[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 123 (Tuesday, September 14, 2010)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1607-E1608]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              COMMEMORATING THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF APPLE

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                           HON. JOHN SHIMKUS

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 14, 2010

  Mr. SHIMKUS. Madam Speaker, today I rise to acknowledge the hard work 
of a group of educators from the United States and Canada who have 
provided their services to the people of Lithuania for 20 years.
  The American Professional Partnership for Lithuanian Education, 
better known as APPLE, is marking its twentieth anniversary this year. 
APPLE was founded in 1990, as Lithuania emerged from the Soviet Union's 
iron curtain, for the purpose of supporting education reform in 
Lithuania as part of that nation's transition back to democracy.
  APPLE is a non-profit which partners with the Lithuanian Ministry of 
Education and Science to train Lithuanian teachers in subjects ranging 
from agriculture, civics and geography to art and music. APPLE has 
grown from its first two week seminar in one city in 1991 into a 
program which conducted an entire summer program in nine cities 
throughout the country in 2009.
  I want to join with the other Members of this House in congratulating 
the American Professional Partnership for Lithuanian Education on

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celebrating its twentieth anniversary and to wish them many more years 
of success in bringing the gift of education and democracy to the 
Lithuanian people.

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