[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 126 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 126

 Expressing the sense of the Senate that appreciation be shown for the 
 extraordinary work of Mildred Winter as a Missouri teacher and leader 
   in creating the Parents as Teachers program on the occasion that 
    Mildred Winter steps down as Executive Director of such program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 23, 1999

 Mr. Bond submitted the following resolution; which was considered and 
                               agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the Senate that appreciation be shown for the 
 extraordinary work of Mildred Winter as a Missouri teacher and leader 
   in creating the Parents as Teachers program on the occasion that 
    Mildred Winter steps down as Executive Director of such program.

Whereas Mildred Winter has, with determination, expertise, and unflagging 
        energy, dedicated her professional life to early childhood and parent 
        education;
Whereas Mildred Winter began her remarkable career as an educator and leader as 
        a teacher in the Berkeley and Ferguson-Florissant School Districts in 
        Missouri;
Whereas Mildred Winter served as Missouri's first Early Childhood Education 
        Director from 1972 until 1984, during which time the early childhood 
        education services to Missouri families and children improved and 
        increased dramatically;
Whereas Mildred Winter was a leader in initiating the Parents as Teachers 
        program in Missouri in 1981 to address the critical problem of children 
        entering school in need of special help;
Whereas the Parents as Teachers program gives all parents, regardless of social 
        or economic circumstances, the support and guidance necessary to be 
        their children's best teachers in the critical early years;
Whereas Mildred Winter worked to secure passage in the Missouri General Assembly 
        of the Early Childhood Education Act of 1984, landmark legislation which 
        led to the creation of Parents as Teachers programs in Missouri;
Whereas Mildred Winter is recognized as a visionary leader by her peers 
        throughout the country for her unwavering commitment to early childhood 
        education;
Whereas Mildred Winter and the Parents as Teachers program have received 
        numerous prestigious awards at the State and national level;
Whereas today there are over 2,200 Parents as Teachers programs in 49 States, 
        the District of Columbia, and 6 other countries;
Whereas while continually striving to move the Parents as Teachers program 
        forward, in 1995 Mildred Winter recognized the importance of sharing 
        with parents what is known about early brain development and the role 
        parents play in promoting that development in their children, and used 
        this foresight to develop the vanguard Born to Learn Curriculum; and
Whereas after nearly 2 decades of leadership of the Parents as Teachers program, 
        Mildred Winter has chosen to step down as Executive Director of the 
        organization: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved,

SECTION 1. RECOGNITION OF MILDRED WINTER.

    That it is the sense of the Senate that--
            (1) admiration and respect be shown for the visionary and 
        innovative work of Mildred Winter in the field of childhood 
        education; and
            (2) appreciation be shown for the work that Mildred Winter 
        has done through the Parents as Teachers program which has 
        enriched the lives of hundreds of thousands of children and 
        provided such children with a far better chance of success and 
        happiness in school and in life.
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