[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 79 (Wednesday, June 17, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S6504]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               TRIBUTE TO MRS. ROSEMARIE PECILLO KNOWLTON

 Mr. SANTORUM. Mr. President, I rise today to recognize Mrs. 
Rosemarie Pecillo Knowlton. For almost 50 years, Rosemarie has 
dedicated her life to education. She will be sincerely missed after her 
retirement from Sacred Heart Parish School.
  At the age of four, Rosemarie asked to attend school with some of her 
older friends. The principal allowed her to begin, believing it was 
probably just a ``phase.'' This phase turned into a teaching career. 
Such was her desire to teach, that immediately after graduating high 
school, Rosemarie took a teaching position which required her to travel 
on four modes of public transportation just to commute back and forth.
  When Rosemarie transferred to a position closer to home, she decided 
to continue her own formal education by taking night classes at 
Villanova University. There, she met her future husband, Arthur L. 
Knowlton. They were married in 1956. As her son, Arthur, Jr., graduated 
from high school in 1975, Rosemarie also received her degree from 
Villanova.
  Rosemarie never saw teaching as a job that began and ended with 
morning and afternoon bells. She enriched her students through 
forensics, the annual Science Fair, and CCD classes. She also directed 
the school's music shows, the Parish Living Stations of the Cross, and 
the Living Rosary.
  Mr. President, the lives Rosemarie has touched are too numerous to 
count. She is leaving a legacy of dedication and accomplishment, and 
her son, Richard, carries on the family's teaching tradition. I ask my 
colleagues to join me both in congratulating Rosemarie for 46 years of 
dedication to the children of southeastern Pennsylvania and in 
extending the Senate's best wishes to the Knowltons as Rosemarie 
retires to devote all of her time to her husband, children, and seven 
grandchildren.

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