[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 38 (Monday, March 30, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E509]
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                      RECOGNIZING BARBARA WHEELER

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                         HON. HARRIS W. FAWELL

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 30, 1998

  Mr. FAWELL. Mr. Speaker, it is my privilege to introduce to the 
Speaker and my associates in the House a prominent resident of the 13th 
Illinois Congressional District, prominent in terms of public service 
and professional accomplishments. Barbara M. Wheeler was recently 
elected President of the National School Boards Association, a 
nationwide advocacy organization comprised of 95,000 local school board 
members governing 15,000 local school districts.
  Even before taking her law degree, Barbara Wheeler became actively 
involved in her local public school system, serving as a school board 
member, school board president, and chair of several school board 
advisory committees. She has been a member of the board of directors of 
the Illinois Association of School Boards and has held the office of 
president. More recently, she served as Secretary-Treasurer of the 
National School Boards Association, the organization she will now lead. 
She continues to speak on the challenges facing public education to 
conferences across the country. For more than 12 years, she has been a 
valuable member of my Congressional District Advisory Committee.
  Barbara Wheeler, as President of the National School Boards 
Association, will be a vigorous, knowledgeable and articulate advocate 
of the interests of that organization and local school boards. I expect 
she will testify before Congress and represent the Association in many 
of its relationships with the executive branch of the federal 
government. I respectfully ask my colleagues in this House to join me 
in congratulating Barbara and wishing her well as she carries out her 
new responsibilities.

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