[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 106 (Monday, July 19, 2010)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1355]
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                   TRIBUTE TO GOLDIE MICHALEK HOLDEN

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                            HON. TOM LATHAM

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, July 19, 2010

  Mr. LATHAM. Madam Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Goldie 
Michalek Holden of Mason City, Iowa, on the celebration of her 100th 
birthday on November 18, 2010.
  Goldie has made a resounding difference in her community. For over 
forty years, Goldie was a first grade teacher in Mason City where she 
worked with many disadvantaged children. Goldie also taught Head Start, 
a program set up for students who learned English as a second language. 
When she retired, she left as principal at McKinley School.
  She was married for the first time at the age of 71 to Arthur Holden. 
Although Goldie does not have any children of her own, she is 
surrounded by many loved ones: five step children, 14 step 
grandchildren, and 2 step great-great grandchildren, four nieces and 
nephews and eight great-great nieces and nephews.
  There have been many changes that have occurred during the past one 
hundred years. Since Goldie's birth we have revolutionized air travel 
and walked on the moon. We have invented the television and the 
Internet. We have fought in wars overseas, seen the rise and fall of 
Soviet communism and the birth of new democracies. Goldie has lived 
through eighteen United States Presidents and twenty-two Governors of 
Iowa. In her lifetime, the population of the United States has more 
than tripled.
  I congratulate Goldie Michalek Holden for reaching this milestone of 
a birthday. I am extremely honored to represent Goldie in Congress, and 
I wish her happiness, health and many more dances in her future years.

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