heard her called that many times. She has been a role model for all of us at the Department. Ms. Eury had earned her retirement several years ago. She had planned to retire nearly two years ago. If she had done that, she could have leR with great pride in her accomplishments from an outstanding career. However, I asked Ms. Eury to stay with us for a time because the Department's Children's Services Division, the group that protects children, helps their families care them, and finds them homes when they need them, really needed her. It needed her expertise, leadership, and example. In the summer of 1999, I asked her to take charge of the Children's Services Division. She was both the only person, and the best person anywhere for that job. In spite of the excitement she had then for the plans she had made, in spite of some serious health problems, and in spite of the hard work this assignment involved, she agreed to stay. She did this because of her devotion to our children's services program and her commitment to seeing it be the most excellent program of its kind anywhere. Tonight, as Ms. Eury prepares for her last days with the Department, she has completed this assignment. The program she has nurtured and led is recognized in our community and across the State for the excellent job it dbes in helping children and families. She places the program now in the hands of the many in the Division who have learned fi'om her and who will follow her example. I will always remember and appreciate Ms. Eury, and I know our Department and our community will as well.