[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 93 (Thursday, June 8, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1189]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


        RETIREMENT OF JOHN ADDEO: APPRECIATION FOR A GREAT CAREER

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                        HON. FRANK PALLONE, JR.

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                         Wednesday, June 7, 1995
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, on Friday, June 9, 1995, Mr. John Addeo, 
Jr., of Ocean, NJ, will be honored with a retirement dinner at Squire 
Pub in West Long Branch, NJ. It is a great honor for me to pay tribute 
to Mr. Addeo on this occasion.
  Mr. Addeo has served as the principal of the Woodmere School in 
Eatontown, NJ, since 1968. In total, Mr. Addeo has dedicated 34 years 
of his life to education. A 1957 graduate of Long Branch High School 
and a 1961 graduate of Monmouth University, Mr. Addeo began his 
teaching career in Asbury Park. He received his master's degree from 
Newark State College in 1968 and became prinicpal at Woodmere later 
that year. He also was an instructor at Brookdale Community College and 
serves as a member of the Elementary Principals and Supervisors 
Association and the New Jersey Education Association.
  John and Theresa Addeo are the parents of John Addeo III and Melissa 
Addeo Ardito. The list of Mr. Addeo's current and former community 
affiliations is a long one. He is a former member of the Italian-
American Association and the Eatontown Lion's Club. He is a charter 
member and first vice president of the Eatontown/Tinton Falls Kiwanis 
Club, former Little League baseball and softball coach in Ocean 
Township, a former member of the Ocean Township Zoning Board of 
Adjustment and the organizer of Boy Scout Troop 376.
  Mr. Speaker, throughout his career, John Addeo has exemplified the 
very best qualities of America's proud tradition of public education. 
Generations of students who have passed through the Woodmere School--
many of them fully grownup and now in important positions of 
responsibility, some of them now parents themselves--have benefited 
from his dedication and leadership. As his friends, colleagues, and 
students pay tribute on the occasion of his retirement, I am proud to 
add my voice in recognition of the fine job that John Addeo has done 
for nearly a quarter of a century in one of the most important jobs I 
know of: the education of our young people.


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