[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 41 (Monday, April 15, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S2672]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          RICHARD HAIRE'S CONTRIBUTION TO NEW MEXICO'S FUTURE

  Mr. BINGAMAN. Madam President, after serving as an exemplary 
elementary school teacher in New Mexico for more than 32 years, Richard 
Haire is retiring this spring. At that time he will have enriched the 
lives of his fifth grade students at Corrales Elementary for 23 
consecutive years.
  Mr. Haire has unfailingly given our children the gifts of knowledge, 
goodwill, humor and a disciplined attention to detail. He has 
consistently set the highest standards for performance in the classroom 
and offered enthusiastic, dedicated support to each child's endeavors.
  From the start, Mr. Haire has had a very impressive career. Voted 
``most likely to succeed'' by his senior classmates, he graduated 
second in a class of 360 in 1965 from Commack High School in upstate 
New York. Mr. Haire obtained a BA in psychology from the State 
University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo in 1969 and graduated cum 
laude among the top students. He then went on to receive his MS in 
Education from Syracuse University in 1970.
  Mr. Haire dedicated much of his life to teaching. He taught at Adobe 
Acres Elementary School in Albuquerque from 1971-1978 and continued at 
John Baker Elementary School from 1978-1979. Mr. Haire joined the 
teaching staff at Corrales Elementary School in 1979. Scattered across 
the country. Mr. Haire's students have made remarkable achievements in 
such fields as education, literary criticism and science.
  Good teachers are essential to maintaining New Mexico's unique 
cultural heritage and fostering the state's economic growth. Mr. Haire 
has made a very generous commitment to future generations.

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