[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 37 (Tuesday, April 9, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E460]
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                        IN HONOR OF TERRI GRAHAM

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                          HON. ROBERT MENENDEZ

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, April 9, 2002

  Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Terri Graham for her 
outstanding contributions as a Visual Arts Teacher at Bayonne High 
School. She was honored at the ``Lifetime Presents Disney's American 
Teacher Awards'', on November 10, 2001, at CBS Television City in Los 
Angeles.
  The entire Bayonne Public School community is proud of Terri's 
talent, commitment, and creativity that have had a profound and lasting 
impact on the students and community of Bayonne. Terri has provided a 
comfortable and safe learning environment in which her students thrive.
  Her students have achieved statewide recognition in the past with the 
2000 State of New Jersey Arts and Humanities Award (AH-HA), and the 
2001 New Jersey State Department of Education Best Practice Award, ``An 
Interdisciplinary Puppet Show''. By collaborating with the school's 
German teacher, Mrs. Varda Wendroff, and her German students, Terri and 
her ceramics students created puppet performances of German folk tales.
  Each year, her students are selected to participate in the Morris 
Museum ``Fresh Perspectives'' show for outstanding high school students 
in the state. Terri and her students have participated in a variety of 
community projects, such as the New Jersey Transit Hudson Bergen Light 
Rail Tile Mural, and they worked with the Bayonne Historical Society, 
``History of Bayonne Architecture'', duplicating Bayonne's historic 
buildings in clay.
  Today, I ask my colleagues to join me in honoring Terri Graham's 
selfless work in educating our nation's youth. She has provided and 
continues to provide an invaluable learning experience to the students 
of Bayonne.

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