[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 138 (Saturday, October 28, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1987]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      TRIBUTE TO SHAFEIK MOHAMMED

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                          HON. JOSE E. SERRANO

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, October 27, 2000

  Mr. SERRANO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Mr. Shafeik 
Mohammed, an outstanding individual who has devoted his life to his 
family and to serving the community. Mr. Mohammed retired from Phipps 
Community Development Corporation on September 1 and moved to 
California to be with his children.
  Originally from Trinidad, Mr. Mohammed and his wife first came to 
this country in 1971 to seek medical help for their daughter who had 
been seriously injured in a car accident. The early years were rough: 
four young children, a foreign country, and few marketable skills. The 
whole family enrolled in school, worked, studied, and saved. His wife 
became a registered nurse and Shafeik, while working full time, made 
the Dean's List at Medger Evers College. Their daughter recovered, went 
to law school, and is now Assistant District Attorney in Los Angeles.
  Mr. Mohammed has worked in impoverished communities in both Brooklyn 
and the Bronx helping residents learn skills, gain employment, and 
develop careers. For more than thirty years he has worked with a 
passion and commitment that has inspired thousands of individuals and 
been instrumental in lifting whole families our of poverty.
  In 1996, after fifteen months of retirement, he came to work for 
Phipps Community Development Corporation in my congressional district 
and has been the guiding light behind our educational and employment 
services ever since. Phipps CDC is the human services affiliate of 
Phipps Houses, New York City's oldest and largest not-for-profit 
developer of affordable housing.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in wishing a happy 
retirement to Mr. Shafeik Mohammed.

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