[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 18, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E695]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                HONORING SISTER PATRICE COOLICK, C.S.J.

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                          HON. DALE E. KILDEE

                              of michigan

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 18, 2009

  Mr. KILDEE. Madam Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Sister 
Patrice Coolick, Sisters of St. Joseph Carondelet, as she celebrates 
the Golden Jubilee of taking her vows. Her family and friends will 
celebrate this anniversary with her on March 21st.
  Since taking her vows on March 19, 1959, Sister Patrice moved from 
Flushing, Michigan to Missouri and attended Fontbonne University. She 
received her Bachelor Degree in Nursing from the College of St. 
Catherine in 1967 and one year later began working in Lima, Peru at the 
Military Hospital. She came back to the United States and completed a 
physician's assistant program at Saint Louis University. Upon receiving 
her degree she returned to Peru. In 1983 she became part of a medical 
team working in refugee camps in Thailand and Sudan.
  Sister Patrice returned to the United States and earned a Master's 
Degree in Marriage and Family Counseling from the Santa Clara 
University-California. She joined the O'Connor Hospital staff working 
in the oncology department and she became a member of the staff at 
Santa Clara Catholic Charities.
  Madam Speaker, I ask the House of Representatives to rise with me and 
applaud the life of Sister Patrice Coolick. Throughout her life she has 
worked to bring physical and spiritual healing to the destitute, the 
displaced and the discouraged. She has taken her God-given gifts of 
nursing and empathy and given back to the disheartened of our world. 
Above all Sister Patrice demonstrates in small everyday acts of love, 
her commitment to following the words of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, 
contained in Matthew 25:40, ``Whatsoever you do to the least of my 
people, that you do unto me.'' May God continue to bless Sister Patrice 
and inspire her in her work.

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