[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 53 (Wednesday, April 27, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E785]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              RECOGNIZING THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF DEBBY LAWSON

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                           HON. HENRY CUELLAR

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, April 27, 2005

  Mr. CUELLAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Debby Lawson for 
her dedication to teaching the students at Frazier Elementary in the 
Comal Independent School District.
  Today's students that go through our nation's public school systems 
have an innate right to be taught the necessary skills to tackle all 
the challenges they will encounter through the course of their lives. 
Teachers provide them with this right day after day and in Debby 
Lawson's case she has been doing this for 30 years now.
  Receiving her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of 
Texas in Austin, she has been able to take these tools learned in the 
college classroom and turn them into results in the elementary 
classroom. The learning environment promoted by Mrs. Lawson is one that 
teaches the students the values of communication between themselves and 
their fellow students. Her second grade students are encouraged to 
``support each other and celebrate the successes of their classmates.'' 
This provides our nation's children with the fundamentals to learning 
how to understand and work along side their peers, an invaluable asset 
to anyone no matter what age.
  Teachers like Debby Lawson give our nation's children the necessary 
foundations to help them forge their minds into tomorrow's greats. I am 
honored to have this opportunity to recognize Debby Lawson for her 
dedication to teaching our community's children.

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