[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 160 (Monday, October 24, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1904]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    IN HONOR OF DR. SUSAN S. GORDON

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                          HON. ELIOT L. ENGEL

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, October 24, 2011

  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, Dr. Susan S. Gordon has, for more than 50 
years, lived and has been active in Pomona where she and her husband, 
Dr. Edmund W. Gordon, raised four children and where she was active in 
her school district, her community and as a pediatrician.
  She graduated from the Howard University College of Medicine and is a 
Licentiate of the American Board of Pediatrics and a Fellow of the 
American Academy of Pediatrics. She was also named an Associate 
Professor of Pediatrics, initially at New York Medical College and then 
at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. From 1978 
to 1981 she was a member of the National Panel on the Measurement of 
the Program Effects of Head Start.
  For eight years she served on the Board of Education of the East 
Ramapo Central School District, where, for three years, she was also 
president. She also served, for 20 years, on the board of the Lexington 
School for the Deaf where the Health Center was named in her honor. She 
added to her humane service resume by travelling to West Africa for 
four summers to train workers in providing educational and health 
services and in Nicaragua she trained local people in family planning 
and child health maintenance.
  Both she and her husband are in the Rockland County Hall of Fame. Dr. 
Gordon is being honored by the Howard University Alumni Association for 
their life's work and outstanding contributions to society. I join with 
HUAA in honoring Dr. Gordon for her outstanding record of 
accomplishment, in Rockland and Westchester and throughout the world.

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