[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 61 (Wednesday, May 17, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E742]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     A TRIBUTE TO PHYLLIS FULGINITI

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                         HON. ROBERT E. ANDREWS

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, May 16, 2000

  Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Speaker, ``A teacher affects eternity. He can never 
tell where his influence stops.''--Henry Adams.
  Henry Adams may have been talking about a teacher like Phyllis 
Fulginiti. Phyllis Fulginiti has spent her life as a teacher, touching 
and molding students for nearly 40 years. She began as a high school 
graduate, when she began as a teacher in Catholic Schools as part of a 
special program designed to encourage young people to consider teaching 
as a career. Well, in at least this one instance, the program worked. 
After teaching in the Catholic schools for five years, Phyllis joined 
the Marlton School District and taught at Marlton Middle School for 33 
years. She taught history, government and social studies to thousands 
of students between the second and the eighth grade. Along the way, she 
put her theories into practice by earning both a Bachelor of Arts 
degree and a Master of Arts degree at St. Joseph University. She did 
all of this while raising a daughter, Susan, and maintaining a 27 year 
marriage to her husband, Richard Fulginiti. Although she is about to 
commence a new phase of her life as a retired teacher, I would like to 
commend her for the work that she has done as a teacher. As I am 
certain that many of her students would agree, she has touched 
eternity, and our community, our state, and our nation, are better off 
because of her contribution.

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