[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 123 (Wednesday, September 27, 2006)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1842]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     CONGRATULATING MRS. JUNE LANZ

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                           HON. W. TODD AKIN

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 26, 2006

  Mr. AKIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and honor one of my 
constituents, Mrs. June Lanz. June has been selected as the 2006-2007 
Freedoms Foundation--Missouri (St. Louis) Chapter ``Spirit of '76--
Patriot''. The Freedoms Foundation is a non-profit organization 
dedicated to teaching young people the principles upon which our Nation 
was founded. They work to convey the close link between the rights and 
the responsibilities of citizens in society.
  June is a thirty-nine-year member of the National Society Daughters 
of the American Revolution, DAR. As State Regent of the Missouri State 
Society DAR, June successfully placed the 1809 Cold Water Cemetery on 
the U.S. Department of the Interior's Register of Historic Places and 
restored and rededicated the Madonna of the Trail Statue in Lexington, 
Missouri.
  June is a member of the Missouri Historical Society, the Freedoms 
Foundation of Valley Forge and a Friend of the St. Louis Art Museum. 
She has published a history of Missouri State Society Daughters of the 
Revolution, which includes American Revolutionary Patriots reported 
buried in Missouri. She has provided this to the National Society DAR 
and other research facilities.
  Married fifty-five years, June and her husband, George Lanz, have 
four daughters and seven grandchildren.
  As one who has a deep and abiding love for American history and the 
Patriots who have gone before us, I want to thank June Lanz for her 
commitment to preserving our history and congratulate her for being 
selected 2006-2007 ``Spirit of '76--Patriot''.

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