[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 33 (Thursday, March 17, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E465]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                IN MEMORY OF JUNE RITCHIE CHAMBERS, M.D.

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                           HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 16, 2005

  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the memory of a 
distinguished American, Dr. June Ritchie Chambers, who died on January 
24, 2005, at the age of eighty.
  June Ritchie was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and graduated 
from West Virginia University. She attended its School of Medicine 
before transferring to the Western Reserve University School of 
Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. She completed residencies in Internal 
Medicine and Psychiatry at Charleston Area Medical Center Memorial 
Hospital, practicing Psychiatry at Shawnee Hills and working as an 
Internal Medicine specialist as well.
  June Ritchie Chambers was married to her husband John T. ``Jack'' 
Chambers, also a Charleston physician, for 57 years. In 2002, together 
with their son and wife, John and Elaine Chambers, my constituents, 
they donated $1.5 million to their alma mater, West Virginia 
University, establishing a program to train students in electronic 
business techniques.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in extending our deep 
sympathy to the family of June Ritchie Chambers and to honor her 
lifetime of remarkable accomplishments and service to her community and 
her country.

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