[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 83 (Wednesday, June 16, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1136]
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                      IN HONOR OF FRANCA P. DORNAN

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                          HON. ELTON GALLEGLY

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 16, 2004

  Mr. GALLEGLY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor Franca P. Dornan, who is 
retiring after nearly 20 years of teaching kindergarten students in my 
congressional district at St. Jude the Apostle School in Westlake 
Village, California.
  Franca Dornan was born Franca Peirina Amalia Maria Bendi on March 2, 
1940, in Rapallo on the Italian Riviera. During five of her first six 
years, until Americans liberated the city, Franca Dornan lived under 
Nazi occupation.
  In 1946 she moved with her mother and father to White Plains, New 
York. Then, in 1961, she moved to California, where she graduated from 
Marymount College in Los Angeles with her teaching credential and a 
bachelor's degree in English. Her first five years of teaching were 
spent instructing fifth-graders at Darby Avenue School in Northridge.
  In 1963, she met her husband, Dick Dornan, at St. Paul the Apostle 
Church. They married in the same church on June 24, 1967. Two years 
later, on Thanksgiving 1969, they moved to Westlake Village, which they 
have called home ever since.
  In addition to inspiring the minds and souls of other families' 
children, Dick and Franca raised five children of their own, Dick, 
John, Timothy, Gina and Patrick.
  Mr. Speaker, today will be Franca P. Dornan's last kindergarten 
graduation as a teacher. Fondly known by many as ``Mrs. Love, Care and 
Share,'' it is her motto and will continue to resonate among the 
hundreds of children to whom she taught love of God, family and 
country.
  I know my colleagues will join me in recognizing Franca P. Dornan for 
starting hundreds of young children on a lifelong quest of knowledge 
and love, and for serving as a yardstick by which we can measure a 
caring wife, mother and educator.

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