[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 39 (Thursday, March 22, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H1064]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  CONGRATULATING FOUNDERS OF MIAMI'S WOMEN'S PARK AND HISTORY GALLERY

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. 
Meek) and I wish to congratulate the founders of Miami Women's Park and 
History Gallery:
  Mother of the Park and women's rights pioneer, Roxcy O'Neal Bolton; 
chair of the committee, Judge Bonnie Lano Rippingille; secretary, 
Teresa Zorilla Clark; treasurer, Molly Turner; and historian, Dr. 
Dorothy Jenkins Fields.
  I also congratulate and as well the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. 
Meek) congratulates founders Leona Cooper, Katherine Fernandez-Rundle, 
Diane Brant, Colette McCurdy Jackson, Dr. Patricia Clements, and the 
late Elaine Gordon, Monna Lighte and Helen Miller.
  Judge Rippingille also founded Sisters of the Heart, a program that 
links delinquent girls with positive female role models.
  Tomorrow, the Park will exhibit 100 years of African American Women's 
History, narrated by historian Dr. Jenkins Fields. The girls will learn 
of African American women in literature and in the suffrage movement. 
They will write essays and paint posters with positive images.
  We congratulate the Women's Park Committee for the contributions of 
women in South Florida and for leaving a positive legacy by investing 
in the lives of our future leaders. Tomorrow's leaders are today's 
girls.

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