[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 122 (Wednesday, October 4, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1678]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




HISTORICALLY WOMEN'S PUBLIC COLLEGES OR UNIVERSITIES HISTORIC BUILDING 
                    RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION ACT

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                               speech of

                          HON. SAXBY CHAMBLISS

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, October 3, 2000

  Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of this 
important bill, H.R. 4503, Historically Women's Public Colleges or 
Universities Historic Building Restoration and Preservation Act, which 
provides critical funding to assist a group of schools who pioneered 
improvements in educational opportunities for women throughout the 
United States.
  Like the other colleges and universities that we are supporting in 
this bill, Wesleyan was established to ensure that women in the United 
States receive a quality education. Wesleyan College was founded as a 
public college in 1836, by citizens of Macon, Georgia, as Georgia 
Female College and is the oldest women's college in the world that 
still educates exclusively women. For more than 160 years, Wesleyan, 
has prepared women for life, work, and service. Today, Dr. Nora Bell, 
President of Wesleyan, the faculty and staff of Wesleyan continue to 
promote women's education as a continual, integrated process of growth 
in mind, spirit, and body.
  Located on a 200-acre wooded campus, Wesleyan has multiple historic 
buildings on its current campus, including Persons Hall, Wortham Hall, 
and Banks Hall. I have had the distinct honor to visit the Wesleyan 
campus on many occasions. I have talked to students, toured the 
splendid historic building, and I firmly believe that providing funding 
for Wesleyan College as well as Georgia College and the other 
prestigious historically women's public colleges and universities will 
help restore some of our most precious historic landmarks and treasures 
and preserve the foundations of women's education in America.

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