[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 99 (Tuesday, July 25, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1511-E1512]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     RECOGNIZING DR. NORMA BAGNALL

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                            HON. SAM GRAVES

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 25, 2006

  Mr. GRAVES. Mr. Speaker, I proudly pause to recognize Dr. Norma 
Bagnall of Saint Joseph, MO. Dr. Bagnall retired from teaching in 1996, 
she has served the community ever since and has been chosen to receive 
the YWCA Women of Excellence Lifetime Achievement Award.
  Dr. Bagnall came to Missouri after obtaining a bachelors, masters, 
and doctorate degree from Texas A&M University. She joined the staff of 
Missouri Western State University in Saint Joseph, MO, in the early 
1980's as an assistant professor of English and later gained a full 
professorship. She retired from Missouri Western in 1996 and began a 
long list of service to the community.
  Norma has been a champion of literacy in the community. She has led 
the Runcie Club book study group for the past 6 years, and established 
the Hayes Bagnall Literacy Scholarship at Missouri Western and the 
Writer's Workshop at the Joyce Raye Patterson Senior Center. Then, 
during the summer of 2005, she developed a community class to teach 
conversational Spanish. That program became so successful that it had 
to be adopted by Inter-Serv, in order to accommodate the 110 students 
and additional 115 people on a waiting list.

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  Mr. Speaker, I proudly ask you to join me in recognizing Dr. Norma 
Bagnall. In nearly three decades in northwest Missouri, Norma has come 
to be one of the most outstanding members of our community. I am 
honored to represent her in the United States Congress.

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