[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 38 (Wednesday, March 21, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H1016]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  CONGRATULATING JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY ON ITS ``MARCH MADNESS'' 
                              DREAM STORY

  (Mr. WATT of North Carolina asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WATT of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, in North Carolina at this 
time of year, March Madness is bursting out all over. Three of the five 
first-team All-American players are from North Carolina teams. Duke, 
the University of North Carolina, Wake Forest, the University of North 
Carolina at Greensboro, and the University of North Carolina at 
Charlotte from my congressional district were all in the field of 64, 
although only one survives.
  But perhaps the most exciting March Madness story in North Carolina 
this year is at Johnson C. Smith University, the alma mater of my 
colleague Eva Clayton. Founded in 1867, JUS is one of four historically 
black colleges and universities located in my congressional district 
and has a student body of approximately 1,500 students. JUS finished 
this year's basketball season with a 27-4 record, won the CIAA 
basketball tournament, won the South Atlantic Regional Division II 
championship, and tonight will be playing in the Division II Elite 8 in 
California. Now, that is a real March Madness dream story.
  I congratulate President Dorothy Yancey, Coach Steve Joyner and his 
basketball team and the entire Johnson C. Smith University family on 
producing this March Madness dream story and on continuing to educate 
our young people in this country.

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