[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 103 (Monday, July 21, 1997)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1459-E1461]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      A TRIBUTE TO CAROLYN SHERMAN

                                 ______
                                 

                        HON. GERALD B.H. SOLOMON

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, July 21, 1997

  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, every now and then in my position as a 
Congressman, I have the privilege of honoring those people out there 
whose performance day in and day out improves the quality of life for 
an entire neighborhood or school or community. I call these people our 
``silent heroes.'' That's because they do their job without remiss and 
all too often without the accolades they deserve.
  Mr. Speaker, I'd like to bring your attention to one such hero today, 
Mrs. Carolyn Sherman of Nassau, NY, in my congressional district. She 
has been a faithful employee of the Nassau Free Library for 40 years 
now and has done more than her share in making the Nassau area of New 
York a great place to live and raise a family.
  I say that because what could be more critical to any community and 
especially its young people, than a library. And there's something even 
more special about a public library that just seems so American. It 
embodies the free exchange of ideas and intellectual freedom that has 
allowed this country to thrive and has been the beacon drawing millions 
from distant lands throughout our history.
  Now, how does Mrs. Sherman fit into all this? Easy. For 40 years now, 
she has played an active role in helping others to expand their minds, 
be it a child forming his or her sentences, or a business owner 
researching the latest trends and technologies that might allow their 
business to expand and put someone else to work.
  During her tenure, Carolyn has guided the library through many 
changes. She expanded the hours from 12 to the present 22 hours per 
week. She founded the book selection committee, a version of which 
remains today for the selection of children's books. She instituted 
Children's Story Hour in 1959 soon followed by a special children's 
corner of the library. In 1961, under her leadership, the library 
joined the Upper Hudson Library System, a State-sponsored service for 
small libraries which allows for interlibrary loans and a variety of 
other services. Carolyn founded the Friends of the Library, a volunteer 
auxiliary group which supports library events including fund raising 
activities.
  In the 1970's, after several years of planning and labor, Carolyn 
coordinated the expansion of the physical facility. Through outstanding 
community support, the project was completed without encumbering debt.
  In 1982, Carolyn received the Marian Mosher Award for Library of the 
Year in New York State. This award is given to an outstanding small 
community librarian. As you know, Mr. Speaker, organizing and directing 
such a rapid and enormous change can be both exhilarating and 
frustrating. But she had a vision of a facility that would better serve 
all aspects of her community and the persistence to carry it through. 
Now that's what it takes to get the job done.
  Mr. Speaker, I have always been one to judge people based on what 
they return to their community. By that measure, Carolyn Sherman is a 
truly great American. I ask you Mr. Speaker, and all Members of the 
House to rise with me now in tribute to her and her outstanding record 
of public service. She has certainly earned it.

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                       SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

  Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate on February 
4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized 
schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, 
subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This 
title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate 
Daily Digest--designated by the Rules Committee--of the time, place, 
and purpose of the meetings, when scheduled, and any cancellations or 
changes in the meetings as they occur.
  As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this 
information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this 
information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the 
Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
  Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, July 22, 1997, may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                                JULY 23
     9:00 a.m.
       Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
         To hold hearings on the nominations of Catherine E. 
           Woteki, of the District of Columbia, to be Under 
           Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety, and Shirley 
           Robinson Watkins, of Arkansas, to be Under Secretary of 
           Agriculture for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services.
                                                            SR-332
     9:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         Business meeting, to consider pending calendar business; 
           to be followed by hearings to examine natural gas 
           issues, focusing on the world energy supply and demand 
           to the year 2015, the role of government in large scale 
           gas projects in foreign countries, and emerging 
           technologies in gas field development that are making 
           natural gas more economical to market.
                                                            SD-366
       Labor and Human Resources
         Business meeting, to mark up S. 1020, proposed Arts and 
           Humanities Amendments of 1997, proposed National 
           Science Foundation Authorization of 1997, proposed 
           Workforce Improvement Partnership Act, and to consider 
           pending nominations.
                                                            SD-430
     10:00 a.m.
       Appropriations
       District of Columbia Subcommittee
         To resume hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
           fiscal year 1998 for the government of the District of 
           Columbia, focusing on the Departments of Health, Human 
           Services, and Public Works.
                                                            SD-192
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold oversight hearings on the Federal Reserve's 
           monetary policy report to Congress pursuant to the Full 
           Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978.
                                                            SD-538
       Governmental Affairs
         To resume hearings to examine certain matters with regard 
           to the committee's special investigation on campaign 
           financing.
                                                            SH-216
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings on proposed legislation to authorize 
           funds for the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
                                                            SD-226
     2:00 p.m.
       Judiciary
         Business meeting,
         To resume markup of S. 10, to reduce violent juvenile 
           crime, promote accountability by juvenile criminals, 
           and punish and deter violent gang crime, and to mark up 
           S. 53, to require the general application of the 
           antitrust laws to major league baseball.
                                                            SD-226
     4:00 p.m.
       Conferees on H.R. 1757, to consolidate international 
           affairs agencies and to authorize appropriations for 
           the Department of State and related agencies for the 
           fiscal years 1998 and 1999. H-140, Capitol

