[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 68 (Wednesday, May 12, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S5185]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       TRIBUTE TO ERNIE AND MICHELLE LOPEZ, FATHER-DAUGHTER TEAM

 Mr. DOMENICI. Mr. President, I want to commend a most unique 
father-daughter team of New Mexicans for their excellent science and 
engineering accomplishments. Ernie Lopez, a teacher at Taos New Mexico 
Middle School and science coordinator for the Taos Municipal Schools, 
has consistently inspired Taos students to excel in science and 
engineering. That inspiration is best characterized by his record of 
having at least one of his students at the Intel International Science 
and Engineering Fair for 23 of the past 25 years.
  I know Mr. Lopez was especially proud this year when his own 
daughter, Michelle Lopez, won one of the top prizes in this year's fair 
for the project judged to be the best zoology project at this year's 
Fair.
  I want to add my enthusiastic congratulations to Michelle for the 
dedication and hard work that she has invested in her winning project. 
That work should lay a solid foundation for a future career marked by 
major contributions in her chosen fields.
  Ernie Lopez was also honored at the International Fair, for 
``outstanding accomplishment as a science educator,'' one of seven 
teaching awards handed out at this year's Fair.
  It's with great pleasure that I salute this superb father-daughter 
team from New Mexico. They serve as great inspiration to students and 
teachers in my home State.

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