[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 5 (Tuesday, February 3, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S329]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 COMMENDING VICKI DONOVAN AS THE 1998 NEW HAMPSHIRE TEACHER OF THE YEAR

 Mr. SMITH of New Hampshire. Mr. President, I rise today to pay 
tribute to Vicki Donovan for being named New Hampshire's 1998 Teacher 
of the Year. Vicki is a fourth-grade teacher at Belmont Elementary 
School, where she has taught for eleven years. I commend her 
outstanding accomplishment and well-deserved honor.
  Vicki, who lives in Belmont, will spend the next year representing 
New Hampshire's teachers at various statewide and regional functions. 
As New Hampshire's Teacher of the Year, she will be considered for the 
National Teacher of the Year Award sponsored by the Council of Chief 
State School Officers and Scholastic, Inc. The National Teacher of the 
Year Program is the oldest and most prestigious honors program to focus 
public attention on excellence in teaching. New Hampshire's 
Commissioner of Education, Elizabeth Twomey, named Vicki the Teacher of 
the Year.
  Vicki's accomplishments as a teacher are numerous. She organized 
Belmont Elementary School's yearbook in her first year there, and has 
taught at several grade levels in the elementary school. She is 
involved with the Belmont Elementary School Support Group, B.E.S.T., 
and has served on the town's Civic Profile Committee, Government Study 
Group, and Youth and Education Committee.
  In addition to her numerous extracurricular accomplishments, Vicki 
has excelled in perhaps the most important area: her students. Vicki's 
students say their experience with her as their teacher marked their 
best year in school.
  New Hampshire has always been fortunate to have many talented 
teachers, but Vicki Donovan is certainly a role model among teachers of 
the Granite State. As a former teacher myself, I am proud of her 
commitment to education and congratulate her on this distinguished 
achievement.

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