                                JULY 24
     9:00 a.m.
       Judiciary
         Business meeting, to resume markup of S. 10, to reduce 
           violent juvenile crime, promote accountability by 
           juvenile criminals, and punish and deter violent gang 
           crime, and to mark up S. 53, to require the general 
           application of the antitrust laws to major league 
           baseball.
                                                            SD-226
     9:30 a.m.
       Appropriations
         Business meeting, to mark up proposed legislation making 
           appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and 
           Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for 
           the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998.
                                                            SD-106
       Armed Services
         To hold hearings on the nomination of John J. Hamre, of 
           South Dakota, to be Deputy Secretary of Defense.
                                                            SR-222
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to review a General Accounting Office 
           report relating to program efficiencies at the National 
           Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the 
           National Science Foundation (NSF).
                                                            SR-253
       Environment and Public Works
         Business meeting, to consider the nomination of Jamie 
           Rappaport Clark, of Maryland, to be Director of the 
           United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
                                                            SD-406
     9:45 a.m.
       Environment and Public Works
       Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine ozone and particulate matter 
           standards promulgated by the Environmental Protection 
           Agency.
                                                            SD-406
     10:00 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine securities litigation abuses.
                                                            SD-538
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Forests and Public Land Management Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on S. 1028 and H.R. 858, bills to direct 
           the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a pilot project 
           on designated lands within Plumas, Lassen, and Tahoe 
           National Forests in California to demonstrate the 
           effectiveness of the resource management activities 
           proposed by the Quincy Library Group and to amend 
           current land and resource management plans for these 
           national forests to consider the incorporation of these 
           resource management activities.
                                                            SD-366
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings on the nominations of David Andrews, of 
           California, to be Legal Adviser, Bonnie R. Cohen, of 
           the District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary for 
           Management, Edward William Gnehm, Jr., of Georgia, to 
           be Director General of the Foreign Service, and James 
           P. Rubin, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary for 
           Public Affairs, all of the Department of State.
                                                            SD-419
       Governmental Affairs
         To continue hearings to examine certain matters with 
           regard to the committee's special investigation on 
           campaign financing.
                                                            SH-216
       Labor and Human Resources
         To hold hearings on proposed legislation authorizing 
           funds for programs of the Higher Education Act, 
           focusing on title IV.
                                                            SD-430
     11:00 a.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings on the nomination of George Munoz, of 
           Illinois, to be President of the Overseas Private 
           Investment Corporation, United States International 
           Development Cooperation Agency.
                                                            SD-419
     2:00 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to review the process by which the 
           National Park Service determines the suitability and 
           feasibility of new areas to be added to the National 
           Park System, and to examine the criteria used to 
           determine national significance.
                                                            SD-366
       Judiciary
       Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine proposals on defense 
           consolidation, focusing on antitrust and competitions 
           issues.
                                                            SD-226
       Labor and Human Resources
       Public Health and Safety Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on proposed legislation authorizing 
           funds for the National Institutes of Health, Department 
           of Health and Human Services.
                                                            SD-430
       Select on Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings on intelligence matters.
                                                            SH-219

                                JULY 25
     10:00 a.m.
       Governmental Affairs
         To continue hearings to examine certain matters with 
           regard to the committee's special investigation on 
           campaign financing.
                                                            SH-216
       Veterans' Affairs
         To hold hearings on pending legislation.
                                                            SR-418

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                                JULY 28
     1:00 p.m.
       Special on Aging
         To hold hearings to examine the amount of fraud in the 
           home health care system and ways to identify and deter 
           fraud, waste and abuse in health care.
                                                            SD-562
     2:00 p.m.
       Judiciary
       Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine gambling on the Internet.
                                                            SD-226

                                JULY 29
     9:00 a.m.
       Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
         To hold hearings to examine the effect of the Federal 
           Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act (P.L. 104-127) 
           on price and income volatility, and the properrole of 
           the Federal government to manage volatility and protect 
           the integrity of agricultural markets.
                                                            SR-332
     9:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings on S. 967, to amend the Alaska Native 
           Claims Settlement Act and the Alaska National Interest 
           Lands Conservation Act to benefit Alaska natives and 
           rural residents, and S. 1015, to provide for the 
           exchange of lands within Admiralty Island National 
           Monument.
                                                            SD-366
     10:00 a.m.
       Governmental Affairs
         To resume hearings to examine certain matters with regard 
           to the committee's special investigation on campaign 
           financing.
                                                            SH-216
     2:30 p.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings on S. 268, to regulate flights over 
           national parks.
                                                            SR-253

                                JULY 30
     9:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         Business meeting, to consider pending calendar business.
                                                            SD-366
       Indian Affairs
         Business meeting, to mark up S. 569, to amend the Indian 
           Child Welfare Act of 1978 to provide for retention by 
           an Indian tribe of exclusive jurisdiction over child 
           custody proceedings involing Indian children and other 
           related requirements; to be followed by an oversight 
           hearing on the Bureau of Indian Affairs Special 
           Trustee's strategic plan to reform the management of 
           Indian trust funds.
                                                            SD-106
     10:00 a.m.
       Governmental Affairs
         To resume hearings to examine certain matters with regard 
           to the committee's special investigation on campaign 
           financing.
                                                            SH-216
     2:00 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to review the management and operations 
           of concession programs within the National Park System.
                                                            SD-366

                                JULY 31
     9:00 a.m.
       Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
         To hold hearings to examine how trade opportunities and 
           international agricultural research can stimulate 
           economic growth in Africa, thereby enhancing African 
           food security and increasing U.S. exports.
                                                            SR-332
     10:00 a.m.
       Governmental Affairs
         To continue hearings to examine certain matters with 
           regard to the committee's special investigation on 
           campaign financing.
                                                            SH-216

                             CANCELLATIONS

                                JULY 23
     2:00 p.m.
       Judiciary
         To resume hearings to review the FBI crime laboratory.
                                                            SD-226

                             POSTPONEMENTS

                                JULY 22
     10:00 a.m.
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine federal antitrust policy in 
           the healthcare marketplace.
                                                            SD-226