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George Edward Loper

Family

I was born on 10 November 1946 at Saint Joseph's Maternity in Houston, Texas at 10:25 p.m. and was named after my mother's father Edward and my mother's brother George.

At the time of my birth, my father *Joe William Loper, Jr. was owner of Loper's Grocery Store in**Port Arthur and my mother Mary Loper was a housewife.

I have two brothers, Joe and John , and three step-sisters, Margo, Debbie, and Michele.

On 22 July 1972, I married Ann Lewis Booker at her mother's home in New Orleans, Louisiana. We have three children: Matthew, Edward, and Hoy . We moved to Charlottesville, Virginia in 1975.

*In 1998, my Dad turned 80 years old. See Commendation by Virgil Goode, Birthday Greeting from Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, 80th Birthday Party Celebration and What A Wonderful Day To Be Alive!

Dad died on November 11, 2002.

**Port Arthur, Texas is proud to call itself the home of Jivin' Gene Bourgeois (famous for "Breaking Up is Hard to Do"), Zachary Breaux (contemporary jazz artist), Clifton Chenier (The King of Zydeco), Johnny Preston Courville (famous for "Running Bear"), Ted Dunbar (guitarist and jazz artist), Janis Lynn Joplin (who can forget "Me and Bobby McGee"), Tiny Moore (played the fiddle for Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys), Robert Rauschenberg (contemporary artist), Bill Rogers (writer and arranger for Frank Sinatra, Sr.), Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr. (author of "Running Bear"), and of Edgar Winters.

Education

I received a Bachelors of Arts in Economics from the University of Texas in Austin in 1970; a Masters of Science in Social Work from Columbia University School of Social Work in New York City in 1975; and engaged in Postgraduate work in the Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1982. I haven't learned a damn thing since.

Affiliations

Charlottesville Housing Foundation

Secretary 1985 - 1987

President 1987 - Present

City of Charlottesville

Member of the Social Development Commission 1989 - 1995

Chair 1994-1995

 

Member of Community Development Block Grant Task Force 1989 - 1995

Vice Chair 1992-1995

Democratic Party

Democrats of Albemarle/Charlottesville, Executive Director 1990-1992
Charlottesville Democratic Committee, Secretary 1992
Democratic Breakfast Committee, Chair, 1993 - Present
Charlottesville Democratic Committee, Co-Vice Chair 1997
Recipient of the Drewary J. Brown Award 2004

First Grade Reading Program, Charlottesville Public Schools

Tutor 1993 - 1994

Group Memberships

Chamber of Commerce (since 1980)
National Association of Social Workers

Southern Poverty Law Center (since 1987)

Leadership Charlottesville Alumni Association, 1983 - Present

League of Women Voters of Charlottesville/Albemarle

Treasurer 1985 - 1989
Member 1985 - Present

Piedmont Housing Alliance 1996 - Present

Vice - President 1997 - 2001
Board Member 2000 - Present

Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood of the Blue Ridge, Board 1998 - 2003

Planned Parenthood of the Blue Ridge, Piedmont Advisory Council 1996 -- 2003; Chair 1998 - 2001
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia 1997 - Present

St. Paul's Memorial Church

Outreach and Service Commission, Chair 1987 - 1990
Member of the Vestry 1990 - 1992
Senior Warden 1992
21st Century Endowment Campaign, Co-Chair 1993
Trustee, St. Paul's Memorial Church Endowment Fund 1996 - Present

Tandem Friends School 1993 - Present

Executive Committee of the Board of Directors 1993 - 1997; 2002 - 2004
Board Member 1993 - 2004

Trinity Child Care Center

Treasurer 1986 - 1988
Board Member 1986 - 1990

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