[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 178 (Thursday, December 20, 2001)]
[House]
[Pages H10945-H10946]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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               TRIBUTE TO MR. AND MRS. ULYSSES B. KINSEY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Simpson). Under a previous order of the 
House, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Watson) is recognized for 5 
minutes.
  Ms. WATSON of California. Mr. Speaker, I come to pay tribute to a 
couple that exemplifies strong family values and ideals, Ulysses and 
Christine Kinsey, who celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on 
December 28, 2001, in Florida.
  Ulysses Bradshaw Kinsey, or U.B., as he was lovingly called, and 
Christine Teresa Stiles, met while attending college at the Florida A&M 
University, and married in Tampa, Florida. The wedding ceremony was 
performed on December 28, 1941, at the home of Christine's parents.
  U.B.'s values of compassion, fairness, and integrity were instilled 
while working in his father's grocery store. He closely observed his 
father's treatment of people regardless of race, color, creed, or 
status. U.B. also admired his mother for her kindness and 
thoughtfulness towards others.
  By watching her mother, who was an enterprising and industrious role 
model during the Depression, Christine learned the art of making ends 
meet and training others to do so. Christine epitomized both her 
parents in her development of compassion and values about hard work. 
These lessons helped for her to become an excellent homemaker, a caring 
mother, a resourceful wife, and are reflected in the way she and her 
husband raised their six children: Eula, Bradshaw, Bernard, Cassandra, 
Cheryl, and Linda.
  The cultivation of U.B. and Christine's relationship over the years 
has given stability, guidance, structure, and a positive role model, 
and the results were shown in their children.
  This husband and wife team, residing now in West Palm Beach, Florida, 
has far-reaching influence across the country and out to California, in 
California's 32nd District. My constituent, Bernard William Kinsey, is 
the former

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senior vice president of Xerox Corporation and President of KBK 
Enterprises, a consulting firm located in Los Angeles, California. 
Bernard was a member of Our L.A. and instrumental in rebuilding Los 
Angeles after the 1992 uprising.
  The other Kinsey children, teachers, executives, and operating an 
elderly care home, have all contributed to the progress in this great 
Nation.
  U.B. Kinsey retired July 31, 1989, after 39 years of service as the 
principal of Palm View Elementary. While there, he watched more than 
30,000 students enroll and graduate. The school was renamed U.B. Kinsey 
Palm View Elementary School, an unprecedented action in recognizing a 
living African American former principal.
  Christine Kinsey has provided care, love, and support to her husband, 
her family, and her community for over 60 years. Among other 
organizations, Christine has been involved with the YWCA, the 
Tabernacle Baptist Church, and the Palm Beach County School District.
  Mr. Speaker, U.B. and Christine Kinsey serve as a shining example of 
America's family values and ideals. This congressional tribute to the 
60th wedding anniversary of the Kinseys exemplifies what is good in our 
country, and makes us, because of their contributions, the greatest 
country in the world. Congratulations and commendations.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown).


        Tribute to Honorable David S. Bonior, Member of Congress

  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I want to say a word about my friend, 
the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Bonior).
  In 1965, a Mississippi civil rights leader said, Do not tell me what 
you believe; show me what you do, and I will tell you what you believe.
  When I hear these words I think of the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. 
Bonior), I think of his 10 years as Democratic whip, and I think of his 
leadership on issues of Central America, on issues of trade, on issues 
of social justice.
  He did not just pay lip service, as many in this institution do, to 
those issues. The kind of hard work, the kind of day-to-day effort, the 
kind of persistence, the kind of stick-to-itiveness that the gentleman 
from Michigan (Mr. Bonior) brought to this job, always in the name of 
social justice, always in the name of doing the right thing, standing 
on the floor doing special orders, doing meetings in his office, making 
calls to groups to encourage them to lobby this Congress, all that he 
did in the name of social justice, all that he did in the name of fair 
trade, meant so much to all of us.
  Do not tell me what you believe; show me what you do, and I will tell 
you what you believe. That describes the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. 
Bonior).

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