[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 134 (Wednesday, October 6, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2046]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                         HONORING EMILY SANCHEZ

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                          HON. ELIOT L. ENGEL

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, October 6, 1999

  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, certainly one of the most important things we 
can do for our children is to pass on our knowledge to them. Emily 
Sanchez is someone who has done that. She has been a member of 
Community School Board 11 for 16 years, twice in that time serving as 
president of the Board. She also served as Board Secretary and chair of 
the budget, finance, curriculum and continuing education, personnel and 
zoning committees.
  She hit the ground running at the School Board by leading the fight 
in her first term to keep I.S. 180 open when the Central School Board 
wanted to close it.
  She did not limit her activities to the School Board. She is also a 
member of Community Advisory Boards of the Jacobi Medical Center and 
chair of the AIDS and Support Services Committees, a member of 
Montefiore Medical Center as well as a member of the Co-op City 
Democratic Club and the Hispanic Society of Co-op City.
  She did not run for re-election to the School Board and this is a 
loss we will feel for a long time. I want to wish her, her husband and 
their two sons the very best in the future and say that I and the 
community will dearly miss her ability and her leadership.

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