[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 57 (Tuesday, May 6, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H2180]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               TRIBUTE TO MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER JEAN KASK

  (Mr. QUINN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. QUINN. Mr. Speaker, I too want to join my good friend, the 
gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Boehner] and my dear friend, the gentleman 
from New York [Mr. Rangel], in paying tribute to our many teachers all 
across the country. In my particular district in Buffalo and western 
New York as a former middle school teacher myself, I would like to pay 
a special tribute today to our middle school world affairs/social 
studies teacher Jean Kask who is now retired. Mr. Speaker, when I 
walked over here from my office today and saw the hundreds of students 
right outside the building, it reminded me of those world affairs trips 
that Mrs. Kask would bring to this city, to this very floor, 300 eighth 
graders for 4 days for many, many, many years. The interesting thing 
about Mrs. Kask is while she had those skills that were important in 
the classroom, she also taught other teachers. I consider myself to be 
luckier than all the students she had because I taught alongside of her 
and learned just as much as the students did, if not more.
  Mr. Speaker, I salute Jean Kask of Orchard Park Middle School and all 
of our teachers throughout the district and the country in this very 
important week.

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