[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 99 (Tuesday, July 8, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1411]
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                      HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MRS. SKELTON

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                        HON. MARILYN N. MUSGRAVE

                              of colorado

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 8, 2003

  Mrs. MUSGRAVE. Mr. Speaker:

       Dear Mrs. Skelton, Happy Birthday to You!
       Juanita Skelton, nee Juanita Katherine Campbell, was born 
     on July 8, 1913, near Panhandle, Texas. She graduated from 
     White Deer (Texas) High School in 1930. That year she was 
     Vice President, Girl Favorite, Editor of the Annual, General 
     News Reporter for the Weekly Newspaper, President of the 
     Library Society, President of the Dramatic Club, and Yell 
     Leader for the Pep Squad, and a guard on the women's 
     basketball team. Of course there were only 13 members of her 
     graduating class. She was referred to as ``our seniors' most 
     representative girl.''
       She graduated from West Texas State with a Bachelor of Arts 
     degree in 1934 and started teaching in Canadian, Texas. She 
     married Hiram Bowmer Skelton on March 3, 1944, when she was 
     31 years old. They lived in Panhandle, Texas and she helped 
     him run the movie theatre that the family owned. When her 
     husband died, she moved with her son to Arlington, Texas in 
     1953. She resumed being a high school English teacher at that 
     time. Mrs. Skelton went on to get her Master's in Speech 
     Pathology from Denver University in 1956 and became the first 
     speech therapist in the Arlington School District in 1956. 
     She became the Coordinator of Speech Therapy in 1957 and the 
     Coordinator of Special Education in 1965. She also became the 
     first Director of Special Education in 1974. Mrs. Skelton 
     retired in 1978 after 25 years with the Arlington School 
     District.
       During her years in special education, Juanita received the 
     following recognition and awards: President of the Texas 
     Association of Administrators in Special Education 
     ``Administrator of the Year Award for Outstanding 
     Leadership;'' Texas Council for Exceptional Children Award as 
     the ``Outstanding Contributor to Special Education.''
       In 1989, the Mayor of Arlington, Texas recognized Juanita 
     as the ``outstanding senior citizen.''
       She moved to Fort Collins, Colorado in 1997.

  Again, congratulations on your 90th birthday!

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