[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 85 (Thursday, June 25, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1241]
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                HONORING SISTER WINIFRED DANWITZ, Ph.D.

                                 ______
                                 

                          HON. ELIOT L. ENGEL

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, June 25, 1998

  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise to join in celebrating the Golden 
Jubilee of Sister Winifred Danwitz, a woman whose accomplishments are 
so many that they seem crammed into those fifty years, but one who 
looks forward to doing even more.
  Sister Winifred is the former Administrator of the Mount Saint Ursula 
Speech Center for New York City and Professor Emeritus of Special 
Education at the Graduate School of the College of New Rochelle. She 
was selected a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing 
Association.
  Her teaching experience includes the College of New Rochelle and its 
graduate school, Fordham University, Hunter College and Iona College. 
The list of her organizational activities where she served in a senior 
position runs off the page. She has almost as many awards.
  Now she is embarking on her latest venture as Executive Director of 
Angela House. Angela House began as her idea. It will be an innovative 
demonstration project to address the problems confronting homeless 
women and their young. Angela House will serve as a model supportive 
transitional residence to provide these women and their children with 
the supervision, support and training in a nurturing environment.
  Sister Winifred will be as successful in helping these women and 
their children as she has been in her other endeavors. Her generosity 
of spirit has made beneficiaries of all of us. I am proud to be able to 
praise her work, her dedication and her innovation. She is our 
treasure.