[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 65 (Tuesday, May 23, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E932]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         HONORING MS. EMMA KOLB

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                            HON. JERRY MORAN

                               of kansas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, May 23, 2006

  Mr. MORAN of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Emma Kolb, 
who has recently finished her 69th year of service to students and 
parents in western Kansas. She has gone above the call of duty and made 
her teaching career of 47 years into a passion by volunteering for 22 
years after her retirement.
  Ms. Kolb began teaching in 1937 in Rush County, KS, and for the next 
15 years worked in several other country schools. In 1951 she started 
at Lincoln Elementary School in Hays. For the next 33 years Emma taught 
grades second through sixth until she retired in 1984.
  If Emma's story stopped there it would still be praiseworthy, but she 
didn't stop there. She went on to volunteer for 22 more years in the 
same school building.
  The length of her tenure may only be overshadowed by the amount of 
joy she gave to those she worked with and worked for. During a recent 
party Lincoln Elementary School staff showed their appreciation for 
Emma's amazing work by celebrating her commitment to students and her 
88th birthday.
  I too would like to express my gratitude for Emma's 69 years of 
service to Kansas students. Ms. Kolb said that during her many years of 
work inside the school system that ``any changes that were made were 
for the good . . . and that we have a good school system here.''
  Mr. Speaker, I ask that my colleagues join me in thanking and 
honoring Emma Kolb for being a part of those positive changes in the 
lives of so many students and their schools.

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