[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 172 (Thursday, November 2, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E2102-E2103]
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                 TRIBUTE TO NATALIE HELENE JACOBS CAVE

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                          HON. EDOLPHUS TOWNS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, November 2, 1995

  Mr. TOWNS. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Natalie Helen Jacobs retired after 50 
years of exemplary Federal service to America's veterans on September 
30, 1995. This daughter of a Baptist minister--Rev. Frank Walter 
Jacobs--and a school teacher--Mrs. Natalie Taylor Jacobs--was born in 
Norfolk, VA. She received her early education at the Alabama State 
Teachers College Laboratory in the public schools of Bridgeport, CT. In 
1943 Natalie received her degree, with honors from Bennett 

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College in Greensboro, NC. And in 1944 Mrs. Cave received her graduate 
degree in social work from Atlanta University.
  For 50 years Natalie practiced social work in a variety of 
capacities, including a stint as a case worker at the Veterans 
Administration Hospital in Tuskegee, AL. She met her husband, Dr. 
Vernal Cave while working in Alabama. They subsequently transferred to 
Brooklyn, NY where they still reside.
  Mrs. Cave holds numerous memberships in various professional 
organizations, including the Auxiliary of the National Medical 
Association, of which she is a former national president. Her other 
memberships include the Advisory Board of the Public Affairs Committee, 
the Brooklyn Chapter of Links, Inc., the YWCA, the NAACP, and the Kings 
County Medical Society Auxiliary. Additionally, she is an active 
archousa of the Sigma Phi Pi Fraternity, and a trustee of the Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden.
  Mrs. Cave has traveled extensively, including six countries in 
Africa, and a trip around the world.
  In adminstering to the needs of our Nation's veterans and those of 
the society at large, this gracious and empathetic lady has contributed 
greatly to making this a better world. I am immensely proud of one of 
Brooklyn's best and dedicated citizens.

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