[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 13 (Wednesday, January 31, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E120]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      HONORING DR. DUANE R. BROWN

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                          HON. DALE E. KILDEE

                              of michigan

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, January 31, 1996

  Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to rise before my 
colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives to recognize Duane 
Brown, Ph.D. Dr. Brown is retiring today after almost 29 years in the 
field of education.
  Dr. Brown began his career in 1957 in the Flint community schools. 
Starting out as a community school director he quickly showed he 
understood the importance of the community's role in the education of 
the students. He worked tirelessly with the parents and other community 
members to insure that each and every child had the best education 
possible. He worked with numerous organizations throughout the 
community to provide whatever services the residents of the community 
needed, whether that person was a student, parent or member of the 
community. At various stages in Dr. Brown's career he served as a 
principal and a director of elementary education. While serving as 
principal at Williams Community Education Center; he was responsible 
for the coordination of a comprehensive elementary school, recreational 
center, and facility offering health and other needed community 
services to the students and residents of the area; a true full service 
school.
  In 1978, Dr. Brown began serving as executive director of the 
National Center for Community Education. It was through this center 
that Dr. Brown continued his mission by traveling to nearly every State 
in our great Nation and several foreign countries to conduct workshops 
for educators and parents on the benefits of community education. 
Additionally, many thousands of people have traveled from all over the 
world to the National Center and the Flint School District to learn 
more about community education. It was through these opportunities that 
many participants came to realize the dream that Charles Stewart Mott 
and Frank Manley had many years ago, when they looked around the Flint 
community at the many empty school buildings commenting and dreaming 
about all of the wonderful clubs for the young people.
  Mr. Speaker, Duane R. Brown is one of those educators that each of us 
as parents hope our children have the opportunity to become acquainted 
with because he cares. It is with great pleasure that I stand before 
you today to ask you and my fellow members of the 104th Congress to 
join me in paying tribute to a individual who certainly made his 
community a better place for all because he was there.

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