[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 5 (Tuesday, January 25, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E62]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        RECOGNIZING MELISSA SIEG

                                 ______
                                 

                          HON. MELISSA A. HART

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 25, 2005

  Ms. HART. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to 
recognize Melissa Sieg, on being elected the 2005 President of the 
Pennsylvania Association of Realtors.
  On January 25, 2005 Melissa will be inaugurated as the 82nd 
president, only the sixth woman in the 85 year history of the 
Association to be named to the position. Melissa is an associate broker 
who, along with her husband Bill, owns and operates the Prudential 
First Choice Realty located in State College, Pennsylvania. Besides her 
participation in the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors, Melissa has 
also been actively involved in the Centre County Association of 
Realtors where she has served on the Board of Directors, as vice 
president and also as president. In 1996 she was named the Centre 
County Association of Realtors' ``Realtor of the Year.''
  Besides being professionally active, Melissa finds time to give back 
to her community as a YMCA swimming. official and as the Bellefonte 
High School varsity swim coach. She has also served on the community 
boards for the Bellefonte YMCA, the Centre County United Way and served 
as Vice President for the Marion-Walker Youth Baseball League and as 
President of the Bellefonte YMCA Swim Team Parent's Association.
  I ask my colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives to join me 
in honoring Melissa Sieg. It is an honor to represent the Fourth 
Congressional District of Pennsylvania and a pleasure to salute 
citizens such as Melissa who make the communities that they live in 
truly special.

                          ____________________