[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 74 (Tuesday, June 14, 1994)]
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      STATEMENT OF NICKI NICHOLS GAMBLE'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY AT PPLM

  Mr. KERRY. Madam President, I want to take this opportunity to pay 
tribute to one of the most extraordinarily effective women I know, 
Nicki Nichols Gamble. On June 22, the Planned Parenthood League of 
Massachusetts will honor her for her 20 years as its president.
  She has taken what was, in 1974, a small advocacy and educational 
organization with a budget of $200,000 and built it into an advocacy, 
education, social service, and medical services organization with an 
annual budget of $4,500,000, a staff of 130, and 3 sites. She opened 
the first comprehensive reproductive health clinic in Worcester, MA in 
1982, despite vigorous and abusive antiabortion harassment and 
litigation; she litigated the State's parental/judicial consent 
statutes and designed a nationally replicated intervention model in 
response to the first State statute in this area; and she organized an 
effective collaboration between Planned Parenthood and the Women's Bar 
Association.
  Nicki's leadership in organizing education, pregnancy prevention, and 
HIV/AIDS prevention programs has made the Planned Parenthood League of 
Massachusetts one of the Nation's most influential organizations in the 
area of reproductive health. For her work, she has been honored with 
the Roger Baldwin Award from the Civil Liberties Union of 
Massachusetts, the Debs-Thomas-Bernstein Award from the Democratic 
Socialists of America, the Abigail Adams Award from the Massachusetts 
Women's Political Caucus, and the Ruth Green Award by the National 
Executive Directors' Council of Planned Parenthood.
  In addition she has been a good friend and staunch ally for many 
years. Her 20 years at Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts have been 
remarkably productive and I wish her well for the next 20.

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