[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 48 (Tuesday, April 22, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3463-S3464]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  TRIBUTE TO JANE McCAFFERY FOR WINNING THE CONTINENTAL CABLEVISION'S 
                      1997 NATIONAL EDUCATOR AWARD

 Mr. SMITH of New Hampshire. Mr. President, I rise today to 
congratulate Jane McCaffery, a teacher at Lincoln Street School and 
Main Street School in Exeter, NH, on receiving the Continental 
Cablevision's 1997 National Educator Award.

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  As a former teacher myself, I commend her outstanding accomplishment 
and well-deserved honor.
  Continental Cablevision designed the Educator Award program in 1989 
to encourage teachers to use Cable in the Classroom, a cable industry 
initiative which provides schools with free cable connections and 
access to more than 500 hours of commercial-free educational 
programming each month. Jane was chosen for this distinguished honor 
from among educators in all of the communities that Continental 
Cablevision serves in New Hampshire.
  Under the direction of Jane, Exeter elementary students, teachers and 
their work are showcased in ``Booktalk,'' an ambitious weekly cable TV 
program. The program encourages students to read and invites families 
to participate in activities related to their children's reading. It 
also raises community awareness about the elementary curriculum. Jane 
and an Australian crocodile puppet explore one curriculum theme each 
week and feature a reading by teachers, students or guests, ideas for 
families to further pursue the learning theme, and many creative 
presentations.
  New Hampshire has always been fortunate to have many talented 
teachers, but Jane McCaffery is certainly a role model among the 
teachers of the Granite State. I am proud of her commitment to 
education and congratulate her superb achievement. It is an honor to 
represent her in the U.S. Senate.
  [At the request of Mr. Reid, the following statement was ordered to 
be printed in the Record.]

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