[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 65 (Tuesday, May 11, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E811]
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   DIANNE DUNKELMAN HONORED BY THE GREATER CINCINNATI REGION OF THE 
 NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE AT ITS 60TH ANNIVERSARY 
                             AWARDS DINNER

                                 ohio__
                                 

                            HON. ROB PORTMAN

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, May 11, 2004

  Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Dianne Dunkelman, 
an accomplished and dedicated community volunteer, who will be honored 
for her distinguished service to our community at the Greater 
Cincinnati Region of the National Conference for Community and 
Justice's (NCCJ) 60th Anniversary Awards Dinner on May 27, 2004.
  Dianne's extraordinary volunteer service for women's health, the 
arts, and social services has been recognized throughout the nation. 
She founded Speaking of Women's Health in 1995 as a way to raise funds 
for public television. Through her leadership as CEO, she inspired the 
expansion of Speaking of Women's Health to a national foundation with 
more than 40 events nationwide, two national minority health 
initiatives: Universal Sisters for African American women and Hablando 
de la salud de la mujer for Latino women, a national in-store health 
initiative at Wal-Mart stores, and a weekly television program on the 
Lifetime network, Lifetime's Speaking of Women's Health.
  Dianne is a leading advocate of helping women understand and 
recognize their health care options, and she recruited celebrities such 
as Florence Henderson, Mary Wilson and Valerie Simpson to help spread 
the message to other women.
  She has already received numerous awards, including the Athena Award 
from the Columbia University Partnership for Women's Health; 2003 
Distinguished Women's Award from Northwood University; Cincinnati 
Enquirer's Woman of the Year Award; YWCA's Career Women of Achievement 
Award; and the Charles Vaughan Award for her work with Cincinnati's PBS 
affiliate WCET Channel 48.
  All of us in Greater Cincinnati thank Dianne for her service to our 
community and congratulate her on receiving this prestigious honor.

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