[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 91 (Friday, July 14, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1248]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    A TRIBUTE TO H. LYNN CUNDIFF, PH.D., PRESIDENT OF FLOYD COLLEGE

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                             HON. BOB BARR

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 13, 2000

  Mr. BARR of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I stand before you today to honor a 
personal friend and a friend to the people of the seventh district of 
Georgia, Dr. H. Lynn Cundiff, president of Floyd College, a two year 
unit of the university system of Georgia. Floyd College serves students 
who commute from throughout a large portion of northwest Georgia and 
northeast Alabama. Dr. Cundiff is leaving his post of president to 
assume the presidency of Salt Lake Community College. Georgia's loss is 
Utah's son.
  Dr. Cundiff came to Floyd College in 1992, as only its second 
president, from the position of executive vice chancellor of the 
Alabama college system. Dr. Cundiff received a Bachelor of Arts degree 
from William Jewell College in physical education and mathematics, a 
Master of Arts degree from Northeast Missouri State University in 
educational administration, and a Ph.D. from Southern Illinois 
University in educational leadership. He attended the Harvard 
Leadership Institute, and attended Oxford University along with 45 
community college leaders from around the world in August, 1998. He has 
authored several scholarly publications and has presented a number of 
papers at national, professional conferences.
  Since coming to Floyd College, Dr. Cundiff has been actively involved 
in the community, having served on the board of the Greater Rome 
Chamber of Commerce, chaired the 1995 Rome/Floyd County United Way 
Campaign, chaired the 1996 Race to the Olympics commission for the Rome 
area, and is a member of the Rotary Club of Rome. Dr. Cundiff and his 
wife, Glenda, are very active in the North Rome Church of God, where 
they have been involved in providing pre-marriage and family 
counseling.
  Under Dr. Cundiff's guidance and leadership, Floyd College, which was 
founded in 1970 to provide educational opportunities for the physical, 
intellectual, and cultural development of a diverse population in seven 
northwest Georgia counties, has grown to become an institute offering a 
large and varied community-education program. It operates extension 
centers in Cartersville, Haralson County, and Acworth. The college 
pioneered the development of cooperative programs with Coosa Valley 
Technical Institute as early as 1972, and now also offers joint 
programs with North Metro Technical Institute in Acworth, Georgia as 
well. With the advent of distance learning technologies, specialty 
programs, off-campus centers, collaborative arrangements, and 
cooperative degree programs with technical institutes, the college has 
expanded its scope of influence far beyond the institution's original 
geographical area.
  Under Dr. Cundiff's leadership, the philosophy of the college is 
expressed in the beliefs that education is essential to the 
intellectual, physical, economic, social, emotional, cultural, and 
environmental well-being of individuals and society; and that education 
should be geographically and physically accessible and affordable. In 
support of this philosophy, the college maintains a teaching/learning 
environment which promotes inclusiveness and provides educational 
opportunities, programs, and services of excellence in response to 
documented needs.
  Dr. Cundiff will be leaving Floyd College, effective July 31st, to 
assume the presidency of Salt Lake Community College in Utah. However, 
the results of his personal commitment of excellence in education will 
forever remain in the minds and spirit of the citizens of the hills of 
northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama. We are forever grateful for 
the years he has given to us, and we wish him much success in his new 
endeavors.




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