[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 111 (Friday, August 7, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H7427]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. GARY DENNIS AND MRS. SHARMAN DENNIS OF THE 
                      NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentlewoman from the Virgin Islands (Ms. Christian-Green is recognized 
for 5 minutes.
  Ms. CHRISTIAN-GREEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Dr. 
Gary Dennis, who is the new President of the National Medical 
Association, and his wife, Mrs. Sharman Dennis, who will head the 
Auxiliary to the National Medical Association.
  They were both installed this week at NMA's annual convention and 
scientific assembly in New Orleans. This is the first time in the 
history of the NMA that a husband and wife will serve simultaneously as 
heads of these partner organizations.
  Mr. Speaker, the NMA is a 103-year-old organization which represents 
African-American physicians and the patients we serve. As I 
congratulate this outstanding couple and wish them well and Godspeed, I 
also want to commend the National Medical Association for its caring 
service for over a century.
  As we approach a new century, we still face many of the challenges 
that were the impetus for its founding in 1895. Wide disparities in 
health status still exist for people of color.
  Mr. Speaker, we know that Dr. Dennis, Mrs. Dennis, and the entire NMA 
stand ready to continue to meet that challenge.

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